Recaps

Shen Le awakened the headless Buddha statue’s spirituality and used the Copper Fragment and Scroll to locate two missing parts, one in the East Sea and another in France. After falling asleep beneath the women’s garments, he discovered they had taken embarrassing photos of him and then asked Gu Yulin about the procedures for taking a Buddha statue to Europe.

• The women’s garments and other collectibles performed together, strengthening the spirituality of the headless Buddha statue as Shen Le recorded them.
• Shen Le lent the Buddha statue his spiritual power, and the Copper Fragment revealed a faint response from the East Sea.
• The Scroll helped locate another bright point in France, but it could not identify an exact location, and Shen Le fell asleep from exhaustion.
• The garments covered Shen Le while he slept, and the Little Oil Lamp showed him the photos they had taken of him in women’s clothes.
• Shen Le permanently deleted the photos, then asked Gu Yulin what procedures were needed to take a Buddha statue to Europe.

Shen Le asked the Special Affairs Bureau to help him travel to Europe so he could retrieve a missing part of a Buddha statue, and the director tried to ensure the trip was legal and safe. Before they settled the travel arrangements, Shen Le also asked for help reaching a nearby underwater location and suggested asking Old Sea Turtle to dive for the statue fragment.

• The director questioned Shen Le about his plan to go to Europe, and Shen Le showed him the partly restored Buddha statue and explained that he needed to find its missing head or hand.
• The director photographed the statue and asked whether Shen Le had to take it abroad, then explained that the bureau considered Shen Le a high-level expert because his missions had expanded their territory.
• Shen Le worried that his identity had been leaked and joked that he had become a cultural relic prohibited from leaving the country.
• The director said experts would assess the statue and discussed permits, exhibitions, auctions, and other official ways to take it abroad safely.
• Shen Le asked the bureau to arrange a fast, safe trip and requested a ship to reach an underwater location where another piece of the statue lay.
• The director considered finding a diving team, but Shen Le said he would ask Old Sea Turtle to dive instead.

Shen Le led a Special Affairs Bureau expedition to locate a lost object on the East Sea seabed, using the Buddha statue and Scroll to guide the search. Old Sea Turtle recovered a decayed box from a shipwreck, and Shen Le left other possible finds for the professors to assess.

• Shen Le used the Scroll to map the seabed, and the Buddha statue scanned for the location of its missing part.
• Old Sea Turtle and his wife searched the seabed while the ship's equipment scanned the area.
• Shen Le sensed the target, redirected a cable, and Old Sea Turtle found the wreck and retrieved a box.
• Shen Le ordered the box placed in an aquarium without opening it and decided to mark the site for the professors rather than salvage more artifacts.

Shen Le recovered the Buddha statue’s missing hands and brought the statue and salvaged artifacts to his Studio for careful conservation. When professors arrived to assess the restoration, he struggled to explain how he had found and restored the statue’s original parts, while his classmates presented competing designs for its arms.

• Shen Le matched every broken end on the Buddha statue to a Buddha hand in the salvaged box and decided nothing else needed retrieving.
• Shen Le returned to his Studio, where he carefully prepared the salvaged artifacts to prevent further corrosion.
• Professors Li, Wei, and Zhang arrived to examine the Buddha statue and questioned Shen Le about his evidence and restoration methods.
• Dai Shoujun presented research and restoration plans for the statue’s missing arms, followed by Wen Rumei’s five three-dimensional designs.
• Professor Zhang asked Shen Le what he thought of the designs, leaving Shen Le to compare their proposals with the original Buddha hands he had recovered.

Shen Le restored the Buddha statue with the missing hands, then traveled abroad to search for its Buddha head after the Special Affairs Bureau arranged a covert auction route. During the flight, the Copper Fragment began draining his mental energy and expanded into a vast map, leaving Shen Le struggling to keep up.

• Shen Le’s professors criticized his restoration of the Buddha statue, while his junior brothers and sisters protested that their research and restoration proposals had been made useless by the recovered hands.
• Shen Le cleaned and repaired the Buddha hands, but the statue still could not locate the missing head, so he asked whether the Special Affairs Bureau had arranged his trip abroad.
• The Special Affairs Bureau arranged permits and transport through a small cross-border relic auction, but Shen Le had to travel without an escort; Old You volunteered to accompany him but barely knew English.
• Shen Le flew overseas with Little Oil Lamp, and the Copper Fragment suddenly began draining his mental energy as the plane passed over Lake Baikal.
• Shen Le swallowed the landlady’s pills and drank sugar water before meditating, barely keeping pace as the Copper Fragment unfolded and expanded its map across the world.

Shen Le struggled to sustain the Copper Fragment’s scan during his flight to Paris, relying on the Little Oil Lamp and the Scroll to keep it from draining him completely. In Paris, the Copper Fragment began mapping landmarks and revealed its connection to an ancient Bronze Tripod’s ambition to record and claim all lands beneath the sun and moon.

• Shen Le nearly collapsed as the Copper Fragment scanned from the plane, but the Little Oil Lamp supplied energy and the Scroll projected a world map that eased its demands.
• After landing in Paris, Shen Le video-called Gu Yulin, who was alarmed by his exhausted appearance and joked about foreign vampires.
• At his hotel, Shen Le pleaded with the Copper Fragment to stop draining him as it mapped Paris in detail and focused on the Louvre Museum and other landmarks.
• Shen Le persuaded the Copper Fragment to broaden its scan across the city rather than concentrate on the Louvre, then asked how far it intended to map.
• The Copper Fragment showed Shen Le ancient explorers recording distant lands and presenting their knowledge to a Bronze Tripod, whose makers hoped descendants would bring every land under their people’s rule.

Shen Le and Old You settled into a hotel in a foreign city, where Old You warned that local spiritual forces might have noticed them. Shen Le used the Scroll and Buddha statue to locate the Buddha’s missing head in a private museum, then someone knocked and asked for Mr. Shen.

• Shen Le calmed the Copper Fragment and considered how to explore the city and secure his artifacts.
• Old You arrived at the hotel after flying in and warned Shen Le that the city’s powerful spiritual presences had been tracking him.
• Shen Le asked Qing Deng to guard the Buddha statue and Scroll, and Qing Deng demonstrated that it could control the hotel’s electrical devices.
• Shen Le used the Scroll and Buddha statue to scan a city map and found the missing Buddha head in a private museum.
• Someone knocked on Shen Le’s hotel-room door and asked in Chinese whether Mr. Shen was there.

Shen Le met Father Michel de Campbell, a powerful priest who came to welcome and monitor him in France. Campbell offered him access to Notre-Dame Cathedral and help finding the Buddha head Shen sought, while warning him that strange people might approach; Shen wondered if one of them would be a vampire girl.

• Shen Le and Old You hid the Scroll before Shen opened the door to Father Michel de Campbell.
• Shen Le sensed Campbell’s strong spiritual power, while Campbell nearly triggered the silver electric net protecting the Buddha statue.
• Campbell invited Shen to visit Notre-Dame Cathedral and learn about its restoration, and Shen eagerly accepted.
• Shen told Campbell he had come to find the Buddha head, and Campbell offered to help contact its owner and find him a Louvre guide.
• Campbell exchanged contact information with Shen, offered help with temporary identification for his companions, and warned him about strange people who might seek him out.

Shen Le’s museum visit was interrupted when his Church guide attacked the gray-haired werewolf woman who ran the museum, prompting a violent fight. Shen Le stopped them and healed the woman, then entered the museum and froze at what he saw.

• Shen Le arrived at the museum with the Church guide and was met by its gray-haired owner, who warned that she had no wish to hurt him.
• The guide and the woman exchanged accusations and fought, with the guide’s explosive Bible injuring her and shattering the museum doors.
• Shen Le used Qing Deng’s Electric Net to separate them, ordered the guide to stop, and healed the woman with his spells.
• The woman summoned answering wolf howls, welcomed Shen Le into the museum, and barred the guide from entering.
• Shen Le dismissed the Electric Net, walked into the museum, and froze in place.

Shen Le found the Buddha head in a werewolf collection and confirmed that it matched the statue body he had restored at the hotel. The werewolf girl explained that the head eased the suffering of werewolves and vampires, so Shen Le sought other objects that could serve the same purpose, leaving its return unresolved.

• Shen Le recognized the museum exhibits as spiritually potent artifacts and learned that the werewolves and their allies used them to fight those who branded them heretics.
• Shen Le found the Buddha head, connected its spiritual aura to the statue body at the hotel, and confirmed that the two belonged together.
• Shen Le showed the werewolf girl photos of the restored statue and asked to take the Buddha head home, offering to pay for it.
• The werewolf girl explained that the Buddha head soothed werewolves during full-moon transformations and eased vampires' thirst for blood, and asked Shen Le not to take it.
• Shen Le suggested looking for other objects that might soothe them, and the werewolf girl led him to artifacts depicting wolves and wolf gods.

Shen Le negotiated with a werewolf girl over exchanging a Buddha head for cultural relics, then reassured Father Campbell that he would not help the dark races beyond that deal. After Shen Le returned to his hotel, the werewolf girl called to arrange a meeting.

• The werewolf girl said she needed to consult people with authority, and Shen Le asked her to contact them within three days before leaving the museum.
• Father Campbell met Shen Le outside, apologized for the local guide’s attack, and drove him to Notre-Dame Cathedral.
• Father Campbell showed Shen Le a catalog of Chinese cultural relics held in Paris and warned that the dark races might use them to enlist Shen Le’s help.
• Shen Le promised to limit his dealings to exchanging for the Buddha head and insisted that other relics should return to China openly and honorably.
• The werewolf girl called Shen Le at his hotel and asked when they could meet.

Shen Le followed a werewolf girl to the Paris Catacombs to meet the blood clan, where he sensed the place’s powerful deathly aura and explored its bone-lined tunnels. The blood clan’s chiefs waited ahead as Shen Le and his companions reached the catacombs’ central area.

• Shen Le agreed to visit the blood clan after the werewolf girl promised he would see rare cultural relics, and she drove him to the Paris Catacombs.
• A blonde blood clan woman welcomed Shen Le at the entrance and led him underground while the werewolf girl warned her not to use charm magic on him.
• Shen Le had the Scroll and Little Oil Lamp map the tunnels and mark his route, frightening the blonde woman with the aura he kept in reserve.
• Shen Le walked through the catacombs, examined the bone walls, and restrained Little Oil Lamp from reacting to the deathly aura.
• The blonde woman led Shen Le toward the catacombs’ center, where the blood clan chiefs were waiting to welcome him.

Shen Le met the werewolf and vampire leaders in Paris and was asked to restore three damaged sacred artifacts in exchange for a Buddha head. After examining them, he said he would need a laboratory, and Allen offered to arrange one.

• Shen Le met Jorges Gray Mist and Mason Silver Mane, the chiefs of the Gray Mist and Silver Mane Clans.
• The blonde woman introduced Louisiana de Savoy and Allen de Beauvoir as local vampire princes, and Allen flirted with Shen Le before Louisiana stopped him.
• Louisiana used a magic array to produce three sacred artifacts and asked whether Shen Le could restore them.
• Shen Le examined the damaged bronze statue, scarab amulet, and ebony figurine, finding all three in poor condition with very weak spiritual radiance.
• Shen Le said he was unsure he could restore the artifacts without a laboratory, and Allen offered to find one.

Shen Le accompanied the vampire and werewolf leaders to the Louvre Museum, where he began restoring an ebony statue by drawing out its history and spirituality. When he put the statue into purified water mixed with plant nutrient solution, it crackled and startled everyone watching.

• Allen changed his Baroque outfit into a modern suit, and Shen Le followed him and the other leaders toward the Louvre Museum.
• Shen Le traveled with the group through underground passages and boarded a boat that carried them toward the museum.
• At the Louvre’s dark Studio, a vampire offered Shen Le a workbench and three artifacts awaiting restoration.
• Shen Le focused on the ebony statue and experienced its history, from its growth as a tree to its use on an altar and later by vampires.
• Shen Le poured purified water and plant nutrient solution into a beaker and dropped the statue inside, triggering a loud crackle that made the watching vampires and werewolves jump back.

Shen Le restored the ebony fertility statue with carefully controlled Thunder Tribulation power, then negotiated with the vampires and werewolves over repairing three sacred relics in exchange for the Buddha head. He refused to favor either side and left the final arrangement to them and the Church.

• Shen Le used Thunder Tribulation power to revive the statue’s spirit and regrow its damaged wood, startling the vampires and werewolves with a bolt of lightning.
• Shen Le inspected the other artifacts while the supernatural leaders confirmed that he had restored the statue perfectly, though its changed function meant they could no longer use it as before.
• Shen Le identified the statue’s purpose as promoting fertility, and Prince Ventrue offered him the Buddha head in exchange for restoring three sacred relics.
• Shen Le proposed limiting the three relics’ combined enhancement to no more than the Buddha head’s, prompting the werewolf chieftains to object.
• Shen Le said he would not disrupt the balance between the sides and told them to negotiate with the Church on a plan for him to carry out.

Shen Le negotiated with Prince Allen for access to a Louvre Museum restoration studio and a chance to choose Chinese collectibles in exchange for restoring sacred artifacts, leaving the Special Affairs Bureau to handle the wider negotiations. After touring the museum, he followed the Copper Fragment into meditation and was pulled into a new world.

• Prince Allen offered Shen Le Chinese collectibles in exchange for restoring more holy artifacts, and Shen Le agreed once Allen promised to coordinate with the Special Affairs Bureau.
• The next day, Prince Allen's connections secured Shen Le a private restoration studio and access to the Louvre Museum.
• Shen Le toured the museum's galleries, sensed spiritual radiance in the artworks, and heard the Scroll comment on the paintings.
• The Copper Fragment stirred throughout Shen Le's visit, and he finally returned to his studio and entered meditation.
• The Broken Bronze Tripod appeared in the void, unfurled a vast map, and pulled Shen Le into a new world.

Shen Le used the Copper Fragment to sense Chinese cultural relics scattered throughout Paris, and it gathered their spiritual power and imprinted the surrounding land. The Copper Fragment declared the land its own because so many Huaxia people and national treasures were there, while the Church and vampires reacted to the unexplained energy change.

• Shen Le meditated on the Louvre and felt the sorrow of Chinese artifacts yearning to return home.
• The Copper Fragment summoned relics in the Louvre and across Paris, recording their spiritual lights and forming a map of the city.
• The Copper Fragment expanded its power and merged the relics’ spirituality with the land beneath Paris.
• A vampire guard blocked Father Campbell and his armed operatives from entering the Louvre after they detected a powerful energy reaction.
• Shen Le warned the Copper Fragment that Paris was foreign territory, but it insisted that the presence of Huaxia people and treasures made the land theirs.

Shen Le waited at the Louvre while Chinese officials and experts flew to Paris to negotiate over the return of Chinese artifacts. He revealed that the spiritual territory around Paris could now be considered Huaxia’s home ground and urged the officials to handle negotiations as they saw fit.

• Shen Le refused to answer questions about the energy surge as vampires, werewolves, and Church representatives waited outside the Louvre.
• A Daoist traveling with the Chinese delegation sensed that the primordial qi had changed, making it easier to use the Five Elements, and the plane finally landed after circling Paris.
• The Chinese negotiators and artifact experts arrived at the Louvre, where Shen Le asked them to begin negotiations while he continued working with the experts.
• The experts inspected the Buddha Statue Shen Le had restored, and one criticized his Gold Foil work as a waste of the artifact.
• Shen Le told the old Daoist and Special Affairs Bureau personnel that the area around Paris could be regarded as Huaxia territory from a spiritual perspective, then encouraged them to negotiate or demonstrate their strength as needed.

Shen Le let the professionals negotiate as the Special Affairs Bureau pressed the Church and Dark Forces to exchange holy artifact restorations for cultural relics. When the talks threatened to split into separate bargaining sessions, Father Campbell stopped Shen Le to warn that Paris’s balance could collapse and leave them exposed.

• Shen Le ignored Father Campbell and Prince Allen’s attempts to consult him, leaving the negotiations to the professionals.
• The Special Affairs Bureau deputy director demanded one first-class cultural relic for each restored holy artifact, while Father Campbell objected to the price.
• Father Campbell challenged the deputy director over the relics’ ownership, but the deputy director insisted that his country’s position had not changed.
• When Father Campbell balked, the deputy director prepared to negotiate separately with Prince Allen, prompting Father Campbell to offer second-class relics instead.
• The deputy director led the vampires and werewolves toward another conference room, but Father Campbell stopped Shen Le with a message warning that Paris’s situation might leave them unable to protect themselves and their cultural relics.

Shen Le demonstrated that Chinese spellcasters could draw on Huaxia’s power, then inspected the dark factions’ damaged holy artifacts in the Paris Catacombs. After examining several corpse-related relics, he received word that the Holy See had agreed to pay ten first-class artifacts, though the negotiations still needed more pressure.

• Shen Le challenged Father Campbell’s warning, and the old Daoist summoned the Five Sacred Mountains’ power to overwhelm the priests.
• The dark-world leaders showed Shen Le catalogs of damaged artifacts, and he said he needed to inspect them and sense their spirituality before agreeing to restore anything.
• Prince Allen brought Shen Le to the Paris Catacombs, where Shen examined a cat mummy and declined to repair the mummy itself.
• Shen inspected a jeweled skeleton that Prince Allen said had belonged to a mage, then considered trying to restore its damaged settings.
• Shen used Qing Deng to clear the air around himself and the experts before examining a bloodstained burial shroud, which Prince Allen said was not Jesus Christ’s.
• Shen received a message from the deputy director saying the Holy See had agreed to pay ten first-class artifacts and that Shen should help press for better terms.

Shen Le inspected the vampires’ sacred artifacts while planning to balance arms sales between rival factions, then joined the negotiations with the Holy See. The talks stalled over how the cultural relics would be returned, and Shen Le threatened to let his vampire contacts handle the matter instead.

• Shen Le examined the vampires’ sacred artifacts and selected a wooden staff, a wreath, a burial shroud, and a tapestry for a possible exchange.
• Shen Le left the underground area with the teachers and met Bishop Marshall, who had replaced Father Campbell for the Holy See’s negotiations.
• The deputy director asked the Holy See to return its cultural relics through formal donation procedures, but Bishop Marshall refused to make the handover public.
• Shen Le insisted that the relics had to return openly and honorably, then threatened to discuss the procedure with his vampire friends.

Shen Le negotiated with Bishop Marshall over the open return of Chinese artifacts and agreed to demonstrate his restoration abilities at Notre-Dame Cathedral. He repaired the cathedral’s damaged pipe organ through spiritual communication, and Bishop Marshall fell to his knees at its renewed music.

• Shen Le rejected a loan exhibition and asked Prince Allen to arrange for the artifacts to be donated openly to a Chinese museum.
• Bishop Marshall weighed the Church’s possible role in returning the artifacts, while Shen Le described the relics he could repair for the vampires and werewolves.
• Shen Le suggested restoring cultural relics at sites such as the Louvre, Fontainebleau, and Versailles in exchange for public goodwill.
• Bishop Marshall took Shen Le and the others to Notre-Dame Cathedral and asked him to demonstrate his abilities on its pipe organ.
• Shen Le communicated with the organ, used spells to clear its dust and repair its damaged wood, and made it play again.
• Bishop Marshall dropped to his knees and called the restored organ’s music a miracle.

Shen Le restored a pipe organ in Paris, impressing Bishop Marshall and securing negotiations to repair selected sacred artifacts. After choosing nine items, he discovered an uninvited cross carried deep resentment and challenged the clergy to prove it belonged to the Holy See.

• Shen Le restored the church pipe organ, whose spiritual power surged as clergy and others sang along.
• Bishop Marshall asked Shen Le about his restoration capacity, and the deputy director used the organ's readings to confirm it had become a Magic Artifact.
• Shen Le inspected the Holy See's collection and marked artifacts that responded to his spiritual power, leaving the priests to select nine for repair.
• After visiting the Louvre, Shen Le found four crosses, three rosaries, and two reliquaries waiting, and he identified a small cross he had not chosen.
• Shen Le refused to repair the resentful cross, released black mist from it, and asked whether it would answer if the clergy called it theirs.

Shen Le calmed the resentful cross in the Holy See vault, then used his ability to see a scripture scroll’s past and identify it as likely an early Tang Dynasty Dunhuang sutra. The experts praised his talent and competed to recruit him as a doctoral student, while Shen Le reminded them that he already had an advisor.

• The cross released black mist and shrieks directed at the Holy See’s clergy until Shen Le soothed it and Bishop Marshall agreed to have it stored.
• The deputy director negotiated the artifact-repair agreement with Bishop Marshall while Shen Le joined two experts to examine a scripture scroll.
• Shen Le used his spiritual power to witness the scroll’s journey from a desert Scripture Cave to France and described what he saw to the experts.
• The experts concluded that the scroll could be an early Tang Dynasty Dunhuang sutra but said Shen Le needed more scholarly knowledge to complete an appraisal.
• The Forbidden City and Shaanxi experts argued over whose doctoral program Shen Le should join, and Shen Le pointed out that he already had an advisor.

Shen Le restored several werewolf sacred artifacts and used healing spells, medical equipment, and spiritual guidance to repair an ancient bone shield. After witnessing his unconventional methods, the two experts refused to let him touch the cultural relics back home.

• Shen Le selected five sacred artifacts and three calming magic artifacts from the werewolves’ collection, then turned his attention to their ancient bone shield.
• The werewolf girl explained that the shield had been made from a mountain giant’s skull and had lost most of its power after an enemy punched through it.
• Shen Le tried repairing lesser bone artifacts with scaffolds, bone cement, and nutrient solution, but his first attempts grew back crooked or failed to join.
• Shen Le and an orthopedic surgeon used medical equipment and healing spells to regrow the damaged bones, after which Shen Le restored their spiritual pathways.
• The werewolf girl and the orthopedic surgeon celebrated as Shen Le completed the bone shield’s restoration, while the two experts shouted that he must not touch their cultural relics.