Recaps

After Zhang Yunji asked Ma Feifei to hire Liu Ying, several Mysterious Bookstore residents came to borrow Spirit Crystals, making Ma Feifei suspect they were hiding something. He went to the roof to investigate what had happened during his two-day absence.

• Zhang Yunji thanked Ma Feifei for agreeing to make Liu Ying a Bookstore employee and left.
• Zhang Caicai asked Ma Feifei to lend him 50,000 Spirit Crystals, and Ma Feifei gave him 200,000.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey and Ba Jiu each asked Ma Feifei for a loan, and he handed each of them a storage bag.
• Yun Qingyang asked for the same amount as the others, and Ma Feifei gave her 500,000 Spirit Crystals.
• Ma Feifei grew suspicious of the repeated requests and climbed onto the Bookstore roof to investigate.

Ma Feifei followed Yun Qingyang and the others to a stall in the Wantong Trading Market, where Lian Yi was making clay figurines in exchange for Spirit Crystals. The chapter ended when Ba Jiu asked Lian Yi to make a female monkey figurine for the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey.

• Ma Feifei noticed Yun Qingyang, Zhang Caicai, Ba Jiu, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey watching the Wantong Trading Market and went to investigate in disguise.
• Ma Feifei entered the crowded market and followed a faint sensation through the throng to a quiet corner.
• Ma Feifei found Yun Qingyang, Zhang Caicai, and Ba Jiu squatting at Lian Yi's stall, surrounded by lifelike clay figurines.
• Zhang Caicai paid Lian Yi fifty thousand Spirit Crystals for a figurine, and Lian Yi asked who wanted one next.
• Ba Jiu asked Lian Yi to make a female monkey figurine for the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, causing her to freeze.

Lian Yi molded a clay monkey for Ba Jiu and agreed to create an illusion to help him navigate the Azure Dragon Continent. After Ba Jiu and Zhang Caicai left, Yun Qingyang asked Lian Yi to mold a palace resembling her illusory Ice Crystal Palace, and Lian Yi began shaping the clay as Ma Feifei watched.

• Lian Yi molded a small clay female monkey for Ba Jiu, who asked her to make a three-dimensional map of the Azure Dragon Continent.
• Lian Yi said she lacked enough clay for a map and offered to create an illusion that could show Ba Jiu where he was when traveling.
• Yun Qingyang sent Ba Jiu and Zhang Caicai away, then formed an illusory Ice Crystal Palace from Spiritual Power and asked Lian Yi to mold a matching palace.
• The Wantong Trading Market detected Yun Qingyang's Spiritual Power, but its guards withdrew, while Zhou Zhuling spotted a furtive middle-aged man in the crowd.
• Lian Yi gathered all the glowing clay and began molding the palace as Ma Feifei watched and wondered what the clay could do.

Ma Feifei learned that Lian Yi’s clay figures could briefly become living people and that clay buildings could grow permanently, then realized Zhang Caicai had commissioned a figure of Liuli. He rushed out of the Wantong Trading Market, vowing to kill Zhang Caicai.

• Yun Qingyang thanked Lian Yi for making her a crystal-clear miniature Ice Crystal Palace and left with it.
• Ma Feifei revealed his disguise and asked Lian Yi about her clay figures, so she showed him one that could live and remember things for half an hour at a time.
• Lian Yi explained that clay buildings could grow permanently and demonstrated a figure modeled after herself growing to ordinary human size.
• Ma Feifei realized that the figure Zhang Caicai had commissioned was Liuli and ran from the market, vowing to take Zhang Caicai’s life.

Ma Feifei learned that Qin Shi Huang was gravely ill and traveled to Qin to treat him. Xu Fu met him at the Mysterious Bookstore’s branch and escorted him toward Afang Palace, where Qin Shi Huang remained unconscious.

• Ma Feifei returned to the courtyard and caught Zhang Caicai giving Liuli a clay figurine and flirting with her.
• Chang Kong arrived through the portal and told Ma Feifei that Qin Shi Huang was gravely ill and had summoned him to Afang Palace.
• Ma Feifei set out for Qin with Yun Qingyang, while Liuli agreed to keep an eye on Zhang Caicai.
• At the branch store, Ma Feifei met Xu Fu, who said Qin Shi Huang had been unconscious and had specifically asked for Ma Feifei.
• Ma Feifei agreed to go to Afang Palace, and Xu Fu led him toward a luxurious carriage drawn by four unicorns.

Ma Feifei reached Afang Palace with Xu Fu and Yun Qingyang to treat the gravely ill Qin Shi Huang, suspecting the emperor had reached the end of his lifespan. After Ma Feifei warned that his treatment might fail, Xu Fu returned with the Qin State’s trust and a plea to save His Majesty.

• Ma Feifei formed a cloud for himself, Yun Qingyang, and the astonished Xu Fu to ride to Afang Palace.
• Ma Feifei arrived at the palace and saw Di Heyu, Jing Xing, and Qin Ziying gathered outside the hall.
• Xu Fu led Ma Feifei to Qin Shi Huang, whose physicians had found no abnormality despite repeated examinations.
• Ma Feifei considered using the Longevity Pill but warned Xu Fu that Qin Shi Huang might die after taking it.
• Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang argued over who had refined the pill, with Yun Qingyang accusing him of trying to blame her if Qin Shi Huang died.
• Xu Fu returned and asked Ma Feifei to save Qin Shi Huang, saying the Qin State trusted him.

Ma Feifei gave Qin Shi Huang the Longevity Pill, which restored his consciousness but erased his cultivation and made him age rapidly. After Yun Qingyang fetched the Longevity Art, Qin Shi Huang opened it and was drawn inside by a beam of golden light.

• Ma Feifei gave the Longevity Pill to Xu Fu, who fed it to Qin Shi Huang.
• Qin Shi Huang woke after taking the pill, and the system told Ma Feifei to give him the Longevity Art because his cultivation had dissipated.
• Ma Feifei sent Yun Qingyang to fetch the Longevity Art as Qin Shi Huang's hair and eyebrows turned white and he aged into a frail old man.
• Qin Shi Huang told Ma Feifei that his cultivation was gone and accepted his reassurance that the Longevity Art was on its way.
• Yun Qingyang returned with the Longevity Art, and Qin Shi Huang opened it, releasing golden light that enveloped and drew him inside.

Qin Shi Huang entered the God of War Hall through the book’s projection and studied a system-improved cultivation method combining the God of War Catalog and the Longevity Art. After hours of contemplation, he returned to Afang Palace proclaiming that he had attained longevity and immortality, while Ma Feifei completed his main quest and received a new one.

• The book projected Qin Shi Huang into a vast hall surrounded by seven floating walls, where an ancient voice recited a passage from the Tao Te Ching.
• Ma Feifei recognized the passage as the Longevity Art’s general outline, and the system revealed that Qin Shi Huang was in the God of War Hall studying an improved method based on its carvings.
• Qin Shi Huang stood motionless in contemplation for hours as Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang waited and eventually fell asleep.
• A sudden explosion and golden light transported Qin Shi Huang back to Afang Palace, and the system announced that Ma Feifei had completed the Longevity and Immortality quest and received the Su Nu Jing.
• The system triggered a new main quest, Romance of Wind and Cloud, as Qin Shi Huang laughed and declared that he had attained longevity and immortality.

Ma Feifei suspected the Longevity Pill had made Qin Shi Huang lose his usual composure and avoided getting involved as Qin Shi Huang prepared to invade Yan State. After assigning Liu Ying to help Chang Kong at the branch store, Ma Feifei headed east of Azure Dragon to shelve Investiture of the Gods and prepare for a new Main Quest.

• Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang fled Afang Palace after Qin Shi Huang emerged from the God of War Hall raving about immortality, and Ma Feifei suspected Yun Qingyang's altered Longevity Pill had caused his behavior.
• Ma Feifei returned to the branch store, where Chang Kong welcomed him, and told Chang Kong that Liu Ying would join him there as a new employee.
• Three days later, news spread that Qin Shi Huang had ordered nearly a million soldiers to march toward Yan State, despite the risk of facing Yan State, Vast Academy, and the Northern Liang nomads.
• Ma Feifei concluded that the Longevity Pill had damaged Qin Shi Huang's judgment, then set off east of Azure Dragon to shelve Investiture of the Gods and prepare for the new Main Quest.

Ma Feifei traveled with Ba Jiu and Yun Qingyang to Qiong Sea, where he planned to fish from an old pier rather than venture into the dangerous waters. After falling through the pier and catching a crab, he settled down to fish, but his line failed to cast.

• Ma Feifei crossed Zhao State with Ba Jiu and Yun Qingyang and reflected on Mo Xie's vanished Tribulation Book and Cang Lan's remaining time to decide.
• Ma Feifei and his companions reached Qiong Sea, whose venomous and dangerous sea creatures had kept people away for generations.
• Ma Feifei chose to fish from a broken-down pier instead of exploring the sea, despite Ba Jiu's excitement.
• The pier collapsed beneath Ma Feifei, who fell into the water and surfaced with a crab clamped to his finger.
• Ma Feifei gave the crab to Ba Jiu, then sat down to fish and found that his line would not cast.

Ma Feifei tried to complete the system’s fishing task by tying Yun Qingyang’s Dragon Pearl to a line and casting it into the sea. After an underwater creature began gnawing the cord, sea creatures gathered around the pearl and a huge wave surged toward the shore.

• Ma Feifei borrowed Yun Qingyang’s Dragon Pearl, tied it to the fishing line, and cast it far into the sea.
• Ma Feifei waited impatiently while Yun Qingyang painted and Ba Jiu played near the shore.
• An unseen creature tugged the line, but it let go before Ma Feifei could reel it in.
• A fish-bodied, human-headed creature bit the cord near the Dragon Pearl as other intelligent sea creatures gathered around it.
• Ma Feifei sensed a faint tug and prepared to pull while Yun Qingyang watched the fishing rod with concern.
• A massive wave rose in the distance and surged toward Ma Feifei and the others.

Ma Feifei’s Dragon Ball bait attracted a swarm of powerful sea creatures, but a sixth-rank “shark” escaped after nearly being caught. Ba Jiu then led Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang to a small island where he had found energy-rich fruits.

• Ma Feifei used his divine sense to discover that the Dragon Ball had drawn hundreds of sea creatures, including a sixth-rank “shark” that stirred up a huge wave.
• Ma Feifei shielded the dock and hooked the “shark,” but it spat out the Dragon Ball and escaped before he could catch it.
• Yun Qingyang collected Ma Feifei’s payment for renting the fishing spot, and Ma Feifei declined to rent it for another hour.
• Ba Jiu returned from exploring the deep sea with two energy-rich fruits and told Ma Feifei he had found a small island nearby.
• Ma Feifei reeled in the Dragon Ball and followed Ba Jiu with Yun Qingyang to the island, which was covered in lush trees, flowers, and grasses.

Ma Feifei and his companions landed on an island where they found fruit rich in Spiritual Power, and Ma Feifei discovered an unranked little turtle playing with the Dragon Ball. He lured the turtle out of the sea and onto the shore.

• Yun Qingyang sensed that the island was strange, and Ma Feifei agreed that they should be careful.
• Ba Jiu showed Ma Feifei the fruit he had found, and Ma Feifei tasted one and recognized its value to cultivators below the Spirit Venerable realm.
• Ma Feifei asked Yun Qingyang to pick the fruit so they could sell it and split the profits.
• Ma Feifei went to the shore and used the Dragon Ball as bait to fish in the deep-sea area.
• Ma Feifei sensed a tiny unranked turtle repeatedly bumping the Dragon Ball and lured it toward the shore.
• Ma Feifei brought the Dragon Ball onto land and drew the little turtle after it until it came ashore.

Ma Feifei’s attempt to catch a small turtle revealed that the island was actually the shell of a gigantic turtle, which attacked him and his companions. After Ba Jiu failed to stop it, Ma Feifei used the Dragon Ball to draw the turtle close, leaving it face-to-face with him in midair.

• Ma Feifei caught a small turtle, but it transformed into blue light and disappeared into the ground.
• The island shook, rose from the sea, and revealed itself as the shell of a gigantic turtle.
• The turtle attacked Ma Feifei and his companions, and Ba Jiu was knocked back when he collided with it.
• Yun Qingyang realized that the turtle was targeting Ma Feifei, who suspected it was connected to the small turtle he had caught.
• Ma Feifei showed the turtle the Dragon Ball, and it stood up and approached until its head reached his eye level.

Ma Feifei captured the giant tortoise and completed the quest to place the Legendary-grade book 'Investiture of the Gods' on the shelves. The tortoise’s image appeared on a blank pillar in the Mysterious Bookstore, revealing it as the Tortoise among the Four Spirit Pillars.

• The tortoise swallowed Yun Qingyang’s Dragon Ball, then followed Ma Feifei and agreed to go with him.
• Ma Feifei used his fishing rod to pull the tortoise into his fish basket, completing the system quest.
• Yun Qingyang demanded payment for her Dragon Ball, and Ma Feifei paid her a large sum of Spirit Crystals to save the tortoise from being stewed.
• Ma Feifei, Yun Qingyang, and Ba Jiu returned to the Mysterious Bookstore the next morning.
• The tortoise shot from the fish basket and appeared as markings on a blank pillar, leaving Ma Feifei surprised to see the Four Spirit Pillar take shape.

Ma Feifei discovered that Luan Feng had returned the Six Secret Teachings, but its Book Spirit had disappeared into her body and no shelving task had appeared. He put off questioning her further to greet Grand Dean Cang Lan, leaving the mystery unresolved.

• Ma Feifei confirmed the turtle was alive inside the Four Spirit Pillars and threatened to put Ba Jiu in the blank pillar if she failed to paint the Qilin properly within a month.
• Ma Feifei opened the Bookstore and found that Luan Feng had finished reading the Six Secret Teachings, but shelving it produced no system notification.
• Ma Feifei read the Six Secret Teachings while customers filled the Bookstore, until Zhang Yunji told him that Grand Dean Cang Lan had arrived.
• Ma Feifei confronted Luan Feng after realizing the book's Book Spirit was gone, and Luan Feng admitted it had entered her body a few days earlier and had not returned.
• Ma Feifei glared at Luan Feng and went to greet Cang Lan, promising to deal with Luan Feng later.

Cang Lan decided to enter the Tribulation Book world in search of a chance to become an immortal, and Ma Feifei initiated her Tribulation Book. As the book prepared to open, strange weather and a pillar of fiery light signaled the event across Dubian Town.

• Cang Lan told Ma Feifei she had decided to enter the Tribulation Book world that day, despite his advice to wait.
• Liuli appeared and urged Ma Feifei to use the Divine Brush instead of the Ballpoint Pen.
• Ma Feifei wrote his name in Cang Lan Tribulation, linking Cang Lan to the book and learning that the world would open in thirty minutes.
• Cang Lan solemnly thanked Ma Feifei as he returned to the bookstore.
• Dark clouds and thunder gathered over Dubian Town, and a fiery red pillar shot from the Mysterious Bookstore into the sky, briefly resembling a phoenix.

Three Spirit Pillars in the Mysterious Bookstore sent colored beams into the sky, revealing Lan City, Cang Lan’s hometown. As the crowd connected the strange display to Cang Lan, the bookstore emptied and Ma Feifei raged at the three pillars.

• Red, white, and blue pillars of light burst from the Mysterious Bookstore and transformed the sky above Dubian Town.
• A weathered young cultivator identified the city in the sky as Lan City, Cang Lan’s hometown.
• The crowd recalled Cang Lan’s rise to become Grand Dean of Vast Academy and wondered whether she had caused the city’s appearance.
• Customers were thrown out of the bookstore as its books returned to the shelves and colored auras surrounded three of the Four Spirit Pillars.
• Ma Feifei ran between the pillars, punching them and angrily refusing to sign a character.

Ma Feifei paid three billion Spirit Crystals to open the Tribulation Book World for Cang Lan, who entered it after entrusting him with her old flute and asking him to throw it into the Luo River if she died. The world showed Lan City during the day Cang Lan was born, and the observers learned that Cang Xiong was her father.

• Ma Feifei protested the system’s cost for opening the Tribulation Book World but learned that Cang Lan’s success would earn him a reward.
• Cang Lan recognized Lan City in the sky and asked Ma Feifei to throw her battered flute into the Luo River if she failed to return.
• Cang Lan transformed into points of light and entered the Tribulation Book World as the bookstore employees watched.
• The viewpoint descended into the Cang Residence, where Cang Xiong awaited the birth of a son after generations of daughters.
• A cultivator identified Cang Xiong as the lord of Lan City and Cang Lan’s biological father.

Ma Feifei watched the Tribulation Book reveal Cang Lan’s birth and the cruel rejection she faced from her father, Cang Xiong. The scene left cultivators wondering why the Grand Dean’s past had appeared and whether the strange lightning and blood rain marked the start of his tribulation.

• Cang Xiong’s newborn child was revealed to be a girl, and he struck the midwife, leaving the baby to fall until a family member caught her.
• Lightning split the sky’s projection and blood rain fell briefly as Ma Feifei noticed the Four Spirit Pillars’ energy had weakened.
• Ma Feifei recognized the scene as Cang Lan’s birth nearly a thousand years earlier and suspected it was connected to her tribulation.
• Cang Lan’s family treated her and her mother coldly, while Cang Xiong stayed away and sent her name through a steward.
• The steward named the baby Cang Lan, shocking the cultivators who recognized her as the Grand Dean and questioned why her birth was being shown.

The sky revealed Cang Lan’s childhood in the Cang Residence, where Cang Xiong killed her mother after a pregnant concubine miscarried. As the scene ended, lightning and blood rain returned, and Ma Feifei sensed that the power supporting the Tribulation Book World had diminished again.

• Little Cang Lan accidentally knocked down Cang Xiong’s pregnant concubine, who later miscarried.
• A physician claimed the miscarried child was a boy, enraging Cang Xiong, who struck Cang Lan with Spiritual Power.
• Cang Lan’s mother shielded her from the blow, and Cang Xiong killed her with a slap to the forehead.
• Lightning split the sky’s backdrop, and heavy blood rain fell as Ma Feifei sensed that the power in the three supporting pillars had weakened.
• Cang Lan grew quiet and withdrawn after her mother’s death, and ten years passed.

Ma Feifei learned that Cang Lan’s Memory Tribulation had reached its third of six trials, and that the three activated Four Spirit Pillars might run out of energy before she could finish. In the projection, Cang Lan was left battered and alone after the clan tournament, then approached a caged mermaid being sold in the street.

• Blood rain fell for the third time as Cang Lan relived her humiliation at the clan tournament, and Ma Feifei noticed the Four Spirit Pillars losing energy.
• Liuli explained that Cang Lan was undergoing a Memory Tribulation and had passed three of the Six Tribulations of Life and Death.
• Liuli warned that the pillars could be exhausted by the fifth tribulation, causing Cang Lan to fail and perish if she could not steady her state of mind.
• Cang Lan left the tournament grounds battered and mocked, while Cang Xiong ignored her and no one helped her.
• A burly merchant tried to sell a caged mermaid for ten thousand Spirit Crystals, and the mermaid noticed Cang Lan stumbling into view.

Cang Lan rescued a mermaid who became her close companion, but Cang Xiong eventually attacked them after learning of their relationship. As the mermaid lay dying in Cang Lan’s arms, blood rain began to fall, signaling another Memory Tribulation.

• Cang Lan bought the captive mermaid and released her, but the mermaid followed her home.
• The mermaid played the flute for Cang Lan, and over three years they grew inseparable as Cang Lan gradually became cheerful again.
• Ma Feifei and the watching cultivators discussed Cang Lan’s attachment to the mermaid and anticipated that Cang Xiong would kill her.
• After a servant reported their relationship, Cang Xiong ordered Cang Lan to kill the mermaid; when she refused, he came to the courtyard and the mermaid was left gravely wounded.
• The mermaid placed her flute in Cang Lan’s hand and tried to speak, but thunder, lightning, and blood rain began before she could be heard.

Ma Feifei and the onlookers watched Cang Lan’s unstable Tribulation Book World go dark, then relight to reveal her plunging into the deadly Luo River. The final life-and-death trial remained unresolved, and Ma Feifei realized Cang Lan had once fallen into the ruin that was said to let no one return.

• The scene showed Cang Lan breaking with her father, Cang Xiong, and escaping with the mermaid as her flute released a streak of green light.
• The Tribulation Book World went dark as its three Spirit Pillars dwindled, and Liuli told Ma Feifei that only Cang Lan could stabilize it.
• The Book World trembled and lit up again, revealing the Luo River, where a major figure recognized the mysterious ancient ruin.
• Ma Feifei remembered Cang Lan’s request to throw her flute into the Luo River if she did not return alive.
• A green light plunged into the Luo River, and the onlookers realized Cang Lan had fallen into the deadly ruin.

Cang Lan emerged alive from the Luo River, then absorbed its deadly water as nine columns struck her. The onlookers realized she had survived the river and watched as she floated slightly higher above it, while her fate remained uncertain.

• Ma Feifei and the cultivators watched circular ripples form around the place where Cang Lan had fallen, but the Luo River soon became still again.
• As the hours passed without any change, Zhang Caicai asked Ma Feifei for permission to go cook and promised Liuli her favorite sparrow meat.
• Ma Feifei recalled that Zhang Caicai had hunted a ninth-rank spirit beast and decided to investigate the boy’s origins with the Tianshu Fragment.
• The Tribulation Book World trembled, and Cang Lan rose from the bottom of the Luo River to hover above its surface.
• Nine columns of Luo River water struck Cang Lan and were absorbed into her body, leaving her unharmed and floating slightly higher above the river.