Recaps

Lin Fan helped Weiyang capture a thief who had secretly lived in her home, then foresaw that the man would return for revenge after prison. He offered Weiyang talismans and a magical artifact, but she worried the thief would keep targeting her after each release.

• Qianshan pinned the thief down, and Weiyang struck him while Lin Fan condemned him for secretly living in her home.
• The Uncle Cops arrested the thief and said his theft and unlawful entry could bring at least three years in prison.
• The thief admitted he had secretly repaired Weiyang's refrigerator and bought her kitchen utensils, angering her further.
• Lin Fan warned Weiyang that the thief would return in three years and harm her, then offered her protective options.
• Lin Fan chose a Peach Blossom Talisman and a jade magical artifact for Weiyang, who worried the thief would seek revenge again after another release.

Lin Fan and Qianshan set out for Phoenix Village to handle the Daoist Assembly’s assignment, while Han Bing learned that her deputy Sunflower was already there. The group headed toward Nanzhou, leaving Weiyang behind and approaching the village’s unexplained problems.

• Lin Fan told Weiyang that Thief would return in three years but that someone would help her, then promised to mail her finished items later.
• Han Bing explained that she had cultivated beneath Phoenix Village’s Wutong Tree five years earlier and warned that powerful beings lived there.
• Qianshan revealed that the Daoist Assembly had sent him to Phoenix Village partly to deliver invitations to local masters.
• Lin Fan and Qianshan departed with Han Bing’s group for Nanzhou, and Weiyang waved goodbye to them.
• Han Bing learned from her superiors that her deputy, codenamed Sunflower, was in Phoenix Village with two rookies.

Lin Fan and the others traveled to Phoenix Village to deal with Qianshan's urgent matter, while Long Xuanxuan learned that Lin Fan was coming to Nanzhou and set out to meet him. After arriving, Lin Fan sensed the Wutong Tree's powerful spiritual energy and entered the village cautiously.

• Han Bing worried about seeing Deputy Captain Sunflower again, and Dao Tianji told her Phoenix Village's old chief had been born in the century before last and possessed strength comparable to Xiao Fan's.
• Xiao Tuantuan restarted her livestream and revealed that the group was heading to Phoenix Village in Nanzhou, prompting Long Xuanxuan to message Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan told Long Xuanxuan that Qianshan's matter took priority, and Long Xuanxuan excitedly told the viewers she planned to meet him.
• After a five-hour drive, Lin Fan and the others arrived at Phoenix Village and saw its enormous Wutong Tree, which Lin Fan found surrounded by dense spiritual energy.
• Qianshan led Lin Fan into Phoenix Village, and Lin Fan kept his Qi-Observing Technique active as he watched the people around him.

Qianshan brought Lin Fan and his companions to Phoenix Village to investigate why the old village chief could not be buried, while Lin Fan discovered that the village concealed cultivators beyond his calculations. Dao Tianji’s return revealed an old conflict with the villagers, and Lin Fan noticed unusual black and white qi around the coffin.

• Lin Fan sensed many cultivators in Phoenix Village and found that he could not calculate anything about those above the Third Level of Qi Refining.
• Qianshan led Lin Fan and the others to the ancestral hall, where Elder Huang said the old village chief's body remained lifelike and had grown long white hair despite being in the coffin.
• Elder Huang tried to keep Lin Fan's group out of the ancestral hall until Qianshan said they were needed to help with the old village chief.
• Elder Huang recognized Dao Tianji, who revealed that he had sworn not to return while the old village chief lived and confronted the villagers over their past hostility.
• Qianshan defused the confrontation, and Elder Huang let the group enter the ancestral hall.
• Lin Fan saw black and white qi around the coffin and found that it lacked the sinister quality of baleful qi.

Lin Fan investigated why the Phoenix Village chief’s body and coffin could not be moved, and divined the events surrounding the chief’s death despite the villagers’ disbelief. After Lin Fan revealed what had happened, the villagers dismissed his knowledge as information Qianshan had given him.

• Qianshan opened the coffin and showed Lin Fan the village chief’s strangely youthful-looking body.
• The villagers mocked Lin Fan after learning he was Dao Tianji’s martial nephew, until Elder Huang quieted them.
• Lin Fan began divining the chief’s fate, drew down a powerful force of Heaven and Earth, and used the Heaven-Peering Art to overcome it.
• Lin Fan said the chief had died half a month earlier and described how the villagers had been unable to move his coffin or body.
• Elder Huang accused Qianshan of telling Lin Fan what had happened, but Qianshan denied it, and Lin Fan stopped him from arguing.

Lin Fan proved his fortune-telling ability to Phoenix Village by revealing how the old village chief died and demonstrating the heavenly thunder power still inside his body. Elder Huang and the villagers accepted Lin Fan’s claims, while Elder Huang insulted Dao Tianji in front of him.

• Lin Fan revealed that the old village chief had climbed into the wutong tree’s crown to summon heavenly thunder and force a breakthrough, then died from his injuries before resolving an unfinished matter.
• When villagers mocked Lin Fan, he recounted private details about Elder Huang, prompting Elder Huang to confirm the old village chief’s secret climb and its consequences.
• Lin Fan explained that heavenly thunder power inside the corpse kept it from decaying, and invited Elder Huang to touch it to verify his claim.
• Elder Huang touched the corpse and was blasted away, leaving his fingers charred and confirming that heavenly thunder power remained inside.
• Lin Fan explained that the old village chief’s spiritual power had initially shielded the corpse, and Elder Huang apologized for doubting him.
• Elder Huang praised Lin Fan as different from Dao Tianji and called Dao Tianji faithless, making Dao Tianji’s expression darken.

Lin Fan explained away Phoenix Village’s talk of cultivation as martial arts while keeping his true abilities secret from the livestream viewers. He revealed to Elder Huang that the Village Chief’s spirit remained in the Ancestral Hall and arranged to speak with it after most villagers left.

• Lin Fan told Elder Huang that his martial uncle had fallen in love with a woman in Phoenix Village, but others had prevented them from being together.
• Lin Fan told Xiao Tuantuan’s livestream viewers that Phoenix Village’s cultivators were simply martial artists, and he privately cautioned Elder Huang about speaking in front of the camera.
• Lin Fan realized that the Village Chief had restricted villagers’ use of electronic devices so they would focus on cultivation.
• Lin Fan used the Qi-Observing Technique to tell Elder Huang that the Village Chief’s spirit remained in the Ancestral Hall, then revealed his powerful cultivation.
• Lin Fan asked to speak with the Village Chief, and Elder Huang sent most villagers away while keeping the clan elders behind.

Lin Fan discovered that the Village Chief’s spirit body remained in the Ancestral Hall because he had three unfinished wishes, and began a Soul-Refining Rite to send him away. The Village Chief’s daughter remained skeptical as Lin Fan started the rite, leaving the spirit body floating under its power.

• Elder Huang told the Clan Elders that Lin Fan could see the Village Chief’s spirit body, and they cleared the Ancestral Hall of villagers.
• The Village Chief’s daughter arrived and challenged the Clan Elders for breaking the village’s vigil rules; Lin Fan recognized her as the Village Chief’s over-a-hundred-year-old daughter.
• Lin Fan told the woman that her father’s spirit body was standing in front of her, but she dismissed his claim.
• Lin Fan revealed that the Village Chief wanted his daughter to become kinder, his hidden cultivation texts to be found, and to apologize to his granddaughter.
• The Village Chief confirmed Lin Fan’s account and said he would leave once those three wishes were fulfilled.
• Lin Fan began reciting the Soul-Deliverance Canon to perform a Soul-Refining Rite, causing the Village Chief’s spirit body to float.

Lin Fan stopped Feng Jiutian from demanding that he complete the Village Chief’s unfinished business and defended Xiao Tuantuan when Feng tried to seize her livestreaming phone. Dao Tianji revealed a past connection to Feng Jiutian’s family, and Lin Fan struck her before overpowering her as she attacked him.

• Lin Fan refused to help Feng Jiutian with her father’s unfinished business, and the livestream viewers urged him to bury the Village Chief normally instead.
• Feng Jiutian tried to snatch Xiao Tuantuan’s phone, so Lin Fan drew the Pure Yang Magical Sword and warned her not to bully his people.
• Elder Huang scolded Feng Jiutian for her arrogant behavior, and Dao Tianji revealed that Lin Fan was his martial nephew.
• Feng Jiutian accused Dao Tianji of hurting her daughter in the past, and Dao Tianji ordered Lin Fan to slap her.
• Lin Fan slapped Feng Jiutian, then cut her arms with sword energy when she charged at him and suppressed her with his aura.

Lin Fan exposed how Feng Jiutian and the clan elders had separated Dao Tianji from Feng Jiutian’s daughter and caused her mental breakdown. Dao Tianji stopped Lin Fan from pressing the matter, and Lin Fan agreed to let it rest for now as they looked for somewhere to stay.

• Feng Jiutian accused Dao Tianji of harming her daughter, prompting the livestream viewers to criticize Lin Fan for slapping her.
• Lin Fan explained that Dao Tianji and Feng Jiutian’s daughter had fallen in love, but Feng Jiutian and the clan elders had prevented them from leaving Phoenix Village together.
• Lin Fan revealed that Feng Jiutian’s group had forged breakup letters, driving the couple apart and leaving Feng Jiutian’s daughter heartbroken and mentally ill.
• Elder Huang warned that seeing Dao Tianji again could worsen the daughter’s condition, while Lin Fan cautioned Feng Jiutian against mistreating his martial uncle.
• Feng Jiutian refused to let Dao Tianji meet her daughter, but Dao Tianji asked Lin Fan to let the matter go, and Lin Fan agreed before suggesting they find a place to rest.

Lin Fan used the system shop to buy five fortune-telling codices, but the knowledge overwhelmed him and caused a violent surge of Spiritual Power. The system then offered him an opportunity to fully integrate the codices.

• Elder Huang arranged rooms for Lin Fan and the others, and Lin Fan promised to reveal where the Village Chief kept his codices and help fulfill his final wishes.
• Lin Fan suspected that Phoenix Village held a hidden danger and saw signs that Dao Tianji and Qianshan might face bloodshed.
• Lin Fan opened the system shop and spent Heavenly Secrets Points to purchase five fortune-telling codices.
• The codices' knowledge flooded Lin Fan's mind, triggering Spiritual Power waves that sent everyone nearby flying and injured Dao Tianji.
• The system detected Lin Fan's abnormal condition and offered him an opportunity to fully integrate the codices.

Lin Fan integrated five fortune-telling Codices and reached a new level of divination, but probing the Village Chief’s memories exposed a mysterious person who sensed him and injured him. Lin Fan warned the others that Phoenix Village held hidden dangers and said they should leave once the Village Chief’s affairs were settled.

• Lin Fan used the system to combine the Codices, remained unconscious for nearly an hour, then awoke with white vapor swirling around him.
• Lin Fan divined Feng Jiutian’s tragic romantic past and found nothing unusual among the clan elders.
• Lin Fan examined the Village Chief’s fate again and discovered that he had met someone shortly before he died.
• Lin Fan tried to identify the person in the Village Chief’s memories, but the figure’s gaze crossed time and space, causing Lin Fan to cough blood and collapse.
• Lin Fan recovered, warned Qianshan and the others that Phoenix Village was dangerous, and said they should leave after handling the Village Chief’s affairs.
• Lin Fan told Dao Tianji about Feng Jiutian’s past, but Dao Tianji said he was not interested and remarked that Lin Fan seemed stronger.

Lin Fan began a livestream to test his improved fortune-telling by answering a viewer’s question. After Feng Jiutian failed to turn the clan elders against him, viewer Chu Yi asked when she would have a child, and Lin Fan began reading her fate.

• Lin Fan decided to livestream and test how quickly he could divine an ordinary person’s life.
• Feng Jiutian complained that Lin Fan had refused her request, but Elder Huang revealed that Lin Fan had agreed to fulfill the old village chief’s wishes.
• Elder Huang warned Feng Jiutian not to awaken the secluded masters, and she threatened to keep her daughter from Lin Fan’s senior martial uncle.
• Lin Fan selected Chu Yi from the livestream viewers and invited her to connect.
• Chu Yi asked when she could have a child after nine years of marriage without conceiving, and Lin Fan began to divine her fate.

Lin Fan told Chu Yi that she was healthy and could conceive with another husband, then recounted her history with Jiang Lin to explain why he suspected her husband was the source of the problem. He revealed that Chu Yi had investigated Jiang Lin after his younger brother died, and the chapter ended with Chu Yi confirming Lin Fan’s account.

• Lin Fan told Chu Yi she would be unable to have children for at least ten years, and she admitted that pressure from both families weighed on her.
• Lin Fan said Chu Yi was healthy and could become pregnant with another husband, leading her to wonder whether he could cure Jiang Lin.
• Lin Fan recounted details of Chu Yi and Jiang Lin’s married life, embarrassing her and prompting him to apologize.
• Lin Fan explained that Chu Yi had noticed changes in Jiang Lin after his younger brother died and had investigated his behavior.
• Chu Yi confirmed she had suspected Jiang Lin was having an affair before consulting a psychologist about his mental health.

During a livestream, Lin Fan revealed that Chu Yi’s husband was actually Jiang Shui, who had taken the place of his dead brother Jiang Lin three years earlier. He then disclosed that Jiang Shui had killed Jiang Lin and offered a clue about why, leaving Chu Yi and the viewers trying to understand the motive.

• Chu Yi admitted she had suspected her husband of cheating, but Lin Fan stopped her from disconnecting and suggested the man beside her was not Jiang Lin.
• Lin Fan explained that Jiang Lin and Jiang Shui looked exactly alike, and Chu Yi had met Jiang Shui only a few times before Jiang Lin died.
• Chu Yi called Doctor Wang, who confirmed that Jiang Lin had often told Jiang Shui details about his life with Chu Yi, and she realized Jiang Shui had deceived her for three years.
• Lin Fan revealed that the brothers had switched identities many times, with Jiang Lin sometimes having Jiang Shui take his place.
• When Chu Yi wondered what it mattered now that Jiang Lin was dead, Lin Fan said Jiang Shui had killed him and hinted that Jiang Shui had lacked the opportunities Jiang Lin had as an acclaimed artist.

Lin Fan revealed that Jiang Shui killed Jiang Lin because both brothers loved Chu Yi, then impersonated Jiang Lin to stay with her. After Jiang Shui confessed and attacked Chu Yi, the police arrested him, leaving Chu Yi facing the truth that her husband had been dead for three years.

• Lin Fan explained that Jiang Shui had killed Jiang Lin out of obsessive love for Chu Yi and had continued impersonating him.
• Chu Yi confirmed with the psychologist that Jiang Shui could not stand blood, then cut her finger to test the man who returned home.
• Jiang Shui panicked at the sight of blood, revealed himself, and attacked Chu Yi with a wooden chair.
• After Chu Yi covered her finger, Jiang Shui calmed down and confessed that he killed Jiang Lin because his brother refused to share Chu Yi with him.
• The Uncle Cops arrived, arrested Jiang Shui, and took him away after he told Chu Yi that he loved her.

Chu Yi learned that Jiang Lin's spirit had been protecting her from Jiang Shui and asked Lin Fan to help her see him once more. Lin Fan gave her half a month to reach Nanzhou before Jiang Lin's spirit disappeared, while he reflected on his growing fortune-telling abilities and the powerful presence hidden behind Phoenix Village.

• Lin Fan told Chu Yi that Jiang Lin had protected her from danger after his death, though his attempts to warn her through dreams had been unclear.
• Lin Fan explained that Jiang Lin's spirit remained because of his worry for Chu Yi, but would disappear within half a month now that she was safe.
• Chu Yi begged Lin Fan to help her see Jiang Lin, and Lin Fan said she should come to Nanzhou before the spirit vanished.
• Uncle Cop urged Chu Yi to give a statement against Jiang Shui, and Lin Fan encouraged her to go with him first.
• Chu Yi agreed to give her statement and promised to travel to Nanzhou as soon as possible.
• Lin Fan considered how his fortune-telling had improved and sensed that a terrifying being was hidden behind Phoenix Village.

Lin Fan continued his livestream and took a call from Luo Xi, a Qingzhou University student whose fortune showed she would die in three days. He told her she could survive by staying isolated at home, but she revealed she had to perform at her university’s arts gala that evening.

• After viewers showered him with gifts, Lin Fan agreed to take another call and explained that fortune-telling now used very little of his energy.
• Lin Fan connected with Dora Xiao Luoluo, whose real name was Luo Xi, and learned she was a nineteen-year-old sophomore at Qingzhou University's School of Arts.
• Lin Fan told Luo Xi that she would die in three days, despite her good health and recent medical checkup.
• Lin Fan said Luo Xi could avoid the disaster by staying inside her home and cutting off contact with the outside world for three days.
• Luo Xi explained that she had to attend her university's arts gala in three days as the lead singer of a band she and her clubmates had practiced with for six months.

Luo Xi sought a way to survive an accident predicted for three days later without missing her band’s arts gala, then revealed that her best friend Yu Ji seemed possessed after buying a white dress. Lin Fan began recounting what happened after Yu Ji brought the dress home, leaving the mystery unresolved.

• Luo Xi said she would do anything to attend the gala and stay alive, and Lin Fan promised to find her a solution.
• Luo Xi explained that she had contacted Lin Fan because her best friend seemed possessed.
• Luo Xi said she had helped Yu Ji buy an expensive white dress at a formalwear shop half a month earlier.
• Lin Fan identified Yu Ji and described how she and Luo Xi had been neighbors and best friends since middle school.
• Lin Fan began explaining that Yu Ji tried on the white dress as soon as she got home on the first night.

Lin Fan recounted the eerie incidents Yu Ji experienced after buying a secondhand white dress, while Luo Xi showed footage and photos of her friend’s worsening condition. He revealed that the dress belonged to a Qingzhou University student who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend half a month earlier.

• Lin Fan described how the white dress appeared stained and fell from its hanger, then seemed to make the wardrobe door open by itself.
• Luo Xi explained that the wardrobe door had actually been pushed open by the dress’s full skirt and showed surveillance footage confirming it.
• Lin Fan recounted how the dress kept returning after Yu Ji threw it away and even reappeared on her after she burned it to ashes.
• Luo Xi showed photos comparing Yu Ji before and after the incidents, revealing how severely her appearance had deteriorated.
• Lin Fan revealed that the dress’s owner was a fourth-year Qingzhou University student who was killed by her ex-boyfriend half a month earlier.

Lin Fan told Luo Xi that the white dress's makeup artist had been arrested and Yu Ji had been taken to the hospital. He then challenged the viewers' belief in a spirit, declaring that Yu Ji's experiences were hallucinations.

• Lin Fan asked why Luo Xi still wanted to help Yu Ji after Yu Ji had treated her cruelly, and Luo Xi said she trusted her friend's character.
• Lin Fan revealed that he had notified the police, who arrested the funeral-home makeup artist and took Yu Ji to the hospital.
• Luo Xi thanked Lin Fan and recalled finding Yu Ji struggling beneath the white dress, then seeing blue handprints on her neck.
• Lin Fan explained that Luo Xi had believed Yu Ji's account and the apparent evidence of a spirit, but said Yu Ji's experiences were hallucinations.

Lin Fan revealed that Yu Ji’s apparent haunting was caused by hallucinations from embalming fluid on a dress taken from a corpse, and police confirmed the makeup artist and secondhand shop owner were arrested. Luo Xi reached the hospital, where she learned Yu Ji had suffered nerve damage from prolonged exposure, but Lin Fan reassured viewers that Yu Ji would recover.

• Lin Fan told Luo Xi that Yu Ji had hallucinated and strangled herself, rather than being attacked by a Spirit Body.
• Lin Fan explained that embalming fluid on Yu Ji’s white dress had caused the hallucinations and said the makeup artist had deliberately exposed her to it.
• Lin Fan revealed that the secondhand clothing shop owner knew the clothes came from corpses and sold them anyway.
• Qingzhou Uncle Cop confirmed the test results, Yu Ji’s self-inflicted injuries, and the arrests of the makeup artist and shop owner.
• Luo Xi went to the hospital and learned that Yu Ji had suffered nerve damage from prolonged exposure to the embalming fluid.
• Lin Fan reassured viewers that Yu Ji would be fine.

Lin Fan explained that Yu Ji would have killed Luo Xi in three days, but her recovery meant Luo Xi was safe. He then connected with Chen Yishuang, a farm worker, and warned her that her husband Mo Fei was in danger; she rushed to the town exit and found their car.

• Lin Fan told Luo Xi that Yu Ji had originally been destined to mistake her for her dead senior and strangle her, but Yu Ji’s hospitalization had averted the danger.
• Luo Xi thanked Lin Fan, ended the call, and Lin Fan announced that he would connect with one final viewer.
• Lin Fan connected with Shuangshuang, whose real name was Chen Yishuang, and explained that she worked on her family’s generational farm.
• Lin Fan warned Chen Yishuang that her husband Mo Fei was in danger and urged her to hurry to the town exit.
• Chen Yishuang drove to the town exit and spotted her family’s white sedan parked beside a farm.

Lin Fan saved Mo Fei from suicide and revealed the regret, guilt, and contract trouble behind his despair. After Mo Fei and Shuangshuang reconciled, Lin Fan urged them to go home and promised they would find a surprise.

• Shuangshuang followed Lin Fan's instructions to unblock Mo Fei's car exhaust and break a window, then pulled her unconscious husband to safety.
• Lin Fan explained that Mo Fei had once been a celebrated soccer player whose right leg was ruined during a crucial match, and that a wheat-delivery deadline and huge penalty had driven him to despair.
• Lin Fan revealed Mo Fei's dream of reliving the match and making the same choice to score, sacrificing his chance at a professional career for his town and Shuangshuang.
• Mo Fei confessed that he felt guilty for making Shuangshuang work so hard, while she reassured him that she wanted to stay by his side.
• Lin Fan revealed that Mo Fei's childhood friend had tricked him with a contract that shortened the delivery deadline to six months and warned him to go home with Shuangshuang for a surprise.

Mo Fei and Shuangshuang found the townspeople helping them harvest their wheat, and Lin Fan restored Mo Fei’s hope by reminding him of his friends’ support. The next morning, Lin Fan agreed to fulfill two of the Village Chief’s remaining wishes before making him leave willingly.

• Mo Fei and Shuangshuang returned to find the townspeople helping harvest their wheat, and the villagers reminded Mo Fei that they still remembered him as their town’s soccer hero.
• Lin Fan encouraged Mo Fei to keep living, and Shuangshuang thanked Lin Fan before ending the call.
• Lin Fan ended his livestream and told Qianshan and the others they would go help with the Village Chief’s situation the next morning.
• Lin Fan spent the night attempting to break through to Foundation Establishment but failed, then led the others to the Ancestral Hall at dawn.
• Lin Fan told the Village Chief’s spirit he would help him find his legacy beneath the Wutong Tree and apologize to his granddaughter in a dream, but would not change Feng Jiutian’s personality.
• The Village Chief’s spirit accepted Lin Fan’s terms, while Feng Jiutian silently took offense at his remark about her personality.