Recaps

Ma Feifei gained a new cook, accepted Lian Yi’s offer to join the Great Desolation Relic, and led the Mysterious Bookstore through a Phoenix God event. The anniversary began with seven-colored rain and a growing crowd, as Teng Shangqing confronted Luan Feng at the entrance.

• Ma Feifei assembled the Tianshu Fragments, and Ba Jiu produced a blank Sacred Book that later chose Gongsun Qiong.
• Ma Feifei hired Zhang Caicai in exchange for access to Chuka Ichiban!, and Zhang Caicai began working as the Bookstore’s cook.
• Lian Yi escaped a Vast Academy pursuer, revealed she had stolen six Great Desolation Relic Tokens, and persuaded Ma Feifei to join her at the Great Desolation Relic.
• Luan Feng completed the Fenghuang on the Four Spirit Pillars, triggering the Phoenix God Welfare Event, where Ma Feifei took the Wisdom Feather and gave it to Zhang Yunji.
• Ma Feifei collected compensation from cultivators who attacked him, while Luan Feng and Zhang Yunji used feathers to gain Phoenix Blood and improve their cultivation.
• The Bookstore’s anniversary brought seven-colored rain to Dubian Town, and Gongsun Qiong connected it to the Sacred Book’s prophecy about her becoming immortal.
• Teng Shangqing arrived at the crowded Bookstore, exchanged sarcastic greetings with Zhang Yunji, and approached Luan Feng, who ordered him to step down.

The Mysterious Bookstore celebrated its anniversary as Luan Feng’s defense of the event brought Vast Academy into conflict with the bookstore. Ma Feifei later learned that Liuli was the bookstore’s Book Immortal daughter and faced the danger of a Tribulation Book she had given Cang Lan.

• Luan Feng killed Teng Shangqing and Teng Chong after they disrupted the anniversary celebration, and Zhang Yunji resumed the event with free reading, contests, and a rain of Seven-Colored Liuli Rain.
• Yun Qingyang submitted her book about Ma Feifei and herself for evaluation, and Ma Feifei spent 110 million Spirit Crystals to raise it to Yellow Quality before she revealed herself and ran to him.
• Yang Chengzhi defeated Qin Wudao with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, while Vast Academy’s Fifth Dean Lie Xingyun traveled to Dubian Town to confront the bookstore.
• Lie Xingyun fought the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey outside the bookstore, while Cang Lan entered town and followed Ma Feifei inside after he charmed her with a line from The Return of the Condor Heroes.
• Cang Lan met Liuli, bought her book, and later saw her enter the bookstore, where Liuli called Ma Feifei her father and revealed that she could command books as a Book Immortal.
• Liuli explained that she had given her only Tribulation Book to Cang Lan, and Ma Feifei learned that Cang Lan would have to clear nine tribulations or perish.
• Liuli told Ma Feifei he could make Cang Lan’s Tribulation Book disappear, then revealed that his Mythic-grade book could not be released until he raised his cultivation and the bookstore’s level.

Ma Feifei’s anniversary gifts helped Zhang Yunji reach the Spirit Saint realm, while Mo Xie emerged from Nine Abyss and revealed the dangers of becoming immortal. At Vast Academy, Ma Feifei met Wan Jianshan, learned about the book essences draining him and the Thousand Leaf Tree, and began to wonder whether he was a book author himself.

• Ma Feifei gave the bookstore employees anniversary treasure chests, and Zhang Yunji absorbed the Tai Xuan Jing’s Book Spirit and advanced to the Spirit Saint realm.
• Yun Qingyang received the Cute Painting Master Techniques, while Ma Feifei opened his Mythic chest and obtained the Classic of Mountains and Seas: Great Wilderness East and the Sage's Robe.
• Mo Xie burst from Nine Abyss, defeated Cang Lan, and was overpowered by Liuli, who gave him a Tribulation Book that he initially refused.
• Mo Xie told Ma Feifei that an old immortal at Vast Academy had taught him that entering the Immortal Realm meant becoming a Book Slave, so Ma Feifei took him to find the old man.
• At Vast Academy, Ma Feifei learned from Liuli that the Thousand Leaf Tree could provide better paper for books and improve Book Spirits.
• Wan Jianshan revealed that a god had made him a slave to nurture 350 Book Essences, and Ma Feifei agreed to help him in exchange for the Thousand Leaf Tree.
• Ma Feifei learned that a book author could create wondrous worlds and powers through books, wondered whether he was one himself, and agreed to inspect the Confucian Dao Academies while Liu Ying helped at the branch store.

Ma Feifei’s journey to recruit a giant tortoise led back to the Four Spirit Pillars and Cang Lan’s entry into her Memory Tribulation. After reliving her painful past and falling into the Luo River, Cang Lan rose unharmed as the river’s water entered her body.

• Ma Feifei investigated his friends’ loans and found them buying Lian Yi’s living clay figurines, including a figure Zhang Caicai had commissioned of Liuli.
• Ma Feifei went to Afang Palace, gave Qin Shi Huang the Longevity Pill, and watched him study the Longevity Art before he declared himself immortal.
• Ma Feifei traveled to Qiong Sea with Yun Qingyang and Ba Jiu, where he lured a giant tortoise ashore and brought it back to the Bookstore, completing a system quest.
• The tortoise became markings on a Four Spirit Pillar, and Ma Feifei opened Cang Lan’s Tribulation Book after she insisted on entering its world.
• Cang Lan relived her childhood in Lan City, including her mother’s death, her humiliation at a clan tournament, and her bond with a mermaid who later died after Cang Xiong ordered Cang Lan to kill her.
• Cang Lan fled with the mermaid and fell into the Luo River, causing the Tribulation Book World to go dark before it lit up again around the river.
• After waiting for hours, Ma Feifei watched Cang Lan rise from the Luo River as nine columns of water struck her and were absorbed into her body.