Recaps

After Lin Mumu lost her baby when a customer attacked her over a refused refund, Lin Fan reassured her and warned that her guilt could lead to severe psychological distress. Chen Le shared surveillance footage that revealed the customer had assaulted Lin Mumu and fled, while the police had already caught her.

• Lin Mumu grieved the loss of her baby and blamed herself for refusing the customer's refund request.
• Lin Fan explained that the customer had tried to return clothing she had worn and warned Lin Mumu that her guilt could lead to hallucinations and a prolonged decline.
• Lin Fan asked Chen Le to retrieve the shop's surveillance footage after viewers questioned whether Lin Mumu had provoked the customer.
• Chen Le uploaded footage showing Lin Mumu politely refusing to refund stained, odorous clothing that contained chewed gum.
• The footage showed the customer shove, slap, and kick Lin Mumu in the belly before fleeing when she saw the bleeding.
• Viewers condemned the customer, and the Jiangzhou police confirmed they had caught her.

Lin Fan told Lin Mumu and Chen Le that their lost child could return if Lin Mumu became pregnant again within a month. The livestream viewers doubted his claim, but his explanation left the couple stunned and hopeful.

• Lin Fan reassured viewers that Lin Mumu had done nothing wrong and said he regretted not being able to help her sooner.
• Lin Mumu grieved for her lost child, and Lin Fan told her the child could return in a month if she and Chen Le made the effort.
• Lin Fan clarified that he did not mean summoning the child's spirit body, but bringing back a living, breathing child.
• After viewers and Dao Tianji questioned his claim, Lin Fan explained that the child's conscious spirit had bonded with Lin Mumu and would return if she became pregnant again within a month.

Lin Fan explained how Lin Mumu and Chen Le could identify their lost child if they conceived again, then bought them a costly Conceiving Spirit Pill. Lin Mumu refused to accept it without knowing why Lin Fan was repaying her, so he set off for the hospital, where she continued to grieve.

• Lin Fan explained that the child’s reactions to familiar music and fairy tales could confirm whether Lin Mumu had conceived the same child again.
• Lin Fan bought a Conceiving Spirit Pill for thirty thousand Heavenly Secrets Points and said it would let Lin Mumu conceive within a month.
• Lin Mumu questioned why Lin Fan would give her such a valuable pill, and he offered to explain in person at the hospital.
• Lin Mumu insisted she would not accept the pill until she knew the reason, so Lin Fan left for the hospital with Xiao Tuantuan and the other women following.
• At Jiangzhou Hospital, Lin Mumu could not recall ever helping Lin Fan and wondered whether good people were rewarded as Chen Le comforted her.

Lin Fan restored Lin Mumu’s memories of her past life, revealing their deep connection and leaving Chen Le furious as Lin Mumu embraced him. Lin Fan said he had no past-life memories himself, but had learned of their connection by reading her fate.

• Lin Fan brought Lin Mumu and the others to the hospital and thanked Han Bing for delivering the spirit pills that saved her.
• Lin Fan cast a spell to restore Lin Mumu’s past-life memories, while Chen Le tried to stop him and Han Bing and Dao Tianji restrained him.
• Lin Fan used six rounds of spirit pills to sustain the spell until Lin Mumu woke and recognized him as Xiao Fan.
• Lin Mumu embraced Lin Fan, overwhelmed to see him again, and Lin Fan explained how he had discovered their past-life connection.
• Chen Le accused Lin Fan of trying to steal his wife and demanded that Lin Mumu let him go.

Lin Fan reunited with Lin Mumu, his mother from a previous life, and recovered memories of their past. After Lin Mumu’s memories faded, Lin Fan left her with a Conceiving Spirit Pill, and she decided to visit him once she recovered.

• Lin Fan explained that he and Lin Mumu had been mother and son in a previous life, and Chen Le apologized for suspecting him of bad intentions.
• Lin Fan regained memories of his previous life and told Lin Mumu how he had left home after arguing with her, then returned too late and spent years consumed by guilt.
• Lin Fan and Lin Mumu spent an hour talking as mother and son before Lin Mumu’s memories of their previous life disappeared again.
• Lin Fan gave Lin Mumu a Conceiving Spirit Pill and left the hospital, while Chen Le showed her the livestream recording and she decided to thank Lin Fan in person.
• Dao Tianji asked Lin Fan why he did not intend to hide his past-life relationship with Lin Mumu.

Lin Fan explained that he was ending his connection with Lin Mumu because staying close to her would change his personality and put her fate in danger. After resting, he resumed making Heaven-Palm Bottles and then read the fortune of Ji Ling, a volunteer teacher in Xizhou, whose fate troubled him.

• Lin Fan told Dao Tianji and the livestream viewers that he wanted to remain himself and avoid endangering Lin Mumu, so he would sever their connection.
• Lin Fan went to sleep while Xiao Tuantuan continued streaming.
• After waking, Lin Fan carved three Heaven-Palm Bottles and said he needed to complete all forty-nine before he could do certain things.
• Lin Fan asked Xiao Tuantuan to connect him with a random viewer, and she called Ji Ling, a young volunteer teacher in Xizhou.
• Lin Fan read Ji Ling's fate and realized that her situation was more serious than he had expected.

Lin Fan warned teacher Ji Ling and Han Bing that a calamity was unfolding in Xiaoyao Village, where nearly a thousand residents were at risk. He said the outsiders could escape by leaving, but the villagers could not, and admitted that the powerful spirit behind the disaster was beyond his current strength.

• Lin Fan urged Ji Ling to leave Xiaoyao Village, then warned her that she would die there if she stayed.
• Ji Ling showed the remote village on her livestream and refused to abandon its children or her teaching post.
• Han Bing learned that a squad leader had gone to investigate the village, where other officers had disappeared, and rushed to organize help.
• Lin Fan told Han Bing that the squad leader’s phone had broken and asked Ji Ling to find him at the village chief’s house and tell him to leave.
• Lin Fan explained that the villagers had caused the calamity and would remain in danger even if they fled, while Ji Ling and the squad leader could be safe by leaving.
• Lin Fan revealed that the spirit behind the disaster was too powerful for him to hurt with his current strength.

Ji Ling found Wanxing at the village chief’s house, where Han Bing ordered him to leave Xiaoyao Village because Lin Fan foresaw danger that night. Lin Fan revealed that the village had suffered multiple strange illnesses and eerie incidents, and Wanxing set out to escape with Ji Ling before learning that taking the children might prevent them from leaving the village boundaries in time.

• Ji Ling found Wanxing and connected him with Han Bing and Lin Fan through her phone.
• Han Bing ordered Wanxing and Ji Ling to leave Xiaoyao Village immediately, warning that Wanxing would be targeted if he stayed.
• Lin Fan described the village’s strange illnesses and supernatural incidents, alarming Wanxing and the village chief.
• Han Bing told Wanxing that Lin Fan was not strong enough to resolve the village’s problem, so Wanxing began leaving with Ji Ling.
• Ji Ling asked Lin Fan about the village children, and Lin Fan warned that taking them would likely keep them inside the village boundaries past midnight.
• Wanxing considered trying to evacuate as many children as possible despite the danger.

Lin Fan explained that Xiaoyao Village’s villagers could not leave, but the children were unlikely to become ill for a month, giving him time to find a solution. He revealed that the village’s troubles stemmed from its doctor, whom the village chief had driven to her death.

• Lin Fan ruled out using a helicopter to evacuate the children and said their problems would likely not begin for a month.
• Ji Ling and Wanxing considered leaving the children in the villagers’ care, but Lin Fan warned that no villager could cross the village boundaries and told Ji Ling to leave with Wanxing.
• The village chief admitted that villagers who tried to leave had gone missing or fallen ill, and Lin Fan predicted that more than a hundred would contract the strange illness while around thirty would disappear.
• The village chief asked what had caused the crisis, and Lin Fan accused him of driving a woman to her death.
• Lin Fan identified the woman as Xiaoyao Village’s highly capable witch doctor, whom the village had claimed was missing.

Lin Fan revealed that the Xiaoyao Village doctor had been a wrongly accused Medical Cultivator who saved the villagers, not someone who drained their lifespans. The village chief remained doubtful, and Lin Fan explained that the doctor’s ability to survive three months without food was due to bigu.

• The village chief claimed the doctor drained patients’ remaining lifespans and had lived for centuries because successive Village Doctors looked alike.
• Lin Fan explained that the doctors had passed down a legacy that changed their successors’ appearances, and that the current Village Doctor had been a young Cultivator.
• Lin Fan said the doctor had saved every villager, but the villagers had failed to defend her when she was accused and tortured.
• The village chief argued that surviving three months in a cave without food proved the doctor was a monster.
• Lin Fan said bigu allowed a person to go without food and water, and offered to demonstrate by fasting for a week.

Lin Fan explained that cultivators could survive without food by conserving energy, then negotiated with the authorities over how to handle the danger in Xiaoyao Village. He promised to seek a solution and protect the villagers as much as possible, while the authorities agreed to count the effort toward one of his outstanding predictions.

• Lin Fan, Han Bing, and Dao Tianji told the village chief that cultivators could go without food, and Wanxing added that he could do so as well.
• Wanxing took Ji Ling out of Xiaoyao Village after Lin Fan promised to find a way to save the children, while the village chief pleaded for help protecting more than a hundred villagers.
• Lin Fan told the village chief to keep villagers inside, offered talismans to reduce casualties, and urged him to persuade them to admit their wrongdoing.
• Han Bing explained that her superiors would seek a secluded master if Lin Fan could not resolve the crisis within two weeks, but summoning one would take about a week.
• Lin Fan asked the authorities to count resolving the Xiaoyao Village crisis toward one of his seven remaining predictions, and they agreed on the condition that he minimize casualties.

Lin Fan explained that Xiaoyao Village's doctor had become a powerful curse spirit body and drew Peace Talismans to slow the villagers' illnesses while he prepared to advance his cultivation. As Lin Fan rested, Wanxing carried Ji Ling through the mist toward the edge of Xiaoyao Village's territory.

• Lin Fan told Han Bing that the village doctor's cultivation and death curse had made her a curse spirit body that he could not yet defeat.
• Lin Fan drew two hundred Peace Talismans and instructed Han Bing to have Xiaoyao Village's chief distribute them across two hundred locations.
• Lin Fan decided to focus on refining Heaven-Palm Bottles so he could establish the Superior Large Spirit-Gathering Array and reach Foundation Establishment.
• Lin Fan took a Spirit-Calming Pill and fell asleep from exhaustion while Xiao Tuantuan and the others watched.
• Wanxing grew wary of the mist as he and Ji Ling traveled through Xiaoyao Village's territory, then carried her when she began to slow him down.

Wanxing and Ji Ling escaped Xiaoyao Village’s territory and followed Lin Fan’s instructions to shelter in Small Town while he worked to prepare for the village’s crisis. Lin Fan pushed himself to make Heaven-Palm Bottles, reaching forty-six of the required forty-nine before Xiao Tuantuan urged him to rest.

• Wanxing and Ji Ling left Xiaoyao Village’s territory, then headed to Small Town on Lin Fan’s advice and checked into a hotel.
• Lin Fan resumed carving jade into Heaven-Palm Bottles after a brief rest, while Han Bing brought him more jade and checked on construction at Linjiang Wildlife Reserve.
• Han Bing saw that the houses at Linjiang Wildlife Reserve were nearly finished, and Lin Fan planned to arrange a helicopter to survey the area for a spiritual vein.
• The village chief reconsidered the villagers’ suspicions about the Village Doctor, warned them to stay off the mountain for two weeks, and prepared them for what was coming.
• Lin Fan continued refining Heaven-Palm Bottles through another day and night, reaching forty-six, and Xiao Tuantuan urged him to rest.

Lin Fan finished carving all forty-nine Heaven-Palm Bottles and traveled to Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, where his residence had also been completed. He prepared to establish a Spirit-Gathering Array in secret and went to meet the project managers before they left the reserve.

• Lin Fan finished carving the final three Heaven-Palm Bottles and arranged for Han Bing to call a helicopter to Linjiang Wildlife Reserve.
• The Old Daoist told Lin Fan that his residence was finished, and Lin Fan carried the Spirit-Gathering Stone onto the helicopter.
• Lin Fan arrived at the reserve, explained that he had directed the residence's overall layout himself, and praised the patrol officers for protecting the area.
• Lin Fan asked Xiao Tuantuan to stop livestreaming him because he planned to fly and conceal the Spirit-Gathering Array's foundations and array eyes.
• Han Bing reminded Lin Fan that the project managers were waiting, so he went to meet them and planned to have the helicopter take them out of the reserve.

Lin Fan praised the project managers for completing the wildlife reserve to his satisfaction, then flew on his magical sword to survey the mountains and plan a high-grade Spirit-Gathering Array. After the rangers witnessed him flying, Han Bing asked them to keep it secret; Lin Fan then began placing Heaven-Palm Bottles at the array’s planned locations.

• Lin Fan told the project managers he was satisfied with their work, arranged a helicopter for them, and sent them away with Han Bing.
• Lin Fan flew on the Pure Yang Magical Sword to inspect the mountain ranges and determine where to place the Spirit-Gathering Stone and forty-nine jade bottles.
• The rangers saw Lin Fan descend from the sky, and Han Bing asked them not to reveal what they had witnessed.
• Lin Fan began setting up the Spirit-Gathering Array by burying a Heaven-Palm Bottle at an Array Eye, explaining to Dao Tianji that the array had not yet taken shape.
• Lin Fan and the others crossed several mountains as he buried more Heaven-Palm Bottles along the spiritual veins.

Lin Fan activated the spiritual vein to form a large Spirit-Gathering Array, drawing Xiao Tuantuan and her livestream viewers’ attention as extraordinary phenomena appeared around the lake. He dove toward the lakebed with the Spirit-Gathering Stone but was caught in a strange whirlpool and fought against the unseen resistance.

• Lin Fan finished burying all forty-nine Heaven-Palm Bottles and explained that he still needed to activate the array’s foundation and place the Spirit-Gathering Stone at its center.
• Lin Fan used Walking on Snow Without a Trace to carry the heavy Spirit-Gathering Stone across the lake, astonishing Han Bing, Dao Tianji, and the Young Taoist Acolyte.
• Xiao Tuantuan stayed in the villa as instructed, but when the ground began to tremble, she went outside without ending her livestream.
• Xiao Tuantuan saw pillars of light rise from the mountain peaks and multicolored clouds gather over the lake, while Han Bing told her Lin Fan was at its center.
• Lin Fan activated the underground spiritual vein, then dove toward the lakebed with the Spirit-Gathering Stone as a whirlpool dragged him outward.
• Lin Fan used the Heaven-Peering Art and swallowed two pills to counter the resistance before charging onward.

Lin Fan completed the Superior Spirit-Gathering Array at the Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, then rested before beginning seclusion to break through to Foundation Establishment. He left Han Bing instructions to find another expert for Xiaoyao Village if he had not emerged within two weeks, and the chapter ended with him cultivating as Xiao Tuantuan was told not to disturb him.

• Lin Fan placed the Spirit-Gathering Stone on the lakebed, activating the array and drawing spiritual energy from the surrounding area.
• Xiao Tuantuan's livestream cut out, and Lin Fan walked across the lake to shore; he then went to sleep from exhaustion.
• After waking the next morning, Lin Fan found the reserve's spiritual energy had nearly liquefied and told Han Bing he would enter seclusion to break through.
• Lin Fan warned Han Bing that if he had not emerged after two weeks, the higher-ups should send another expert to Xiaoyao Village, where the strange illness was spreading.
• Lin Fan began consuming Foundation Establishment Pills and cultivating, drawing spiritual energy into his cabin as Han Bing told Xiao Tuantuan not to disturb him.

Lin Fan spent two days studying cultivation and gathering spiritual energy before breaking through from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment. He stored the system’s rewards to stabilize his new realm, while Han Bing and Dao Tianji realized his breakthrough had nearly drained the spiritual energy within a hundred li.

• Han Bing ordered Xiao Tuantuan and Dao Tianji to guard the cabin in shifts so no one would disturb Lin Fan, and Xiao Tuantuan ended her livestream after viewers tried to stir up trouble.
• Lin Fan bought numerous cultivation codices from the System Mall and contemplated the differences between Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment while pushing against his realm barrier.
• After two days, Lin Fan shattered the barrier, swallowed his final Foundation Establishment Pill, and transformed his dantian’s spiritual power from gas into liquid.
• The system rewarded Lin Fan with a Foundation Establishment Quick-Training Codex, a Curse Sword, and other items, which he placed in System Storage so he could stabilize his realm first.
• Lin Fan’s breakthrough nearly depleted the spiritual energy within his Spirit-Gathering Array, but the array restored its concentration within fifteen minutes.
• Han Bing and Dao Tianji felt that the spiritual energy within a hundred li had almost been drained, and Dao Tianji concluded that Lin Fan had probably just broken through.

After breaking through to Foundation Establishment, Lin Fan prepared to enter Xiaoyao Village and confront the village doctor's spirit body. He reached the Hundred Thousand Mountains with his companions as the village chief revealed that illness and deaths were increasing and the villagers sent to seek the doctor's mercy had not returned.

• Lin Fan stabilized his cultivation at the peak of early Foundation Establishment and left seclusion.
• Lin Fan invited Xiao Tuantuan to accompany him to Xiaoyao Village, and Han Bing arranged their rapid trip to Xizhou.
• Lin Fan and his companions picked up Wanxing, started Xiao Tuantuan's livestream, and set off on foot into the mist-shrouded mountains.
• Lin Fan warned the group to stay within sight of him because the village doctor's spirit body had grown terrifyingly powerful.
• At Xiaoyao Village's Ancestral Hall, the villagers reported more than a hundred people ill and over twenty dead in one week.
• The village chief said the people he had sent to the cave two days earlier had not returned and admitted he regretted driving the village doctor to her death.

Lin Fan reached Xiaoyao Village, where the Village Doctor's spirit body marked him and the villagers gathered at the Ancestral Hall to seek help. He agreed to treat the afflicted temporarily, but said the village would have to accept lasting consequences and asked its chief to put a handprint on a written pledge.

• Lin Fan and his companions emerged from the fog and entered Xiaoyao Village, where he sensed the Village Doctor's spirit body watching them.
• Lin Fan discovered a blood-red mark on his palm and realized the spirit body planned to come for him that night.
• Wanxing led the group to the Ancestral Hall, where they found the afflicted villagers suffering from a horrific illness.
• Lin Fan told the village chief he could temporarily treat the villagers but had to address the curse's source for a full recovery.
• Lin Fan warned that Xiaoyao Village would suffer frequent minor illnesses afterward, then wrote that everyone was willing to pay the price and asked the village chief to leave his handprint.

Lin Fan absorbed the curse from the afflicted villagers but refused to heal their rotting flesh, insisting they accept punishment for driving the Village Doctor to her death. He went to rest at the village chief’s lodgings, expecting the Village Doctor’s Spirit Body to come for him that night.

• Lin Fan gathered the village chiefs’ handprints as a guarantee, then used the Heaven-Peering Art to absorb the curse from the villagers in the Ancestral Hall.
• Lin Fan refused to use a Spirit Pill to heal the villagers’ injuries, and the village chief rebuked them when they demanded complete treatment.
• Lin Fan told the villagers their suffering was atonement and continued absorbing the curse until the black spots disappeared.
• Xiao Tuantuan defended Lin Fan against hostile Livestream Room comments, while Lin Fan said the villagers could recover with medicine and rest.
• Lin Fan asked the village chief for lodging and planned to rest before meeting the Village Doctor’s Spirit Body, which he expected to arrive that night.
• Lin Fan and his companions reached their lodgings and saw villagers gathering outside.

Lin Fan waited for the Village Doctor's spirit body to arrive in Xiaoyao Village and confronted her when she came to kill him. After demonstrating that he could absorb her cursed power, he persuaded her to sit and talk, hoping to lift her curse and preserve her medical legacy.

• Lin Fan sent the villagers home and waited with Han Bing and the others for the Village Doctor's spirit body, which he expected to arrive around midnight.
• The Village Doctor's spirit body entered the courtyard and vowed to kill Lin Fan for helping Xiaoyao Village.
• Lin Fan warned her that she was not strong enough to kill him and showed his power with a strike from the Evil-Slaying Sword.
• Lin Fan's System gave him a mission to change the Village Doctor's fate, remove her curse, and give her a chance at reincarnation in exchange for medical cultivator codices.
• The Village Doctor's spirit body attacked with cursed power, but Lin Fan absorbed it and invited her to sit down and talk.
• The Village Doctor's spirit body sat opposite Lin Fan, fearful and uneasy, while he assured her that he did not want to kill her.

Lin Fan tried to persuade the Village Doctor Spirit Body to lift her curse by offering an apology, a shrine, and passage to the underworld, but she refused and attempted to flee. He bound her and explained that he wanted to spare her from vanishing completely, while still holding the villagers accountable.

• Lin Fan offered to let the villagers suffer minor illnesses in exchange for the Village Doctor Spirit Body lifting her curse, but she insisted that only their deaths could satisfy her revenge.
• Lin Fan used the Soul-Deliverance Canon to calm the Village Doctor Spirit Body and offered apologies, a shrine, annual offerings, and a chance to enter the underworld and leave her medical legacy.
• The Village Doctor Spirit Body asked Lin Fan to kill the villagers, and he refused, warning that he would destroy her if she would not stop the curse.
• The Village Doctor Spirit Body turned into red light and tried to escape, but Lin Fan bound her and forced her back into her spirit form.
• The Village Doctor Spirit Body sobbed that Lin Fan was protecting the villagers, and he said he wanted to prevent her from disappearing while ensuring the villagers faced punishment.

Lin Fan explained that the villagers who caused the Village Doctor’s death would suffer severe karmic consequences, then urged her to preserve her ancestral medical legacy. He refused to become her disciple and named Xiao Tuantuan as a potential successor, who immediately doubted she could do it.

• Xiao Tuantuan asked whether the villagers who bullied the Village Doctor would live well, and Lin Fan said their fates would resemble Wang Ling’s.
• The Village Doctor said she would rather disappear than accept the villagers living happily, so Lin Fan revealed that the village chief’s family and other ringleaders would face illness, heartbreak, shortened lives, and years of suffering.
• Lin Fan reminded the Village Doctor that her ancestral teachings required her to pass on her medical cultivation legacy, but she doubted she could find a worthy successor.
• After Xiao Tuantuan relayed the viewers’ suggestion that Lin Fan inherit the legacy, he refused to become a medical cultivator and presented Xiao Tuantuan as his candidate.
• Xiao Tuantuan protested that she had no abilities and was not fit to become a medical cultivator.

Lin Fan chose Xiao Tuantuan to inherit the village doctor spirit body's medical cultivation legacy, betting she could reach the introductory stage within a week. The spirit body accepted the bet and agreed not to harm the villagers during that time, while Xiao Tuantuan received the legacy and was left to begin her training.

• The village doctor spirit body doubted Xiao Tuantuan's age and proposed that Young Taoist Acolyte inherit her legacy instead.
• Lin Fan refused to let Young Taoist Acolyte become a medical cultivator, explaining that the path would limit his talent, and the boy agreed to decline the legacy.
• Lin Fan insisted Xiao Tuantuan was the best candidate and bet that she would reach the introductory stage within a week; if she failed, he would stop interfering with the spirit body's plans for the villagers.
• The village doctor spirit body accepted the bet, and Lin Fan required her to spare the villagers and withdraw her curse power while he brought famous doctors to examine them.
• The village doctor spirit body passed her core legacy to Xiao Tuantuan, who could read the knowledge but did not understand it, then left the courtyard as the dark clouds cleared.