Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan used the system shop to buy five fortune-telling codices, but the knowledge overwhelmed him and caused a violent surge of Spiritual Power. The system then offered him an opportunity to fully integrate the codices.

• Elder Huang arranged rooms for Lin Fan and the others, and Lin Fan promised to reveal where the Village Chief kept his codices and help fulfill his final wishes.
• Lin Fan suspected that Phoenix Village held a hidden danger and saw signs that Dao Tianji and Qianshan might face bloodshed.
• Lin Fan opened the system shop and spent Heavenly Secrets Points to purchase five fortune-telling codices.
• The codices' knowledge flooded Lin Fan's mind, triggering Spiritual Power waves that sent everyone nearby flying and injured Dao Tianji.
• The system detected Lin Fan's abnormal condition and offered him an opportunity to fully integrate the codices.

Lin Fan integrated five fortune-telling Codices and reached a new level of divination, but probing the Village Chief’s memories exposed a mysterious person who sensed him and injured him. Lin Fan warned the others that Phoenix Village held hidden dangers and said they should leave once the Village Chief’s affairs were settled.

• Lin Fan used the system to combine the Codices, remained unconscious for nearly an hour, then awoke with white vapor swirling around him.
• Lin Fan divined Feng Jiutian’s tragic romantic past and found nothing unusual among the clan elders.
• Lin Fan examined the Village Chief’s fate again and discovered that he had met someone shortly before he died.
• Lin Fan tried to identify the person in the Village Chief’s memories, but the figure’s gaze crossed time and space, causing Lin Fan to cough blood and collapse.
• Lin Fan recovered, warned Qianshan and the others that Phoenix Village was dangerous, and said they should leave after handling the Village Chief’s affairs.
• Lin Fan told Dao Tianji about Feng Jiutian’s past, but Dao Tianji said he was not interested and remarked that Lin Fan seemed stronger.

Lin Fan began a livestream to test his improved fortune-telling by answering a viewer’s question. After Feng Jiutian failed to turn the clan elders against him, viewer Chu Yi asked when she would have a child, and Lin Fan began reading her fate.

• Lin Fan decided to livestream and test how quickly he could divine an ordinary person’s life.
• Feng Jiutian complained that Lin Fan had refused her request, but Elder Huang revealed that Lin Fan had agreed to fulfill the old village chief’s wishes.
• Elder Huang warned Feng Jiutian not to awaken the secluded masters, and she threatened to keep her daughter from Lin Fan’s senior martial uncle.
• Lin Fan selected Chu Yi from the livestream viewers and invited her to connect.
• Chu Yi asked when she could have a child after nine years of marriage without conceiving, and Lin Fan began to divine her fate.

Lin Fan told Chu Yi that she was healthy and could conceive with another husband, then recounted her history with Jiang Lin to explain why he suspected her husband was the source of the problem. He revealed that Chu Yi had investigated Jiang Lin after his younger brother died, and the chapter ended with Chu Yi confirming Lin Fan’s account.

• Lin Fan told Chu Yi she would be unable to have children for at least ten years, and she admitted that pressure from both families weighed on her.
• Lin Fan said Chu Yi was healthy and could become pregnant with another husband, leading her to wonder whether he could cure Jiang Lin.
• Lin Fan recounted details of Chu Yi and Jiang Lin’s married life, embarrassing her and prompting him to apologize.
• Lin Fan explained that Chu Yi had noticed changes in Jiang Lin after his younger brother died and had investigated his behavior.
• Chu Yi confirmed she had suspected Jiang Lin was having an affair before consulting a psychologist about his mental health.

During a livestream, Lin Fan revealed that Chu Yi’s husband was actually Jiang Shui, who had taken the place of his dead brother Jiang Lin three years earlier. He then disclosed that Jiang Shui had killed Jiang Lin and offered a clue about why, leaving Chu Yi and the viewers trying to understand the motive.

• Chu Yi admitted she had suspected her husband of cheating, but Lin Fan stopped her from disconnecting and suggested the man beside her was not Jiang Lin.
• Lin Fan explained that Jiang Lin and Jiang Shui looked exactly alike, and Chu Yi had met Jiang Shui only a few times before Jiang Lin died.
• Chu Yi called Doctor Wang, who confirmed that Jiang Lin had often told Jiang Shui details about his life with Chu Yi, and she realized Jiang Shui had deceived her for three years.
• Lin Fan revealed that the brothers had switched identities many times, with Jiang Lin sometimes having Jiang Shui take his place.
• When Chu Yi wondered what it mattered now that Jiang Lin was dead, Lin Fan said Jiang Shui had killed him and hinted that Jiang Shui had lacked the opportunities Jiang Lin had as an acclaimed artist.

Lin Fan revealed that Jiang Shui killed Jiang Lin because both brothers loved Chu Yi, then impersonated Jiang Lin to stay with her. After Jiang Shui confessed and attacked Chu Yi, the police arrested him, leaving Chu Yi facing the truth that her husband had been dead for three years.

• Lin Fan explained that Jiang Shui had killed Jiang Lin out of obsessive love for Chu Yi and had continued impersonating him.
• Chu Yi confirmed with the psychologist that Jiang Shui could not stand blood, then cut her finger to test the man who returned home.
• Jiang Shui panicked at the sight of blood, revealed himself, and attacked Chu Yi with a wooden chair.
• After Chu Yi covered her finger, Jiang Shui calmed down and confessed that he killed Jiang Lin because his brother refused to share Chu Yi with him.
• The Uncle Cops arrived, arrested Jiang Shui, and took him away after he told Chu Yi that he loved her.

Chu Yi learned that Jiang Lin's spirit had been protecting her from Jiang Shui and asked Lin Fan to help her see him once more. Lin Fan gave her half a month to reach Nanzhou before Jiang Lin's spirit disappeared, while he reflected on his growing fortune-telling abilities and the powerful presence hidden behind Phoenix Village.

• Lin Fan told Chu Yi that Jiang Lin had protected her from danger after his death, though his attempts to warn her through dreams had been unclear.
• Lin Fan explained that Jiang Lin's spirit remained because of his worry for Chu Yi, but would disappear within half a month now that she was safe.
• Chu Yi begged Lin Fan to help her see Jiang Lin, and Lin Fan said she should come to Nanzhou before the spirit vanished.
• Uncle Cop urged Chu Yi to give a statement against Jiang Shui, and Lin Fan encouraged her to go with him first.
• Chu Yi agreed to give her statement and promised to travel to Nanzhou as soon as possible.
• Lin Fan considered how his fortune-telling had improved and sensed that a terrifying being was hidden behind Phoenix Village.

Lin Fan continued his livestream and took a call from Luo Xi, a Qingzhou University student whose fortune showed she would die in three days. He told her she could survive by staying isolated at home, but she revealed she had to perform at her university’s arts gala that evening.

• After viewers showered him with gifts, Lin Fan agreed to take another call and explained that fortune-telling now used very little of his energy.
• Lin Fan connected with Dora Xiao Luoluo, whose real name was Luo Xi, and learned she was a nineteen-year-old sophomore at Qingzhou University's School of Arts.
• Lin Fan told Luo Xi that she would die in three days, despite her good health and recent medical checkup.
• Lin Fan said Luo Xi could avoid the disaster by staying inside her home and cutting off contact with the outside world for three days.
• Luo Xi explained that she had to attend her university's arts gala in three days as the lead singer of a band she and her clubmates had practiced with for six months.

Luo Xi sought a way to survive an accident predicted for three days later without missing her band’s arts gala, then revealed that her best friend Yu Ji seemed possessed after buying a white dress. Lin Fan began recounting what happened after Yu Ji brought the dress home, leaving the mystery unresolved.

• Luo Xi said she would do anything to attend the gala and stay alive, and Lin Fan promised to find her a solution.
• Luo Xi explained that she had contacted Lin Fan because her best friend seemed possessed.
• Luo Xi said she had helped Yu Ji buy an expensive white dress at a formalwear shop half a month earlier.
• Lin Fan identified Yu Ji and described how she and Luo Xi had been neighbors and best friends since middle school.
• Lin Fan began explaining that Yu Ji tried on the white dress as soon as she got home on the first night.

Lin Fan recounted the eerie incidents Yu Ji experienced after buying a secondhand white dress, while Luo Xi showed footage and photos of her friend’s worsening condition. He revealed that the dress belonged to a Qingzhou University student who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend half a month earlier.

• Lin Fan described how the white dress appeared stained and fell from its hanger, then seemed to make the wardrobe door open by itself.
• Luo Xi explained that the wardrobe door had actually been pushed open by the dress’s full skirt and showed surveillance footage confirming it.
• Lin Fan recounted how the dress kept returning after Yu Ji threw it away and even reappeared on her after she burned it to ashes.
• Luo Xi showed photos comparing Yu Ji before and after the incidents, revealing how severely her appearance had deteriorated.
• Lin Fan revealed that the dress’s owner was a fourth-year Qingzhou University student who was killed by her ex-boyfriend half a month earlier.

Lin Fan told Luo Xi that the white dress's makeup artist had been arrested and Yu Ji had been taken to the hospital. He then challenged the viewers' belief in a spirit, declaring that Yu Ji's experiences were hallucinations.

• Lin Fan asked why Luo Xi still wanted to help Yu Ji after Yu Ji had treated her cruelly, and Luo Xi said she trusted her friend's character.
• Lin Fan revealed that he had notified the police, who arrested the funeral-home makeup artist and took Yu Ji to the hospital.
• Luo Xi thanked Lin Fan and recalled finding Yu Ji struggling beneath the white dress, then seeing blue handprints on her neck.
• Lin Fan explained that Luo Xi had believed Yu Ji's account and the apparent evidence of a spirit, but said Yu Ji's experiences were hallucinations.

Lin Fan revealed that Yu Ji’s apparent haunting was caused by hallucinations from embalming fluid on a dress taken from a corpse, and police confirmed the makeup artist and secondhand shop owner were arrested. Luo Xi reached the hospital, where she learned Yu Ji had suffered nerve damage from prolonged exposure, but Lin Fan reassured viewers that Yu Ji would recover.

• Lin Fan told Luo Xi that Yu Ji had hallucinated and strangled herself, rather than being attacked by a Spirit Body.
• Lin Fan explained that embalming fluid on Yu Ji’s white dress had caused the hallucinations and said the makeup artist had deliberately exposed her to it.
• Lin Fan revealed that the secondhand clothing shop owner knew the clothes came from corpses and sold them anyway.
• Qingzhou Uncle Cop confirmed the test results, Yu Ji’s self-inflicted injuries, and the arrests of the makeup artist and shop owner.
• Luo Xi went to the hospital and learned that Yu Ji had suffered nerve damage from prolonged exposure to the embalming fluid.
• Lin Fan reassured viewers that Yu Ji would be fine.

Lin Fan explained that Yu Ji would have killed Luo Xi in three days, but her recovery meant Luo Xi was safe. He then connected with Chen Yishuang, a farm worker, and warned her that her husband Mo Fei was in danger; she rushed to the town exit and found their car.

• Lin Fan told Luo Xi that Yu Ji had originally been destined to mistake her for her dead senior and strangle her, but Yu Ji’s hospitalization had averted the danger.
• Luo Xi thanked Lin Fan, ended the call, and Lin Fan announced that he would connect with one final viewer.
• Lin Fan connected with Shuangshuang, whose real name was Chen Yishuang, and explained that she worked on her family’s generational farm.
• Lin Fan warned Chen Yishuang that her husband Mo Fei was in danger and urged her to hurry to the town exit.
• Chen Yishuang drove to the town exit and spotted her family’s white sedan parked beside a farm.

Lin Fan saved Mo Fei from suicide and revealed the regret, guilt, and contract trouble behind his despair. After Mo Fei and Shuangshuang reconciled, Lin Fan urged them to go home and promised they would find a surprise.

• Shuangshuang followed Lin Fan's instructions to unblock Mo Fei's car exhaust and break a window, then pulled her unconscious husband to safety.
• Lin Fan explained that Mo Fei had once been a celebrated soccer player whose right leg was ruined during a crucial match, and that a wheat-delivery deadline and huge penalty had driven him to despair.
• Lin Fan revealed Mo Fei's dream of reliving the match and making the same choice to score, sacrificing his chance at a professional career for his town and Shuangshuang.
• Mo Fei confessed that he felt guilty for making Shuangshuang work so hard, while she reassured him that she wanted to stay by his side.
• Lin Fan revealed that Mo Fei's childhood friend had tricked him with a contract that shortened the delivery deadline to six months and warned him to go home with Shuangshuang for a surprise.

Mo Fei and Shuangshuang found the townspeople helping them harvest their wheat, and Lin Fan restored Mo Fei’s hope by reminding him of his friends’ support. The next morning, Lin Fan agreed to fulfill two of the Village Chief’s remaining wishes before making him leave willingly.

• Mo Fei and Shuangshuang returned to find the townspeople helping harvest their wheat, and the villagers reminded Mo Fei that they still remembered him as their town’s soccer hero.
• Lin Fan encouraged Mo Fei to keep living, and Shuangshuang thanked Lin Fan before ending the call.
• Lin Fan ended his livestream and told Qianshan and the others they would go help with the Village Chief’s situation the next morning.
• Lin Fan spent the night attempting to break through to Foundation Establishment but failed, then led the others to the Ancestral Hall at dawn.
• Lin Fan told the Village Chief’s spirit he would help him find his legacy beneath the Wutong Tree and apologize to his granddaughter in a dream, but would not change Feng Jiutian’s personality.
• The Village Chief’s spirit accepted Lin Fan’s terms, while Feng Jiutian silently took offense at his remark about her personality.

Lin Fan led the Phoenix Village elders to the Wutong Tree to find the Village Chief’s legacy, while blocking Feng Jiutian from receiving it. He located the legacy beside a reclusive master’s hut, but the elders doubted his claim and asked him to divine again.

• Lin Fan told Feng Jiutian that the Village Chief wanted his legacy passed to her daughter, and the Clan Elders accepted his claim so the Village Chief could be buried.
• Lin Fan, Xiao Tuantuan, Elder Huang, and the others traveled to the Wutong Tree, where Lin Fan sensed many powerful cultivators living in nearby huts.
• Lin Fan used divination to locate the legacy beside a thatched hut and warned Elder Huang that it was buried in the vegetable garden, not inside the hut.
• Elder Huang and the Clan Elders doubted Lin Fan because the garden belonged to the reclusive master in the hut, and they asked him to divine the location again.

Lin Fan led Feng Jiutian to the vegetable garden beneath the Wutong Tree to retrieve her father’s legacy, awakening the powerful white-bearded elder who lived nearby. The elder confirmed the old Village Chief had permission to let his descendants dig there, then questioned Lin Fan about how he knew the arrangement.

• Lin Fan identified the hut’s occupant as a powerful cultivator and told Feng Jiutian that her father’s legacy was buried beneath the elder’s vegetable garden.
• After Lin Fan vowed he was telling the truth, Feng Jiutian chose to dig up the garden despite the Clan Elders’ concerns.
• The white-bearded elder emerged from the hut when Feng Jiutian began digging, and the Clan Elders panicked.
• The elder recognized Feng Jiutian as a descendant of the Village Chief and revealed that he had agreed to let the Village Chief’s descendants dig up his garden.
• Feng Jiutian told the elder that Lin Fan had divined the location, and Lin Fan explained that the elder had lost a bet to the old Village Chief.
• The elder asked whether Lin Fan was from Phoenix Village, and Lin Fan said he had arrived the previous day to help bury the old Village Chief.

Lin Fan retrieved the Village Chief's legacy from beneath the vegetable garden and brought it back to the ancestral hall, where he claimed the Village Chief wanted it given to Feng Jiutian's daughter. The Village Chief's spirit tried to correct him, but Lin Fan ignored him and pressed Feng Jiutian to bring her daughter out.

• The White-Bearded Elder challenged Lin Fan by squeezing his shoulder, but backed down when Lin Fan released his aura and drew the Pure Yang Magical Sword.
• Feng Jiutian dug up a wooden chest containing the Village Chief Lineage's cultivation techniques and codices, and Lin Fan took it away.
• After Lin Fan and the others left, the White-Bearded Elder noticed a mysterious figure and was warned by the White-Clothed Man not to pry into the Village Guardian Lineage.
• Lin Fan returned the chest to the ancestral hall and told the Village Chief's spirit that he would give the legacy to Feng Jiutian's daughter.
• Feng Jiutian accused Lin Fan of trying to arrange for her daughter to meet Dao Tianji, while others urged her to bring her daughter and prioritize the Village Chief's burial.

Lin Fan urged Feng Jiutian to bring Feng Wu to the Ancestral Hall so she could decide whether to accept the inheritance, and Feng Wu reunited with Dao Tianji. Feng Wu revealed she knew her mother had deceived them and resolved to leave Phoenix Village with Dao Tianji, while Lin Fan confronted Feng Jiutian about her own thwarted love.

• Lin Fan explained that Feng Wu had to refuse the inheritance before it could pass to Feng Jiutian, and asked Feng Jiutian to bring her daughter to the Ancestral Hall.
• Feng Jiutian told Feng Wu that Dao Tianji had returned, and Feng Wu agreed to go to the Ancestral Hall.
• Feng Wu and Dao Tianji embraced and declared their enduring love, and Dao Tianji explained that Feng Jiutian had deceived him.
• Feng Wu revealed that she had uncovered the forged letters and her mother's scheme, then resolved to leave Phoenix Village with Dao Tianji despite its rules.
• Feng Jiutian threatened to cast Feng Wu out of the clan, and Lin Fan said Feng Jiutian had once surrendered her own love to her father's wishes, leaving Feng Jiutian visibly shaken.

Feng Wu gave up the Village Chief Lineage’s legacy so she could leave Phoenix Village with Dao Tianji, and Lin Fan helped her meet her grandfather’s spirit. After the Village Chief warned that the Village Guardian had set its sights on Lin Fan, Lin Fan sent off the spirit, absorbed the heavenly thunder power from the corpse, and left Elder Huang to prepare the burial.

• Lin Fan challenged Feng Jiutian’s attempt to force Feng Wu to follow the lineage’s rules, and Elder Huang explained why Feng Wu’s grandfather had named her as his successor.
• Feng Wu gave up the legacy to her mother and chose to leave with Dao Tianji, who promised to stay by her side.
• Lin Fan used a spell to let Feng Wu meet the Village Chief’s spirit, who supported her choice and warned her to tell Lin Fan that the Village Guardian had targeted him.
• Lin Fan sent the Village Chief’s spirit away, absorbed the heavenly thunder power from his corpse, and asked Elder Huang to arrange the burial.