Recaps

Ma Feifei turned down Zhang Yunji’s bribe and let him choose a book after The Legend of the Condor Heroes was taken. The bookstore filled with cultivators, and Zhou Guanyu’s breakthrough convinced the crowd that reading there could raise their cultivation.

• Zhang Yunji offered Ma Feifei a thousand Spirit Crystals as an apology, but Ma Feifei returned them and charged him the reading fee.
• Zhang Yunji asked for The Legend of the Condor Heroes, found Zhou Guanyu reading it, and chose Ma Feifei’s I Want to Become an Immortal instead.
• Customers packed the bookstore and took every available book, while Ma Feifei turned away the crowd outside.
• Zhou Guanyu broke through while reading The Legend of the Condor Heroes, shocking the onlookers.
• The crowd clamored to enter, demanded The Legend of the Condor Heroes, and offered Spirit Crystals for a seat.

Ma Feifei used Yun Qingyang’s Spirit Saint aura to quiet the crowd outside the Mysterious Bookstore, then offered copies of My Fair Princess for sale because the shop was too crowded for everyone to read. The crowd eagerly began placing orders as cultivators inside discussed how reading had improved their cultivation.

• Yun Qingyang released her Spirit Saint aura, frightening the crowd and stopping the trouble outside the bookstore.
• Ma Feifei taunted the cultivator who had threatened to flatten the bookstore, then learned Yun Qingyang could maintain her aura for only three minutes.
• Zhou Guanyu’s breakthrough convinced the cultivators inside that reading could improve cultivation, though Zhang Yunji and his companions felt no effects from their books.
• Ma Feifei realized the crowd would keep growing and asked Yun Qingyang to bring ten thousand copies of My Fair Princess from the storeroom.
• Ma Feifei announced he would sell My Fair Princess for ten Spirit Crystals per copy, and cultivators inside and outside rushed to place orders.

Gongsun Qiong bought the remaining copies of My Fair Princess from Ma Feifei, planning to resell them at a higher price. The cultivators refused to pay her price, but she remained confident and told Zhao Xiaodao to buy all the land deeds around the Mysterious Bookstore.

• Gongsun Qiong offered Ma Feifei one hundred thousand Spirit Crystals for the remaining nine thousand copies of My Fair Princess, explaining that she intended to resell them.
• Ma Feifei accepted the deal, but the system task progress remained at 1120/10000 because Gongsun Qiong's bulk purchase did not count toward spreading the books.
• Gongsun Qiong set her resale price at fifty Spirit Crystals per book and announced she would sell the copies from Old Man Wang's bun shop.
• The cultivators refused to buy at the higher price, while Zhao Xiaodao worried that the books might not have miraculous effects for every reader.
• Gongsun Qiong told Zhao Xiaodao to buy all the land deeds around the Mysterious Bookstore, then went to speak with Old Man Wang and his family.

Ma Feifei took back Yun Qingyang’s Spirit Crystals to invest in copying the Yellow Quality book Thousand Gold Formulas, while Yun Qingyang discouraged Zhang Yunji over his lack of insight. By closing time, Ma Feifei had copied one-fifth of the book and planned to finish it within two more days.

• Ma Feifei persuaded Yun Qingyang to hand over the Spirit Crystals, though she kept her spatial ring and gave him the crystals in a pouch.
• Ma Feifei began copying Thousand Gold Formulas as Yun Qingyang watched unhappily.
• Zhang Yunji asked Yun Qingyang why reading his book had brought him no insight, and she told him to read more before warning that tomorrow might make him even more desperate.
• Ma Feifei entered an unusual focused state as spiritual energy flowed through him into his pen and the Spirit Crystals dwindled.
• Ma Feifei stopped copying at closing time, discovered he had used one-fifth of the crystals to copy one-fifth of the book, and went to cook while Yun Qingyang shut herself in her room.

Cultivators flooded Dubian Town, but Gongsun Qiong struggled to sell My Fair Princess at fifty Spirit Crystals a copy, leaving Ma Feifei worried that his side quest would fail. As he continued copying the Thousand Gold Formulas, rumors spread of valuable discoveries near Nine Heavens Mountain.

• Cultivators crowded the Mysterious Bookstore and sought out copies of My Fair Princess while waiting for news of breakthroughs and rewards.
• Gongsun Qiong sold fewer than a thousand copies at her stall, and gossip about her resale price discouraged buyers as Zhao Xiaodao fretted over the slow sales.
• Ma Feifei worried that Gongsun Qiong would not sell the books and that his side quest would fail, but he decided to finish copying the Thousand Gold Formulas before speaking with her.
• Tavern patrons heard that a cultivator had tamed a sixth-tier young dragon beast on the outskirts of Nine Heavens Mountain.
• Traders learned that another cultivator had found seventh-tier meteoric iron, which reached a price of a hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Crystals at auction.

Rumors spread through Dubian Town that readers of My Fair Princess had become extraordinarily lucky, and cultivators blamed the book’s mysterious power. Zhang Yunji, who had read it without gaining any benefit, was left questioning his talent and crying in the tavern.

• Cultivators across Dubian Town found rare treasures and injured spirit beasts, and an elderly Spirit Sect cultivator showed off a sixth-tier young dragon beast he had found.
• A tavern patron noticed that several lucky people had bought My Fair Princess from the Mysterious Bookstore and argued that the book had granted them their good fortune.
• The cultivators accepted the theory and hurried out of the tavern to seek their own copies of My Fair Princess.
• Zhang Yunji stayed behind with his copy, lamenting that he had read books from the Mysterious Bookstore without gaining anything.
• Zhang Yunji recalled arriving first at the bookstore and hearing Yun Qingyang’s words, then broke down crying over his apparent lack of talent.

Gongsun Qiong sold the remaining copies of My Fair Princess after rumors spread that the book brought readers good fortune, and she and Zhao Xiaodao set out to seek treasures themselves. At the bookstore, Ma Feifei told Zhou Guanyu to keep reading The Legend of the Condor Heroes and asked him to bring his sister back so she could test whether Thousand Gold Formulas could cure her illness.

• Cultivators crowded Gongsun Qiong's shop to buy My Fair Princess after hearing that readers had found rare treasures and spirit beasts.
• Gongsun Qiong learned that Zhao Xiaodao had secured the land around the Mysterious Bookstore, then asked her to change clothes so they could search for treasures.
• Zhou Guanyu told Ma Feifei he had failed to comprehend techniques in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, and she urged him to keep reading.
• Ma Feifei asked when Zhou Zhuling would return, and Zhou Guanyu said she would be back the next day.
• Ma Feifei told Zhou Guanyu to bring his sister to the bookstore so she could see whether Thousand Gold Formulas could cure her illness.

A reading craze, treasure hunt, and queueing craze swept Dubian Town after Fair Princess sold out, while Zhang Yunji was turned away from Mysterious Bookstore despite paying extra for a place in line. Ma Feifei revealed the newly completed Thousand Gold Formulas, whose golden, moving words seemed to possess their own spirit, as he prepared to meet Zhou Zhuling.

• Cultivators across Dubian Town began reading obsessively, searching for treasures, and queuing outside Mysterious Bookstore.
• Zhang Yunji paid dearly for an eleventh-place spot in line, hoping to investigate the bookstore and its books.
• Yun Qingyang turned Zhang Yunji away because a distinguished guest was expected, despite there being fewer than twelve readers inside.
• Ma Feifei emerged late after spending the night studying Thousand Gold Formulas, the bookstore's first Yellow Quality book.
• Ma Feifei observed that Thousand Gold Formulas had a rough golden cover and golden words that moved with individual awareness.

Ma Feifei tested the yellow-quality Thousand Gold Formulas on Zhou Zhuling, whose illness it seemed to diagnose and suppress. The book then revealed a glowing cluster of characters that only Ma Feifei could see.

• Ma Feifei gave Zhou Zhuling the Thousand Gold Formulas and watched her read while recording her reactions.
• The book's characters writhed, sprang off the pages, and circled Zhou Zhuling as the energy inside her surged without worsening her illness.
• Ma Feifei concluded that the Thousand Gold Formulas was examining Zhou Zhuling's illness, while the gathered cultivators marveled at the flying characters.
• The golden characters returned to the book, and Zhou Zhuling said her illness had been suppressed much faster than before.
• The Thousand Gold Formulas emitted golden light, revealing a hidden cluster of characters that only Ma Feifei could see.

Ma Feifei learned that the Thousand Gold Formulas could produce a pill to cure Zhou Zhuling’s Nine Cold disease, but it cost two million Spirit Crystals. With Zhou Guanyu seeking help from Zhou Wuji, Ma Feifei persuaded Yun Qingyang to fund the treatment in exchange for a share of the profits.

• The Thousand Gold Formulas revealed that the Nine Revolutions Body Cleansing Pill could cure Zhou Zhuling and cost two million Spirit Crystals.
• Zhou Guanyu asked Ma Feifei to lower the price, but Ma Feifei said he could not change it; Zhou Guanyu then left to find Zhou Wuji.
• Zhou Zhuling thanked Ma Feifei for giving her hope, while word spread that the Bookstore’s books could cure illness.
• Ma Feifei approached Yun Qingyang and proposed lending Zhou Zhuling the treatment money at fifty percent interest.
• Yun Qingyang rejected Ma Feifei’s proposed split and demanded 1.8 million Spirit Crystals; Ma Feifei agreed.

Ma Feifei used two million Spirit Crystals to treat Zhou Zhuling with the Thousand Gold Formulas, curing her Nine Chills illness and sending her straight to the Spirit Sect realm. The treatment completed his Spread of Culture quest and triggered a new side quest.

• Yun Qingyang lent Ma Feifei two million Spirit Crystals, reminding him to return 1.8 million.
• Ma Feifei told Zhou Zhuling the money was a loan, and she agreed to repay Yun Qingyang after being cured.
• The Thousand Gold Formulas glowed and sent nine golden ripples into Zhou Zhuling, curing her illness and restoring her ability to cultivate.
• Zhou Zhuling's aura surged, and she broke through directly to the Spirit Sect realm.
• Ma Feifei completed the Spread of Culture quest, received three book rewards, and triggered the Books Find Their Destined Readers side quest.

After Zhou Zhuling cured her Nine Cold condition and broke through to Spirit Sect, Ma Feifei invited Zhang Yunji into the bookstore and offered him The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Palace Lord Yin and Elder Lin then competed to read the Thousand Gold Formulas, leaving Palace Lord Yin watching as Elder Lin took the book.

• Zhou Zhuling thanked Ma Feifei, who urged her to go home and share the news that her condition was cured; she left the bookstore shyly.
• The cultivators in the shop focused on the newly available Thousand Gold Formulas and The Legend of the Condor Heroes, while two spaces opened for new readers.
• Ma Feifei let Zhang Yunji and another cultivator enter, then offered Zhang Yunji The Legend of the Condor Heroes to read.
• Palace Lord Yin asked Elder Lin to let him read the Thousand Gold Formulas first, hinting that he had a health problem.
• Elder Lin claimed he was interested in the book too, took it from the shelf, and began reading as Palace Lord Yin watched darkly.

Ma Feifei reassured Zhang Yunji that he could keep The Legend of the Condor Heroes and read as a valued customer, then awkwardly tried to persuade him to settle in Dubian Town. The chapter ended with Ma Feifei admitting that the bookstore needed a helping hand and asking Zhang Yunji to assist.

• Ma Feifei gave Zhang Yunji the book and granted him the privilege of skipping the line at the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Ma Feifei made nervous small talk with Zhang Yunji, who mistakenly counted his family as five people instead of six.
• Ma Feifei praised Dubian Town and told Zhang Yunji that Gongsun Qiong and the Wantong Chamber of Commerce were buying land to develop it into a gathering place for cultivators.
• Ma Feifei whispered to Zhang Yunji that the bookstore needed a helping hand and asked him to assist.

Ma Feifei completed the main quest, reached the peak of Spirit Sect ninth stage, and received a new quest to fulfill several readers’ wishes. He also got a sales quest for My Fair Princess Part Two, then heard news of an injured eighth-rank spirit beast near Nine Heavens Mountain.

• Ma Feifei reflected on the Bookstore’s growing popularity, the new books he could not yet afford to copy, and the main quest’s completed reading target.
• The system announced that Ma Feifei had completed the main quest, rewarded him with three books, and raised his cultivation to the peak of Spirit Sect ninth stage.
• The system assigned Ma Feifei the Readers’ Wish quest, asking him to help Crown Prince Yan, Puzhi, Lin Wuchi, and Li Beiguo fulfill their dreams.
• The system assigned Ma Feifei a side quest to sell one hundred thousand copies of My Fair Princess Part Two for ten Spirit Crystals each, with a paintbrush and sketchbook as rewards.
• Ma Feifei worried that he could not draw well, then heard a caller announce an injured eighth-rank spirit beast near Nine Heavens Mountain.

Ma Feifei went to see an eighth-rank spirit beast and found a crowd gathered around a wounded Nine-Tailed Silver Fox battling a Masked Spirit Venerable. The fox and its opponent were both badly injured, while Gongsun Qiong sought Zhang Yunji’s help and the gathered cultivators waited for a chance to seize the beast.

• Ma Feifei tried to persuade Yun Qingyang to come see an eighth-rank spirit beast, but Yun Qingyang showed him a dragon’s eye and went back to sleep.
• Ma Feifei headed alone toward Nine Heavens Mountain as cultivators from Dubian Town rushed to see the injured beast.
• Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao watched the Nine-Tailed Silver Fox fight the Masked Spirit Venerable and worried that the surrounding cultivators would try to capture it.
• Gongsun Qiong sent a servant to ask Zhang Yunji to come help the Wantong Chamber of Commerce.
• The Masked Spirit Venerable and the Nine-Tailed Silver Fox exchanged a devastating attack that left both gravely injured.
• The Nine-Tailed Silver Fox mournfully cried out, and someone called to Zhao Xiaodao to ask what they were doing.

Ma Feifei came to Nine Heavens Mountain to see the eighth-rank spirit beast and realized the cultivators might target her and the Mysterious Bookstore. As Yin Wuxiang and Lin Ao plotted to capture her, the wounded Nine-tailed Silver Fox fell, and cultivators rushed to seize it.

• Ma Feifei arrived at Nine Heavens Mountain, where Zhao Xiaodao and Gongsun Qiong warned her about the danger.
• The cultivators noticed Ma Feifei was alone and began considering capturing her to uncover the Mysterious Bookstore's secrets.
• Yin Wuxiang proposed that Lin Ao help him capture Ma Feifei, and Lin Ao agreed after Yin Wuxiang dismissed the risk to Xuantian Palace.
• The Masked Spirit Venerable battered the already wounded Nine-tailed Silver Fox until it collapsed.
• The cultivators charged toward the fallen Nine-tailed Silver Fox to claim the eighth-rank spirit beast.

A fight over the eighth-rank Nine-tailed Silver Fox broke out between Chu Hongyuan’s side and rival cultivators, while Ma Feifei and his companions were ambushed. Ma Feifei unexpectedly sent Lin Ao flying with one punch, revealing strength that surprised everyone.

• Cultivators surrounded Chu Hongyuan and forced Gongsun Qiong to give up the Nine-tailed Silver Fox, but Zhang Yunji arrived and joined the ensuing battle.
• Ma Feifei sensed an ambush and pushed Zhao Xiaodao and Gongsun Qiong out of the blast’s path.
• Yin Wuxiang and Lin Ao defeated the Wantong Chamber of Commerce’s servants and surrounded Ma Feifei’s group.
• Lin Ao reached for Ma Feifei, who countered with a punch that sent him flying through the trees.
• Ma Feifei, Zhao Xiaodao, and others stared in shock at Ma Feifei’s revealed strength.

Ma Feifei stunned the cultivators by punching Lin Ao away, then fought off Lin Ao and Yin Wuxiang as his instinctive brawling grew more confident. When the surrounding cultivators moved in and his opponents prepared their strongest techniques, Ma Feifei began gathering spiritual energy into a ball of light.

• Ma Feifei punched Lin Ao into a tree, leaving the onlookers wondering whether the shopkeeper was human and prompting Zhao Xiaodao to question his strength.
• Lin Ao returned injured and persuaded Yin Wuxiang to attack Ma Feifei with him, while Ma Feifei relied on instinct and fists instead of techniques.
• Ma Feifei gradually gained momentum and held his own against the two attackers, leading the surrounding cultivators to edge closer in hopes of abducting him.
• Lin Ao warned Yin Wuxiang that the crowd was closing in, and the two men retreated to prepare their strongest techniques.
• As Gongsun Qiong struggled under the pressure and Ma Feifei wondered how to respond, he gathered spiritual energy in his hands and formed a ball of light.

Ma Feifei and the other cultivators lost access to their spiritual energy when the wounded Nine-tailed Silver Fox began absorbing it to advance. As the beast prepared to rise, the group fled toward Dubian Town on foot, and Ma Feifei’s laughter gave way to wandering thoughts when he heard Gongsun Qiong panting beside him.

• Ma Feifei’s compressed spiritual-energy attack dispersed, and the energy sustaining Yin Wuxiang and Lin Ao’s techniques was drained as well.
• The Nine-tailed Silver Fox absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy, darkening the sky and leaving cultivators unable to use their own energy.
• A Spirit King recognized that the beast was about to advance and ran, prompting the other cultivators to flee too.
• Gongsun Qiong explained the danger, and Zhang Yunji and Chu Hongyuan joined her group as they retreated toward Dubian Town.
• Ma Feifei laughed at the cultivators forced to run, then began to lose focus when he heard Gongsun Qiong panting beside him.

The Nine-tailed Silver Fox rampaged through the cultivators after its evolution failed, while Yin Wuxiang and Lin Ao tried to flee. Lin Ao survived Yin Wuxiang’s attack when a second flying tree struck Yin Wuxiang instead.

• The Nine-tailed Silver Fox failed to complete its evolution and began hunting the cultivators, killing several as the crowd fled.
• A cultivator was dragged down by another man and nearly killed by the Nine-tailed Silver Fox, but survived the chaos and an accidental fall.
• Yin Wuxiang and Lin Ao fled through the crowds, knocking down trees to slow the fox and the cultivators behind them.
• Lin Ao offered Yin Wuxiang his copy of My Fair Princess in exchange for a Blood Vitality Pill, but Yin Wuxiang refused and attacked him with a tree.
• A second enormous tree struck Lin Ao’s tree and sent it flying into Yin Wuxiang, leaving Lin Ao alive and stunned.

After evolving into a ninth-rank spirit beast, the Nine-tailed Silver Fox chased the fleeing cultivators toward Dubian Town and overwhelmed their defenders. Just as it closed in on Ma Feifei and the others, Yun Qingyang appeared, freezing the land around her.

• Cultivators concluded that reading My Fair Princess had saved the survivors from the Nine-tailed Silver Fox.
• The evolved Nine-tailed Silver Fox pursued the cultivators to the edge of Dubian Town, and Ma Feifei reassured Zhao Xiaodao and Gongsun Qiong that a Spirit Saint worked at his Bookstore.
• The Nine-tailed Silver Fox shattered Chu Hongyuan and Zhang Yunji's barrier, hurling the group across the ground and leaving Gongsun Qiong unconscious.
• Zhang Yunji charged the beast with his seventh-rank spirit weapon, but the Nine-tailed Silver Fox knocked him aside and sent the sword flying.
• As the Nine-tailed Silver Fox approached the injured group, Gongsun Qiong asked Zhao Xiaodao to prepare her space ring's life-saving item.
• The Nine-tailed Silver Fox stopped and stared behind the group, where Yun Qingyang approached through the sand as ice spread around her.

Yun Qingyang drove off the Nine-tailed Silver Fox and rescued Ma Feifei’s group, who had failed to subdue the spirit beast. After learning that My Fair Princess was believed to bring good luck, Gongsun Qiong offered to buy all 100,000 copies of its sequel, leaving Ma Feifei baffled by the enormous deal.

• Yun Qingyang froze the Nine-tailed Silver Fox’s wind blade and ordered the ninth-rank beast to leave, and it retreated into Nine Heavens Mountain.
• Ma Feifei and the others reached Yun Qingyang, while Gongsun Qiong and Chu Hongyuan lamented their failed attempt to capture the injured fox.
• Zhao Xiaodao and Zhang Yunji asked Ma Feifei whether his bookstore had more books that could bring good luck.
• Ma Feifei revealed that My Fair Princess Part Two would soon be available, and Gongsun Qiong offered to buy all 100,000 copies at five times the usual price.
• Gongsun Qiong calculated the total as five million Spirit Crystals, and Ma Feifei wondered whether she had made a math mistake.

After the Nine-tailed Silver Fox’s attack, My Fair Princess became highly sought after because readers believed the book had saved their lives. Ma Feifei found a way to sell Part Two at the system-mandated price while arranging for Gongsun Qiong’s extra payment to go to Yun Qingyang.

• Around five hundred cultivators were estimated to have died in the Nine-tailed Silver Fox’s attack, and survivors spread the claim that My Fair Princess had brought them good luck.
• Demand for My Fair Princess surged, driving its price sharply upward as cultivators refused to sell their copies.
• Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao urged Ma Feifei to release one hundred thousand copies of Part Two, but the system insisted that each copy cost ten Spirit Crystals.
• Ma Feifei told Gongsun Qiong he would sell the books for ten Spirit Crystals each, angering Yun Qingyang when she realized she would lose the expected profits.
• Ma Feifei proposed that Gongsun Qiong give the remaining money to Yun Qingyang as a reward, and Gongsun Qiong offered six million Spirit Crystals in total.
• Yun Qingyang happily accepted the gift, then absent-mindedly agreed when Ma Feifei teased her by asking if she was an old woman.

The Wantong Chamber of Commerce sold out My Fair Princess Part Two in under an hour, earning Gongsun Qiong a huge profit and strengthening her position as president. Ma Feifei began copying the system’s rewarded books, but writing the Diamond Sutra’s title left him in a trance and he made no further progress.

• Cultivators crowded the Wantong Chamber of Commerce branch and bought all one hundred thousand copies of My Fair Princess Part Two for two hundred Spirit Crystals each.
• Gongsun Qiong earned thirteen million Spirit Crystals in net profit and sent Chu Hongyuan to fetch her master to help protect the fortune.
• Zhao Xiaodao said the sale would quiet criticism of Gongsun Qiong, who decided to prepare three million Spirit Crystals to repay Ma Feifei’s kindness.
• Ma Feifei chose to begin copying the Diamond Sutra, the shortest of the books the system had rewarded him with.
• After writing the title Diamond Sutra, Ma Feifei entered a profound trance and returned to himself in the afternoon without copying another character.

Ma Feifei received three million Spirit Crystals from Gongsun Qiong and payment for Zhou Zhuling’s treatment, then convinced Yun Qingyang that her share totaled two million. He slipped away to his room while Yun Qingyang tried to make sense of his accounting.

• Ma Feifei accepted Gongsun Qiong’s three million Spirit Crystals after the system confirmed they did not count as book-sale profit.
• Zhou Guanyu and Zhou Zhuling delivered payment for her treatment and left for Yuanfang City to find their mother.
• Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao departed after delivering the Spirit Crystals.
• Yun Qingyang demanded her Spirit Crystals, and Ma Feifei handed her the pouch from Zhou Guanyu, claiming it contained her full two-million-crystal share.
• Yun Qingyang puzzled over Ma Feifei’s explanation as he sneaked into his room and locked the door.