Recaps

Shen Le restored the Brush Pot, helped protect Zhuxi Town, and joined Cloud Kun in testing its abilities before finding and repairing a breach in the Sky Curtain near Ryukyu. Back in Coral Tree City, he investigated an ancient residence that swallowed two junior disciples and uncovered signs of a massacre during the Mongol conquest.

• Shen Le restored the Brush Pot’s carvings and learned through its memories how the Mountain God and the spirits had fought the Tatars to save Miss Li’s stronghold.
• Shen Le and the town’s residents agreed to expand the alert perimeter, then he took Cloud Kun south to test its teleportation and evade detection during a naval exercise.
• Shen Le and Cloud Kun seized a submarine during the exercise, and Shen Le later followed the Copper Fragment’s signal to a breach in the Sky Curtain near Ryukyu.
• Shen Le repaired the breach with elemental power, using metal drawn from the submarine and wood power sent by a colossal tree, while Cloud Kun recovered a golden fragment that joined the Bronze Tripod.
• Cloud Kun brought salvaged submarine parts to a military harbor and began building a spatially isolated engine room inside itself, while Shen Le was called to investigate strange disappearances at the Old Mansion.
• Shen Le discovered an illusory ancient residence layered over the Old Mansion, rescued Huang Chuxia and Ma Xuanyu from it with the wedding procession, and learned they bore unexplained marks afterward.
• Shen Le investigated the mansion’s records and resentful women’s hall, entered the ancient residence to document it, and agreed to help Professor Han restore the site.
• Shen Le used a modified Scanner to reveal blood trails and a human-shaped depression on a pillar, then recalled a memory of Mongol soldiers massacring people in Coral Tree City.

Shen Le restored the Ancient Residence, uncovered the massacres and fires embedded in its memories, and gathered its lingering spirits into a mansion model. The house was cleared, but the model's hostile black lights remained trapped and resisted his attempts to settle them.

• Shen Le repaired the Ancient Residence and sealed it with a spirit-wood model, but later discovered an arrowhead embedded in a pillar and entered memories of Shanshan and A Ying.
• Shen Le found that the well and lotus-marked tiles held the residence’s memories, then witnessed Shanshan’s suicide and Zhao Mengying’s death during the Yuan army’s massacre.
• Shen Le gathered the Ancient Residence’s lingering traces into a sentient model and learned that the remains in the hall included members of the Huang and Zhao clans.
• Cloud Kun returned with a flaming core from a firebird that had pursued it, and Shen Le had the Dragon Lord seal the core and explain the resentment it carried.
• Shen Le uncovered fire-damaged bricks throughout the Ancient Residence, learned how to repair them, and was drawn into a vision of the Pu Family mansion’s destruction and A Zhen’s murder.
• Shen Le and the silk-skirt spirits drew the mansion’s lingering spirits into the Grand Mansion Model and confined the remaining resentment with a cage of sealing power.
• Shen Le learned that the Ancient Residence had been cleared and that Huang Chuxia’s strangulation mark had vanished, but the spirits inside the model kept it from shrinking.
• Shen Le tried to lure the hostile black lights into a miniature holy site with offerings, but the ornament exploded and a light attacked him before Little Oil Lamp struck it with lightning.

Shen Le helped Cloud Kun confront a firebird, then restored an ancient helmet whose memories drew him into a Tang-era battle. The helmet led him to a mountain excavation, where he gathered armor fragments and a soldier’s letter before returning to the institute to continue reconstructing the past.

• Shen Le helped Cloud Kun and Whale fight the firebird, then negotiated a pact that protected ships bearing his country’s flag.
• Shen Le and the military arranged radar and weapons upgrades for Cloud Kun, while Shen Le strengthened Dragon Flag with water-gathering talismans.
• A sandstorm led Shen Le to a spiritually charged helmet, whose painful memories sent him to Dunhuang Academy to restore it under controlled conditions.
• Shen Le restored coins and studied the helmet’s pieces, then wore the assembled helmet and entered a Tang army’s march toward Kucha.
• After failing the helmet’s first trial, Shen Le fought successfully in a second battle and learned that its original owner had survived his first fight without killing anyone.
• Shen Le silvered the helmet, followed lights revealed by the Copper Fragment into the Tarim Basin, and found scattered armor pieces with an archaeological team.
• Shen Le gave the team shelter in Huang Yutong, helped excavate a cenotaph containing armor fragments and a letter from home, then returned to the institute to ask the fragments to reveal their former shape.

Shen Le restored the scattered armor and shoulder guards, uncovering the memories of soldiers who fought and died along the Tang frontier. The armor’s latest vision left him carrying a dispatch from Kucha toward Chang'an by way of Uyghur territory.

• Shen Le restored the lion-shaped shoulder guards with turquoise from a soldier’s relics, then explored memories of Wangdui and saw how generations of hardship ended with liberation and aid.
• Shen Le fought a vast hostile shadow beneath Heavenly Lake with Little Oil Lamp and the local beasts, while the Special Affairs Bureau used drones to drive it back and a black remnant fled north.
• Shen Le followed the armor’s resonance into the desert, recovered scattered relics with help from Mr. Jin and a black fish demon, and reconstructed the armor.
• The armor attacked Professor Zhang’s studio and later possessed its own repaired body, but Shen Le subdued it and began restoring its belt and gold plaques.
• Shen Le restored the belt and entered memories as A-Li, a Tang soldier who received the Shoulder Swallows after killing a young tribesman and was later slain at a beacon tower.
• Shen Le relived the beacon tower’s fall, then changed the outcome by preparing defenses, ambushing the Tibetan escort, and leading seven women and children to safety.
• Shen Le restored the Sixfold Black Leather Boots with help identifying their materials, and the boots and armor carried him into a memory of Khotan’s dwindling river and farmland.
• Shen Le accepted a mission to carry a dispatch from Kucha to Chang'an, survived a bandit attack that killed his nine comrades, recovered their letters, and met Guo Xin, who sent him through Uyghur territory.