Recaps

Shen Le restored the Tang armor’s missing mirror and relived the story of the Anxi soldiers and the sword immortal who left the mirror behind. Reunited with its final companion, the armor spirit Li Xingtang, Shen Le returned to modern life and began training while Li Xingtang sought a way to fight for the Tang Dynasty.

• Shen Le endured the armor’s memories of the Anxi defenders, the young soldier who trained as a sword immortal, and the doomed attack on Tibetan nobles before waking with the Bronze Mirror’s halves reunited.
• Shen Le reunited the mirror halves, awakening a snow leopard spirit, and caught the flying sword that completed the armor’s Artifact Spirit.
• Li Xingtang introduced himself as the armor’s new spirit and used the flying sword to destroy an evil deity’s arms and ritual implements before returning to Shen Le.
• Li Xingtang told Professor Zhang and the Special Affairs Bureau that he wanted to fight to reclaim Tang territory, but agreed to postpone enlisting and guard Shen Le instead.
• Shen Le began combat training at a joint Bureau and military institution, struggling through dodgeball drills and sparring practice.
• Li Xingtang defeated the soldiers who tested themselves against him, then sparred with Shen Le until his shoulder armor came loose and he asked for modern protective gear.

Shen Le tried to restore the shattered Porcelain Tower and discovered that its memories were tied to the Lu Family Porcelain Kiln and the Soul-Calming Figurines. After finding the buried kiln and uncovering its history, he learned the tower had to be refired there to become whole.

• Li Xingtang taught modern soldiers Tang Dynasty weapon tactics, while Shen Le visited Mount Shu and discovered the remains of the Lock Demon Pagoda beneath the temple.
• Shen Le restored a porcelain rooster and several swords, learned their memories, and developed his sword-control skills while Daoist Qingyue studied Sword Qi Thunder Sound.
• After Cloud Kun departed on a maritime mission with Li Xingtang, Shen Le spent nearly a month assembling the Porcelain Tower before Mr. Zhao identified its Xing Kiln origins and agreed to refire it.
• Mr. Zhao’s first attempt to refire the tower failed when it absorbed the kiln’s spiritual power and broke apart, but Shen Le’s meditations revealed the Lu Clan’s persecution and the origins of the Soul-Calming Figurines.
• Shen Le followed a spiritual porcelain bottle through Xing Kiln sites, found an undiscovered kiln, and later helped excavate figurine fragments connected to corpses buried beneath the Zhang River.
• Shen Le and a Special Affairs Bureau worker calmed the figurines’ spirits, and the Porcelain Tower absorbed the remaining light from the fragments before revealing memories of a surviving Lu youth and an Immortal Master.
• Shen Le helped uncover a long, sloping dragon kiln, and the Porcelain Tower told him it had to be refired in that exact kiln to absorb its power and become whole.

Shen Le restored the Northern Qi kiln and relived the Lu Family’s history as he learned to make Soul-Calming Figurines and Translucent White Porcelain. After the Porcelain Tower led him to a hidden sword scripture, he returned to the past, joined an immortal sect, and helped destroy the Charnel Forest with porcelain swords.

• Shen Le restored the dragon kiln and fired the Porcelain Tower, entering its memories of the Lu Family and learning to make Translucent White Porcelain Soul-Calming Figurines.
• When the Immortal Master demanded figurines made with powerful human ashes, Shen Le helped Hulü Guang die on his own terms and promised to use his remains to protect his youngest son.
• Back in the present, Shen Le followed a Porcelain Sword into a hidden chamber and restored embroidered silk from a jade pillow, then read its scripture and absorbed a controllable sword into his silver energy.
• The silk’s instructions drew Shen Le into the Porcelain Tower’s past, where he trained in sword techniques, joined an immortal sect, and searched for a suitable sword while Northern Qi fell.
• Lou Yun asked Shen Le to make figurines to contain the dead threatening the South of the Yangtze, and Shen Le produced three hundred for a formation around the Charnel Forest.
• After the skeleton army destroyed half the figurines, Shen Le developed porcelain swords that could detect and attack demons, then equipped the figurines and his martial brothers.
• The formation unleashed its sword power against the Charnel Forest, smashing the bone city’s skeletons as the martial brothers advanced to destroy the forest.

Shen Le repaired the ancient tomb’s defenses, entered memories of the Sui-Tang upheavals, and helped Zhongnan Mountain develop spiritual porcelain towers to contain Yin baleful energy. He left for Hulao Pass to witness the coming battle but was swept into Li Shimin’s charge with the Black Armored Cavalry.

• Shen Le learned sword-refining methods from the silk, secured Five-Metal Essence, and made porcelain flying swords for the Special Affairs Bureau and Cloud Kun.
• Shen Le followed the Porcelain Tower to a hidden tomb beneath Zhongnan Mountain, where he repaired a coffin and patched a vast breach that had stirred dark beings across the region.
• Shen Le entered memories of the Sui-Tang era, met Zhang Xutuo and Dou Jiande, and helped villagers and refugees before escaping Gao Shida’s banquet and its resentful qi.
• Shen Le proposed spiritual porcelain formations to Zhongnan Mountain, then worked with Lou Yun and the disciples to develop a seven-story tower that absorbed and converted Yin baleful energy.
• After helping expand porcelain-tower production, Shen Le traveled with Lou Yun to Hulao Pass, where they posed as healers and treated wounded soldiers.
• Li Shimin invited Shen Le and Lou Yun to his camp, where Shen Le impressed the generals with his riding and fighting skills.
• When Hulao Pass opened, Shen Le found himself charging out with the Black Armored Cavalry despite having come only to watch.