Recaps

Cang Lan passed the Tribulation Book World's Six Stages of Life and Death, then faced the Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation to complete her transformation into an immortal. After all nine strikes, a beam of pearly white light appeared, revealing Cang Lan alive and transformed.

• Cang Lan emerged from the Luo River, and the Tribulation Book World transformed into a lightning tribulation above Dubian Town.
• Liuli explained to Ma Feifei that passing the Six Stages of Life and Death proved Cang Lan was qualified to enter the Immortal Realm, but she still had to endure nine lightning strikes.
• The first four strikes blasted Cang Lan downward and destroyed her clothes, but she steadied herself and transformed her lower body into a scaled fish's tail.
• Cang Lan charged back toward the clouds as the remaining lightning strikes fell, and the world plunged into darkness after the ninth strike.
• The lightning clouds vanished, and a beam of pearly white light revealed Cang Lan curled in the sky as the cultivators realized she had become an immortal.

After Cang Lan became the first known immortal on the Azure Dragon Continent, she returned to the Mysterious Bookstore and discussed her future with Ma Feifei. She offered to help spread Confucian Dao Academies across the continent, leaving Ma Feifei to consider the prospect.

• The system rewarded Ma Feifei with an Immortal Gift Pack after Cang Lan entered the Immortal Realm, and Cang Lan thanked him for helping her.
• Cang Lan and Ma Feifei left the rooftop as onlookers demanded to see her immortal powers, while other cultivators warned them to show respect.
• News of Cang Lan's ascension spread as cultivators flew from Dubian Town to report it.
• In the bookstore's backyard, Cang Lan accepted her flute from Ma Feifei and destroyed it, saying that keeping it would only add to her sorrow.
• Cang Lan told Ma Feifei she planned to return to teaching and offered to establish Confucian Dao Academies throughout the other four states, spreading them across the Azure Dragon Continent.

After Cang Lan entered the Immortal Realm, Ma Feifei claimed the system’s Immortal Gift Pack and discovered it worked like a lottery. He drew a Book Spirit Stone and twenty employee uniforms, then reached into the box again to see what else it held.

• Ma Feifei invited Cang Lan to dinner with the Bookstore’s employees, and she accepted.
• After dinner, Cang Lan and the other guests left while the employees went about their own activities.
• Ma Feifei claimed the Immortal Gift Pack, opened its golden box, and learned from the system that he had to draw its contents.
• Ma Feifei pulled out a Book Spirit Stone, then drew twenty employee uniforms and decided the staff would wear them at work.
• Ma Feifei set the uniforms aside and reached into the box again.

Ma Feifei opened the Immortal Gift Pack and examined its valuable contents, including a Book Spirit Stone, clerk uniforms, an Enlightenment Pill, and Cang Lan's Belly Band. He claimed he would not wear the belly band, but five minutes later he was wearing it and enjoying its scent.

• Ma Feifei found a bottle containing one Enlightenment Pill and then retrieved Cang Lan's Belly Band from the gift pack.
• The gift box vanished, and Ma Feifei inspected the Book Spirit Stone, learning it could boost cultivation and improve book-copying returns.
• Ma Feifei examined the clerk uniforms and Enlightenment Pill, then stored the uniforms for the bookstore employees and the pill for himself.
• Ma Feifei read that Cang Lan's Belly Band could nourish divine sense, tossed it aside, and put it on five minutes later.

Ma Feifei called the bookstore’s employees to its first morning meeting and announced that everyone would wear standardized uniforms on workdays. The employees collected their new clothes and prepared to change before the bookstore opened.

• Liu Ying asked Zhang Yunji whether morning meetings were usual and whether Ma Feifei was strict, then walked away after pinching his arm.
• Ma Feifei emerged in a black robe, and the employees lined up while Yun Qingyang joined them after a moment’s confusion.
• Ma Feifei told the group that the bookstore had eight employees, making them fear he planned to lay people off.
• Ma Feifei announced that employees must wear uniforms on workdays and warned that violations would be punished.
• Zhang Caicai brought out a table, and Ma Feifei produced the uniforms; the eight employees each took two sets and went to change.

Ma Feifei distributed matching uniforms to the Mysterious Bookstore employees and opened the store late, personally checking tickets as cultivators admired him. The uniforms drew attention inside the store, where a young cultivator tried to use his supposed poor eyesight to trade for better books.

• Liuli appeared and took the two uniforms Ma Feifei had saved for her, while Zhang Yunji carried the lovestruck Zhang Caicai away.
• Ma Feifei resisted the temptation to peek into Yun Qingyang's room, scolded himself, and went to open the Bookstore.
• Cultivators waiting outside wondered why the Bookstore had opened late and why Zhang Yunji and Luan Feng were absent.
• Ma Feifei greeted the crowd and checked their tickets as Zhang Yunji, Luan Feng, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey began their duties.
• Two cultivators noticed the employees' matching uniforms, and a young cultivator explained their markings before asking them to trade books because he claimed he could not see blue clearly.

Ma Feifei spoke privately with Luan Feng about how she absorbed the Book Spirit from Six Secret Teachings, then learned from the system why the book remained intact and how it could nurture another spirit. The chapter left Ma Feifei unwilling to spend a costly Book Spirit Stone on the book, while Yun Qingyang suspected he had been thinking about her.

• Ma Feifei led Luan Feng to the backyard and asked her to explain what had happened with Six Secret Teachings.
• Luan Feng said she had sensed and communicated with the Book Spirit while reading, and it eventually entered her body.
• Ma Feifei asked the system why Six Secret Teachings had not burned up, and the system explained that a Book Spirit could willingly leave after a reader comprehended a book.
• The system told Ma Feifei that a book without its Book Spirit could regain its original effects by nurturing a new spirit with special materials, including a Book Spirit Stone.
• Ma Feifei balked at using an expensive Book Spirit Stone on Six Secret Teachings, and Yun Qingyang asked whether he had been talking about her.

Ma Feifei tried to hide what was in his spatial ring when Yun Qingyang sensed something valuable inside it. After she rejected an Enlightenment Pill and his Blessed Underwear, he realized she might be after the Book Spirit Stone.

• Yun Qingyang questioned Ma Feifei, then tried to take his spatial ring because she sensed something good inside.
• Yun Qingyang offered Ma Feifei her own ring in exchange, but he grew suspicious and asked what she wanted.
• Ma Feifei showed Yun Qingyang an Enlightenment Pill, but she rejected it.
• Ma Feifei offered Yun Qingyang his Blessed Underwear, but she refused because he had worn it.
• Ma Feifei took out the Book Spirit Stone and asked Yun Qingyang if that was what she wanted.

Ma Feifei used a Tianshu Fragment to investigate Zhang Caicai and discovered his extraordinary cultivation and connections, then confronted him as a suspected infiltrator. Zhang Caicai denied knowing about Vast Academy and said his master was named Zhang Qiling.

• Yun Qingyang massaged Ma Feifei’s leg and brought him water in exchange for the Book Spirit Stone, which Ma Feifei gave her.
• Ma Feifei used a Tianshu Fragment to learn that Zhang Caicai was eleven, had reached the Half-Step Immortal Realm, and was listed as Vast Academy’s Second Dean and Zhang Ke’s disciple.
• Zhang Caicai returned carrying two swamp eels, and Ma Feifei grabbed him and demanded to know why he had infiltrated the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Zhang Caicai said he had come openly and did not know about being the Second Dean of Vast Academy.
• Zhang Caicai said his master had found him abandoned, named him, and was called Zhang Qiling.

Ma Feifei learned that Zhang Caicai had the Nine Revolutions Sacred Spirit Body and had completed all nine rebirths, putting him on the verge of entering the Immortal Realm. A tremendous blast erupted from Yun Qingyang’s room, and an oppressive presence began spreading throughout Dubian Town.

• Ma Feifei questioned Zhang Caicai about his identity, then asked the system why Zhang Caicai knew nothing about his past.
• The system explained that Zhang Caicai’s physique erased his memories with each rebirth and that nine revolutions could lead to the Immortal Realm.
• Ma Feifei learned Zhang Caicai had completed nine revolutions and suspected the god who created him might be Zhang Ke.
• A blast from Yun Qingyang’s room swept Ma Feifei into the Bookstore’s wall and destroyed the backyard’s stool, rocking chair, and maple tree.
• Zhang Caicai emerged from the kitchen as Zhang Yunji calmed the Bookstore’s readers and Luan Feng headed to investigate.
• Cultivators in Dubian Town heard a deep, breathing-like sound as an oppressive presence spread through the town.

Yun Qingyang’s room filled with ice as she returned to her frost giant dragon form, and Ma Feifei entered to check on her. Meanwhile, Lian Yi visited the Mysterious Bookstore to ask when the shopkeeper would leave for the Great Desolation Relic, but Zhang Yunji asked her to return the next day.

• Ice spread throughout the Mysterious Bookstore’s backyard but stopped at its boundaries, forcing Ma Feifei, Zhang Caicai, and others to retreat.
• As Yun Qingyang’s heavy panting and oppressive presence grew, Ma Feifei approached her room and saw through a hole in the window that she had returned to her true form.
• Ma Feifei opened Yun Qingyang’s door, blocked a freezing wind with his shield, and stepped inside past her enormous tail.
• Lian Yi arrived to ask when the shopkeeper would set out for the Great Desolation Relic, which was about to open.
• Zhang Yunji told Lian Yi that Ma Feifei was busy and asked her to return tomorrow; she agreed and went home.

Mo Xie visited the Mysterious Bookstore and began reading Investiture of the Gods, while Ma Feifei tried to wake Yun Qingyang after she ate the Book Spirit Stone powder. Yun Qingyang awoke, knocked Ma Feifei off her bed, and demanded to know why he was in her room.

• Lian Yi spotted Mo Xie meeting Zhang Yunji and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey outside the Mysterious Bookstore, then hid and watched them enter.
• Mo Xie considered the bookstore’s many books and wondered whether its owner, Ma Feifei, could be called a god.
• Mo Xie found Investiture of the Gods on the fifth shelf, struggled with its opening lines, and continued reading after identifying where the main story began.
• Ma Feifei complained that Yun Qingyang had consumed the Book Spirit Stone powder and climbed onto her dragon head while pretending to be a knight.
• Yun Qingyang awoke, sent Ma Feifei back to her room, and coldly asked why he was in her room; Ma Feifei claimed he had come to discuss mathematics.

Yun Qingyang neared the Immortal Realm but could not break through because the Azure Dragon Continent’s Great Dao was incomplete. Mo Xie returned to Ma Feifei hoping to become an immortal, but after learning his chance had passed, he was sent into the Investiture of the Gods.

• Yun Qingyang told Ma Feifei she felt unwell and might be about to break through, but Ma Feifei explained that the incomplete Great Dao blocked her from entering the Immortal Realm.
• Ma Feifei left Yun Qingyang and returned to the Bookstore, where Zhang Yunji told him Mo Xie was there.
• Mo Xie told Ma Feifei he had changed his mind and wanted to pursue immortality, but Ma Feifei said the Tribulation Book meant for him had disappeared.
• Ma Feifei took the Investiture of the Gods from Mo Xie and slammed his head against it, causing the book to glow and Mo Xie to vanish.

Ma Feifei triggered the world inside Investiture of the Gods, but instead of forming a projection, its golden light spread as rain across the Azure Dragon Continent. As rulers and generals encountered the strange drizzle, Crown Prince Yan and Yan Xun signed the Yan Yun Treaty to join forces against Qin State.

• Cultivators gathered outside the Mysterious Bookstore after Ma Feifei triggered a Legendary-grade world inside Investiture of the Gods, while he stayed inside to study Su Nu Jing.
• The golden pillar burst into countless droplets that swept across the Azure Dragon Continent and sank into the earth.
• Gongsun Qiong watched the drizzle avoid her, while Qin Shi Huang and Bai Yi found that some droplets entered their bodies.
• Crown Prince Yan and Yan Xun signed the Yan Yun Treaty after negotiating terms for Yan Xun's Northern Liang Army to help resist Qin State.
• When the golden drizzle fell during the signing, an elderly eunuch called it sweet dew sent by the late Emperor, and Crown Prince Yan approved his explanation.

After Mo Xie returned with the Investiture of the Gods, Ma Feifei activated the Epic Saga quest and assigned him to recruit everyone named on its list for the Mysterious Bookstore. Mo Xie left believing the task would be easy, while Ma Feifei gained the prospect of unlocking Walking Books.

• Golden drizzle covered the Azure Dragon Continent, though only a few cultivators in Dubian Town sensed its aura entering their bodies.
• Mo Xie returned to the Bookstore with the Investiture of the Gods and reluctantly handed it to Ma Feifei to inspect.
• The system activated the Epic Saga quest, which required a bearer of the list to recruit its thirty-six named people for the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Ma Feifei returned the list to Mo Xie and told him to recruit everyone named on it, promising he could keep the Investiture and God-Beating Whip.
• Mo Xie agreed and vanished from the Bookstore, confident that recruiting the listed people would be easy.

Ma Feifei prepared a roster for the upcoming Great Desolation Relic expedition as the Mysterious Bookstore drew growing attention. Meanwhile, Mo Xie forged a saber at the haunted Shen residence and summoned it from the furnace.

• Zhang Yunji told Ma Feifei that Lian Yi wanted to discuss when they would leave for the Great Desolation Relic, which would open in less than a month.
• Ma Feifei chose himself, Luan Feng, Zhang Caicai, Ba Jiu, and Yun Qingyang for the five available places, while deciding who would stay behind to guard the Bookstore and its branch.
• News of Cang Lan entering the Immortal Realm spread, drawing cultivators toward the Mysterious Bookstore and Dubian Town.
• At the Shen residence, Mo Xie ordered his men to bring him a cloak and shoes while he heated and hammered a saber.
• The saber burst from the furnace and hovered in the air, and Mo Xie beckoned it into his hand.

Mo Xie abandoned his Demon Sect leadership and set out to recruit people named on the Investiture of the Gods for the Mysterious Bookstore. He chose his old friend Qiu Yunzi as his first recruit and arrived at the Shangqing Sect during its disciple selection.

• Mo Xie rejected Shi Lao'er and Qi Laosan's pleas to restore the Demon Sect and declared that he was leaving the sect.
• Mo Xie took the sect's guardian treasures, the Investiture of the Gods and the God-Beating Whip, and flew away.
• Mo Xie opened the scroll, saw thirty-six names, and chose Qiu Yunzi of the Shangqing Sect as his first recruit.
• At the Shangqing Sect's recruitment competition, Sect Master Ren Hongyuan praised the promising young disciple Xiao Yan and planned to make him his personal disciple.
• Mo Xie arrived above the Shangqing Sect and called for its grand elder, Qiu Yunzi.

Mo Xie arrived at the Shangqing Sect and demanded to see Qiu Yunzi, overwhelming sect master Ren Hongyuan with his pressure until Qiu intervened. Mo Xie and Qiu Yunzi argued over their shared past, and when Mo Xie offered him a great stroke of fortune, Qiu tried to run away.

• Mo Xie appeared above the Shangqing Sect, and the new disciples speculated that his cultivation surpassed the Spirit Saint realm.
• Ren Hongyuan confronted Mo Xie, who demanded that he bring out Qiu Yunzi and then forced Ren Hongyuan nearly to his knees with spiritual pressure.
• Qiu Yunzi arrived and dispersed Mo Xie's pressure, then recognized Mo Xie and attacked him with a cyan longsword.
• Mo Xie snapped Qiu Yunzi's sword and slapped him, while the two argued over Mo Xie's role in Qiu Yunzi's cultivation and his childhood sweetheart Qingqing.
• Mo Xie offered Qiu Yunzi a great stroke of fortune, but Qiu tried to flee as Mo Xie insisted he was telling the truth.

Mo Xie used the Investiture of the Gods to recruit Qiu Yunzi and then hunted down talented people across Qi State. He abducted Yin Ruxue from the Divine Dragon Sect, while Lin Dong fled after accidentally revealing where she was.

• Mo Xie ignored Qiu Yunzi’s refusal and used the Investiture of the Gods to capture him for the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Mo Xie abducted highly cultivated and talented people across Qi State, prompting sects and factions to hide their most prized members.
• Mo Xie arrived at the Divine Dragon Sect and scattered its defenders with a wave of his hand.
• Lin Dong accidentally pointed Mo Xie toward the main assembly hall, then decided to flee the sect.
• Mo Xie opened the Investiture of the Gods and pulled Yin Ruxue into it as Lin Dong watched from halfway down the mountain.

Mo Xie abducted the Sect Master's wife and gave Lin Dong a spatial ring before disappearing. Ma Feifei led a group south toward the Great Desolation Relic, but their slow journey worried Lian Yi, and they heard that King Qi Wen had been kidnapped.

• Mo Xie defeated the Divine Dragon Sect's Sect Master, abducted his wife, and rewarded Lin Dong with a spatial ring before vanishing.
• Ma Feifei and Lian Yi set out on October eighth for the Great Desolation Relic, with Ma Feifei planning to check on the Confucian Dao Academy along the way.
• Ma Feifei gathered his companions and employees at the Bookstore, then led them south from Dubian Town.
• The group reached Yuanfang City after traveling only two hundred li, and Lian Yi urged them to hurry.
• Inn guests told Ma Feifei's group that King Qi Wen had been kidnapped.

Ma Feifei and his companions traveled to Wu'an City and entered Wu'an Academy after Lian Yi presented her admission token. Once inside, Ma Feifei learned that the woman matching the system's description of the Book-holding woman was named Mu Qingyi.

• Ma Feifei overheard that a black-robed man had kidnapped King Qi Wen and suspected the culprit was Mo Xie.
• Ma Feifei and his companions traveled over a thousand li and arrived in Wu'an City.
• The academy gate instructor refused to let the group enter until Lian Yi showed her admission token.
• Lian Yi guided the group through Wu'an Academy and revealed that she had been expelled after studying there for three months.
• Ma Feifei asked Lian Yi about Mu Qingyi after the system identified her as the Book-holding woman.

Ma Feifei went to Wu'an Academy with Lian Yi to find Mu Qingyi, then slipped into a lesson on controlling spiritual energy. He discovered Mu Qingyi sitting beside him when she offered him a half-eaten chicken leg and demanded that he become her underling if he accepted it.

• Lian Yi told Ma Feifei that Mu Qingyi was Wu'an Academy's most outstanding student but had been in seclusion for over half a year.
• Lian Yi led Ma Feifei and the others through the academy, where students recognized her as a legendary figure.
• Ma Feifei and his companions quietly joined a class on spiritual energy control, and Ma Feifei listened eagerly to the instructor.
• Ma Feifei noticed that the expressionless student beside him smelled of meat and told her she had grease at the corner of her mouth.
• The woman identified herself as Mu Qingyi, offered Ma Feifei her half-eaten chicken leg, and said she would take him on as her underling if he ate it.

Ma Feifei met Mu Qingyi at Wu'an Academy and learned that the Confucian Dao Academy had fallen into decline. He followed Mu Qingyi toward the abandoned academy to find out why its teachings were no longer attracting students.

• Mu Qingyi told Ma Feifei to call her big brother, while Lian Yi's return to Wu'an Academy drew the students' attention.
• The instructor ended class early, and Mu Qingyi invited Ma Feifei, Lian Yi, and Zhang Caicai to dinner.
• Mu Qingyi revealed that the Confucian Dao Academy had almost no students and that its instructors were close to losing their jobs.
• Ma Feifei followed Mu Qingyi toward the Confucian Dao Academy because his tasks and plans depended on its success.
• Mu Qingyi showed Ma Feifei the overgrown path to the academy and said learning its teachings was useless.

Mu Qingyi explained why students abandoned the Confucian Dao Academy, whose teachings gave no cultivation benefits, and Ma Feifei investigated its decline. The system revealed that students had gained dormant Righteous Qi and taught Ma Feifei how to awaken it, leaving him smiling as Zhang Caicai finished cooking and Yun Qingyang completed her painting.

• Mu Qingyi explained that the Four Books and Five Classics demanded so much study while offering no cultivation gains that Wu'an Academy's students stopped attending the Confucian Dao Academy.
• Mu Qingyi revealed that she regretted the academy's decline because its imperial chefs had made excellent chicken legs, prompting Zhang Caicai to offer to cook some.
• Ma Feifei inspected the deserted academy and asked the system why its students had not gained Righteous Qi.
• The system told Ma Feifei that the students possessed dormant Righteous Qi and gave him the method to awaken it.
• Zhang Caicai finished cooking, Yun Qingyang finished her painting of Ma Feifei, and Ma Feifei smiled after resolving his concerns.

Ma Feifei used Zhang Caicai’s cooking to persuade Mu Qingyi to learn from him, hoping to secure her help for the Bookstore and the Confucian Dao Academy. The plan appeared to succeed, but Yun Qingyang revealed that Zhang Caicai’s overdue debt had ballooned to 495,000 Spirit Crystals.

• Mu Qingyi praised Zhang Caicai’s drumsticks, while Ma Feifei questioned Yun Qingyang’s caricature of him and watched her take the drawing to hang above the Bookstore entrance.
• After Mu Qingyi said Zhang Caicai’s drumsticks beat those from Zui Xian Lou, Ma Feifei suggested that she learn to cook them herself so she could eat them regularly.
• Ma Feifei hoped Mu Qingyi would agree to become the Book-holding woman and help bring back the Confucian Dao Academy’s students to awaken their Righteous Qi.
• Zhang Caicai refused to teach Mu Qingyi until Yun Qingyang offered to waive his interest, prompting him to accept and ask Mu Qingyi to agree to a condition.
• Ma Feifei asked about Zhang Caicai’s debt, and Yun Qingyang said daily interest had raised what he owed to 495,000 Spirit Crystals.