Recaps

Ma Feifei considered entering the Quartz League Competition but realized he had no Pokémon, then watched the Twelve Kings' resource competition begin. Jiang Yibei defeated Cao Shuang with One Yang Finger and promoted the Divine Bookstore, whose enormous queues meant readers could wait twenty years to enter.

• Ma Feifei weighed his chances of winning the Quartz League Competition before realizing he did not have any Pokémon.
• The Twelve Kings' resource competition began, and the competitors avoided challenging Li Bieli because of his reputation for killing twenty-five Spirit King experts.
• Jiang Yibei challenged Cao Shuang and defeated him with a single strike from One Yang Finger.
• Jiang Yibei told Cao Shuang that the technique came from a book and directed him to the Divine Bookstore in Dubian Town.
• Spectators discussed the bookstore's popularity and learned that its special-number tickets were already scheduled for twenty years later.

The resource competition left Jiang Yibei, Zhou Zhuling, Liu Ying, and Li Bieli tied for first, and Jiang Yibei faced Li Bieli amid their bitter dispute over Li Bieli’s mother’s death. Their Pokémon had evolved into fifth-tier forms, and the battle began with Charmeleon fighting Venusaur as Clefable prepared to act.

• Jiang Yibei, Zhou Zhuling, and Liu Ying each reached eight wins, while the other contestants forfeited to Li Bieli and gave him eight wins without a fight.
• The spectators discussed Li Bieli’s rise and rumors that Jiang Yibei’s mother had caused the death of Li Bieli’s birth mother.
• Jiang Yibei and Li Bieli confronted each other over the accusation, then chose to settle their dispute through battle.
• Jiang Yibei summoned Charmeleon, while Li Bieli summoned Clefable and Venusaur, prompting Ma Feifei to realize they were evolved fifth-tier Pokémon.
• Venusaur attacked Charmeleon with branches, but Charmeleon burned them with fire as Clefable took to the air and began moving its hands.

Li Bieli and Jiang Yibei's battle shifted from their spirit beasts to techniques and martial skills learned from the Divine Bookstore. After Jiang Yibei sealed his cultivation to match Li Bieli's, the two prepared to fight on equal terms.

• Li Bieli used the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms against Jiang Yibei, but Jiang Yibei's golden beams destroyed the dragon and wounded Li Bieli.
• Charmeleon attacked Jiang Yibei and spread fire across the arena before Patriarch Zhang's Spirit Rain extinguished the flames.
• Jiang Yibei recalled Charmeleon and challenged Li Bieli to settle the match using techniques and martial skills from the book.
• Li Bieli accepted, and both fighters recalled their spirit beasts.
• Jiang Yibei sealed his cultivation down to the peak of Spirit Master rank eight to match Li Bieli.
• Jiang Yibei and Li Bieli revealed that they each knew many techniques from the book as their auras surged.

Li Bieli defeated Jiang Yibei in a destructive close-combat match during the Twelve Kings' resource competition. Jiang Yibei survived, and the results left Zhou Zhuling and Liu Ying in first and second place, with Li Bieli third and Jiang Yibei fourth.

• Jiang Yibei and Li Bieli fought with martial skills, and Li Bieli smashed the arena apart with a punch.
• The fighters continued their battle, carving up the ground before their attacks filled Canglong Fort with dust and debris.
• Jiang Yibei and Li Bieli crashed into opposite walls, and Li Bieli fell out first, appearing to win.
• Experts pulled the unconscious Jiang Yibei from the wall and confirmed he was alive.
• The referee awarded Li Bieli one point and declared him the winner; his injuries left him in third place, while Jiang Yibei placed fourth and Zhou Zhuling and Liu Ying took first and second.

Zhou Zhuling won the Twelve Kings' internal resource competition after Liu Ying forfeited, explaining that they were on the same side because of their connection to the Mysterious Bookstore. Liu Ying then demonstrated that the Purple Ying Sword let her fly high into the sky, astonishing the crowd across the imperial capital.

• Liu Ying forfeited her final match against Zhou Zhuling, making Zhou Zhuling the competition's first-place winner and Liu Ying the runner-up.
• Ma Feifei questioned Zhang Yunji about Liu Ying's forfeit, while Zhang Yunji said second place was a good result for the Zhang family.
• Liu Ying told Zhou Zhuling that she had forfeited because Zhou was connected to the Mysterious Bookstore, and she showed her the Purple Ying Sword.
• Liu Ying drew the Purple Ying Sword, sending purple energy into the sky and making spirit weapons across Canglong Fort tremble.
• Liu Ying used the Purple Ying Sword to rise more than a thousand meters into the sky, astonishing the spectators.
• A child in the imperial capital pointed at Liu Ying's purple trail and called her a fairy.

Ma Feifei, Lin Wuchi, Li Beiguo, and Yun Qingyang bypassed the defenses around the Chu Kingdom's Imperial Mausoleum and entered through a hidden underground passage. Inside, Ma Feifei stopped Yun Qingyang from taking the luminous pearls, and the group continued deeper into the passage.

• Lin Wuchi used his Cloud Disk for Breaking Formations to deactivate the mausoleum's weakened formations as the group skirted the patrols.
• Lin Wuchi explained that the old formations had lost most of their power because their Spirit Crystals were depleted and they had not been maintained for centuries.
• Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo led Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang to a hidden iron door, and Li Beiguo uncovered the underground passage.
• Lin Wuchi went into the passage first, followed by Yun Qingyang, Ma Feifei, and Li Beiguo.
• Yun Qingyang reached for a luminous pearl, but Ma Feifei scolded her and made her stop before the group proceeded onward.

Ma Feifei and his companions reached the Emperor's Tomb, but he refused to enter Emperor Chu the Conqueror's grave and sent Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo ahead. Yun Qingyang then revealed that someone was inside the tomb.

• Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo failed to lift the tunnel hatch until Li Beiguo realized Sunken Gold was weighing it down, and Yun Qingyang opened it with one hand.
• Lin Wuchi used his Formation Cloud Disk to find the formation leading to Emperor Chu the Conqueror's tomb, and the group entered a graveyard arranged in a nine-square grid.
• Ma Feifei refused to join Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo in the central tomb, then urged the two men to search for its entrance.
• Yun Qingyang asked Ma Feifei why he was sending Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo into danger, then told him someone was inside the tomb.

Ma Feifei, Yun Qingyang, Lin Wuchi, and Li Beiguo crossed a blood river that guarded Emperor Chu the Conqueror’s tomb and reached its central entrance. Lin Wuchi explained that the inscribed Emperor Stele had been carved five thousand years earlier using the blood of 990,000 virgins.

• Ma Feifei joined Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo on their expedition after Yun Qingyang explained that something inside the tomb had gained a thread of life despite being dead.
• The group reached the nine-square grid and found that a blood river blocked their way into the tomb.
• Lin Wuchi tested the river with a fifth-tier spirit sword and concluded that only someone at the Spirit Venerable realm or above could cross it unaided.
• Yun Qingyang crossed the river and helped Ma Feifei, Lin Wuchi, and Li Beiguo reach the other side.
• The group arrived at Emperor Chu the Conqueror’s dragon-shaped tomb and examined the densely inscribed Emperor Stele at its entrance.
• Lin Wuchi told Ma Feifei that Emperor Chu the Conqueror had ordered 990,000 virgins to be gathered and their blood used to carve the stele five thousand years earlier.

Ma Feifei and his companions entered Emperor Chu the Conqueror’s tomb, where Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo revealed they had repeatedly visited it to stop the emperor from possessing a powerful cultivator. They asked Ma Feifei to kill the emperor, whose true aim was to achieve Ascension to Immortality through Corpse Liberation.

• Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo opened the tomb door, and the group followed their Formation Cloud Disk through the passageways to the main hall.
• Li Beiguo lit a candle in the hall, but a cold wind extinguished it as the coffin lid began to move.
• Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo cast a seventh-tier Soul Suppressing Net over the coffin, stopping it from moving.
• Ma Feifei questioned Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo after noticing they knew the tomb too well and seemed unsurprised by the living presence inside the coffin.
• Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo knelt and begged Ma Feifei to kill the person in the tomb, revealing they had entered it over a hundred times.
• Lin Wuchi explained that Emperor Chu the Conqueror used a demonic method and the Blood River Formation to await someone whose body he could possess, but his real goal was Ascension to Immortality through Corpse Liberation.

Ma Feifei learned that Emperor Chu the Conqueror had seized Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo’s master’s body and planned to use powerful experts to attempt ascension. The Grave Robbers' Chronicles expelled Emperor Chu’s soul and transported the group back to the Emperor’s Tomb, where Ma Feifei received a new Book Instance quest.

• Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo explained that Emperor Chu the Conqueror had taken their master’s body and forced them to lure powerful experts to the tomb.
• Emperor Chu burst from the coffin, but Yun Qingyang’s sword unleashed an icy strike that briefly transformed the tomb before the scene returned to normal.
• Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo said their master was already dead and that they wanted to recover his remains and bury him in Peach Blossom Village.
• Emperor Chu sensed Yun Qingyang’s dragon aura and declared that her physique could help him complete the Great Corpse Liberation Technique.
• The Grave Robbers' Chronicles flew from Ma Feifei’s hands, pierced Emperor Chu’s skull with golden light, and drew his soul from the body.
• The group returned to the Emperor’s Tomb, and Ma Feifei received the Tomb of the Hegemon Book Instance and its completion guide.

Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang traveled to Yan State, where Yun Qingyang told him about her life in Frost City beneath the Ten-Thousand-Fathom Ice Cave. She explained that after hatching, she fought the divine beast of Nine Heavens Mountain, was badly injured, and met Ma Feifei while seeking a place to recover.

• Ma Feifei completed the "Grave Robber" main quest, while Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo recovered their master's body and planned to bury him in Peach Blossom Village.
• Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang left for Yan State and traveled toward its snowy Imperial Capital.
• Ma Feifei asked Yun Qingyang where she had lived, and she said she had spent ten thousand years beneath Frost City in the Ninth Heaven.
• Yun Qingyang explained that she had cultivated inside an egg in the ice cave and that her father's divine-grade formation had kept her hidden from the divine beast.
• Yun Qingyang said she fought the divine beast after hatching, and that both were seriously injured before she left and met Ma Feifei.

Ma Feifei entered the Imperial Capital and heard that General Luanfeng’s victory over the Northern Liang nomads was credited to a secret art that could increase an army’s combat strength. A stranger named Yan Cong approached him and led him into an alley to talk.

• A notice announced that General Luanfeng’s fifty thousand troops had defeated a hundred thousand Northern Liang nomads, killing thirty thousand and capturing forty thousand.
• A man told the gathered crowd that General Luanfeng had used a secret art to raise her soldiers’ combat strength and let some officers fly briefly.
• Ma Feifei wondered whether the secret art came from his Bookstore, then dismissed the thought as his carriage entered the Imperial Capital.
• A man called Yan Cong beckoned to Ma Feifei, who initially ignored him and continued exploring the city with Yun Qingyang.
• Yan Cong caught up, introduced himself as an unaffiliated cultivator, and led Ma Feifei into a nearby alley to talk.

Ma Feifei met Yan Cong, who claimed My Fair Princess contained a secret art that had helped General Luanfeng's army win its recent battle, and sold him the book for one million Spirit Crystals. After Yan Cong teleported away, Ma Feifei used his wish power to pursue him with Yun Qingyang.

• Yan Cong showed Ma Feifei My Fair Princess and claimed its secret art had enabled General Luanfeng's fifty thousand soldiers to defeat a hundred thousand Northern Liang nomads.
• Yan Cong said he had stolen the book from General Luanfeng and offered to sell it, while warning Ma Feifei about growing tensions among the five nations.
• Ma Feifei agreed to pay one million Spirit Crystals, and Yun Qingyang handed Yan Cong the pouch.
• Yan Cong gave Ma Feifei the book and teleported away, and Ma Feifei activated his wish power to chase after him with Yun Qingyang.

Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang followed Yan Cong and learned that his actions had endangered General Luanfeng and involved Crown Prince Yan in the struggle against Yan Xun. After the Luanfeng Army returned to the Imperial Capital, they sneaked into Luanfeng Manor to recover Yun Qingyang’s Spirit Crystals, while Crown Prince Yan declared that he still had Luan Feng.

• Three men ambushed Yan Cong, accused him of betraying the Luanfeng Army by informing Yan Xun that Crown Prince Yan was with them, and took him toward the Imperial Capital.
• Ma Feifei realized the Divine Bookstore’s main quest might involve the succession struggle, then remembered that Yan Cong still owed Yun Qingyang one million Spirit Crystals.
• Two days later, the Luanfeng Army reached a camp outside the Imperial Capital, and General Luanfeng flew into the palace on a red luan.
• Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang entered Luanfeng Manor to find Yan Cong and recover the Spirit Crystals he owed.
• In the manor dungeon, Yan Cong warned Crown Prince Yan that he could not defeat Yan Xun, but Crown Prince Yan said he had Luan Feng.

Crown Prince Yan questioned Yan Cong about the stolen book, and Yan Cong revealed that General Luanfeng had learned her secret method at the Divine Bookstore in Chu Kingdom. Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang arrived, recovered Yan Cong’s Spirit Crystals, and Ma Feifei gave Crown Prince Yan a ticket to visit the Divine Bookstore.

• Crown Prince Yan accused Yan Cong of betraying General Luanfeng and demanded to know where he had hidden the book.
• Yan Cong explained that General Luanfeng had learned her secret method at a magical bookstore in Chu Kingdom, where books could grant cultivation, techniques, spirit beasts, and spirit artifacts.
• Yan Cong said he had planned to swindle Spirit Crystals and travel to the bookstore, but Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang appeared and Ma Feifei punched him.
• Yun Qingyang took Yan Cong’s spatial pouch, while Ma Feifei returned My Fair Princess and explained that the book had helped Yan Cong evade capture.
• Ma Feifei confirmed Crown Prince Yan’s identity and gave him a special-number ticket to the Divine Bookstore in Great Chu.

Luan Feng resigned her military authority and left the Imperial Capital for Great Chu, while cultivators gathered outside the Divine Bookstore in Dubian Town and discussed Liu Ying’s eighth-rank spirit sword. The bookstore opened as a strange trio drew the crowd’s attention.

• Luan Feng handed over her military authority, heard Crown Prince Yan’s message, and set out for Great Chu with Yan Gexing.
• Cultivators waiting outside the Divine Bookstore discussed Liu Ying’s sword flight and the chance to obtain high-rank spirit artifacts through the Book World.
• An elderly Spirit King revealed he had bought a house in Dubian Town and planned to settle there with his family.
• Azi, Taishan, and a one-armed monk attracted attention when Taishan fell and silenced the crowd.
• The Divine Bookstore opened.

Ma Feifei announced that Grave Robbers' Chronicles could trigger the Tomb of the Hegemon hidden instance, then studied the walkthrough manual he had received as a reward. The manual revealed the instance stages and gave Ma Feifei a chance to enter as a disguised boss and steal an item if he stopped a team from clearing it.

• Ma Feifei wrote on the notice board that readers who finished Grave Robbers' Chronicles could trigger the Tomb of the Hegemon hidden instance and bring three teammates.
• Ma Feifei explained that the hidden instance worked like Liu Ying's story quest, prompting readers to rush for the Yellow Quality books.
• Azi stopped Taishan from drawing attention to himself, and he pretended to read the Diamond Sutra while One-armed Big Brother read Grave Robbers' Chronicles.
• Ma Feifei read the walkthrough manual, which described a blood-river guardian vulnerable to Wood Element Cultivation Methods, a maze with a marked route, and a final battle against Emperor Chu the Conqueror.
• Ma Feifei discovered that he could enter the instance disguised as a boss and, if he stopped the team, take a random item from one of its members.

Ma Feifei bought The Analects from the System Store, hoping it would help someone break through to the Spirit Saint realm. The system gave him a four-month quest to teach three thousand people to read, recite, and understand the book, leaving him unsure how to begin.

• Ma Feifei searched the System Store for a book that could help him complete The Saint's Following quest and chose The Analects for its benefits to state of mind and comprehension.
• Ma Feifei purchased The Analects for ten million Spirit Crystals and received a ruler inscribed with the book's text as a system reward.
• Ma Feifei touched The Analects and felt its ancient aura calm his heart before the system announced that the book needed to be unlocked.
• The system tasked Ma Feifei with teaching three thousand people to read, recite, and understand The Analects within four months, and warned it would reclaim the book if he failed.
• The system placed three thousand paperback copies in the warehouse and converted Private Room One into a weekday study area, leaving Ma Feifei overwhelmed by the task.

Ma Feifei recruited students for an Analects class and earned ninety million Spirit Crystals from the application fees. Meanwhile, a reader triggered the Tomb of the Hegemon instance, but Azi struggled to find a fourth teammate.

• Ma Feifei received an annotated copy of the Analects and planned to teach from it, while excluding Yun Qingyang from his list of potential students.
• Ma Feifei partnered with the Wantong Trading Market to announce a class for three thousand students, requiring applicants to pay ten thousand Spirit Crystals for the second-round test.
• More than ten thousand people applied, earning Ma Feifei ninety million Spirit Crystals after the trading market took its ten percent fee.
• A reader triggered an instance in Grave Robbers' Chronicles, and the one-armed man learned that he could gather four people to enter the Tomb of the Hegemon within three days.
• Azi invited someone to join their team, but no one volunteered because they feared she would get them killed.

Azi, the one-armed man, and Taishan failed to find teammates for the Tomb of the Hegemon dungeon, so they decided to ask Second Mother to return. Meanwhile, Zhang Yunji persuaded his family to sign up for Ma Feifei's lectures, and Chang Kong quietly revealed his interest despite his reservations.

• Azi complained that no one would team up with them, and Taishan offered to kill their detractors with Second Mother's help.
• Azi suggested asking Second Mother to return, and the one-armed man agreed.
• At dinner, Zhang Yunji told his family that Ma Feifei planned to teach three thousand students about The Analects.
• Chang Kong hesitated to enroll because of his age, status, and seniority, while Liu Ying said she had wanted to sign up.
• Zhang Yunji told Liu Ying to take Chang Kong to register and encouraged Baili Chuxue to join them.
• Liu Ying laughed when she realized Chang Kong wanted to attend the lectures.

Ma Feifei arranged to reopen the Pokémon world and learned that Pokémon had stopped advancing beyond the fourth tier. He told Zhao Xiaodao the bookstore would provide a solution after the tournament, then urged her to attend his lecture without becoming his student.

• Ma Feifei noticed that readers continued buying Yellow Quality books despite rarely gaining insights from them, and decided to reopen the Pokémon world to recruit more tournament competitors.
• At the Wantong Trading Market, Zhao Xiaodao told Ma Feifei that Pokémon could no longer advance beyond the fourth tier, and he confirmed he knew the reason but had no solution yet.
• Ma Feifei explained that the bookstore would address the Pokémon bottleneck after the tournament, and Zhao Xiaodao accepted that the cultivators would have to wait.
• Ma Feifei urged Zhao Xiaodao to sign up for his lecture but clarified that he would not treat attendees as his students.
• After Ma Feifei left Zhao Xiaodao’s office, she watched him go and laughed, calling him Teacher Ma.

The Mysterious Bookstore opened a new instance from Grave Robbers' Chronicles, sending the one-armed man and his three companions into the Tomb of the Hegemon. The mission identified its target as Emperor Chu the Conqueror, leaving Chang Kong shocked by the name.

• A huge crowd gathered outside the Mysterious Bookstore as Ma Feifei displayed Grave Robbers' Chronicles.
• The one-armed man used his token to send himself and his three companions into the new book instance.
• The group arrived before a massive tomb, and the instance instructed them to kill Emperor Chu the Conqueror for his burial goods.
• Onlookers recognized the name as that of Great Chu's founding ruler, though they questioned whether the figure in the tomb was the same person.
• Chang Kong turned deathly pale after seeing the mission text, while Liu Ying asked what was wrong.

Azi, the one-armed man, Second Mother, and Taishan reached a river of blood outside the tomb, where Ma Feifei emerged and received a dungeon-enhanced power boost. Ma Feifei bought a martial skill and Spirit Sword from the Dungeon Shop, and both sides prepared to fight.

• Azi vomited at the sight of the river of blood while the four examined it.
• Ma Feifei struggled free of a skeleton in the river and climbed onto the bank.
• The dungeon system raised Ma Feifei's strength to peak Spirit King ninth stage and unlocked the Dungeon Shop.
• Ma Feifei bought a fifth-tier martial skill and Spirit Sword with Book Qi Points.
• Ma Feifei took up the Spirit Sword as the four drew their weapons and faced him.

Ma Feifei’s team fought the Blood River dungeon’s skeleton mobs and boss while cultivators watching the projection debated Taishan’s body-hardening technique. Azi’s panicked screams unexpectedly distracted a skeleton and helped her destroy it, leaving Ma Feifei and the onlookers amazed.

• Three skeletons emerged from the Blood River, and the one-armed man assigned Taishan and Azi to fight them while he and Second Mother faced the boss.
• Taishan fought the skeletons with his bare hands, prompting cultivators outside the Bookstore to recognize his Hegemon Body cultivation method.
• Azi screamed as she fought a skeleton, and Ma Feifei laughed at her, giving the one-armed man and Second Mother an opening to strike him.
• Ma Feifei ordered a skeleton to attack Azi, but her scream made it misjudge its thrust, and her Spirit Sword pierced the skeleton apart.
• The watching cultivators praised Azi’s apparent skill, while Ma Feifei wondered whether shouting could really deal damage.

Azi and Taishan exploited the skeletons’ slow reactions to overwhelm Ma Feifei’s dungeon, so he bought a premium reinforcement agent that made the new skeletons golden and much stronger. As the fight turned against the team, the one-armed man realized Ma Feifei was behind the endless skeletons and attacked him.

• Azi killed another newly spawned skeleton before it could react, while Taishan crushed two more, leaving Ma Feifei to learn from the system that the skeletons had a five-second awareness delay.
• Ma Feifei bought a Premium Bone Reinforcement Agent, causing newly spawned skeletons to become golden and rise to the Spirit King eighth stage.
• Three golden skeletons cornered Azi and the one-armed man, who called Taishan over to help them hold the attackers back.
• Taishan shattered the golden skeletons, but more kept climbing from the Blood River, leaving the fighters stunned by their seemingly endless numbers.
• The one-armed man ordered Taishan to hold off the skeletons and charged Ma Feifei with Second Mother, prompting Ma Feifei to ask the system for a stack of boss boosters.