Recaps

After the Copper Fragment revealed his body’s meridians and opened two new ones, Shen Le gained enhanced strength, smell, and digestion. The chapter ended with him realizing the ability made him ravenously hungry and able to eat far more than before.

• Shen Le activated the Copper Fragment and found himself in a misty void, where he could inspect his translucent body and its meridians.
• The Copper Fragment’s energy opened the Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian and Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian, leaving Shen Le refreshed and much stronger.
• Shen Le discovered that his sense of smell had become sharp enough to identify the dishes being prepared downstairs in detail.
• At the village banquet, Shen Le devoured the food so quickly that his advisor warned him to take it easy.
• Shen Le felt his stomach digest food almost instantly and realized his new ability might have turned him into a glutton.

Shen Le and his research team rushed to reinforce an ancient mansion before a typhoon struck, with Shen Le using his Copper Fragment-enhanced strength to help. After the storm began, the power suddenly went out, and Shen Le suspected Little Oil Lamp might be involved.

• Shen Le discovered that cycling his Internal Energy more often made him increasingly hungry, so he limited his practice while surveying the mansion.
• When a typhoon threatened the abandoned mansion, the advisor ordered the students to reinforce it before the storm arrived.
• The advisor assigned Zhuang Boyang to the mortise and tenon joints, Wang Jiaxiong to the columns, Lu Weifeng to the roof tiles, and Shen Le to the damaged beams.
• Shen Le carried a scaffold with unexpected strength and helped apply fiber-reinforced material while the team reinforced the mansion under a tight deadline.
• After the team finished the work, the typhoon arrived, and the students began organizing their notes for a later inspection.
• The power went out while the students were working, and Shen Le reached for Little Oil Lamp as it insisted the outage was not its fault.

During a typhoon and village-wide power outage, Shen Le worried about his homes and watched flood damage worsen. When a tree crushed a house with people possibly trapped inside, Little Oil Lamp restored power to the village, and Shen Le and the villagers rushed to begin a rescue.

• The power failed during the typhoon, and Xiang Yang told Shen Le that storm damage would prevent repairs until the roads reopened.
• Shen Le asked the landlady to protect his mansion, and she said Ah Lu could open the door for her.
• The storm battered the villagers’ old houses, forced Shen Le and his fellow disciples to shelter downstairs, and flooded fields and homes.
• A tree toppled onto a two-story house at the village entrance, causing it to collapse while people might still be trapped inside.
• Little Oil Lamp powered the transformer and lit the village, even though Xiang Yang reported that repair crews could not reach the area.
• Shen Le and the villagers ran to the collapsed house and began calling for survivors and moving bricks.

Shen Le used the Little Oil Lamp to locate two survivors beneath a collapsed house, and villagers rescued a child and Old Man Wu. When the power failed again and the lamp was exhausted, elderly villagers set out to carry replacement wires along mountain paths, and Shen Le decided to go with them.

• Shen Le asked the Little Oil Lamp to trace the collapsed house’s wiring, and it located two faint signs of life beneath the rubble.
• Shen Le guided the professor and villagers to the survivors, who rescued a child and Old Man Wu; they used an oxygen concentrator to help the injured man breathe.
• After the village lost power again, Shen Le asked the Little Oil Lamp to keep the concentrator running, but the lamp became too exhausted to sustain the electricity.
• Xiang Yang told Shen Le that the village had no replacement wires, so elderly villagers gathered at night to carry wires in along mountain paths.
• Shen Le filled and lit the Little Oil Lamp, then set out with the villagers after it offered to guide them.

Shen Le and the villagers waited as Xiang Yang used a powerful drone to restore the village’s electricity, while Little Oil Lamp watched with joy and prepared to leave in peace. After Xiang Yang persuaded his father to learn about new technology, Shen Le rushed to stop Little Oil Lamp from consuming too much electricity.

• Shen Le and the martial brothers joined the elders heading out, but Xiang Yang hurried over and asked them to return because he could bring the power line in by drone within fifteen minutes.
• A large drone carried the power line over the cliff, and Xiang Yang connected it to the transformer as the villagers cheered.
• Little Oil Lamp glowed with joy at the new equipment and thought that it could finally leave in peace now that people had become so capable.
• Xiang Yang restored the village’s electricity before Xiang Guoqing arrived, then urged his father to visit Binhai and learn about new technology.
• Xiang Guoqing agreed to travel with Xiang Yang occasionally so he could learn new skills and better maintain the village’s power supply.
• Little Oil Lamp began drawing electricity through a wall socket, so Shen Le hurried to take it home before it ran up the homeowner’s electric bill.

After the typhoon, Shen Le brought Little Oil Lamp back to the mansion, where it devoured electricity before finding something even tastier near the Lotus Pond. Meanwhile, a Yellow Weasel and another intruder investigated the mansion’s fading Thunder Tribulation aura, leaving the new owner’s secrets under threat.

• Shen Le salvaged timber and fittings from storm-damaged houses in the village and arranged for them to be delivered to his mansion.
• Shen Le brought Little Oil Lamp home, where it lit up the mansion and consumed electricity at a rate that threatened to bankrupt him.
• Little Oil Lamp found delicious electricity near the Lotus Pond, and Shen Le told it to stay within the mansion and avoid the power lines.
• A mustached middle-aged man later identified as the Yellow Weasel snooped around the mansion, sensed its Thunder Tribulation aura fading, and fled after overhearing Shen Le speak to Little Oil Lamp.
• The man who had seized the Yellow Weasel concluded that Old Hu’s new mansion might be easy to rob and planned to offer its secrets to the Mountain Lord.

Shen Le learned that a great demon, reportedly over five hundred years old, had come to town seeking the Tribulation Transcendence Secret Technique after rumors spread about Xiao Yu’s tribulation. The proprietress demonstrated the destructive power of a demon that age, leaving Shen Le wondering where he could find protection.

• Shen Le praised Zheng Mo’s work making beds and introduced the Little Oil Lamp as the household’s electrical-appliance manager.
• Shen Le went to Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant to ask about selling the beds, then ate a large meal at the Lamb Noodle Shop.
• The proprietress warned Shen Le that a powerful great demon had invaded town and offered to have Xiao Yu and the others stay with him.
• The proprietress explained that rumors about a Tribulation Transcendence Secret Technique had spread after Xiao Yu passed her tribulation with Shen Le’s help.
• The proprietress demonstrated how a five-hundred-year-old demon could blast apart soil and crush cars with rapidly growing plants, terrifying Shen Le.

Shen Le sought protection and a defensive artifact after learning a dangerous demon was nearby, then returned to the Old Mansion to shelter with Ah Lu and his companions. When a Gray Wolf broke through the miniature house’s wall, Shen Le used the Copper Fragment’s power to pin it down with a giant hand.

• Shen Le tested his strength against the proprietress’s Green Vines, dodged them, and snapped one in two.
• The proprietress offered her Pixiu Lucky Cat for protection, but Shen Le declined and asked about Magic Artifacts.
• Zhang Bingxin warned Shen Le that the Special Affairs Department had called for reinforcements and invited him to shelter at their office; Shen Le instead visited Yuantong Zen Temple and rejected the costly prayer beads.
• Shen Le learned from Ah Lu that the demon outside the wall could not defeat the Great Camphor Tree, and he hurried to move his companions to its courtyard.
• A Gray Wolf broke through the reinforced wall of Shen Le’s model house, but the Copper Fragment strengthened Shen Le, allowing him to pin the intruder beneath a giant hand.

Shen Le subdued a wolf demon in the Sand Table and summoned the landlady to take it away. As the landlady and the Special Affairs Department agents entered the Old Mansion, they sensed a powerful Thunder Tribulation aura filling the courtyard.

• Shen Le discovered that the intruder was a wolf demon and learned from Little Oil Lamp that it was the strongest demon nearby.
• Shen Le used Little Oil Lamp to zap the wolf demon, then ordered Zheng Mo to restrain it with Ink Lines.
• Shen Le called the landlady and asked her to help transport the captured demon.
• The landlady brought Xiao Yu and others to the Old Mansion, where Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin arrived after their Spirit Detector sensed a great demon.
• Xiao Ling led the landlady through the courtyards, where she sensed the Great Camphor Tree's weakened aura and the fading Thunder Tribulation aura.
• The landlady entered the East Road First Courtyard and felt a terrifying Thunder Tribulation aura radiating from its center.

The landlady and two Little Flower Demons removed the badly injured Wolf Demon after Shen Le struck it with an overwhelming attack from inside the mansion. The Special Affairs Department took custody of the wanted demon, and its investigators concluded that Shen Le’s abilities were extraordinary, leaving them determined to build a good relationship with him.

• The landlady found the charred Wolf Demon in the courtyard and used her whip to bind it after Shen Le’s giant hand gestured for her to leave.
• The landlady and the two Little Flower Demons carried the Wolf Demon out, and Shen Le asked whether it should be handed to the Special Affairs Department.
• Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin measured the Wolf Demon’s power and, after Shen Le agreed, prepared to take it into custody and offered him a reward.
• Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin carried the Wolf Demon to their base, where their Martial Uncle examined its injuries and speculated about Shen Le’s spells.
• Their Martial Uncle urged Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin to build a good relationship with Shen Le because he could save their lives or help them defeat dangerous demons.

The Maoshan team planned how to befriend Shen Le, deciding to respect his boundaries and appeal to his interest in restoring cultural relics. After repairing the mansion and setting the Little Oil Lamp to guard it, Shen Le received a million-point reward on the Special Affairs Department’s Exchange Platform and was shocked by the price of an item.

• The Martial Uncle reviewed Shen Le’s file and told the Maoshan disciples to build trust by sharing basic cultivation information, respecting his rights, and finding relics for him to restore.
• Shen Le replaced the damaged panels on the Grand Mansion Model and asked the Little Oil Lamp to patrol the estate for intruders and strange arrivals.
• The next morning, Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin approached Shen Le at Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant and gave him a tablet showing his reward on the Exchange Platform.
• Shen Le saw that he had one million points and exclaimed when he found an item priced at ten million.

Shen Le examined the Special Affairs Department’s rewards and exchange catalog, then considered Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin’s offer to recruit him as an external member. He remained wary of joining because he could not explain the source or limits of his cultivation.

• Shen Le questioned whether the government really offered one million points, and Gu Yulin showed him the official wanted-bounty listings.
• Shen Le read about dangerous demons and learned from Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin that taking down a powerful demon could cost the government more than ten million yuan.
• Shen Le accepted that his capture of the wolf demon had earned him the points and browsed the exchange catalog, but found many items useless or unavailable to him.
• Shen Le asked whether his points could help him obtain permits to buy restricted restoration chemicals, and Gu Yulin suggested he join the Special Affairs Department as an external member.
• Shen Le hesitated because joining could require him to disclose and demonstrate his cultivation, whose unexplained origin and inconsistent strength he feared would expose him.

Shen Le negotiated with Gu Yulin about joining the Special Affairs Department as an external member and accepted after learning that membership was voluntary and his information would be protected. He also discovered that the food he ate every day at Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant was more valuable than the bureau’s costly cultivation provisions.

• Shen Le questioned Gu Yulin about the obligations and benefits of becoming an external member, and Gu Yulin explained that assignments were voluntary and members could access special permissions and resources.
• Gu Yulin showed Shen Le the bureau’s many anomaly reports, including the invisible barrier around Shen Le’s wall, and Shen Le agreed to put up a fence.
• Shen Le asked whether his address would remain confidential, and Gu Yulin and the proprietress assured him that leaking an external member’s information would bring severe punishment.
• Shen Le examined the bureau’s redemption list and learned from the proprietress and Gu Yulin that Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant’s rice and mutton were better than the listed cultivation foods.
• The proprietress told Shen Le to enjoy his meals, explaining that the restaurant grew and raised its ingredients itself and that feeding him was a small return for what he had done.

Shen Le agreed to help the Special Affairs Bureau restore demon-sourced artifacts in exchange for payment and a possible path to becoming an external museum expert. Gu Yulin brought him to the Bureau’s enormous Binhai underground collection, where Shen Le was stunned by the number of strange items.

• Gu Yulin explained that artifacts seized from demons were difficult for ordinary experts to restore because their origins were unclear and some carried dangerous demonic energy.
• Shen Le agreed to restore artifacts after Gu Yulin promised to help him apply as an external expert once he had enough results.
• Shen Le selected a damaged carrying box, a red sandalwood brush pot, and a Ming Dynasty zither table from the restoration list.
• Gu Yulin drove Shen Le to the Special Affairs Bureau’s Binhai office and led him underground to its vast collection warehouse.
• Shen Le entered the warehouse marked “Miscellaneous” and exclaimed that the Bureau had seized far too many strange things.

Shen Le toured the Special Affairs Bureau’s warehouse and selected ordinary antiques for future repair, but became captivated by a lively miniature-doll cabinet. He agreed to repair it quickly after learning it belonged to an elderly predecessor with Alzheimer’s and might be affecting her health.

• Shen Le examined the warehouse’s dangerous confiscated objects but avoided touching them and chose several ordinary items for his repair tasks.
• Shen Le noticed a newly arrived cabinet filled with detailed miniature rooms and dolls, whose lively aura attracted him and warmed the Copper Fragment.
• A Bureau staff member told Shen Le he could repair the cabinet after it was officially entered into storage.
• At the registration desk, staff explained that the cabinet belonged to an elderly predecessor with Alzheimer’s and that its abnormal readings might be harming her health.
• Shen Le solemnly promised to repair the cabinet as soon as possible.

Shen Le brought the Doll Cabinet home and discovered that its intricate structure and miniature contents needed extensive repairs. As the dolls mysteriously changed positions into gruesome scenes, he documented and removed them, then realized his workshop was inadequate and called Gu Yulin to help find a new space.

• Shen Le inspected the Doll Cabinet and found extensive damage to its wood, staircase, elevator, clock, dolls, and tiny furnishings.
• Shen Le used his Spirit Eye to see tangled energy in damaged areas and concluded that every part needed careful repair to make the Doll House work properly.
• Shen Le noticed that the man and woman dolls had shifted into a bloody-looking scene, though their red stains left no trace when he touched them.
• Shen Le photographed, measured, and sketched the cabinet's contents, then found that dolls throughout the cabinet had moved into disturbing positions.
• Shen Le removed the dolls and furnishings but found no room to work in his crowded Studio, so he called Gu Yulin to ask for help finding a new place.

Shen Le turned the servants’ quarters into a fire-safe woodworking workshop and began preparing to restore the miniature furniture from the Doll Cabinet. He found miniature carving tools he could order immediately, then started documenting and drawing the pieces while awaiting their arrival.

• Shen Le arranged for Zheng Xiaohua’s renovation crew to convert the servants’ quarters into a fire-resistant workshop, and learned Zheng Xiaohua had sent his son to technical school.
• Shen Le moved Little Ink Marker and its tools into the new workshop, set up his own workspace, and sorted the Doll Cabinet’s contents into trays.
• Shen Le examined a miniature Ming-style Circle Chair and realized its mortise-and-tenon joints would require tools he did not have.
• Shen Le searched academic sites and Bilibili for guidance, then found miniature carving tool sets on Taobao and ordered one.
• Shen Le photographed and filmed the Doll Cabinet pieces and began drawing them in CAD, while deciding an expensive 3D scanner was beyond his current budget.

Shen Le painstakingly documented, dismantled, and cleaned the Miniature Circle Chair, then used meditation to overcome his frustration. Before repairing it, he noticed energy flowing through its pieces and began an experiment to compare modern Woodworking Glue with traditional Fish Glue.

• Shen Le measured and drew the Miniature Circle Chair by hand, then ordered a 3D scanner and downloaded a scanning app.
• He studied the chair’s mortise-and-tenon joints, used boiling water to loosen the glue, and dismantled it into more than thirty pieces.
• Shen Le dried and cleaned the tiny components and joints, growing frustrated with the painstaking work.
• He meditated until his irritation subsided, then reassembled the components and found that the chair was only slightly loose and warped.
• Shen Le saw energy flowing through the chair’s pieces with his Spirit Eye and wondered whether modern glue might disrupt it.
• He prepared wood samples, coated them with equal amounts of energy, and set up a comparison between Woodworking Glue and Fish Glue.

Shen Le discovered that modern woodworking glue blocked the strange aura, so he used traditional fish glue to assemble the Miniature Circle Chair. Touching the completed chair transported him into the memories of Chen Haixing, where he took his little sister Yingying to shop for a doll and learned its price was twenty-five silver dollars.

• Shen Le compared rods joined with modern woodworking glue and fish glue, finding that only the fish glue let the strange aura flow freely.
• Shen Le used fish glue to assemble the Miniature Circle Chair, and the heat in his fingertips triggered a vision of Chen Haixing's life.
• Shen Le, inhabiting Chen Haixing, learned that his little sister Yingying wanted a doll and agreed to take her shopping.
• Shen Le carried Yingying to Sincere Company, where they found elaborate dolls and he asked whether a twenty-five-silver-dollar one could be cheaper.

Shen Le recalled making a dollhouse for his little sister and began preparing to restore the Doll House, while Little Oil Lamp caused a neighborhood-wide power outage and the little ones fretted over his new restoration work. He turned to the badly damaged Doll Cabinet but could not figure out how to dismantle it without shaking loose its fragile lacquer.

• Shen Le remembered making Yingying a doll, miniature furniture, and an elevator after he could not afford the imported doll she wanted.
• Shen Le ordered traditional restoration supplies, then discovered Little Oil Lamp had caused a power surge that cut electricity across the street.
• After the power returned, the Little Puppet, Little Oil Lamp, and Little Ink Marker complained that Shen Le was neglecting them and worried about the dolls he was repairing.
• Shen Le reassured the three little ones, sent Little Ink Marker back to work, and gave Little Oil Lamp an electrical engineering e-book to study.
• Shen Le examined the Doll Cabinet's peeling Vermilion Lacquer and researched restoration methods, but could not determine how to remove its fittings and doors without damaging the lacquer.

Shen Le began restoring the damaged Doll Cabinet with help from Xiao Ling, Ink Marker, and Little Oil Lamp, whose newly learned static control gathered and protected the fallen lacquer flakes. After dismantling the staircase and assessing the cabinet, Shen Le realized he still needed supplies and expert advice for the delicate lacquer repairs.

• Shen Le followed Senior Sister's advice, prepared a plastic-covered work area, and called Xiao Ling and Ink Marker to help move the Doll Cabinet.
• Little Puppet and Ink Marker helped lift the cabinet while Little Oil Lamp used electromagnetic force, and Shen Le steadied it before photographing its damage.
• Shen Le began dismantling the cabinet, while Little Puppet caught loose flakes and Little Oil Lamp learned to gather them with static electricity.
• Little Oil Lamp collected the lacquer flakes on paper and kept loose, curled lacquer in place as Shen Le removed the staircase, elevator, and supporting pillars.
• Shen Le inspected the cabinet, identified its damage, and planned repairs using appropriate old materials, but realized he needed supplies and guidance on reattaching the lacquer.

Shen Le tested formulas to soften the cabinet’s lacquer skin and repaired its cracked structure with help from Ink Marker. He then learned that the cabinet’s former owner, an elderly woman, had gone missing, and Gu Yulin asked whether he had any leads.

• Shen Le tested seventeen mixtures for softening lacquer skin while Xiao Ling helped prepare the ingredients.
• Shen Le reinforced the cabinet’s cracked joint with Fish Glue, and Ink Marker took over the gluing and helped measure the repair.
• Shen Le clamped the cabinet’s repaired panels in place and began waiting for the Fish Glue to dry.
• Gu Yulin called Shen Le and told him that the cabinet’s former owner had gone missing after visiting her family’s old house.
• Shen Le asked when the woman disappeared and whether she had been searched for, then heard that security footage had lost track of her.

Shen Le followed a restless Little Doll to the childhood home of the missing old woman, and Gu Yulin learned that she had been spotted nearby. They waited for the old woman to arrive, hoping the doll would help her remember, as a blue-and-white car pulled up.

• Shen Le noticed the Little Doll pacing and found that she kept heading in the same direction, though neither he nor the Little Oil Lamp nor the Little Ink Marker could learn what she wanted.
• Shen Le called Gu Yulin, and they drove from Zhuxi Town to downtown Binhai City, following the Lead Weight’s directions.
• The Little Doll stopped at a doorstep and collapsed; Gu Yulin checked the address and asked colleagues to investigate the house and nearby surveillance footage.
• Gu Yulin learned that the house was where the old woman had lived as a child and that colleagues had spotted her nearby.
• Shen Le waited with the Little Doll, and Gu Yulin waved as a blue-and-white car drove up and asked whether they had found her.

Shen Le returned the Little Doll to its elderly owner, but the doll’s rising energy forced Gu Yulin to bring it back after the woman was hospitalized. While preparing to repair it, Shen Le discovered that the doll was an exceptionally intricate ball-jointed doll made in the 1940s.

• Shen Le calmed the elderly woman by showing her the Little Doll, and she recognized it as one her brother had made for her.
• Shen Le agreed to let the woman keep the doll, then worked on documenting the Huanghuali Carrying Box, Red Sandalwood Brush Pot, and damaged Zither Stand while the cabinet glue set.
• Gu Yulin returned the doll after the elderly woman’s health deteriorated and the doll’s energy readings rose to a level considered dangerous.
• Shen Le examined the doll and found that its limbs and head were loose, then discovered its joints formed an elaborate ball-jointed mechanism.
• Shen Le checked the other dolls and found they had ordinary mechanical joints, leaving him wondering how the 1940s maker had built such an advanced doll.

Shen Le researched the Little Puppet’s history and carefully dismantled and cleaned it before ordering supplies to restring it. He left the puppet in pieces while his other restoration projects continued soaking and setting.

• Shen Le researched the history of ball-jointed dolls and wondered how the puppet’s maker had learned to build its joints.
• Shen Le dismantled the Little Puppet and found that its wooden pieces were mostly intact, though its elastic had rotted and its supporting wire had rusted.
• Shen Le searched online for restringing instructions and supplies, then ordered materials after reviewing Taobao listings and customer-service help.
• Shen Le spent a day and a half carefully cleaning the puppet’s wooden pieces and hoped that repairing it would reveal its memories or make it perform.
• Shen Le checked his other projects and found that the Doll Cabinet was still clamped together while its lacquer skin continued soaking in solution.