Recaps

Shen Le consulted his contacts and the Special Affairs Bureau about restoring decayed spiritual materials, then used specialized equipment to experiment on a rotten wooden statue. His restoration made the statue respond with a mysterious power, but it exploded, so he began repeated trials with help from Qing Deng and Lan Zhuang.

• Shen Le asked the landlady, Dr. Qin, Alloy Master, and Gu Yulin for advice on repairing decayed spiritual materials, and Gu Yulin sent him research papers and a forum link.
• Alloy Master demonstrated restoring spirit gold by swallowing it, filling it with spiritual energy, and spitting it back out, though he could not explain the process precisely.
• Cloud Kun confessed that it had returned because it was upset about being denied leave and wanted to install a teleportation device to send Shen Le gifts.
• Shen Le asked Gu Yulin for unusable decayed materials, and the Special Affairs Bureau delivered a truckload of scraps along with specialized testing equipment.
• Shen Le fed spiritual power into a rotten wooden deity statue until it regained its form, but a bright power gathered inside it and its head and ornaments exploded into wood chips.
• Shen Le studied the readings, enlisted Qing Deng and Lan Zhuang to watch the equipment, and kept testing other pieces of wood, which repeatedly exploded.

Shen Le restored spiritual materials and the elaborate dowry items, discovering that much of the jewelry was imitation and the furniture was made of fossilized wood. After spending days restoring the Ten-Thousand-Work Sedan Chair, he turned to the mud-fused textiles, unsure what they would become.

• Shen Le learned to repair metal, stone, and wooden spiritual materials, then practiced restoring spiritual grass until he recovered much of a meditation cushion.
• Peregrine Falcon took the restored spirit herbs to weave a meditation nest, and Shen Le sent the restored spirit metals to Lao Jin through him.
• Shen Le restored the Special Affairs Bureau’s materials, shared his repair findings in a paper, and began working on the dowry.
• Shen Le discovered that the dowry’s Phoenix Coronet and other ornaments were mostly imitations, while its mirror became a Bronze Mirror and its furniture revealed fossilized wood.
• Shen Le dismantled, scanned, and restored the Ten-Thousand-Work Sedan Chair over five days, then prepared to tackle the damaged textiles.

Shen Le restored the strange dowry textiles, discovered they were made from natural materials yet carried prayers and protective power, and learned from the landlady that the dowry may have been meant to aid a living bride in times of crisis. He turned to the unrepaired bronze seal to uncover its nature and was swept into a memory.

• Shen Le restored the dowry chest’s fabrics, only to find that the beautiful silks had become spiderweb, lotus fibers, grass, feathers, bamboo strips, and fish skin.
• Frustrated by the results, Shen Le went to Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant, ate a large meal, and told the landlady about the dowry and the apparently living bride.
• The landlady suggested that the dowry contained incense offerings that could help the bride call upon special power during a crisis.
• Shen Le sensed countless prayers within the dowry and concluded that the mountain spirits and other beings had sent the bride protective power along with their gifts.
• After restoring the remaining dowry items, Shen Le examined the bronze seal and asked to see its true nature, then was pulled into a memory.

Shen Le witnessed a middle-aged official organize a plan to kill a flood-controlling Mian Dragon before it could ride a flood to the sea. The dragon took the bait and was struck by three heavy crossbow bolts, but it was still struggling as the young military officer rushed to stop it from escaping.

• The middle-aged official investigated a flood-damaged county and learned that a Mian Dragon had repeatedly disrupted repairs to the dikes.
• A City God judge revealed that the dragon was a three-zhang-long crocodile-like monster that could cause a catastrophic flood when it tried to reach the sea in three years.
• The middle-aged official and a young military officer devised a scheme to feed the dragon, deprive it of other prey, and lure it onto hooks beneath heavy crossbows, with the City God's help.
• The official prepared the traps and weapons while the City God's servants drove wildlife away from the dragon's pool.
• The Mian Dragon took the bait, and three of five heavy crossbow bolts pierced its body, but it fought on and sent water blades through the trees.
• When the chain supporting the dragon began to give way, the young military officer charged forward with his steel spear.

Shen Le witnessed the young military officer slay a dragon, tame a rebellion, and die after reclaiming territory, then sensed the people’s devotion in the clay statues. Back in the Studio, he traced the formation’s missing element to the damaged bronze seal, but his attempt to restore it drew in so much power that a bolt of lightning struck it.

• The young military officer pierced the dragon with his spear and saber, survived its corrosive blood with the help of the fish and his comrades, and later helped the middle-aged official complete a major waterworks project.
• The young military officer led seventy-four warriors to kill the Grand Commandant after he surrendered to the Jin Dynasty, then rode out to reclaim the ceded territories before being poisoned by the rebel’s followers.
• Shen Le watched the people honor the young military officer and his fallen soldiers, then sensed that the clay statues drew strength from the people’s admiration, trust, and love for the land.
• Shen Le realized the formation might need the bronze seal, reconstructed its water-control inscription, and tried to make the seal reveal its characters by feeding it heat from the Copper Fragment.
• The bronze seal absorbed power faster than Shen Le could supply it, and the Little Oil Lamp arrived by striking it with lightning.

Shen Le studied how to repair the damaged bronze seal without harming its Magic Artifact functions, then sensed and mapped its broken energy pathways. He sent practice-model instructions to the Special Affairs Bureau so he could test repairs before attempting the real seal.

• Shen Le's attempt to restore the seal with warm current shocked him, and he found that the crack had not improved.
• Shen Le researched bronze and Magic Artifact restoration, then gave his junior brothers and sisters funded projects to study ordinary bronze repairs.
• Shen Le reviewed Magic Artifact restoration papers and videos, but found their methods unreliable, and Alloy Master could offer only to swallow the seal.
• Shen Le meditated to sense the seal's internal energy pathways and sketched the damaged character "control" as a three-dimensional model.
• Shen Le asked the Special Affairs Bureau's research institute to make broken seal models for him to practice repairing.

Shen Le experimented with repairing a damaged jade seal by reconnecting its energy channels, while the Special Affairs Bureau Research Institute tested designs of its own. His successful repair activated the nearby clay figurines, but the seal exploded violently, leaving him shaken and the cause unresolved.

• The Special Affairs Bureau Research Institute made twenty imitation seals for Shen Le, who began testing ways to reconnect their broken energy channels.
• Shen Le tried several methods to repair the seals, but his energy threads repeatedly collapsed or the channels failed when he powered them.
• After exhausting the first batch of seals, Shen Le asked the research institute for more versions with different crack and wafer arrangements.
• The research institute independently tested designs and found three connection methods that let energy pass through without burning out the seals.
• On his fifth attempt with a seal whose wafer remained intact, Shen Le restored its channels, causing the nearby clay figurines to assemble around the bridal sedan.
• The jade seal exploded with great force, and Shen Le wondered whether it was a Claymore mine pointed toward the enemy.

Shen Le restored the bronze seal’s teleportation Talisman with Lan Zhuang’s help and repaired the seal, bringing the clay wedding procession to life. The procession’s bridal sedan chair invited him inside, and after he refused, the coffin at the rear opened instead.

• Shen Le used a high-speed camera to confirm that repaired jade seals exploded when their Talisman lines reached a limit, and Lan Zhuang projected the bronze seal’s energy pathways.
• Shen Le ordered custom metal seals and a survival knife to study how the bronze seal had deformed, then accepted Gu Yulin’s suggestion to have the Research Institute model the damage.
• Lan Zhuang reconstructed the bronze seal’s Talisman using the Institute’s data, and Shen Le supported her as the aligned lines revealed a symbol connected to teleportation.
• Shen Le researched Magic Artifact repair, heated and reshaped the bronze seal, and spent three days reconnecting its Talisman circuit.
• The bronze seal activated and set the clay figurines into a wedding procession, whose bridal sedan chair expanded when Shen Le refused to ride in it.
• The bridal sedan chair returned to the procession, and the rosewood coffin at the rear opened its lid.

Shen Le subdued the spiritual wedding procession and learned that its figurines wanted to reunite with a failing mural hidden in a distant karst cave. He followed their signal to the mountains with Special Affairs Bureau operative Yan Xijia, then flew into the cave alone to investigate.

• Shen Le resisted the wedding procession's attempt to drag him away and seized its bronze seal, silencing the procession.
• Shen Le communicated with the seal and figurines, learned they wanted to return to a mural, and used the Copper Fragment to locate the general area.
• Shen Le traveled to a remote county, where Special Affairs Bureau agents Xiao Chi and Yan Xijia met him and helped him reach the mountains.
• Shen Le and Yan Xijia followed mountain trails to a pool beside the cave, and Shen Le used the Copper Fragment to scout its passages.
• Shen Le left Yan Xijia at their campsite and flew across the pool into the cave, promising to return within half an hour.

Shen Le led the Special Affairs Bureau team through an unknown karst cave to a centuries-old mural, but intense light damaged it and the Bronze Emblem triggered the mural to break free from the wall. As Shen Le and the team tried to catch it, the mural began shrinking in their hands.

• Yan Xijia called for emergency support after Shen Le flew alone into the unexplored cave, and she prepared a campsite while waiting for him.
• A helicopter delivered a Special Affairs Bureau team, and Shen Le returned safely after twenty-nine minutes, telling them he intended to retrieve something and warning them about the cave's heavy Yin energy.
• The team mapped the cave, and Shen Le guided them through its hazards, shaping footholds in the rock and helping them cross a river and climb steep passages until they reached the mural.
• Shen Le examined the ancient mural, but a team member's high-intensity flashlight caused its colors to darken, so Shen Le used spiritual power to stabilize and restore it.
• The Bronze Emblem shone into the mural, causing the cave wall to crack and the mural to peel away; Shen Le and the team tried to hold it up, but it began shrinking as soon as it touched their hands.

Shen Le took the transformed mural jade back to the estate, where it strengthened and repaired the clay figurines and connected itself to them. After Cloud Kun returned badly damaged from a Japanese submarine attack, Shen Le demanded to know where the submarine was based.

• The fallen mural shrank into a jade piece as Shen Le fed it earth energy, and he sensed an immense power within it while meditating in the cave.
• The Special Affairs Bureau surveyed the cave and found resources rich in Yin energy and spiritual energy; Shen Le said he would take the jade and later maintain the cave with a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Back at the estate, the jade piece strengthened and repaired the clay figurines, and Shen Le discovered that damage to the jade could harm the figures connected to it.
• Shen Le learned that another lost item had once been able to store the clay figurines, but the figures could not say where it was.
• Cloud Kun returned to Lotus Pond with researchers and operatives, carrying a charred wound from Japanese depth charges, and told Shen Le that the Japanese had attacked it.
• Shen Le healed Cloud Kun with warm current and asked whether the operatives could identify the submarine and its home port.

After Cloud Kun was attacked and badly damaged, Shen Le considered revenge, but the Special Affairs Bureau director persuaded him to wait while the bureau repaired Cloud Kun and investigated the attack. The chapter ended with Shen Le meditating beside a map that was searching for a target in Japan, alarming the director.

• Shen Le's injured artifacts urged him to retaliate, and he agreed not to strike indiscriminately but demanded a clear target.
• Gu Yulin and the Special Affairs Bureau evacuated personnel and equipment from Shen Le's estate before the Shanghai bureau director arrived.
• The director offered Cloud Kun a nearby shipyard and spiritually rich lumber for repairs, and Shen Le agreed to help investigate how the attackers had found Cloud Kun.
• The director warned Shen Le that reckless retaliation could provoke attacks on people in their own country, then promised to identify the ship responsible and help plan a targeted response.
• After the director left, he ordered an urgent investigation and tried to keep Shen Le from acting for at least half a month.
• The director learned that Shen Le was meditating beside an ancient painting whose projected map pointed toward Japan and was searching for something.

Shen Le told the Special Affairs Bureau he intended to visit Japan to recover a missing component of the clay figurines, while the director tried to keep the trip safe and lawful. After repairing Cloud Kun, Shen Le practiced teleportation, survived several dangerous mislandings, and prepared to keep training before making the journey.

• The Special Affairs Bureau director learned Shen Le might go to Japan and worried he would cause trouble among the country's historic sites.
• Shen Le explained that the clay figurines' missing command hub was somewhere in Japan, and the director urged him to travel through legal channels with help from a delegation or guide.
• Cloud Kun's Artifact Spirit grew impatient about revenge against the submarine that had attacked it, but the director calmed it by promising that the Bureau was investigating.
• Shen Le and the Bureau agreed he would repair Cloud Kun and practice teleportation before going to Japan, and Shen Le promised to keep in contact.
• Shen Le repaired Cloud Kun in less than ten days, then practiced teleportation and became trapped in a wall, buried underwater, and stranded inside a volcano.
• Shen Le used the Compass and Scroll to improve his teleportation accuracy, then decided to keep training until he could reach Japan in one jump.

Shen Le tested teleportation in Japan, encountered a dangerous haunting in the Sea of Trees, and began sightseeing while searching for the final piece of the clay sculpture. After visiting Universal Studios and meeting Yoshida Shimizu, he sensed a strange presence in an alley after dinner.

• Shen Le meditated in Mount Fuji's Sea of Trees, where a warped magnetic field and spirits tried to draw him into the mist, so he drove them back with his yang energy and teleported home.
• Shen Le traveled to Japan and accepted a local guide arranged by the Special Affairs Bureau, then chose Universal Studios as his first destination.
• Shen Le rode Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey repeatedly before sensing strange auras gathering throughout the park.
• Yoshida Shimizu, a priest of Sumiyoshi Taisha, introduced himself to Shen Le and welcomed him to Japan.
• Shen Le visited Shinsaibashi for grilled wagyu and stopped near an alley after sensing a dark presence provoking him.

Shen Le encountered a spider demon in Shinsaibashi, but let shrine priest Yoshida Shimizu take her away and report that Shen Le posed little danger. After locating his target with the Scroll, Shen Le visited Kyoto’s sights before entering the shrine where it lay, only to be attacked by a plume of black smoke.

• Shen Le detected a spider demon disguised as a young woman and burned away her attempt to ensnare him.
• Yoshida Shimizu arrived, explained that the demon A Luo worked under shrine supervision, and took her away after Shen Le withdrew his fireball.
• Yoshida reported that Shen Le was respectful toward authority and presented little danger, while Shen Le asked the Special Affairs Bureau agent to stand guard as he searched with the Scroll.
• Shen Le found the target inside a shrine, spent seven or eight days sightseeing and sketching, then went to the shrine and was stopped from entering a restricted area.
• A plume of black smoke burst from the shrine and attacked Shen Le, who told Little Oil Lamp not to destroy the object they needed.

Shen Le attacked the shrine’s out-of-control shikigami and learned that the shrine worshipped the spirits of Japanese soldiers who had invaded China. He began destroying the shrine’s memorial tablets and spirit vessels, then followed the bronze seal’s resonance toward a warehouse while Priest Yoshida called for help.

• Little Oil Lamp shielded Shen Le and the Special Affairs Bureau agent with Electric Nets, then struck the shrine’s rampaging evil creature with lightning.
• When the evil creature split into black-smoke ghosts that possessed shrine warriors, Shen Le learned they had once committed atrocities in China and ordered Little Oil Lamp to destroy them.
• Priest Yoshida arrived and begged Shen Le to stop, but Shen Le entered the shrine’s inner hall and found memorial tablets honoring soldiers who had died in the 1920s through the 1940s.
• Priest Yoshida explained that the shrine worshipped these powerful rough souls to pacify them, and Shen Le decided to destroy them instead.
• Shen Le and Little Oil Lamp swept flames and lightning through the shrine, shattering tablets and spirit vessels as Shen Le followed the bronze seal’s resonance toward a warehouse.
• Priest Yoshida stayed behind Shen Le and urgently called someone higher-ranking for help.

Shen Le retrieved a brush pot sought by the bronze seal from a Japanese shrine, paid for it, and returned to his hotel while local authorities and deities reacted fearfully to his power. After evading surveillance for several days, he visited Kiyomizu Temple, where an undercover agent tested him and judged him less dangerous than expected.

• Shen Le followed the bronze seal through a shrine warehouse, ignored Priest Yoshida's warnings, and took a dusty brush pot after paying for it as a souvenir.
• The Special Affairs Bureau defended Shen Le's actions to Japanese officials, while the deities at Sumiyoshi Taisha refused to confront him and the priests asked Western powers to intervene.
• Japanese personnel watched Shen Le's hotel for three days but could not approach him or learn his movements.
• Shen Le resumed sightseeing and sketched Kiyomizu Temple while an undercover woman pretended to fall near him.
• The woman tested Shen Le with a concealed instrument and concluded that his energy and reflexes did not seem exceptional.

Shen Le entered Kiyomizu Temple’s restoration site to study its traditional foundation work, then defended the historic structure when a giant attacker fell from Kiyomizu Stage and struck him. After Shen Le used his power to stabilize the temple and Qing Deng attacked the monster, Priest Yoshida confronted the woman who had arranged the assault, while she insisted national interests outweighed the national treasure.

• Shen Le recognized that a woman who had deliberately fallen near him was a scout, then watched the restoration work at Kiyomizu Stage from outside the construction site.
• Priest Yoshida secured Shen Le permission to enter the site, where a monk and a master craftsman explained the traditional rammed-earth foundation reinforcement method.
• Shen Le spent several days sketching the restoration work while Priest Yoshida reported that Shen Le remained focused and presented a possible opportunity to make a move.
• A giant attacker dropped from Kiyomizu Stage and crashed into Shen Le, causing the Special Affairs Bureau agent and the people at the temple to fear the structure was damaged.
• Shen Le punched the attacker away, then drew on the temple’s water, trees, and earth to reinforce its pillars and foundation as Qing Deng struck the monster with lightning.
• Priest Yoshida confronted the black-haired woman who had arranged the attack, and she argued that national interests mattered more than protecting Japan’s national treasure.

Shen Le toured Japan after defeating an enhanced attacker, then encountered a procession of supernatural beings at a hot spring. Qing Deng warned that foreign devils were approaching, leaving Shen Le facing a new attack.

• Maria Davis confronted Priest Yoshida over Japan's inability to restrain the Western power and questioned Shen Le's strength.
• Little Oil Lamp struck the enhanced soldier with Five Thunders, while Shen Le escaped the arriving rescuers with the Special Affairs Bureau agent.
• Shen Le and the agent returned to the hotel, discussed the Western power's supernatural limitations, and agreed Shen Le would keep sightseeing unless provoked.
• Shen Le toured historical sites for a month before booking a hot spring hotel near Atami.
• A thick mist filled Shen Le's bathroom, where a procession of supernatural beings appeared and the Special Affairs Bureau agent vanished.
• Qing Deng warned Shen Le that foreign devils were approaching from outside.

Shen Le destroyed the supernatural illusion surrounding the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts and rescued the people swept into it, while Little Oil Lamp disabled the armed observers outside. A monk complained that Shen Le had destroyed the ghosts his temple had spent years redeeming, prompting Shen Le to ask where the temple was so he could deal with any remaining evil ghosts.

• Shen Le resisted the Night Parade’s illusions, burned a female ghost in red, and drove off the procession before using warm energy to confirm the Special Affairs Bureau agent was real.
• Shen Le sent the agent to the consulate, then returned alone to the burning inn and discovered the scene was an illusion formed from Japanese literary works.
• Shen Le called Qing Deng, learned armed people were watching him, and sent it to disable their electronic equipment while he stayed hidden.
• Shen Le used the Five Thunder Peach Wood Sword and a ring of fire to expose and destroy the burning easel that anchored the illusion.
• Qing Deng reported that it had disabled the observers’ equipment, while Shen Le found the rescued travelers and inn staff with a monk.
• The monk said Shen Le had destroyed the resentful ghosts his temple had spent years redeeming, and Shen Le asked where the temple was and whether it held more evil ghosts.

Shen Le traced the vengeful spirits to Guanyin Zen Courtyard, where he discovered a Guanyin Statue made from soil and blood from Jinling and a monument honoring seven war criminals. He recovered the spirits into the Copper Fragment, then attacked the temple and its monsters, leaving the wooden buildings burning and the ground fused into glassy earth.

• Shen Le followed the Yin wind from the pond to Guanyin Zen Courtyard while Little Oil Lamp disabled the ambushers’ equipment and vehicles.
• Shen Le sensed that the Guanyin Statue was connected to Jinling and found the Seven Warriors Monument honoring Tojo, Doi, and Itagaki.
• Shen Le shattered the Guanyin Statue and drew the soil and vengeful spirits into the Copper Fragment to take them home.
• Shen Le used lightning and fire to destroy the monument and temple structures as monsters emerged from the main hall.
• Little Oil Lamp helped prevent the monsters from escaping, and Shen Le completed a powerful fireball talisman that ignited the black mist and reduced the temple buildings to ashes.

Shen Le destroyed Guanyin Zen Courtyard after fighting the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, then returned safely to the Consulate General. The authorities supported his actions and arranged for him to teleport home instead of risking detention on a flight.

• Shen Le burned down Guanyin Zen Courtyard and shattered its Buddhist statues, expelling the black qi hidden inside them.
• Shen Le left the burning courtyard when a helicopter arrived and teleported back to the hot spring inn, where he checked out and headed for the Consulate General.
• The Consulate General staff anxiously searched for Shen Le until he returned with his luggage and reassured them that he was safe.
• Shen Le told a middle-aged consulate official that he had defeated the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons and burned down Guanyin Zen Courtyard, and the official praised him.
• The middle-aged man advised Shen Le to teleport home rather than risk being detained or endangered on a commercial flight.
• Shen Le prepared to teleport home after telling the consulate staff to contact him if they needed help.

Shen Le watched officials argue over a missing man and a burned temple while Cloud Kun demanded revenge against Japan. He began examining and nourishing a growing, damaged Brush Pot, but after three days his work was interrupted by news of a strange development in Japan.

• Shen Le and the little ones watched consulate officials deny that Shen Le had burned a temple, while Cloud Kun urged Shen Le to search Japanese military bases and Secret Realms for the missing man.
• Shen Le examined the Brush Pot and found that it had grown larger in the Spirit Gathering Array, revealing an intricate Zhong Dao Marries Off His Sister carving with extensive damage.
• Shen Le measured and scanned the Brush Pot, then fed it spiritual energy, but discovered its inner energy pathways were badly ruptured and its nodes were nearly empty.
• Shen Le spent three days repeatedly nourishing the Brush Pot, hoping to prepare it for repair while delaying Cloud Kun's revenge plans.
• Someone contacted Shen Le and asked him to investigate a strange development in Japan.

Shen Le learned that destroying the Japanese temple had caused monster attacks to surge, then focused on restoring the Brush Pot. After the Brush Pot absorbed the clay figurines and began draining the house’s spiritual energy, he traveled to the Baishan Heishui Secret Realm to replenish it and arrived safely near the giant tree.

• Gu Yulin told Shen Le that the destroyed temple had suppressed monsters and asked him to explain what he had burned; Shen Le recounted the destruction, and Little Oil Lamp gave Gu Yulin a lightning-charged clasp.
• Shen Le declined to visit Japan immediately but offered to make Thunderstruck Peach Wood Swords for the people there.
• Shen Le charged the Brush Pot with spiritual power for several days, and hundreds of clay figurines shrank and entered it as it revealed its spatial capacity.
• The Brush Pot began drawing spiritual energy from the house, angering Ah Lu and prompting Shen Le to seek a richer source in the Baishan Heishui Secret Realm.
• Shen Le used the Copper Fragment and a teleportation Talisman to reach the secret realm, where a giant bird caught him and carried him down to the giant tree.

Shen Le restored the Brush Pot’s body and Formation with the wedding procession of Mud Figurines’ help, then packed up spiritual supplies before teleporting back. He returned to find Ah Lu waiting for him and exclaiming that he smelled good.

• Shen Le tried to rest, but the Mud Figurines unpacked themselves and led him to a meadow where their Formation concentrated spiritual energy.
• Shen Le guided the Brush Pot’s growth, and the Mud Figurines joined their strength to press its split halves together.
• Shen Le repaired the Brush Pot’s energy pathways over several days and discovered it could store inanimate objects but not living creatures.
• Shen Le gathered spirit fruits, herbs, fish, shrimp, shells, and pearls, then sent the Mud Figurines back into the Brush Pot and teleported.
• Shen Le returned and heard Ah Lu greet him by saying he smelled good.