Recaps

Cang Lan ascended to the Immortal Realm, while Ma Feifei strengthened his bookstore and sent Mo Xie to recruit the thirty-six people named in the Investiture of the Gods. On the journey to the Great Desolation Relic, Ma Feifei found the Confucian Dao Academy nearly abandoned and began working to restore it through Mu Qingyi.

• Cang Lan endured nine lightning strikes and entered the Immortal Realm, then destroyed her flute and planned to establish Confucian Dao Academies across the Azure Dragon Continent.
• Ma Feifei claimed Cang Lan’s Immortal Gift Pack, received a Book Spirit Stone, an Enlightenment Pill, and employee uniforms, then made the bookstore’s staff wear uniforms.
• Luan Feng absorbed the Book Spirit from Six Secret Teachings, while Yun Qingyang consumed the Book Spirit Stone powder and returned to her dragon form during a breakthrough.
• Ma Feifei triggered a Legendary-grade world inside Investiture of the Gods, and the system tasked Mo Xie with recruiting its thirty-six named people for the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Mo Xie left the Demon Sect and began abducting people named on the list, including Qiu Yunzi and members of the Divine Dragon Sect.
• Ma Feifei and his companions set out for the Great Desolation Relic, learned that King Qi Wen had been kidnapped, and continued to Wu'an Academy.
• At Wu'an Academy, Ma Feifei met Mu Qingyi and learned that the Confucian Dao Academy had almost no students because its teachings offered no cultivation gains.
• Ma Feifei learned from the system that the academy’s students had dormant Righteous Qi, and hoped Mu Qingyi would become its Book-holding woman as Zhang Caicai agreed to teach her cooking in exchange for a condition.

Ma Feifei led his companions through the Great Desolation Relic’s chessboard, defeated its opposing general, and won a book duel against Zhang Ke. After Mo Xie captured four rulers with the Investiture of the Gods and brought it to Ma Feifei, the Qin–Yan war halted and suspicion fell on Chu Kingdom.

• Ma Feifei introduced himself at Wu'an Academy, activated its stone stele to help students advance, and left with his companions for the Great Desolation Relic.
• At the relic’s opening, Ma Feifei and his companions entered the Treasure-Snatching Chessboard, where Ma Feifei learned its rules and gathered allies while killing enemy pieces for their treasure chests.
• Ma Feifei joined Lian Yi and Zhang Caicai to attack the opposing general, checkmated it, and cleared the relic, only to discover that Cang Lan had been its general.
• Zhang Ke challenged Ma Feifei to a book duel, but Ma Feifei’s Epic-grade Mirror Flower Romance surpassed Zhang Ke’s Yellow Quality book and won the contest.
• Ma Feifei recovered Zhang Ke’s Yellow Quality book and absorbed its Book Spirit, while the war at Changping continued between Qin and Yan.
• Mo Xie used the Investiture of the Gods to capture Crown Prince Yan, Yan Xun, Grand General Bai Ling, and Qin Shi Huang, then brought the scroll and God-Beating Whip to Ma Feifei.
• Ma Feifei refused Mo Xie a job at the Mysterious Bookstore, and news of four abducted rulers halted the Qin–Yan war as people suspected Chu Kingdom.

Ma Feifei launched the Walking Books event, drawing powerful figures and their readers to the Mysterious Bookstore as conflicts in the kingdoms escalated. As Qin Shi Huang defeated an assassination attempt and Yun Qingyang’s Martial Arts Diagrams gained new effects, Ma Feifei used the Investiture of the Gods to preserve the dying Zuo Duanshou.

• Gongsun Qiong investigated the missing monarchs and planned to visit neglected Confucian Dao Academies, while Ma Feifei kept Qin Shi Huang and the other Walking Books under their contracts.
• Zhang Yunji opened the three-month Walking Books event, where crowds paid the rulers and other famous figures to read selected accounts of their pasts and cultivation.
• Yan Xun attracted readers with his Dragon Elephant Divine Skill, then exposed that his book contained only an incomplete portion, prompting the other figures to prepare replacement books.
• Azi and Qi Gongcheng met King Qi Wen in Dubian Town as Qin Shi Huang ordered Di Heyu and the Six Divine Generals to resume the invasion of Yan State.
• After masked assassins attacked residence number thirty, Ma Feifei protected the contracted figures and learned that Qin Shuren was leading Qin State’s army toward Yan State.
• Ma Feifei fed a Book Spirit Stone to Mew, which advanced from the fourth tier to the sixth, then entered Yun Qingyang’s Martial Arts Diagram and broke through to the fourth stage of the Spirit Saint realm.
• Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang agreed to share profits from her special-effect paintings, while Ma Feifei arranged a paid overnight opening at the Bookstore.
• Yan Xun, Crown Prince Yan, and their allies attacked Qin Shi Huang, but he defeated them, and Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang watched as Yun painted the battle and Luan Feng remained behind with Qin Shi Huang.
• A woman became trapped in Yun Qingyang’s Martial Arts Diagram, while Ma Feifei accepted the system prompt to let the dying Zuo Duanshou enter the Investiture of the Gods.

Ma Feifei intervened in the Qin-Yan war, recruited Book-holding women, and concluded the Walking Books task as Qin Shi Huang pursued his enemies. Zhang Ke then attacked Dubian Town, and his capture exposed how authors from the Book Battle Continent had stripped the Azure Dragon Continent of its strongest cultivators.

• Ma Feifei knocked Qin Shuren unconscious after he attacked him, allowing Luan Feng to drive the Qin Army out of Yan territory.
• Chang Kong warned Baili Hongzhu against opposing the Empress, and she abandoned her attempt to secure a library in Yong’an City through Ma Feifei.
• Qin Shi Huang ambushed Yan Xun and Crown Prince Yan, then beat them again after King Zhao Kang arranged a drunken peace banquet.
• Ma Feifei recruited Ling Xian, Yun Qingyang, and Mu Qingyi as Book-holding women while denying rumors that he would marry the princess of Qi State.
• Ma Feifei rewarded the thirty-five Walking Books participants and ended their confinement, after which Qin Shi Huang severely injured Yan Xun and Crown Prince Yan before they escaped.
• Ma Feifei gave Azi a Book-holding woman Badge, and she promised to clear up the marriage rumors.
• Zhang Ke devastated Dubian Town while fighting the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, but Ma Feifei subdued him inside the Mysterious Bookstore and demanded answers from him and his martial uncle.
• Zhang Ke revealed that he had removed the Azure Dragon Continent’s Immortal Realm cultivators and damaged its laws more than thirty thousand years earlier, and that authors took cultivators from conquered worlds as servants.