Recaps

Shen Le used his ability to restore a decayed pillar, causing bloodstains and a human-shaped mark with a possible arrowhead to appear. After scans produced contradictory evidence about the arrowhead, he decided to finish repairing the entire house before confronting its haunting.

• Shen Le examined the previously repaired pillar and used lumber, nutrient solution, and his ability to make it grow solid again while expelling old preservative and adhesive.
• Professor Han and the students collected samples from the pillar, then helped Shen Le continue the restoration after he explained that his method could not be reproduced or quantified.
• As the pillar’s growth neared completion, bloodstains and a human-shaped imprint with multiple holes appeared, and Shen Le found something sharp inside the hole over its heart.
• Shen Le used a modified Scanner to reveal the figure and possible arrowhead, but X-rays showed conflicting arrowhead shapes or none at all.
• Shen Le decided to complete the restoration of the whole house before trying to solve the mystery, and told Professor Han and the others to withdraw.

Shen Le tried to make a miniature copy of the ancient residence to lure and seal it, hoping to protect Ma Xuanyu and Huang Chuxia from its marks. After the 3D-printed model failed, he enlisted Little Ink Marker and Zhong Xiaomei’s Mud Figurines to build another, then prepared to try again as the helpers demanded to watch him work.

• Shen Le found that Ma Xuanyu’s spreading red marks and Huang Chuxia’s darkening strangulation mark resisted his efforts to remove them, and the Copper Fragment offered no useful help.
• Shen Le proposed making a miniature copy of the ancient residence, attaching its aura to the model, and using it to lure and seal the residence.
• Professor Han assigned the students to break down the scanned residence into components, and a 3D-printed model was assembled within five days.
• Shen Le infused the model with the residence’s aura, but the miniature well erupted with black aura, the model shattered, and its connection to the residence broke.
• Shen Le had Little Ink Marker and Zhong Xiaomei’s Mud Figurines build a second model, while the Mud Figurines refused to make a third and demanded to watch him work.

Shen Le transferred the ancient residence’s powerful resentment into a natural-material model, used it to remove the red marks on Ma Xuanyu and Huang Chuxia, and had several groups seal the model. The seals failed after three days, the models exploded, and Ma Xuanyu’s marks returned in greater numbers.

• Shen Le absorbed the ancient residence’s auras into the model, enduring a powerful force from a beam pillar as the model strained but survived.
• Shen Le pulled the accumulated resentment from Ma Xuanyu and Huang Chuxia, making their red marks and strangulation marks disappear.
• The Temple Keepers, Mount Qingyuan Taoists, and Kaiyuan Temple monk covered the model with red cord, incense ash, Talismans, and prayer beads to contain the resentment.
• Shen Le repaired the residence’s pillars and crossbeams while his junior brothers and sisters documented his work.
• Three days later, Ma Xuanyu woke Shen Le to report that his red marks had returned in greater numbers, and Shen Le found the seals scattered and the models burst apart.

Shen Le and the little ones built a stronger spirit-wood mansion model and used it to seal the haunted old mansion while he restored it. After storing the model safely at his family’s old house, he received an urgent call from Coral Tree City about a new discovery.

• Little Ink Marker rejected ordinary wood, then directed the tools to build the model from spirit wood while Shen Le strengthened their blades with metal-element power.
• Shen Le and Zhong Xiaomei organized the little ones to make wooden components, clay tiles, bricks, and ornaments, with Shen Le firing the clay using spiritual flame.
• The little ones assembled the mansion model, and Shen Le sealed the old mansion with it in two hours; the model showed only slight traces of blood and blocked the haunting sounds.
• Shen Le moved the model to his family’s old house, placed it in a large dog crate, and told Little Oil Lamp to keep watch over it.
• Someone from Coral Tree City called Shen Le and urged him to come see a new discovery.

Shen Le restored the old residence’s pillars and was drawn into memories of the Huang Clan Ancestral Hall, where he witnessed an ancestral rite and a Lantern Festival night. The chapter left him watching A Ying set out to win Shanshan a lantern at Breeze Tower.

• Shen Le returned to the old residence after his junior martial brothers and sisters discovered an arrowhead hidden inside a pillar, and he sensed that it flickered in and out of existence.
• Shen Le sent the others outside, tried to communicate with the arrowhead, and then nourished the old residence by restoring its pillars and beams with wood-element power.
• After restoring the final beam, Shen Le entered a vision of the Huang Clan Ancestral Hall and watched its members perform an orderly ancestral-worship ceremony.
• Shen Le explored the lavish ancestral hall and then saw Shanshan meet A Ying on Lantern Festival night and walk with him toward Breeze Tower.
• At Breeze Tower, Shanshan admired a lantern as a youth won it, and A Ying promised to win her one.

Shen Le witnessed A Ying win the top lantern at the Lantern Festival and give it to Shanshan, then returned to the old residence and recovered an iron arrowhead from a haunted pillar. After arranging tests and containing the residence’s resentment, he went with his companions to eat ginger duck, where he glimpsed two figures from the memory watching the street.

• Shen Le followed A Ying through Breeze Tower as he solved riddles, impressed the guests with his writing, and climbed to the roof to retrieve the highest lantern for Shanshan.
• Shen Le watched officials discuss arranging a match for Shanshan, then left the fading memory and found that the old residence’s charred pillars still showed abnormal spiritual readings.
• Shen Le fed heat into a pillar until it expelled a rusted iron arrowhead, then documented the pillar and arrowhead with photos and scientific tests.
• Shen Le absorbed the resentment seeping from the pillars into his model and told his mentor that he would handle the old residence’s danger.
• Shen Le took his mentor and junior martial siblings to a crowded ginger duck restaurant, where the Guan-Yue Temple Keeper arranged seats for them.
• While eating, Shen Le looked down the street and seemed to see two figures leaning together atop a distant restaurant.

Shen Le continued restoring the Ancient Residence, using spiritual power to strengthen its wooden structures and experimenting with ways to repair its tiles. His first attempt restored a broken floor tile so completely that it consumed a huge amount of stone and earth, leaving him wary of what might happen if he used the same method on more valuable relics.

• Shen Le and his junior martial siblings received test results showing that an iron arrowhead matched material scraped from a pillar and carried traces of blood, so he ordered DNA comparisons while concealing his knowledge of the mansion's memories from their advisor.
• Shen Le restored the wooden structures in the halls and side wings by directing his helpers to fit timber and then using water-control and growth spells to strengthen it, though he found that most of the house's spiritual energy remained concentrated in its twelve pillars.
• Shen Le asked his junior martial siblings to identify matching stone and clay for the mansion's tiles and bricks, approved their fifty-thousand-yuan research budget, and requested crushed granite after they identified the floor-tile material.
• Shen Le tried using crushed stone and earth-element power to repair a shattered floor tile, but the tile became smooth and jade-like while sinking three feet into the ground and leaving a huge pit.
• Shen Le worried that applying the same repair method to every tile could undermine the Ancient Residence, and that using it on the Heirloom Seal of the Realm might damage its later gold repair.

Shen Le traveled with Cloud Kun to the naval port to practice magic, but Cloud Kun detoured so they could fish, and the outing turned into a chaotic catch. The chapter left Shen Le cleaning the deck and letting everyone fish while the naval port commander waited for his arrival.

• Shen Le left the old house and called Cloud Kun to pick him up, then asked the naval port to prepare broken granite tiles and gravel so he could practice magic.
• Cloud Kun showed Shen Le its remodeled iron-ship appearance and explained that it could alter its exterior but still could not freely change its interior.
• Cloud Kun diverted to a school of fish, and Shen Le broke a fishing rod by trying to haul in a catch with brute force.
• Shen Le's companions joined in fishing, and a giant fish dragged several Silk Skirts and paper people toward the sea before Shen Le and Cloud Kun pulled them back.
• Cloud Kun knocked the giant bluefin tuna unconscious with its mast, and Shen Le killed and cleaned it before letting his companions resume fishing.
• The naval port contacted Shen Le to ask where he was and when he would arrive.

Shen Le brought Cloud Kun to a naval harbor, where it unloaded a huge catch and began preparing for engine upgrades. He spent the day infusing Cloud Kun with spiritual energy and practicing earth-element repair, and the discarded tiles he worked on drew the Special Affairs Bureau’s attention for their altered stone structure.

• Shen Le hurried Cloud Kun to the harbor, where soldiers welcomed them and unloaded the fish Cloud Kun had caught during the trip.
• Shen Le learned Cloud Kun was eating spiritwood to prepare for engine modifications, then used Growth Talismans to help it absorb more.
• Shen Le practiced earth-element control by trying to repair broken floor tiles, improving their strength and accidentally changing their patterns.
• Special Affairs Bureau agents examined the discarded tiles and found spiritual energy in them, along with finer, more orderly granite crystals.

Shen Le helped researchers study how his earth spell changed stone while Cloud Kun tested whether it could withstand a gas turbine. Cloud Kun succeeded in absorbing the engine’s heat and began storing spiritual energy, but its request for several cubic meters of mutton-fat jade left Shen Le wondering how he could afford to raise it.

• Shen Le used his earth spell on granite bricks while researchers measured the changes, and he spent an hour testing different stones.
• Shen Le and the experts approved an external gas turbine test despite concerns that the heat would damage Cloud Kun.
• Cloud Kun absorbed the turbine’s heat, strengthened its hull, and consumed spiritwood faster, proving the external test successful.
• The experts installed the gas turbine inside Cloud Kun, which distorted the cabin space and absorbed heat while storing spiritual energy in its planks.
• Cloud Kun asked Shen Le for several cubic meters of mutton-fat jade so it could store energy for long voyages, and Shen Le worried about the cost.

Shen Le helped Cloud Kun secure Hotan jade and silicon wafers, reproduced a highly heat-resistant refractory brick, and repaired every floor tile in the Ancient Residence. The newly restored tiles formed strange lotus patterns in the moonlit mist, and Shen Le suspected they were connected to Shanshan’s Wedding Dress and the ancient well.

• Shen Le tested minerals for Cloud Kun, which chose Hotan jade for storing spiritual energy and agreed to use silicon wafers in exchange for selling excess spirit jade to the Special Affairs Bureau.
• Shen Le repeatedly experimented with minerals and earth and metal spiritual energy until he reproduced a refractory brick with twice the heat resistance of the best existing bricks.
• Shen Le made refractory panels for Cloud Kun’s engine compartment, and Cloud Kun departed with new equipment and a compartment full of silicon wafers.
• Shen Le returned to the Ancient Residence and repaired its shattered floor tiles, while Lan Zhuang and the Mud Figurines arranged them into their original patterns.
• The restored tiles trembled as cold mist from the ancient well spread through the residence, revealing rippling lotus patterns that reminded Shen Le of Shanshan’s Wedding Dress.

Shen Le investigated the ancient well and discovered human bone fragments, then used the house’s memories to witness Shanshan waiting for A Ying as the Yuan Army approached Coral Tree City. The vision ended with Breeze Tower burning, while Shanshan remained near the ancestral hall, refusing to leave without A Ying.

• Shen Le used a thermal imager and excavated soil from the ancient well, where Huang Chuxia and the others found human bone fragments.
• Shen Le ordered the well dismantled and investigated, and his mentor discovered that several unusual floor tiles had been stained with incense ash, tar, and traces of blood.
• After the workers rebuilt the well, Shen Le drew on its power and entered a memory of people fleeing Coral Tree City as the Yuan Army advanced.
• Shen Le saw Shanshan urge A Ying to escape, but A Ying refused to abandon his duty as a member of the Great Song imperial clan.
• Shanshan returned to the ancestral hall and vowed to wait for A Ying, while Breeze Tower caught fire on the second night.

Shen Le witnessed the old residence’s memory of Thorn City’s fall, where Zhao Mengying tried to save Shanshan and the people sheltering in the ancestral hall, but the Tartar soldiers killed them. Back in the present, Shen Le found the residence’s spiritual focus and began sealing its lingering memories and spirits into a model, inviting them to come with him.

• Shen Le watched the ancestral hall fill with fleeing women, elders, and children as Zhao Mengying arrived searching for Shanshan.
• Zhao Mengying killed a foreign merchant, found Shanshan, and tried to draw the Tartar soldiers away, but they broke into the ancestral hall and attacked its occupants.
• Shanshan put on her Wedding Dress and urged Zhao Mengying to escape, then killed herself; Zhao Mengying fought the soldiers until they shot him down.
• Shen Le watched the soldiers slaughter and abuse the people in the ancestral hall, then returned to the present and understood the old residence’s painful memory.
• Shen Le located the entwined-lotus markings and gathered the residence’s lingering spiritual traces into a model, asking them to come with him.

Shen Le awakened the old residence model as an Artifact Spirit, tested its size-changing and storage abilities, and brought it back to Coral Tree City. There, he found Huang Chuxia’s strangulation marks worsening and learned that old records and bone tests pointed to a massacre at the Huang clan ancestral hall.

• Shen Le infused the old residence model with the residence’s aura until it shrank into a heavy, sentient Artifact Spirit, then fed it warm energy so he could carry it.
• Shen Le tested the model in the wilderness, discovered it could expand only to about a meter and store inanimate objects, and found that its contents tumbled into a heap when it moved.
• Shen Le returned to Coral Tree City, where Ma Xuanyu’s junior martial brother was confirmed free of lingering resentment, while Huang Chuxia showed worsening strangulation marks that the practitioners could not explain or cure.
• Shen Le showed the model to his mentor and the others, gave Huang Chuxia’s group old-residence memories to research, and returned to inspect the residence for clues.
• Junior Brother Ma brought Shen Le documents and bone-test results showing remains from men, women, children, and infants, including members of the Huang clan and Zhao clan of the Southern Song.
• Junior Brother Ma reported that Huang clan notes said the Yuan army massacred people sheltering in the clan ancestral hall after breaching the city, and that the hall returned to the clan only after the Great Ming drove out the invaders.

Shen Le rushed to the naval port after Cloud Kun caught fire and used his healing spell to help the ship recover. Inside, he discovered Cloud Kun had brought back an intensely hot, glowing mass; as Shen Le tried to manage its power, the dock was damaged and the chapter ended with him asking where Cloud Kun had found it.

• Shen Le reviewed old family records, dreamed of the land’s recovery, and prepared to revisit the old residence before an urgent call summoned him to the naval port.
• Shen Le arrived to find Cloud Kun smoking and submerged, then cast a growth spell that let it absorb spiritwood and repair its burned hull.
• Shen Le found the ship’s instruments scattered and smoke-stained, while Cloud Kun led him toward the dangerously hot core of the cabin.
• Cloud Kun revealed a glowing scarlet mass and told Shen Le it had brought it back for him; Shen Le used the Copper Fragment and a Fireball Spell to draw in its power.
• A blast alarmed the port, and Shen Le’s attempt to absorb the mass’s power caused the dockyard to collapse as workers supplied stones for him to reinforce Cloud Kun’s fireproof core compartment.
• After strengthening the stone slabs around the blazing mass, Shen Le asked Cloud Kun where it had found the object.

Shen Le learned that Cloud Kun had encountered a crack in the heavenly barrier near the Red Sea and swallowed the core of a fiery birdlike monster that emerged from it. After upgrading Cloud Kun’s firebricks, he proposed that it try using the core as an engine.

• Cloud Kun revealed that an undersea eruption-like event had nearly burned it, and Shen Le sent experts to investigate its route and report the danger.
• Shen Le made and tested firebricks engraved with fireproof Talismans, then Cloud Kun absorbed them into its protective stone sphere.
• Cloud Kun explained that the sky had cracked near the Red Sea after it traveled through the Strait of Malacca, releasing a huge flaming bird that chased it.
• Shen Le consulted the Copper Fragment, which showed that the monster was not among its recorded creatures and came from beyond a foreign heavenly barrier.
• Cloud Kun said it had swallowed the monster’s core while escaping, and Shen Le suggested it use the core as an engine.

Shen Le learned that Cloud Kun wanted a nuclear reactor to become the strongest ship, but it feared the firebird whose core would power the engine. After cultivators failed to remove the core’s influence from Cloud Kun, Shen Le decided to seek help from the Dragon Lord.

• Cloud Kun told Shen Le it wanted a reactor because it wanted to become the strongest ship, but it also feared the firebird might track the core and attack it.
• Shen Le described Cloud Kun’s experience to officials and cultivators, who agreed to inspect the ship for signs of contamination.
• At Meizhou Island, Cloud Kun refused to let certain practitioners inspect it, and Shen Le apologized to them with gifts from the Jade Ring Secret Realm.
• The Heavenly Empress Palace procession and other practitioners tried to cleanse Cloud Kun, but they could only conceal the core’s influence temporarily.
• Shen Le considered replacing Cloud Kun’s planks but could not determine whether it would remain itself, so he proposed returning to the Dragon Palace to ask the Dragon Lord for help.

Shen Le visited the Dragon Lord with Cloud Kun, whose stolen firebird core had caused trouble during a mission in the Red Sea. The Dragon Lord sealed the core and removed its trace from Cloud Kun, but warned that the firebird’s resentment and the weakened barriers in regions with broken civilizations could lead to danger.

• Qing Li welcomed Shen Le and brought him and Cloud Kun to the Dragon Lord’s garden.
• The Dragon Lord examined the firebird’s core and identified its owner as a descendant of an ancient divine bird from the Red Sea.
• The Dragon Lord offered Shen Le a Water-Gathering Flag or to seal the core and cleanse Cloud Kun; Shen Le chose the seal, and the Dragon Lord returned the now-cool core to him.
• The Dragon Lord explained that barriers between heaven and earth existed across civilizations and warned Shen Le to be cautious where civilizations had suffered breaks in continuity.
• The Dragon Lord revealed that the core carried resentment because people had forgotten the ancient divine bird, and warned that it might cause trouble after losing the core.
• Shen Le asked whether returning the core could placate the firebird and whether other demons might break through the shattered barrier near the Red Sea.

Shen Le uncovered a pattern of scorched bricks hidden beneath the Ancient Residence’s wall coatings and brought his advisor in to investigate their history. As the students analyzed the bricks, Shen Le asked to conduct experiments with magic, leaving his request unresolved.

• The Dragon Lord gave Shen Le a strengthened little flag to help him speak with the person responsible for the foreign resentment, but refused to repair the barrier or interfere directly.
• Shen Le warned the Special Affairs Bureau that Firebird’s rampage had disturbed the Red Sea and Suez Canal, then returned to restoring the Ancient Residence.
• Shen Le used a detector and his spiritual perception to find regularly spaced scorched bricks beneath the walls’ paint and putty, then stripped the coatings to reveal them throughout the residence.
• Shen Le’s advisor arrived, reprimanded the students for missing the bricks, and directed them to collect samples and search for replacement bricks to test.
• In the laboratory, Shen Le linked the bricks to the ancestral hall’s destruction and rebuilding, while the students found evidence of a fierce fire and possible deaths inside.
• Shen Le asked his advisor for Song Dynasty bricks to use in experiments involving magic, but the chapter ended before the advisor answered.

Shen Le experimented with repairing Song Dynasty bricks by extracting and infusing elemental spiritual energy, while gathering a large supply of historical bricks and involving his junior brothers and sisters in research. His attempts repeatedly broke or destroyed the bricks, and the chapter ended with him wondering whether he would have to learn brickmaking and fire a kiln himself.

• Shen Le tested infusing earth-element power into a Song brick and extracting its fire-element power, finding that the brick's mass and condition changed before the fragments broke down.
• Shen Le asked the Special Affairs Bureau and Old You for Song Dynasty bricks, then bought several hundred from demons who had collected them from old buildings and fires.
• Professor Han recovered from seeing Shen Le's brick collection and asked him to give samples to junior brothers and sisters for research papers.
• Shen Le directed his junior brothers and sisters to document and analyze the bricks, then began controlled experiments on repairing a fire-damaged brick.
• Shen Le's attempts to balance earth-, water-, and fire-element power repeatedly split the brick, and one explosion damaged metal tools before he blocked the fragments with a metal wall.
• After confirming the laboratory equipment remained intact, Shen Le concluded that repairing red bricks was especially difficult and wondered whether he needed to learn to fire bricks himself.

Shen Le learned to control a spell that repaired and reinforced bricks after extensive experiments, then used it to restore an ancient residence. The residence’s accumulated resentment surged around him and drew him into a vivid vision of its past.

• Shen Le set up wood-fired and electric kilns, practiced sensing how earth, fire, and water transformed bricks, and worked with Gu Yulin and the Special Affairs Bureau to safely test his spell.
• After repeated explosions and two days of practice, Shen Le mastered the spell and began repairing ancient bricks, despite damaging many of the bricks he had bought during his experiments.
• Shen Le repaired the ancient residence’s Ming and Song bricks, transferring their tainted auras while preserving their visible historical marks.
• As the residence’s resentment intensified, Shen Le approached the spreading black flames and was swallowed by them.
• Shen Le found himself inside the grand residence in a vision of extravagant splendor.

Shen Le witnessed the Pu Family’s extravagant banquet and the Ming authorities’ seizure of their residence, where A Zhen was killed after recognizing her Huang Family uncle. As the mansion emptied and the evidence of the massacre surrounded him, a spark from a revolving lantern set the residence ablaze.

• Shen Le explored the Pu Family’s mansion and saw its lavish imported furnishings, foreign feast, and captive dancers, including Lian-niang, who was secretly A Zhen of the Huang Family.
• The mansion’s master defended the family’s extravagant spending to his son, while soldiers later stormed the banquet and an official announced the Pu Family’s loss of property and prohibition from official service.
• A Zhen recognized her uncle, the Huang official, and he took her inside, but Shen Le later learned that she had been killed and falsely declared to have taken her own life.
• Shen Le discovered ligature marks on A Zhen’s neck and realized she had been strangled, then saw the mansion empty as visions of the dead filled it.
• A revolving lantern fell through the roof, and a spark from its wick ignited the entire mansion.

Shen Le watched the old mansion’s resentment consume it in a supernatural fire, which Buddhist and Daoist rites eventually suppressed. Back in the present, he used the Brush Pot’s spirits to reach the lingering souls and gathered the mansion’s old sealing power, placing the resentment and seal inside the Grand Mansion Model.

• Shen Le watched the fire engulf the mansion and free some spirits, while an old monk’s prayer beads failed to contain the flames.
• The Huang official persuaded the old monk to summon more religious practitioners, and eighty-one monks, forty-nine Daoist priests, and Daoist nuns performed rites that extinguished the fire.
• Shen Le returned to the present, brought out the silk-skirt spirits from the Brush Pot, and helped them livestream music and dance inside the mansion to reach its lingering spirits.
• Shen Le saw the mansion’s lights change and gathered the willing spirits into the Grand Mansion Model while trying to contain the others.
• Shen Le discovered the old golden-and-white sealing power in the mansion, shaped it into a cage, and sent it with the remaining resentment into the Grand Mansion Model.

Shen Le finished restoring the Ancient Residence’s courtyard walls and confined its supernatural occupants in the house model, but the trapped factions kept fighting and left the model too heavy to move. The chapter ended with Shen Le trying to calm the model and find a way to separate them so he could leave.

• Shen Le confirmed that the Ancient Residence had been cleared and learned from Junior Martial Sister Huang that the red mark around her neck had disappeared.
• Shen Le tried to shrink the house model, but its occupants fought inside it until the cage of light subdued them; the model remained full-sized and too heavy to carry.
• Shen Le consulted his adviser and began repairing the courtyard walls, directing the Little Ink Marker and Mud Figurines to plaster them in protective work clothes.
• Shen Le installed a glass preservation enclosure with help from the Little Ink Marker and Xiao Ling, using his earth-element power to secure the supports and fuse the glass.
• Shen Le found the model still could not shrink because its occupants remained hostile, and he tried to ask it for help before the fighting started again.

Shen Le tried to lure the hostile black lights out of the model with offerings, then sought help and prepared a miniature holy site as a new home for them. One black light emerged and entered the ornament, but it exploded, and Little Oil Lamp destroyed the enraged light before Shen Le could make it settle there.

• Shen Le offered local dishes and incense to the lights in the model, but only the pale lights came out to eat before fleeing when he approached.
• Shen Le tried offering hand-grabbed mutton and other food associated with the hostile black lights, but they remained inside the model.
• The Temple Keeper and an old monk tried to open the cage of light, but neither could free the beings inside, and the monk suggested Shen Le provide them a suitable place to live.
• Shen Le bought a miniature model of the black lights' holy site, infused it with spiritual energy, and placed it outside the mansion model with an offering of mutton.
• A black light emerged from the cage and entered the ornament, which promptly exploded; the enraged light attacked Shen Le, and Little Oil Lamp struck it with lightning and made it vanish.