Recaps

When bandits attacked the city on her wedding day, A-Lin used her saber and slingshot to defend the townspeople, but the siege forced her wedding to be postponed. After the city was breached, she rescued her fiancé and helped repel the attackers; the bandit leader then demanded that the city hand her over in exchange for lifting the siege.

• Bandits attacked during A-Lin's wedding procession, and she armed herself from the dowry and drove them back with her slingshot.
• The siege continued, keeping A-Lin in Jiang Mansion while the townspeople organized the city's defense and her wedding remained postponed.
• When the Vagabond Army breached the city, A-Lin leaped over the mansion wall and fought the attackers.
• A-Lin reached her fiancé's mansion, rescued the young scholar from refugees threatening him, and vowed to protect him as they fought their way out.
• The city's defenders repelled the attack, but the siege continued with only ten days of food remaining.
• The bandit leader offered to leave if the city handed over the tough bride, A-Lin.

Shen Le finished restoring the Wedding Dress but gained no new memories, then learned that the Phoenix Coronet contained kingfisher-feather inlay. He refused to use real feathers, deciding to restore it another way to avoid encouraging people to hunt kingfishers.

• Shen Le completed the Red Bridal Veil and, two days later, found that restoring the entire Wedding Dress had not revealed the young woman's fate.
• Old You arrived and said he had arranged for Sea-Salvaged Porcelain and iron artifacts to be shipped to Shen Le.
• Old You recognized kingfisher-feather inlay on the Phoenix Coronet and explained that restoring it would require kingfisher feathers.
• Old You offered to ask kingfisher spirits to gather feathers from their descendants, but Shen Le refused to use them.
• Shen Le decided to use another restoration method so others would not be encouraged to catch and kill kingfishers for their feathers.

Shen Le examined the Phoenix Coronet with specialized equipment and discovered that it had numerous deformations, broken solder joints, and missing ornaments. He began practicing traditional silverworking and soldering to prepare for its restoration, but struggled with the techniques despite spending fifty million yuan on equipment.

• Shen Le photographed the Phoenix Coronet, scanned it with CT, and used a spectrometer and microscopes to assess its materials and condition.
• Shen Le compared the coronet with Ming Dynasty references and identified its birds and flower ornaments, along with damaged and missing components that would need repair or replacement.
• Shen Le bought matching old silver and practiced hammering it into sheets and shaping replacement ornaments.
• Shen Le prepared traditional Six-Part Solder and repeatedly tried to join silver sheets, but his work cracked, formed lumps, or left gaps.
• Shen Le lamented that his restoration skills were poor and that even the fifty million yuan he had spent on equipment had not been enough.

Shen Le cleaned and protected the Phoenix Coronet, then sought help with its difficult welding and toxic gilding. He left the work with a monster friend, who swallowed the materials and mercury and returned two golden Flower Ornaments.

• Shen Le struggled to find a way to weld the Phoenix Coronet without damaging its pearls and kingfisher feathers, so he ordered a laser welding machine on his senior schoolmate's advice.
• While waiting for the machine, Shen Le used his mental energy to apply cleaning gel, remove oxidation, and coat the coronet's framework with corrosion inhibitor and Insect Wax.
• Shen Le realized that gilding the coronet with mercury would be too toxic to do at home, and he could not find a Studio willing to lend him equipment.
• Old You helped Shen Le find a monster who could do the gilding, and Shen Le watched him swallow the silver ornaments, gold, and mercury.
• The monster burped and caught two golden Flower Ornaments in his palm, then handed them to Shen Le.

Shen Le restored the Phoenix Coronet by removing monster energy from its Flower Ornaments, welding its damaged frame, and replacing missing feathers and pearls. When he put the finished coronet on, its scattered light transformed into a colorful vision, revealing that the next part of its story was beginning.

• Shen Le received two gilded Flower Ornaments from a metal-eating monster and discovered that monster energy clung to their gilding.
• Shen Le washed the monster energy out of both ornaments with hundreds of waves of inner energy after rejecting slower or destructive cleansing methods.
• Shen Le practiced laser welding, repaired the Phoenix Coronet’s copper frame and ornaments, reshaped it, and attached replacement feathers and pearls.
• Shen Le put the restored Phoenix Coronet on his head, and its light spread into a colorful vision.

Shen Le watched the besieged town’s leaders debate surrendering Miss Lin to the bandits, while her fiancé A-Heng fiercely opposed the plan. When Lord Jiang and the townspeople came to take her in the night, Miss Lin demanded that A-Heng face her and say it himself.

• Shen Le watched a defender rally the town’s fighters and reject sacrificing a woman to the bandits.
• As food dwindled and reinforcements failed to arrive, A-Heng refused to surrender his fiancée, Miss Lin, despite the old instructor urging the town to trade her for their safety.
• Miss Lin continued patrolling the residence and training its servants and sturdy women as the siege wore on.
• A young maid warned Miss Lin that the town’s leaders planned to drug her food and hand her over to the bandits.
• Lord Jiang arrived with a crowd and asked Miss Lin to sacrifice herself to save the town.
• Miss Lin drew her saber and demanded that A-Heng come tell her the plan to her face.

Lin Huiniang refused to abandon her gravely injured fiancé, A-Heng, despite the town’s demand that she surrender to the bandits. She decided to challenge the bandit chief herself, but as he climbed toward her, Shen Le’s vision went black and he demanded answers from the objects he was repairing.

• A-Heng was carried out badly wounded, and Lin Huiniang learned that he had fought on the city wall to keep her from being sent to the bandits.
• The doctor warned Lin Huiniang that the town had almost no medicine left, while Master Jiang explained that the town had only three days of grain and earlier messengers seeking help had disappeared.
• Lin Huiniang rejected the demand to surrender and said she would try to kill the bandit chief; she made the town officials swear to protect A-Heng until she returned.
• At dusk, Lin Huiniang climbed the city wall in red and taunted the bandit chief into facing her, while Shen Le urged her on.
• As the bandit chief climbed a ladder through the falling pellets, Shen Le’s vision went black and he demanded that the objects explain why his memories were stuck and whether they had formed a unified consciousness.

Shen Le examined and cleaned several artifacts, then sought help treating a badly corroded blade and a wooden scabbard. He arranged a trip to the Shipwreck Museum for specialized repairs, but the Alloy Master called back with an enthusiastic report about eating a lithium battery.

• Shen Le used laboratory instruments to identify the bar-shaped artifact as a corroded Steel Saber and revealed the encrusted lump as a Slingshot.
• Shen Le cleaned the Slingshot and worried that removing the blade’s rust himself could destroy it.
• Shen Le accidentally called the Alloy Master and suggested he try discarded lithium batteries, then contacted his Doctor Senior Brother for iron desalination advice.
• Shen Le learned the Shipwreck Museum had specialized subcritical water treatment equipment and arranged a paid visit with a letter from the Special Affairs Bureau.
• Shen Le packed the artifacts for the trip and reassured the Red Wedding Dress that he would return after arranging their repairs.
• The Alloy Master called Shen Le back and said he had crushed his phone, removed its battery, and found the lithium delicious.

Shen Le heard Alloy Master explain how lithium batteries could help him grow stronger, then brought two artifacts to the Shipwreck Museum for restoration. After the artifacts were desalinated and treated, Shen Le was left wondering how to make the pieces of wood and iron look like weapons again.

• Alloy Master told Shen Le that lithium batteries tasted savory and tingly, and said eating enough could double his strength within a hundred years.
• Shen Le suggested Alloy Master ask the Special Affairs Bureau for nuclear waste to eat, and Alloy Master happily agreed.
• Qing Deng asked Shen Le for lithium batteries and nuclear waste, but Shen Le refused and told it to stick to eating electricity.
• Old Sea Turtle called Shen Le to ask why he had visited and revealed that he had found something strange near the place where Shen Le had found two artifacts.
• At the Shipwreck Museum, Doctor Senior Brother asked Shen Le to use the Electric Net on him, but Shen Le confirmed there was no Yin energy left on him.
• Shen Le and Doctor Senior Brother desalinated, derusted, treated, and sealed the Single Blade and Slingshot, leaving Shen Le unsure how to restore their appearance.

Shen Le tried to restore the badly damaged Waist Saber but found that ordinary wood and spiritual energy could not repair its material. He asked Ah Lu, the Great Camphor Tree, for help, and the scabbard began growing after Ah Lu infused it with its branch, Shen Le’s energy, and a little Thunder Tribulation lightning.

• Shen Le brought the repaired scabbard, Waist Saber, and Slingshot home and arranged them with the Red Wedding Dress and Phoenix Coronet.
• Shen Le used a Spirit Gathering Array to strengthen the Waist Saber, but it absorbed too little energy to restore its depleted material.
• Shen Le tied new wood chips and shavings onto the Waist Saber, but they could not merge with its original material.
• Shen Le asked Ah Lu, the Great Camphor Tree, to help repair the scabbard and gave it energy from the Copper Fragment.
• Ah Lu requested more of Shen Le’s energy and a little Thunder Tribulation lightning from the Little Oil Lamp, then infused the scabbard with a branch.
• The scabbard became living wood, grew larger, and closed its cracks and missing sections.

Shen Le restored the Single Blade’s scabbard and handle and awakened the Slingshot with a purified Tiger Tendon string, but he struggled to repair the blade itself. After the boss’s wife’s furnace failed to preserve an antique fragment’s spirituality, Shen Le contacted Alloy Master, who insisted on coming to help.

• Shen Le received the Great Camphor Tree’s restored handle and scabbard in exchange for water-gathering pearls and help adjusting its Spirit Gathering Array.
• Shen Le tested rubber bands and Ox Tendon String on the Slingshot, then fitted it with a Tiger Tendon string and removed its demonic aura until the Slingshot joined the Red Wedding Dress’s spiritual cycle.
• Shen Le tried magnetic powder and iron pieces on the Single Blade, but neither strengthened it or absorbed spiritual energy.
• The boss’s wife heated an antique iron fragment in her small furnace, but its trace of spirituality vanished when it became red-hot.
• The boss’s wife suggested asking a metal-manipulating expert, and Shen Le called Alloy Master, who demanded Shen Le’s address and said he would come over.

Alloy Master repaired the Sickle blade and Single Blade with his bare hands, impressing Shen Le with his ability to restore iron and steel. The repaired weapons reunited with the Red Wedding Dress, which began dancing with the Single Blade while Shen Le and Alloy Master watched.

• Alloy Master arrived at Shen Le’s house carrying discarded phone batteries, which he crunched as snacks, and said nuclear wastewater made a good drink.
• Alloy Master examined the Sickle blade, ate iron powder and steel, then restored the blade by stroking it until it matched the original steel and its aura flowed smoothly.
• Alloy Master repaired the Single Blade as the Red Wedding Dress and its companions called out anxiously for him to be careful.
• Shen Le praised Alloy Master and suggested he repair museum artifacts or fighter jets, but Alloy Master said he was not interested.
• Shen Le reunited the Single Blade with its handle and sheath and hung it in front of the Red Wedding Dress, which cut its suspending threads and assembled itself.
• The Single Blade joined the Red Wedding Dress’s right sleeve, and the dress danced with it as Shen Le backed away in surprise.

The Red Wedding Dress showed Shen Le the memories of its former master, Lin Huiniang, who escaped the Bandit Leader and rushed home to marry her fiancé, only to find him dead. After burying him, Huiniang confronted the county magistrate’s assistant over his promise that his family would die if A-Heng did.

• Alloy Master praised the repaired Red Wedding Dress’s swordsmanship and left to check on something that had not yet arrived.
• The Red Wedding Dress asked Shen Le to learn what had happened to its master, and it showed him Lin Huiniang’s memories.
• Lin Huiniang fought the Bandit Leader on the city wall, lost, and was taken away while the exhausted defenders did nothing.
• After the Bandit Leader left with another band of raiders, Lin Huiniang killed him, carried his head to the provincial city, and urged government troops to destroy the remaining bandits.
• Lin Huiniang returned to town and found A-Heng dead; she wore her wedding dress to bow beside his coffin, then placed the dress, Phoenix Coronet, and killing knife inside before his burial.
• After keeping vigil at A-Heng’s grave for seven days, Lin Huiniang broke into the county magistrate’s assistant’s home and demanded that he honor his promise.

Shen Le learned how Lin Huiniang avenged A-Heng before disappearing at sea, and the Red Wedding Dress asked him to find out what happened to her. As Shen Le tried to use the Copper Fragment to help, it revealed itself as part of a bronze ding and pulled his spiritual power toward a gigantic whirlpool.

• Lin Huiniang killed five men who had betrayed her, left the county, and eventually disappeared during a storm at sea.
• The Red Wedding Dress asked Shen Le to find out what happened to Lin Huiniang, and Little Puppet urged him to help.
• Shen Le meditated with the Copper Fragment, which stretched into a large section of a bronze ding bearing mysterious patterns and writing.
• The Copper Fragment carried Shen Le's spiritual power into the ding and plunged it toward a gigantic whirlpool, startling him awake.

Shen Le used the Copper Fragment to strengthen his meridians and searched the ocean with the Red Wedding Dress for traces of its master, Lin Huiniang. After a day of studying maps and probing the seabed, he received a response and saw the enormous vortex again.

• Shen Le recalled the terrifying golden-red sight beyond the Great Vortex, then received enough warmth from the Copper Fragment to open the Yin Wei and Yang Wei meridians.
• Shen Le asked the Red Wedding Dress to help find its master, and they searched the ocean using the Copper Fragment’s map and vibrations.
• Shen Le consulted satellite maps, chose a search area near the island where they found the Cenotaph, and spent the day memorizing nearby islands.
• Shen Le and the Red Wedding Dress searched the seabed near the Cenotaph, while the Waist Saber recognized the place where it had lost Lin Huiniang.
• Shen Le felt an indescribable ripple answer their call and saw the enormous vortex again.

Shen Le told Alloy Master about the Great Vortex connected to the Red Wedding Dress’s missing master, and Alloy Master recognized it as the Overseas Immortal Mountains. After Shen Le and Alloy Master brought the uncertain location to the Binhai Special Affairs Bureau, officials wondered whether the site could become a naval or submarine base.

• Shen Le refused to enter the Great Vortex to search for Lin Huiniang and showed the Red Wedding Dress where he had sensed its master.
• Shen Le apologized to Alloy Master for leaving him waiting, and Alloy Master ate a gold bar before giving Shen Le a damaged silk painting to restore.
• Shen Le told Alloy Master about the Great Vortex, and Alloy Master identified it as the Overseas Immortal Mountains, a space-time layer where powerful beings had departed.
• Alloy Master said he might be able to enter the place after another year of eating and asked Shen Le to go with him.
• Shen Le called Gu Yulin, and the Binhai Special Affairs Bureau gathered officials to hear their uncertain account of the location.
• Two people in blue uniforms burst into the meeting room and asked whether the site could be developed into a naval or submarine base.

Shen Le reluctantly joined the Special Affairs Bureau’s search for the Great Vortex after negotiating safeguards and supplies for himself and Little Oil Lamp. Guided by Red Wedding Dress and Alloy Master, the expedition reached the open sea, where Alloy Master’s sudden attack sent towering waves crashing over the ship.

• Shen Le agreed to help locate the Great Vortex after the Special Affairs Bureau promised a cautious search, security, equipment, and help feeding Little Oil Lamp.
• The Special Affairs Bureau arranged for Little Oil Lamp to consume artificial lightning until it was full.
• Two days later, Shen Le sailed with Alloy Master, Old Sea Turtle, and a research team toward the area where Old Sea Turtle had found the Cenotaph.
• Red Wedding Dress guided Shen Le’s spiritual senses, and he pointed the ship toward the Great Vortex while the crew searched ahead with drones and unmanned boats.
• After the search found nothing, Alloy Master sensed the target nearby, roared, and sent a razor-sharp aura into the sea, raising enormous waves over the ship.

Shen Le and the crew were swept through the Great Vortex and emerged in an unfamiliar world near an island. With their location and communications unstable, they began investigating the area while unmanned vessels arrived from behind.

• A massive wave pulled Shen Le's ship into the Great Vortex as the crew struggled to escape and a protector ship charged after them.
• Shen Le sensed intense spiritual energy in the vortex, and the Copper Fragment resonated with it as the ship plunged into the eye.
• The ship survived the passage and emerged near a green island; the Old Sea Turtle couple and Alloy Master swam excitedly in the sea.
• The crew lost reliable navigation and communications, while their position readings shifted wildly, including a report that they were in Osaka.
• The crew began scanning the island and surrounding waters, then saw three unmanned vessels arrive from behind and prepared to investigate the area.

Shen Le used the Copper Fragment to explore the Great Vortex’s enclosed world and scare Alloy Master back onto the ship. After finding a signal from the island with the Red Wedding Dress, he joined the crew’s search for evidence of past inhabitants.

• Shen Le used a megaphone to warn the Old Sea Turtles and Alloy Master to return from the water, but Alloy Master ignored him.
• Shen Le entered a vision through the Copper Fragment and stirred up a vortex around Alloy Master until the giant beast called for help and was rescued by an unmanned boat.
• Shen Le explored the area with his spiritual power and found that it was bounded by an invisible barrier, then stopped when the effort gave him a headache.
• Shen Le told the crew that supernatural creatures might still be nearby and warned that the island could lead to a place with even stronger spiritual energy.
• Shen Le used the Red Wedding Dress to find a responding signal on the island, prompting the soldiers to prepare an investigation for signs of earlier human settlement.

Shen Le joined the search for Lin Huiniang’s tomb on the island and uncovered an epitaph identifying her and recounting her life. The discovery gave the team evidence of their people’s historical presence there, and Shen Le promised that the island would become part of their country.

• Special Affairs Bureau personnel kept Shen Le aboard until their scans cleared the island, then called him and Alloy Master ashore to investigate suspected ruins.
• Alloy Master headed for the summit to search for houses he believed were hidden by a formation, while Shen Le carried the Red Wedding Dress and other relics toward the settlement remains.
• The Red Wedding Dress escaped its bundle and led Shen Le to a spot where soldiers found fragments of a gravestone naming Hui Niang of the Lin family.
• Shen Le directed the soldiers to uncover an epitaph that identified Lin Huiniang and described her capture, her killing of a rebel leader, and her journey to the island after being cast into the sea.
• Shen Le had the epitaph documented and preserved, then offered incense at Lin Huiniang’s grave and promised that the island would join their country.

Shen Le and Alloy Master fought the Five-Colored Giant Bird after it burst from the Formation, with help from the ship’s missiles and Qing Deng’s lightning. Shen Le reached the Taoist temple at the Formation’s center and discovered that its pool held both the seal on the golden-red apparition and the hub that opened the Great Vortex.

• Shen Le used the Copper Fragment to probe and disturb the Formation, but the backlash threw him out of meditation and sent him tumbling downhill with Alloy Master.
• The Five-Colored Giant Bird attacked, and Alloy Master struck it repeatedly while Shen Le called for Qing Deng and missiles from the ship battered it.
• The bird gathered white-hot flames for a dive, but Qing Deng struck it with violet lightning and sent it crashing down.
• Shen Le called on Water Spiritual Energy to bring rain and ran into the Formation’s center, where the bird had broken through the trees and rocks.
• Shen Le entered the Taoist temple and found a golden-red Xia Cape swirling in its pool as a deep blue-green light tried to turn it the other way.

Shen Le sealed the golden-red vortex after Alloy Master tried to enter it, but the two of them were thrown into the sea below the island. Back on the ship, the expedition leaders debated whether to use Shen Le’s power to escape or focus on preventing monsters from reaching their homeland, and Shen Le began probing the vortex to see if he could seal it.

• Alloy Master charged toward the vortex, and Shen Le used the Copper Fragment’s power to seal it as they fell into the pool.
• Shen Le and Alloy Master surfaced in the sea below the island and were rescued by the expedition’s Drone and a ship.
• Shen Le told the expedition leaders about the temple, Formation, pool, and vortex, but admitted he did not know whether he could activate it again.
• The expedition leaders weighed the risks of sending someone through the vortex against the danger of more monsters reaching their homeland.
• Shen Le returned to the mountaintop with officials and armed soldiers and began using his mental strength to probe the vortex.

Shen Le explored the vortex and discovered that the Sky Curtain was a protective barrier with a huge hole, then used the Copper Fragment’s power to mend some of its broken threads. When he ran out of material, Alloy Master jumped into the pool and was expelled as a bronze beast, giving Shen Le an idea for what to use next.

• Shen Le used Talismans to send his mental power through the vortex and found the formation’s points of light and the dangerous Sky Curtain beyond it.
• Shen Le saw a huge hole in the Sky Curtain and, with the Copper Fragment’s help, perceived it as torn brocade and joined the broken threads he could reach.
• Shen Le failed to make new mending thread from the energy of heaven and earth, then explained the barrier and his lack of materials to the others.
• Alloy Master jumped into the pool and disappeared into the vortex despite Shen Le’s attempts to stop him.
• Shen Le stirred the pool until it expelled a bronze beast, and he realized it could provide material for mending the Sky Curtain.

Shen Le repaired the Sky Curtain with the Copper Fragment, then absorbed its overflowing power and advanced dramatically. After recovering, he activated the Formation to open a vortex toward home, and the Special Affairs Bureau began testing it for passage and contact.

• Shen Le restored the Formation nodes and spent five days mending the hole in the Sky Curtain.
• Shen Le completed the repair, and the Copper Fragment absorbed the power pouring through the curtain.
• The Copper Fragment transferred a surge of power into Shen Le, opening his meridians and acupoints before his inner energy formed a vortex and erupted into a blazing sun.
• Shen Le tested his new strength with a punch that blasted a cloud into a temple roof carving.
• Shen Le activated the Formation and enlarged a sea vortex as the Special Affairs Bureau prepared to send an unmanned boat through it.

Shen Le helped the authorities establish a reliable passage through the Great Vortex and build a base inside its hidden sea. After successful equipment tests made him no longer necessary to open the vortex himself, he finally left to go home, but the Alloy Master climbed onto his speedboat to demand that he fix something.

• The command center received data confirming the missing team was alive inside a habitable sea and began sending supplies and personnel through the Great Vortex.
• Shen Le opened the vortex repeatedly while experts, soldiers, engineers, and Special Affairs Bureau personnel arrived and built up the island base.
• Daoist priests and a monk tried to operate the Formation but could barely open a tiny passage, so Shen Le continued opening the door himself.
• Workers installed powerful equipment and tested the vortex until it met standards for its size, duration, transit speed, capacity, and stability.
• Shen Le told the workers that activating the Formation drew spirit energy through the barrier, then left the space to return home.
• The Alloy Master jumped onto Shen Le's speedboat and reminded him to fix something, leaving Shen Le to respond, “Woof?”