Recaps

At the Kunlun Daoist Assembly, Lin Fan, Venerable Nanyu, and Daoist Beiling began a fortune-telling contest to locate Venerable Qiongli’s missing master. The contest’s rules were set, and Venerable Qiongli waited impatiently for them to start.

• Venerable Qiongli demanded that Venerable Lianhua reveal where his master was, and she insisted she did not know.
• Venerable Nanyu proposed that the three fortune-tellers compete to divine the master’s location, and Venerable Qiongli agreed.
• The Kunlun Daoist Assembly president held the opening ceremony and led the contestants to the fortune-telling venue.
• Daoist Beiling proposed writing each result on a slip for the president to reveal when time was up, and Lin Fan agreed.
• Venerable Qiongli urged the fortune-tellers to begin, and Venerable Nanyu set a one-incense-stick time limit.

Lin Fan, Venerable Nanyu, and Daoist Beiling competed to divine the whereabouts of Venerable Qiongli’s master. The president revealed that Lin Fan had pinpointed her exact location: she was trapped beneath Cold Boat Island, south of Nanzhou.

• The president set a quarter-hour deadline, and Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling quickly submitted their divined answers while Lin Fan waited.
• Venerable Nanyu placed Venerable Qiongli’s master somewhere among the islands south of Nanzhou, while Daoist Beiling narrowed her location to within a hundred li of the coast.
• Lin Fan submitted his answer at the last moment and told Venerable Qiongli that a renewed bond of fate would let him find his master.
• The president read Lin Fan’s result: Venerable Qiongli’s master was imprisoned a thousand meters beneath Cold Boat Island in an Extreme-Cold Prison.
• The president explained that Venerable Qiongli’s master had triggered a trap while investigating unusual spiritual-power fluctuations beneath the sea.

Lin Fan’s divination was verified when Han Bing’s subordinate found Venerable Qiongli’s master trapped beneath Cold Boat Island. Venerable Qiongli left to rescue her, while Lin Fan demanded that Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling admit defeat and call him their ancestral master.

• Lin Fan told Venerable Qiongli that his master was trapped on Cold Boat Island, and Han Bing arranged for a subordinate to verify the claim.
• Han Bing’s subordinate livestreamed his descent beneath the sea and found a long-haired woman imprisoned in a cage of blue light.
• Venerable Qiongli recognized his master, thanked Lin Fan, and promised to help him in the future.
• Lin Fan warned Venerable Qiongli that he and his master must leave Cold Boat Island and avoid the ruins beneath it.
• Venerable Qiongli departed to rescue his master, and Lin Fan asked Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling to address him as their ancestral master.
• Venerable Nanyu refused to accept the demand and said, “Wait!”

Lin Fan accepted the chairman’s challenge to divine Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling’s fates after the chairman ruled that the first round did not count as a win. The contest was set to last one incense stick, leaving Qianshan troubled by his master’s attempt to target Lin Fan.

• Daoist Beiling and Venerable Nanyu insisted they had also divined Venerable Qiongli’s master, and the chairman ruled that Lin Fan’s more precise answer did not count as a victory.
• Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling secretly discussed how to challenge Lin Fan, while the chairman proposed that the contestants divine information about one another.
• Daoist Beiling and Venerable Nanyu agreed to the new contest, confident their higher cultivation would protect their fates from Lin Fan.
• Cui Mu Mu and the Millennium Demon Tree doubted that anyone could divine Lin Fan’s fate, and the tree recalled that Lin Fan seemed absent from the River of Time.
• Lin Fan agreed to divine the others’ fates within the time it took an incense stick to burn, while Qianshan worried that his master was targeting someone he had once urged him to befriend.

Lin Fan relied on his own fortune-telling spells as Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling tried to divine his fate, only to find it impossible. Daoist Beiling’s feather fan shattered and injured him, leaving the gathered fortune-tellers stunned as the challenge continued.

• The president lit a large incense stick to begin the fortune-telling contest, and Lin Fan chose not to use any magical artifacts.
• Venerable Nanyu failed to divine Lin Fan’s fate, then used the Luo River Forbidden Technique and staggered back after discovering an unbelievable result.
• Young Taoist Acolyte defended Lin Fan against the cultivators mocking him, and Lin Fan told him to ignore them.
• Daoist Beiling used his golden feather fan to divine Lin Fan’s fate, but the artifact cracked and shattered, injuring him.
• Venerable Nanyu told Daoist Beiling to try another method, while the president asked whether Daoist Beiling was all right.

Lin Fan outmatched Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling in their fortune-telling contest, forcing them to concede and call him Grandmaster. The surrounding cultivators accepted his victory, and Lin Fan explained that his skill posed no threat to capable fortune-tellers.

• Daoist Beiling used a strange stone to divine Lin Fan’s fate but found no trace of it in the River of Fate.
• Lin Fan began divining Venerable Nanyu’s fate, overwhelming his resistance with power that astonished the chairman.
• Lin Fan effortlessly divined Daoist Beiling’s fate after overcoming Venerable Nanyu’s defenses.
• Lin Fan revealed details about Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling’s past, and both men conceded before he could disclose more.
• The surrounding cultivators reacted with disbelief as Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling called Lin Fan Grandmaster.
• Lin Fan welcomed them as his granddisciples and said his fortune-telling business could not threaten anyone with enough ability.

Lin Fan won the fortune-telling contest but had to wait until the Daoist Assembly ended to claim the Heaven-Calibrating Ruler. He then met Qingfeng Daoist Temple, where Daoist Feng took responsibility for his past challenge and the Temple Master stood by him.

• The Assembly President declared Lin Fan the winner but delayed awarding the Heaven-Calibrating Ruler until the Assembly's final day, allowing others to challenge him meanwhile.
• Lin Fan left the Fortune-Telling Hall, while Cui Mu Mu stayed to strengthen his karmic fortune and avoid challenging Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling.
• Lin Fan entered a contest between Daoist temples and approached the Qingfeng Daoist Temple cultivators, reminding them of their earlier challenge.
• Daoist Feng confessed that he had instigated the conflict and offered to accept Lin Fan's punishment, stopping his senior brothers from attacking.
• The Qingfeng Daoist Temple's Temple Master stepped forward to bear Lin Fan's might in Daoist Feng's place, and Lin Fan acknowledged their loyalty to each other.

At the Daoist Assembly, Lin Fan accepted Qingfeng Temple Master’s proposed punishment for Daoist Feng and sent Xiao Tuantuan to the Medical Cultivator Hall to learn from Qianshan’s Master's Wife. After touring the halls, Lin Fan decided to compete in artifact refining, setting up a new kind of contest.

• Lin Fan accepted Qingfeng Temple Master’s terms: public apologies for three months, Daoist Feng serving him for three years, and Qingfeng Daoist Temple assisting him when called.
• Lin Fan ordered Daoist Feng to run around the nine snow-covered mountains until he was completely exhausted.
• Xiao Tuantuan entered the Medical Cultivator Hall, where Qianshan’s Master's Wife welcomed her and introduced her to the other medical cultivators.
• Lin Fan told Young Taoist Acolyte and Dao Tianji that he would begin issuing challenges after the first day of the Daoist Assembly.
• After Dao Tianji suggested artifact refining, Lin Fan agreed to compete and noted that the assembly’s president was a powerful artifact refiner who resented him.

Lin Fan entered the Kunlun Daoist Assembly’s artifact refiners’ hall, where Master Yin Zi challenged his claim to be an artifact refiner. Lin Fan carved an ordinary piece of jade into a ritual artifact, stunning the gathered refiners and leaving them to witness his skill.

• Master Yin Zi barred Lin Fan and his companions from the artifact refiners’ hall because they were not recognized as artifact refiners.
• Dao Tianji defended Lin Fan, who stopped him and claimed he was an artifact refiner.
• Master Yin Zi mocked Lin Fan and promised to kneel and obey him if Lin Fan’s artifact-refining skills surpassed his own.
• Lin Fan carved artifact patterns into an ordinary piece of jade with a Carving Knife.
• Lin Fan used a hand seal to turn the jade lion into a peak Qi Refining Jade Stone Ritual Artifact and asked whether anyone wanted it.

Lin Fan defeated Master Yin Zi in an artifact-refining contest, then offered to guide him and criticized the Kunlun Daoist Assembly President’s methods. The Assembly President arrived with Qianshan, setting up a comparison of their skills.

• Lin Fan refined a perfect peak-level magical artifact, and Master Yin Zi admitted defeat and knelt before him.
• Lin Fan helped Master Yin Zi up, explained why he understood his earlier actions, and offered to improve his artifact-refining skills.
• Lin Fan told Master Yin Zi that the Assembly President’s methods were unsuitable for him, but Master Yin Zi defended his senior martial uncle.
• Lin Fan said the Assembly President was about to arrive, and the President came with a group of disciples led by Qianshan.

The Kunlun Daoist Assembly President arrived at the Artifact Refining Hall and boasted that his skills surpassed Lin Fan’s, prompting Lin Fan to expose the poor quality of his work. They agreed to compete at artifact refining with major stakes, leaving the contest yet to begin.

• The Assembly President arrived and claimed he had come to instruct the artifact refiners, while Lin Fan divined that he wanted to promote the Assembly’s reputation.
• The Assembly President’s disciples praised his skills and dismissed Lin Fan, and the Assembly President claimed he was the better refiner.
• Lin Fan revealed that the Assembly President’s Golden Core Peak Stage ring had shattered easily and was defective.
• The Assembly President challenged Lin Fan to an artifact-refining contest, and Lin Fan insisted they wager something meaningful.
• The Assembly President offered Lin Fan an honorary elder position if Lin Fan won, while Lin Fan offered to endure ten years in the Spirit-Sealing Cage if he lost.
• The Assembly President raised his offer, promising Lin Fan authority second only to himself and freedom to move throughout the Assembly’s territory if Lin Fan won, and Lin Fan accepted.

Lin Fan and the Assembly President swore a divine soul oath and began a three-hour artifact-refining contest, with the loser facing ten years in a cage. As the Assembly President worked with supreme-grade materials and a powerful furnace, Lin Fan quietly searched the System Mall for wood to use instead of jade.

• Qianshan warned the Assembly President against wagering so much, but the Assembly President dismissed him and ordered him to stand aside.
• Lin Fan told Qianshan to stop intervening, then demanded that he and the Assembly President swear divine soul oaths before the contest.
• The Assembly President set a three-hour contest to refine middle Golden Core stage magical artifacts, and Qianshan brought him a powerful artifact-refining furnace.
• The Assembly President began refining an artifact with supreme-grade Golden Core-level materials while Lin Fan kept his eyes closed.
• The viewers worried that Lin Fan lacked high-quality jade, while Lin Fan browsed the System Mall and bought pieces of wood for refining.

Lin Fan tied the Assembly President in an artifact-refining contest by carving a perfect-quality, middle Golden Core stage magical artifact in the shape of a little dog. When Lin Fan pushed for a higher-stakes rematch, Qianshan tried to mediate, but the Assembly President rejected his plea and insisted that he had not lost.

• Lin Fan used special spiritwood to carve a little dog magical artifact while the Assembly President refined a shield.
• The Assembly President completed a perfect-quality, middle Golden Core stage shield before Lin Fan finished carving.
• Lin Fan revealed that his wooden dog was also a perfect-quality, middle Golden Core stage magical artifact, and the Assembly President called the contest a draw.
• Lin Fan proposed that they compete using late Golden Core stage magical artifacts and explained why he would not back down.
• Qianshan asked Lin Fan to let the matter go, but the Assembly President pushed Qianshan aside and declared that he had not lost.

Lin Fan and the Assembly President competed to refine late Golden Core stage magical artifacts within six hours, and Lin Fan finished a wooden dog carving in just over three hours. The Assembly President continued refining while the others questioned the carving’s grade, which Lin Fan had not yet revealed.

• The Assembly President challenged Lin Fan to refine a late Golden Core stage magical artifact within six hours, and Lin Fan accepted.
• Lin Fan carved spiritwood while the Assembly President rested before beginning his own artifact.
• Both men began refining, and the artifact refiners watched the Assembly President’s familiar methods while Qianshan worried about being caught between his master and Lin Fan.
• After three hours, Lin Fan completed a golden wooden dog carving, startling the Assembly President and the watching refiners.
• Lin Fan explained that the carving’s aura would only be detectable after he activated it, and he avoided doing so to keep from disturbing the Assembly President.

Lin Fan won the artifact-refining contest against the Assembly President by producing a perfect-quality late Golden Core stage magical artifact. After revealing that he had studied artifact refining for only about four months, he received the Assembly President’s Access Token, which allowed him to travel throughout the Kunlun Mountains.

• The Assembly President completed a supreme-grade late Golden Core stage shield and believed he had beaten Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan activated his Little Dog Woodcarving, revealing that it was a perfect-quality artifact and winning the contest.
• Lin Fan said he had studied artifact refining for less than four months, while the Assembly President revealed he had practiced for three or four hundred years.
• The Assembly President accepted his loss and gave Lin Fan his Kunlun Access Token, prompting other cultivators to object.

Lin Fan accepted the Kunlun Token after defeating the Assembly President in artifact refining, then declined to press him into a fight at Qianshan’s request. The token unlocked a mission to explore the Kunlun Mountains’ spatial secret realms, and Lin Fan quietly asked Qianshan where to find them.

• The Assembly President gave Lin Fan the Kunlun Token despite his disciples’ objections, then revealed his suppressed cultivation could reach the Golden Core peak stage.
• Lin Fan challenged the Assembly President to a fight, but the President refused and directed him to the combat hall instead.
• Qianshan urged Lin Fan to respect the Assembly’s rules and avoid fighting his master, so Lin Fan dropped the challenge.
• The Assembly President left with his disciples, and Lin Fan thanked Qianshan before storing the token.
• The system recognized the Kunlun Token and offered Lin Fan a Space Codex for each new spatial secret realm he explored.
• Lin Fan asked Qianshan about the Assembly’s secret realms, and Qianshan wondered if he had learned of them by divining his master’s fate.

Lin Fan learned that the Kunlun Daoist Assembly’s secret realm locations were hidden in sealed memories and planned to obtain them from Qianshan’s senior martial uncle. After making Master Yin Zi stay by his side, Lin Fan taught the artifact refiners and asked them to make defensive magical artifacts for ordinary people ahead of an expected upheaval.

• Qianshan told Lin Fan that the Daoist Assembly’s disciples sealed away their memories of secret realms and that he could not unseal his own without severe consequences.
• Lin Fan planned to meet Qianshan’s senior martial uncle, who guarded the secret realms, and divine the locations from his memories without asking him directly.
• Lin Fan invoked Master Yin Zi’s promise and required him to stay by Lin Fan’s side and help whenever needed.
• Lin Fan guided Master Yin Zi and the other artifact refiners, openly teaching them techniques.
• Lin Fan asked the artifact refiners to make defensive magical artifacts for ordinary people because he foresaw a coming upheaval.

Lin Fan arranged for artifact refiners to supply Han Bing’s team with magical artifacts as he prepared for an ominous upheaval he could not divine. Back at his residence, he kept his reasons for helping Cui Mu Mu secret, then planned to spend the remaining hours before dawn connecting with livestream viewers.

• Lin Fan agreed that the artifact refiners would make standardized magical artifacts for Han Bing’s subordinates and warned them to honor their promises.
• Han Bing registered the refiners and considered expanding her team after Lin Fan explained that an unpredictable upheaval might exceed his control.
• Lin Fan learned that Cui Mu Mu was defeating fortune-tellers to accumulate karmic fortune for the Millennium Demon Tree’s demon embryo scheme.
• Lin Fan told his viewers he had his own reasons for helping Cui Mu Mu and promised he would not let Cui Mu Mu harm anyone again.
• Lin Fan decided to stay awake before dawn and connect with two viewers instead of resting or competing against other cultivators.

Lin Fan connected with singer Cai Yiyi and warned her that extremists planned to attack her concert, though police arrested thirteen suspects. He still foresaw danger if the concert went ahead, leaving Cai Yiyi torn between canceling it and disappointing fans who had traveled to attend.

• Lin Fan connected with Cai Yiyi, who was traveling from Dongzhou to Yunzhou for her concert after heavy snow closed the airport.
• Lin Fan warned Cai Yiyi to cancel the concert because someone intended to sabotage it.
• Lin Fan said police had already arrested thirteen extremists planning to attack her fans.
• Cai Yiyi asked whether the concert could proceed, but Lin Fan predicted more dangers, including a fan rushing the stage and problems with her voice.
• Cai Yiyi began considering canceling the concert, while viewers who had traveled to Yunzhou urged her not to.

Cai Yiyi consulted Lin Fan about dangers at her concert and ultimately decided to cancel it despite pressure from her fans, manager, and company. Before she ended the call, Lin Fan told her she was being cheated on, leaving her shocked as the company refused to accept her decision.

• Cai Yiyi's fans urged her not to cancel the concert, while her manager Xiaohua warned that cancellation could cost over a hundred million in compensation.
• Lin Fan predicted the stage would collapse, Cai Yiyi would lose her voice, and broken lights would trigger a stampede, and he explained that changing the venue, date, or performer would amount to canceling the concert.
• After fans and Xiaohua accused Lin Fan of fearmongering, Cai Yiyi said she believed him and asked Xiaohua to arrange the cancellation, with Cai Yiyi bearing the compensation herself.
• Lin Fan told Cai Yiyi she was being cheated on, and she reacted with disbelief as viewers speculated about her relationship.
• Xiaohua told Cai Yiyi that the company would not allow the concert to be canceled, but Cai Yiyi rejected the decision and asked Xiaohua to respect her wishes.
• Xiaohua agreed to call the company and report Cai Yiyi's decision.

Cai Yiyi refused to hold her concert despite threats from her company, then learned from Lin Fan that her boyfriend Wang Xiaojie had been cheating on her with her manager, Xiaohua. Lin Fan revealed that Wang Xiaojie also hosted monthly group sex parties, and said he had already asked the police to collect evidence.

• Cai Yiyi rejected her executives' threats and insisted she would cancel the concert because she trusted Lin Fan's warning about dangers.
• Cai Yiyi revealed that her boyfriend was award-winning actor Wang Xiaojie, and Lin Fan said they had fallen in love while filming together three years earlier.
• Lin Fan accused Xiaohua of having sex with Wang Xiaojie at Cai Yiyi's home, and Xiaohua threatened to sue him for slander.
• Lin Fan said Wang Xiaojie had recorded videos of the affair, and Cai Yiyi slapped Xiaohua after hearing the accusation.
• Lin Fan revealed that Wang Xiaojie held monthly group sex parties and said he had asked the police to secure the videos and recordings.

Cai Yiyi learned that her former agent Xiaohua had betrayed her and left her to face the consequences alone. Lin Fan helped her escape spirit bodies looping her car around a mountain road, but warned that another danger awaited at a roadside repair shop.

• Xiaohua admitted she had seduced Wang Xiaojie to advance her own entertainment career, and Cai Yiyi made her get out of the car.
• Cai Yiyi asked Lin Fan about further trouble, and he predicted that spirit bodies would trap her car near a cemetery before it crashed into a gravestone.
• The driver realized the car was looping around Qiuming Panshan Highway, while Coiled Dragon and Lin Fan identified spirit bodies outside the vehicle.
• Lin Fan recited from the Soul-Deliverance Canon, clearing the spirit bodies and allowing Cai Yiyi and her driver to escape the mountain road.
• Lin Fan warned that the car would soon break down beside a repair shop, where two men would be tempted to steal Cai Yiyi's valuables.

Cai Yiyi’s disastrous luck left her stranded with her driver near a remote repair shop, where two mechanics might threaten them. Lin Fan used divination and spells to find a way to protect them, while the mechanics approached their car.

• Lin Fan told Cai Yiyi that her calamity would pass after midnight, but he could not reach her or change her luck in time.
• When the car stalled near a repair shop, Lin Fan warned that waiting in the car would not keep Cai Yiyi safe, and said the police officers he had alerted were delayed by accidents.
• Coiled Dragon suggested finding someone whose birth chart complemented Cai Yiyi’s, and Lin Fan agreed to seek such a person after they survived the immediate danger.
• Lin Fan instructed Cai Yiyi and her driver to stay inside with the windows closed and remain silent, then wrote the mechanics’ birth charts and incantations on yellow paper.
• Two mechanics approached the car and speculated that its occupants might have gone elsewhere.

Cai Yiyi and her driver faced two predatory mechanics after their car broke down on a remote road, but Lin Fan immobilized the men with a remote spell. The pair escaped safely, and Lin Fan revealed that the mechanics were repeat offenders who had harmed many people.

• The mechanics discovered Cai Yiyi and the driver inside the broken-down car and noticed their expensive belongings.
• Cai Yiyi saw the livestream viewers' warnings and told the driver to close the window, but the mechanics smashed the windows and forced open the doors.
• Lin Fan used paper figures and a Remote Immobilization Spell to freeze both mechanics before they could harm Cai Yiyi.
• Cai Yiyi and the driver pushed the young mechanic out, shut the doors, and drove away after the car started working again.
• Lin Fan told Cai Yiyi that the mechanics were repeat offenders who had set up their shop in a remote area to murder people for their money.

Lin Fan helped Cai Yiyi avoid danger on the road and guided her to the Yunzhou Hotel, where two fans agreed to protect her in exchange for money and Lin Fan’s talismans and magical artifacts. At the hotel, Cai Yiyi and her driver felt a sudden chill, and Lin Fan revealed that a spirit body was on the bed.

• Cai Yiyi learned that two mechanics had been trapping cars and targeting wealthy drivers, while Yunzhou police prepared to arrest them using evidence Lin Fan had found.
• Lin Fan told Cai Yiyi she would reach a Yunzhou hotel safely and could avoid danger by giving an autograph to a spirit body who was her fan.
• Lin Fan identified White Dew Across the River and Great Dao to Simplicity as people whose birth charts could help Cai Yiyi, and Cai Yiyi offered them ten million each to come to the hotel.
• The two fans refused the money alone, so Lin Fan promised each of them twenty million, two talismans, and a protective magical artifact; they set off for the hotel.
• Cai Yiyi checked into the hotel’s presidential suite with her driver, where they felt an unnatural chill, and Lin Fan said a spirit body was on the bed.