Recaps

Ma Feifei expanded the Bookstore and opened a Pokémon tournament that sent a thousand cultivators into the Pokémon world. As they struggled to catch Pokémon with their cultivation sealed, Liu Changsheng escaped a storm with Lapras while Jiang Bieli and Jiang Yibei fought rivals over Bulbasaur.

• Liu Changsheng accepted Li Ke’s patrol job, survived mishaps on Mt. Moonview, and defeated Team Rocket before catching Clefairy.
• Jiang Bieli bought Clefairy, and her rapid growth drew cultivators who tried to seize her until Ma Feifei announced expanded access to Pokémon and a championship with major prizes.
• Ma Feifei upgraded the Bookstore, gained hundreds of new books, and used One Book, Multiple Travels to send a thousand cultivators into the Pokémon world.
• Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao reached Cerulean City and took kitchen jobs to earn money for Pokémon, while Ma Feifei watched over the book world without being able to help them.
• Liu Changsheng was stranded on an island during a storm, then accepted a ride from Lapras and left the island.
• Jiang Bieli found Bulbasaur, but three cultivators challenged him for it and knocked him down as Jiang Yibei fought them.
• Jiang Bieli summoned Clefairy to help, and Jiang Yibei killed the eldest attacker with a kick, and Ma Feifei then received notice that readers had died and that he had lost book energy points.

Ma Feifei watched the Book World claim lives and bring Zhang Yunji together with the Sacred Beast Flame Emperor, then recruited Zhang Yunji and prepared a Pokémon Tournament. The arc ended with Ma Feifei winning an estate for Zhang Yunji and catching two thieves who tried to break into the Bookstore.

• Jiang Bieli caught Bulbasaur and left the Book World, while Zhang Wu’s drunken attack on Xiao Ying ended with Zhang Wu dead and Ma Feifei learning that death inside the Book World was real.
• Lapras was killed by cultivators, and as hundreds more died inside the Book World, Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao tried to catch Pokémon while the remaining cultivators hunted for a Sacred Beast.
• Flame Emperor attacked Zhang Yunji and hundreds of cultivators, but ate the Pokémon food Zhang Yunji carried and willingly entered his Poké Ball.
• Zhang Yunji could not afford Flame Emperor’s twelve-million-Spirit-Crystal price, so Ma Feifei offered him the Sacred Beast in exchange for joining the Divine Bookstore, and Zhang Yunji accepted.
• Ma Feifei appointed Zhang Yunji to manage the Bookstore and asked Gongsun Qiong to organize a Pokémon Tournament, which they planned to hold in a disputed buffer zone outside Dubian Town.
• As Dubian Town grew crowded and dangerous, Chang Kong and Liu Ying took bodyguard work, while Ma Feifei attended the Wantong Trading Market auction with Yun Qingyang and Zhang Yunji.
• Ma Feifei won the Yang Bell and later outbid Chang Kong for Mansion Number Eighty-Eight, then gave the estate deed to Zhang Yunji.
• Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo tried to break into the Bookstore, froze on its roof overnight, and were brought into Ma Feifei’s courtyard, where Li Beiguo confessed.

Liu Ying won the Purple Ying Sword from Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain, while Ma Feifei prepared a holiday journey tied to Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo’s tomb-robbing ambitions. His visit to the Zhang family led to a lucrative wager and the Twelve Kings’ resource contest, where he received a new Pokémon evolution mission.

• Liu Ying failed her first book-world trial after giving the villagers her own name instead of Li Yingqiong.
• Liu Ying passed the villagers’ challenge on her next attempt, survived Li Yingqiong with Jigglypuff’s help, and dispelled the river illusion with her Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart.
• Liu Ying retrieved the Purple Ying Sword, and Gongsun Qiong covered its twenty-million-Spirit-Crystal cost.
• Ma Feifei learned that Lin Wuchi and Li Beiguo wanted to rob Emperor Chu the Conqueror’s tomb and planned a holiday journey through the Imperial Capital, Imperial Mausoleum, and Yan State.
• Ma Feifei accepted the old man’s Dragon Cicada Robe in exchange for paying for the Acupuncture Technique from Thousand Gold Formulas.
• Ma Feifei borrowed Yun Qingyang’s spatial ring, defeated Zhang Jinlin, Li Ang, and Cao Shuang in a wealth wager, and concealed how many Spirit Crystals he had taken from Yun Qingyang.
• Ma Feifei postponed his tomb expedition to attend the Twelve Kings’ resource battle with the Zhang family.
• Ma Feifei learned that Li Bieli’s Clefairy and Bulbasaur had reached the fifth tier, and the system tasked him with winning the Quartz League Competition to unlock Pokémon skill books and Basic Advancement Pills.

Jiang Yibei and Li Bieli settled their dispute in the Twelve Kings' competition while Ma Feifei explored Emperor Chu the Conqueror's tomb and brought its hidden instance to the Divine Bookstore. As Ma Feifei prepared to teach The Analects and ran the instance as its boss, the team faced an endless stream of increasingly powerful skeletons.

• Jiang Yibei defeated Cao Shuang with One Yang Finger, then battled Li Bieli using techniques from the Divine Bookstore's book and lost by a narrow margin as Zhou Zhuling took first place.
• Liu Ying forfeited her final match to Zhou Zhuling and revealed the Purple Ying Sword, which carried her into the sky.
• Ma Feifei, Yun Qingyang, Lin Wuchi, and Li Beiguo entered Emperor Chu the Conqueror's tomb, where the Grave Robbers' Chronicles drew out and destroyed the emperor's soul.
• Ma Feifei traveled to Yan State, recovered My Fair Princess from Yan Cong, and gave Crown Prince Yan a special-number ticket to the Divine Bookstore.
• Ma Feifei bought The Analects and accepted the system's task to teach three thousand people to read, recite, and understand it within four months.
• Ma Feifei announced a Tomb of the Hegemon instance, then entered it disguised as a boss when the one-armed man and his companions began their run.
• Ma Feifei fought the team beside the Blood River as Azi and Taishan battled skeletons, then strengthened the skeletons until golden Spirit King foes emerged in seemingly endless numbers.