Recaps

Flexible Little Chubby learned that a being from a small temple had revived his younger brother in exchange for taking his lifespan, and Lin Fan planned to extend his life while protecting them both. After Flexible Little Chubby reached Lin Fan’s shop, Lin Fan instructed the Old Daoist to prepare a Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation, then called Wang Bo, whose future appeared unusually smooth.

• Lin Fan explained that Flexible Little Chubby had offered his lifespan to save his younger brother, and that the temple’s being might threaten the brother if Lin Fan intervened.
• Lin Fan planned to extend Flexible Little Chubby’s lifespan at the moment it was taken, then negotiate with the being and offer more incense offerings.
• Flexible Little Chubby reached Lin Fan’s shop safely despite Nian Xiaoqian’s killing intent, and Lin Fan warned him to hurry inside.
• Lin Fan told the Old Daoist to prepare the Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation while Flexible Little Chubby waited in the shop.
• After eating with Han Bing, Lin Fan called Bobo Doesn't Love Anymore and divined that Wang Bo would pass his postgraduate entrance exam and enjoy a smooth research career.

Lin Fan used Dream Conveyance to let Wang Bo meet his deceased mother after learning the regrets behind his wish to see her again. Wang Bo fell asleep and embraced her in the dream while Lin Fan sustained the spell for two hours.

• Lin Fan divined that Wang Bo's mother had died and revealed that Wang Bo wanted to speak with her spirit.
• Lin Fan explained that Wang Bo's mother had hidden her cancer and died by suicide after Wang Bo was accepted into Jiangzhou University, leaving him with unresolved regrets.
• Lin Fan offered to use Dream Conveyance instead of summoning his mother's spirit, and Wang Bo agreed to close his eyes.
• Lin Fan performed the spell, and Wang Bo fell asleep and saw his mother emerge from the mist in his dream.
• Wang Bo embraced his mother as she comforted him, while Lin Fan continued the spell for about two hours and grew sweaty from the strain.

Wang Bo woke from a dream in which he had reunited with his mother, then Lin Fan connected with Bu Xiaoyao, an overworked teenager supporting his younger sister through leukemia treatment. Lin Fan’s viewers offered to help Bu Xiaoyao, and the chapter ended with them discussing treatment and financial support.

• Wang Bo woke after two hours, remembered spending days with his mother in the dream, and thanked Lin Fan before ending the call.
• Lin Fan invited Carefree World to join the livestream, and the viewer accepted after Lin Fan mentioned saving his younger sister.
• Lin Fan identified Carefree World as Bu Xiaoyao and revealed that he had worked exhausting jobs since age fifteen to pay for his sister’s leukemia treatment.
• Bu Xiaoyao asked how Lin Fan knew his circumstances, and Lin Fan explained that he hoped viewers would help him.
• Viewers suggested that Xiao Tuantuan treat Bu Xiaoyao’s sister, while Zhou Xingxing and Boss Xiu offered to cover Bu Xiaoyao’s expenses.

Bu Xiaoyao accepted financial support from Zhou Xingxing and Boss Xiu, while Lin Fan arranged for his sister’s treatment. Lin Fan then answered Coiled Dragon’s urgent call for help after Coiled Dragon revealed that his sect had lost a dangerous magical artifact called a Smiling Face.

• Bu Xiaoyao resisted Zhou Xingxing and Boss Xiu’s offer to cover his expenses, but agreed to accept their support after Lin Fan reassured him.
• Lin Fan told Bu Xiaoyao to bring his sister to the Linjiang Wildlife Reserve so the Mountain Patrol Members could take them to his residence for treatment.
• Lin Fan sent Bu Xiaoyao’s information to Zhou Xingxing and Boss Xiu, then decided to return to Jiangzhou soon to help Flexible Little Chubby.
• Coiled Dragon messaged Lin Fan for help after his sect assigned him to recover a missing magical artifact in Xuanwu Province.
• Lin Fan connected with Coiled Dragon on the livestream, where Coiled Dragon revealed that the missing artifact was a Smiling Face and warned that its loss could cause a catastrophe.

Lin Fan guided Coiled Dragon to a temple on Turtle Mountain to retrieve the Smiling Face Mask before it killed the abbot. Coiled Dragon found that the mask had fused with the abbot’s soul, and Lin Fan revealed that only heartfelt tears could make it come off.

• Lin Fan told Coiled Dragon that the Smiling Face Mask was on the abbot at a temple on Turtle Mountain and warned that time was running out.
• Coiled Dragon ran to Turtle Mountain, using a Spirit Pill to restore his strength, while Lin Fan corrected his estimate and said the abbot had less than an hour left.
• Coiled Dragon reached the temple and found the abbot laughing uncontrollably, with the fused mask visible only as a red mark between his eyebrows.
• Lin Fan explained that the mask would not come off unless someone cried from the heart in front of the abbot.

Coiled Dragon knocked out the temple keeper to slow the Smiling Face Mask’s deadly effects, then met the keeper’s daughter, Xuanyin, who feared he was a robber until Lin Fan explained. Lin Fan said he could save the temple keeper and began discussing Xuanyin’s resentment toward her father, leaving the reason for their conflict unrevealed.

• Coiled Dragon knocked out the temple keeper and warned viewers not to imitate him.
• Xuanyin mistook Coiled Dragon for an attacker, but Lin Fan identified her as the temple keeper’s daughter and reassured her.
• Lin Fan explained that the Smiling Face Mask made its wearer laugh until their muscles stiffened and said he would save the temple keeper with an incantation.
• Lin Fan told Xuanyin that she had long wanted to inherit the temple and help people, but had grievances against her father.
• Xuanyin confirmed Lin Fan’s account and said she did not understand her father’s decision.

Lin Fan helped Xuanyin realize that her father had not barred her from inheriting the temple because she was a girl, and the Temple Master awoke free of the Smiling Face Mask’s influence. After arranging to meet Coiled Dragon’s sect elders, Lin Fan ended the livestream and checked on Su Jiaojiao, whose Cursed Power was approaching a dangerous eruption.

• Lin Fan explained to Xuanyin that her father wanted her to choose her own path, and she reconsidered her belief that he favored boys over girls.
• Xuanyin began crying as she realized she had misunderstood her father, and the Temple Master awakened after the Smiling Face Mask fell away.
• Coiled Dragon wrapped up the Smiling Face Mask, and Xuanyin asked her father whether he would rather she had been a boy or a girl.
• Coiled Dragon promised to introduce Lin Fan to his sect’s elders, and Lin Fan ended the livestream.
• Lin Fan warned that Su Jiaojiao’s Cursed Power would erupt within two days if it kept accumulating, and Su Wanwan came to see her sister.

Lin Fan prepared to perform a Soul-Refining Rite to eliminate the Cursed Power inside Su Jiaojiao, while Su Wanwan and Su Tong faced the consequences of the family curse. When Su Tong visited Su Jiaojiao, her Spirit Bodies generated Resentful Qi and caused the Cursed Power to surge, forcing Lin Fan to seal it.

• Lin Fan warned Su Wanwan that he would deal with the Cursed Power inside Su Jiaojiao at noon and left her with her sister.
• The next morning, Lin Fan discovered that all twenty-three of Su Jiaojiao’s Spirit Bodies had awakened and stopped Su Wanwan from releasing the Cursed Power.
• Lin Fan told Han Bing that the curse’s source was beyond his divination and likely came from someone at the Golden Core Stage, then began drawing talismans for the Soul-Refining Rite during his livestream.
• Su Tong visited Su Jiaojiao, apologized for tearing open her skin, and cried over the harm she had caused her daughters.
• Su Jiaojiao’s Spirit Bodies generated Resentful Qi, doubling the Cursed Power; Lin Fan stopped drawing talismans, rushed to seal it, and ordered Su Tong to leave.

Lin Fan performed a long Soul-Refining Rite to remove the Cursed Power and Spirit Bodies from Su Jiaojiao, exhausting himself in the process. After Su Jiaojiao and the Spirit Bodies vanished and Su Tong died, Lin Fan comforted Su Wanwan and left for Jiangzhou.

• Lin Fan stabilized the Cursed Power inside Su Jiaojiao, then spent the morning preparing talismans as the seals began to fail.
• Lin Fan used the Evil-Warding Sword and burning talismans to perform a Soul-Refining Rite, driving the Spirit Bodies from Su Jiaojiao while absorbing and converting her Cursed Power.
• Su Tong told Su Wanwan to live well and keep her identity secret as the rite continued for six hours.
• Lin Fan completed the rite, causing Su Jiaojiao and the Spirit Bodies to vanish; Su Tong also died after losing the Cursed Power sustaining her.
• Lin Fan explained that stopping the rite would have triggered a dangerous backlash, then reassured Su Wanwan that she might see her mother and sister again in another world.
• Lin Fan left for Jiangzhou while Han Bing stayed behind to handle the aftermath and Su Wanwan remained in her care.

Lin Fan returned to his shop in Jiangzhou and forced Nian Xiaoqian to abandon her plans to attack people, then sent her flying with a golden Hand Seal as punishment. Inside, he found preparations underway for Flexible Little Chubby’s survival, while Xu Zhixin and Radio Station Operator hoped his return would let them leave sooner.

• Lin Fan arrived on Taihe Street with Dao Tianji and Young Taoist Acolyte, sensed Nian Xiaoqian nearby, and called her down.
• Nian Xiaoqian apologized for threatening people entering the shop and admitted she had wanted Xu Zhixin and Radio Station Operator to die; Lin Fan warned her they would be punished with bad luck instead.
• Ninety Below Zero asked Lin Fan whether an old camera could capture spirit bodies, and Lin Fan told him he could try while Dao Tianji warned him against attracting unclean things.
• Lin Fan told Nian Xiaoqian that her extreme behavior required a lesson, then struck her with a golden Hand Seal that sent her spirit body flying away.
• Lin Fan entered the shop, praised Old Daoist’s preparations for Flexible Little Chubby, and met Xu Zhixin and Radio Station Operator, who asked if they could leave sooner.

Lin Fan prepared a Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation to save Flexible Little Chubby, but worried that the small temple’s immortal would attack when his lifespan increased. He recalled the Paper Effigy Substitute Technique and left to find a craftsman who could make a lifelike paper effigy.

• Lin Fan told Xu Zhixin and Radio Station Operator they could leave, while Flexible Little Chubby returned to his room to rest.
• Lin Fan refined seven pieces of jade into jade water and added it to the Seven-Star Lamps.
• Lin Fan realized that the small temple’s immortal might attack Flexible Little Chubby and considered using a paper effigy to block the first blow.
• Lin Fan remembered Taihe Street’s paper offering shops and told Dao Tianji to guard the lamps while he went to see Old Li.

Lin Fan rebuked people who demanded fortunes, then went to find Old Li for a paper figure needed to save a life. He learned Old Li was seriously ill and asked Uncle Li to make the figure within a day, though Uncle Li said the work normally required a week.

• Lin Fan silenced the crowd pursuing him for fortune-telling and explained that he could only help so many people, then pushed them back when they threatened to follow.
• Lin Fan told Young Taoist Acolyte that he rejected the Incense Path and would cultivate through his own comprehension and talent.
• Lin Fan went to the paper effigy shops at the end of Taihe Street to find Old Li and learned from the shopkeepers that Old Li was seriously ill.
• Lin Fan divined Old Li's condition and met Uncle Li, who said his paper effigy skills matched his father's.
• Lin Fan asked Uncle Li to make a life-size paper figure resembling a living person by at least seventy percent, and Uncle Li said it would take a week.
• Lin Fan explained that the paper figure was needed to save someone's life and asked whether Uncle Li could finish it in one day.

Lin Fan arranged for Uncle Li and Old Li to make a paper figure resembling a living person, then discovered that Uncle Li’s nephew was in danger after breaking a protective yellow talisman. Lin Fan saved the boy from a spirit and learned that the talisman, given to Old Li by a powerful expert thirty years earlier, had finally worn out.

• When no other shop owner could make a sufficiently realistic paper figure in one day, Lin Fan asked Uncle Li to finish it in two days with Old Li’s help, and Uncle Li agreed.
• After reading the fortunes of Uncle Li’s family, Lin Fan learned that his nephew had broken the yellow talisman on the rooftop and rushed with Uncle Li to the house.
• Lin Fan found the boy trying to stab himself with a fruit knife while a dark spirit controlled him, then drove the spirit out and destroyed it with the Evil-Warding Sword.
• The boy admitted that he had accidentally broken the talisman and hidden a piece because he feared Uncle Li would scold him.
• Lin Fan explained that the thirty-year-old talisman had been given to Old Li by an expert and had worn out from exposure to the weather and the boy’s accident.

Lin Fan saved Uncle Li’s nephew from an evil spirit and gave Old Li a Spirit Pill to extend his life. After learning that Lin Fan needed a lifelike paper figure of a living person, Old Li agreed to help make it.

• Lin Fan explained that Uncle Li’s nephew had brought grave soil home, broken the protective Yellow Talisman Paper, and allowed an evil spirit to possess him.
• Lin Fan visited Old Li, whose vitality was nearly exhausted, and used spiritual power to improve his condition.
• Lin Fan mixed a shaving of a Spirit Pill into warm water for Old Li and gave Uncle Li the pill to administer in tiny daily doses.
• Lin Fan told Uncle Li that Old Li might live a few more years but could not regain the vitality to live another ten or twenty.
• Uncle Li asked Old Li to help make a paper figure within two days, and Lin Fan clarified that it should resemble a living person and contain Yellow Talisman Paper.

Lin Fan arranged for Old Li and Li Shu to make a life-size paper effigy so he could use the Paper Effigy Substitute Technique to save Flexible Little Chubby. Afterward, he connected with Xue Lang, whose strange homecoming led Lin Fan to suspect that his mother was the one in danger.

• Old Li initially refused to make a paper effigy of a living person, but agreed after Lin Fan explained he meant to save Flexible Little Chubby with a substitute.
• Uncle Li photographed and measured Flexible Little Chubby, and Old Li and Li Shu returned to their shop to design a life-size effigy with at least a seventy-percent resemblance.
• Lin Fan kept Flexible Little Chubby safe in his shop and prepared to extend his life once the effigy was finished.
• Lin Fan connected with Xue Lang, who described a traffic accident, fog and a pungent smell in his village, and his mother's fear of the Guan Emperor Portrait.
• Lin Fan told Xue Lang that his mother, rather than Xue Lang, seemed to be the one with a problem.

Lin Fan warned Xue Lang that Snow Armor Village was dangerous and traveled there to save him. At the village chief’s daughter’s wedding, Xue Lang discovered the villagers were using hell money as gifts and glimpsed something horrifying in the bride’s reflection.

• Lin Fan told Xue Lang to carry the Guan Emperor Portrait and attend the wedding, then set out for Snow Armor Village with Young Taoist Acolyte.
• Lin Fan left Dao Tianji behind to guard the Seven-Star Lamp while they traveled to the village.
• Xue Lang’s mother took him to the wedding banquet, where the village streets were dark despite the red lanterns and villagers seemed strangely normal.
• Xue Lang found that the wedding gifts on the table were all hell money and asked Lin Fan if the villagers were dead; Lin Fan warned him not to run.
• Villagers led Xue Lang to watch the bride get her makeup done, and he saw her face in the dressing-table mirror and cried out in shock.

Xue Lang saw the village chief’s daughter’s grotesque face but found the villagers acting as though nothing was wrong, while his mother’s presence calmed him. Lin Fan reached Snow Armor Village and learned it had been under lockdown for a week, then clashed with Murong Xiaoxiao, who doubted he could solve the crisis.

• Xue Lang saw the bride’s distorted face and ran back to the courtyard after the villagers dismissed his concerns.
• Xue Lang’s mother soothed him and reminded him to bring his camera to photograph the village chief’s family at the wedding feast.
• Lin Fan reached Snow Armor Village and was stopped by soldiers enforcing a lockdown.
• After Lin Fan identified himself and called Han Bing, Wang Xiao welcomed him and introduced Murong Xiaoxiao, who scorned his fortune-telling and combat ability.
• Lin Fan pointed out that Murong Xiaoxiao had failed to resolve the village’s crisis despite working on it for a week.
• Xue Lang admitted he did not know whether he was alive or dead, despite feeling warm and moving normally.

Lin Fan and Young Taoist Acolyte entered Snow Armor Village, where the villagers were spirits and a wedding was underway. They found Xue Lang at the village chief’s home and stayed for the banquet, where the food vanished from the guests’ plates even as the villagers appeared to eat.

• Lin Fan ignored Murong Xiaoxiao’s warning and entered Snow Armor Village with Young Taoist Acolyte, explaining that the villagers had died and become spirit bodies.
• Lin Fan used spiritual power to warm Young Taoist Acolyte as they crossed the village and reached the wedding at the village chief’s home.
• Xue Lang greeted Lin Fan and asked to leave, but Lin Fan insisted they wait until the wedding ended.
• After the wedding bows, Lin Fan and Young Taoist Acolyte sat at the banquet while Xue Lang’s mother joined them.
• Xue Lang found that the banquet plates were empty, though his mother and the other villagers appeared to be eating.

Lin Fan confronted the dead villagers of Snow Armor Village and explained that he had to perform the Soul-Refining Rite and remove the object sustaining their existence. As the village chief agreed to continue the wedding and say goodbye, Xue Lang discovered that his camera could not photograph the spirit bodies and asked Lin Fan for help.

• Lin Fan revealed that the wedding food was condensed yin energy, warned the villagers he would perform the Soul-Refining Rite, and ate some safely by converting the yin energy into spiritual power.
• The village chief arrived and objected to Lin Fan's plan, but Lin Fan explained that the villagers had died over a week earlier and that a special object was letting them live normally in Snow Armor Village.
• Lin Fan warned that the villagers' yin energy was spreading and that the evil spirit inside the object could harm others, so the village chief agreed to continue the wedding and say goodbye.
• The village chief asked Xue Lang to take a family photo, but Xue Lang's DSLR camera showed no one in the viewfinder or on the screen.
• Lin Fan explained that the villagers were spirit bodies and that seeing them through his livestream did not mean they could appear in cameras, and Xue Lang asked if Lin Fan could help preserve a record of them.

Lin Fan enabled Xue Lang to photograph Snow Armor Village’s spirit villagers and subdued Murong Xiaoxiao when she considered attacking them. After warning her about the yin energy, he headed to the Ancestral Hall to confront the thing that had killed the village, leaving its strength and the outcome unknown.

• Lin Fan attached a talisman to Xue Lang’s camera, allowing him to photograph the spirit villagers, and Xue Lang took pictures of them.
• Murong Xiaoxiao entered Snow Armor Village to test the yin energy and found it more concentrated than before.
• The spirit villagers turned toward Murong Xiaoxiao, and Lin Fan used his pressure to stop her from attacking them.
• Lin Fan warned Murong Xiaoxiao to leave before the yin energy harmed her, but she stubbornly chose to stay longer.
• The village chief warned Lin Fan that the villagers had died after leaving a discovered object in the Ancestral Hall, but Lin Fan said he would destroy it.
• Lin Fan left for the Ancestral Hall with Young Taoist Acolyte following him.

Lin Fan entered Snow Armor Village’s ancestral hall and drew out the powerful evil spirit inside a Ten-Thousand-Person Stone. The spirit reached early Foundation Establishment, leaving Murong Xiaoxiao convinced that Lin Fan could not defeat it.

• The village chief and spirit villagers followed Lin Fan toward the ancestral hall, while Xue Lang chose to stay so he could spend more time with his mother’s spirit.
• Lin Fan entered the ancestral hall with Young Taoist Acolyte and found the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone on a red table.
• Lin Fan picked up the stone and provoked the evil spirit hidden inside it to emerge.
• The evil spirit took the form of a bewitching young man and used the stone’s power to reach early Foundation Establishment.
• Murong Xiaoxiao sensed the evil spirit’s strength and doubted that Lin Fan could defeat it.

Murong Xiaoxiao sought reinforcements for Lin Fan, but her superiors told her to trust his strength. As villagers struggled to turn on the ancestral hall lights, Lin Fan absorbed the stone’s power, broke through to middle Foundation Establishment, and clashed with Bewitching Young Man, leaving everyone nearby battered by the shock wave.

• Murong Xiaoxiao warned her superiors that the evil spirit might be at middle Foundation Establishment, but they reprimanded her for underestimating Lin Fan and refused to send help.
• Xue Lang asked the village chief to turn on the ancestral hall lights, and the bride approached the entrance but lost consciousness in the dense yin energy.
• The village chief braved the yin energy, switched on the lights, and pulled his daughter back before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Lin Fan absorbed power from the stone and broke through from early to middle Foundation Establishment, while Bewitching Young Man prepared to exploit his distraction.
• Bewitching Young Man attacked Lin Fan with a Yin Blade, but Lin Fan blocked him with the Evil-Warding Sword, and the resulting shock wave sent Young Taoist Acolyte and the villagers flying and injured Murong Xiaoxiao.
• Xue Lang returned to the open ground outside the ancestral hall and stayed at its edge.

Lin Fan fought the alluring young man inside the ancestral hall, where the evil spirit drew power from the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone. Lin Fan began absorbing the stone’s power as well, leaving his opponent stunned, while Murong Xiaoxiao watched the livestream outside and regretted offending him.

• Lin Fan and the alluring young man clashed, and Lin Fan tried to weaken him with golden hand seals while the evil spirit replenished himself from the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone.
• As his spiritual power dwindled, Lin Fan bought pills from the System Mall and resumed fighting, then realized he could absorb power from the stone using the Heaven-Peering Art.
• The alluring young man discovered Lin Fan was drawing power from the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone and exclaimed that it was impossible.
• Murong Xiaoxiao watched the livestream outside the ancestral hall and realized Han Bing had stayed beside Lin Fan because she understood his strength and potential.

Lin Fan weakened the evil spirit by destroying the wronged souls fused inside it, but the spirit trapped him in a red ring of concentrated resentment. The chapter ended with Young Taoist Acolyte injured after trying to reach Lin Fan, whose condition remained unseen.

• Lin Fan discovered that his swords could destroy the wronged souls inside the evil spirit and began pouring his spiritual power into each attack.
• The evil spirit offered Lin Fan the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone in exchange for being released, but Lin Fan refused.
• The evil spirit spread a red ring around himself and Lin Fan, unleashing the resentment of more than ten thousand wronged souls against Lin Fan's consciousness.
• Young Taoist Acolyte rushed toward the red ring to help Lin Fan but was thrown back and injured.

Lin Fan resisted the bewitching young man's assault of resentment and forced him back into the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone when the evil spirit found a way to escape defeat. After storing the stone in System Storage, Lin Fan realized he might be able to contain the evil spirit there without sealing or destroying it.

• Lin Fan recited the Soul-Deliverance Canon to dispel the resentment battering his consciousness, forcing the bewitching young man to end their confrontation inside the red circle of light.
• The bewitching young man attacked Lin Fan, then used the clash to slip back into the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone.
• Lin Fan tried to provoke the bewitching young man into coming out, but the evil spirit refused and stayed hidden inside the stone.
• Lin Fan praised Young Taoist Acolyte for facing the danger bravely and said he would help him practice against evil spirits as he grew stronger.
• Lin Fan put the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone into System Storage and realized he might not need to seal or destroy the evil spirit.