Recaps

Ma Feifei began teaching the Analects to three thousand students while Chu Huaixiang’s party cleared the Tomb of the Hegemon and recovered the Peerless Sword. Liu Ying and many students gained cultivation through their studies, while Li Bieli remained outside the bookstore seeking help and Crown Prince Yan arrived with a special-number card.

• Ma Feifei cleared the Grave Robbers' Chronicles instance, gave the One-Armed Man an opening token, and drew cultivators to the book.
• Gongsun Qiong delivered the list of three thousand students, and Ma Feifei distributed copies of the Analects before classes began.
• Ma Feifei taught the Analects in the grassland formation as students recited and studied before Confucius’s statue.
• Chu Huaixiang and two men in black defeated Emperor Chu the Conqueror, cleared the tomb, and took the Peerless Sword as their reward.
• The students copied and studied the Analects, and Liu Ying earned Confucius’s recognition and advanced from Spirit King second stage to fifth stage.
• Ma Feifei held a mock exam, after which Confucius’s statue sent beams that raised nearly three thousand students’ cultivation, but not Zhang Yunji, Liu Ying, or Gongsun Qiong.
• Zhang Yunji, Liu Ying, and Chang Kong tested the Flame Emperor at Nine Heavens Mountain, while Jigglypuff’s song put them to sleep.
• Crown Prince Yan sought Luan Feng’s support to reclaim the throne and was turned away, then arrived at the bookstore and entered with his special number.

Ma Feifei guided Crown Prince Yan and Li Bieli while Luan Feng and Chang Kong reached sainthood through their book trials. As the bookstore’s readers watched new missions unfold, Gongsun Qiong began reforming Mangcang Town and uncovered a nearby Spirit Crystal Vein Mine.

• Crown Prince Yan began studying Han Feizi to learn how to reclaim his throne, while Li Bieli told Ma Feifei that using a Moon Stone had drained his life force and agreed to enter the Pokémon tournament.
• Luan Feng comprehended The Art of War, defeated the Qin Army in its projected battle, and reached the Spirit Saint realm, while Ma Feifei received a quest to help her win a campaign.
• Zhang Yunji and Chang Kong persuaded Liu Ying to enter the tournament, and Ma Feifei sent the Green Grassland students on a two-month Analects trial across the continent.
• Ma Feifei arranged projected trials for Liu Changsheng and Gongsun Qiong, then organized a betting pool on whether Gongsun Qiong or her obstructors would prevail in Mangcang Town.
• Gongsun Qiong accepted the appointment as mayor of Mangcang Town, while Chang Kong chose to help a mother and daughter in the desert rather than take their Epic-grade book and reached sainthood.
• Chang Kong returned to Dubian Town, where Ma Feifei received a quest to recruit Luan Feng, and important figures gathered to ask about the book that had helped Chang Kong break through.
• Wan Chengnan’s team plotted to sabotage Gongsun Qiong’s mission as she led residents out of town to dig, and the team discovered that a Spirit Crystal Vein Mine lay nearby before Ergouzi arrived.

Gongsun Qiong completed her Analects trial and gained Righteous Qi, while ghosts escaped from Ma Feifei’s book and began killing cultivators. Ma Feifei turned the danger into a hunt for Tianshu Fragments, but the bounty sparked disorder in Dubian Town, so he enlisted Yun Qingyang to collect them.

• Gongsun Qiong gave Mangcang Town’s residents the Spirit Crystal Vein Mine’s profits if they studied The Analects, and more than ten thousand residents recited it with her as a golden light surged toward Nine Heavens Mountain.
• Crown Prince Yan reached one hundred Emperor’s Aura, and Luan Feng agreed to help him reclaim the throne if Ma Feifei wrote her a military strategy book.
• Ma Feifei gave Yun Qingyang Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, and ghosts from the book began appearing as cultivators died in Dubian Town.
• Gongsun Qiong used Righteous Qi gained from The Analects to strike an incorporeal ghost, while Yun Qingyang dressed as a Daoist and joined Ma Feifei in hunting the spirits.
• Yun Qingyang destroyed a faceless fierce ghost at a ruined tavern, and Ma Feifei received a Tianshu Fragment and learned that more ghosts would emerge every five days until he collected ninety-nine fragments.
• Ma Feifei posted a million-Spirit-Crystal bounty for each fragment, and cultivators fought over one recovered by the Burning City Manor and the Heavenly Fiend Pavilion until Zhou Wuji suppressed them.
• Ma Feifei promised Zhou Wuji to address the unrest, then offered Yun Qingyang a million Spirit Crystals for each fragment she found, and she agreed to hunt ghosts at night.

Ma Feifei opened the Mysterious Bookstore’s first Pokémon Championship as political tensions with Great Chu mounted and he pursued the Tianshu Fragments and a branch store. The arc ended with the championship finals exposing Li Bieli’s frail, burned appearance after Venusaur defeated Jiang Yibei’s Charmeleon.

• Ma Feifei refused to intervene when Heavenly Fiend Pavilion attacked the masked Li Bieli, who escaped with Venusaur and entered the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Ma Feifei’s talismans reduced clashes in Dubian Town as cultivators collected Tianshu Fragments, and Great Chu’s banquet and the first Pokémon Championship began amid Crown Prince Yan’s challenge to Yan Xun.
• Ma Feifei opened the championship, gained cultivation from the crowd’s spiritual energy, and sent contestants into the opening matches while Yun Qingyang stopped Saint Chu from reaching the arena.
• Saint Chu withdrew after Yun Qingyang revealed Qingshuang, then told King Chu Heng that he had sensed danger at the Mysterious Bookstore.
• The system rewarded Ma Feifei for Crown Prince Yan and Luan Feng’s completed quests, launched a book-lovers quiz event, and tasked him with opening a branch outside Chu Kingdom.
• Ma Feifei followed Yun Qingyang into an alternate dimension, gathered tree-spirit materials, and assembled ninety-nine Tianshu Fragments, which revealed that Gongsun Qiong was Princess Chu Qiongyu.
• Ma Feifei began copying Six Secret Teachings, then attended Baili Chuxue’s birthday feast with Yun Qingyang, where he humiliated Chu Liuxiang and left with a roasted black bamboo pig.
• At the championship finals, Li Bieli’s Venusaur defeated Jiang Yibei’s Charmeleon after Charmeleon attacked a trainer, and Li Bieli vanished, leaving behind a severely burned, withered old man.