Recaps

Shen Le and the little ones dismantled the decorated boat, cataloged its timber, and began identifying and cleaning its parts. The wood analysis revealed that many pieces came from foreign South Seas trees, leaving Shen Le determined to restore the boat and uncover its history.

• Shen Le used bamboo stalks and vines to build a gantry and crane, allowing Little Ink Marker and the others to dismantle the boat’s upper structure.
• Shen Le identified familiar timbers, but Little Ink Marker struggled to saw through unusually heavy wood, so Shen Le ordered a professional set of woodworking tools.
• Shen Le prepared microscope samples and sent them to senior martial brothers, who identified several unfamiliar woods as South Seas hardwoods from multiple foreign tree families.
• Shen Le wondered why the boat combined domestic and foreign timber, then decided to learn its history as he restored it piece by piece.
• Shen Le used cleansing spells to clean the dismantled timbers while the bamboo gantry and vine crane handled the heavy work.

Shen Le cleaned the Ancient Ship and began figuring out how to restore its damaged, warped timbers. After learning the Dragon Bone’s original centerline from its memories, he started soaking a small plank in nutrient solution to coax it back toward its former shape.

• Shen Le used Cleansing Spells to clean the Ancient Ship while Lu Zicheng watched and seemed troubled by a painful memory.
• Shen Le sent scans of the ship’s planks to his junior students, who reconstructed their original shapes and requested more measurements to calculate how to straighten them.
• Shen Le asked Zheng Mo to mark the Dragon Bone’s centerline, then compared it with a laser level and found that the keel had warped.
• A Doctor Senior Brother explained that the timbers needed rehumidifying and gradual straightening, but Shen Le had no suitable treatment space and was unsure whether to undertake the full restoration.
• Shen Le chose a small warped packing board, soaked it in a pool of water and nutrient solution, and carefully guided it toward its former shape.

Shen Le worked to repair a warped ship board and calculated the tools and timber needed for the rest of the ship. After Old You sourced the timber across Southeast Asia, he called Shen Le for help instead of reporting that the shipment had cleared customs.

• Shen Le used meditation and mental power to restore a wooden board, then discovered it still needed reshaping.
• Shen Le reshaped the board with clamps and other tools, then calculated the equipment and timber required for repairs.
• Shen Le asked Old You to find the specialized timber, but the Special Affairs Bureau could not supply most of it domestically.
• Old You traveled through Southeast Asia, enlisted his contacts among demons, inspected the timber, and placed orders.
• Shen Le waited for the shipment, but Old You called, "Boss, save me!!!"

Shen Le used the Copper Fragment to search south for Old You, but the effort exhausted him before he could locate him. He woke to a call from Old You’s captors and saw Old You badly beaten, warning Shen Le not to come.

• Shen Le learned that Old You might have flown out of the country, and Gu Yulin asked him to share any clues about where he had gone.
• Shen Le searched with the Copper Fragment and found signs of unusual spiritual activity near the coast and far out at sea.
• Shen Le extended his search beyond the national borders but became dizzy and fell asleep before finding Old You.
• Shen Le received a call from a foreign speaker and saw two strange figures drag a badly injured Old You in front of the camera.
• Old You shouted to Shen Le not to come before the chapter cut off.

Shen Le stalled the bamboo spirit who had captured Old You while the Special Affairs Bureau traced the call to the Golden Triangle. He flew to the Yunnan border with the Compass, Scroll, and Copper Fragment to help pinpoint the captors’ location, leaving the Bureau ready to act on his intelligence.

• Shen Le saw Old You get punched and secretly alerted Gu Yulin while demanding that the captors treat Old You’s injuries.
• Shen Le negotiated with the bamboo spirit, refusing to pay upfront and trying to get it to show him the damaged sacred trees.
• The Special Affairs Bureau traced the call to an area in the Golden Triangle but said it needed a more precise location to attempt a rescue.
• Shen Le proposed flying to the Yunnan border to sense the captors and traveled there with the little ones and his spiritual objects.
• Special Affairs Bureau operatives prepared to use Shen Le’s intelligence to locate the captors, while local police readied a wanted notice.

Shen Le used the Scroll and Little Oil Lamp’s power-grid scouting to locate Old You in a remote mountain area near Tachileik. After Little Oil Lamp confirmed Old You was alive, the Special Affairs Bureau prepared a rescue, and Little Oil Lamp flew ahead to guide them and protect the hostage.

• The Special Affairs Bureau fed detailed maps to the Scroll, whose projection revealed terrain and unusual points of power as Little Oil Lamp advanced across the border along transmission lines.
• Little Oil Lamp found Old You in the mountains near Tachileik and reported that he was alive, surrounded by powerful and strange beings.
• Shen Le relayed Little Oil Lamp’s scouting report to the Special Affairs Bureau, including the demons and unknown entities guarding the area.
• The Special Affairs Bureau agreed to mount a rescue and asked Little Oil Lamp to protect Old You and guide the team.
• Little Oil Lamp promised to create an electric net, and a streak of white light sped from the compound toward the mountains that night.

Shen Le waited anxiously as the Special Affairs Bureau launched a covert operation to rescue Old You, then used his spiritual power to track the attack. The outer defenses were struck, and Alloy Master joined the fight as monsters emerged from the compound, leaving the rescue operation underway.

• Shen Le learned that Alloy Master was the only person sent into the Golden Triangle and promised him gold if he returned safely.
• Shen Le meditated and detected the Bureau's drones and unmanned boats surrounding Little Oil Lamp's position, along with Lao Jin approaching.
• A streak of white light crossed into the Golden Triangle, and Little Oil Lamp began the assault as attacks wiped out more than half of the marked outer targets.
• A giant elephant monster charged out of the compound, and Alloy Master confronted it while a tiger attacked him.
• A black-and-white cobra crept toward Old You's holding area but was blasted away by a white ring of light.

Little Oil Lamp and Old You survived the attack as reinforcements arrived, while drones and Alloy Master fought the remaining demons. Old You was freed and sent home by drone, and Alloy Master withdrew after a huge explosion.

• Little Oil Lamp frightened the snake demon with an imitation of Thunder Tribulation, and the demon fled while covering the electric net in black qi.
• A flying sword killed the snake demon, and a drone confirmed the kill and reported that Old You was safe.
• Alloy Master fought the elephant and tiger demons while swarms of drones bombarded them and asked him to hold out for fifteen minutes.
• Drones reached Old You, used a mechanical spider to open his cage, and carried him away in a bird-like rack.
• Alloy Master broke away from the demons and retreated as a world-shaking explosion erupted behind him.

Old You reached the border, where Daoist Qingyue and a monk tried to contain and examine him for curses and gu poison. Little Oil Lamp returned after feeding on the power grid and purged the infestation, leaving Old You alive but completely plucked.

• Old You arrived at the border on the Drone and panicked when uniformed teams surrounded him and covered him with an enormous alms bowl.
• Daoist Qingyue examined Old You while the monk asked whether he could remove the gu poison without harming him.
• Little Oil Lamp returned after eating electricity and began cleansing Old You with electric current.
• Old You vomited black qi and a furball, while tiny insects crawled from his feathers and were burned away.
• Little Oil Lamp scorched the expelled evil, and Daoist Qingyue withdrew his sword barrier after confirming Old You was unharmed.
• Old You curled up in embarrassment over losing all his feathers as Little Oil Lamp asked, "What?"

Shen Le reunited with the rescued Old You, who described how demons had attacked him over a Spirit Gathering Array and spirit ore. After the Special Affairs Bureau rescued him, Shen Le offered to cover the operation’s costs, and officials instead asked him to investigate a possible Secret Realm, leaving him wondering if he would have to travel abroad again.

• Shen Le found Old You injured, featherless, and terrified, then fed him spiritually potent meat and arranged for more food to be delivered.
• Old You explained that a demon had killed the pangolin he traded with, then captured him with other demons who wanted Spirit Gathering Arrays from Shen Le or Little Ink Marker.
• Old You revealed that the pangolin’s mine and the demons’ treasure troves contained valuable spirit ore, prompting the Special Affairs Bureau to redirect the Alloy Master toward them.
• Shen Le thanked Daoist Qingyue and the eminent monk who had helped save Old You, and offered them spiritual cultivation furniture and a meal.
• Shen Le offered to pay for the rescue operation, but the commander asked him to investigate a monster’s territory for a possible Secret Realm, and Shen Le asked whether he had to go there himself.

Shen Le traveled with the Special Affairs Bureau to the Golden Triangle to locate a Secret Realm and rescue Old You. After Alloy Master brought him to a vast underground cave, Shen Le detected many valuable spiritual traces and a massive halo in the underground current.

• Shen Le agreed to travel to the border, where he used his Compass and Scroll to help the Special Affairs Bureau narrow down the Secret Realm's likely location.
• The Bureau equipped Shen Le with protective gear and talismans, and Shen Le set off with Old You while Daoist Qingyue and the old monk stayed behind.
• Shen Le crossed into the Golden Triangle and met Lao Jin, who carried him into the mountains on his back.
• Lao Jin brought Shen Le to a sprawling underground karst cave, where the Bureau's Drones had mapped the area but failed to find the Secret Realm.
• Shen Le used his Detection and Fine Control talismans to reveal a three-dimensional map of the cave, and Old You spotted many bright points of possible treasure.
• Shen Le opened his eyes after sensing a massive halo rising from the underground current.

Shen Le used the scroll’s map and his spiritual power to locate Alloy Master in the underwater cave, where he was fighting a powerful creature. Shen Le charged into the flooded passage to help him, and Alloy Master reached Shen Le’s defensive circle as the creature attacked.

• Shen Le meditated to reveal the cave system’s map, and Alloy Master entered the underground current alone.
• The Special Affairs Bureau operators lost a drone when violent waves erupted, while Shen Le sensed a surge of spiritual light and saw Alloy Master’s light clash with another force.
• Shen Le grabbed the compass and rushed through the cave with a flying talisman, then entered the underground current behind a water-repelling talisman.
• Shen Le found Alloy Master fighting a winged, snake-like monster underwater and called for him to retreat toward his defensive circle.
• Alloy Master charged into Shen Le’s defense as the monster whipped up a vortex and attacked them.

Shen Le and Alloy Master fought a charging fish monster in the cavern until the Copper Fragment drew it into the Broken Bronze Tripod and devoured it. The tripod illuminated a passage to the sealed Secret Realm, which Shen Le realized had been marked as his territory.

• Alloy Master charged the fish monster, and Shen Le used a water-repelling spell to attack it while hiding behind him.
• The fish monster battered Alloy Master and sent sharp scales flying at Shen Le, who used Flight Technique and Cleansing Spells to dodge and destroy them.
• Alloy Master knocked Shen Le aside to save him from the fish monster, but the creature charged at Shen Le again as he became pinned to the water barrier.
• The Copper Fragment flew from Shen Le's hand, and the fish monster vanished into a raised stud on the Broken Bronze Tripod, which suppressed and devoured it.
• The tripod's map blazed and opened a passage through the underground river to a dry cavern with two great doors, and Shen Le declared that the Secret Realm had been confirmed as his territory.

Shen Le calmed the violent forces inside the Secret Realm and discovered a breach in the barrier beyond it. He began repairing the breach, which was already covered with a tangled collection of powers and protective seals.

• Shen Le and Alloy Master claimed they had not encountered an enemy, and the Special Affairs Bureau decided not to press them for answers.
• Shen Le declined to enter through the stone doors and asked the Special Affairs Bureau to send down the Scroll so he could investigate the Secret Realm.
• Using the Copper Fragment, Shen Le sensed the Secret Realm’s chaotic currents and resonated with its map until the forces inside settled.
• Shen Le traced the currents to a vast breach in a distant barrier and realized the breach was feeding the Secret Realm through the stone doors.
• Shen Le found earlier repairs covering the breach and began carefully drawing together the scattered powers to mend it.

Shen Le repaired the barrier sealing the deeper sections of the Secret Realm while an exploration team began investigating it. When the barrier was restored, a powerful flying sword shot out toward the surface, leaving the authorities scrambling to respond.

• Shen Le continued repairing the barrier while the exploration team opened the stone doors and sent drones and equipment into the Secret Realm.
• Alloy Master declined an offer to enter and explore, choosing to remain beside Shen Le.
• Shen Le carefully repaired the barrier around the treasured sword, which absorbed spiritual energy and destroyed the seals and artifacts around it.
• The Copper Fragment resonated with the completed barrier, and the flying sword rose before racing toward the Secret Realm’s exit.
• Shen Le warned the people nearby and took cover with Old You and Alloy Master as the sword cut through equipment but avoided harming people.
• The sword burst from the cavern at extreme speed, and officials warned that a low-altitude aircraft was approaching their territory and ordered air defenses activated.

A mysterious flying sword from the Golden Triangle Secret Realm evaded military interception before vanishing in the mountains, leaving command centers scrambling to understand what had happened. Shen Le explored the Secret Realm with Alloy Master and discovered pavilion pillars made from the same valuable wood as his damaged ship, so he asked the development team for two.

• A glowing object entered China at Mach 4, evaded guns, missiles, and a fighter pilot’s ramming attempt, then flew north.
• A golden-winged Big Bird identified the object as a powerful flying sword and retreated rather than confront it.
• The flying sword disappeared into the snow-covered mountains, prompting command centers and foreign governments to seek answers from the Special Affairs Bureau.
• Special Affairs Bureau staff questioned Shen Le, but he said he had sensed nothing and then continued exploring the Secret Realm with Alloy Master.
• Shen Le examined a pavilion, recognized its pillars as fragrant Soft Hopea wood like that of his ship, and asked Old You to arrange two pillars and their transport.

After helping rescue Old You and secure timber from a Secret Realm, Shen Le returned to his estate to reshape the planks. The Special Affairs Bureau asked him to inspect its failed teleportation Talisman, and the chapter ended with the Talisman’s hollow part speaking up that it might be the missing component.

• Shen Le dismissed Alloy Master’s complaints about asking for only two pieces of wood and explained that the rescue and the help from the Special Affairs Bureau mattered more to him than money.
• Shen Le sent Old You to find a lumber-drying plant, then returned to the estate and began reshaping the planks by communicating with the wood and supplying vitality.
• The director of the Shanghai Special Affairs Bureau visited Shen Le, thanked him for the rescue operation, and asked him to inspect a reconstructed teleportation Talisman that would not activate.
• Shen Le examined the Talisman in the Bureau’s laboratory and compared it with the one in his meditation world, finding no visible difference.
• As Shen Le wondered whether the Talisman’s hollow part was missing something, the hollow part spoke and suggested that it might be able to make the Talisman work.

Shen Le helped the Special Affairs Bureau research institute scan his manifested Talisman and explain his cultivation circulation, then used the Bureau’s support to repair his ship. After fitting the new planks along the Dragon Bone, he saw a flash of light and glimpsed a hidden secret of the ship.

• Shen Le manifested the Talisman so the researchers could scan and record it.
• The researchers asked Shen Le to remove his clothes to map the Talisman’s connections to his meridians and acupoints, but he negotiated to wear modified swim trunks.
• Shen Le told Xuan An and the researchers that he used basic midnight-noon circulation through the Twelve Primary Meridians, linked to the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and helped them confirm the method.
• The Shanghai Special Affairs Bureau director offered Shen Le access to lumber-processing factories and help making Talismans.
• Shen Le spent nearly half a month shaping planks from two logs and fitted them along the Dragon Bone to form the ship’s body.
• A flash of light revealed part of the ship’s deeply buried secrets to Shen Le.

Shen Le repaired the wooden boat with the help of the Luo Skirts and his other artifact spirits, while investigating the mysterious patterns within its planks. After joining a damaged plank to a new piece, he found that the patterns appeared only on the old wood, leaving him unsure how to complete the repair.

• Shen Le escaped when the scaffolding collapsed, and discovered the Luo Skirts had broken their hair while holding up the planks for him.
• Shen Le restored the Luo Skirts by soaking their gathered hair in Silk Fibroin Solution and supplying energy until the strands rejoined.
• The Luo Skirts eagerly helped Shen Le sort the boat planks and remove a damaged section for repair.
• Shen Le joined matching pieces of wood with nutrient solution and growth magic, then had Little Ink Marker plane away a burl he had accidentally grown.
• Shen Le guided the ship to resonate with the repaired plank and saw its patterns emerge on the old wood, but not on the new patch.

Shen Le struggled to restore the ship’s damaged Talisman patterns, so he obtained scanning equipment from the Special Affairs Bureau and had the entire hull recorded. After consulting a collection of Talismans and failing to make progress, he continued practicing on scraps of wood.

• Shen Le called the Special Affairs Bureau and asked to borrow equipment that could scan projected Talismans into a computer.
• The Bureau installed a dedicated equipment room and scanning devices at Shen Le’s factory, and he used the painting scroll and Copper Fragment to scan the ship’s wooden planks.
• Shen Le sent the scans to image-processing staff to assemble and compare, then requested the Bureau’s complete collection of Talismans.
• Shen Le studied and tested Talismans but could not reliably draw or activate them, and the reference patterns did not match the ship’s designs.
• After half a month without progress, Shen Le practiced engraving a Talisman on a wooden chip, erased his failed attempt, and soaked the chip to prepare it for another try.

Shen Le repaired the wooden boat’s flags and discovered that a Cleansing Spell could remove the strange power protecting them, though doing so nearly destroyed one flag. After he restored the flags and their missing divine names, a ghostly wind arose in the Studio.

• Shen Le struggled to learn talisman-making, so Lan Zhuang offered to study the art and teach him.
• Shen Le cleaned and repaired the boat’s triangular flags, then accidentally cast out a formless presence from one flag with a Cleansing Spell.
• Shen Le repaired the damaged flag again and asked students in the neighboring lab to research the deity names on the square flags.
• The students identified the missing characters and provided images, and Shen Le restored the names on the square flags.
• A cold, ghostly wind sprang up around Shen Le after he finished repairing the flags.

Shen Le witnessed a Ming warship’s memories of surviving a storm, becoming separated from its fleet, and reaching Samudra. The ship was overwhelmed by a native attack, but a massive fleet appeared at dawn as the battle reached its crisis.

• Shen Le explored the storm-tossed warship and discovered firearms and supplies in its hold as its crew struggled to keep it afloat.
• After the storm, Centurion Liu found the fleet missing and ordered the ship toward Samudra to repair and await the others.
• The warship reached Samudra, where locals brought food and goods while its crew prepared to repair the vessel.
• That night, locals launched a surprise attack, and Centurion Liu led the ship’s soldiers in a fierce defense.
• The attackers brought firearms and grappling hooks, turning the assault into a boarding battle as the defenders began to suffer casualties.
• At dawn, a huge fleet emerged from the waves as Shen Le anxiously awaited rescue.

Shen Le watched Zheng He's fleet defeat the attackers and finally met Zheng He aboard a treasure ship. After Zheng He ordered a campaign against the usurper Su Ganci, the fleet captured him and continued its voyage before returning to China.

• Zheng He's treasure ships broke through the enemy vessels and entered the harbor, where Liu Baihu went to report to the flagship.
• Shen Le followed Liu Baihu aboard the treasure ship and discovered that the imposing, clean-shaven commander was Zheng He.
• Zheng He explained that Su Ganci had usurped Samudra's throne and attacked the fleet, then ordered his forces to overthrow him and install a new king.
• Zheng He's troops captured Su Ganci alive after pursuing him from Samudra to the Lambri Kingdom.
• The fleet repaired its ships, continued to East Africa, returned to China, and presented Su Ganci in Beijing before he was executed.
• The fleet's ships were sent to Longjiang Shipyard and nearby shipyards for repair, patching, or dismantling.

Shen Le and Lan Zhuang tried to recreate the ship’s Talismans so they could contain the murky Yin energy, but the Makeup Box could not sustain the power needed. After paper and spirit-wood experiments, Lan Zhuang and Little Ink Marker helped Shen Le assemble a miniature wooden boat, leaving him to test five Talisman plans.

• Lan Zhuang showed Shen Le the ship’s restored Talismans and asked him to supply power so she could manifest them.
• The Makeup Box began to overload as Shen Le fed it power, so he stopped and set it in a Spirit Gathering Array to recover.
• Lan Zhuang guided Shen Le in drawing Talismans on paper, but the paper boat he made burst after absorbing less than a tenth of the ship’s murky Yin power.
• Shen Le tried higher-grade talisman paper and then spirit wood, while Little Ink Marker carved and assembled boards using Lan Zhuang’s projected guides.
• After a day of engraving, Shen Le saw the completed miniature wooden boat, and Lan Zhuang said they had prepared five plans for testing the Talismans.

Shen Le tried repeatedly to build a boat strong enough to contain the Ancient Ship’s black mist, but the spiritwood boats bloomed, warped, or fell apart. He ordered monocrystalline silicon components with carved Talismans from a research institute, and the shipment arrived with enough plates for more than ten ships.

• Shen Le tested a spiritwood boat, which exploded after its planks bloomed and grew a jujube-like fruit.
• Shen Le and Little Ink Marker built and destroyed several more boats, and Shen Le concluded that Talismans carved into the wood’s surface leaked power.
• Shen Le decided spiritwood was too fragile and consulted Teacher Lu Zicheng, who said the jade Shen Le owned was far too valuable for experiments and suggested glass.
• Shen Le ordered the research institute to carve Talismans into monocrystalline silicon and assemble the boat components, including multiple replacement plates for uncertain repairs.
• The research institute agreed to the paid order, and three days later Shen Le received crates of Talisman-lined crystal plates sufficient for more than ten ships.