Recaps

Shen Le rescued Old You, discovered and stabilized a Secret Realm, and continued restoring the Ancient Ship. After uncovering the ship’s Talismans and memories, he teamed up with Lan Zhuang to test ways to reproduce them, ending with a shipment of Talisman-lined crystal plates.

• Shen Le and the Special Affairs Bureau rescued Old You from demons in the Golden Triangle, and Old You revealed the demons had sought Spirit Gathering Arrays.
• Shen Le helped locate a Secret Realm beneath an underground river, where the Copper Fragment suppressed a fish monster and revealed a passage through stone doors.
• Shen Le repaired the Secret Realm’s barrier, releasing a powerful flying sword that escaped across China while he and Alloy Master continued exploring.
• Shen Le obtained Soft Hopea wood and restored the Ancient Ship’s planks, while its patterns revealed secrets that he began documenting with the Bureau’s scanning equipment.
• Shen Le repaired the ship’s flags and was swept into a vision of Zheng He’s fleet, where Zheng He defeated Su Ganci and later returned to China with the ships for repairs.
• Lan Zhuang helped Shen Le reproduce the ship’s Talismans, but their paper and spiritwood boats failed under the ship’s murky Yin power.
• Shen Le ordered the research institute to carve Talismans into monocrystalline silicon, then received enough crystal plates for more than ten ships.

Shen Le rebuilt an ancient plague-haunted ship and sought a way to cleanse it, helping Little Oil Lamp master the Five Thunders and defeat the Black Wind Monster. The purified vessel awakened, carried Shen Le to the Dragon Palace, and bonded with him, where the Dragon Lord gave him another damaged boat to repair.

• Shen Le reconstructed the ship, forged and restored its fittings, and entered the plague-stricken past it carried within its black mist.
• Shen Le repaired the vessel’s hull, sails, decorations, and spirits, but its lingering plague qi resisted efforts to purify it.
• After monks and Daoists failed to cleanse the ship, Shen Le helped Little Oil Lamp gather the Five Thunders from power plants and forge peach wood swords.
• Little Oil Lamp completed its five-element cycle at a solar power plant, survived a Thunder Tribulation, and joined Shen Le in defeating the Black Wind Monster.
• Little Oil Lamp forged peach wood swords, and Shen Le used them and lightning to purge the ship’s black aura until it awakened and carried him into a hidden waterway.
• Cloud Kun brought Shen Le to the Dragon Palace, where the Dragon Lord said the boat had bonded with him and presented another damaged boat for him to repair.

Shen Le restored a demonic wedding procession while his earth powers and teleportation Talismans drew him into the secrets of the figurines and enabled the researchers to move people and cargo. After a dangerous underground misjump and Cloud Kun’s rescue, he returned to restoring salvaged relics, but one object he revived crumbled to ash.

• Shen Le repaired the Mud Figurines and relived the wedding procession’s journey, then used their formation and earth veins to return to his Studio.
• A restored figurine awakened as a Yellow Weasel demon, and Shen Le restrained a powerful Bronze Seal that frightened the other figures.
• Shen Le explored the figurines’ memories, witnessing a temple’s origins, a hungry girl’s kindness, and the animal demons who protected her.
• Shen Le derived a mountain-shaped teleportation Talisman from the figurines, and researchers successfully tested it on cargo.
• Researchers expanded teleportation trials as Cloud Kun returned with seabed treasures, then demanded a device and headed home when staff refused.
• Shen Le’s tests with jade Talismans led him underground, and Cloud Kun flooded the research institute while searching for him.
• Shen Le escaped near the Yangtze River, contacted the Bureau through Qing Deng, and Cloud Kun collected him before he returned to apologize to the researchers.
• Shen Le catalogued Cloud Kun’s South Sea finds and infused a spiritually charged lump, which gathered its scattered material before collapsing into ash.

Shen Le restored the dowry’s bronze seal, followed its connection to the clay figurines’ lost command hub in Japan, and fought supernatural threats while recovering a damaged Brush Pot. He repaired the pot in a spirit-rich secret realm, where it stored the figurines and other objects, then returned home.

• Shen Le restored the dowry and witnessed the bronze seal’s memories, then repaired the seal and followed its link to a mural that became a jade piece connected to the clay figurines.
• After Cloud Kun was wounded by Japanese depth charges, Shen Le repaired it and traveled to Japan, where he searched for the figurines’ missing command hub.
• Shen Le destroyed the shrine’s hostile spirits and later defeated attackers and supernatural illusions, then burned down Guanyin Zen Courtyard and returned to the consulate.
• Shen Le discovered that the brush pot he had taken from a shrine held a damaged carving and spatial capacity, and he worked to restore its energy pathways.
• Shen Le traveled to the Baishan Heishui Secret Realm, where the Mud Figurines helped him repair the Brush Pot and he learned it could store objects but not living creatures.
• Shen Le gathered resources in the secret realm, sent the Mud Figurines into the repaired Brush Pot, and returned home.