Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan ended his livestream at exactly ten and then met Lin Xubai, promising to cure his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis after handling Liu Qingfeng’s situation. He took Lin Xubai, Doctor Yao, and his companions toward a restaurant by subway, while Doctor Yao challenged his promise and Lin Xubai chose to stay in Jiangzhou.

• Lin Fan ended the livestream at ten, leaving frightened viewers in the mountains to keep each other company.
• Lin Fan met Lin Xubai and Doctor Yao at exactly ten past ten, then promised to treat Lin Xubai after dealing with Liu Qingfeng’s situation.
• Lin Fan pushed back the crowd surrounding him and led Xiao Tuantuan and the others away from Taihe Street.
• Lin Fan took the group toward Jiangzhou North District by subway, while Doctor Yao questioned his ability to cure Lin Xubai.
• Lin Xubai said he was willing to stay in Jiangzhou rather than remain at the Northern Continent Sports Medicine Hospital.

Lin Fan tried to save an infant thrown toward an arriving train, but Ouyang Mingyue rescued the child and suffered a devastating spinal injury. Lin Fan kept Ouyang Mingyue alive and foresaw that he could recover in the future, while the woman who threw the infant was left for the police.

• Lin Fan noticed a suicidal woman at the station and rushed toward her as she threw her infant toward an arriving train.
• Ouyang Mingyue caught the infant but was struck by the train, and Lin Fan pulled him and the baby to safety.
• Lin Fan discovered Ouyang Mingyue's spine was broken, then restored his breathing by channeling spiritual power into him.
• Han Bing confronted the woman, but Lin Fan stopped her and explained that the woman had tried to kill her child after her boyfriend abandoned her.
• Lin Fan divined that Ouyang Mingyue could survive and eventually walk again, and he asked Han Bing and her martial uncle to help channel spiritual power into him.

Lin Fan blamed his weakness for failing to save Ouyang Mingyue from severe injuries, but he foresaw that Ouyang Mingyue would recover and reach a higher realm within a month. After returning to the shop, Lin Fan refused to let Lin Xubai accompany him to meet Liu Qingfeng because the coming encounter with an evil entity was too dangerous.

• Doctor Yao stabilized Ouyang Mingyue but said he would be paralyzed from the neck down, and Han Bing asked Lin Fan if he could cure him.
• Lin Fan said he could heal Ouyang Mingyue at a steep cost, but foresaw that Ouyang Mingyue would recover on his own within a month.
• A young man livestreamed Lin Fan at the hospital and criticized his confidence in Ouyang Mingyue's recovery.
• Lin Fan returned to the shop and told the old Daoist to take Doctor Yao and Lin Xubai next door.
• Lin Xubai asked to join Lin Fan in meeting Liu Qingfeng, but Lin Fan refused because the mission involved a dangerous evil entity.

Lin Fan led Han Bing, Dao Tianji, and the Young Taoist Acolyte to Liu Qingfeng’s apartment building, where a powerful evil spirit’s energy covered the high-rise. After the system tasked him with changing Liu Qingfeng’s fate and reassuring the public, Lin Fan began a livestream before confronting the spirit.

• Lin Fan woke his companions, gathered his talismans, and led them to the residential complex where Liu Qingfeng lived.
• Lin Fan told the security guard that he was there to see Liu Qingfeng and advised him to treat people kindly the next day, when a wealthy woman would offer him an opportunity.
• Lin Fan explained that the guard would otherwise miss the opportunity, offend the woman, and lose his job.
• On the sixth floor, Lin Fan saw evil energy filling the corridor and learned that the other residents had temporarily moved out.
• The system assigned Lin Fan a mission to change Liu Qingfeng’s fate and put the public’s minds at ease in exchange for a Wood Spirit Heart.
• Lin Fan told the Young Taoist Acolyte to livestream him, and the acolyte began broadcasting as Lin Fan prepared to face the evil spirit.

Lin Fan arrived at Liu Qingfeng’s home with Han Bing and Dao Tianji to confront the evil spirits gathering there. He protected Liu Qingfeng with talismans and attacked the spirits with his Evil-Slaying Sword, leaving the battle underway.

• The Young Taoist Acolyte livestreamed as Lin Fan explained that they had come to Liu Qingfeng’s home in Building B of Garden Residential Complex.
• Lin Fan drew the Evil-Slaying Sword, surprising the viewers and Han Bing and Dao Tianji, then warned them to stay alert.
• Liu Qingfeng welcomed Lin Fan and asked whether he could save her, and he promised to destroy whatever was trying to kill her.
• Lin Fan found the home filled with black energy and surrounded Liu Qingfeng and the others with Evil-Warding and Peace Talismans.
• The Evil-Warding Talismans lit up as black shadows battered the windows, and Lin Fan unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Source against them.

Lin Fan and Dao Tianji fought off waves of evil spirits while the Evil-Warding Talismans burned away and the hidden source remained unknown. A delivery guy arrived with a large wooden crate, and Lin Fan revealed that the ten thousand yuan he had been paid had turned into Hell Money.

• Dao Tianji fought alongside Lin Fan as evil spirits attacked, while viewers discovered they could not record the supernatural events.
• Lin Fan realized the Evil-Warding Talismans would soon burn out and that he needed to find the source of the spirits.
• Liu Qingfeng brought hot water, and Lin Fan warned her that the danger was no longer just about saving her but about surviving.
• A delivery guy arrived with a large wooden crate after being paid ten thousand yuan to bring it from near Jiangzhou Zoo.
• Lin Fan told the delivery guy his luck was bad and asked him to check the money in his wallet, where the delivery guy found Hell Money instead of real cash.

Lin Fan saved Liu Qingfeng from a giant panda controlled by a seductive evil spirit and began a Soul-Refining Rite to send the spirit below. As the spirit pleaded that she still needed a replacement, Lin Fan tried to divine why she had not departed.

• The Delivery Guy recognized Lin Fan, accepted a thousand yuan, left the Hell Money behind, and learned through the livestream that he had narrowly avoided danger.
• A giant panda burst from the wooden crate and attacked Liu Qingfeng, so Lin Fan fought it while Dao Tianji protected her.
• Lin Fan used the Qi-Observing Technique to spot a red figure controlling the panda and struck the figure with the Evil-Slaying Sword, revealing a seductive woman.
• The seductive woman insisted Liu Qingfeng had to die because her manner of death had been foretold, but Lin Fan wounded her and began chanting from the Soul-Deliverance Canon.
• The spirit begged Lin Fan not to perform the Soul-Refining Rite before she found a replacement, and Lin Fan tried to divine why she was still unwilling to go below.

Lin Fan sent Jiang Jiaojiao below with the Soul-Refining Rite after divining her tragic past and learning she had been seeking substitutes so she could leave with her child. He told the officers that Jiang Jiaojiao was only a pawn and that the source of the note incidents remained at large.

• Jiang Jiaojiao warned Lin Fan that performing the Soul-Refining Rite would make him the next substitute, while the livestream viewers saw a black shadow and tried to explain it away as a special effect.
• Lin Fan offered to stop the rite if Jiang Jiaojiao revealed the more powerful evil spirit behind her, then divined that she had died three years earlier and had been a bar singer.
• Lin Fan revealed that Jiang Jiaojiao had been seeking substitutes so she could take her unborn child below, and told her he would find and send the child below too.
• Lin Fan continued the Soul-Deliverance Canon, and the Soul-Refining Rite sent Jiang Jiaojiao below without destroying her.
• Lin Fan called the officers to take the wounded giant panda to a veterinary hospital and explained that Jiang Jiaojiao had been a pawn, not the source of the note incidents.
• Lin Fan recounted that Jiang Jiaojiao had become pregnant by a man who abandoned her, then jumped from a building while pregnant and became unable to enter reincarnation.

Lin Fan confronted the wraith fused with the machine that had appeared outside his shop and learned it had been seeking substitutes. After restraining the artifact and revealing the entity, he ordered Han Bing and Dao Tianji to attack it.

• Lin Fan returned to Taihe Street and found the machine from the square standing outside his shop.
• Lin Fan pressed the machine's button, received a slip predicting he would be pierced by ten thousand arrows, and stopped the machine from vanishing.
• Lin Fan struck the machine until a hideous wraith appeared and threatened him over Jiang Jiaojiao's death.
• The wraith explained that it needed substitutes, while Lin Fan identified it as an evil entity fused with a magical artifact.
• Lin Fan gauged the wraith's enhanced cultivation, gave the Pure Yang Magical Sword to Dao Tianji, and told Han Bing and Dao Tianji to attack the machine.

Lin Fan fought the evil spirit Long Tian on Taihe Street while trying to reassure his livestream viewers and protect the trapped souls. As he began a Soul-Refining Rite, Long Tian formed a black-fog saber and attacked him.

• Han Bing and Dao Tianji attacked the machine while Lin Fan battled the evil spirit, damaging the artifact and injuring its wielder.
• After Long Tian sent him crashing into a metal shutter, Lin Fan stood up calmly and told viewers that righteousness could keep evil spirits at bay.
• Lin Fan infused the Evil-Slaying Sword with pure yang power and struck the machine, weakening Long Tian, then identified him as Long Aotian, a grave robber who had died over a century earlier.
• Long Tian summoned the dead souls gathered on Taihe Street, and Lin Fan recognized some as people who had recently died after receiving slips of paper.
• Lin Fan began reciting the Daoist Scripture for the Soul-Refining Rite rather than destroy the souls, while Long Tian emerged from the machine and attacked with a saber formed from black fog.

Lin Fan fought the evil spirit controlling the machine, exposed its true form as a Corpse-Wrapping Cloth, and was trapped inside it with Dao Tianji and Han Bing. After restoring his spiritual power with a Spirit Pill, Lin Fan located the evil spirit and struck it with the Evil-Slaying Sword.

• Lin Fan used the Soul-Refining Rite and the Evil-Slaying Sword to destroy the summoned wraiths and wound the evil spirit.
• Lin Fan drew a Demon-Exorcising Talisman on the machine, forcing it to reveal itself as a Corpse-Wrapping Cloth.
• Lin Fan told Dao Tianji and Han Bing to attack the Corpse-Wrapping Cloth, but the evil spirit enlarged it and enveloped all three of them.
• Inside the Corpse-Wrapping Cloth, Lin Fan swallowed a Spirit Pill, restored his spiritual power, and used the Qi-Observing Technique to locate the evil spirit.
• Lin Fan swung the Evil-Slaying Sword toward the evil spirit and struck it with a burst of azure light.

Lin Fan separated the evil spirit from the burial shroud, exposed the artifact’s plan to revive the God of Slaughter, and destroyed the spirit. He then revealed that the burial shroud itself was the true danger and began fusing with it after it tempted him.

• Lin Fan used the Heaven-Peering Art to find the evil spirit and strip away its connection to the burial shroud, freeing himself and the others.
• Lin Fan explained that the burial shroud had manipulated the evil spirit into gathering substitutes and wraiths so it could absorb their power and revive the God of Slaughter.
• Lin Fan destroyed the weakened evil spirit with the Evil-Slaying Sword.
• Lin Fan told Dao Tianji that the burial shroud was the true culprit and warned that its sentience could corrupt whoever possessed it.
• Lin Fan touched the burial shroud, endured its baleful qi, and chose to fuse with it after hearing its tempting voice.

Lin Fan destroyed the sentient Corpse-Wrapping Cloth for heavenly secrets points and received a Wood Spirit Heart for completing his mission. He then began treating Lin Xubai’s amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and said he needed Lin Xubai to agree to something.

• Lin Fan exchanged the Corpse-Wrapping Cloth, earning 30,000 heavenly secrets points, and bought three Foundation Establishment Pills.
• The system rewarded Lin Fan with a Wood Spirit Heart after he completed the mission involving Jiang Jiaojiao.
• Lin Fan reassured his livestream viewers that evil spirits generally would not harm people and returned to his shop.
• Lin Fan declined to continue fortune-telling because he had promised to treat Lin Xubai within three days.
• Lin Fan began regulating Lin Xubai’s meridians and said he needed Lin Xubai to agree to a condition.
• Lin Xubai accepted Lin Fan’s condition, saying he was willing to agree to anything.

Lin Fan taught Lin Xubai the Dragon-Tiger Wisdom King Art and gave him a Spirit-Forming Pill as part of his plan to cure Lin Xubai’s ALS. Doctor Yao tested the pill herself, and her hospital examinations showed that her chronic ailments had been cured.

• Lin Fan required Lin Xubai to keep the technique secret and donate his income and assets, and Lin Xubai agreed.
• Lin Fan spent 3,000 Heavenly Secrets Points on the Dragon-Tiger Wisdom King Art and used Knowledge Infusion to teach it to Lin Xubai.
• Lin Fan gave Lin Xubai a Spirit-Forming Pill, but Doctor Yao questioned its safety and swallowed a small piece herself.
• Doctor Yao went to Jiangzhou Central Hospital for tests, which showed that her readings had improved and her chronic conditions were cured.
• Doctor Yao returned to Lin Fan’s shop and shared her test results.

Lin Fan insisted that Lin Xubai train continuously for three days after taking the Spirit-Forming Pill, despite Doctor Yao’s warnings. Lin Xubai committed to the regimen, and Doctor Yao burned her hand when she tried to stop him.

• Lin Xubai declared he would keep training unless he collapsed, while the livestream viewers questioned whether the regimen was safe.
• Doctor Yao accused Lin Fan of using the training as an excuse to blame Lin Xubai if the treatment failed.
• Lin Fan insisted the training was necessary and said Lin Xubai could endure it, then asked Xiao Tuantuan to livestream him around the clock.
• Doctor Yao warned Lin Xubai about the danger of overexertion, but he stayed focused on practicing the Dragon-Tiger Wisdom King Art.
• Doctor Yao tried to grab Lin Xubai’s arm to stop him, but pulled her hand back after his skin burned her palm.

Lin Fan received the jade shipment from Pingzhou, including the Spirit-Gathering Stone he needed for a Superior Spirit-Gathering Array. After realizing the array could harm people across a wide area, he decided to move and asked his livestream viewers for suggestions.

• Lin Fan welcomed the delivery trucks and directed the workers to move more than a hundred pieces of jade into his shop and the two neighboring shops.
• The workers unloaded the sixty-million-yuan Spirit-Gathering Stone, and Lin Fan refused the system's offer to exchange it for Heavenly Secrets Points.
• Lin Fan studied the Superior Spirit-Gathering Array and realized it could draw spiritual energy from within a hundred li, potentially harming ordinary people's health.
• Lin Fan explained to Dao Tianji that the Ma Family had paid for the Spirit-Gathering Stone to repay a favor and preserve their relationship with him.
• Lin Fan took Xiao Tuantuan's phone during her livestream and asked viewers to recommend a quiet, scenic place in Jiangzhou because he needed to move.

Lin Fan negotiated permission to live in Linjiang Wildlife Reserve so he could establish a superior Spirit-Gathering Array, agreeing to predict seven city-level disasters and let three people cultivate within its range each year. He then visited the reserve with his companions and planned to build a road and infrastructure there under the higher-ups’ conditions.

• Lin Fan asked Han Bing to apply for permission for him to live in Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, explaining that he needed a quiet place to set up a Spirit-Gathering Array.
• Han Bing contacted the higher-ups, who agreed on the conditions that Lin Fan predict seven city-level disasters in total and allow three people each year to cultivate within the array’s range.
• Lin Fan accepted the conditions and went with Han Bing and Dao Tianji to inspect the edge of Linjiang Wildlife Reserve.
• Han Bing told Lin Fan that the higher-ups required him to prevent outsiders from using the road into the reserve and prohibited him from harming the animals.
• Lin Fan said he would fund a road, base station, water, and electricity, and realized his available funds might not cover the costs.

Lin Fan found a site in the Linjiang Wildlife Reserve for his planned home, but armed mountain patrollers initially mistook him for a poacher. After confirming his identity and hearing his warning about an imminent encounter, they went to intercept the poachers while Lin Fan returned to his shop and sought contractors to build the site’s infrastructure.

• Lin Fan found a lake surrounded by flat land at the center of the mountains, where Spiritual Energy gathered, but six armed patrollers confronted him for trespassing.
• Han Bing contacted the higher-ups, who confirmed Lin Fan had permission to live in the reserve, and Lin Fan warned the patrollers that armed poachers would soon attack and one of them would die if they hesitated.
• A patroller identified Lin Fan as Master Lin, and Lin Fan revealed Captain Guo Fan’s personal history before directing the six patrollers to an ambush site.
• The patrollers hurried east to intercept the poachers, while Lin Fan returned to his shop and said construction would take at least half a month.
• Lin Fan invited contractors in his livestream to build roads, base stations, and utilities within half a month, and several Jiangzhou professionals offered to help.

Lin Fan assigned the Old Daoist to manage the road construction and carried the Spirit-Gathering Stone inside, startling his viewers with his strength. After choosing top supporter Zhou Xingxing for a livestream call, Lin Fan identified him as a wealthy, secretive investor and began reading his fortune.

• Lin Fan called the Old Daoist his disciple and put him in charge of arranging the construction and withdrawing the livestream money.
• Lin Fan remembered the Spirit-Gathering Stone outside and carried it into the shop, astonishing Xiao Tuantuan and the livestream viewers.
• Lin Fan tried to convince Xiao Tuantuan and his viewers that the stone was light, then changed the subject by offering another viewer a call.
• The Zhou Clan's World sent lavish gifts and became the livestream's top supporter, so Lin Fan connected with him.
• Lin Fan identified the supporter as investor Zhou Xingxing and told him that he lacked neither money nor women.

Lin Fan warned Zhou Xingxing that his parents were being targeted by scammers and reassured him about his wives and children, while saying his children needed to face hardships to grow. He then revealed that Zhou Xingxing’s younger brother would die within six months, leaving Zhou Xingxing shocked and asking why.

• Lin Fan told Zhou Xingxing that his parents would remain healthy but were being targeted by a scam, and warned him not to kill the perpetrators.
• Zhou Xingxing asked about his wives and children, and Lin Fan said they were safe while his children would benefit from overcoming hardships.
• Lin Fan clarified that he had not said everyone in Zhou Xingxing’s family would be safe, prompting Zhou Xingxing to remember his younger brother.
• Lin Fan predicted that Zhou Xingxing’s younger brother would die within three to six months, and Zhou Xingxing stood up in shock and questioned the prediction.