Recaps

Ma Feifei established the Mysterious Daochang, preached the Tao Te Ching, and gained the Great Sage Set by entering Journey to the West. He chose the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey to replace Sun Wukong, while Yun Qingyang’s encounter with a masked man brought a customer complaint to the Bookstore.

• Ma Feifei named the plum grove the Mysterious Daochang, and its divine formation appeared as the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey arrived to challenge him.
• Ma Feifei defeated the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey with the Three Character Classic, then earned billions of Spirit Crystals by selling sermon seats and preached the Tao Te Ching to thousands of cultivators.
• The sermon helped many cultivators break through, but Saint Chu failed to become an immortal, and Jiu You died after losing hope.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey became the Bookstore’s guardian, and Ma Feifei bought Journey to the West and entered it to seek the Great Sage Set.
• Ma Feifei took the Ruyi Golden Cudgel and Great Sage Set from the Dragon Kings, causing Sun Wukong to disappear from the story and leaving Ma Feifei with an 8.1-billion-Spirit-Crystal debt.
• Ma Feifei selected the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey to replace Sun Wukong and gave him the Golden Cudgel, while Saint Chu prepared to surrender his title and seek Ma Feifei’s forgiveness.
• Yun Qingyang fought the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey after he ate her peach transformation, then disappeared, and a masked man who met her in Nine Heavens Mountain later went to the Bookstore to complain about her directions.
• Ma Feifei invited the masked man into private room one, while Zhang Yunji worried that the complaint might cost him his job or reward.

Ma Feifei recruited Ba Jiu, confronted Yuwen Hongdu in Han Feizi, and traveled to Nine Heavens Mountain, where he helped Yun Qingyang reclaim the Ice Crystal Palace. He renovated the Mysterious Bookstore with the artifact’s power, then left for the Qin State branch while Feng Yiming waited to see him.

• Ma Feifei discovered Ba Jiu was a variant Qilin and brought him into the Mysterious Bookstore as a guardian divine pet.
• Ma Feifei entered Han Feizi as Wang Jian and forced Yuwen Hongdu to defend Jicheng, then accepted two billion Spirit Crystals to delay the Qin Army with rain.
• Ma Feifei led Ba Jiu, Chang Kong, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey to Nine Heavens Mountain, where he took a Tianshu Fragment from a Crimson Water Scorpion.
• Ma Feifei passed through the Ice Crystal Palace’s formation and found Yun Qingyang, who took him into the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Ice Cavern to reclaim the divine artifact.
• Yun Qingyang and Ma Feifei used their blood to awaken the artifact spirit, and Ma Feifei borrowed the Ice Crystal Palace before returning to the Bookstore.
• Ma Feifei used the Ice Crystal Palace to remodel the Bookstore, unveiling its new plaques, Comprehension Wall, and Frost Crystal Tables and Chairs.
• Ma Feifei traveled through the branch portal with Yun Qingyang and Chang Kong, while Feng Yiming waited outside the Bookstore and gave Xiao Yan a ring.

Ma Feifei expanded the bookstore’s reach, completed the Journey to the West instance, and helped Feng Yiming prolong his life as a recitation slave. When Tianshu Fragments drove spirit beasts into a devastating assault on Dubian Town, Ma Feifei helped the defenders survive, but a black-clad woman appeared with an Orange Fragment after massacring a tavern’s occupants.

• Ma Feifei opened Branch Two, accepted Jing Xing’s payment and Di Heyu’s repayment, and welcomed Qin Shi Huang, who considered whether to abandon his cultivation to practice the Longevity Art.
• Ma Feifei and the cultivators watched Sun Wukong’s story unfold through the Journey to the West projection, and Ma Feifei gained access to its Eighty-One Tribulations instance.
• Liu Ying confronted Ma Feifei with her belief that he had created the Azure Dragon Continent, and Ma Feifei announced a bookstore event where readers could submit original works.
• Feng Yiming asked Ma Feifei to extend his life, and Ma Feifei made him the bookstore’s second recitation slave by inscribing the Eight Formations Diagram on his back.
• After spirit beasts rampaged on Nine Heavens Mountain, Ma Feifei joined Yun Qingyang, the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, and Zhou Wuji to investigate, but millions of beasts advanced on Dubian Town.
• Ma Feifei and Luan Feng empowered the town’s defenders and a conjured army, helping them repel successive waves of spirit beasts as Orange Tianshu Fragments were found on the fallen beasts.
• Ma Feifei warned Dubian Town’s leaders that stronger beasts might attack again after nearly two hundred thousand soldiers died in the battle.
• A black-clad woman emerged from a destroyed tavern after an eerie voice killed everyone inside, carrying eight bloodied claws and an Orange Fragment.

Ma Feifei tracked the Sacred Beasts, then entered The Legend of the Righteous Demon and helped Yun Qingyang defeat the flood dragon. Back in Dubian Town, he prepared for the bookstore’s anniversary while searching for the ninety-ninth Tianshu Fragment and telling Liu Ying an extravagant origin story.

• Ma Feifei learned that the three Great Sacred Beasts had entered Dubian Town, and Luan Feng defeated them after they attacked her and sought Ba Jiu and the Ice Crystal Palace.
• The Nine Bend Spider escaped after killing Yun Bai Shu and Gou Yu Hu, and the serpent woman attacked Ba Jiu before Ma Feifei trapped her inside the black book.
• Ma Feifei entered The Legend of the Righteous Demon as Li Gongfu and tried to draw out the flood dragon while arranging for Fahai and Yun Qingyang to confront her.
• Yun Qingyang and Fahai fought the flood dragon, but she swallowed Fahai before Yun Qingyang’s restored strength let her defeat the dragon at West Lake.
• Ma Feifei stopped Yun Qingyang from killing the weakened flood dragon, brought her and Xu Xian to Golden Mountain Temple, and completed the book’s quest.
• Back in the bookstore, Ma Feifei had Luan Feng paint a Fenghuang and learned Yun Qingyang wanted to write a book-world where she could meet her parents.
• Ma Feifei realized Ba Jiu might have the missing ninety-ninth Tianshu Fragment and went to Zhang Yunji’s home, where Liu Ying asked him for stories for her book.
• Ma Feifei told Liu Ying that he had been born from chaos, created heaven and earth, and transformed his body into the world’s features.