Recaps

Shen Le repaired the damaged doll and sought supplies to assess and remove rust from its wire while Gu Yulin warned him that the Mountain Lord’s forces were active. A fleeing weasel named Huang Gencai was captured by the Mountain Lord’s Chang Ghost, and the Special Affairs Department learned of the capture and wondered whether the Mountain Lord would head south.

• Shen Le glued the doll’s cracked parts together and examined its severely corroded wire, wishing he had proper testing equipment.
• Shen Le asked Gu Yulin to obtain hexamethylenetetramine, and Gu Yulin brought it while warning that the Wolf Demon’s informant was being hunted by the Mountain Lord.
• Gu Yulin told Shen Le that the Wolf Demon remained imprisoned but had powerful backers, then asked to hide at Shen Le’s home if danger arose; Shen Le agreed.
• Huang Gencai fled through the forest toward the city, hoping to evade the Mountain Lord’s pursuing subordinate, but a Chang Ghost caught him after a car struck him.
• The Special Affairs Department learned that Huang Gencai had fallen into the Mountain Lord’s hands and questioned whether the Mountain Lord would head south.

Shen Le repaired Little Puppet and successfully awakened her, then entered another memory from the Doll Cabinet, experiencing Chen Haixing’s disappointment when his younger sister Yingying rejected the elaborate dollhouse he had spent four years making. The chapter ended with Chen Haixing standing stunned as Yingying ran off to see a bride.

• Shen Le kept Little Oil Lamp close while he repaired Little Puppet, but the rusted wire snapped as he cleaned it.
• Shen Le resewed the doll’s dress, repaired her body, adjusted her elastic, and balanced the aura flowing through her.
• Little Puppet began moving on her own, and Shen Le’s touch triggered a new memory from the Doll Cabinet.
• Shen Le experienced Chen Haixing finishing an elaborate doll cabinet and showing the doll made to resemble Yingying to his younger sister.
• Yingying said she was too old to play with dolls and ran off to see the bride, leaving Chen Haixing stunned.

Shen Le witnessed the memory of Chen Haixing’s death and learned that Yingying had treasured the doll she never got to tell her brother she loved. Back in the Studio, he began restoring the Doll Cabinet and its contents, hoping to uncover their secrets.

• Shen Le watched Chen Haixing leave a wedding feast during an air raid to protect the factory, then saw his family learn that he had died fighting enemy agents.
• Yingying cried that she had never told Chen Haixing she liked the doll he made for her, and Shen Le understood why its owner had treasured it.
• Shen Le noticed that Chen Haixing had made only the dolls and furniture in two compartments, while Yingying had made much of the rest.
• Shen Le dismantled and cleaned the Doll Cabinet’s elevator parts and furnishings, then considered how to repair its damaged porcelain pieces without disrupting their supernatural power.
• Unable to find relevant guidance in papers or the Special Affairs Department forums, Shen Le decided to experiment on aura-tainted porcelain from the kitchen.

Shen Le tried to learn how to repair porcelain by drilling holes for copper rivets, damaging several bowls before mastering a careful technique. After exhausting himself, he recovered with Water-Crystal Fruits from the proprietress and offered to help her in return.

• Shen Le asked Xiao Ling and the Little Ink Marker to split a porcelain bowl, and the Little Ink Marker sawed it cleanly in half before filing its saw teeth.
• Shen Le practiced drilling angled holes in porcelain bowls, broke or damaged several, and eventually managed three clean holes in a row.
• Shen Le exhausted himself and fell asleep, then woke with a buzzing headache after dreaming about saws and drills.
• The proprietress gave Shen Le three Water-Crystal Fruits, whose intense sourness and cooling effect eased his headache and restored his energy.
• Shen Le recognized the fruits as valuable spiritual produce and thanked the proprietress, promising to help her if she ever needed him.

Shen Le tested several ways to repair porcelain and found that kintsugi bonded the pieces without damaging their energy. After an encounter at the supermarket with a wary middle-aged man, he returned to the Studio and began repairing the Doll Cabinet’s porcelain items.

• Shen Le repeatedly cracked porcelain while fastening copper pins, then successfully repaired another bowl with epoxy resin and compared the two methods using his Spirit Eye.
• Shen Le found kintsugi as a possible solution, bought flour, and made an adhesive by mixing dough with Raw Lacquer.
• A middle-aged man bumped into Shen Le at the supermarket, then suspected he might be a hidden expert connected to Lang Li’s disappearance and chose not to approach his mansion.
• Shen Le repaired a bowl with the kintsugi adhesive and saw that its energy blended smoothly without damage to the porcelain.
• Shen Le rinsed the porcelain items from the Doll Cabinet after soaking them in baking soda solution and began repairing them.

Shen Le struggled to clean and repair damaged porcelain while an unknown middle-aged monster watched his mansion, hoping to find a way inside. When the monster’s attempt to use crows as spies brought a flock to Shen Le’s house, Shen Le drove them away with a gale.

• Shen Le soaked the cracked teapot in oxalic-acid paste and repaired a broken porcelain bowl, waking every six hours to replace the paste.
• A middle-aged monster who had watched Shen Le’s mansion for three days turned into a Peregrine Falcon and tried to scout it, but fear forced him to dive away.
• The Peregrine Falcon gathered a flock of crows and led them to Shen Le’s mansion to observe the inside.
• Shen Le found crows crowding his mansion, making noise and leaving droppings, and tried to shoo them away.
• Shen Le blew a gale over his model, driving the crows out of the mansion.

Old You investigated Shen Le’s mansion while Old Zhu charged through town and injured Shi Guangbing. Shen Le discovered two wooden puppets behaving strangely, then Old You found a soothing bed with a mysterious aura and traced it to Old Street.

• Peregrine Falcon sent the crows back to spy on Shen Le’s mansion, but Ah Lu drove them away, so Old You decided to investigate in person.
• Old Zhu arrived in town and knocked an elderly man down, then sent Shi Guangbing flying when the officer tried to stop him.
• Shen Le found two wooden puppets repeatedly falling apart and reassembling, and Gu Yulin reported that Shi Guangbing had been injured by someone walking into him.
• Shen Le checked on Shi Guangbing, who said he was going for a CT scan, and asked Little Oil Lamp to watch the mansion for intruders.
• Old You bought a bed with a calming aura and learned from the shopkeeper that it came from Old Street.
• The shopkeeper pointed out where he had found the bed, and Old You’s hair stood on end.

Old You avoided Old Zhu and settled in to test his new wooden bed while Old Zhu confronted the Great Camphor Tree outside Shen Le’s mansion. Shen Le agreed to shelter Ge Jin during her tribulation, but Old Zhu watched him with growing greed as the landlady brought Ge Jin to the mansion.

• Old You spotted Old Zhu at the bridge, recognized the Great Camphor Tree’s powerful aura, and hurried away with the furniture shop owner before Old Zhu noticed him.
• Old You learned where the bed had been sold, then returned home and lay on it to test its calming effect.
• Old Zhu threatened the Great Camphor Tree outside Shen Le’s mansion while Zhang Bingxin warned Martial Uncle and Shen Le about the hostile demon.
• Shen Le agreed to let Ge Jin undergo her tribulation at the mansion, reassured Ah Lu, and notified Gu Yulin to keep watch.
• The landlady brought the trembling Ge Jin and her Carrying Box to Shen Le’s door as Old Zhu watched from across the stream and eyed Shen Le greedily.

Shen Le prepared to help Ge Jin endure her Thunder Tribulation while an opportunistic Pig Demon and other demons watched from outside. As the tribulation began, Little Oil Lamp tried to rush toward the lightning to eat it, but Shen Le stopped it and warned that interfering could kill Ge Jin.

• Old Zhu lurked outside the mansion after Ge Jin and Shen Le entered, hoping to seize the rumored tribulation-aiding secret technique.
• Ge Jin thanked Shen Le with pastries and asked him to intervene only if her aura became disordered during the tribulation.
• Shen Le prepared the Three Little Ones, warned Little Oil Lamp not to leave, and watched the pond as thunderclouds gathered.
• Old Zhu and Old You the Peregrine Falcon tried to observe Ge Jin's tribulation, but the thunderclouds blocked their view and the security camera showed static.
• Little Oil Lamp tried to fly toward the lightning to eat its energy, but Shen Le restrained it with the Copper Fragment and warned that interfering could strengthen the tribulation and kill Ge Jin.

Shen Le struggled to plant a metal chopstick as a lightning rod so Ge Jin could survive her final tribulation wave, then forced the Little Oil Lamp to leave the tribulation’s restorative power for her. Ge Jin recovered after passing the trial, while Shen Le was left with numbness and branching red marks on his arm.

• Shen Le ordered the Little Oil Lamp not to consume anything above ground and prepared to guide Ge Jin’s tribulation lightning into the soil with a metal chopstick.
• As Ge Jin weakened and the final wave approached, Shen Le struggled to hold the chopstick beneath the thundercloud and regained his strength by biting through a pill.
• Shen Le drove the chopstick into the ground, and the final lightning bolt struck it and traveled underground as silver light gathered around its base.
• The silver-and-purple remnants of the tribulation restored Ge Jin, but the Little Oil Lamp tried to seize the remaining power until Shen Le stopped it.
• Shen Le asked Xiao Ling to take Ge Jin out of the courtyard and noticed branching red marks and numbness spreading from his fingers to his elbow.

Shen Le recovered from his injury by cultivating and discovered that he could absorb residual lightning to strengthen his internal energy. Meanwhile, Little Oil Lamp ate the Thunder Tribulation’s power, and Pig Demon seized on the mansion master’s apparent weakness to attack the Old Mansion.

• Shen Le circulated his energy despite the pain in his arm, absorbed residual electricity, opened several acupoints, and regained much of his strength.
• Little Oil Lamp returned after eating the Thunder Tribulation’s power and told Shen Le it would stay full for about a month.
• Old You and Pig Demon watched Ge Jin survive her Thunder Tribulation and realized the mansion might hold a Tribulation Transcendence Secret Technique.
• The proprietress arrived, deterring Pig Demon until Ge Jin left the mansion and the master failed to appear.
• Pig Demon concluded the master was weakened, ignored the proprietress’s warning, and charged into the Old Mansion’s front gate.

Shen Le used a barricade and the Little Oil Lamp to stop and kill the Pig Demon outside his mansion. Zhang Bingxin and Peregrine Falcon investigated the aftermath, while the Pig Demon’s remaining energy readings continued to fall.

• Peregrine Falcon distracted the Pig Demon, but the demon charged the mansion gate and struck Shen Le’s hidden barricade.
• Shen Le held the barricade in place and ordered the Little Oil Lamp to zap the Pig Demon with its silver light.
• The Pig Demon’s demonic aura burned away, and its body began to fall apart; Peregrine Falcon fled in terror.
• Zhang Bingxin called Martial Uncle, Senior Martial Brother, and local departments to report the apparent death and seal off Nanhua Street.
• Zhang Bingxin sent a Drone to measure the Pig Demon, and an object from behind the wall struck around it as the energy readings plunged.

After the Pig Demon fell unconscious, Shen Le let the Special Affairs Department take it away and learned that surviving its Thunder Tribulation had strengthened nearby spirits. He continued restoring the mansion’s porcelain and ornaments, whose gathered auras awakened Yingying, before she toppled over and pulled him into another memory.

• Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin’s Martial Uncle confirmed that the Pig Demon was unconscious, then chose not to disturb Shen Le and arranged to move it away.
• Shen Le accepted the Special Affairs Department’s offer of a reward, and its members hauled the Pig Demon off while discovering its shape had been imprinted into the stone road.
• Ah Lu explained that the vitality released by surviving a Thunder Tribulation had strengthened nearby spirits and given it several years of cultivation.
• Shen Le repaired porcelain and other small furnishings, carefully matching a teapot’s glaze until its aura flowed smoothly across the cracks.
• Shen Le arranged the restored ornaments, whose auras formed a cycle that strengthened the furnishings and prompted Yingying to dance.
• Yingying fell over, and Shen Le was pulled into another memory.

Shen Le watched Yingying grow into Chen Haiying, a determined public security officer and teacher who turned to miniature crime-scene models to make investigation lessons clearer. By the time she became a respected instructor, her students were eagerly examining and debating each new model case.

• Chen Haiying argued against her assignment to remain at the school, but obeyed orders and joined the faculty.
• After officers struggled to understand written crime-scene lessons, Chen Haiying proposed and successfully built temporary mock crime scenes for their training.
• Frustrated by the time and supplies needed to recreate scenes, Chen Haiying remembered her brother’s Doll House and realized she could build portable miniature rooms.
• With help from Master Li and the logistics carpenter, Chen Haiying made detailed models depicting crime scenes, furniture, dolls, and evidence.
• Chen Haiying used a different model in each lesson, and her students closely examined the scenes and debated whether the cases involved suicide or murder.

Shen Le continued repairing the Doll Cabinet and treated its fragile, moldy clothes by borrowing a sterilizer from Dr. Qin, a bird-shaped demon who ran a pet hospital. Dr. Qin then hinted that Shen Le might be asked to repair a living supernatural being, leaving him wondering whether his work would expand to sentient demons.

• Shen Le remembered Chen Haiying’s dedication to making crime-scene teaching models and resolved to restore the Doll Cabinet so the old woman in Binhai could see it.
• Shen Le tested a method for repairing the Doll Cabinet’s lacquer skin, soaked the original pieces for nine days, and began cleaning and inspecting the dolls’ clothes.
• After discovering mold on the clothes, Shen Le asked Gu Yulin to arrange access to an ethylene oxide sterilizer, and Gu directed him to An'an Pet Hospital.
• At the hospital, Shen Le used his Spirit Eye to see that Dr. Qin had a bird-shaped form beneath his energy, while Dr. Qin explained that the hospital treated demons and other unusual patients.
• Shen Le set the sterilizer to treat the clothes for 24 hours, and Dr. Qin asked whether he could repair an old friend, mentioning Yaoyao and prompting Shen Le to consider repairing living demons.

Shen Le discovered Qing Deng could remove dust from delicate fabrics with static electricity, speeding up his restoration work. When Gu Yulin told him the old lady needed urgent surgery for an intestinal tumor, Shen Le promised to finish restoring the Doll Cabinet in two days.

• Dr. Qin told Shen Le that some object demons needed repairs and offered to introduce him to them.
• Shen Le cleaned the clothes and gave Little Oil Lamp the name Qing Deng after it demanded one.
• Qing Deng used static electricity to remove dust from fabrics without damaging them, helping Shen Le work faster.
• Shen Le repaired and reassembled the elevator components, then continued restoring the Doll Cabinet.
• Gu Yulin told Shen Le that doctors had found an intestinal tumor in the old lady and planned surgery within three to seven days.
• Shen Le promised to finish the Doll Cabinet in two days and called Xiao Ling, Zheng Mo, and Qing Deng to help.

Shen Le worked through the night with Little Puppet, Little Ink Marker, and Little Oil Lamp to restore the old woman’s Doll Cabinet. After exhausting himself and using an Elixir to recover, he faced an eight-hour deadline to finish the restoration before the old woman’s surgery.

• Shen Le assigned Little Ink Marker to cook the fish glue and Little Oil Lamp to sort the fallen Lacquer Skin while he softened and reglued the pieces still attached to the cabinet.
• Shen Le worked through the night, with Little Puppet holding the Lacquer Skin in place and Little Oil Lamp fitting the fallen pieces together and suspending them beside the cabinet.
• Shen Le praised Little Oil Lamp, then gave Little Ink Marker the task of dressing the cleaned dolls, which it completed with help from other tools.
• Shen Le’s energy failed during the delicate restoration, so he swallowed one of his remaining Elixirs and meditated to recover.
• Shen Le returned to work, knowing he had eight hours to finish the Lacquer Skin, touch up and assemble the cabinet, and deliver it before the old woman’s surgery.

Shen Le completed the Doll Cabinet and helped its energy awaken, but the cabinet overwhelmed him with its desire to see its master. It then drew him into a memory of Chen Haiying’s life with the cabinet, ending as she retired and took it home.

• Shen Le finished repairing the cabinet, and Zheng Mo, Xiao Ling, and Qing Deng installed its hardware and arranged the furniture and dolls inside.
• Shen Le used the Copper Fragment to regulate the cabinet’s energy, causing its doors to open and the dolls inside to dance.
• The cabinet sent Shen Le a flood of thoughts saying it wanted to see its master, so he urged it to contain its energy and promised to take it to her.
• Shen Le was pulled into a memory of Chen Haiying teaching police officers about cases represented by the cabinet’s compartments.
• Chen Haiying eventually retired, removed the cabinet’s contents, and took them home, while Shen Le watched her leave.

Shen Le learned how the Doll Cabinet and its contents were left behind as teaching methods advanced, then prepared to take them to visit their seriously ill owner, Mrs. Chen Haiying. He had the Little Ink Marker seal their energy, and Gu Yulin’s scan confirmed the cabinet’s reading had fallen to 7.

• Shen Le watched Mrs. Chen Haiying accept that modern teaching aids had replaced her handmade models and arrange her dolls and furniture in the Doll Cabinet.
• Shen Le explained that Mrs. Chen Haiying was seriously ill and asked the Doll Cabinet to suppress its energy so it would not harm her.
• The Doll Cabinet failed to reduce its energy enough, so Shen Le asked the Little Ink Marker to seal it with Ink Lines.
• Gu Yulin arrived and scanned the Doll Cabinet, finding its energy reading was only 7.
• Shen Le showed Gu Yulin the Ink Lines and explained that he had temporarily sealed the cabinet’s energy.

Shen Le brought the Doll Cabinet to the hospital, where its puppets helped the elderly Teacher Chen remember the dolls and the cold cases she had investigated. Shen Le used the Copper Fragment to channel the cabinet’s power into her, and the chapter ended as she began recognizing her children and grandchildren.

• Shen Le dreamed that the Doll Cabinet’s puppets were trying to communicate with him, then woke when the truck reached the hospital.
• Shen Le and Gu Yulin brought the Doll Cabinet into Teacher Chen’s room, where she recognized it as a doll her brother had made for her.
• Teacher Chen held the princess puppet and spoke to policewoman Yingying about old cases, learning that the murders she remembered had been solved.
• The puppets stirred with emotion, and Shen Le used the Copper Fragment to channel their energy into Teacher Chen without letting it harm her.
• Teacher Chen began recognizing and naming her children and grandchildren.

Shen Le returned the Doll Cabinet to the recovering Chen Haiying after learning it could sense when someone was hurt but could not locate crimes, and he began repairing artifacts for the Special Affairs Department. The Copper Fragment grew into what appeared to be part of a cauldron ear, leaving Shen Le wondering what powerful treasure it came from.

• Chen Haiying agreed to let the Special Affairs Department take care of the Doll Cabinet, hoping it could still be useful.
• Gu Yulin and the Special Affairs Department found the exhausted cabinet’s energy too low for crime monitoring, so they returned it to Shen Le to recover.
• Shen Le repaired the Zither Stand with his Level 8 Carpenter skills and received twenty thousand yuan from Gu Yulin.
• The Doll Cabinet recovered and told Shen Le it could sense when someone had been hurt but could not determine where it happened.
• Shen Le noticed the Copper Fragment had grown into a shape suggesting part of a cauldron ear and spotted another faint stroke appearing on it.

Shen Le helped the Special Affairs Department train the Doll Cabinet to understand maps and investigate supernatural incidents, while Old You sought his favor and Dr. Qin asked him to make a new zither stand for Yaoyao. The chapter left Shen Le preparing to hear the specifications for the new stand.

• Shen Le studied the Copper Fragment’s strokes, worried they might form a character with the shi radical, then set the question aside and returned to restoring the Boxwood Kui Dragon Pattern Carrying Box.
• Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin took Shen Le and the Doll Cabinet on a slow drive so he could teach her to connect real routes with a map and locate sensed incidents.
• Old You, revealed as the Peregrine Falcon Demon, gave the proprietress gifts and asked her to approach Shen Le about making him a meditation couch; she agreed only to ask.
• Dr. Qin stopped the van to ask Shen Le for help, then visited his mansion that evening with a watermelon.
• Dr. Qin explained that Yaoyao disliked the repaired zither stand because it was not as it had been before, and asked Shen Le to make her a new one.
• Shen Le asked Dr. Qin what wood, style, and decorations Yaoyao wanted for the new zither stand.

Shen Le took Dr. Qin’s commission for two Zither Stands and arranged for the Doll Cabinet to live and work at his home as a paid supernatural crime-reporting assistant. After the cabinet’s dolls argued over what to call themselves, Old You set off to find old objects he hoped would interest Shen Le.

• Dr. Qin offered Shen Le two pieces of wood and payment for two Zither Stands, and Shen Le assigned Little Ink Marker to copy the Red Sandalwood stand.
• After testing the Doll Cabinet’s crime reports around Zhuxi Town, Shen Le found it exhausted from a lack of spiritual energy and proposed keeping it at his house.
• Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin agreed to place the Doll Cabinet in a room at Shen Le’s home, monitor it, and pay it a monthly salary of ten thousand yuan plus two hundred points.
• The Doll Cabinet’s dolls argued and fought over possible names, so Shen Le decided to keep calling it the Doll Cabinet for now.
• Old You asked the proprietress how to win Shen Le over, then set off to gather old objects and good wood after she suggested bringing him damaged or storied items.

Old You searched for a human heirloom to offer a powerful figure, while Shen Le struggled with the Little Dolls’ police-reporting system and the Copper Fragment. Dr. Qin’s auction catalog piqued Shen Le’s interest in the Binhai Trade Fair, and he decided to go see whether there were more objects he could repair.

• Old You asked the Jade Swallow for directions to old human objects and swore he would buy anything he found through legitimate means, but the household items he located seemed too ordinary to give as a gift.
• Dr. Qin invited Shen Le to Binhai, hoping to thank him for the Zither Stands and introduce him to Miss Yaoyao for repairs to her worn original body.
• Shen Le trained the Little Dolls to mark incidents on maps and respond to police staff through a touchscreen, while their inability to communicate clearly frustrated the staff and slowed their growth.
• Shen Le continued studying the Copper Fragment, which had opened two meridians but still left him unable to grasp the technique he sensed within it.
• Dr. Qin gave Shen Le a booklet for the Binhai Auction, and Shen Le became interested after seeing its extraordinary materials, artifacts, and antiques, including objects he had repaired.

Shen Le tested the Little Oil Lamp’s long-range attacks and electric shield before traveling with Dr. Qin to the supernatural Trading Fair. They arrived safely on the island venue, where Dr. Qin eagerly planned to explore the fair with him.

• Shen Le learned that Trading Fair goods were expensive, and Dr. Qin promised to pay for anything he wanted.
• Shen Le tested the Little Oil Lamp’s remote sensing and found it could reach him across Binhai and strike a target with powerful electricity.
• The Little Oil Lamp formed an electric shield around Shen Le that could repel someone rushing at him.
• Shen Le agreed to attend the Trading Fair with Dr. Qin after the landlady declined to go.
• Dr. Qin drove Shen Le to the restricted island venue, showed him the official fair map, and pointed out Yaoyao’s upcoming concert.
• Dr. Qin transformed into a Cyan Bird to sleep in a forest, then called Shen Le the next morning to explore the fair.