Recaps

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner sought the Purple Sky Dragon King's help to save Little Stone from the Python Demon's remnant soul. The Dragon King revealed he had caused Little Stone's danger to test Lin Shisan and demanded that Lin choose between marrying Zi Yuner and surrendering the Hornless Dragon True Spirit.

• After waiting four hours, Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner entered the Purple Sky Dragon King's chamber.
• Zi Yuner begged her father to use the Dragon Pearl to save Little Stone, and Lin Shisan asked for the same without seeking a reward.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King agreed to save Little Stone but demanded that Lin Shisan either marry Zi Yuner and divorce his wife or surrender the Hornless Dragon True Spirit.
• Lin Shisan asked whether the Dragon King had sent the two men in black, and the Dragon King admitted he had arranged the attack and activated the Python Demon's remnant soul.

Lin Shisan confronted the Purple Sky Dragon King over his coercive terms, while Bai Youyou defended their marriage and challenged the king’s demands. The king agreed to save Little Stone with a Dragon Pearl if Lin Shisan surrendered his Hornless Dragon True Spirit, giving him one night to choose.

• Lin Shisan rejected the Dragon King’s choices and accused him of testing whether a mortal would submit to his draconic might.
• The Dragon King claimed Lin Shisan’s Hornless Dragon True Spirit had triggered the Python Demon’s remnant soul, endangering Little Stone.
• Bai Youyou joined Lin Shisan and argued that forcing him to marry Zi Yuner or surrender his life-bound True Spirit served neither the princess nor the Dragon Palace.
• The Dragon King asked Zi Yuner what she wanted, and she said she would not tear apart another couple’s marriage.
• The Dragon King offered to use a Dragon Pearl to save Little Stone in exchange for Lin Shisan’s Hornless Dragon True Spirit and gave him one night to decide.
• Zi Yuner offered to escort Lin Shisan out of the hall.

Little Stone’s demonization worsened, leaving Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou only one way to save him: accept the Dragon King’s terms. Bai Youyou arranged for Lin Shisan to marry Zi Yuner, then led him into a bedroom and pressed her fingers to his lips.

• Little Stone’s Python Demon mark spread as the remnant soul resisted the Little Black Cauldron’s Seven-Colored Rosy Light, and he feared becoming a monster.
• Bai Youyou urged Lin Shisan to accept the Dragon King’s first condition and marry Zi Yuner so the Dragon King would use the Dragon Pearl to save Little Stone.
• Bai Youyou told Zi Yuner that Lin Shisan had agreed to marry her, and Zi Yuner agreed to inform her father while promising not to keep Lin Shisan from Bai Youyou.
• Bai Youyou returned to Lin Shisan and said the Dragon King would purify Little Stone’s remnant soul by dawn.
• Bai Youyou pulled Lin Shisan into a bedroom, told him not to speak, and pressed her fingertips against his lips.

Lin Shisan spent the night with Bai Youyou before she prepared to leave the Dragon Palace with Little Stone, while he faced his coming marriage to Zi Yuner and his guilt over Hu Niu. The next morning, Zi Yuner realized what had happened between Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou and walked away after offering him the chance to speak with her father.

• Bai Youyou asked Lin Shisan to spend the night with her, then planned to return Little Stone to his grandparents and leave the Dragon Palace after daybreak.
• Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou shared a bed, and he thought about Hu Niu, his promise to her, and his impending marriage to Zi Yuner.
• At Nine Nether Mountain, Hu Niu suffered a sudden surge of spiritual power and a painful sense of loss, then resumed cultivating while longing for Lin Shisan.
• In the morning, Bai Youyou told Lin Shisan to cure Little Stone, forget her and their night together, and treat Zi Yuner well before he left.
• Zi Yuner saw signs that Lin Shisan had spent the night with Bai Youyou, offered to let him speak with her father if he had changed his mind, and walked away.

Lin Shisan agreed to remain in the Dragon Palace and marry Zi Yuner in exchange for the Purple Sky Dragon King saving Little Stone. The Dragon King planted Karmic Fire in Lin Shisan’s Divine Sense to enforce the pact, leaving the agreement sealed while Little Stone’s demonization continued.

• Little Stone told Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou that he was hungry and felt something crawling and sizzling inside his head as the Python Demon’s influence worsened.
• Zi Yuner led Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Little Stone to the great hall to meet the Purple Sky Dragon King.
• Lin Shisan agreed to stay in the Dragon Palace, marry Zi Yuner, and part with Bai Youyou so the Dragon King would save Little Stone.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King announced he would plant Karmic Fire in Lin Shisan’s Divine Sense to punish him if he broke their agreement.
• Lin Shisan accepted the Karmic Fire, and the Dragon King planted it, sealing their pact.

Lin Shisan watched Bai Youyou and Little Stone leave after the Purple Sky Dragon King cleansed Little Stone’s python demon remnant soul, then accepted that he would remain in the Dragon Palace under the karmic pact. Zi Yuner told him she would not force him to forget his past as they prepared to spend their lives together.

• The Purple Sky Dragon King sealed Lin Shisan’s karmic bond and warned that breaking it would burn away his divine sense and destroy his soul.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King used the Purple Sky Dragon Pearl to cleanse the python demon remnant soul from Little Stone, who endured the painful process until the mark vanished.
• Bai Youyou carried the exhausted Little Stone through the Teleportation Array, while Lin Shisan stayed behind and watched them go.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King told Lin Shisan that he would publicly announce him as Zi Yuner’s prince consort at the Dragon Saliva Festival in five days.
• Zi Yuner explained that Bai Youyou had not looked back because she did not want Lin Shisan to see her regret leaving, and said she would not force him to forget Bai Youyou or Fishing Village.
• Zi Yuner asked Lin Shisan to wipe the red streak from his eye before returning to the Guest Courtyard, reminding him that he was now the prince consort.

Bai Youyou returned Little Stone to his grandparents, then traveled to Blackwater River to use her Demon Spirit Contract with the Python Demon's remnant soul to find a route to the Purple Sky Dragon Palace. She forced the reluctant Hei Feng to guide her toward an unstable teleportation array.

• Bai Youyou brought Little Stone back to his grandparents, who welcomed him home as he told them Lin Shisan had stayed beneath the sea to save him.
• The old man entered Lin Shisan into the family genealogy and marked him as still alive, while Little Stone fell asleep beside his grandmother.
• Bai Youyou secretly planted a Dao Seed in Little Stone, then left the village without looking back.
• Bai Youyou reached the underwater stone chamber at Blackwater River and found traces of a teleportation array beneath the stone platform.
• Bai Youyou summoned Hei Feng through their Demon Spirit Contract and demanded he guide her to the Purple Sky Dragon Palace.
• Hei Feng revealed an abandoned, unstable teleportation array foundation three li beyond the northern wall and pointed the way with a thread of blue light.

Bai Youyou found an abandoned Dragon Clan Teleportation Array and began repairing it so she could return to the Purple Sky Dragon Palace before Lin Shisan’s wedding. Meanwhile, Lin Shisan remained under guard and learned from Zi Yuner why she had accepted their political marriage; Bai Youyou continued risking her life to reach him.

• Bai Youyou broke through a stone wall, followed the underground river, and found an abandoned Teleportation Array that could take her to the Purple Sky Dragon Palace.
• Bai Youyou ignored the Python Demon's warnings and began repairing the array with Spirit Stones, determined to finish within five days.
• Lin Shisan sat under house arrest, remembering Bai Youyou and the shell she had left behind.
• Zi Yuner let Lin Shisan leave his room for a walk and explained that their marriage would make the Hornless Dragon True Spirit legally belong to the Purple Rosy Cloud Dragon Palace.
• Zi Yuner asked to keep Lin Shisan's old garment so she could embroider its flower, then returned to the corridor.
• Bai Youyou fitted a third and fourth Spirit Stone into the Teleportation Array despite the risk of Space-Time Turbulence.

Lin Shisan accompanied Zi Yuner to visit her imprisoned third aunt, who had spent 227 years sealed for loving a human. When the woman recognized the self-cultivated dragon spirit inside Lin Shisan, he prepared for a possible confrontation.

• Zi Yuner led Lin Shisan through a secluded path to the ridge where her third aunt was imprisoned by Dragon-Sealing Locks.
• Zi Yuner explained that her third aunt had raised her, then surrendered herself for punishment after returning from a failed search for the human she loved.
• Zi Yuner said she obeyed her father and planned to become Dragon King so she could free her aunt.
• Zi Yuner brought Lin Shisan into the stone chamber, where he met her frail third aunt.
• Third Aunt sensed the Hornless Dragon True Spirit inside Lin Shisan and identified it as a dragon spirit he had cultivated himself, making him wary.

Third Aunt revealed that she possessed a dragon spirit, and the ancient wall in Prisoner Dragon Ridge resonated with Lin Shisan’s hornless dragon true spirit, strengthening it and triggering the ridge’s defenses. After Zi Yuner helped him escape the guards, Lin Shisan wondered whether the familiar figure he glimpsed beneath an ancient tree had been his father, Lin Qinghan.

• Third Aunt told Lin Shisan that she had a dragon spirit and opened an ancient pattern on the stone wall, causing his hornless dragon true spirit to react violently.
• Lin Shisan’s dragon spirit and a blue light inside the wall resonated, showing him a fleeting image of a figure beneath an ancient tree and strengthening his spirit.
• The stone peak shook and the dragon-binding chains lit up, alerting the Dragon Scale Guards to a disturbance at Prisoner Dragon Ridge.
• Zi Yuner pulled Lin Shisan away before the guards arrived and told him to stay in the side courtyard while she diverted the investigation.
• Back in his room, Lin Shisan connected the familiar figure in the vision to Lin Qinghan and wondered how his father could be linked to Third Aunt.

The Dragon-Sealing Lock at Prisoner Dragon Ridge activated after resonating with a dragon spirit of the same lineage as the imprisoned princess. As the Purple Sky Dragon King began investigating, Zi Tianya worried the disturbance could expose his own involvement and saw an opportunity to use the princess’s predicament.

• The Dragon Scale Guards and three Grand Elders arrived at Prisoner Dragon Ridge after the Dragon-Sealing Lock surged with power.
• Zi Gang determined that an internal resonance had activated the restrictions and suspected an outside source shared the imprisoned princess’s dragon-spirit lineage.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King ordered an investigation, noticed footprints leading toward the Princess's Residence, and asked whether Yun'er had left that night.
• Zi Tianya learned that the princess had gone out and later claimed she had discovered and reported the disturbance first.
• Zi Tianya decided to wait for the investigation to pressure his niece, then help her when she could no longer manage alone.

While Zi Yuner faced questioning in the main hall over the Prisoner Dragon Ridge disturbance, Lin Shisan cultivated in the Princess’s Residence and advanced his Dao Seed from one star to two. He strengthened his Divine Sense and Chaos Space, then waited as the inquiry continued ahead of the Dragon Saliva Festival.

• Zi Tianya planned to use the Prisoner Dragon Ridge disturbance and Zi Yuner’s secret actions to undermine her before the Four Seas Dragon Clan and claim the Dragon King Position.
• Lin Shisan heard the Dragon Bell and worried about Zi Yuner, but decided that raising his cultivation was the only way he could help.
• The blue energy within Lin Shisan’s Hornless Dragon True Spirit accelerated his Taiji Wheel and formed a second Star Pattern, advancing his Dao Seed to two stars.
• Lin Shisan’s Divine Sense expanded, his body grew stronger, and he found that his connection to the Little Black Cauldron and Chaos Space had improved.
• Lin Shisan heard the Dragon King, a Grand Elder, and another voice speaking in the main hall, suspected Zi Tianya was present, and awaited the inquiry’s outcome before the prince consort ceremony.

Bai Youyou repaired the Underground River Teleportation Array and left for a one-way journey after bidding farewell to the sleeping residents of Little Fishing Village. In the Purple Sky Dragon Palace, Lin Shisan advanced to the seventh stage of Meridian Opening, while Zi Yuner returned injured just before an assassin’s dagger flew at her.

• Bai Youyou completed the Teleportation Array after three days and two nights of work, despite her exhaustion and the Python Demon's warning that it had energy for only one trip.
• Bai Youyou watched over the Old Zhou Household from outside, listened to Little Stone dream about catching Dragon Crabs with Lin Shisan, then returned to the Blackwater River without looking back.
• Bai Youyou activated the repaired array and disappeared in a burst of purple light.
• Lin Shisan broke through to the seventh stage of Meridian Opening while cultivating the Nine Heavens True Dragon Art.
• Zi Yuner returned to Lin Shisan's courtyard with a shoulder wound and said the incident at Prisoner Dragon Ridge had been suppressed.
• A black dagger flew through the courtyard gate, missed Zi Yuner's ear, and lodged in the wooden door.

Lin Shisan stopped three masked attackers from planting evidence in the inner room and killed them with the Taiji Seal. As Dragon Scale Guards rushed toward the courtyard, Zi Yuner told him to move the bodies inside and said she would handle the rest.

• Three masked attackers entered the courtyard, targeting Zi Yuner, Lin Shisan, and the inner room to frame them for the disturbance at Prisoner Dragon Ridge.
• Lin Shisan struck down the attacker heading for the inner room with the Taiji Seal.
• Lin Shisan used the Chaos Space to slow Zi Yuner’s opponent and killed him with another Taiji Seal strike.
• Lin Shisan cornered and killed the final attacker with a blow to the chest.
• Zi Yuner asked what combat skill Lin Shisan had used, and he named the Taiji Seal.
• As Dragon Scale Guards hurried toward the courtyard, Zi Yuner told Lin Shisan to drag the bodies inside and said she would handle everything.

At the Dragon Saliva Festival, the Purple Sky Dragon King announced that Zi Yuner would become Dao Companions with Lin Shisan and named him prince consort. Zi Tianya and three Grand Elders challenged the decision and called for Lin Shisan’s death, while a stern-faced Second Elder stepped forward, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner dressed in ceremonial robes and went to the altar before the Four Seas Dragon Clan and the Purple Sky Dragon Palace.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King announced Zi Yuner’s union with Lin Shisan and declared that Lin Shisan would become prince consort.
• Zi Tianya objected, questioning Lin Shisan’s origins and the Dragon Spirit aura the king said he possessed.
• Zi Gang and two other Grand Elders backed Zi Tianya’s challenge, and the Third Elder of the Restriction Hall demanded that Lin Shisan be killed and his Dragon Spirit taken.
• Zi Yuner gripped her sword while Lin Shisan remained composed on the altar.
• The stern-faced Second Elder stepped forward, told the Third Elder he was being too hasty, and studied Lin Shisan.

Zi Ning emerged from her imprisonment and accused the Purple Sky Dragon King of fearing her claim to the Dragon Palace’s power. She revealed that Lin Shisan carried the dragon spirit that had split from her, then declared she would take it and reclaim the throne.

• The Second Elder began drawing out Lin Shisan’s dragon spirit aura to test its compatibility with the Dragon Palace’s dragon vein.
• Zi Ning emerged from a hidden doorway beneath the Altar, shocking the Purple Sky Dragon King, Zi Yuner, and the assembled envoys.
• Zi Ning told the Purple Sky Dragon King that he had imprisoned her for 272 years because he feared her power and access to the dragon vein core.
• Zi Ning revealed that Lin Shisan’s dragon spirit had split from her and explained that she had secretly guided Zi Yuner to bring him to Prisoner Dragon Ridge.
• Zi Ning declared that she would strip Lin Shisan’s dragon spirit, merge it with her own, control the Palace’s core restriction, and take the Purple Sky Dragon King’s seat.

Eldest Princess Zi Ning confronted the Purple Sky Dragon King over her imprisonment and demanded the return of what she was owed, while claiming Lin Shisan’s Dragon Spirit as hers. Zi Yuner defended Lin Shisan, and Zi Ning ended the chapter declaring that the Dragon Palace would either belong to her or be destroyed.

• Zi Ning revealed that years spent imprisoned had let her carve the Dragon-Sealing Lock’s core runes into her bones, and challenged the Purple Sky Dragon King over why he had feared her.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King declared that anyone who harmed Lin Shisan would die, while Zi Ning recalled his promise that imprisoning her had been for her own good.
• Zi Ning said Lin Shisan’s Dragon Spirit had passed through many masters and offered to remove it and his Karmic Fire while sparing his life; Lin Shisan refused, saying the Spirit had become part of him.
• Zi Yuner stepped in front of Lin Shisan and vowed to fight Zi Ning rather than let her destroy his Dao Foundation, and Lin Shisan stood beside her.
• Zi Ning rejected the Purple Sky Dragon King’s attempt to mention the man she had loved and demanded that the Dragon Palace return what she was owed or be destroyed.

Zi Tianya proposed that the Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning settle their conflict on the Dragon Palace’s Life-and-Death Platform, and they began their life-or-death duel. After the Purple Sky Dragon King gained the upper hand, Zi Ning prepared a powerful strike with a brief signal from Zi Tianya.

• Zi Tianya persuaded the three Grand Elders to open the Life-and-Death Platform, and the Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning agreed to fight there.
• Zi Yuner watched from the crowd with Lin Shisan as Zi Ning and the Purple Sky Dragon King faced off on the platform.
• Zi Ning accused her elder brother of imprisoning her out of fear that she would take his throne, while he said he had acted to protect her from sacrificing her life for a mortal.
• Zi Ning attacked with her purple wings, but the Purple Sky Dragon King shattered her ice and struck her shield, injuring her and killing several Dragon Scale Guards with the shock wave.
• Zi Ning exchanged a brief glance with Zi Tianya, then spread her wing as the Life-and-Death Platform’s runes blazed and a pillar of light pierced the Dragon Palace’s barrier.

Zi Ning and the Purple Sky Dragon King fought to a standstill before Zi Tianya interrupted their battle and revealed that he had captured Bai Youyou. Lin Shisan recognized his wife, stunned that she had returned after being teleported away.

• Zi Ning wounded the Purple Sky Dragon King with a powerful strike, nearly exhausting her strength.
• Zi Tianya secretly arranged for Bai Youyou, who had been captured after teleporting to his residence, to be held in a side hall.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning clashed with their lineage techniques until Zi Ning declared that she had finished her strike, and he stopped fighting.
• Zi Tianya stepped forward, crushed a Jade Talisman, and had Bai Youyou brought into view beside the Life-and-Death Platform.
• Lin Shisan recognized Bai Youyou and wondered how she had returned when he believed she had been sent back to Little Fishing Village.

Lin Shisan handed the Hornless Dragon True Spirit to Zi Tianya to secure Bai Youyou’s release, but secretly used it to drain Zi Tianya’s power. Zi Yuner struck while Zi Tianya was vulnerable, and the Dragon Spirit returned to Lin Shisan as his strength recovered.

• Zi Tianya swore on his Dragon Clan bloodline that he would release Bai Youyou if Lin Shisan surrendered the Dragon Spirit, and Lin Shisan agreed.
• The Second Elder secretly reinforced the Life-and-Death Platform’s barrier, trapping the Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning inside for a quarter of an hour.
• Lin Shisan drew the Hornless Dragon True Spirit from his body, and Zi Tianya seized it and began devouring its power.
• The Dragon Spirit secretly absorbed Zi Tianya’s dragon breath and sent the power back to Lin Shisan through their connection.
• Zi Yuner stabbed Zi Tianya through the back and activated a Spirit-Locking Seal, stopping his Spiritual Power.
• The Dragon Spirit swallowed Zi Tianya’s remaining dragon breath, returned to Lin Shisan, and restored his strength.

Zi Yuner revealed how she and Lin Shisan uncovered Zi Tianya’s coup, while the Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning reconciled after learning the truth about their long separation. Zi Tianya was captured, but his taunts about the Dragon King Position and the forbidden land left the succession unresolved.

• Zi Yuner explained that a Python Demon’s surviving soul had exposed Zi Tianya’s secret plans, and that the Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning had known about them before their fight on the Life-and-Death Platform.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning emerged reconciled, and he told her he had imprisoned her on Prisoner Dragon Ridge to protect her from Zi Tianya.
• Zi Tianya accused the Purple Sky Dragon King of coveting the throne and warned that Zi Yuner could not secure the Dragon King Position.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King seized Zi Tianya and threatened to kill him, but hesitated when Zi Tianya taunted him about failing to enter the forbidden land’s center.
• Mo Jiao knocked Zi Tianya unconscious, ordered the guards to seize his followers, and said he had raided Zi Tianya’s Dragon Residence.

Lin Shisan advanced from the Sixth to the Eighth Stage of Meridian Opening after the Purple Sky Dragon Palace barrier approved him, then Zi Ning removed the Heartlock that Xue Yaotian had planted in him. The Purple Sky Dragon King offered Lin Shisan a Dragon Clan Identity if he agreed to stay in the Dragon Palace.

• The Hornless Dragon True Spirit returned Dragon Breath Qi to Lin Shisan, and the Dragon Palace barrier's golden light helped him advance two stages to the Eighth Stage of Meridian Opening.
• The Heartlock activated and began eroding Lin Shisan's Divine Sense, leaving him in agony as Zi Yuner and the Purple Sky Dragon King prepared to intervene.
• Zi Ning pressed her palm to Lin Shisan's forehead and extracted the Heartlock, exhausting herself and causing Xue Yaotian to suffer a backlash at Jade Maiden Peak.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King praised Lin Shisan for separating and recovering his Dragon Spirit and offered him a Dragon Clan Identity if he stayed in the Dragon Palace.

Lin Shisan refused the Purple Sky Dragon King’s offer of Dragon Clan Identity so he could return to land, but accepted a Dragon Scale Token from Zi Yuner. As he and Bai Youyou left the Dragon Palace early, a Merfolk maid delivered him a Jade Box from the Eldest Princess, which he was told to open after leaving.

• Lin Shisan thanked the Purple Sky Dragon King but declined to stay in the Dragon Palace, and the king let him leave while reserving his Dragon Clan Identity for him.
• Zi Yuner gave Lin Shisan a Dragon Scale Token and said he need not come say goodbye before departing; Bai Youyou teased him about upsetting the princess and spoke with him about their relationship.
• Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou left the Dragon Saliva Festival gathering early, joking about how he would explain their marriage to his master and Feng Xian'er.
• A Merfolk maid caught up with Lin Shisan and delivered a sealed Jade Box from the Eldest Princess, instructing him to open it only after leaving the Dragon Palace.

Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou decided to stay another day in the Dragon Palace so Bai Youyou could explore it, and her curiosity brought out a softer side of her. As they browsed the palace and a merfolk market, Lin Shisan reflected on her unhappy childhood and his own happier one.

• Bai Youyou accused Lin Shisan of collecting romantic debts, then stopped to admire moon-white coral in the Dragon Palace corridor.
• Bai Youyou asked to stay another day and explore the Dragon Palace, and Lin Shisan readily agreed.
• Bai Youyou excitedly examined the Dragon Palace’s dragon carvings while Lin Shisan followed and listened.
• Bai Youyou visited an elderly merfolk woman’s stall, learned about coral beads, and bought pink and pale blue ones.
• Bai Youyou told Lin Shisan she had been unable to browse markets when her master was with her, prompting him to think of her difficult childhood and his father, Lin Qinghan.

Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou explored the Purple Sky Dragon Palace before using the Dragon Scale Token to enter its Library Pavilion. Guided by his hornless dragon true spirit, Lin Shisan found a blank scroll, and Eldest Princess Zi Ning revealed that it had been returned to its rightful owner.

• Bai Youyou enjoyed playing with little merfolk and listening to Wind-Chime Coral as she reflected on how far she had come from her sheltered childhood.
• Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou decided to visit the Library Pavilion and entered after the old man recognized Lin Shisan's Dragon Scale Token.
• Lin Shisan followed the hornless dragon true spirit's pull to a worn, unmarked scroll in a dim corner of the pavilion.
• Lin Shisan opened the scroll and found its pages entirely blank, then stored the Wordless Fragmentary Sutra in his Storage Ring.
• Eldest Princess Zi Ning arrived, and Lin Shisan asked about the scroll; Zi Ning said it had been left by its previous owner and returned to its rightful owner.