Recaps

Shen Le restored holy relics in Paris while advising China which cultural relics to bring home, warning that some artifacts should remain as nodes for spiritual-power territory. After Chinese officials and cultivators debated his claim, twenty relics were returned in a ceremony, and Bishop Marshall resigned himself to Shen Le coming back to restore more holy artifacts.

• Shen Le used unusual methods and meditation to restore wooden, textile, silk, and bone holy relics, while vampires, werewolves, and priests celebrated their results.
• Shen Le crossed several prized artifacts off the return list, explaining that bronzes and other objects with strong spiritual ties should remain in place to preserve spiritual territory.
• The deputy director contacted China through a secure line, and officials argued over Shen Le's claim until a Taoist priest supported it and suggested testing cultivators in France.
• After another seven or eight days of discussion and verification, French museums returned twenty Chinese cultural relics at a Paris ceremony.
• Bishop Marshall watched Shen Le at the ceremony and lamented the effort of providing holy power, but accepted that Shen Le would return to restore more artifacts.

After returning to China with the Buddha Statue and Buddha head, Shen Le tried to help the spirits in the Buddhist Shrine settle into modern life. Their attempts to pamper him and his efforts to find them suitable activities left him exhausted and unsure what to do next.

• French and Chinese representatives exchanged certificates for the return of twenty sets of lost cultural relics, and Shen Le flew home with the Buddha Statue and Buddha head.
• Shen Le hurried back to the Old Mansion and complained that he had restored more than twenty cultural relics to bring the sacred objects home.
• Myriad Strands of Black Hair tried to massage Shen Le, then the women's clothes followed him with offers of help that frightened him.
• Lan Zhuang suggested buying the spirits art supplies, embroidery materials, tea utensils, musical instruments, and possibly life-sized dolls, so Shen Le placed several orders.
• The Silk Skirts rejected the instruments as too poor in quality, and Shen Le packed them up to return while wondering where he could find instruments they would accept.

Shen Le asked Dr. Qin how to find high-grade instruments for the Silk Skirts, and Dr. Qin suggested letting them explore online through livestreaming. After the Special Affairs Bureau set them up with computers and streaming equipment, Yaoyao watched their first performance and praised it.

• Dr. Qin laughed at Shen Le for thinking Miss Yaoyao might collect instruments, then offered to help him find high-grade ones.
• Shen Le worried about taking the Silk Skirts out to shop because they might frighten people, so Dr. Qin recommended websites where supernatural beings could interact and livestream.
• Shen Le showed the Silk Skirts the websites, and they eagerly asked for computers and equipment to browse and livestream.
• Shen Le arranged for Gu Yulin and Special Affairs Bureau staff to install computers and register accounts for the little ones.
• Yaoyao watched the Silk Skirts livestream a flute-and-xiao performance with a sword dance and suggested they accompany a future concert.

Yaoyao’s manager tried to recruit Silk Skirt for commercial performances, but the group could not reply because they did not know how to type. Shen Le decided the little ones needed lessons before entering society, and the chapter ended with the Silk Skirts choosing to help repair the Buddha head instead of rushing into livestream performances.

• Yaoyao’s manager sent Silk Skirt messages asking whether they wanted commercial performances, but they missed them until the other little ones explained the offer.
• Silk Skirt and the others asked Shen Le to help them reply, and he told them they could choose whether to perform.
• Shen Le discovered that Little Puppet could not type and decided the little ones needed lessons in pinyin, writing, and modern knowledge.
• Shen Le assessed their education, finding the Doll Cabinet well versed in modern subjects and several others in need of remedial study.
• The Red Wedding Dress expressed regret about not having gone to school earlier, while the Silk Skirts worried that studying and livestreaming would burden Shen Le.
• The Silk Skirts eagerly agreed to help Shen Le finish repairing the Buddha head, leaving Yaoyao’s manager wondering where they had gone.

Shen Le completed the Buddha statue’s restoration and calmed the conflicting spirituality in its reunited head and body. The statue finally felt at home, and Shen Le was pulled into a vision of the invasions that had stolen its head and arms.

• Shen Le and the Silk Skirts restored the Buddha’s head and reunited it with the body, then finished repainting the statue.
• Shen Le sent the Silk Skirts back to their places in the Buddhist Shrine and meditated to harmonize the statue’s conflicting spiritual forces.
• The Copper Fragment and Broken Bronze Tripod activated, and Shen Le was swept into a vision of the Buddha statue’s past.
• Shen Le witnessed invaders breach a city and steal the Buddha’s head, which eventually reached the werewolf clan’s museum.
• Shen Le saw another group cut off the Buddha’s arms and lose them at sea, where he later salvaged them, and he vowed to confront those bandits.

After restoring the Buddha statue and reconnecting it with the Buddhist Shrine, Shen Le’s Copper Fragment expanded to reveal a map of Arctic rivers and a terrifying vortex, then flooded him with power. The Buddha statue and the small beings connected to Shen Le helped him bear the infusion, which spread light throughout the residence and drew everyone’s attention.

• Shen Le saw that the Copper Fragment had expanded, revealing Arctic rivers, a coastline, and a great vortex whose distant roar filled him with dread.
• The Copper Fragment poured a violent torrent of power into Shen Le, and his Golden Core absorbed and circulated it, strengthening his body and senses.
• As Shen Le neared his limit, the Buddha statue rang like a bell and calmed him, so he directed part of the torrent toward it.
• Shen Le spread the power through his connections to Little Puppet, Little Ink Marker, Little Oil Lamp, Doll Cabinet, and Makeup Box, letting them share the burden.
• Light burst through the Studio, the neighboring room, and the residence’s electrical circuits, and Ah Lu, Alloy Master, Lady Shiji, and Old You turned toward Shen Le.

Shen Le endured a massive surge of power while strengthening the spirits and objects in his residence, then painstakingly imprinted a complex Talisman onto the Golden Sphere. When he activated it, an overwhelming pressure suddenly descended on him.

• A disturbance around Shen Le's residence disabled the town's warning systems, and Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin rushed over to investigate.
• Old You told Gu Yulin that Shen Le was safe and the residence had become a spiritual land, so the two men guarded its gates and absorbed the energy leaking out.
• Shen Le's companions absorbed power until most of them became full, while the Buddha statue and Little Oil Lamp continued taking in energy.
• The Copper Fragment projected a complex Talisman, and Shen Le repeatedly traced it until the Golden Sphere imprinted it as a dark-golden pattern.
• After recovering from the effort, Shen Le activated the Talisman and was nearly crushed by an enormous pressure.

Shen Le vanished while meditating and found himself falling beside a colossal tree, while the Landlady, Gu Yulin, and the Special Affairs Bureau scrambled to locate him. The chapter left Shen Le still in danger as a nationwide search began with few clues.

• Shen Le endured crushing pressure, circulated his energy, and opened his eyes to find himself falling near a colossal tree.
• The mansion's little ones searched for Shen Le, and Little Puppet told the Landlady that he had vanished while meditating.
• Gu Yulin and the Landlady learned that the Scroll and Compass could only narrow Shen Le's possible location to a vast area.
• Gu Yulin alerted Martial Uncle, prompting the Special Affairs Bureau to mobilize specialists and begin a nationwide search.
• Shen Le tried to use Flight Technique to stop his fall, but it made him fall faster.

While practicing the Flight Talisman, Shen Le was carried to the world beneath the waterfall, where Kunpeng asked him to treat injured young birds and beasts. Meanwhile, the Special Affairs Bureau searched for him and learned from the supernatural beings that he was safe but they did not know where he had gone.

• Shen Le practiced flying with the Flight Talisman until a black Big Bird carried him to Kunpeng's nest.
• Kunpeng recognized Shen Le, welcomed him, and asked him to treat young or injured birds and beasts while it gathered gifts.
• Shen Le agreed to help, rode the black Big Bird down from the nest, and asked it to deliver a letter to his companions.
• The Special Affairs Bureau contacted sects and research organizations but found no explanation for Shen Le's disappearance.
• Gu Yulin asked Little Puppet, Red Wedding Dress, and the Buddha statue whether Shen Le was safe, and Lan Zhuang relayed that he was fine but his location was unknown.

Shen Le spent the chapter healing injured creatures throughout the Secret Realm, from shore animals to deep-sea life, while its inhabitants supplied him with a moonlit pearl that repelled water. The giant whale delivered news of Shen Le’s presence to the guards outside, leaving Gu Yulin and the others with proof that he was inside the Secret Realm.

• Shen Le healed lines of sick and injured land animals and birds while a black bird and golden monkeys kept order and gathered gifts.
• A clam spirit offered Shen Le its pearl, which the golden monkey brought to him as a water-repelling aid for treating sea creatures.
• Fish formed a road across the sea, and Shen Le flew to a giant whale and healed it and other marine life through the night.
• Shen Le followed the whale down to the seabed and continued healing deep-sea creatures and seaweed inside the pearl’s dry space.
• The giant whale surfaced at the Secret Realm’s waterfall and sent a wooden board bearing news from Shen Le to the waiting guards.
• Gu Yulin and the others were overwhelmed by the anxious Little Puppet and Little Oil Lamp as someone arrived with news about Shen Le.

Gu Yulin and the others learned from Shen Le’s message that he was safe and would return soon, so they took the eager little companions to wait at the waterfall. Shen Le arrived with a mountain of spiritually rich seafood, which the landlady and the Special Affairs Bureau began collecting before a clam shell revealed a radiant surprise.

• Gu Yulin showed Shen Le’s message to Little Oil Lamp, and Lan Zhuang reassured the little companions that Shen Le was safe and would return in a few days.
• The little companions insisted on going to the Secret Realm, so Alloy Master and the landlady helped Gu Yulin take them to the waterfall.
• After waiting three days, the group saw the giant whale bring Shen Le back along with huge clam shells and piles of fish, crabs, shrimp, and other aquatic creatures.
• The landlady gathered the spiritually rich seawater and planned to cook the seafood, while Shen Le told the Special Affairs Bureau director to take the kelp for research.
• A clam shell cracked open as the Special Affairs Bureau staff loaded the haul, and the radiance inside startled everyone.

Shen Le returned from a distant teleport with a giant clam full of pearls, spiritual treasures, and seafood, then divided the haul between the landlady and the Special Affairs Bureau. When the Bureau asked him to help recreate the teleportation array, he offered to arrange lessons for the little ones so Lan Zhuang could help draw the Talisman.

• Shen Le returned with the clam full of pearls and treasures, and offered half to the landlady and half to the Special Affairs Bureau in exchange for Bureau points.
• Shen Le reunited with the little ones, thanked Lan Zhuang for caring for them, and decided they needed lessons to communicate with outsiders.
• Shen Le stayed at a guesthouse in the bustling Secret Realm settlement, ate spirit rice porridge, and reviewed the Bureau's lists of sorted treasures.
• The director of the Shanghai Special Affairs Bureau asked Shen Le for clues about the teleportation array because he had suddenly been teleported away.
• Shen Le said reconstructing the Talisman would be difficult, then offered to arrange teachers for the little ones so Lan Zhuang could help draw it.

Shen Le helped the Special Affairs Bureau reproduce a complex Talisman by letting the Copper Fragment and Lan Zhuang project it for scanning. After the Bureau made major progress studying teleportation, its director asked Shen Le to share more resources and spend the Bureau’s money, but Shen Le was unsure what he needed.

• Shen Le abandoned his attempt to draw the Talisman by hand and meditated with the Copper Fragment and Makeup Box so Lan Zhuang could project it for the Bureau’s equipment.
• Lan Zhuang projected the rainbow-colored Talisman, and the Bureau scanned it while Shen Le waited in meditation.
• Gu Yulin escorted Shen Le to a feast where Shen Le ate a hearty meal of seafood prepared by the Landlady.
• The Shanghai Special Affairs Bureau director told Shen Le that the Talisman had yielded three useful configurations and advanced their teleportation research.
• Shen Le said he could not explain the Talisman but warned that teleportation placed enormous pressure on the body.
• The director offered compensation for more spiritual resources and asked Shen Le what he wanted the Bureau to do for him.

Shen Le asked the Special Affairs Bureau to help with several needs after recovering twenty first-class cultural relics, including instruments, articulated bodies, a teacher, and physical training equipment. He also proposed a major research project to understand the transportation Talisman, leaving the director worried about its scale.

• The Special Affairs Bureau’s director offered Shen Le compensation for the recovered relics, and Shen Le said he had several requests instead.
• Shen Le asked the Bureau to find high-quality musical instruments and commission life-sized articulated dolls for the Artifact Spirits he had repaired.
• Shen Le asked for a patient cultivator teacher who could educate the children at his mansion, and the director promised to arrange interviews with at least three candidates.
• Shen Le offered room and board plus a bonus for the teacher, and the director insisted that a 20% bonus was more than enough.
• Shen Le requested body-tempering resources and testing equipment so he could improve his physical strength and test himself privately.
• Shen Le asked the Bureau to launch an expert project to study the transportation Talisman and determine how it chose its destination, leaving the director unable to promise results.

After repairing the Buddha statues, Shen Le went to the Landlady’s storeroom to find another damaged item to practice on before attempting Mr. Peng’s wooden boat. He discovered a powerful miniature ship that began to expand when he lifted it and chose it as his next repair project.

• Shen Le told the Landlady that he had repaired the Buddha statues and discussed the mysterious wooden boat Mr. Peng had asked him to fix.
• The Landlady explained that the Buddha statues and Buddhist Shrine were gifts for Shen Le, and that he could choose more damaged items from the storeroom for practice.
• Shen Le searched the storeroom for a damaged Magic Artifact, but the Landlady had none readily available.
• Shen Le found a tiny, heavily damaged ship whose immense weight and hidden powers became apparent when he tried to lift it.
• Shen Le probed the ship with his spiritual sense and decided that it would be the next item he repaired.

Shen Le tried to arrange transport for a magically enlarged painted boat, then met three prospective tutors recommended by the Special Affairs Bureau. The Artifact Spirits immediately pushed for the young woman, Ling Wenxuan, because they wanted to find Shen Le a girlfriend.

• The landlady prayed over the painted boat, which shrank into a box and could stay contained for up to a year, while Shen Le realized its original form was twenty or thirty meters long.
• Shen Le called the Special Affairs Bureau, carried the boxed boat home, and placed it on an antique shelf in his bedroom.
• Gu Yulin brought three tutor candidates to Shen Le's Studio, where Xiao Ling, Silk Threads, Ink Line, Red Wedding Dress, and an embroidered dress served them tea.
• Ling Wenxuan introduced herself as a human teacher qualified in nine subjects, Dragon Cypress Elder described his centuries of life and teaching, and Lu Zicheng introduced himself as a sentient jade cup specializing in humanities.
• Shen Le asked the Artifact Spirits to choose a tutor, and they loudly favored Ling Wenxuan because they wanted him to have a girlfriend.

Shen Le interviewed three candidates from the Special Affairs Bureau to teach the Artifact Spirits, then let the little ones choose among their plans. Just as he went to announce their choice, a fierce gust of wind arrived, and he asked Ah Lu what objection it had.

• Shen Le silenced the Artifact Spirits after they loudly urged him to win over the prospective teacher, Ms. Ling Wenxuan.
• Ms. Ling Wenxuan proposed assessments and a curriculum based on nine-year compulsory education, while Dragon Cypress Elder planned to teach social knowledge and accompany the Artifact Spirits online.
• Lu Zicheng suggested a relaxed approach based on assessments, stories, and the Artifact Spirits’ interests, and the little ones favored his plan.
• Shen Le showed the little ones the teaching plans and let them debate and vote in his meditation world.
• As Shen Le went to announce the chosen candidate, a strong gust of wind swept into the room, and he asked Ah Lu what objection it had.

Shen Le tried to arrange a dry dock and workshop to repair a thirty-meter spiritual boat, but learned that buying the neighboring land could cost around 200 million yuan. Gu Yulin agreed to ask around for a suitable shipyard, preferably near Zhuxi Town.

• The Great Camphor Tree angrily rejected Shen Le's plan to invite Dragon Cypress Elder to live in the house, so Shen Le promised Ah Lu that no other trees would take root there.
• Shen Le gave the prospective teachers gifts, arranged trial lessons with Lu Zicheng, and settled the teaching facilities and accommodations.
• Shen Le showed Gu Yulin a miniature boat and asked him to find a dry dock and workshop where he could repair its thirty-meter original.
• Gu Yulin explained that the neighboring land could cost about 170 million yuan before renovation expenses, leaving Shen Le shocked at the prospect of spending around 200 million.
• Shen Le asked Gu Yulin to find a shipyard with a dock for rent, and Gu Yulin agreed to ask around, considering Zhuxi Town or Binhai.

Gu Yulin and the Special Affairs Bureau director arranged compensation for Shen Le’s contributions, including the Baishan Heishui Secret Realm and cultural relics he recovered from Paris. Shen Le agreed to use part of the compensation to acquire the land beside his grand residence, and the director then offered to show him the shipyard.

• Gu Yulin called the Special Affairs Bureau director, who dismissed his plan to pay 170 million for the neighboring land and proposed finding Shen Le a shipyard instead.
• The director visited Shen Le in Zhuxi Town and explained that disguising a shipyard for a thirty-meter vessel as a residence would require an impractically tall building.
• The director offered Shen Le either an annual 1% share of revenue from developing the Baishan Heishui Secret Realm or a one-time payment for ten square kilometers of land, and Shen Le chose the one-time calculation.
• The director proposed doubling the preliminary land compensation to 900 million yuan, and Shen Le accepted.
• The director proposed paying Shen Le 10 million yuan for each first-class cultural relic he had brought back from Paris, and Shen Le agreed to accept the compensation.
• Shen Le confirmed that he still wanted the land beside his grand residence, and the director said the Special Affairs Bureau would handle the procedures before inviting him to see the shipyard.

Shen Le chose to build a repair facility behind Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant, and the Special Affairs Bureau quickly erected a workshop there with the landlady’s help. He released the painted boat into its full enormous form, surveyed its damage, and wondered if he should train at Jiangnan Shipyard before attempting repairs.

• Shen Le reviewed the Special Affairs Bureau’s three proposals and chose to build a factory on the vacant lot behind Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant after the landlady approved.
• The Special Affairs Bureau built a large industrial tent workshop in seven days, and the landlady strengthened it with vines and spiritual power.
• Shen Le placed the painted boat on the supports, where it expanded from a small model into a full-sized vessel that filled the workshop.
• Shen Le examined the boat’s elaborate painted scenes and discovered major damage, including holes in both sides, a missing section of rudder, flaking paint, a broken mast, and a deep crack in the stern.
• Shen Le wondered whether he should go to Jiangnan Shipyard for further training before trying to repair the ship.

Shen Le used his growth ability to build a bamboo support frame around the ancient ship while Doctor Senior Brother guided him remotely. After the bamboo obeyed Shen Le’s commands, the Scanner failed to capture a clear image, prompting questions about spiritual-energy scanning equipment.

• Gu Yulin warned Shen Le that ordinary people could not safely enter the factory, so Shen Le requested cameras and remote guidance from the Special Affairs Bureau.
• Gu Yulin arranged free camera equipment and connected Shen Le with Doctor Senior Brother from the Ancient Ship Museum.
• Doctor Senior Brother told Shen Le to build a support frame before attempting repairs, and Shen Le grew bamboo into scaffolding around the ship.
• Doctor Senior Brother cried over how easily Shen Le built the frame, then asked whether the bamboo might keep growing out of control.
• Shen Le ordered the bamboo to stop growing and retract its leaves, leaving a clear view of the ship.
• Shen Le asked for the Scanner to examine the ship, but it could not capture a clear image, so he asked whether the Special Affairs Bureau had a spiritual-energy Scanner.

Shen Le scanned Dragon Lord’s wooden ship and learned it was a Ming-era ocean-going Fujian warship, likely built at Longjiang Shipyard. While inspecting the vessel, he encountered a ship full of ghosts and summoned Qing Deng for protection.

• Shen Le arranged for Gu Yulin to obtain a Special Affairs Bureau scanner that could handle spiritual-energy interference.
• Shen Le scanned the ship and sent its model to Doctor Senior Brother, who identified it as a standard 400-liao Fujian warship likely built at Longjiang Shipyard.
• Shen Le wondered how an ocean-going ship had ended up in Dragon Lord’s inland-water domain and went to inspect its stern.
• Shen Le saw the puppets aboard the ship turn toward him as a freezing Yin wind and ghostly shadows emerged.
• Shen Le realized he had left Little Oil Lamp behind and called for Qing Deng to form an Electric Net around him.

Shen Le cleared the haunted painted boat and began preparing to dismantle it for restoration, but its size and unfamiliar construction left him unsure how to proceed. After studying a model and consulting experts, he turned to the vines around his tent for a possible biological crane.

• Shen Le's Electric Net drove back the boat's eerie presence, and he entered the damaged hull to inspect its cabins.
• Shen Le scanned the cabins and packed the paper effigies, furnishings, lanterns, flags, and drum into Storage Boxes.
• Shen Le asked the Shipwreck Museum and Jiangnan Shipyard how to dismantle the ship and received extensive manuals, plans, and equipment recommendations.
• Shen Le's Senior Martial Brother sent him a large 1:30 ship model, which Shen Le repeatedly dismantled and reassembled to learn its structure.
• Shen Le realized he could not handle the full-sized ship's masts and planks by hand, then asked the tent's vines to grow larger and sturdier to help him.

Shen Le struggled to dismantle the ship and brought his sentient household objects to help with the work. The next morning, Teacher Lu stopped him, objecting that his students should be in school rather than working.

• Shen Le tried to lift the ship’s planks with vines, but Doctor Senior Brother warned that the tent roof would collapse and told him to clear the seams and nails first.
• Shen Le spent the day removing caulking and considered hiring workers or asking the Special Affairs Bureau for protective equipment.
• At home, Shen Le heard about the little ones’ lessons and promised to reward them after Teacher Lu praised their progress.
• Little Ink Marker, Lan Zhuang, Compass, Red Wedding Dress, and the others volunteered to help Shen Le dismantle the ship, and he brought them to the worksite.
• The next morning, Teacher Lu confronted Shen Le for putting his students to work and insisted that they had school.

Shen Le brought the little ones to work on dismantling a wooden ship, while Teacher Lu watched and reconsidered how to make their lessons more engaging. After the little ones cleared the deck seams, Shen Le stopped them from forcing up a plank and began removing its fasteners himself.

• Teacher Lu challenged Shen Le for taking the little ones away from school, but agreed to let them work and observe how they behaved.
• The Compass scanned the ship, and the Scroll projected a detailed image of its structure for Shen Le and the little ones to use.
• Little Ink Marker, Lan Zhuang, and the skirted dresses worked together to remove and collect the filler from the deck seams while Shen Le recorded and labeled it.
• After the seams were cleared, the skirted dresses used Myriad Strands of Black Hair to pull at a plank, and Shen Le rushed in to stop them before they damaged more hair.
• Shen Le removed the plank’s nails and wooden pegs, then stepped back onto the scaffolding and prepared to lift it.