Recaps

Li Xingtang tried modern military gear but could not operate it without his armor, so he offered to earn equipment by teaching the Special Affairs Bureau Tang Dynasty combat tactics. After a week of demonstrations, the officers asked him to explain how Modao soldiers could stop enemy infantry fighting vehicles.

• Li Xingtang tried modern protective gear and mountaineering boots, but removing pieces of his armor left him unable to carry the foreign equipment; the Special Affairs Bureau could not find armor that fit him.
• Li Xingtang agreed to earn his own equipment by teaching Tang Dynasty cold-weapon tactics, and he asked to inspect weapons and armor and train in snow.
• Li Xingtang questioned the officers about firearms and the risk of soldiers dying, then drew and explained Tang Dynasty formations while Shen Le translated.
• Li Xingtang demonstrated Modao combat against five- and ten-person squads, beckoned Shen Le to join the training, and spent a week teaching tactics with different weapons and formations.
• When Shen Le said Li Xingtang had finished explaining his tactics, an officer asked him to teach how Modao soldiers could stop an infantry fighting vehicle.

Shen Le helped Li Xingtang settle into his estate, where the Artifact Spirit’s intense killing aura injured a skin-painting ghost who had come to make him a custom face. Later, Daoist Qingyue asked to see the flying sword that had chosen Li Xingtang, then requested permission to bring it to Mount Shu for the sect’s disciples to view.

• Shen Le arranged supplies and clothes for Li Xingtang, while the Silk Skirts tried to film him demonstrating Modao forms and persuaded him to consider a custom-painted face.
• The skin-painting ghost recoiled from Li Xingtang’s killing intent and suffered cracking skin; Shen Le gave her a Spirit Gathering Array and spirit pearls to recover.
• Li Xingtang apologized and offered to compensate the ghost, but Shen Le reassured him and planned to find another way to make him a face.
• A brilliant light rose from Yuantong Zen Temple as Daoist Qingyue contacted Shen Le and visited with a bag of face masks.
• Daoist Qingyue asked to see the flying sword that had left the Secret Realm and joined Li Xingtang, and Shen Le agreed to ask the Artifact Spirit first.
• After Shen Le brought Daoist Qingyue to Li Xingtang’s quarters, the sword reacted sharply to the visitor, and Qingyue asked to take it to Mount Shu for the sect’s disciples to see.

Shen Le brought Li Xingtang and the self-aware flying sword to Mount Shu after the sword agreed to visit Daoist Qingyue’s sect. The swords’ enthusiastic sparring continued at the temple, where they damaged the main hall’s roof, and Shen Le offered to pay for repairs.

• Daoist Qingyue offered the flying sword maintenance materials and asked it to visit Mount Shu, and the sword accepted the gift and agreed to go.
• Shen Le arranged to meet Daoist Qingyue at Mount Shu, then reached the remote location so quickly that Qingyue struggled to work out how to reach him.
• Shen Le’s group traveled up the cliffs in sedan chairs carried by Mud Figurines, following the flying sword to the Taoist temple.
• Daoist Qingyue returned to find the two flying swords sparring above the temple while his disciples and Shen Le’s companions watched.
• Shen Le called out to the swords when their clash threatened the group, but their sword light shattered the main hall’s glazed roof ornaments, so he offered to help repair the hall.

Shen Le visited the Daoist temple, shared sword-control knowledge with its priests, and explored a back mountain littered with debris from errant flying swords. He uncovered a damaged porcelain structure that appeared to be the temple’s Lock Demon Pagoda.

• Shen Le admired the temple’s architectural details and offered to restore its shattered ridge beasts, but Daoist Qingyi redirected him to discuss sword control.
• Li Xingtang demonstrated what he remembered about sword control, and Shen Le taught the priests techniques he had learned from the white ape.
• Shen Le asked whether cameras or radar could help control flying swords, then exchanged ideas with the priests about sword training and Divine Sense.
• The priests led Shen Le to a back mountain covered in damaged vegetation, stonework, and roof tiles from their sword practice.
• Shen Le sensed something beneath a pile of debris and uncovered a large porcelain building with a roof that had been cleanly cut from its walls.
• Shen Le recognized the porcelain building as the temple’s Lock Demon Pagoda.

Shen Le excavated the shattered Demon-Locking Tower with help from his Artifact Spirits and discovered it had been wrecked by Jingyan’s Martial Uncle Qingru’s flying sword. After Shen Le tried to mend two fragments with spiritual power, they cracked, leaving him unsure how to repair the tower.

• Jingyan recalled that the porcelain tower had once stood about as high as he could reach and that only one of its original ten or twelve towers remained.
• Shen Le summoned his Artifact Spirits to clear the area and excavate the buried tower fragments using archaeological grids and tools.
• The Mud Figurines unearthed more than a hundred fragments, and Shen Le determined that the tower had seven stories and stood roughly 240 centimeters tall.
• Jingyan recognized the sword marks as belonging to Martial Uncle Qingru’s flying sword, which had gone berserk after Qingru was injured.
• Shen Le tried to join two eave fragments with spiritual power and earth element, but they cracked instead of mending.

Shen Le began restoring the shattered porcelain tower and found that its fragments resisted his earth power, so he documented them and searched for another approach. After a meal revealed how spiritual resonance could guide reconstruction, he assembled the seven-tiered tower, but it collapsed when its fragments severed the black hair holding them together.

• Shen Le discovered that his earth power could not fuse the porcelain tower fragments, but he decided to repair the tower by another method.
• Shen Le brought the selected fragments into a small house in his bracelet and set up a laboratory, where the Artifact Spirits helped scan, photograph, weigh, and label them.
• Daoist Jingyan and the others invited Shen Le to dinner, where Daoist Qingyue explained that their spiritually raised Rock Plain Carp was lawful to eat and showed how its bones and scales could be reassembled.
• Shen Le recognized that the fish skeleton's spiritual resonance could guide his work, rushed back to the laboratory, and assembled the fragments into a seven-tiered porcelain tower.
• The tower severed the black hair binding its fragments together and collapsed before Shen Le could finish documenting it.

Shen Le tried to repair a porcelain rooster, but after it briefly awakened, it shattered into powder. By sensing the powder, he uncovered the rooster’s memories and learned it had once protected its human family before the Sword Sect listed it as a demon.

• Shen Le sorted the broken porcelain pieces and found that the tower and its objects wanted reassembly, while the creature figures resisted being gathered or repaired.
• Shen Le repaired a two-piece porcelain rooster by joining its fragments with earth and fire power and drawing the Sword Aura into Modao.
• The awakened rooster crowed three times, shaking the laboratory, before Qing Deng struck it with lightning and silenced it.
• The rooster immediately broke apart into porcelain powder, which Shen Le collected and studied until its lingering spirit revealed its memories.
• Shen Le learned that the rooster had escaped slaughter, later rescued its former owner’s family from marauding soldiers, and was eventually placed on the Sword Sect’s demon-hunting list.
• Shen Le wondered whether the rooster wanted him to confront the long-dead daoist priest’s descendants.

Shen Le learned why the chicken demon had been confined and helped it visit the place where its former owner had lived before it returned to the porcelain tower. As he cleansed the tower’s demons and repaired its figures, he discovered the chicken demon had been acting as a jailer, and learned that Daoist Qingyue was struggling to master Sword Qi Thunder Sound.

• Daoist Qingyue showed Shen Le old records explaining that the chicken demon had been moved to the back mountain because villagers feared its presence, then sealed in the pagoda after its soul grew unstable.
• Shen Le took the Porcelain Powder to search for the chicken demon’s former owner’s village, and the chicken demon briefly formed a rooster shape and crowed at the overgrown site before asking to sleep.
• When Shen Le restored a porcelain dog, the chicken demon’s crow subdued it, and Shen Le cleansed the dog’s malice with fire and the Five Thunder Peach Wood Sword.
• Shen Le cleansed the porcelain tower’s components and discovered faint sealing pathways, but a porcelain sword cracked and toppled, setting off a chain reaction among the other swords.
• Daoist Qingyue lamented that he could not master Sword Qi Thunder Sound, and Shen Le realized it was the sword cultivator’s equivalent of breaking the sound barrier.

Shen Le explored how to make flying swords fast and high enough for modern combat, then used his cultivation methods to awaken the porcelain swords in a tower. After nurturing one for days, he sent it flying from a lakeside, prompting a familiar figure to demand that he read the Special Affairs Bureau’s low-altitude flight regulations first.

• Daoist Qingyue pleaded with Shen Le to help restore Sword Qi Thunderclap, explaining that flying swords needed greater speed and altitude to engage modern military aircraft.
• Shen Le borrowed Li Xingtang’s flying sword, sensed how to resonate with it, and glimpsed its flight through clouds and high winds.
• Shen Le tried restoring the broken porcelain swords in the tower and discovered that sword-control cultivation could draw them together and revive their desire to fly.
• A porcelain sword briefly hovered before Shen Le, and he spent seven or eight days nurturing it until it responded more easily to his control.
• Shen Le launched the porcelain sword over a lake, and a familiar figure called for him to recall it and read the low-altitude flight regulations.

Shen Le learned that flying swords had to follow low-altitude aircraft regulations, then practiced flying and restored the porcelain swords to uncover an old sword-control method. Daoist Qingyue used the method to send his own sword speeding toward the sound barrier, prompting an urgent warning from the Special Affairs Bureau.

• Daoist Qingyue explained that Shen Le’s porcelain sword had exceeded flight limits, and Shen Le learned that magical aircraft had to be registered and tracked.
• Shen Le registered the flying sword, attached its tracking identifier, and practiced flying within the temple’s designated airspace.
• The porcelain sword urged Shen Le to restore the other swords, so he repaired them while withholding the power that would let them fly freely.
• While restoring the seventh sword, Shen Le recovered a cultivation method resembling Sword Qi Thunder Sound and brought it to Daoist Qingyue.
• After three days of studying the method with the porcelain sword, Daoist Qingyue launched his own flying sword at extreme speed.
• The Special Affairs Bureau called Daoist Qingyue, warning that his sword had nearly prompted the air defense troops to fire a missile and ordering him to test it in an uninhabited area.

Shen Le welcomed Cloud Kun and the other artifacts home, then learned that Cloud Kun had been assigned a mission to survey foreign ports and shipping routes. Li Xingtang agreed to accompany it, and their first combat test in Lotus Pond ended with Cloud Kun asking Shen Le to repair the Porcelain Sword.

• Shen Le returned to Zhuxi Town and reunited with Cloud Kun, the Scroll, and the other artifacts.
• Cloud Kun explained that it had a major mission to survey harbor and sea conditions so the country’s ships could navigate strategically important routes.
• Shen Le checked that Cloud Kun could escape through water veins, and Li Xingtang volunteered to protect it on its voyage.
• Shen Le tested Cloud Kun and Li Xingtang in Lotus Pond, where Li Xingtang demonstrated a limited-range saber attack and a conspicuous flying-sword strike.
• Cloud Kun asked whether Shen Le had a less noticeable sword, prompting Shen Le to realize it was indirectly urging him to repair the Porcelain Sword.

Shen Le helped prepare Cloud Kun for its voyage, then stayed behind to repair a porcelain tower that would not awaken as a Magic Artifact. After the landlady suggested it might need to be fired again at its original kiln, Shen Le was left needing to discover where it had been made.

• Shen Le negotiated Li Xingtang’s employment with the base and learned that porcelain swords were better suited than the metal flying sword for stealthy underwater work.
• Shen Le repaired seven porcelain swords before Cloud Kun sailed, but he could not control them together and stayed on land to work on the porcelain tower.
• Shen Le comforted Cloud Kun before it departed, then found the mansion nearly empty after many of its Artifact Spirits and Mr. Lu left with the ship.
• Shen Le spent nearly a month assembling most of the tower with Fish Maw Glue, but it did not respond to his supernatural power or awaken.
• The landlady of Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant suggested the tower might need to be fired again at its original kiln, leaving Shen Le unsure where it had been made.

Shen Le researched the enormous porcelain pagoda and learned from a retired professor that its composition matched Sui Dynasty translucent white porcelain, though no known kiln could have produced it. He brought the pagoda to Jingdezhen to consult the ancient Porcelain Demon, whom he found waiting beneath a white porcelain pagoda in his industrial park.

• Shen Le analyzed the porcelain pagoda’s materials and consulted a retired professor, who identified its composition as characteristic of translucent white porcelain from Xing Kiln.
• The professor praised Shen Le’s restoration work but could not explain how the unusually large pagoda had been fired or how to restore it as a magic artifact.
• Shen Le asked Old You to arrange a meeting with the Porcelain Demon, and the Demon welcomed him to Jingdezhen.
• Huang Yutong opened a doorway, and Mud Figurines carried the pagoda through the earth veins to the Porcelain Capital with Shen Le.
• Shen Le crossed the industrial park and found a handsome man in white beneath a tall porcelain pagoda, recognizing the park as the man’s ritual ground.

Shen Le visited Mr. Zhao, the thousand-year-old Porcelain Demon, and saw how he nurtured porcelain spirits in his Secret Realm. When Shen Le brought out the damaged porcelain pagoda, Mr. Zhao recognized it and promised to restore it and awaken its spirituality.

• Shen Le greeted Mr. Zhao and showed him photos of Lan Zhuang, the spiritual artifact he had repaired from porcelain boxes.
• Mr. Zhao led Shen Le through his porcelain tower into a Secret Realm where porcelain spirits worked and porcelain blanks were fired to develop their spirituality.
• Shen Le praised Mr. Zhao's craft, and Mr. Zhao said he envied Shen Le's ability to repair artifacts and enlighten their spirits.
• Shen Le placed his bead bracelet on the ground, and a sedan chair carried out the damaged porcelain pagoda into the courtyard.
• Mr. Zhao recognized the pagoda, reacted with sorrow, and promised to remove its adhesive, apply Porcelain Powder and glaze, and fire it again himself to awaken its spirituality.

Shen Le watched Mr. Zhao restore the porcelain tower and fire it in an attempt to awaken its spirituality. The awakening spiraled out of control, and the tower reverted to fragments, but Mr. Zhao insisted he could repair it again.

• Mr. Zhao had the low-ranking Porcelain Demons soften the Fish Glue, clean the porcelain tower fragments, and join them with Porcelain Powder.
• Shen Le followed Mr. Zhao to the oldest kiln, where the Porcelain Demons secured the tower and some of them climbed inside to be refired.
• Mr. Zhao dressed in a colorful ceremonial robe and used a ritual sword and Yu Step to draw spiritual energy into the kiln as its flames turned white and pale blue.
• The porcelain tower began to awaken and suddenly consumed the kiln’s spiritual power, knocking the Porcelain Demons from the tower and nearly pulling Mr. Zhao into the firebox.
• The kiln cracked, and the Porcelain Powder vanished as the tower returned to fragments; Mr. Zhao stopped Shen Le from rushing in and promised to repair it.

Shen Le tried to restore the porcelain tower and heard fragments of its past, but the tower’s memories left him freezing and revealed a violent attack on a kiln. The chapter ended as a voice ordered the Lu Clan exterminated and the kiln destroyed.

• Mr. Zhao opened the kiln, and his Porcelain Demons carried out the porcelain tower shards and the collapsed wares.
• Shen Le used his spiritual power to assemble and resonate with the tower, hearing howling winds, galloping hooves, and weapons being drawn before frost covered his arms.
• Mr. Zhao woke Shen Le from meditation and offered to help him try again somewhere quieter.
• The Porcelain Demons reassembled the tower, and Shen Le entered meditation again, this time sensing snow, smoke, horses, and the sound of a blade cutting through a person.
• A voice accused the Lu Clan of secretly making cursed implements and ordered, “Exterminate the clan, destroy the kiln!!!”

Shen Le relived the destruction of the Lu Clan kiln and learned that its soul-suppressing figurines had been made to quell spirits connected to the Zhang River massacre. After waking, he set out to find the kiln, and Mr. Zhao gave him a spiritual Xing Kiln porcelain bottle to guide the search.

• Shen Le heard soldiers accuse the Lu Clan of treason after discovering translucent figurines bearing Yuan names and inscriptions, while the clan insisted the figurines had been ordered to suppress the dead beneath the Zhang River.
• A messenger warned that only the Lu family's figurines could suppress demons, but the general ordered the captured clan members taken to the river and the figurines smashed; a young Lu heir struggled to break free as someone urged him to hide.
• Shen Le woke and collided with Mr. Zhao, then recounted the kiln's memories and asked for help locating the abandoned kiln and its figurines.
• Mr. Zhao explained that Xing Kiln covered a broad region in Hebei and showed Shen Le where its excavated kiln sites were located.
• Mr. Zhao introduced a spiritual Xing Kiln porcelain bottle, one surviving piece from a batch of 108, and sent it with Shen Le to help locate ancient kilns.

Shen Le crossed the Taihang Mountains using the Copper Fragment and followed the Xing Kiln porcelain bottle to a kiln site. He discovered the site had already been excavated and protected, leaving him to seek an undiscovered kiln for the bottle.

• Shen Le used maps and the Copper Fragment to teleport from Mount Wutai toward the area between Xingtai City and Stone Family Village.
• Shen Le surveyed the terrain and identified the region as a likely location for Xing Kiln sites, then headed down the mountain.
• The porcelain bottle began struggling in Shen Le’s backpack and pointed northeast, so Shen Le followed its direction using earth-vein travel.
• Shen Le avoided being seen by a passerby and continued underground until he reached a patch of farmland at dusk.
• The porcelain bottle leaped excitedly at the ground, but Shen Le found a sign identifying the spot as a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit and told it the kiln had already been excavated.

Shen Le took the Xing Kiln White Porcelain Bottle to kiln sites so it could absorb the thoughts and feelings embedded in old porcelain. After it found and fed at an unexcavated kiln site, the bottle grew more powerful and pointed toward another possible kiln.

• Shen Le tried to make the porcelain bottle lead him to an undiscovered kiln, but it quieted only after he promised to buy it porcelain and threatened to call Mr. Zhao.
• Shen Le bought porcelain for the bottle, learned from Mr. Zhao that its effects could not be detected by ordinary instruments, and began visiting Xing Kiln sites with help from Gu Yulin and the local Special Affairs Bureau.
• At a remote site, the bottle grew excited as Shen Le sank underground and led him through a cultural layer to a buried porcelain kiln.
• Shen Le meditated beside the kiln and sensed the hopes, anxieties, and other feelings of the workers who had made and fired its porcelain while the bottle absorbed the light specks.
• After absorbing the kiln’s light, the bottle’s glaze and crackle patterns changed, and it urged Shen Le toward another site, leaving him unsure whether to call archaeologists before going there.

Shen Le searched the Xing Kiln region for a particular kiln while the local archaeological team lacked the capacity to investigate new sites. After the professor identified the porcelain he had collected and Little Oil Lamp helped him travel faster, Shen Le finally found the place the porcelain vase was seeking.

• Shen Le consulted an elderly professor, who explained that the archaeological team was occupied with rescue excavations and suggested bringing back finds for identification.
• Shen Le gathered porcelain and other inscribed objects from seventeen or eighteen kiln sites, and the professor dated most of them to the Tang Dynasty or later.
• Shen Le resumed searching, using the kiln auras he had learned to recognize, but found that surveying the vast region would take a long time.
• Little Oil Lamp proposed riding a hoverboard while Shen Le flew beside it, and their new method increased his search speed fivefold.
• Ten days later, Shen Le reached a thicket with the porcelain vase and pagoda and asked them to wait while he went in to inspect the site.

Shen Le joined the archaeological excavation of the porcelain kiln ruins and used his hidden abilities to speed up the work while learning to read the site’s layers. When excavators uncovered marked Translucent White Porcelain and a major discovery, the Special Affairs Bureau ordered everyone to evacuate.

• Shen Le helped survey the kiln site, then joined the students assigned to excavate test squares.
• Shen Le secretly loosened the soil with his spiritual power, found porcelain fragments, and learned to distinguish the archaeological layers from the old professor.
• Shen Le dug and processed artifacts so quickly that the professor reassigned him to clean porcelain shards.
• Little Oil Lamp warned Shen Le that the porcelain tower was reacting to a new discovery and wanted to emerge.
• Researchers uncovered large pieces of Translucent White Porcelain bearing [Yuan Dynasty] marks, and Special Affairs Bureau personnel ordered an immediate evacuation.

Shen Le investigated a spiritual disturbance at an archaeological site and used his supernatural abilities and Artifact Spirits to recover and sort ancient porcelain fragments. As the pieces began forming a translucent white porcelain figurine, Professor Zhang rushed forward to examine the historic discovery.

• Shen Le ran back into the cordoned area, sent Qing Deng to create an Electric Net, and examined the porcelain fragments causing the disturbance.
• Shen Le uncovered more fragments and concluded that they were humanoid soul-suppressing figurines connected to corpses buried beneath the Zhang River.
• Shen Le used the porcelain bottle to sort the fragments, then asked Professor Zhang to return as a witness while the other archaeologists withdrew.
• Shen Le brought up the buried fragments and summoned Artifact Spirits, who sorted the shards into piles and began assembling a figurine.
• Professor Zhang recognized the emerging figure as a translucent white porcelain figurine from the Northern Dynasties and hurried toward it, prompting Shen Le to warn him to be careful.

Shen Le and the Special Affairs Bureau subdued and laid to rest the spirit haunting a Northern Dynasty translucent white porcelain figurine, then recovered and documented its shards. After the Silk Skirts rapidly reassembled the figurine under Shen Le’s direction, Professor Zhang praised him as a master restorer and urged him to work in porcelain restoration.

• Shen Le protected Professor Zhang from the figurine’s yin wind with a lightning barrier and compressed the wind with a fire-filled gale.
• A Special Affairs Bureau worker used a Fully Automatic Spectrum Requiem Device to make the spirit collapse into the porcelain shards, where it expressed that it had been wronged.
• Shen Le and the worker used the device to lay the spirit to rest and confirmed the shards were free of yin-taint.
• Shen Le brought the shards to Professor Zhang, while the Silk Skirts washed, photographed, weighed, and labeled them.
• Shen Le mixed adhesive as the Silk Skirts quickly reassembled the figurine, prompting Professor Zhang to call him a master of porcelain restoration and offer him work.

Shen Le purified the resentful porcelain figurines with the help of the Special Affairs Bureau’s device and Professor Zhang’s documentary, then let the Porcelain Tower absorb their remaining light. The tower revealed memories of a boy from the Lu Family fleeing a massacre and meeting an Immortal Master who offered to help him take revenge.

• Shen Le explained that the porcelain figurines had been made to suppress the Eastern Wei imperial family’s corpses and assembled shards into faces to draw out their resentment.
• Shen Le, the Special Affairs Bureau agent, and Professor Zhang helped calm the spirits, with Professor Zhang playing a documentary about the fall of Northern Qi.
• After the porcelain shards were purified, Shen Le placed the Porcelain Tower among them, and it absorbed the remaining points of light until the full moon slanted westward.
• Shen Le pressed his hands against the Porcelain Tower, and its memories revealed a boy grieving for his murdered family as an old man urged him to escape.
• An Immortal Master arrived and offered to help the boy take revenge if he could fire soul-calming figurines, and the old man cried out, “Immortal Master!”

Shen Le listened to a memory of an Immortal Master rescuing the last craftsman capable of making Soul-Calming Figurines, then joined an excavation that uncovered an ancient dragon kiln. The Porcelain Tower demanded to be refired in that exact kiln to grow stronger and become whole, leaving Shen Le to figure out how to restore and use it.

• An Immortal Master tried to recover the resentment released when Soul-Calming Figurines were shattered, learned that the Lu Family Porcelain Kiln's craftsmen had been taken away, and brought the surviving youth and old man to safety.
• The youth begged the Immortal Master to teach him cultivation so he could avenge his family, but the Immortal Master told him to fire a Soul-Calming Figurine first.
• Shen Le awoke from his meditation, joined Professor Zhang and the students at the excavation, and helped uncover a long, sloping dragon kiln.
• Shen Le examined the kiln's structure and found that its floor had been formed from the hillside's fired earth rather than refractory bricks.
• The Porcelain Tower urgently summoned Shen Le and, through Little Oil Lamp, said it had to be refired in that exact kiln to absorb its power and become whole.