Recaps

Ma Feifei began copying the Diamond Sutra while cultivators crowded the Mysterious Bookstore, hoping to gain opportunities from its books. Zhang Yunji announced that he had grasped a powerful martial skill from The Legend of the Condor Heroes, and another reader soon claimed to have figured something out from Yang Chengzhi's Revenge Chronicle.

• Ma Feifei started copying the Diamond Sutra and discovered that writing even a few characters took an extraordinarily long time.
• Zhang Yunji sprang up and announced that he had grasped a martial skill from The Legend of the Condor Heroes, then paid for startling everyone after his shout knocked Yun Qingyang's spirit sword to the floor.
• Zhang Yunji refused a cultivator's offer of an Advancement Pill in exchange for reading The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
• A young man holding Yang Chengzhi's Revenge Chronicle shouted that he had figured something out, drawing Ma Feifei's attention.

Jiang Bieli realized a weaker version of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms in the Bookstore, and Ma Feifei confirmed his connection to Jiang Yibei. After completing the My Fair Princess 2 mission, Ma Feifei received drawing supplies and a new quest to summon a Pokémon within three months.

• Jiang Bieli announced that he had realized the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, and Ma Feifei asked him to demonstrate it in the courtyard.
• Ma Feifei judged Jiang Bieli's technique to be around fifth-tier, learned that Jiang Bieli was Jiang Yibei's younger brother, and returned with him to the Bookstore.
• News spread through Dubian Town that two seventh-tier techniques had been realized at the Bookstore.
• The system rewarded Ma Feifei with a paintbrush and drawing paper after he sold the hundred-thousandth copy of My Fair Princess 2.
• The system gave Ma Feifei a three-month quest to summon a Pokémon, and he guessed that readers would use a Pokémon manga as the summoning medium.
• Ma Feifei realized he could not comprehend the Bookstore's books himself, so he resumed copying the Diamond Sutra and hoped to obtain a Pokémon through the quest reward.

Zhou Zhuling and Zhou Guanyu traveled home with Master Puzhi, while Dubian Town expanded around the Mysterious Bookstore. The Wantong Trading Market opened and required cultivators to buy entry numbers, but the Bookstore’s Saint confirmed that entry would be by number only.

• Zhou Guanyu questioned Zhou Zhuling about their mother's admiration for Master Puzhi, and Zhou Zhuling told him to treat the monk respectfully.
• Master Puzhi sat quietly in the carriage and smiled as the Zhou siblings rode ahead.
• Dubian Town grew as cultivators flocked to the Mysterious Bookstore, and the Wantong Chamber of Commerce built a trading market and tavern nearby.
• The Wantong Trading Market announced that cultivators needed ten-Spirit-Crystal entry numbers to visit the Bookstore and offered members a lottery for premium numbers and other benefits.
• Cultivators protested the fees and called for a boycott, but the Saint at the Bookstore posted a notice stating that entry was by number only.

Ma Feifei and Gongsun Qiong’s exclusive-number and membership system brought order to the Bookstore while drawing huge crowds and profits to the Wantong Trading Market. Gongsun Qiong then planned an auction for the following month as the market’s shops and stalls rapidly sold out.

• Cultivators bought exclusive numbers across the street, clearing the crowds from the Mysterious Bookstore and filling the Wantong Trading Market.
• Ma Feifei reflected on Gongsun Qiong’s business strategy and their profit-sharing partnership, then returned to copying the Diamond Sutra while Yun Qingyang rested outside.
• Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao watched the bustling market as Gongsun Qiong praised Ma Feifei’s ideas and examined an exclusive number bearing his portrait.
• Zhao Xiaodao reported that all first-floor stalls and most second-floor shops had sold, so Gongsun Qiong ordered her to prepare a membership-discounted auction for next month.

Gongsun Qiong’s new businesses transformed Dubian Town, but rival factions tried to assassinate her, leaving her unconscious and Zhao Xiaodao badly injured. Ma Feifei finished transcribing the Diamond Sutra, discovered it was locked until he completed the Religion Seizer quest, and set out to visit the injured women.

• The ticket-number system drew cultivators to Wantong Trading Market and Wantong Tavern, shifting Dubian Town’s commercial center away from the town center.
• Rival factions attempted to assassinate Gongsun Qiong, but Chu Hongyuan returned in time and Zhao Xiaodao took a sword meant for her.
• Gongsun Qiong remained unconscious as spiritual energy ravaged her body, while Zhao Xiaodao suffered severe but nonfatal injuries.
• Ma Feifei received the completed Diamond Sutra and learned that only a designated person could open it before the Religion Seizer quest was completed.
• Ma Feifei put the locked sutra away, told Yun Qingyang to watch the bookstore, and left with two hens to visit Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao.

Ma Feifei learned from Zhao Xiaodao that the Phantom Organization had targeted him after attacking her and Gongsun Qiong. The chapter ended with him unable to identify who wanted him dead or who had arranged the warning.

• Ma Feifei visited the injured Zhao Xiaodao with two old hens and reassured her that she could heal her scars after reaching the Spirit King realm.
• Zhao Xiaodao told Ma Feifei that her attackers had named him as their next target.
• Zhao Xiaodao explained that the attackers belonged to the Phantom Organization, a feared group known for assassinating monarchs and reportedly a Spirit Saint.
• Zhao Xiaodao clarified that the organization had meant to warn Gongsun Qiong rather than kill her and had apparently used the attack to warn Ma Feifei as well.
• Ma Feifei considered his acquaintances and concluded that he could not tell who wanted to assassinate him or who had warned him.

After hearing that the Phantom Organization might target him, Ma Feifei stayed in the bookstore and began drawing Pokémon. Zhou Zhuling and Zhou Guanyu arrived with Master Puzhi, whose name Ma Feifei recognized as connected to the system’s main quest, “Religion Seizer,” and he let the monk enter.

• Ma Feifei told Yun Qingyang that the Phantom Organization planned to assassinate him and asked her to protect him, but she responded dismissively.
• Ma Feifei decided to avoid leaving the bookstore and began drawing Pokémon, finding that the work came easily.
• Zhou Zhuling and Zhou Guanyu visited with Master Puzhi, a monk invited by Zhou Zhuling’s mother from Yuanfang City.
• Zhou Zhuling explained that Puzhi wanted to meet Ma Feifei because he was interested in how Ma Feifei had cured her Ninefold Cold with a book.
• Ma Feifei recognized Puzhi as a figure tied to the system’s “Religion Seizer” quest and invited him inside.

Puzhi visited Ma Feifei’s store to read the Thousand Gold Formulas, but he had no Spirit Crystals to pay the fee until Zhou Zhuling offered to cover it. As Puzhi read, Yun Qingyang warned Ma Feifei that his aura was unsettling, and Puzhi’s gaze left Ma Feifei terrified.

• Puzhi asked Ma Feifei to borrow the Thousand Gold Formulas, then persuaded its current reader to lend it to him.
• Puzhi admitted he had no Spirit Crystals, so Zhou Zhuling paid the reading fee for him.
• Puzhi told Zhou Zhuling that their karmic ties had been established long ago, but refused to explain further.
• Yun Qingyang warned Ma Feifei that Puzhi’s aura made her uncomfortable.
• Puzhi met Ma Feifei’s gaze, leaving him frightened and sweating.

Ma Feifei learned that Gongsun Qiong had been unconscious for a week and followed Zhao Xiaodao and Puzhi to see if the monk could help. He brought the Thousand Gold Formulas along, while Yun Qingyang stayed behind to watch the shop.

• Ma Feifei observed Puzhi reading the Thousand Gold Formulas every day but kept the Diamond Sutra to himself.
• Zhao Xiaodao told Ma Feifei that Gongsun Qiong had been unconscious for a week despite doctors finding nothing wrong.
• Ma Feifei explained that Gongsun Qiong would have to wake up to read the Thousand Gold Formulas.
• Puzhi offered to examine Gongsun Qiong, and Zhao Xiaodao led him to her home.
• Ma Feifei took the Thousand Gold Formulas and followed them after asking Yun Qingyang to rescue him if he was attacked.

Puzhi used mysterious golden light to awaken Gongsun Qiong, who then told Ma Feifei that another person was inside the monk's body. The chapter left Ma Feifei stunned by her revelation.

• Chu Hongyuan and the Thunder Saint accompanied Ma Feifei, Zhao Xiaodao, and Puzhi to Gongsun Qiong's room.
• Puzhi chanted and sent golden light into Gongsun Qiong's forehead, waking her.
• Gongsun Qiong thanked Puzhi and ordered Zhao Xiaodao to give him a million Spirit Crystals.
• Gongsun Qiong asked Ma Feifei whether he knew Puzhi and said that there was another person inside the monk's body.

Gongsun Qiong told Ma Feifei that Puzhi had another person inside him, then warned him to be cautious. On the empty street, a Phantom Organization assassin confronted Ma Feifei, but a gray-clad swordsman intervened, leaving Ma Feifei facing an unexplained danger ahead.

• Gongsun Qiong explained that her special eyes had revealed a miniature, identical person inside Puzhi and urged Ma Feifei to guard against him.
• Ma Feifei walked through an empty street in a storm and noticed a black-clad assassin waiting on a rooftop.
• Ma Feifei called for Yun Qingyang, but she did not arrive, and the assassin made no immediate move.
• A gray-clad swordsman appeared and declared that Ma Feifei could not die, then faced the black-clad assassin, who recognized him.
• The two cultivators above the Spirit Venerable realm began fighting, and Ma Feifei ran toward the Bookstore before stopping to look ahead.

Ma Feifei discovered that Puzhi had split into good and evil personalities, and the evil personality attacked him with overwhelming strength. The Thousand Gold Formulas repeatedly healed Ma Feifei and raised his cultivation, leaving him taunting Puzhi to strike again.

• The system began the Good and Evil challenge mission, ordering Ma Feifei to eliminate Puzhi's evil personality before it devoured the good one.
• Puzhi struck Ma Feifei and sent him crashing to the ground, badly injured.
• The Thousand Gold Formulas released golden light that erased the black energy in Ma Feifei's body and healed his wounds.
• Puzhi attacked again, and the golden light healed Ma Feifei once more as his cultivation broke through to Spirit King.
• After Puzhi's next powerful strike, Ma Feifei stood up unharmed and taunted him, eager to gain more cultivation from the Thousand Gold Formulas.

Ma Feifei’s Thousand Gold Formulas weakened as Puzhi repeatedly injured him, leaving him desperate to escape. The man in black offered to save him in exchange for the book, then tried to seize it by force, but joined the gray-robed man in fighting Puzhi after Ma Feifei’s sword blocked his attack.

• Puzhi struck Ma Feifei again, and Thousand Gold Formulas healed him only partially, revealing that its power was fading.
• Ma Feifei tried to flee and called for Yun Qingyang, but the man in black said a formation prevented his voice from reaching outside and offered to save him for the book.
• Ma Feifei agreed to the man in black’s terms but insisted that Puzhi be driven away first.
• The gray-robed man blocked Puzhi’s attack, while the man in black turned his blade on Ma Feifei to take the book.
• Ma Feifei’s sword knocked the man in black’s blade aside, and the man in black joined the gray-robed man in fighting Puzhi.

Ma Feifei realized Puzhi cultivated the Method of Wish Power and that his good and evil sides were fighting over its teachings. After Puzhi and the two men in black and gray fell from the sky, the apparent battle vanished, leaving Ma Feifei to suspect an Illusion Array.

• Ma Feifei sensed negative emotions leaving the people of Dubian Town and flowing into Puzhi, whose strength surged as he drove back the men in black and gray.
• Ma Feifei concluded that Puzhi cultivated wish power and that Good Puzhi and Evil Puzhi were one person divided by conflicting beliefs.
• Ma Feifei decided the Diamond Sutra was the key to helping Good Puzhi and ran toward the Bookstore.
• Puzhi and the two men in black and gray crashed to the ground, and Puzhi appeared in white robes after the black haze dissipated.
• The rain, puddles, and men in black and gray disappeared as pedestrians appeared, leading Ma Feifei to suspect an Illusion Array.

Ma Feifei tried to resolve Puzhi’s compulsion to kill him by having him read the Diamond Sutra, using Yun Qingyang’s mind control when Puzhi refused. The scripture activated and transported Puzhi into a vision of Three Thousand Buddhas, where he appeared among them.

• Ma Feifei learned that Puzhi had come to kill him because the thought had become an obsession that threatened his cultivation.
• Ma Feifei presented Puzhi with the Diamond Sutra, but Puzhi refused to read it.
• Ma Feifei paid Yun Qingyang ten thousand Spirit Crystals to control Puzhi and make him open the scripture.
• The bookstore’s readers gathered to watch as the Diamond Sutra glowed, chimed, and sent a beam of golden light into Puzhi.
• Puzhi disappeared, and the Diamond Sutra displayed a vast scene of Three Thousand Buddhas with Puzhi among them.

Ma Feifei and the cultivators watched a projection of Puzhi inside the world of a book, while Ma Feifei wondered whether the phenomenon was a feature of yellow-quality books or a quest-character effect. Puzhi rejected the Buddha’s offer of a fruit position and declared that he wanted all living beings to bow beneath his feet.

• The cultivators debated whether the projection above the Diamond Sutra was an illusion, while Ma Feifei concluded that it showed Puzhi inside the book.
• Yun Qingyang asked Ma Feifei if she could enter the book, and he said they would test it later.
• Puzhi found himself before the Three Thousand Buddhas and insisted that the scene was an illusion before realizing it was real.
• The Buddha repeatedly asked Puzhi why he had come, and Puzhi answered that he sought the supreme fruit.
• The Buddha offered Puzhi one of three thousand fruit positions, but Puzhi said he wanted all living beings to bow beneath his feet.

Puzhi challenged the Buddha’s promise to save all living beings, so the Buddha showed him the life of a man created from his wish power. As the man repeatedly harmed those around him and the Bookstore crowd grew furious, Ma Feifei restrained Yun Qingyang and promised the man would soon face consequences.

• Puzhi argued that living beings’ desires and attachments made them seek the supreme fruition, while the Buddha insisted that all living beings could be saved.
• Puzhi conjured a greedy man, and the Buddha sent him into a world where he lived as an ordinary person.
• The man fled conscription, assaulted the family that sheltered him, and killed them, prompting cultivators to condemn him.
• The man schemed his way into managing an inn, abused his authority, and later squandered his success while beating his wife and daughter.
• After the inn went bankrupt, the man beat his wife and daughter to death, driving Yun Qingyang to demand that Ma Feifei let her enter and kill him.
• Ma Feifei calmed Yun Qingyang by assuring her that the man would face punishment, and the man began suffering the consequences of his actions.

The Buddha proved that the man had regretted his crimes by choosing not to resist his former comrades, winning his wager with Puzhi. Puzhi then challenged him to save a child and a hungry man-eating eagle, and the Buddha offered his own flesh to feed the eagle.

• The Buddha asked the man why he had not killed his former comrades, and the man admitted that he deserved to die.
• A cultivator realized that the man’s refusal to resist the injured soldiers showed his remorse, and the Buddha declared that Puzhi had lost.
• Puzhi summoned a hungry eagle and a child, then asked the Buddha how he would save them both.
• Ma Feifei recognized the scene as a version of the tale of sacrificing flesh to feed an eagle.
• The Buddha split a piece of flesh from his arm and sent it toward the eagle.

The Buddha and the Three Thousand Buddhas purified Puzhi by chanting the Diamond Sutra, while Ma Feifei completed his challenge and received the Method of Wish Power Cultivation. After accepting the reward, Ma Feifei lost his former cultivation and began absorbing book aura, and Puzhi appeared inside the Bookstore as the projection ended.

• The Buddha defeated Puzhi and explained that the Three Thousand Buddhas could not provide him with dark wish power.
• The Buddha and the Three Thousand Buddhas chanted the Diamond Sutra, sending merit and its characters into Puzhi and burning away his black smoke.
• Ma Feifei completed the system challenge and received the Method of Wish Power Cultivation, which drew power from readers of the Bookstore.
• Ma Feifei accepted the reward, lost his previous cultivation, and began absorbing an unfamiliar energy as Yun Qingyang moved away from him.
• The Diamond Sutra projection vanished, and Puzhi appeared inside the Bookstore.

Ma Feifei dealt with the Diamond Sutra’s popularity, the Phantom Organization’s threat, and the costly healing effects of the Thousand Gold Formulas. After discovering that his Spirit Crystals had nearly run out, he faced Yun Qingyang asking him to pay the fee for controlling Puzhi.

• Cultivators flocked to the Bookstore for the Diamond Sutra, but none besides Puzhi managed to enter its pages or understand its Buddhist language.
• Ma Feifei realized the Phantom Organization had sent two Spirit Venerables and a high-level formation master, and decided he could only wait and see.
• The system explained that the Thousand Gold Formulas automatically healed Ma Feifei by consuming Spirit Crystals and showed that repeated treatments had depleted most of his funds.
• Ma Feifei found fewer than 120,000 Spirit Crystals left in his spatial pouch and lamented that he might as well die.
• Yun Qingyang asked Ma Feifei to settle the fee for controlling Puzhi.

Short on Spirit Crystals, Ma Feifei watched a staged ticket scam and realized he could profit by selling special numbers for the Mysterious Bookstore. He obtained five tickets from Gongsun Qiong and left her blushing after their hands touched.

• Ma Feifei worried that he lacked the Spirit Crystals to finish drawing Pokémon and had no leads on his remaining quests.
• Ma Feifei watched a golden-robed man bait a cultivator into threatening him, then saw Zhang Wu force the cultivator to pay 200,000 Spirit Crystals.
• Ma Feifei decided to sell special numbers at the Wantong Trading Market as a way to earn money.
• Ma Feifei hurried to Gongsun Qiong and asked for eight hundred special numbers, but she said only five of the ten remaining were available.
• Ma Feifei took the five special numbers, accidentally slapped Gongsun Qiong's hand, and hurried away as she blushed.

Ma Feifei set up a stall at the Wantong Trading Market to sell five genuine special numbers for Spirit Crystals. He sold all five to the elderly Jiang Yizhou, who recognized the Wantong Chamber of Commerce's anti-counterfeiting mark and left without checking them.

• Ma Feifei disguised his appearance, rented a stall, and laid out five special numbers for sale.
• The neighboring stall owner warned Ma Feifei that a previous seller of fake numbers had been punished by the market and killed by angry buyers.
• Ma Feifei assured the skeptical crowd that his numbers were genuine and offered them for one hundred thousand Spirit Crystals each, with a discount for buying all five.
• Jiang Yizhou arrived and paid Ma Feifei four hundred thousand Spirit Crystals for all five numbers.
• When Ma Feifei asked how he knew the numbers were genuine, Jiang Yizhou said he recognized the Wantong Chamber of Commerce's anti-counterfeiting mark and introduced himself before leaving.

Ma Feifei sold five special numbers to Jiang Yizhou, who delivered them to Jiang Yibei for a planned visit to the Mysterious Bookstore. The next day, Jiang Yibei encountered his younger brother Jiang Bieli outside the bookstore and learned that Bieli had already comprehended a weaker version of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.

• Ma Feifei sold five special numbers to Jiang Yizhou, then returned to the bookstore with four hundred thousand Spirit Crystals and told Yun Qingyang he had checked the accounts.
• Jiang Yizhou gave the special numbers to Jiang Yibei and explained that they allowed five unrestricted days of entry each; Jiang Yibei decided to visit the bookstore the next day.
• Jiang Yibei learned that Jiang Bieli was in Dubian Town, but dismissed his younger brother after hearing he was selling spirit beast goods.
• Ma Feifei worked late to finish the Pokémon manga and resumed adding the finishing touches early the next morning.
• Outside the bookstore, Jiang Bieli told Jiang Yibei that he had comprehended a lower-tier version of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms during an earlier visit.
• Jiang Bieli showed Jiang Yibei the exclusive number he had obtained for that day, leaving Jiang Yibei irritated and speechless.

Jiang Bieli returned to the bookstore but lost his chance at the popular books after stopping to greet Ma Feifei, then settled for a white-quality book. A new Yellow Quality Pokémon appeared, and Liu Changsheng was drawn into its world as the bookstore’s second book-world experience began.

• Jiang Bieli greeted Ma Feifei before choosing a book, missed the popular titles, and bought a white-quality one to read beside Jiang Yibei.
• Jiang Yibei teased Jiang Bieli for wasting time, then returned to reading The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
• A golden light appeared as Ma Feifei added the Yellow Quality Pokémon to the bookshelf, and Liu Changsheng grabbed it despite the other cultivators’ protests.
• Liu Changsheng identified Pokémon as a picture book and began reading while the other cultivators watched for a reaction.
• Golden light spread across Pokémon, lifted Liu Changsheng into the book, and formed an image above its fluttering pages.

Liu Changsheng entered the Pokémon world with his cultivation sealed and met Li Ke, a researcher who offered to sell him Pokémon. After Liu Changsheng discovered he could not access his spatial ring, Li Ke told him he would need gold to buy either Pokémon or Poké Balls.

• Liu Changsheng woke in the wilderness, realized he had entered a world inside a book, and found that his spiritual power had been sealed.
• Li Ke introduced himself as a researcher and guide, then told Liu Changsheng that his purpose was to obtain Pokémon.
• Li Ke showed Liu Changsheng a price list of Pokémon, and Liu Changsheng offered to buy them all.
• Liu Changsheng tried to retrieve gold coins from his spatial ring but found he could not open it.
• Li Ke told Liu Changsheng to catch wild Pokémon on Mt. Moonview, then revealed that Poké Balls cost ten gold coins each.