Recaps

Ma Feifei shot down nine suns in a book world, frightening the Azure Dragon Continent’s factions into abandoning plans against the Mysterious Bookstore. After returning, he received the Sun Shooting Bow and nine self-restoring Emperor-grade arrows, while his companions treated him with new fear and respect.

• Ma Feifei shot down nine of the ten suns, and Qingcheng Xian and other opponents abandoned their plans against the Mysterious Bookstore.
• The projection ended, and the ten-person team returned from the world within the book to the Mysterious Bookstore.
• The system announced that Ma Feifei had completed the ancient storyline mission and unlocked “Hou Yi Shoots Down Nine Suns.”
• The system rewarded Ma Feifei with the Emperor artifact Sun Shooting Bow and nine arrows that reappeared in its quiver after being fired.
• Ma Feifei thanked the team for their efforts, and Chi Mu and the others remained subdued after witnessing his power.

Ma Feifei let everyone choose one divine artifact or other treasure, and Chi Mu chose a Yin Yang Yuan Qi Pill over his Shield of Rebound. As the group prepared to leave, Yun Qingyang stopped them to collect the Dragon Ball rental fees and calculated a total of 12.4 million Spirit Crystals.

• Ma Feifei offered the gathered treasures, and Chi Mu chose a Yin Yang Yuan Qi Pill despite having to give up his Shield of Rebound.
• Chi Mu swallowed the pill, and Sword Ancestor Jian Wuji asked for the shield; Chi Mu handed it over.
• The others chose treasures, and Ma Feifei put away what remained before everyone began to depart.
• Yun Qingyang stopped the group and said they owed rental fees for using the Dragon Balls.
• Yun Qingyang calculated that ten days of rental cost 12.4 million Spirit Crystals.

Yun Qingyang charged the Dragon Ball renters fifty million Spirit Crystals each, while Ma Feifei gave Zhou Zhuling a Yin Yang Yuan Qi Pill and then gave one to Yun Qingyang as well. Far from Dubian Town, Jian Wuji stopped on an empty road and called out to someone he expected to confront him.

• Yun Qingyang set the Dragon Ball rental price at fifty million Spirit Crystals per person, let Ba Jiu owe his fee with interest, and collected payment from the others.
• Ma Feifei gave Zhou Zhuling a Yin Yang Yuan Qi Pill as a reward for joining the battle and hoped his friends and bookstore employees would grow strong enough to protect themselves.
• Yun Qingyang demanded a pill from Ma Feifei after seeing him give one to Zhou Zhuling, and he handed her one.
• Jian Wuji walked along the road fifty li north of Dubian Town, stopped when it became deserted, and told his unseen pursuer to come out.

Chi Mu attacked Jian Wuji over the Shield of Rebound, but Jian Wuji escaped after destroying part of an official road. In Dubian Town, cultivators discussed the Mythic-grade book and a mysterious young man surprised them by displaying a Gold Book Card.

• Chi Mu demanded the Shield of Rebound from Jian Wuji and attacked him, but Jian Wuji struck him back and disappeared.
• Chi Mu searched the shattered official road for Jian Wuji and threatened to wait for him at the Sword Sect.
• Ma Feifei heard that the official road outside Zhenbei had been destroyed, condemned cultivators for damaging public property, and prepared for his date with the Duke of Zhou's daughter.
• Cultivators in Dubian Town debated whether the Mythic-grade book would appear in the Mysterious Bookstore and lamented the scarcity of book cards.
• A young man in white showed the tavern patrons a Gold Book Card, surprising them because sales had been suspended and the existing cards had sold out.

A young man revealed ten Gold Book Cards in a tavern and began giving them away to cultivators who offered their possessions in return. After several people obtained cards, the crowd rushed forward to make offers, leaving the young man with fewer cards and piles of wealth.

• The young man displayed ten Gold Book Cards and said he had bought them from the Mysterious Bookstore.
• The young man gave a Gold Book Card to a middle-aged man in white, who left his space bag containing over 6.5 million Spirit Crystals in return.
• The middle-aged man in white left with the card, and a West River Ninth-tier Formation Master offered his possessions for another.
• The young man let the formation master take a card, and the old man left after placing his space bag on the table.
• The Sect Master of Worry-Free Sect, the Palace Master of Shangshan Palace, Qi Yanling, and other cultivators rushed forward with offers for the remaining cards.

A young master sold counterfeit Gold Book Cards in a tavern, then escaped with the Spirit Crystals before the buyers discovered the fraud. Ma Feifei learned that counterfeit Book Cards were spreading and rejected the victims’ demand that the Mysterious Bookstore compensate them.

• The young master gave away the remaining Gold Book Cards, left the tavern, and the crowd regretted missing the chance to obtain one.
• An elderly man and several buyers returned to the tavern with half-gold, half-black fake cards, realizing they had been deceived as the old man’s roar tore off the roof.
• The young man and a middle-aged man inspected the Spirit Crystals in spatial bags at a courtyard in the eastern part of town.
• Zhang Yunji woke Ma Feifei after catching someone trying to enter the Mysterious Bookstore with a fake Book Card, while victims reported counterfeit cards being sold around town.
• Zhou Zhuling told Ma Feifei that more than a hundred people had been scammed and that the victims wanted compensation.
• Ma Feifei rejected the demand, arguing that the Mysterious Bookstore was not responsible for people buying counterfeit cards.

Ma Feifei dealt with fake book cards and approved locations for fifteen Azure Dragon Libraries before visiting the Book Garden with Yun Qingyang. The system announced that the mature Begonia Trees would wither after one day, so Ma Feifei and the garden staff rushed to harvest them.

• Ma Feifei refused responsibility for fake book cards and told Zhou Zhuling to help find the sellers.
• Zhou Zhuling showed Ma Feifei a map marking fifteen cities for Azure Dragon Libraries, and he approved the locations.
• Yun Qingyang told Ma Feifei the garden trees had matured, and they traveled to the Book Garden together.
• The system warned Ma Feifei that the mature Begonia Trees would wither after one day.
• Ma Feifei, Qin Shuren, and the book servants began harvesting the Begonia Trees.

Ma Feifei harvested the mature begonia trees and learned that the system’s Host-Exclusive Dungeon held the papermaking techniques and supplies he needed. He wondered whether the dungeon was dangerous but considered entering it, believing he could be teleported out if necessary.

• Ma Feifei harvested all the level-one begonia trees and turned them into a pile of boards for making paper.
• Yun Qingyang remembered that she and Ma Feifei had known each other for a year and a half, then asked whether he would sell the wood.
• Ma Feifei worried about giving Yun Qingyang a return on her investment and returned with her to the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Zhang Caicai tried to get Ma Feifei’s help, but Ma Feifei went to his room, and Ba Jiu and Mu Qingyi also fled when Yun Qingyang offered to lend Zhang Caicai money.
• Ma Feifei asked the system how to make paper and learned that the Host-Exclusive Dungeon contained the required techniques and materials.
• Ma Feifei suspected the dungeon might be dangerous but considered entering it, thinking he could be teleported out if needed.

Ma Feifei entered his host-exclusive dungeon and arrived on the Book Battle Continent, where he witnessed a father and son bury a youth apparently killed by a prefect. After confirming he could return to the Azure Dragon Continent at any time, Ma Feifei sensed something nearby as he prepared to leave.

• Ma Feifei entered the dungeon through the system portal, carrying the Nine Dragon Sacred Bone Sword.
• Ma Feifei emerged from a spatial crack beside a cart carrying a dead youth and overheard a father and son discuss the prefect and the youth’s Heart of Eternity.
• The father and son buried the dead youth in a wasteland graveyard, and Ma Feifei watched them leave.
• Ma Feifei suspected he had arrived on the Book Battle Continent and asked the system whether he could return to the Azure Dragon Continent whenever he wanted.
• Ma Feifei prepared to leave but furrowed his brow and looked toward something he sensed nearby.

After crawling out of his grave, Li Chenzhou contracted with Ma Feifei, who promised to help him get revenge on the Dragon Dance Prefecture Lord. They left the Grave of Book Slaves and entered a city, where Ma Feifei looked for a papermaker to help refine the boards in his spatial ring.

• Li Chenzhou crawled out of his grave and vowed to take revenge on the Dragon Dance Prefecture Lord.
• Ma Feifei offered to help Li Chenzhou get revenge, and Li Chenzhou signed a contract that placed his fate in Ma Feifei’s hands.
• Li Chenzhou told Ma Feifei that they were in the Grave of Book Slaves, within Yong'an Prefecture, and explained that the Dragon Dance Prefecture Lord ruled there.
• Li Chenzhou led Ma Feifei out of the graveyard and into a city as dawn broke.
• Li Chenzhou explained that papermakers turned timber into paper for book authors, and Ma Feifei asked whether they could find one in the city.

Ma Feifei learned that Yong'an Prefecture had recruited every papermaker in Yong'an City, then asked Li Chenzhou to take him to a hostile papermaker who had sworn off making paper. As they traveled, Li Chenzhou explained Yong'an City's scale and the rules that sealed cultivation within its walls to protect authors.

• Li Chenzhou told Ma Feifei that Yong'an Prefecture had recruited all the city's papermakers and described the rewards they received.
• Ma Feifei promised to make Li Chenzhou an author, renewing Li Chenzhou's hope, and Li Chenzhou revealed another papermaker who hated authors and refused to make paper.
• Ma Feifei asked Li Chenzhou to lead him to the papermaker, and Li Chenzhou changed course to guide him through Yong'an City.
• Li Chenzhou explained that Yong'an City was the center of Yong'an Prefecture, a vast power that governed hundreds of cities and towns.
• When Ma Feifei asked why no one seemed to cultivate, Li Chenzhou explained that everyone on the Book Battle Continent had an endless lifespan and that Yong'an City's sealing array suppressed cultivation to protect authors.

Ma Feifei and Li Chenzhou visited Old Man Wang to ask him to make paper, but Old Man Wang initially refused because he thought Ma Feifei was a scribe. The chapter ended with Ma Feifei offering to heal Old Man Wang’s leg, leaving him stunned and eager to hear more.

• Li Chenzhou led Ma Feifei to Old Man Wang’s home, and Ma Feifei sensed someone inside despite the unanswered knocks.
• Ma Feifei pulled Li Chenzhou over the wall, where they found Old Man Wang resting in the courtyard.
• Old Man Wang recognized Li Chenzhou and assumed Ma Feifei was a scribe because he wore a Sage’s Robe.
• Ma Feifei said he was not a scribe, though he could do everything a scribe could, and Old Man Wang warned him not to wear the robe.
• Ma Feifei asked Old Man Wang to refine paper, but Old Man Wang refused and directed him to Maple Leaf City.
• Ma Feifei offered to heal Old Man Wang’s leg, causing Old Man Wang to drop his gourd and stare at him excitedly.

Ma Feifei offered Wang Han an Epic-grade medical book in exchange for his service, then claimed to rank above ninth and was mistaken for an Imperial-grade book author. The chapter ended with Wang Han and Li Chenzhou bowing to him as the Book Emperor.

• Ma Feifei showed Wang Han a perfect-level Yellow Quality medical book and learned that Curse Book Script from a fourth-rank book author had crippled his leg.
• Ma Feifei produced a perfect-level Epic-grade medical book, which Wang Han said could heal him.
• Ma Feifei offered to lend Wang Han the book to heal his leg if he served him.
• When Wang Han asked his rank, Ma Feifei claimed to be above ninth rank, and Wang Han identified him as an Imperial-grade book author.
• Li Chenzhou and Wang Han knelt and paid their respects to Ma Feifei as the Book Emperor.

Ma Feifei watched Wang Han demonstrate how he made paper and learned that the process was limited by scarce paper-setting water and the paper-maker’s stamina. He questioned how paper-makers could meet demand, leaving the problem of increasing production unresolved.

• Ma Feifei gave Wang Han an Epic-grade book, and Wang Han agreed to start making paper that day.
• Wang Han led Ma Feifei and Li Chenzhou to his workshop, where Li Chenzhou lit the stove.
• Wang Han boiled five wooden planks in paper-setting water until they fused into a thin sheet of paper.
• Wang Han explained that he could make over a hundred sheets a day but had to let the water cool after each hour and recover his mental strength.
• Ma Feifei suggested using several pots, but Wang Han said Yong'an Prefecture allotted each paper-maker only one pot of paper-setting water.

Ma Feifei gave Wang Han a copy of Tian Gong Kai Wu and showed him its papermaking instructions, hoping a better method could help them produce and sell paper. Wang Han was overwhelmed by the book and asked Ma Feifei to take him on as a dedicated papermaker.

• Ma Feifei realized that scarce book paper might offer a business opportunity, then produced an Epic-grade book titled Tian Gong Kai Wu.
• Ma Feifei handed the book to Wang Han and told him to try its papermaking method, which promised better results with fewer restrictions.
• While Wang Han read, Ma Feifei considered opening a papermaking workshop to earn back Yun Qingyang's investment.
• Wang Han called Tian Gong Kai Wu a heavenly book, bowed to Ma Feifei, and asked to become his dedicated papermaker.

Ma Feifei recruited Wang Han and Li Chenzhou into the Mysterious Bookstore on the Book Battle Continent and supplied Wang Han with begonia wood to make paper. After returning to the Azure Dragon Continent, Ma Feifei learned that it was Qingyang’s birthday.

• Ma Feifei accepted Wang Han as an employee despite the restrictions on his freedom, then agreed to recruit Li Chenzhou as well.
• Wang Han explained that Yong'an Prefecture had revoked his paper-maker status, preventing him from buying enough immortal wood for papermaking.
• Ma Feifei produced a large supply of begonia wood and told Wang Han to make paper and sell it through Yong'an City's stationery shops.
• Wang Han left with Li Chenzhou to buy materials and begin making paper, while Ma Feifei returned through a black hole to the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Zhang Caicai told Ma Feifei that it was Qingyang’s birthday.

Qingyang celebrated a birthday she had only just decided was today, while Ma Feifei struggled to understand the sudden preparations and avoid being asked for a gift. After giving her divine-quality soft armor, he watched her leave and stopped Ba Jiu.

• Zhang Caicai prepared longevity noodles and Ba Jiu delivered wrapped gifts for Qingyang’s birthday, convincing Ma Feifei that the celebration was real.
• Qingyang announced that it was her birthday and said she had invited about twenty people, including Grand Dean Cang Lan, Mo Xie, and Zhang Yunji’s family.
• Ma Feifei tried to leave, but Qingyang stopped him and asked what birthday present he would give her.
• Ma Feifei joked that he would bring her a goose feather from a thousand miles away, then gave Qingyang divine-quality soft armor instead.
• Qingyang accepted the armor and walked away, and Ma Feifei grabbed Ba Jiu as he passed.

Yun Qingyang’s birthday plans led her friends and the Mysterious Bookstore’s invited guests to prepare lavish presents, while Ma Feifei watched their unusual efforts unfold. At the Wantong Trading Market, Ba Jiu and several prominent guests exchanged valuables for Spirit Crystals so they could give Yun Qingyang the sparkling gift she liked.

• Ba Jiu told Ma Feifei that Yun Qingyang had decided to celebrate her birthday after seeing another person’s birthday festivities, and said he had drawn ten drops of his blood to sell as her present.
• Zhang Caicai and Mu Qingyi kept their gifts for Yun Qingyang secret when Ma Feifei asked what they had prepared.
• Ma Feifei found Ba Jiu, Mo Xie, Cang Lan, Zhang Yunji, and other guests trading valuables for Spirit Crystals at the Wantong Trading Market.
• Mo Xie explained that the guests had learned Yun Qingyang liked sparkling things and were gathering Spirit Crystals to make her birthday present generous.

Ma Feifei saw the crowds bringing gifts for Yun Qingyang’s birthday and decided to hold birthday parties for himself, including a belated one. As Yun Qingyang stayed inside until the banquet began, Ma Feifei went out to collect the gifts she had agreed to split with him.

• Ma Feifei learned that Zhou Zhuling was away from the Wantong Trading Market because she had been invited to Yun Qingyang’s birthday banquet.
• Ma Feifei watched a long line of people gather with gifts and decided to celebrate his own birthday and make up for the one he had forgotten.
• Ma Feifei returned to the Mysterious Bookstore and found guests, staff, and Zhang Caicai preparing for Yun Qingyang’s birthday banquet.
• Ba Jiu told Ma Feifei that Yun Qingyang was waiting in her room and had asked him to collect the gifts outside, which they would split equally.
• Ba Jiu followed Ma Feifei outside to make sure the gifts were not damaged.

Ma Feifei sent Ba Jiu to collect birthday gifts, then shared an awkward moment with Zhou Zhuling that sparked gossip about him taking a second wife. Yun Qingyang finally emerged to accept her birthday presents, leaving Ma Feifei marveling at their value.

• Ma Feifei persuaded Ba Jiu to collect the gifts and divide them with him, and Ba Jiu agreed despite worrying Yun Qingyang might find out.
• Zhou Zhuling arrived dressed elegantly, and Ma Feifei offered her a plum blossom that she took from his hand with her mouth.
• Zhang Caicai joked that Ma Feifei was taking a second wife, and Ma Feifei scolded him before the others distracted Ma Feifei and Zhou Zhuling disappeared.
• Ma Feifei waited in the courtyard until Yun Qingyang emerged later that afternoon, smiling as everyone presented her with birthday gifts.
• Ma Feifei watched Yun Qingyang accept the gifts and wondered whether she was foolish or had been pretending.

After Yun Qingyang’s birthday banquet, Ma Feifei and Ba Jiu secretly counted and transferred the guests’ gifts, which amounted to more than 3.2 billion Spirit Crystals and rare treasures. Yun Qingyang arrived as Ma Feifei claimed he had kept none of the gifts, leaving Ba Jiu caught between them.

• After the guests left, Ba Jiu transferred all the gifts collected outside to Ma Feifei, who decided he would hold a birthday celebration of his own.
• Ma Feifei used the system to value the gifts at 3,268,580,000 Spirit Crystals plus rare treasures, then offered Ba Jiu a share.
• Ba Jiu refused the money and asked Ma Feifei to use it to repay his debt to Yun Qingyang.
• Yun Qingyang told Ba Jiu she had forgiven the fifty million Spirit Crystals he owed her because his one-million-Crystal birthday gift had pleased her.
• When Ba Jiu looked conflicted, Ma Feifei showed Yun Qingyang the gifts and insisted he had not kept any for himself.

Ma Feifei directed Wang Han and Li Chenzhou to test a new papermaking technique using Begonia Trees. The chapter ended as they began boiling the refined wood pulp and preparing to make paper.

• Ba Jiu confirmed that he and Ma Feifei had received 3.2 billion Spirit Crystals, and Yun Qingyang told them to use the money to buy more Begonia Trees for the Book Garden.
• Ma Feifei returned to the Book Battle Continent and surprised Wang Han and Li Chenzhou by appearing through the void.
• Wang Han reported that specialists had built the papermaking tools described in Tian Gong Kai Wu and installed them in the workshop.
• Ma Feifei inspected the equipment and explained that the refined Begonia wood could be boiled in limewater before the pulp was molded, pressed, and dried.
• Wang Han and Li Chenzhou began making paper with the new method.

Ma Feifei explored Yong'an City to seek news about Xun Ling and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, and discovered the book-centered city's many literary establishments. He entered a place called the Book Fragrance Family, where he was seated before a screen without understanding what sort of establishment it was.

• Ma Feifei left Wang Han's courtyard to explore the city and look for information about Xun Ling and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey.
• He listened to residents discuss authors, book battles, and a Legendary-grade book, and admired the city's many book-related establishments.
• Ma Feifei noticed the Book Fragrance Family and approached its entrance, where an elegant woman recognized him as an author.
• He followed the woman inside, saw patrons seated with writing supplies before a screen, and was given tea and a table.
• Though confused about the place and its purpose, Ma Feifei maintained his composure and let the woman leave him to his supposed enjoyment.

Ma Feifei was drawn into a strange fragrance ritual at the hall and was selected as Guest Number Nine, but he rejected the woman waiting for him in the room when he heard that Master Scribe Xun had arrived. He focused his attention on the approaching Xun Ling while the woman sat on the floor, aggrieved.

• The hall went dark, and Ma Feifei sensed a warm body fragrance coming from behind the screen.
• The guests wrote numbers on slips of paper, and Ma Feifei wrote nine before the maids collected them.
• A graceful young woman called for Guest Number Nine and led Ma Feifei to a private room.
• Ma Feifei peeked behind a screen at a woman in a red bellyband, then headed for the door when he heard someone announce Master Scribe Xun.
• When the woman approached him and invited him to bed, Ma Feifei shoved her away and told her not to bother him.

Ma Feifei escaped a destroyed room with a woman and was chased through Yong'an City by Xun Ling. The woman helped him lose his pursuer, then left after giving her name as Yi He.

• Ma Feifei used his Thousand-Mile Eyes to see through a door and window, alerting someone outside, who sent an attack that destroyed the room.
• Ma Feifei grabbed a woman and fled through the Book Fragrance Family, breaking through formations and walls before reaching the street.
• Xun Ling recognized Ma Feifei and chased him, while Ma Feifei refused to stop and ran through the crowded streets with the woman clinging to his back.
• The woman directed Ma Feifei through turns that helped him lose Xun Ling, then asked him to put her down in an alley.
• The woman in red thanked Ma Feifei, identified herself as Yi He, and disappeared before he could say more.