Recaps

After repairing the rift, Shen Le received gifts from the grateful sea demons and brought their leaders to the surface to meet the Special Affairs Bureau. He proposed an alliance between Huaxia and the sea clans, leaving them to consider the request and asking them to help Huaxia ships in distress.

• The sea demons thanked Shen Le for repairing the rift, and Xuan Yuan, Old Sea Turtle, Inkshadow Lord, and others presented him with gifts.
• Shen Le and the sea demons surfaced with Cloud Kun, where Special Affairs Bureau agents reestablished contact with their worried director.
• After seeing the treasures collected aboard Cloud Kun, the director asked Shen Le to help establish trade with the sea demons.
• Shen Le used Lan Zhuang's map to explain Huaxia's borders and asked the sea demons to form an alliance with its government.
• A Special Affairs Bureau agent displayed Huaxia's national flag and asked the sea demons to rescue its citizens when they encountered ships flying it.

Shen Le continued traveling along the Heaven-Earth Barrier, trading with sea demons and sorting the spiritual materials and salvage they brought him. While cleaning a strange, damaged artifact, he uncovered an ugly, unidentifiable fragment whose faint life and conflicting auras suggested it belonged to something extraordinary.

• The Special Affairs Bureau traded equipment and supplies with Xuan Yuan and the other sea demons, registered them, and arranged to make custom guards for their teeth and pincers.
• Shen Le continued along the Heaven-Earth Barrier with Cloud Kun while Xuan Yuan alerted aquatic demons, and the Bureau collected the valuable seabed materials they traded.
• Shen Le sorted his growing haul of spiritual materials and worked with Xiao Ling, Qing Deng, and the paper figures to identify and catalog salvaged antiques.
• After half a month, Shen Le sensed a weak, sleeping life within a strange fragment and carefully recorded it with nondestructive scans before beginning to clean it.
• A Bureau employee noticed that the shells embedded in the fragment came from both freshwater and the sea, and Shen Le eventually exposed a crooked, unrecognizable piece of a larger object.

Shen Le restored a sea-salvaged pottery fragment and used the Copper Fragment to locate its missing pieces, leading him back to the South Sea and then to a crab who recognized the relic as his old house. The crab offered to search for the other fragments.

• Shen Le searched the school archive, identified the relic as part of an ancient pottery roof, and carefully cleaned it while traveling with Cloud Kun.
• Shen Le used the Copper Fragment to sense for related pieces, then traveled by earth veins to the South Sea Shipwreck Museum to borrow specialized restoration equipment.
• Shen Le desalinated the pottery fragment with the museum equipment and gave Doctor Senior Brother a protective pearl pendant.
• Shen Le used the restored fragment to locate scattered pieces on land and at sea, then returned to the waters near Dragon Gate aboard Cloud Kun.
• A giant octopus brought Shen Le a crab with an old vat strapped to its back, and the crab said the vat had once been his house and offered to search for similar pieces.

Shen Le recovered pottery fragments from House Slave’s old nest and had a restoration teacher reconstruct them into a model of a courtyard pottery house. The house’s Han-to-Northern-and-Southern-Dynasties style left its origin unexplained, and Shen Le’s suggestion to fire it again drove the teacher into a breakdown.

• Shen Le used a spell to find and retrieve dozens of buried fragments from House Slave’s coral nest, then gave the hermit crab a pearl-embedded vat as a new home.
• Shen Le encouraged House Slave to register with the Special Affairs Bureau so it could trade seafloor finds and shipwreck information for useful goods.
• Shen Le cleaned and desalinated the fragments at the South Sea Shipwreck Museum, then struggled to determine how they fit together.
• A restoration teacher made plaster replicas and assembled the pieces into a courtyard pottery house, identifying it as a likely funerary object from the Han, Wei and Jin, or Northern and Southern Dynasties.
• The restoration teacher could not explain how the pottery house had ended up in the sea, and Shen Le’s suggestion to fire it again caused the teacher to warp and shatter.

Shen Le experimented with ways to restore sea-salvaged pottery, comparing fired repairs with earth-element magic and discovering that magical reinforcement could awaken spiritual energy. He settled on laboriously filling the pottery’s holes with clay, mud, and water before firing it, but someone abruptly dragged him away before he could begin.

• Shen Le asked Professor Li whether he could fire clay onto porous sea-salvaged pottery, and Professor Li said the method was theoretically possible but advised him to experiment or consult specialists in Jingdezhen.
• Shen Le asked Cloud Kun to find sea demons who could salvage pottery, then collected several crates of shards and returned to Zhuxi Town to test restoration methods.
• Shen Le practiced making pottery, then divided the salvaged pieces into groups to compare cleansing their demonic aura with firing them untreated.
• Shen Le used dental tools to drill and fill a pottery shard before refiring it, but the repair increased density only around the drilled holes.
• Shen Le tested filling pottery with old pottery powder, clay, and earth-element magic, finding that magical reinforcement worked but caused spiritual aura to emerge.
• Shen Le decided to carry clay, mud, and water into the pottery’s cavities before refiring it, but someone dragged him away before he could start.

Shen Le entered a farming family’s memories through the pottery fragments and used magic to help his family reclaim and cultivate wasteland. After their first abundant harvest, a powerful landlord seized the field because the family had never registered its claim, leaving Shen Le forced to restrain his anger.

• Shen Le arranged the pottery fragments by their resonances, triggering a vision in which he became the eldest son of a poor farming family called Dog Boy.
• Shen Le received a surge of strength from the Copper Fragment, used earth magic to reclaim the family’s field, and pretended the Earth God had blessed them when his father and younger brother saw the miracle.
• Shen Le secretly used magic to improve the family’s crops and make iron farm tools, helping them harvest more grain than they had ever owned.
• A constable and village officials marked the field as a landlord’s property, and the landlord’s guards demanded taxes from the Shen family.
• Shen Le protested that reclaimed wasteland belonged to the people who worked it, but the village head explained that the family had needed to register the land first.
• Shen Le prepared to fight the guards, but his father held him back, and Shen Le restrained himself to protect the family from retaliation.

Shen Le endured two months of brutal river labor while his family remained behind, only to return and find a deadly epidemic sweeping the village. Unable to reveal his healing magic to save everyone, he watched as Daoists from the Celestial Masters Sect arrived to distribute talisman water, leaving him wondering which dynasty he had entered.

• Shen Le accepted his family's labor conscription and suffered through two months of freezing, exhausting work, healing himself with magic while helping other workers carry timber.
• Shen Le returned to a village where many households mourned the dead and found his father and mother gravely ill with an epidemic.
• Shen Le used a healing spell to revive his father and cure his mother, then checked that his younger brother and sister were uninfected.
• Shen Le refrained from treating the other villagers because he feared exposing his magic and could not heal everyone.
• A Daoist from the Celestial Masters Sect arrived with disciples and announced that they would distribute talisman water to save the villagers, startling Shen Le.

Shen Le watched the Celestial Masters Sect treat the village plague with medicated talisman water and learned that Zhang Jiao had ordered the relief effort. Though a Daoist priest invited him to join the sect, Shen Le’s parents agreed only after arranging a marriage, so he fled the proposal and declared he was leaving.

• Shen Le kept his family away from the crowd as the Daoists prepared and distributed talisman water mixed with rice.
• Shen Le recognized medicinal ingredients in the water, and the long-bearded daoist priest confirmed that the Great Worthy Teacher had devised the relief method.
• The long-bearded daoist priest invited Shen Le to join the faith, but Shen Le hesitated because he did not want to abandon his family.
• The village headman encouraged the priest to recruit Shen Le, who offered his family grain and priority access to talisman water if Shen Le entered the sect.
• Shen Le’s father agreed to let him leave only after arranging a marriage, so Shen Le rejected the plan and announced that he was leaving.

Shen Le traveled with the Way of Great Peace, secretly using healing magic as he witnessed famine and devastation across Ji Province. He finally met Zhang Jiao, saw him conjure eight yellow-clad fighters, and watched him raise his sword and call for thunder.

• Shen Le joined the long-bearded Daoist in distributing talisman water and medicine, secretly healing villagers and earning their group a summons to meet Zhang Jiao.
• As Shen Le and the Daoists traveled through Ji Province, they found villages emptied by famine and disease, leaving him distressed by the suffering he could not stop.
• Shen Le arrived at a Way of Great Peace stronghold and waited with gathered believers for Zhang Jiao to expound the teachings.
• Zhang Jiao spoke about disasters, the people's suffering, and the authorities, then conjured eight burly men dressed in yellow from cold sparks.
• After the yellow-clad men fought with volunteers and vanished back into Zhang Jiao's sleeve, Zhang Jiao raised his sword and shouted, "Let thunder come!"

Shen Le joined Zhang Jiao’s retinue, learned his scriptures and spells, and watched famine drive the Yellow Turban rebellion into open war. As Han forces besieged Changshe, Shen Le saw a colossal dragon looming over the city and wondered whether defeating the dynasty meant severing its dragon vein.

• Zhang Jiao summoned Shen Le, recognized that he had seen through the staged lightning, and offered to teach him his Daoist scriptures and immortal arts; Shen Le agreed to follow him.
• Shen Le traveled with Zhang Jiao for three or four years, learning most of his spells and the one hundred and seventy volumes of the Scripture of Great Peace while treating the sick and witnessing worsening famine.
• After Tang Zhou informed on the Yellow Turban movement, the rebellion began early in the Year of Jiazi, and Shen Le treated wounded rebels at Zhang Jiao’s headquarters.
• Shen Le arranged for his father’s family to flee south of the Yangtze, then saw a large Han army besiege Changshe.
• Shen Le used his Spirit Eye to see a colossal dragon above Changshe, roaring at the Yellow Turban Army, and wondered whether they had to sever the Han Dynasty’s dragon vein to win.

Shen Le watched the Yellow Turban Army face the Han government forces and saw Zhang Jiao rally his divided troops into a qilin-shaped military aura. When the Yellow Turbans began to lose, Zhang Jiao unleashed powerful spells that briefly turned the battle, but the Han army’s national fortune and military spirit broke them and left him gravely shaken.

• Shen Le compared the government army’s unified dragon-shaped aura with the Yellow Turban forces’ scattered clouds as both sides prepared to fight outside Guangzong City.
• Zhang Jiao rallied the Yellow Turban soldiers with a speech, and their military aura gathered into a crude but recognizable qilin.
• Shen Le treated wounded soldiers as the battle turned against the Yellow Turbans and their qilin grew dim beneath the government army’s pressure.
• Zhang Jiao called up wind, tremors, and lightning, disrupting the government forces and helping the Yellow Turban Army push their line back.
• The Han commander sounded a horn and directed the giant dragon to unleash the Han Dynasty’s national fortune, breaking Zhang Jiao’s spells and making him spit blood.

Shen Le tried to save Zhang Jiao as the Yellow Turban Army collapsed, then fought through Cao Cao’s cavalry to escape the battlefield. He survived with a serious wound and realized Zhang Jiao was dead and the rebellion was over for him.

• Shen Le found that Zhang Jiao’s spiritual backlash had drained his vitality beyond saving as the government army broke through the Yellow Turban ranks.
• A guard commander carried Zhang Jiao away while Shen Le joined the retreating formation and was swept into the flight from the battlefield.
• Cao Cao’s cavalry charged at Zhang Jiao’s formation, and Shen Le fought off several riders before a saber-wielding general led five men to encircle him.
• Shen Le wounded the general and broke through the encirclement, taking a deep cut beneath his ribs as he escaped the pursuit.
• Shen Le looked back at the fading Yellow Heaven aura and concluded that Zhang Jiao was dead and the Yellow Turban Rebellion was over.

After the Yellow Turban defeat, Shen Le fled south to find his family, moved them to a fortified settlement in Kuaiji, and then set out to seek Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang. As he neared Lu Zhi’s army, the world rippled before him, and he insisted on seeing Zhuge Liang first.

• Shen Le traveled south in disguise, reached Songjiang, and reunited with a fat senior brother who assured him his parents and siblings were safe.
• Shen Le decided his family had to leave before the authorities exposed their connection to the Yellow Turbans, and he hurried them out of Songjiang with gold and magic.
• Shen Le and the fat senior brother escorted the family to a settlement near Kuaiji Commandery, where they registered, bought land, and began building a fortified manor.
• After settling his family, Shen Le left and headed north, determined to find Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang.
• As Shen Le approached Lu Zhi’s army, the world rippled around him, and he demanded to see Zhuge Liang first.

After reliving Zhang Jiao’s memories, Shen Le restored a complete, annotated version of the Scripture of Great Peace and gave it to the Special Affairs Bureau and the Way of Orthodox Unity. He also asked the Bureau to help arrange a possible weapons refit for Cloud Kun, who called while performing for troops and asked to visit mountain border outposts.

• Shen Le recorded the lost scripture passages and Zhang Jiao’s spells, testing which ones still worked with modern spiritual energy and negotiating with Qing Deng over lightning magic.
• Shen Le finished the Scripture of Great Peace and presented it to Gu Yulin, the Special Affairs Bureau director, and a senior ritual master of the Way of Orthodox Unity.
• The senior ritual master confirmed the manuscript was an authentic, unusually complete version, and Shen Le offered copies to the Bureau and the Way of Orthodox Unity for their use.
• Shen Le asked to practice the spells and refine bean soldiers and Yellow Turban Warriors, and the senior ritual master promised supplies and records from the Way of Orthodox Unity.
• Shen Le asked the director to help with Cloud Kun’s requested vertical launch system refit, and the director agreed to cover modification costs if the Navy approved it.
• Cloud Kun told Shen Le it had performed for the troops and asked to perform at border outposts, prompting Shen Le to question whether he expected to be carried up a five-thousand-meter mountain.

Shen Le agreed to take Cloud Kun and the Artifact Spirits to perform morale-boosting shows at remote military outposts, then used the earth veins to travel to the Karakoram Mountains. He and Gu Yulin reached the wrong outpost ahead of schedule, where startled soldiers mistook Shen Le for an immortal.

• Cloud Kun asked Shen Le to bring morale-boosting performances to border outposts, and Shen Le agreed to visit locations approved by the authorities.
• The Shanghai Special Affairs Bureau arranged the visits, and Gu Yulin gave Shen Le the schedule and traveled with him inside Cloud Kun.
• Shen Le used the earth veins to locate an outpost in the Karakoram Mountains, alarming bureau staff when his tracking signal disappeared.
• Shen Le emerged in front of a squad of soldiers and introduced himself, prompting them to form a defensive line and mistake him for an immortal.
• Gu Yulin verified their identities with the soldiers, who explained that their outpost visit was scheduled for three days later.
• Gu Yulin told Shen Le that his tracksuit and sudden arrival had made him look like an immortal, and Shen Le protested that he was not a monkey.

Shen Le joined a border patrol, using his powers to ease the soldiers’ journey and build safer paths and shelters before delivering supplies to their outpost. He left the soldiers watching a performance by his supernatural companions, while privately believing they were the true immortals.

• Shen Le and Gu Yulin met a patrol team, and Shen Le offered to accompany them to their outpost.
• Shen Le calmed the wind, warmed the air, cleared frost from the soldiers’ gear, and improved their trail as they walked.
• Shen Le reshaped a perilous slope into a zigzag staircase with resting platforms, drainage, guardrails, and talismans to protect it from snow and wind.
• The patrol reached the outpost early, where the veteran squad leader showed Shen Le the improved barracks and facilities.
• Shen Le delivered fifty crates of supplies from Cloud Kun and invited the soldiers to watch a performance by Xiao Ling, the skirts, and other supernatural companions.

Shen Le carved Spirit Jade talismans to improve the soldiers’ border outpost, then healed several soldiers with spiritual fruit and a spell. He set off on foot toward Fairy Bay to cultivate, and as he walked the Sky Road, his power began repairing it while he reflected on the generations who had built and guarded the frontier.

• Li Xingtang performed a sword dance, and the soldiers recognized him as Instructor Li and eagerly asked him for lessons.
• Shen Le carved more than a hundred Spirit Jade talismans and asked Gu Yulin to find out whether the soldiers could safely consume spirit liquid or spirit fruit.
• Shen Le traveled with the old squad leader to the forward post, where he planted Spirit Jade to warm and reinforce the watchtower, clear its steps, and improve conditions for the sentries.
• Shen Le shared spiritual fruit with the soldiers and secretly cast a healing spell, relieving several soldiers’ illnesses and injuries.
• Shen Le asked to walk to Fairy Bay as part of his cultivation, and the old squad leader escorted him in a Warrior vehicle while a Drone guided and monitored him.
• As Shen Le walked the rugged Sky Road, he sensed the earth’s energy, repaired the roadbed, and reflected on the generations who had built and defended the frontier.

After a month walking the high-altitude border outposts, Shen Le returned home and used his new understanding of earth energy to resume restoring pottery fragments. He sensed more fragments near Treasure Island and at sea, leaving Gu Yulin to manage the sensitive plans while he arranged a trip with Cloud Kun to search underwater first.

• Shen Le returned from the border trek badly sunburned, and the landlady gave him skincare products before he ate and looked around Zhuxi Town.
• Shen Le meditated, shed his damaged skin, and found that his border journey had sharpened his ability to sense the pottery fragments' aura.
• Shen Le sensed fragments near Treasure Island and asked Gu Yulin to seek guidance about whether and how to retrieve them.
• Gu Yulin warned Shen Le not to go to Treasure Island on his own and promised to wait for instructions from higher-ups.
• Shen Le called Cloud Kun to arrange an underwater search, and Cloud Kun agreed to come after delivering supplies to the Great Vortex Secret Realm.

Shen Le completed an intensive month of Three Kingdoms training and used the Copper Fragment to travel into the past, hoping to meet Zhuge Liang. He arrived in Wu in 236, after Zhuge Liang had died, and discovered that repeated deaths only restarted him in the same young body.

• Shen Le asked Gu Yulin and the Special Affairs Bureau to arrange intensive lessons in Three Kingdoms history, survival skills, medicine, agriculture, and crafts.
• Shen Le completed the training, retrieved the repaired pottery shard, and was transported to a young boy’s body in Wu Region.
• Shen Le learned that it was the fifth year of Jiahe, 236, and realized Zhuge Liang had died three years earlier.
• Shen Le tried to alter his destination by drowning himself, but restarted in the same body and at the same point in time.
• Shen Le jumped from a watchtower and repeatedly attempted to restart and change his landing point, but each time returned to the same moment.
• Shen Le concluded that the Copper Fragment’s power kept returning him to this body, so he would have to follow its fate.

During ancestral rites, Shen Le learned that his family faced a demand for five hundred shi of grain and a severe drought, so he built a model Dragon Bone Waterwheel to help irrigate their fields. The family reproduced it, saved its crops, and persuaded the county magistrate to reduce the grain levy to two hundred shi.

• At the ancestral rites, Shen Le discovered that he had reincarnated as a descendant of his former self and learned that the family had fifty-six male members.
• Shen Dun and the family elders discussed the county's five-hundred-shi grain demand and the drought threatening their crops.
• Shen Le inspected the fields, built a model Dragon Bone Waterwheel, and told Shen Dun that an ancestor had taught him the design in a dream.
• Shen Dun showed the working model to the elders, who hired local carpenters to build full-sized waterwheels.
• The family installed more than ten waterwheels, irrigated its fields, and gave the design to the authorities in exchange for reducing the demanded grain to two hundred shi.

Shen Le used his modern knowledge to improve the Shen family’s farming and industries, raising its wealth and influence over ten years. When Eastern Wu ordered one in five able-bodied men to campaign against the Shanyue, Shen Le urged the family to seek military merit and volunteered to lead its own unit.

• Shen Le embraced his reputation as a prodigy, studied under a scholar descended from a copier of the Xiping Stone Classics, and planned to preserve the scholar’s knowledge.
• Shen Le introduced composting and other farming methods, then helped the family expand into silk, textiles, liquor, papermaking, and porcelain.
• Over ten years, the Shen family doubled its population and increased its assets nearly tenfold, while Shen Le became one of its leaders.
• A draft order required one in five able-bodied men to join the campaign against the Shanyue, and the Shen elders debated paying tenant farmers to serve in their place.
• Shen Le argued that the family needed military merit to gain advancement and protection, then proposed leading a trained unit of relatives, retainers, and tenant farmers himself.

Shen Le led and trained his clan’s troops through a successful campaign to seize Shanyue rice, earning promotion to company commander. When ordered to lead an assault on a mountain stronghold, he proposed making climbing equipment and attacking from behind, leaving the captain to decide whether to grant him time.

• Shen Le organized his 112 men, enforced camp and hygiene rules, and kept his unit healthy during the march to the Danyang Mountains.
• Ordered to harvest the Shanyue’s rice, Shen Le divided his men between the harvest and a drilled defensive formation, then repelled repeated attacks and defeated a chieftain.
• Shen Le’s unit completed the rice harvest with few injuries, and he was promoted to company commander as the hungry Shanyue began surrendering.
• When the Hongqian Tribe offered to surrender if the army removed the You Hai Tribe, the captain assigned Shen Le to lead an assault on their cliffside stronghold.
• Shen Le argued that a frontal assault would fail and offered to make climbing equipment and lead volunteers in a surprise attack, promising to lead the charge himself if the plan failed.

Shen Le led a daring cliff-climbing assault that helped the government army defeat the Hongqian Tribe, earning promotion and substantial rewards. Back home, he proposed settling the mountain folk and expanding the Shen Family’s businesses through shipbuilding, with plans to develop salt production.

• Shen Le forged climbing gear, proved his route up the cliff, and persuaded the commandant to let him lead a surprise force over the mountain.
• Shen Le led thirty men toward the Shanyue camp; one climber died, but the remaining twenty-nine reached the summit and set the camp ablaze.
• Shen Le’s deception threw the Hongqian Tribe into chaos, and the government troops stormed the camp while the dragon-serpent vision rose above them.
• Shen Le earned the foremost merit, was promoted to Bandit-Catching Clerk, and received five hundred households of mountain folk to resettle near his home.
• Shen Le returned with every Shen Family descendant and promised support to the dead and wounded tenants.
• Shen Le urged the clan to house and feed the mountain folk, then proposed shipbuilding to expand trade and support salt production.

Shen Le took up his post as Mao County’s Bandit-Capture Clerk after sea bandits raided East Ditch Township, and he began investigating the attack despite the county’s lack of boats, intelligence, and manpower. He suspected the raiders had motives beyond ordinary plunder and organized coastal warnings while his search for answers continued.

• Shen Le received an urgent summons from County Magistrate Zhou and learned that sea bandits had attacked East Ditch Township, killing seventeen villagers and abducting more than ten people.
• Shen Le secured permission to question victims, investigate suspicious people and shops, mobilize available manpower, and prepare coastal defenses, but the magistrate would not immediately requisition civilian mounts.
• Shen Le reached East Ditch Township and found that the raiders had destroyed valuable lacquerware and bronze mirrors while targeting poor dock workers and taking people seemingly at random.
• Shen Le questioned local prominent families and searched for stolen goods, but found no leads or signs that the loot was being fenced locally.
• Shen Le suspected the bandits had a distant channel for selling stolen goods or another purpose beyond profit, then organized coastal villages and established beacon towers to warn of future attacks.

Shen Le modified fishing boats and used tide calculations to lead government troops in a successful surprise attack on pirates raiding the coast. After interrogating captured pirates and learning the location of their island base, he showed the county magistrate a sextant and prepared to navigate an expedition against them.

• Shen Le fitted fishing boats with triangular sails and trained crews to sail them quickly against the wind.
• Shen Le charted coastal waters and predicted when the pirates would raid, despite pressure from the county magistrate and local families to act sooner.
• Shen Le led his troops by boat to a pirate raid, where their Mandarin Duck Formation routed the pirates and captured one boat and two men.
• Shen Le interrogated the captives and learned that the Sea Dragon Gang was based on Snake-Coiled Island.
• Shen Le showed the county magistrate a sextant and explained that it would help the troops find their way at sea.