Lin Fan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Lin Fan inherited the Heavenly Fate Studio from his late master. The shop had a modest reputation on Taihe Street, a street crowded with fortune-telling businesses, but prospective customers distrusted its youthful owner. After more than two weeks without earning anything, he considered taking a factory job 1.

Watching a streamer receive rocket gifts inspired him to register on Huya and offer fortune-telling online. Although he worried that livestreaming might disgrace his inherited tradition, he argued that fortune-tellers needed to adapt to the internet age. The God-Tier Fortune-Telling System activated as he began this new venture, giving him the ability to demonstrate genuine predictions to viewers 1.

Appearance

• Youthful face: Viewers judge him to look barely over twenty; his exact age is not stated 1.
• Unusual presence: Chu Tianxiong notices a faint, distinctive air about him despite initially doubting his competence 13.
• Cultivation effects: Divine light flashes through his eyes after his first Qi Refining breakthrough, while golden light passes over his skin after reaching the third level 33 43.
• Visible aura during rites: Witnesses see a golden glow around his back while he performs soul-deliverance at a grave 50.

Personality

Lin Fan combines a composed public manner with an openly ambitious inner life. He presents himself as a calm, detached expert even when delighted by gifts and rising follower counts. Livestreaming appeals to him because it earns money and Heavenly Secrets Points while allowing him to help viewers and promote genuine fortune-telling 3 7.

He values honesty and discretion. He withholds Yang Tianhe’s identification and phone numbers despite knowing them, and keeps the intimate details of Wang Jianmin’s psychological problem from the audience. When viewers harass Jiang Xueyan, he warns them that he can expose their birth details 1 9 17.

His willingness to intervene depends on conduct and sincere repentance. He gives Han Lei and Lin Yuxin opportunities to change, but refuses to help Bai Xiaobai escape consequences when he believes she would harm others again—even at the cost of a system penalty. He also refuses excessive gifts from Chu Tianxiong and payment from the Moonrise Restaurant owner 15 30 45 47 50.

He recognizes that compassion does not make his resources unlimited. Rather than let crowds pressure him into endless readings, he maintains boundaries around “fated connections.” When overwhelmed by the number of people seeking help, he reminds himself that saving people is not a numerical competition 25 34.

Abilities & Skills

Face-Reading and Fortune-Telling

• Reads a person’s past and future from their face, demonstrated by accurately recounting Yang Tianhe’s education, family history, return date, and flight number 1.
• Can obtain information from photographs, as shown when examining Yang Tianhe’s blind date 2.
• Uses finger calculations for detailed divination, including locating missing people, identifying criminals, and predicting accidents 16 18 39.
• Can investigate someone without seeing them directly; his detailed reading of Lin Qiang surprises viewers who assumed visual contact was necessary 27.
• Explains that destiny shapes facial features, rather than facial features determining destiny; cosmetic surgery therefore does not inherently improve luck 28.

Qi-Observing Technique

• Detects wealth qi, black calamity qi, yin energy, and spiritual energy 8 13 43.
• Works through livestream video, allowing him to perceive the black mist surrounding Han Lei 28.
• Tracks changes in danger: Han Lei’s black aura diminishes after one threat is addressed but remains while another persists 30.
• Identifies valuable or spiritually significant objects, including Brother Qin’s jade artifact and the Foundation Establishment Pill 24 43.
• Requires no activation cost and is explicitly described by the system as having no usage limit or side effects 6.

Talisman-Making

• Eight Trigrams Talisman: His first successful talisman produces glowing runes and an apparition of an Eight Trigrams Formation 12.
• Immobility Talisman: Freezes every fish in his tank when activated by an incantation 12.
• Peace Talisman: Used in recoveries from illness, protection against fatal injury, and relief from supernatural torment; twenty talismans save a group caught in a mudslide 15 34 43 45.
• Beauty Talisman: Used with a Peace Talisman to restore Guo Xiaoyun’s disfigured face 31.
• Natal Tai Sui Protective Talisman: Draws a Yang Talisman for Xiao Tuantuan during her zodiac year; explains that men wear the Yin version and women the Yang version 22.
• Requirements: Complete concentration, uninterrupted brushwork, cinnabar, talisman paper, and infused spiritual energy. Even a slight error can make a talisman ineffective 12 22.
• Materials and sincerity: Ordinary paper works less effectively than specialized paper; for some protective talismans, sincere faith or repentance is also important 12 22 45.

Artifact Refining and Formations

• Possesses system-granted refining knowledge, but practical success is constrained by his strength 20 21.
• Establishes the Seven-Star Soul-Confusing Formation to prevent intrusive streamers and other unwanted visitors from entering his shop 20 21.
• The formation causes would-be entrants to be pushed away or find themselves moving backward despite walking forward 21 24.
• Fated visitors can pass through, as demonstrated by Xiao Tuantuan 21.

Soul Rites and Feng Shui

• Receives the Soul-Refining Canon, described as a method to refine departed souls and let the dead rest in peace 17.
• Later uses a scripture called the Soul-Deliverance Canon on Xia Xinyu’s grandfather and at the Moonrise Restaurant owner’s father’s grave 35 50.
• Appears to hear the deceased grandfather ask him to help Xia Xinyu, although Lin Fan is unsure whether the figure he sees is a vision 35.
• Identifies disrupted wealth positions and ancestral-grave problems; selects a new burial site and settles the grave’s resentful energy 48 49 50.

Cultivation and Limitations

• Cultivates the Nine Yin Profound Origin Art, strengthening his body and increasing the spiritual resources available for his other techniques 33.
• After beginning cultivation, draws ninety-nine talismans in one session without feeling particularly tired; by his third Qi Refining level, he can work through the night with little drain 38 50.
• Detailed readings and destiny-changing initially cause severe mental exhaustion 17 27.
• Revealing the disaster threatening Tubaocun Village makes him spit blood. A mysterious force also prevents him from clearly explaining the event 38 39.
• Cannot save Xia Xinyu’s grandfather in time; he believes greater strength might have allowed him to extend the man’s life from afar 35.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Fortune-telling and talisman supplies — Brush, inkstone, cinnabar, and talisman paper, with additional materials purchased from the system shop 11 12 31.
• Refined jade artifact — Successfully made from one of seven purchased jade pieces and used to establish his shop’s protective formation 20 21.
• Marrow-Cleansing Pill — Purchased for 1,000 Heavenly Secrets Points; consumption is not documented in the supplied passages 6.
• Spirit-Restoring Pill — Purchased for 500 points and consumed to replenish his mental energy before treating Guo Xiaoyun 31.
• Foundation Establishment Pill — Mission reward consumed to advance from the first to the third level of Qi Refining 43.
• Emerald jade Taoist artifact — Gift from Brother Qin, later exchanged for 3,000 system points 24 25.
• Double-Dragon Jade Pendant — Daoguang-era pendant traded by Chu Tianxiong for a Peace Talisman and a Beauty Talisman; exchanged for 300 points 38.

Relationships

• Unnamed late master — Mentor and predecessor who passed down the Heavenly Fate Studio. Lin Fan continues taking offline clients partly to honor him 1 13.
• Yang Tianhe — First livestream customer and early supporter; his gifts help attract viewers after Lin Fan proves his accuracy 1 2 3.
• Jiang Xueyan — Client whom he guides to a skull hidden in her air conditioner; her testimony helps change Director Wu’s opinion of him 10 12.
• Director Wu — Initially dismisses his fortune-telling as publicity, then follows his account after reviewing Jiang Xueyan’s case 6 12.
• Chu Tianxiong — Grateful client and chairman of the Chu Group. After his wife recovers, he offers lavish gifts and donates one million yuan to charity in Lin Fan’s name 13 15.
• Chu Xiaoxiao — Chu Tianxiong’s daughter, saved by one of Lin Fan’s Peace Talismans after jumping from a school building 33 34 38.
• Xiao Tuantuan — Client, defender, and frequent companion. Her livestream lets him reach the public while his own account is banned, making her instrumental in the Tubaocun rescue 21 35 43 50.
• Brother Qin / Mr. Qin — Jade-shop owner saved by Lin Fan’s warning; gives him a valuable artifact in gratitude 20 24.
• Bu Yuner / Ragdoll Cat — Supportive viewer whose family dispute he resolves by exposing Lin Qiang’s scheme against her grandmother 26 27 28.
• Han Lei / Top Diehard Fan — Troubled viewer whom Lin Fan helps confront the consequences of bullying and online harassment, conditional on making amends 28 30 31.
• Wandering Geomancer — Skeptical Daoist who comes to kneel for three days and nights after witnessing Lin Fan’s abilities; seeks discipleship and later accompanies him 43 44 47 50.
• Moonrise Restaurant owner — Client whose restaurant and ancestral-grave troubles Lin Fan resolves; offers him permanently free meals 47 48 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Livestream Debut and Criminal Exposures

• Yang Tianhe’s blind date: Reveals the woman’s concealed work and warns against a marriage that would destroy Yang Tianhe’s family finances. Advises verification through an alternate account rather than demanding blind trust 1 2.
• Qing Xiaohe’s crimes: Exposes counterfeit wine sales, charity fraud, and tax evasion. Police confirm her violations, and the resulting publicity raises his follower count from 50,000 to 1,050,000 4 6 7.
• Hidden skull: Guides Jiang Xueyan through discovering human remains in an air conditioner and directs her to contact police 8 10 12.
• Missing son and murder cases: Locates Duan Dahai’s abducted son, exposes the younger brother responsible, and supplies leads that result in Wu Li’s arrest 16 17 18 19.

Growing Fame and Changing Destinies

• Shop privacy: Responds to streamers exposing his address by establishing a formation that restricts entry 20 21.
• Xiao Tuantuan’s danger: Predicts the events surrounding an attempted assault and extortion scheme; the arrests make him trend again 24.
• Medical and family interventions: Sends Tong Lin for treatment after divining uremia, then exposes Lin Qiang’s plan to exploit Bu Yuner’s grandmother 26 27.
• Han Lei and Guo Xiaoyun: Uncovers threats tied to Han Lei’s past, demands that he make amends, and treats Guo Xiaoyun’s disfigurement. During a three-day streaming ban, Lin Fan begins formal cultivation 29 30 31 33.
• Xia Xinyu’s reform: Fails to save his grandfather but repeatedly intervenes to prevent Xia Xinyu’s choices from causing his grandmother’s death. Completes the mission only after Xia Xinyu commits to changing his temperament 35 36 37 38.

Tubaocun Disaster and Later Cases

• Village evacuation: Warns of torrential rain and imminent disaster despite disbelief and supernatural interference. His warnings lead to Tubaocun Village’s successful evacuation 38 39 41 42.
• Mudslide rescue: Ensures twenty people have Peace Talismans before their vehicles are buried. All survive, his follower count approaches ten million, and his mission reward enables his next cultivation breakthrough 42 43.
• Selective aid: Helps the genuinely repentant Lin Yuxin but accepts a loss of 100 Heavenly Secrets Points rather than alter Bai Xiaobai’s fate 45 47.
• Moonrise Restaurant: Identifies water-tank sabotage and an ancestral-grave disturbance caused by the owner’s estranged adopted son. Reburies the owner’s father, performs soul-deliverance, then prepares talismans for his return to livestreaming 47 48 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“Send in the next victim!”
“Oh, no, I mean the next destined guest!” 1

“Gambling ruins lives.”
“Gambling and drugs are my sworn enemies.” 17

“Facial features don't influence destiny. Destiny influences facial features.” 28

“No, saving people isn't about numbers.” 34