Recaps

Shen Le rescued a lost research vessel, then devoted himself to restoring a haunted wedding set whose memories revealed two women’s lives and loves. He uncovered another grave and its mysterious artifacts, while the Red Bridal Veil’s story reached the eve of Lin and A-Heng’s wedding amid growing unrest.

• Shen Le strengthened the Compass, uncovered the resentment trapping the research vessel, and helped the Special Affairs Bureau free its crew from the Nether Sky Curtain.
• Shen Le delivered the spirits remaining on the seabed, broke through the Chong and Dai Meridians, and met the sea turtles’ young companion at the reserve.
• Shen Le obtained the Red Bridal Veil and Short Blade, whose memories showed Tianbao’s rise among the pirates and the court’s betrayal of them.
• Shen Le began restoring the wedding garments, using talismans and spiritual power to mend the Slow Curtains and preserve the bloodstains on the Brocade Jacket.
• The Red Wedding Dress carried Shen Le into its owner’s past, where Miss Lin became a successful caravan leader and reunited with the scholar who had promised to marry her.
• Shen Le repaired the wedding set and the Horse-Face Skirt, while a thunderbolt empowered his Embroidery Needles and let him finish the skirt in one night.
• Old Sea Turtle took Shen Le to an abandoned settlement, where they found a burial pit and two spiritually lit objects that Shen Le asked him to investigate further.
• The Red Bridal Veil’s memories showed Lin struggling to embroider, escaping to see A-Heng, and hearing him defend their marriage as unrest and rice prices rose before their wedding day.

Shen Le restored the relics connected to Lin Huiniang and followed their clues to a hidden island beyond the Great Vortex. After discovering her grave and repairing the barrier around the place, he helped establish a base there and returned home with Alloy Master.

• Shen Le restored the Phoenix Coronet and repaired the Single Blade, allowing the Red Wedding Dress to reveal Lin Huiniang’s memories of her battle with the bandits, A-Heng’s death, and her disappearance at sea.
• Shen Le and the Red Wedding Dress searched near the Cenotaph, where the Copper Fragment revealed the Great Vortex, and Shen Le identified its location with help from Alloy Master and the Special Affairs Bureau.
• Shen Le sailed through the Great Vortex with Alloy Master, Old Sea Turtle, and an expedition team, emerging near a green island where navigation and communications failed.
• The Red Wedding Dress led Shen Le and the soldiers to Lin Huiniang’s grave, and they uncovered an epitaph recounting her capture, revenge on the rebel leader, and journey to the island.
• A Five-Colored Giant Bird attacked Shen Le and Alloy Master, and Shen Le found a Taoist temple where a golden-red Xia Cape and a blue-green light struggled around a pool vortex.
• Shen Le discovered that the vortex led through a damaged Sky Curtain, used a bronze beast as mending material, and repaired the barrier while the Copper Fragment absorbed its power and transformed his strength.
• Shen Le opened the Great Vortex repeatedly as the Special Affairs Bureau sent supplies and personnel to build an island base, then returned home with Alloy Master.

Shen Le restored Alloy Master’s ancient painting, uncovering a map and the memories of Nari Su, Jin Zhu, and Little Gold. After the painting revealed their reunion, Shen Le turned to arranging a costly reproduction of the damaged Zhuanghua Satin.

• Shen Le agreed to restore Alloy Master’s damaged silk painting and, with Teacher Zhang’s guidance, practiced conservation techniques before beginning the work.
• Shen Le discovered gold foil hidden in the painting’s Red Sandalwood scroll rod, and he and Alloy Master interpreted its markings as a map.
• Shen Le restored the painting’s fragile core and uncovered memories of the young Nari Su, who befriended Little Gold and fell in love with Jin Zhu.
• Jin Zhu explained that she could not marry Nari Su, and he left her with Little Gold while he went to serve in the Capital.
• Shen Le and Teacher Zhang used Alloy Master’s recollections and the Bookworm Monster’s recovered patterns to restore the painting, whose figures seemed to ask whether Shen Le had finally come.
• Through the painting, Shen Le saw the older Nari Su advise the widowed Jin Zhu on how to preserve her independence, then reunite with the grown Little Gold.
• Shen Le asked Teacher Zhang to help repair his Zhuanghua Satin, and they visited the Yunjin Institute to arrange a reproduction of its Agarwood Crane Cloud Pattern.

Shen Le repaired the painting, followed its clues into a dangerous Secret Realm, and helped the Bureau rescue trapped personnel and repel an invasion. In the third layer, a giant Whale swallowed him, but a Big Bird carried him to a tree and asked him to help mend its world.

• Shen Le commissioned matching satin, repaired the damaged Zhuanghua Satin with Lan Zhuang’s guidance, and restored the painting while keeping its original backing removable.
• The painting’s memories revealed Jin Zhu, Little Gold, and the general’s hopes for peace, while its clues helped Alloy Master’s team locate the Secret Realm.
• Shen Le used the Scroll to map the shifting Formation and helped Alloy Master rescue trapped field personnel from its second layer.
• Shen Le and the researchers found the remains of a Ming Army officer who had destroyed the White Jade Disc to prevent the Jurchens from reaching the outside world.
• When monsters invaded, Shen Le fought an Earth Elemental and helped the defenders defeat the Pig-Tail Monster before the expedition reached the Jade Palace.
• Shen Le and the Bureau discovered that the distant third layer contained a suspected gate to another dimension, then entered it and found the ruins of a cultivation sect.
• A giant Whale swallowed Shen Le near a waterfall, but a giant bird caught him after he fell through the clouds and carried him to its nest.
• The Big Bird asked Shen Le to mend its world, and he sensed that a hole in a vast hollow was letting wind through.