Recaps

Lin Fan sealed the evil spirit and gave Snow Armor Village’s spirits one final day before they had to leave. He then went with Xue Lang to reunite with his mother, whose spirit was nearly scattered by Xue Lang’s Guan Emperor Portrait.

• Lin Fan trapped the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone in System Storage, preventing the evil spirit from escaping.
• Lin Fan told the villagers he would destroy the evil spirit later and ordered them to gather at the Ancestral Hall at six the next afternoon to depart.
• Murong Xiaoxiao knelt to apologize, but Lin Fan declined to guide her and advised her to steady her temperament.
• Xue Lang hugged his mother at home, but the Guan Emperor Portrait struck her spirit body and sent her flying.
• Lin Fan told Xue Lang to take out the Guan Emperor Portrait, and Xue Lang put it away before his mother’s soul could be scattered.

Lin Fan revealed that Xue Lang was only a soul separated from his body after a car accident, and hurried him to Jiangzhou Hospital before he could lose the chance to return. Xue Lang reunited with his body, and the doctors saw his vital signs improve as he began to move.

• Xue Lang and his mother spent the night talking and exchanging farewells in Snow Armor Village.
• Lin Fan told Xue Lang that his body was in a hospital and that he would die if he remained in the village.
• Xue Lang remembered his car accident and learned that his soul had separated from his body.
• Lin Fan took Xue Lang to Jiangzhou Hospital, where doctors were still trying to resuscitate him.
• Xue Lang entered the emergency room, returned to his body, and began showing signs of recovery.

Lin Fan completed the Soul-Refining Rite for the villagers of Snow Armor Village and returned to his shop. With the paper figure for Flexible Little Chubby still unfinished, he went to Linjiang Wildlife Reserve to cultivate and strengthen himself.

• Lin Fan performed the Soul-Refining Rite through the night, sending the villagers' spirit bodies below one by one until only the village chief's family remained.
• The village chief and his family departed in a beam of white light, and Lin Fan encouraged pessimistic viewers to keep living before leaving Snow Armor Village with Young Taoist Acolyte.
• Lin Fan learned that Old Li and Li Shu needed more time to finish the paper figure and decided to cultivate rather than livestream.
• Lin Fan went to his villa in Linjiang Wildlife Reserve and entered deep meditation, drawing in spiritual energy as strange light and wind stirred across the reserve.
• Mountain Patrol Members saw the disturbance, learned Lin Fan was at the reserve, and decided not to approach his villa.

Lin Fan returned from the reserve with his cultivation stabilized and received a lifelike paper figure of Flexible Little Chubby from Uncle Li. After giving Uncle Li talismans and a magical Little Pixiu, Lin Fan prepared to use a Seven-Star Lamp in an attempt to save Flexible Little Chubby, warning him that his survival depended on the lamp burning for seven days and seven nights.

• Lin Fan stabilized his cultivation at the peak of middle Foundation Establishment, flew back to his shop, and met Uncle Li.
• Uncle Li presented Lin Fan with a paper figure that closely resembled Flexible Little Chubby, impressing Young Taoist Acolyte and the livestream viewers.
• Lin Fan gave Uncle Li ten protective yellow talismans and a magical Little Pixiu, then told Young Taoist Acolyte he could choose one of the Pixius in his room.
• Uncle Li left, and Young Taoist Acolyte brought the groggy Flexible Little Chubby to Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan told Flexible Little Chubby to sit inside the Seven-Star Lamp and explained that the lamp had to burn for seven days and nights for him to have a chance to survive.

Lin Fan activated the Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation to extend Flexible Little Chubby’s life, triggering a violent disturbance and drawing Jiangzhou’s evil spirits to the shop. As Dao Tianji fought off the attackers, an evil spirit struck him from behind and sent him crashing into a wall.

• Lin Fan lit the Seven Lamps and activated the formation, absorbing the power of heaven and earth as it descended on Flexible Little Chubby.
• Dark clouds covered Jiangzhou, the ground shook, and Lin Fan warned viewers to leave Taihe Street and go home.
• The wind blew open the windows and front door, and Lin Fan explained that the formation’s gathered life force was attracting evil spirits across Jiangzhou.
• When the talismans burned away, hordes of evil spirits rushed into the shop, and Dao Tianji fought them with Lin Fan’s Evil-Warding Sword.
• Young Taoist Acolyte spotted an evil spirit sneaking up behind Dao Tianji and shouted a warning, but Dao Tianji was struck and slammed into the wall.

Lin Fan maintained the Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation while Dao Tianji and Feng Wu fought waves of evil spirits drawn to its life aura. Qianshan and Xiao Tuantuan arrived to help, but Lin Fan remained tense, waiting for the little temple’s “immortal” to appear.

• Feng Wu joined Dao Tianji in fighting the evil spirits attacking the shop while Lin Fan reinforced the Seven-Star Lamps with spiritual power.
• Lin Fan gave Dao Tianji and Feng Wu restorative pills as they fought through two days of continuous attacks, and he contacted Han Bing, Qianshan, and Xiao Tuantuan for help.
• Qianshan and Xiao Tuantuan arrived on the third day, with Xiao Tuantuan restoring the group and Qianshan using jade beads to destroy weaker evil spirits.
• Lin Fan stayed on guard because he feared the little temple’s “immortal” would appear and doubted he could withstand its attack.

Lin Fan negotiated with the Little Temple Immortal to spare Hong Yun in exchange for bringing more worshippers to its temple, with the Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation’s success as a condition. After the immortal left, Lin Fan and the others resumed fighting evil spirits while he absorbed the power of heaven and earth, hoping to hold out for four days.

• The Little Temple Immortal appeared and crushed Lin Fan with its pressure before striking him through a wall, but Lin Fan healed himself with a spirit pill.
• Lin Fan offered to increase the Little Temple Immortal’s incense worship if it spared Hong Yun and stopped pursuing him.
• The Little Temple Immortal agreed to wait four days for the Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation to succeed, warning that failure would mean Lin Fan had to reveal how to attract worshippers and Hong Yun would die.
• The Little Temple Immortal departed, and Lin Fan told the others it was a Golden Core Stage being and that the power of heaven and earth had strengthened.
• Qianshan and the others fought the returning evil spirits while Lin Fan absorbed the power of heaven and earth, planning to use spirit pills to help everyone endure the next four days.

Lin Fan endured seven days of Heaven and Earth’s power and evil-spirit attacks to save Flexible Little Chubby, then received a generous system reward. He told Little Temple Immortal where to gain more worshippers and left viewers to find its temple on East Mountain.

• Lin Fan and Qianshan’s group fought through the final day as the Seven-Star Lamp’s flames went out one by one, while Lin Fan resisted the force trying to change Flexible Little Chubby’s fate.
• At midnight, the last flame entered Flexible Little Chubby’s brow, and the evil spirits withdrew as the child fell into a deep sleep.
• Little Temple Immortal agreed to spare Hong Yun after Lin Fan succeeded, and Lin Fan promised that worshippers would soon bring it more incense offerings.
• The system rewarded Lin Fan with the Incense Cultivation Technique and 20,000 Heavenly Secrets Points for completing the mission.
• Lin Fan told viewers that Little Temple Immortal’s temple was on East Mountain, then considered how to earn more Heavenly Secrets Points and advance his cultivation.

After waking from a two-day sleep, Lin Fan learned that viewers had flocked to East Mountain to visit Little Temple Immortal, whose growing incense wish power delighted it. He helped Flexible Little Chubby recover but refused his savings, then resumed his livestream and invited Ninety Below Zero to visit his shop.

• Viewers traveled to East Mountain, where Little Temple Immortal welcomed their offerings and gained incense wish power by listening to their troubles.
• Lin Fan woke after sleeping for two days and discovered that he was close to breaking through to late Foundation Establishment.
• Xiao Tuantuan served Lin Fan a meal, and he confirmed through divination that many viewers had visited East Mountain.
• Flexible Little Chubby thanked Lin Fan for saving his life and offered him his savings, but Lin Fan refused the bank card and sent him home.
• Young Taoist Acolyte returned Lin Fan's phone, and Lin Fan invited Ninety Below Zero to visit his shop.

Lin Fan told Wang Gudan that he could die in an accident connected to the woman he had fallen for, whom he met while swimming. Wang Gudan feared she might be a serial killer, while viewers urged him to seek help.

• Lin Fan announced that Xiao Tuantuan had treated the ill viewers and arranged for her to see patients at Linjiang Wildlife Reserve after her training in Xizhou.
• Xiao Tuantuan and Qianshan left for Xizhou, and Lin Fan asked her to tell the village doctor spirit body that he had found an Incense Cultivation Technique for her.
• Lin Fan connected with Wang Gudan and revealed that the twenty-nine-year-old had never been in a relationship until he met a woman who made his heart flutter three days earlier.
• Lin Fan warned Wang Gudan that he would have a swimming accident at this time the next day and that even avoiding the river would not prevent an incident that night.
• Lin Fan said the woman was closely connected to Wang Gudan's coming accident, prompting him and the viewers to wonder whether she might be a serial killer.

Lin Fan revealed that the woman Wang Gudan liked was a headless murder victim’s spirit, which planned to drown him so they could be together. Lin Fan brought Wang Gudan to Jiangzhou Great River to draw out the spirit and perform a Soul-Refining Rite, leaving him poised to put his hand in the water.

• Lin Fan told Wang Gudan that the woman would cause his death, and Jiangzhou Uncle Cop confirmed a dismembered woman had been found near Jiangzhou Great River three days earlier.
• Lin Fan explained that the woman was a spirit possessing only her head and sent the killer’s information to Jiangzhou Uncle Cop, who rushed to make an arrest.
• Lin Fan told Wang Gudan the spirit intended to drown him and agreed to perform a Soul-Refining Rite rather than destroy her.
• Wang Gudan hurried to Lin Fan’s shop, and Lin Fan took him with Young Taoist Acolyte to the riverbank.
• Lin Fan pushed Wang Gudan toward the water and told him to put his hand in so the spirit would come, assuring him he was there to protect him.

Lin Fan subdued and delivered the spirit in a young woman’s head, then reassured Wang Gudan that he would find love in five years. He resumed his livestream and connected with He Yun, a new hotel server whose workplace has an unusually high staff turnover.

• He Yingxiong arrived with police as Wang Gudan put his hand in the river and the young woman’s head approached him.
• Lin Fan immobilized the head with his power and a Yellow Talisman Paper, then used a Daoist scripture to deliver its spirit.
• Lin Fan told Wang Gudan he would have poor romantic luck for five years before meeting someone he liked.
• Lin Fan returned to his shop, warned viewers about walking alone at night, and said he would connect with more viewers.
• Lin Fan connected with He Yun and divined her background, including her new job at the Pingzhou Grand Hotel.
• He Yun described the hotel’s unusually high turnover despite its good working conditions, and Boss Xiu was asked whether he knew the proprietress.

Lin Fan warned He Yun that a woman was targeting her and that her life was in danger that night. Police arrived at the Pingzhou Grand Hotel to arrest its female owner, and He Yun followed them to the top floor as they prepared to confront her.

• Lin Fan told He Yun that someone intended to harm her and identified the person as a woman.
• Lin Fan said he had contacted Pingzhou Uncle Cop, and police arrived at the hotel with search and arrest warrants.
• He Yun suspected the hotel’s single female owner and followed the police into the elevator.
• Captain Uncle Cop told He Yun to stay behind the officers because the owner might be dangerous.
• The police reached the top floor, prepared for a confrontation with the hotel owner.

Lin Fan helped the police expose the Pingzhou Grand Hotel proprietress as a serial killer who murdered thirty-six waitresses and planned to kill He Yun. The proprietress was arrested after officers found the evidence, while He Yun struggled to accept what she had learned and asked why the woman targeted waitresses.

• The proprietress stayed composed when police arrived, but became uneasy after Lin Fan said the evidence was in her home.
• The proprietress rushed toward He Yun after learning Lin Fan was involved, and the police handcuffed her.
• The proprietress begged Lin Fan to spare her and offered him the Pingzhou Grand Hotel, but he refused and revealed she had killed numerous waitresses.
• A police officer reported finding body parts from thirty-six girls and videos of the proprietress committing the murders.
• Lin Fan told He Yun that the proprietress had planned to make her part of her collection, and the proprietress admitted she had hidden the evidence behind extensive security.

Lin Fan helped expose the proprietress’s murders, and the police issued a notice identifying the victims. He then connected with graduate student Feng Xiaojun, who asked Lin Fan to help his advisor, Professor Wang Wei, whose frightening visions had been mistaken for a mental illness.

• The proprietress confessed to murdering the waitresses and collecting their body parts after the police confronted her with the evidence.
• Lin Fan reassured He Yun and warned her to be less trusting, while she went with Captain Uncle Cop to give a statement.
• The police published a notice about the murdered girls, revealing to their families that the proprietress had deceived them with fake letters about their daughters working abroad.
• Lin Fan invited Feng Xiaojun onto the livestream and learned that the graduate student wanted help for his advisor.
• Lin Fan described how Professor Wang Wei had spent three months seeing a woman glare at him, despite doctors dismissing the visions as stress-related hallucinations.

Feng Xiaojun asked Lin Fan to help his adviser, Wang Wei, whom Lin Fan confirmed was being tormented by a spirit body. Lin Fan sent Feng Xiaojun to visit Wang Wei, where the spirit’s presence became apparent, and Wang Wei again saw her at the bedroom door.

• Feng Xiaojun explained that Wang Wei’s condition had worsened despite treatment and asked Lin Fan for help.
• Lin Fan confirmed Feng Xiaojun’s suspicion that a spirit body was haunting Wang Wei and told him to visit his adviser.
• Feng Xiaojun entered Wang Wei’s apartment and felt the unusual cold, while Lin Fan spotted a resentful woman’s spirit in the room.
• Feng Xiaojun found Wang Wei hiding in bed and tried to calm him, but Wang Wei saw the woman at the bedroom door and asked whether Feng Xiaojun could see her.
• Feng Xiaojun told Wang Wei that he believed him.

Lin Fan explained that a spirit body had targeted Wang Wei because Wang Wei rescued the substitute she had chosen. Lin Fan performed a Soul-Refining Rite remotely and sent the spirit body away, leaving Wang Wei free of her torment.

• Feng Xiaojun showed Wang Wei Lin Fan on the livestream, but Wang Wei doubted Lin Fan was a genuine master.
• Lin Fan asked about Wang Wei rescuing a student at the E District Teaching Building three months earlier and explained that the woman in red had been seeking a substitute.
• The woman in red admitted that Wang Wei had found a capable master, then mocked the masters she had driven away before.
• Lin Fan recited a Daoist scripture through the phone and used a Soul-Refining Rite to overpower the woman in red.
• After about ten minutes, Lin Fan sent the woman in red below, and Feng Xiaojun noticed the room warming as Wang Wei's torment ended.

Lin Fan helped Wang Wei overcome his distress from seeing Spirit Bodies, then discovered that the E District Teaching Building had a dangerously chaotic magnetic field. After Lin Fan proposed renovations, Wang Wei agreed to bring the design to Yunzhou University’s administrators, and Lin Fan began connecting with another viewer.

• Feng Xiaojun thanked Lin Fan, and Wang Wei thanked him for ending the torment that had troubled him for three months.
• Lin Fan warned Wang Wei that problems could recur at the E District Teaching Building, so Feng Xiaojun showed its layout to the livestream viewers.
• Lin Fan urged Wang Wei to test the building’s magnetic field, and the instrument confirmed it was extremely chaotic and could weaken people over time.
• Lin Fan drew a renovation design, and Wang Wei promised to present it to the university’s administrators.
• Lin Fan ended the call, calculated that Wang Wei’s fate had changed and the building would be renovated, then invited another viewer to connect.

Lin Fan reunited with Wang Xiaohua’s older sister, Koi Madam, and investigated why her Pingzhou tea shop had lost its customers. He revealed that the rival shop’s owner had used a wealth-blocking spirit body against her, leaving Sister Wang shocked by the betrayal.

• Lin Fan recognized Koi Madam as Wang Xiaohua’s older sister and learned that her tea shop was deep in debt.
• Sister Wang showed viewers her shop, while Boss Xiu explained that he had felt an unexplained resistance and gone to the shop opposite instead.
• Lin Fan said Asheng Tea Shop’s arrival coincided with Sister Wang’s customers disappearing and other shops losing business.
• Lin Fan revealed that Asheng’s owner had an expert place a wealth-blocking spirit body at Sister Wang’s entrance to turn customers away.
• Sister Wang said Asheng’s owner had acted like a friend and often visited her shop, and she was shocked that he had plotted against her.

Lin Fan removed the wealth-blocking spirit body troubling Sister Wang’s tea shop, then rushed to Pingzhou after sensing the Daoist who had subdued it was coming to retaliate. He arrived at Koi Tea Shop and calmly drank tea while the Daoist prepared to confront him from Asheng Tea Shop.

• Lin Fan explained that Asheng Tea Shop’s owner had likely blocked Sister Wang’s wealth, then used a Soul-Deliverance Canon rite to destroy the spirit body at her entrance.
• The middle-aged Daoist in Pingzhou sensed the spirit body’s destruction, spat blood, and drove toward Sister Wang’s tea district.
• Lin Fan learned the Daoist was approaching, took the jade Pixiu, and flew to Pingzhou on the Pure Yang Magical Sword after ending his livestream.
• Lin Fan arrived at Koi Tea Shop, restarted his livestream, and asked Sister Wang to serve him tea while he sensed the Daoist across the street.
• The middle-aged Daoist confirmed the spirit body had been destroyed and ordered Asheng to bring him stone lions and a large mirror.

Lin Fan identified the stone lion and mirror outside Sister Wang’s shop as Feng Shui attacks and restored the shop’s magnetic fields while arranging for Boss Xiu to come help. He then revealed that Sister Wang was pregnant again after years of a troubled relationship, leaving her to explain that her boyfriend had pursued her before their initially happy relationship deteriorated.

• Lin Fan recognized the stone lion outside Koi Tea Shop as Tiger’s Mouth Sha and restored the shop’s magnetic fields.
• The middle-aged Taoist had A Sheng’s employees set up a mirror to channel baleful qi toward Sister Wang’s shop, while Lin Fan told her to wait for Boss Xiu.
• Lin Fan said Sister Wang’s love life had been troubled and revealed that she had dated her boyfriend for six years and was pregnant again after he had repeatedly refused to marry her.
• Sister Wang explained that her eighteen-year-old boyfriend had pursued her for a year when she was twenty-nine, and she said their first two years together had been happy.

Lin Fan helped Sister Wang face the truth about her boyfriend and outfitted the Koi Tea Shop with a Bagua Mirror and Pixiu carving to counter the Asheng Tea Shop’s form sha. When the middle-aged Taoist confronted him, Lin Fan’s overwhelming might revealed the gap between them.

• Lin Fan told Sister Wang that her boyfriend had no intention of marrying her and that she would find better partners after moving on.
• Boss Xiu brought Lin Fan a century-old Bagua Mirror, which Lin Fan refurbished with spiritual energy.
• Lin Fan hung the Bagua Mirror at the Koi Tea Shop and placed a Pixiu carving in its wealth position, reflecting the baleful qi back at the Asheng Tea Shop.
• The reflected baleful qi injured the middle-aged Taoist and shattered his mirror and Stone Lion.
• The middle-aged Taoist confronted Lin Fan at the Koi Tea Shop, and Lin Fan warned him to leave if he had come to cause trouble.
• Lin Fan released a wisp of might, forcing the middle-aged Taoist to realize how greatly Lin Fan surpassed him.

Lin Fan exposed the middle-aged Taoist’s repeated use of harmful form sha and crippled his cultivation after discovering he planned to continue. The Taoist left vowing revenge, while Sister Wang thanked Lin Fan and gave him a valuable tea cake.

• Lin Fan confronted the middle-aged Taoist over the deaths and harm caused by his form sha, and the man admitted he knew the risks.
• The middle-aged Taoist offered to hand over the Asheng Tea Shop and give Sister Wang ten gold bars, but Lin Fan divined that he planned to harm competitors again.
• Lin Fan refused to let him go and shattered his dantian, crippling his cultivation before warning others not to scheme against Sister Wang.
• The middle-aged Taoist left with Asheng, then asked him to investigate Lin Fan and said he would seek help from his senior brother.
• Sister Wang thanked Lin Fan for saving her and gave him a valuable tea cake, which Lin Fan accepted after she insisted.

Lin Fan discovered that Huzi’s pregnant wife had a Child-Giving Bodhisattva tattoo that would cost her life when she gave birth. He told Huzi that removing the tattoo could save his wife but would mean losing the unborn child.

• Lin Fan stayed at Koi Tea Shop to livestream and welcomed local viewers who planned to visit him.
• Lin Fan connected with Huzi and revealed details about his marriage and his wife’s recent pregnancy.
• Lin Fan explained that Huzi’s wife had become pregnant after visiting a village yin-yang practitioner, who had given her a Child-Giving Bodhisattva tattoo.
• Lin Fan warned Huzi that his wife would die when the child was born and said that removing the tattoo could save her, but the baby would be lost.
• A woman with a slightly rounded belly appeared behind Huzi.

Lin Fan stopped Huzi and Xiao Ying from removing Xiao Ying’s tattoo, then devised a plan to protect her unborn son and help her have children in the future. He promised to make protective jade carvings and told the couple to accumulate good deeds to gradually change their fate.

• Xiao Ying revealed that she was willing to risk her life to give Huzi a child, but Huzi said he would rather stay with her and planned to have her tattoo removed.
• Lin Fan received a system mission to change Xiao Ying’s fate so she could have both a son and a daughter, and realized her unborn child was a boy.
• As Huzi and Xiao Ying prepared to leave for the village’s yin-yang practitioner, Lin Fan called them back and said removing the tattoo would cost them the child.
• Lin Fan devised a plan involving Xiao Tuantuan’s medical methods and jade carvings of the Child-Giving Guanyin, peace buckles, and peace locks to protect Xiao Ying and her children.
• Huzi offered Lin Fan five apartments in exchange for saving Xiao Ying and the child, but Lin Fan declined and urged the couple to do good deeds to change their fate.