Recaps

As spiritual energy surged worldwide and unleashed supernatural disasters, the United States intensified pressure on Eastern Power. Shen Le helped the awakened Chu chime bells claim the name Ying and test its ability to communicate across vast distances, leaving the little ones eager to use that power against the Bald Eagle.

• Spiritual energy stirred strange phenomena around the world, including living artifacts in London, a demon parade in Kyoto, and deadly supernatural outbreaks across the United States.
• The United States blamed Eastern Power for the crisis and escalated its embargoes, tariffs, military deployments, and pressure on Eastern Power's allies.
• Shen Le confirmed that the awakened chime bells possessed an independent consciousness, and they named themselves Ying after Ying Capital of Chu.
• Ying told Shen Le that its sacrificial power could reach heaven and potentially send messages over a wide area, so the Special Affairs Bureau began testing its range and recipients.
• After the tests, the little ones complained that the Bald Eagle was provoking them, and Ying proposed contacting gods who hated the Bald Eagle so they could retaliate.

Shen Le and the spiritual artifacts received approval to conduct a limited retaliation against the Bald Eagle, with Ying insisting that any awakened beings must choose for themselves whether to respond. They traveled by sea to a nearby naval outpost, where Shen Le began playing the Chime Bells to ask the ocean’s forgotten beings if they had suffered injustice.

• Ying demanded retaliation after the Bald Eagle accused him of being a weapon and revealed that part of him had been stolen and corrupted.
• Shen Le argued that Ying had the right to respond, and the Shanghai Bureau director secured approval for a controlled operation within the Heaven-Earth Barrier.
• The group settled on asking beings near the Strait of Malacca whether they wanted to retaliate, rather than forcing them to act.
• The director presented an operation plan, and higher-ups approved a trial with orders to stay within the barrier, leave no traces, and not initiate attacks.
• Three days later, Shen Le and the spiritual artifacts traveled aboard Cloud Kun to the South Sea near a Bald Eagle naval base.
• Shen Le played an ancient boat song on the Chime Bells, sending a call through the sea to ask its forgotten beings whether they had suffered injustice.

Shen Le and Ying awakened the spirits of the sea and land with the bells and a song, driving foreign forces from the region and sinking a destroyer. The operation ended with the shipwrecked spirits returning to the depths and the exhausted Shen Le resting aboard the Cloud Kun.

• Ying rang the yong bell while Shen Le summoned the spirits of sunken ships and occupied islands with ritual music.
• Shen Le and his companions performed a song that stirred the natural spirits across the Strait of Malacca.
• Natural spirits overwhelmed the bases, disabling equipment and transforming soldiers as vegetation and wildlife reclaimed the occupied land.
• A gigantic ghost ship rose beneath a Burke-class destroyer, crippled it, and forced its crew to abandon ship.
• A face formed from seawater ordered the sailors to leave, and the destroyer sank as the shipwreck spirits returned to the depths.
• The Cloud Kun carried Shen Le and the others away, and Shen Le collapsed from exhaustion while his companions celebrated the spirits' return home.

After the Strait of Malacca incident, Bald Eagle softened its accusations against Eastern Power, while Shen Le meditated and awakened the Bronze Tripod’s full power. He formed a Yang Spirit, discovered the tripod’s ancient purpose, and realized he might be able to improve Huaxia’s barrier between heaven and earth.

• Survivors from the destroyer and island bases reported supernatural events and inexplicable damage, prompting Bald Eagle to retreat from its accusations and propose international talks on supernatural phenomena.
• Gu Yulin and Daoist Qingyue discussed the new diplomatic stance with Shen Le, who learned that negotiations were underway to recover cultural relics once kept with Ying’s fragments.
• Shen Le entered meditation, and the Bronze Tripod unfolded within his sea of consciousness before manifesting physically and refining spiritual energy into power that strengthened him.
• The refined energy formed Shen Le’s Yang Spirit, which left his body, traveled freely, and revealed the structure of the barrier between heaven and earth.
• The Bronze Tripod showed Shen Le visions of Zhuanxu severing communication between heaven and earth and a later sage king dividing the Nine Provinces and forging the tripod to establish barriers against monsters.
• The tripod’s ancient inscription told Shen Le that the barrier depended on order and renewal, and that it could extend wherever the heart’s intent reached.

Shen Le and the Special Affairs Bureau established that the Bronze Tripod could guide changes to the Heaven and Earth Barrier, and evidence from ancient beings and investigations confirmed the barrier’s existence and potential for expansion. At a high-level meeting, officials debated whether and how far to adjust it, with Shen Le arguing that modern Huaxia could safely extend its reach while strategic and diplomatic concerns remained unresolved.

• Shen Le showed the Bronze Tripod to Daoist Qingyue, Qing Li, and other cultivators, and Qing Li read an inscription they could not perceive.
• Shen Le explained that the tripod contained a blueprint for expanding the Heaven and Earth Barrier, and Qing Li and Nether Springs supported the artifact’s ancient significance.
• The Special Affairs Bureau gathered testimony and technical evidence confirming the barrier’s existence, protective effects, and likely capacity for modification.
• A high-level meeting convened to consider the barrier’s adjustment, and Shen Le argued that modern Huaxia could support a much larger range.
• Qing Li and a military representative supported expansion for spiritual and strategic reasons, while officials raised concerns about international reactions and the need for a persuasive public narrative.

Shen Le learned that the Bronze Tripod needed to absorb Nine Provinces Metal from the far reaches of the country to expand the Heaven-Earth Barrier. After officials gathered representative metal objects and built a spiritual furnace, Shen Le ignited it and the Bronze Tripod began drawing in power, demanding to be fed.

• At a high-level meeting, Shen Le proposed dividing the Heaven-Earth Barrier into layers, and officials agreed to study cautious adjustments through an interdepartmental group.
• The Bronze Tripod told Shen Le it needed to be recast with new Nine Provinces Metal gathered from a broader area and infused with local significance.
• Provincial bureaus collected representative metal objects, while officials struggled to find suitable materials from the eastern limits of the barrier.
• The Bronze Tripod accepted the gathered materials, and the Special Affairs Bureau prepared a large spiritual furnace with Spirit Jade and spiritual wood.
• Shen Le lit the spiritual wood, and the Bronze Tripod absorbed spiritual power before calling for the metal to be fed to it.

Shen Le and the experts used Nine Provinces Metal to strengthen the Bronze Tripod, which revealed a detailed world map and tried to push the Heaven-Earth Barrier outward. The attempt failed for lack of power, so they prepared to feed the tripod electricity, communications traffic, and spiritual energy in Jingchu.

• Shen Le ordered the operators to feed Nine Provinces Metal into the Bronze Tripod, which absorbed the materials and illuminated the regions they represented.
• The experts added metals from the four extremes and eastern territories, and the tripod revealed a detailed world map centered on Huaxia.
• The Bronze Tripod tried to push the Heaven-Earth Barrier outward, but Shen Le and Qing Li could not supply enough power to move it.
• Experts proposed using the Electric Net, communications network, and natural spiritual sources to power the tripod, and they moved it to Jingchu.
• Three days later, Shen Le placed the tripod on a ritual platform connected to power lines, information hubs, and a spirit-gathering formation, and the first-stage energy supply began.

Shen Le and the experts powered the Bronze Tripod with electricity, earth-vein energy, water-vein energy, and the communications network, pushing the Heaven-Earth Barrier outward by nearly eight hundred kilometers before the tripod overloaded. They learned it needed historically significant cultural relics restored to strengthen its civilizational foundation, while foreign powers began investigating Huaxia and the authorities ordered the work accelerated.

• Shen Le and the experts fed the Bronze Tripod multiple sources of energy, and it began expanding the Heaven-Earth Barrier outward.
• The barrier crossed the First Island Chain and Strait of Malacca, but the Bronze Tripod overloaded before it could reach the Second Island Chain.
• Shen Le examined the tripod and learned its foundation was too weak because it lacked civilizational memories tied to Huaxia's history.
• Shen Le explained that restoring representative national treasures would strengthen the tripod's connection to Huaxia civilization.
• Foreign governments demanded explanations for the supernatural eruptions, while the Pentagon approved reconnaissance missions and an exercise near Okinawa.
• Huaxia's leaders ordered a diplomatic cover story and urged Shen Le's team to restore the tripod's foundation quickly before foreign intervention.

Shen Le and the government searched museums for ancient artifacts that could strengthen the Bronze Tripod’s connection to Huaxia civilization and reinforce the Heaven-Earth Barrier before a coming spiritual energy surge. After ten exhausting days, Shen Le selected four damaged artifacts for restoration, and specialists began arranging to transfer them.

• Shen Le told the old man that the Bronze Tripod needed artifacts from the Spring and Autumn period or earlier, and the government formed a task force to locate them at home and abroad.
• The old man assured Shen Le that the country would handle outside pressure, while Shen Le warned that a major spiritual energy surge might come within months or years.
• Gu Yulin explained that Shen Le could keep the Bronze Tripod because the government trusted him and considered it a state artifact of Huaxia.
• Shen Le and Gu Yulin spent ten days visiting museums across the country, searching stored artifacts for strong spiritual radiance.
• Shen Le chose four damaged artifacts from the Yangshao, Liangzhu, Erlitou, and Hemudu cultures, including a possible wooden farm tool.
• The cultural department began arranging for the artifacts to be handed over, while museum specialists asked to observe Shen Le’s restoration work.

Shen Le searched a mountain of pottery shards for fragments and restored them into a painted pottery basin with Professor Hou’s help. The restored Yangshao artifact replenished part of the Bronze Tripod’s foundation, and Shen Le left the restoration room ready to continue his work.

• Shen Le used Mud Figurines, Silk Skirts, and his spiritual power to sort the pottery shards and find 187 fragments that resonated with him.
• Shen Le and Professor Hou scanned the fragments, identified painted patterns, and used Shen Le’s Divine Sense to arrange them into the shape of a pottery basin.
• Shen Le made and fired replacement pieces, fitted them into the basin, filled the gaps, and repainted the missing patterns under Professor Hou’s guidance.
• Shen Le fired the completed basin again, restoring its fish, water, and flower designs.
• Shen Le felt the basin’s warmth enter the Bronze Tripod, where a point of light representing the Central Plains appeared.

Shen Le returned to Zhuxi Town and explored the lively ancient town before going to Liangzhu Heritage Museum. That night, foreign operatives tried to scan his grand residence, but its defenses attacked them and left them lost in an unfamiliar place.

• Shen Le left the repaired pottery basin at the Yangshao Culture exhibition hall and traveled through the earth veins to his residence in Zhuxi Town.
• Shen Le walked through the expanded tourist district, sampled spirit-food snacks, and noticed a young woman who was spying on him.
• The young woman reported the suspicious area and received confirmation that operatives would arrive at 22:00.
• Gu Yulin warned Shen Le that concealed foreign cultivators were investigating the area, so Shen Le instructed Ah Lu and went to Liangzhu Heritage Museum.
• The young woman and two companions attempted to scan Shen Le's residence, but its roots attacked them and forced them to retreat.
• The three operatives fled, then stopped in confusion when they realized they had reached an unfamiliar place.

Three foreign agents who infiltrated Zhuxi Ancient Town to spy on Mr. Shen were overwhelmed by the town’s supernatural shopkeepers and captured by the Great Camphor Tree and the Special Affairs Bureau. Across the ocean, the commander learned that another team had gone missing and ordered more agents sent to the town.

• The three intruders encountered awakened shops and their supernatural wares, then were exposed by the Rabbit Spirit as spies carrying concealed detection devices and weapons.
• Bamboo Pole tried to blind the townspeople with smoke and needles, but the Rabbit Spirit, clay figurines, magic artifacts, and living leather animals blocked the trio’s escape routes.
• The young woman ordered the agents to retreat toward Mr. Shen’s residence, where the Great Camphor Tree’s roots bound and gagged them.
• The Special Affairs Bureau arrived, subdued the three agents, and took them away in unmarked vans.
• At a secret command center across the ocean, the commander learned that Zeta Squad had disappeared in Zhuxi Ancient Town and ordered the assessment raised and more agents sent.

Shen Le restored a shattered Liangzhu Jade Cong and an Erlitou bronze mask by using spiritual power to repair their materials and recover their original forms. After both restorations strengthened the Bronze Tripod, he realized one final piece was still missing.

• Shen Le cleared the Liangzhu Heritage Museum excavation area and used earth-aspect power to gather the buried jade fragments, damaging the floor in the process.
• Shen Le cleaned the fragments, assembled them into a Jade Cong, and used spirit jade to restore its structure and Divine-Human Beast-Face Pattern.
• The restored Jade Cong sent feedback into the Bronze Tripod, brightening the map of the middle and lower Yangtze River.
• Shen Le traveled to Erlitou and examined a broken bronze mask, turquoise fragments, and traces of its decayed backing.
• Shen Le used spirit metal to repair the bronze, then learned the backing was silk and used silk fibroin solution and spiritual power to regrow its complex weave.
• Shen Le restored the turquoise inlay on the mask, causing another section of the Bronze Tripod's map to light up, but he still lacked one final piece.

Shen Le restored the Hemudu Wooden Spade and used its memories to strengthen the Bronze Tripod, which was ready to try pushing the Heaven-Earth Barrier again. He gathered the awakened artifacts and household spirits, who agreed to serve as anchors despite the danger.

• At the Hemudu Museum, Shen Le used the stone fragments and traces in the soil to reconstruct the Wooden Spade, while Gu Yulin watched.
• Shen Le awakened the memories of the land and rice cultivated with the spade, using Spirit Jade to restore its wooden handle and bindings.
• The Wooden Spade's spiritual light reached the Bronze Tripod, which absorbed memories of Huaxia's civilization and said the barrier could be pushed again.
• Shen Le warned the awakened artifacts and spirits that anchoring the barrier could destroy them, but Qing Deng, Lan Zhuang, Xiao Ling, Li Xingtang, the chime bells, and the Scroll all chose to help.
• Shen Le confirmed their resolve and agreed that they would work together to push the Heaven-Earth Barrier.

Shen Le and seventeen spiritual artifacts expanded the Heaven-Earth Barrier across vast regions, but Shen Le could not add friend-or-foe identification to it. The Bronze Tripod and the artifacts began to buckle under the strain, and the Dragon Lord said they needed more than power.

• Shen Le coordinated the activation of the Bronze Tripod with the spiritual artifacts and the human, divine, and natural power sources.
• The Heaven-Earth Barrier expanded west to the Pamirs, south across the Indochinese Peninsula, east to the Second Island Chain, and north to the Arctic Ocean, covering more than thirty million square kilometers.
• Huaxia's monitoring center confirmed the expansion, while foreign governments and supernaturals reacted with alarm and confusion.
• Shen Le tried to give the barrier friend-or-foe identification, but the Bronze Tripod could not withstand the strain and began to destabilize.
• The spiritual artifacts poured their strength into the resonance network and weakened as they helped stabilize the tripod.
• The Dragon Lord told Shen Le that power alone could not solve the problem and that they needed more.

After the Heaven-Earth Barrier expanded, Shen Le discovered that spiritual energy had become dangerously thin because the Bronze Tripod was drawing from the same limited source across a much larger area. He proposed summoning ancient gods to help sustain the barrier, and the leaders agreed to establish a special task force.

• Shen Le confirmed that the Bronze Tripod had expanded the Heaven-Earth Barrier, though the spiritual artifacts that helped complete the ritual were exhausted.
• Qing Li warned Shen Le that Heaven-Earth essence had dropped sharply, and Shen Le sensed that spiritual energy was spread too thin across the expanded barrier.
• Qing Li explained that lowering the barrier would harm cultivators, ordinary people, and the barrier's stability, so Shen Le said they needed new sources of spirituality.
• Shen Le proposed gaining spiritual support from ancient gods through relics and ritual objects, and explained that their combined aid could sustain the expanded barrier.
• Qing Li relayed that Lord Xiang and Lady Xiang also supported summoning ancient gods, and the elderly leader ordered the creation of a special task force.

After the spiritual artifacts were exhausted helping advance the Heaven-Earth Barrier, Shen Le returned to Zhuxi Town and spent three days restoring them, while his sleep deepened his connection to the Bronze Tripod and civilization’s memories. As Shen Le recovered, the Dragon Lord searched the grasslands for traces of Eternal Heaven, and Lady Xiang followed ancient divine power toward Sanxingdui and Jinsha, but neither had yet found a god they could reach.

• The state mobilized researchers and cultural agencies to search myths and relics for traces of ancient gods, while the Dragon Palace’s young lord offered to contact the gods through his connections.
• Gu Yulin took the exhausted Shen Le back to Zhuxi Town, where Cloud Kun, Huang Yutong, and the spiritual artifacts were given protected spaces to recover.
• Shen Le spent an afternoon repairing and nurturing the artifacts, then slept for three days as their memories resonated and strengthened his connection to the Bronze Tripod.
• After waking and eating, Shen Le learned that researchers had identified thirty-seven possible relics across nine provinces and cities, with ten priority restoration targets still being selected.
• The Dragon Lord searched the grasslands for signs of Eternal Heaven, found an inscribed stone slab, and judged its spiritual traces too faint to identify the god.
• Lady Xiang traced ancient divine power to Sanxingdui and the Jinsha Site and sensed the presence of ancient Shu gods, but could not locate them.

As ancient gods searched for vanished deities and Shen Le helped prepare the Heaven-Earth Barrier for expansion, foreign powers reacted to Huaxia’s growing magical influence by plotting with its neighbors and sending Japanese yokai to test the response. Lady Xiang returned with news that the Ancient Shu Deities’ traces remained strong at Sanxingdui, and Shen Le promised to help restore the artifacts that could awaken them.

• Dragon Lord, Lady Xiang, and Lord Xiang searched across Huaxia for ancient deities, while Shen Le restored spiritual artifacts and strengthened Cloud Kun for the barrier’s expansion.
• Pentagon commanders reviewed tests showing Western spells weakening and Huaxia-system spells strengthening, then discussed using Southeast Asian allies, Russia, and Japan to pressure Huaxia.
• Shen Le noticed unrest near the Strait of Malacca, while Cloud Kun complained that he was too exhausted to intervene and Shen Le urged him to recover for the barrier work.
• Japanese yokai and their human followers arrived near Shen Le’s territory under the guise of a cultural tourism event, prompting Shen Le to ask Gu Yulin about their intentions.
• Lady Xiang returned and told Shen Le that the Ancient Shu Deities’ traces were powerful at Sanxingdui, but their many fragmented ritual artifacts would be difficult to restore; Shen Le offered to help.

Shen Le sensed the strange, inert spiritual energy suffusing Sanxingdui and meditated until he identified artifacts still longing to reunite with missing pieces. He followed their calls to an inconspicuous display case and promised to restore the artifact there.

• Shen Le learned that Sanxingdui's thousands of shattered artifacts were difficult to restore, with fragments scattered across different pits.
• Shen Le discovered that the museum and its artifacts radiated spiritual energy, though the energy had no apparent effect on people.
• Shen Le meditated in his portable laboratory and sensed that most artifacts had accepted their fate, while a few still called for the pieces they were missing.
• Shen Le followed the artifacts' spiritual fluctuations through the museum, photographing more than a dozen objects as the staff followed him.
• Shen Le stopped before an inconspicuous artifact in the exhibition hall and told it he would wake it and restore it.

Shen Le sensed the memories and resonances of bronze fragments, sorting them into groups and using them to locate related pieces. The fragments assembled themselves into a Bronze Mask, a scepter for the Bronze Standing Figure, and a five-tiered altar, and Shen Le asked the professors for their records so he could begin restoring them.

• Shen Le sensed the fragments’ spiritual impressions and sorted seventeen pieces into three groups by their emotions.
• Shen Le used each group’s resonance to guide professors and students to related fragments throughout the storeroom.
• The professors matched the first group into a Bronze Mask and the second into a scepter for the Bronze Standing Figure.
• Shen Le laid out the remaining fragments and summoned a bell note that made them fly together into a five-tiered altar.
• The professors and students recorded the altar’s assembly with cameras and scanners carried by floating silk skirts.
• Shen Le asked the professors for the fragments’ records so he could begin restoring them.

Shen Le restored the Bronze Mask, Bronze Standing Figure, and Bronze Altar, whose resonant spiritual auras affected the entire museum. As the artifacts’ power stirred a mysterious presence, Shen Le heard an unfamiliar voice and sensed a strange wind and fragrant, moist breath entering the room.

• Shen Le organized the museum staff to test the bronze fragments, then straightened and laser-welded the Bronze Mask while guiding its spiritual energy.
• The completed Bronze Mask released a fierce aura, but Shen Le calmed it and sent it out to be temporarily isolated.
• Shen Le restored the Bronze Standing Figure, whose sacred presence quieted and affected the professors and students watching nearby.
• Shen Le used Spirit Jade, Spirit Gold, and a White Jade Ritual Altar to separate and restore the Bronze Altar’s melted fragments, then supplied energy and material to complete it.
• The Bronze Altar resonated with the Mask and Standing Figure, sending their combined spiritual effects through the museum and stirring a mysterious voice that Shen Le could understand but could not answer.
• Shen Le looked toward a beam of light and then sensed a powerful wind, moist air, and the fragrance of flowers rushing into the room.

Shen Le awakened the Ancient Shu Deities and showed them that people still remembered them through history and literature. They agreed to help strengthen the Heaven-Earth Barrier, anchoring their spiritual imprints in the Bronze Tripod.

• Shen Le witnessed the histories of Can Cong, Yu Fu, and Du Yu, and learned that they accepted their successors because those leaders had helped their people survive.
• The Dragon Lord, Lord Xiang, and Lady Xiang arrived, and Du Yu learned that most of the Chu deities had died after the Chu Kingdom’s ancestral temples were destroyed.
• The Dragon Lord showed the deities the vast Heaven-Earth Barrier and asked them to help extend it into the spiritual-energy-rich wilderness.
• Shen Le and Lady Xiang showed the Ancient Shu Deities how their names and stories had endured in records, poetry, history, and museums.
• The Ancient Shu Deities agreed to protect their people and placed spiritual imprints on the Bronze Tripod, which blazed with light.

Shen Le crossed the border with the Dragon Lord and excavated an ancient burial whose artifacts carried a powerful spiritual aura. After returning to the Capital City, he began restoring the carefully documented finds under his teachers’ supervision, but he had no experience restoring the felt wig and headdress.

• Shen Le and the Dragon Lord searched the grasslands for an artifact powerful enough to help advance the Heaven-Earth Barrier, and Shen Le chose to excavate a burial in the Khentii Mountains despite its location beyond the national border.
• Shen Le recorded the grave and carefully transferred its soil and contents into a Storage Box, triggering a spiritual disturbance that forced the Dragon Lord to carry him back across the border.
• After a drone investigated him, Shen Le returned to the Capital City and asked the working group and his teachers to guide him through the excavation.
• Shen Le spent three days uncovering and recording gold ornaments, a wig and headdress, a woolen cloak, and a decorated staff while his teachers watched and instructed him.
• Shen Le finished retrieving the burial’s artifacts but admitted he did not know how to restore the felt and wig.

Shen Le restored the gold artifacts from the burial, using his mental power and spells to repair and reassemble them. He then cleaned and consolidated a fragile ancient wig, leaving the professors eager to have him restore more artifacts while he faced the harder work of untangling and braiding it.

• Shen Le cleaned, scanned, and examined the gold crown, and the professors identified its cracks, deformations, and original shape.
• Shen Le straightened and laser-welded the gold crown and other gold objects, then matched the gemstones to their original settings and replaced them.
• The restored gold carvings seemed to animate, and Shen Le used his mental power to press the eagle, tiger, and horse back into place.
• Shen Le carefully rinsed the brittle wig, then soaked it in silk fibroin solution and used a spell to restore the hair's strength and luster.
• The professors discussed having Shen Le restore ancient clothing and paintings, while Shen Le asked them for guidance on combing and braiding the wig.

Shen Le restored the wooden frame of an ancient headdress, whose recovered shape revealed a World Tree design and whose assembled ornaments released healing wood energy. He then reconstructed the cloak and belt, but when the restored outfit was complete, it tried to stand up.

• Shen Le analyzed and strengthened the rotten wooden wig support, then used growth spells to restore it into a branching World Tree frame.
• Shen Le hung the gold and jade ornaments on the frame and placed the crown and golden eagle at its top, releasing green light that refreshed Lan Zhuang, Zhong Xiaomei, Huang Yutong, and the professors.
• Shen Le studied the cloak fragments and reconstructed its dimensions, materials, and surviving features, then made a felt backing with help from a traditional craftsman.
• Shen Le fused the ancient wool fragments into the new felt cloak and regrew the cowhide belt before fitting the gold pieces back onto it.
• Shen Le told the completed set of clothes not to stand up.