Recaps

After repairing the hollow in the Jade Wall and returning from the abyss, Shen Le began restoring a damaged Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue and its shrine. He organized an extensive research effort and sent Old You to scan Guanyin statues across the country, leaving his students assembling restoration proposals.

• Shen Le repaired the hollow with help from a giant bird, crossed back through the Jade Wall, and returned to the shore with the Copper Fragment transformed into a growing Bronze Tripod.
• Shen Le shared the whale’s gifts with the Special Affairs Bureau and attended a seafood banquet at Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant, where Mr. Peng asked him to repair a damaged wooden boat.
• Shen Le bought a headless Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue and its shrine, then began documenting and restoring the shrine while X-rays revealed concealed contents.
• Shen Le opened the shrine and found bundles of hair, clothing, jewelry, tools, and other objects, which he cleaned, recorded, and carefully stored as he restored the shrine.
• Shen Le recruited his junior martial brothers and sisters to research the Buddha statue, count its remaining arms, and analyze its materials while preserving its gold leaf.
• Shen Le taught Old You to use a laser scanner and sent him to document Guanyin statues at temples across several provinces.
• Old You returned with storage cards containing hundreds of scans, and Shen Le assigned his students to organize them while Professor Huang arranged university copies.
• Shen Le found the lab filled with printed Buddha heads, arms, and statues as graduate students assembled restoration proposals.

Shen Le restored a damaged Guanyin with Lady Shiji and the Buddhist Shrine, then uncovered the statue’s history as a sanctuary for women across generations. After the Copper Fragment transferred new skills to him, he repaired bamboo instruments and awakened the Buddha Statue, whose power surged to epic levels.

• Shen Le cleaned and regilded the Guanyin with help from Lady Shiji and Myriad Strands of Black Hair, then tried to scan for its missing head and arms.
• Shen Le touched the statue and witnessed the women who had kept it through war, poverty, and upheaval, eventually making it a sanctuary for former courtesans and other women.
• Shen Le restored historical garments and suffered a severe headache as the Copper Fragment transferred an upgraded skill to him.
• Shen Le demonstrated newly acquired zither skills for Dr. Qin and Miss Yaoyao, then cleaned and polished silver hair ornaments.
• Shen Le repaired a cracked bamboo flute, but his healing spell made bamboo grow uncontrollably and filled his courtyard with a grove.
• Shen Le learned to control his healing spell with help from Alloy Master, repaired his bamboo flutes and xiao, and awakened the Buddha Statue, whose power reached epic levels.

Shen Le recovered the Buddha statue’s missing hands and traveled to Paris to retrieve its head, where vampires, werewolves, and the Church sought his restoration skills. His work led to negotiations for the open return of Chinese cultural relics, while the Copper Fragment transformed Paris’s spiritual landscape.

• Shen Le recovered the Buddha hands from a seabed wreck with Old Sea Turtle’s help and traveled to Paris to find the missing head.
• Shen Le located the Buddha head in a werewolf museum and learned that it soothed werewolves during transformations and eased vampires’ thirst.
• Shen Le restored an ebony statue for the supernatural leaders and required them to negotiate with the Church before he strengthened their sacred artifacts.
• The Copper Fragment gathered the spirituality of relics across Paris and merged it with the land, making the area Huaxia territory from a spiritual perspective.
• The Special Affairs Bureau negotiated cultural relics in exchange for Shen Le’s restoration work, while Shen Le insisted on their open and honorable return.
• Shen Le restored Notre-Dame Cathedral’s pipe organ into a Magic Artifact and refused to repair a resentful cross presented by the Holy See.
• Shen Le witnessed a scripture scroll’s journey from a desert Scripture Cave to France, and experts identified it as a possible early Tang Dynasty Dunhuang sutra.
• Shen Le developed bone-restoration methods with an orthopedic surgeon and restored the werewolves’ ancient bone shield.

Shen Le returned the Buddha relics, survived a mysterious teleportation into the Secret Realm, and came home with new resources and plans for the Artifact Spirits. He began repairing a powerful painted boat, uncovering its eerie contents and enlisting the little ones to help dismantle it.

• Shen Le restored and returned twenty Chinese cultural relics from France, then brought the Buddha Statue and Buddha head home and repaired the statue with the Silk Skirts.
• Shen Le was swept through a Talisman-powered teleportation into the Secret Realm, where Kunpeng asked him to heal animals and sea creatures before he returned with a giant whale and a haul of treasures.
• Shen Le shared the recovered pearls and treasures with the landlady and the Special Affairs Bureau, then asked the Bureau for instruments, articulated dolls, a teacher, body-tempering resources, and research into the Talisman.
• Shen Le discovered that a tiny damaged boat was a powerful vessel originally twenty or thirty meters long, and arranged for a workshop to be built so he could repair it.
• Shen Le chose Lu Zicheng as the Artifact Spirits’ tutor, while the landlady approved a workshop behind Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant and the Bureau paid him compensation for land and returned relics.
• Shen Le expanded the painted boat inside the workshop, examined its damage, and used a specialized scanner to identify it as a 400-liao Fujian warship likely built at Longjiang Shipyard.
• Shen Le entered the ship despite its freezing Yin wind and ghostly shadows, collected its paper effigies and furnishings, and studied plans and a model to learn its structure.
• Shen Le began clearing the ship’s seams with the little ones’ help, but stopped the skirted dresses from pulling a plank with Myriad Strands of Black Hair, then removed its nails and pegs and prepared to lift it.