Recaps

Ma Feifei learned that the Investiture of the Gods could collect the 91,520 beings who died near the Mysterious Bookstore and that the system could revive them after upgrading. He activated the Investiture, which opened above Dubian Town and began drawing in the dead, while terrified cultivators watched.

• Ma Feifei sent Ba Jiu to escort Zhou Zhuling home because he feared for the safety of those around him.
• Ma Feifei paid the system for advice and learned he could collect nearby souls with the Investiture of the Gods and revive them after the system reached Lv. 4.
• Ma Feifei agreed to collect the dead within a hundred-mile radius, and the Investiture flew from his spatial ring to the sky above Dubian Town.
• Cultivators in Dubian Town feared the Investiture and some fled as its ancient aura spread and the blank scroll unfurled.
• The cultivators began seeing translucent figures of the dead, and the spirits drifted toward the scroll and entered it amid the town’s panic.

After the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey’s attack devastated Dubian Town, Ma Feifei captured the dead in the Investiture of the Gods and openly rejected the crowd’s demand for an explanation. The town began rebuilding, but when the Mysterious Bookstore reopened seven days later, no customers dared enter.

• Ma Feifei recalled the Investiture of the Gods after it absorbed roughly ninety thousand beings, and blamed Zhang Ke and Xun Ling for the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey’s destruction.
• When someone in the crowd demanded that Ma Feifei explain his employee’s actions, he asserted his dominance and vanished after his pressure silenced the street.
• News of the incident spread across the Azure Dragon Continent as workers from the Wantong Trading Market and the authorities repaired Dubian Town.
• The Mysterious Bookstore remained closed while residents hesitated to leave and outsiders arrived, causing the town’s population to grow amid lingering tension.
• On the seventh day, the Mysterious Bookstore reopened, but the gathered cultivators stayed outside, and Zhang Yunji worried that no one would come in.
• Ba Jiu told Zhang Yunji not to worry and went inside, confident that customers would eventually arrive.

Ma Feifei closed the Mysterious Bookstore after Dubian Town’s cultivators boycotted it, then revealed a Mythic-grade book to tempt them back. He entered the book’s frozen world to pursue Ying Long’s blood, but his cultivation was sealed, and an avalanche came crashing toward him.

• Ma Feifei told Luan Feng to close the Mysterious Bookstore and post a notice that it would stay closed until further notice.
• Zhang Yunji posted the closure notice as the cultivators outside celebrated their boycott and demanded Ma Feifei answer for the deaths in town.
• An orange Mythic-grade book appeared above the Bookstore and projected a snowy world in which Ma Feifei was struggling through a blizzard.
• Ma Feifei complained that his cultivation had been sealed and questioned why Ying Long would live in an icy wasteland.
• Ma Feifei heard a deafening roar, turned around, and saw an avalanche approaching.

After surviving the avalanche, Ma Feifei followed the sun through the snowy wilderness in search of Ying Long. As he ran toward a mountain range, he began growing rapidly, leaving the watching cultivators stunned.

• The cultivators watching the projection worried that Ma Feifei had vanished beneath the avalanche, while Zhang Caicai, Zhang Yunji, Luan Feng, and Yun Qingyang discussed the Mythic-grade book.
• Ma Feifei crawled out of the snow, shook himself off, and set out toward the sun to search for Ying Long.
• Ma Feifei ran across the snowfield, relying on his immense physical strength and Dragon God Arm.
• Ma Feifei reached a mountain range as the snow thinned, and the cultivators noticed his footprints were growing larger.
• Ma Feifei grew from about 1.7 meters to over 3.4 meters tall as he ran.

Ma Feifei ran through the ancient wilderness toward the sun, growing so enormous that he drank streams and rivers dry. Exhausted at last, he realized he might have grown bigger.

• Ma Feifei left the snowy land and continued running toward the sun as he grew taller than the surrounding mountains.
• Ma Feifei concluded that the book’s world had restored his body to an ordinary mortal’s condition when he felt thirsty.
• Ma Feifei drank an entire stream, then later drained a river and continued running across the wasteland.
• Ma Feifei repeated the cycle of running and drinking from rivers until his legs gave out.
• Ma Feifei sat beneath the sun, looked at his hands, and wondered whether he had grown bigger.

Ma Feifei realized that the Bookstore System had made him reenact Kuafu’s pursuit of the sun, despite the myth ending with Kuafu’s death. He chose to continue, and the chapter ended as a gigantic yellow winged monster appeared before him.

• Ma Feifei noticed that his body had grown enormous and connected his pursuit of the sun and thirst to the myth of Kuafu.
• The system quoted the account of Kuafu’s death and named Ying Long as his killer.
• Ma Feifei worried that Ying Long would kill him but decided to keep chasing the sun, trusting that the system would not let him die in its book.
• Cultivators watching the projection complained about the repetitive pursuit but stayed to see what the new book would reveal.
• Ma Feifei grew so large that mountains seemed tiny, then a huge yellow monster with wings that blotted out the sky charged toward him.

Ma Feifei fought Ying Long in giant forms inside the book’s world, astounding the cultivators watching from Dubian Town. Grand Dean Cang Lan, Jian Wuji, and Qingcheng Xian arrived and agreed that the power on display exceeded even their own Immortal Realm abilities as the battle resumed.

• Ying Long charged at Ma Feifei, who dodged its wind attack and punched the dragon’s head, sending it flying tens of thousands of li.
• Ying Long struck Ma Feifei with its tail and hurled him a thousand li, leaving the watching cultivators stunned by the giants’ immense power.
• Cang Lan arrived and said she could not wield the power shown in the battle.
• Jian Wuji appeared, and Cang Lan greeted him and Qingcheng Xian as Immortal Realm experts.
• The battle resumed in the projection, drawing the three immortals and the cultivators’ attention back to the giants’ fight.

Ma Feifei defeated Ying Long and absorbed his blood, triggering a painful reaction and an offer from the system to infuse the Ying Long bloodline into Yun Qingyang. The projection ended as the infusion began, leaving the onlookers waiting to see what rewards they would receive.

• Ma Feifei grabbed Ying Long's wing and slammed the enormous beast into the ground.
• Ma Feifei pounded Ying Long's belly and absorbed the blood that splashed over him.
• Ying Long escaped into the sky while Ma Feifei ran to a lake to cool his burning body.
• The system detected Ying Long's bloodline and offered to infuse it into Yun Qingyang, the Frost Giant Dragon.
• Ma Feifei accepted the infusion, and the system warned him to prepare Spirit Crystals before his body shrank and the projection ended.

After the Mysterious Bookstore’s new book revealed a spectacular battle but no visible benefits, the crowd surged toward the closed shop. Zhang Yunji announced that exclusive numbers would no longer grant entry and that the bookstore would reopen with room for more than five thousand readers.

• Cultivators rushed the bookstore after the book’s world showed a dragon and a giant fighting, hoping to discover its benefits.
• Zhang Yunji and Ba Jiu stopped the crowd and reminded them that the bookstore had closed for the day.
• Zhang Yunji told the crowd that missed ticket-check times made that day’s exclusive numbers void, and he refused to reopen the shop.
• Qingcheng Xian asked when the bookstore would reopen, and Zhang Yunji said the owner would decide.
• Zhang Yunji announced that exclusive numbers would no longer serve as entry passes and that the expanded bookstore could accommodate more than five thousand readers.

Zhang Yunji announced that the Mysterious Bookstore would blacklist hostile customers, then Zhou Zhuling introduced lifetime Book Cards as a new way to enter the Bookstore. She explained the different entry schedules and privileges for Gold, Silver, and Bronze Cards.

• Zhang Yunji warned that customers who harbored hostility toward or vilified the Mysterious Bookstore would be blacklisted and barred from entering.
• Zhang Yunji directed the crowd to the Wantong Trading Market for details about future admission.
• Zhou Zhuling announced that the Wantong Trading Market would buy back exclusive numbers and introduce lifetime Book Cards.
• Zhou Zhuling explained that Gold Card holders could enter once every three days and receive priority book selection on every third visit.
• Zhou Zhuling explained that Silver Card holders could enter once a month and receive priority book selection once a year.
• Zhou Zhuling explained that Bronze Card holders could enter once every two months with no additional privileges.

Zhou Zhuling announced the prices and immediate sale of the Mysterious Bookstore’s membership cards, and the first batch of Gold Book Cards quickly sold out. Meanwhile, Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang were together in a room as Yun Qingyang underwent a painful transformation.

• Steward Wang announced that Gold, Silver, and Bronze memberships cost ten million, one million, and five hundred thousand Spirit Crystals per year, respectively, and included matching Book Cards.
• Zhou Zhuling said customers could register for membership immediately at the Wantong Trading Market, while Cang Lan, the Sword Ancestor, and Qingcheng Xian headed down to buy cards.
• The first three thousand Gold Book Cards sold out in less than half an hour as customers crowded the market to purchase memberships.
• Zhang Caicai and Mu Qingyi heard cries from Yun Qingyang’s room and mistook what was happening there for an intimate encounter.
• Ma Feifei sat on the floor with his arm in Yun Qingyang’s teeth as she reverted toward her true form, her scales turning bright red.

Yun Qingyang inherited Ying Long’s bloodline, transformed into a golden dragon, and gained powerful new abilities. Ma Feifei learned that his own bloodline had changed and that he had received the inheritance of Earth Mother Houtu.

• Yun Qingyang transformed as Ying Long’s bloodline took effect, turning her scales gold before she returned to human form while still biting Ma Feifei’s arm.
• Ma Feifei washed his saliva-covered arm, then asked Yun Qingyang what abilities she had gained.
• Yun Qingyang summoned dark clouds and torrential rain, and said she could also summon lightning and breathe fire.
• Ma Feifei asked the system why he had not gained his Blood Pact beast’s powers, and the system explained that his bloodline had changed.
• The system told Ma Feifei that he had received the bloodline inheritance of Earth Mother Houtu.

After awakening Houtu’s bloodline, Ma Feifei learned that he needed to fight to gain its abilities and opened a Shopkeeper-Exclusive Training Instance for future training. At lunch, he refused to increase Gold Book Card sales yet and learned that Cang Lan, Jian Wuji, and Qingcheng Xian had come to see him.

• The system explained that Ma Feifei had inherited Houtu’s bloodline through Kuafu, but he would gain no abilities until combat triggered its evolution.
• Ma Feifei considered fighting Yun Qingyang or a stranger, then remembered the Shopkeeper-Exclusive Training Instance and chose to set up its spatial tunnel.
• Ma Feifei postponed entering the dangerous instance because he was exhausted, but Zhang Caicai soon called him to lunch.
• Zhang Yunji reported strong demand for Gold Book Cards, and Ma Feifei said sales would remain limited for now.
• Zhang Yunji told Ma Feifei that Cang Lan, Jian Wuji, and Qingcheng Xian requested an audience, and Ma Feifei reacted with surprise that Jian Wuji was still alive.

Ma Feifei discovered that the ninety-one thousand five hundred and twenty beings sealed in the Investiture of the Gods were disturbing his spirit. The system offered to give them new life through Master-Servant Contracts, and Ma Feifei chose the old Pokémon competition venue as the site for the newly unlocked Book Garden.

• Ma Feifei told Zhang Yunji to bring the Sword Sect visitors to him when they returned, then ate and went back to his room.
• Ma Feifei could not sleep and wondered why he felt so unsettled, since he expected no major events to occur on the Azure Dragon Continent.
• Ma Feifei asked the system what was troubling him and learned that resentment from the beings on the Investiture of the Gods was disturbing his spirit.
• Ma Feifei opened the Investiture of the Gods, and the system offered to give its ninety-one thousand five hundred and twenty people new life if he bound them with Master-Servant Contracts.
• Ma Feifei agreed to the cost-free contracts and selected the old Pokémon competition venue near Dubian Town as the Book Garden's construction site.

Ma Feifei created a Book Garden and recruited Qin Shuren as its Book Attendant to manage more than ninety thousand Book Servants. He entered the mist-shrouded Pokémon venue and found that the servants still remembered their former lives.

• Ma Feifei used the Investiture of the Gods to send 91,520 dead beings into the Book Garden, then made a contract with Qin Shuren and appointed him Book Attendant.
• Ma Feifei ran to the Pokémon venue after seeing silvery light streak toward it, while cultivators in Dubian Town speculated about what was happening.
• Ma Feifei rebuked a cultivator for hitting Psyduck, then hurried on after hearing the man claim to support the Mysterious Bookstore despite never reading there.
• Ma Feifei walked through the mist and found a vast barren land where more than ninety thousand Book Servants knelt before him.
• Qin Shuren introduced himself as a former grand general of Qin State, and the Book Servants confirmed that they still remembered their past lives.

Ma Feifei learned how the Book Garden’s plantations worked and spent most of his remaining Spirit Crystals on spirit-tree seeds. He then tried to persuade Yun Qingyang to invest in more trees, leaving her interested in the potential profits.

• Ma Feifei put Qin Shuren in charge of the Book Garden’s ninety-odd thousand menial book servants and asked him to show him around.
• The system explained that the Book Garden could grow materials for book authors and that Ma Feifei could obtain seeds from the System Shop or a dungeon.
• Ma Feifei learned the planting limits and costs, then bought 10,000 level-one seeds, 1,000 level-two seeds, and 100 level-three seeds for 1.6 billion Spirit Crystals.
• Ma Feifei gave the seeds to Qin Shuren to have them planted, then went to ask Yun Qingyang to repay over a billion Spirit Crystals.
• After Yun Qingyang denied borrowing money, Ma Feifei proposed that they invest 1.6 billion Spirit Crystals each in more spirit trees, and Yun Qingyang asked how much they could sell for.

Ma Feifei spent Yun Qingyang’s Spirit Crystals on more tree seeds and showed her the Mysterious Bookstore’s new farm, where the saplings grew unusually fast. After leaving Yun Qingyang to watch them, he returned to the Bookstore and learned that Cang Lan, Jian Wuji, and Qingcheng Xian had come to see him.

• Ma Feifei accepted sixteen hundred million Spirit Crystals from Yun Qingyang and took her to the Mysterious Bookstore’s farm.
• Ma Feifei explained that the servants would tend the trees and that the saplings would mature quickly enough to provide wood for book pages.
• Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang discovered that the farm’s soil slipped through their hands and could not be carried away.
• Ma Feifei spent Yun Qingyang’s money on level-one, level-two, and level-three seeds, then ordered Qin Shuren to plant them.
• Yun Qingyang stayed behind to watch the saplings grow while Ma Feifei returned to the Bookstore.
• Zhang Yunji told Ma Feifei that Cang Lan, Jian Wuji, and Qingcheng Xian had arrived, and Ma Feifei asked him to show them in.

Grand Dean Cang Lan and two other Immortals asked Ma Feifei for guidance about the Immortal Realm, but Qingcheng Xian insulted him before Mo Xie arrived and claimed Qingcheng Xian as his son. Mo Xie beat Qingcheng Xian in the Bookstore, and Cang Lan revealed that he had once claimed three thousand capable people as godsons.

• Cang Lan, the Sword Sect's patriarch, and Qingcheng Xian asked Ma Feifei to explain how the Immortal Realm was divided, while Qingcheng Xian mocked the shopkeeper.
• Mo Xie arrived at the Bookstore and greeted Ma Feifei before recognizing Qingcheng Xian as the son he had once buried.
• Qingcheng Xian denied being Mo Xie's son, so Mo Xie slapped and kicked him in front of the others.
• Mo Xie apologized to Ma Feifei for using violence and asked him to forgive a father's anger.
• Cang Lan explained that Mo Xie had once gathered three thousand godsons, and Mo Xie admitted that he had used beatings to make unwilling people agree.

Mo Xie subdued Qingcheng Xian, revealed that he had once adopted him after discovering him as a tomb raider, and dragged him away after their argument. Ma Feifei then gave Cang Lan and Jian Wuji booklets explaining the realms beyond the Immortal Realm.

• Mo Xie revealed that he had reached the Third-Grade Immortal Realm and beat Qingcheng Xian unconscious.
• Mo Xie told Ma Feifei that Qingcheng Xian was really Wang Huan, a tomb raider he had adopted two thousand years earlier.
• Mo Xie claimed Wang Huan had died after raiding the Demon Sect founding patriarch's tomb and that he had buried him in the Nine Tombs.
• Qingcheng Xian sprang up, accused Mo Xie of lying, and pleaded with Ma Feifei to believe him.
• Ma Feifei dismissed their dispute, and Mo Xie dragged Qingcheng Xian away.
• Ma Feifei gave Cang Lan and Jian Wuji booklets about the realms beyond the Immortal Realm.

Cang Lan and Jian Wuji received Ma Feifei’s account of the realms beyond the Immortal Realm, while Yun Qingyang ate the sapling she was meant to help grow. Later, Ma Feifei led the bookstore staff and Chang Kong’s family into the mist-covered Pokémon competition venue, promising a surprise.

• Cang Lan and Jian Wuji thanked Ma Feifei for explaining the realms beyond the Immortal Realm and left the bookstore.
• Yun Qingyang gave in to her craving and ate the sapling’s leaves until the tree was gone.
• Ma Feifei woke from a string of nightmares and invited Zhang Caicai and Ba Jiu to visit a mysterious place.
• Ma Feifei met Chang Kong and his family, who joined his growing group of curious followers.
• Ma Feifei led everyone to the Pokémon competition venue, and they entered its impenetrable white mist after him.

Ma Feifei discovered that Yun Qingyang had eaten six hundred saplings, worth sixty million Spirit Crystals, but decided not to disturb her after remembering the Book Spirit Stone she had consumed. He then showed his companions the vast space and the more than ninety thousand people he had revived, leaving them in awe as they walked toward Dubian Town.

• Zhang Caicai, Liu Ying, Chang Kong, Zhang Yunji, and Ba Jiu entered the Mist’s expanded space and saw the book servants tending trees.
• Qin Shuren told Ma Feifei that Yun Qingyang was eating trees, and Ma Feifei rushed to investigate.
• Ma Feifei learned that Yun Qingyang had eaten six hundred saplings and found her sleeping beneath a Begonia Tree.
• Ma Feifei chose not to wake Yun Qingyang, then tasted a leaf and complained that it did not taste good.
• Ma Feifei led the group around the vast space and bragged about reviving the more than ninety thousand dead residents of Dubian Town.
• A young cultivator envied those who worked for Ma Feifei, but his companions urged him to sell their wounded sixth-tier spirit beast instead.

After seven days of closure, the Mysterious Bookstore reopened as Dubian Town filled with cultivators drawn by its newest book, its membership system, and news of Ma Feifei’s Reversal technique. The first day’s rush for limited reading slots ended with an old man collapsing and dying in the crowd.

• Zhou Wuji issued a notice clearing the Mysterious Bookstore of blame for the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey incident and confirming Ma Feifei had revived more than ninety-two thousand people.
• News of Ma Feifei’s Reversal technique spread across the Azure Dragon Continent, and cultivators flocked back to Dubian Town.
• Ma Feifei ended his days of rest and had Zhang Yunji, Luan Feng, and the others reopen the Mysterious Bookstore on the first day of the third month.
• Zhang Yunji announced the reopening, prompting book card holders to surge toward the entrance for the limited daily reading slots.
• The crowd shoved the slow-moving old man aside, and he collapsed and died while trying to reach the Bookstore.

After two years, Ma Feifei had grown the Mysterious Bookstore into a major institution and reached the Immortal Realm. As he planned to stock more high-grade books, a tremendous boom shook the Azure Dragon Continent.

• Ma Feifei reflected on how the Mysterious Bookstore had transformed cultivation and helped Dubian Town prosper.
• Yun Qingyang asked Ma Feifei to take her to the Book Garden so she could eat more saplings, and he complained about the enormous cost.
• Ma Feifei promoted Yun Qingyang to a level-three employee, allowing her to enter the Book Garden without him.
• Ma Feifei decided to buy more Legendary-grade and Mythic-grade books to attract Immortal Realm cultivators and expand the Bookstore's reputation.
• A tremendous boom shook the Azure Dragon Continent.

Ma Feifei learned that someone was trying to break through the Azure Dragon Continent’s Book Spirit Laws, while the Spirit of the Azure Dragon was gravely injured resisting them. The attack battered Dubian Town and left the continent’s defenses in danger.

• A thunderous boom shook Dubian Town and reached the Mysterious Bookstore, so Ma Feifei sent Luan Feng to investigate and told Zhang Yunji to reassure the customers.
• A second sound wave swept across the Azure Dragon Continent, injuring cultivators and shaking buildings until Dubian Town’s Ninth-tier protective formation stopped it.
• The sky turned dark red, and an immortal who flew upward to investigate was soon hurled back down, bloodied, outside Zhenbei.
• Liuli appeared before Ma Feifei and told him that someone was attacking the Book Spirit Laws and that the Spirit of the Azure Dragon had been gravely injured resisting them.
• Ma Feifei realized that if the Book Spirit Laws were broken, the continent would lose its protection and outside cultivators would no longer face restrictions.

Liuli merged with Ma Feifei so he could face the attackers threatening the Spirit of the Azure Dragon. In the starry sky, Ma Feifei confronted Zhang Ke and his powerful servant, discovering that he was only at the Third-Grade Immortal Realm as the battle began.

• Liuli entered Ma Feifei's body, and the system began increasing his strength, cultivation, and divine sense.
• Ma Feifei flew above the clouds and saw the sky filled with the Spirit of the Azure Dragon's blood.
• Ma Feifei realized Zhang Ke and Xun Ling had returned with an army to attack the Spirit of the Azure Dragon, then flew into the starry sky.
• Zhang Ke ordered his black-robed servants to kill Ma Feifei, and one servant struck him hard enough to send him flying and shatter space.
• Ma Feifei asked the system why he could not feel Ninth-Grade Immortal Realm power, and it revealed that he was currently at the Third-Grade Immortal Realm.