Recaps

Li Daoxuan learned that the Scenery Box held a real late-Ming village and worked to keep Gao Family Village fed, watered, and protected. As rebellion spread through the county, Gao Chuwu brought San Shier’s family to seek shelter in the village.

• Li Daoxuan discovered that the tiny figures were living people, saved Gao Yiye from bandits, and began supplying the starving villagers with food.
• Li Daoxuan drove off tax constables, learned from San Shier that the villagers lived in the late Ming Dynasty, and created a pond for their drinking water and irrigation.
• Li Daoxuan commissioned a mobile Hakka Walled House, supplied the villagers with chicken and salt, and gave flour to Wang Er and his companions after they stole water.
• Li Daoxuan supplied iron for armor and built a protective wall from Lego bricks as the villagers prepared for bandits and worsening unrest.
• San Shier learned that officials had seized seed grain in Wang Family Village, while Wang Er of Baishui gathered rebels and marched on Chengcheng County.
• San Shier persuaded the blacksmith Li Da to flee Chengcheng County with him as the rebellion reached the town.
• Li Daoxuan lowered fishing line for the villagers to use as strong gate bindings, and Gao Chuwu returned with San Shier’s wife, daughter, servant, and maid seeking protection.

Li Daoxuan helped Gao Family Village grow by bringing in new residents, supplies, and tools while the villagers built a temple and organized their defenses. After the village repelled a large bandit attack, the villagers’ worship strengthened Li Daoxuan’s ability to explore the land around the Heavenly Venerable Cave.

• Li Daoxuan housed San Shier’s family in Gao Family Village, where Third Madam witnessed his power and bowed to him.
• Li Daoxuan recruited Li Da to forge armor and study plans for a Sharps Rifle, then promised to free him from the artisan registry if he succeeded.
• San Shier recruited 102 people with flour, and the villagers built shelters, a temple, and a statue of Li Daoxuan.
• Li Daoxuan helped the village survive Cheng Xu’s inspection by making its wall and other structures disappear, then restored them after the soldiers fled.
• As Gao Family Village grew, Li Daoxuan supplied oil, food, cola, and materials, while the villagers organized patrols and opened the Dao Xuan Heavenly Venerable Cave.
• Mr. Bai brought refugees to the village and warned that bandits were advancing, so San Shier and Mr. Bai organized the defense and Li Daoxuan supplied twenty Stone-Throwers.
• The villagers repelled the bandits with catapults, arrows, stones, boiling oil, and iron armor, while Li Daoxuan crushed the Supreme Wisdom King and nearby attackers with his hand.
• After the villagers worshipped him, Li Daoxuan gained directional buttons that let him explore more land around the cave, then helped a burned servant with ointment.