Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan hurried to leave Phoenix Village after sensing danger, leaving Qianshan’s invitations with Elder Huang to pass to Feng Jiutian. After encountering Long Xuanxuan on the road and continuing to the outskirts of Nanzhou, the group checked into a shabby hotel for the night.

• The villagers thanked Lin Fan and asked him to stay, but he refused and urged Qianshan to leave his invitations with Elder Huang.
• Feng Wu said her mother, Feng Jiutian, would soon become Village Chief and could deliver the invitations, so Elder Huang accepted them.
• Lin Fan told Qianshan that remaining in Phoenix Village would bring danger he could not yet handle, and the group drove away.
• Long Xuanxuan stopped their cars after being abandoned by her driver, and Lin Fan let her join them.
• The group later found the driver stranded with a broken-down car, and Lin Fan said he would have to pay for roadside assistance.
• After reaching Nanzhou’s outskirts, Lin Fan and the others checked into a shabby hotel, where he explained that the city was still several hours away.

Feng Wu warned Lin Fan that Phoenix Village’s Village Guardian had targeted him, and Lin Fan used tortoiseshell divination to confirm the dangerous lineage was real. After dinner, a viewer named Zhao Han stopped Lin Fan and asked him to investigate his parents’ strange behavior, which Lin Fan said was connected to fish.

• Feng Wu told Lin Fan that her grandfather had warned her a Village Guardian had set their sights on him.
• Lin Fan used a Tortoiseshell Divination Shell and Copper Coins to confirm that the mysterious person the Village Chief met belonged to a dangerous Village Guardian Lineage.
• Dao Tianji and Feng Wu warned Lin Fan about the lineage’s power, while Lin Fan said he would handle whatever came and the group resumed their meal.
• After the group left the restaurant, Zhao Han approached Lin Fan and asked for help because his parents had been acting strangely.
• Lin Fan agreed to visit Zhao Han’s home and told the livestream viewers that the problem had to do with fish.

Lin Fan identified resentful qi from a snakehead fish as the cause of Zhao Han’s parents’ strange behavior and went with Zhao Han to find the fish seller, Wang Ergou. At Wang Ergou’s pond, Lin Fan confronted the Nanshui Town Uncle Cops over a series of recent disappearances.

• Zhao Han brought Lin Fan and the others home, where his parents were ravenously eating raw fish and shoved him away when he tried to stop them.
• Lin Fan determined that the couple were affected by resentful qi, not a Spirit Body, and connected their condition to a snakehead fish Zhao Han’s mother had bought from Wang Ergou.
• Lin Fan told Zhao Han to lock his parents inside and said they would improve temporarily if they ate no more fish; he then asked the Nanshou Uncle Cops to meet them at Wang Ergou’s pond.
• Zhao Han led the group to the ponds, where more than a dozen Uncle Cops arrived.
• Lin Fan scolded the Uncle Cops for failing to investigate the disappearance of more than ten people from Nanshui Town over the previous two months.

Lin Fan exposed Wang Ergou as the kidnapper and killer of the missing people, then cleared the resentful qi affecting customers who had eaten Wang Ergou’s black carp. Zhao Han hurried home to check on his parents, while Wang Ergou refused to believe Lin Fan had broken his method.

• Lin Fan led the cops to Wang Ergou’s house, revealed three captives in a cellar, and helped them arrest Wang Ergou.
• Lin Fan pulled ten cages of remains from the pond and identified them as the other missing people Wang Ergou had killed.
• Wang Ergou admitted he had used human flesh to raise black carp, and Zhao Han attacked him for harming his parents.
• Wang Ergou claimed the people who ate his fish would keep eating until they died unless he was released and restored them.
• Lin Fan recited a scripture to dispel the pond’s resentful qi and told Zhao Han his parents were fine.
• Zhao Han ran home, while Wang Ergou called Lin Fan a charlatan and doubted his method had worked.

Lin Fan resolved the fish-feeding incident in Nanshui Town, then settled in downtown Nanzhou and began a livestream. After divining the fate of popular influencer Wangquan Superstar, he was about to learn what trouble she had encountered.

• Lin Fan took Wang Ergou to Zhao Han's house, where Zhao Han's parents had recovered, and Zhao Han thanked Lin Fan for helping them.
• Lin Fan warned Zhao Han not to chase bargains, then returned to the hotel and went to sleep while news of the incident spread online.
• Xiao Tuantuan reflected on her growing feelings for Lin Fan as she followed the trending stories about his actions.
• Han Bing arranged a five-star suite in downtown Nanzhou and reminded Lin Fan to alert the higher-ups about any impending city-level disaster.
• Lin Fan started a livestream, announced he would visit Long Xuanxuan that afternoon, and offered to tell viewers' fortunes.
• After viewers identified Wangquan Superstar as a major influencer, Lin Fan calculated her fate.

Lin Fan revealed that Wang Quanxin’s recent accidents were connected to an antique silver bracelet, while assuring her that Zhang Xiaoye had not intended to harm her. The reading also exposed that Zhang Xiaoye had pocketed 300,000 yuan by lying about the bracelet’s price, leaving Wang Quanxin confronting a betrayal by her closest friend.

• Lin Fan connected with Wang Quanxin and accurately described her identity and the strange accidents she had suffered since receiving a silver bracelet.
• Lin Fan explained that the bracelet was linked to Wang Quanxin’s accidents, including a falling chandelier and a near-fatal beauty treatment mishap.
• Wang Quanxin defended Zhang Xiaoye, who joined the livestream and denied harming her.
• Lin Fan clarified that Zhang Xiaoye had no intent to hurt Wang Quanxin, but had bought the bracelet for 700,000 yuan and claimed it cost one million.
• Wang Quanxin questioned Zhang Xiaoye about pocketing the 300,000 yuan, while viewers reacted to the revelation.

Lin Fan revealed that Zhang Xiaoye’s habit of seeking petty gains had indirectly harmed Wang Quanxin, but he also described their decade of mutual support and urged Wang Quanxin to decide for herself whether to preserve their friendship. He then revealed that Wang Quanxin’s recent misfortunes were deliberately caused by someone waiting near her home, who planned to intercept her on the way to visit Zhang Xiaoye.

• Lin Fan explained that Zhang Xiaoye had supported Wang Quanxin through hardship and helped build her career, despite her bad habit of taking small advantages.
• Zhang Xiaoye offered to resign, but Wang Quanxin told her she trusted her and that they would always be good sisters.
• Lin Fan predicted that Zhang Xiaoye would work to change her habits, and Wang Quanxin decided to visit her in the hospital after the livestream.
• Wang Quanxin asked whether throwing away the bracelet would end her bad luck, and a police viewer said they were still investigating her strange experiences.
• Lin Fan revealed that someone had deliberately caused Wang Quanxin’s misfortunes and was waiting near her home to intercept her as she drove to the hospital.

Lin Fan revealed that Wang Quanxin’s accidents were caused by the dealer who sold Zhang Xiaoye a fake bracelet, and the police arrested him after he tried to rob Wang Quanxin. The dealer confessed, and Wang Quanxin thanked Lin Fan for helping her uncover the truth and stay safe.

• Lin Fan told Wang Quanxin that the bracelet dealer was behind her misfortunes and urged her to drive toward the hospital while police followed.
• A masked man stopped Wang Quanxin’s car and demanded her wallet and bracelet, but police rushed in and arrested him.
• The police confirmed the masked man was the dealer and found evidence that he had stabbed Zhang Xiaoye; he confessed to selling fake bracelets and trying to recover them.
• Lin Fan explained how the dealer had caused Wang Quanxin’s earlier accidents while trying to steal the bracelet, and his account matched the confession.
• Wang Quanxin accepted Lin Fan’s abilities, thanked him, and viewers condemned the dealer.

Lin Fan warned Ji Xun that his late wife’s spirit had remained in the world because he visited her grave every month and had not moved on. Ji Xun resolved to visit her on their wedding anniversary and explain things to her.

• Wang Quanxin thanked Lin Fan with ninety-nine Rockets and warned viewers to report a fake silver bangle to the police in Xizhou.
• Lin Fan told Top Supporter that all the antiques she had bought from a seller were fake and offered to authenticate them for free.
• Lin Fan selected Ji Xun for a livestream reading and sensed a wraith’s aura around him.
• Lin Fan told Ji Xun that his late wife had been lingering because he visited her cemetery monthly and still refused to find someone else.
• Ji Xun realized his wife’s spirit had never left and went to see her on their wedding anniversary.

Lin Fan guided Ji Xun to help his deceased wife, Yun Shanshan, let go of her attachment and enter reincarnation. After Ji Xun pretended to introduce his secretary as his girlfriend, Yun Shanshan accepted his farewell and vanished, leaving Ji Xun sobbing at the foot of the mountain.

• Lin Fan explained that Yun Shanshan would become a wandering ghost if she continued to linger and that living with her spirit would drain Ji Xun's vitality.
• Ji Xun asked his secretary to pretend to be his girlfriend and brought her to Yun Shanshan's grave.
• Lin Fan saw Yun Shanshan emerge from the grave and told Ji Xun she was happy to see him.
• Ji Xun told Yun Shanshan he had a girlfriend and might not visit as often, hoping she would feel reassured enough to leave.
• Yun Shanshan accepted that Ji Xun would be cared for, turned into a streak of white light, and vanished.
• Ji Xun left the cemetery with his secretary and sobbed at the foot of the mountain.

Lin Fan comforted Ji Xun after his wife’s death, then connected with programmer Zhang Xiaoshuai and revealed details about his career and fortune. Zhang Xiaoshuai began by asking how much longer he could keep working as a programmer.

• Lin Fan told Ji Xun that his wife’s departure was good for her and that he would have a free, fulfilling life, though he would later face a major hurdle.
• Ji Xun paid his secretary three thousand yuan for helping him act as though he had a new partner, thanked Lin Fan, and ended the call.
• Lin Fan reassured viewers that connecting with him would not cause misfortune, then invited Programmer Handsome onto the livestream.
• Lin Fan identified the viewer as Zhang Xiaoshuai, revealed his age, ten years of programming experience, and high salary, and advised him not to confirm the figure.
• Zhang Xiaoshuai asked how many questions he could ask, and Lin Fan told him to save his questions about romance for last.
• Zhang Xiaoshuai asked how much longer he could continue working as a programmer.

Zhang Xiaoshuai asked Lin Fan about his career, parents, sister, and romantic prospects. Lin Fan reassured him about his future and family, warned him not to interfere in his sister’s marriage, and began to reveal his romantic history.

• Lin Fan assured Zhang Xiaoshuai that his programming skills would remain strong and that his parents would stay healthy for the next ten years, then encouraged him to fund their travels.
• Zhang Xiaoshuai said he was single and interested in a girl, though Lin Fan’s smile suggested the romance would not work out.
• Zhang Xiaoshuai asked about his sister’s marriage, and Lin Fan said she had masochistic tendencies and advised him not to interfere with the couple.
• After recalling past incidents, Zhang Xiaoshuai decided to visit his sister and talk to her about keeping limits without urging her to leave her husband.
• Zhang Xiaoshuai asked about his romantic prospects, and Lin Fan told him he had been in two relationships before.

Lin Fan uncovered Zhang Xiaoshuai’s romantic history and learned he had fallen for his neighbor after moving into his new apartment. After Zhang Xiaoshuai explained that she had stood him up, Lin Fan sent him to a coffee shop and began revealing the strange nighttime knocks between their apartments.

• Lin Fan recounted Zhang Xiaoshuai’s first love, his unfaithful university girlfriend, and his twelve years of being single.
• Zhang Xiaoshuai admitted he had fallen for his neighbor and that she had agreed to a date before standing him up.
• Zhang Xiaoshuai said he had messaged his neighbor after the missed date but had received no reply.
• Lin Fan told Zhang Xiaoshuai to leave home and wait at the coffee shop before explaining the reason.
• Lin Fan revealed that Zhang Xiaoshuai had heard nightly knocking from next door and eventually began communicating with his neighbor in Morse code through the wall.

Lin Fan told Zhang Xiaoshuai that his neighbor Yueyue was a spirit who had died six months earlier, and warned him not to return home. After cops arrived to protect Zhang Xiaoshuai, Coiled Dragon offered to help in Dongzhou, and Lin Fan tried to divine his fate.

• Lin Fan told Zhang Xiaoshuai that he and Yueyue would never be together because she was married.
• Zhang Xiaoshuai called his apartment agent, who said the newlywed couple next door had vanished six months earlier and the apartment had been empty ever since.
• Lin Fan revealed that Yueyue had died six months earlier and that the spirit could only wander the building, then warned Zhang Xiaoshuai that he was in danger.
• Three cops arrived at the café to protect Zhang Xiaoshuai, and Lin Fan told him to wait in Dongzhou while he dealt with Long Xuanxuan.
• Coiled Dragon offered to help Zhang Xiaoshuai, and Lin Fan tried to divine Coiled Dragon’s fate.

Lin Fan explained how Yueyue and her husband chose Zhang Xiaoshuai as a substitute, while Coiled Dragon set out to help him and the police recover the newlyweds’ bodies. The chapter left Coiled Dragon on his way to Garden Residential Complex as Lin Fan prepared to help Long Xuanxuan change her fate.

• Lin Fan failed to divine Coiled Dragon’s fate, then asked him to travel to Garden Residential Complex and assist Zhang Xiaoshuai.
• Coiled Dragon agreed, leaped down from a mountain, and hired a car to reach Zhang Xiaoshuai within half an hour.
• Lin Fan told Zhang Xiaoshuai that Yueyue and her husband had planned to make him fall in love with her so she could kill him and be freed.
• Xiao Tuantuan, Long Xuanxuan, and the others woke up, and Lin Fan told them he would help Long Xuanxuan after dealing with Zhang Xiaoshuai’s situation.
• Lin Fan explained that a suitor had killed Yueyue and her husband, and the police said their bodies were hidden inside the apartment while they awaited Coiled Dragon’s help.

Coiled Dragon arrived to help Zhang Xiaoshuai investigate the two Spirit Bodies in his apartment, where powerful yin energy filled the rooms. After Coiled Dragon placed a talisman on the shared wall, a woman’s voice called to Zhang Xiaoshuai and seemed to control him.

• Coiled Dragon arrived at the café, though his appearance remained obscured in Lin Fan’s livestream.
• Lin Fan sent Coiled Dragon and Zhang Xiaoshuai to the apartment, warning the three Uncle Cops to run if anything went wrong.
• Coiled Dragon sensed powerful yin energy inside the apartment and asked Lin Fan to let him study his cultivation techniques if he lost their future sparring match; Lin Fan agreed.
• Coiled Dragon identified the wall shared with Zhang Xiaoshuai’s female neighbor and placed a talisman on it.
• A woman’s voice called Zhang Xiaoshuai from behind the wall, and he began repeatedly smashing his head against it as if controlled.

Coiled Dragon saved Zhang Xiaoshuai by destroying the evil spirits hidden in his wall, revealing two corpses. Lin Fan ended the stream and prepared to visit Long Xuanxuan to change her fortune.

• Coiled Dragon woke Zhang Xiaoshuai and broke through the wall, exposing two corpses wrapped in tape between wooden panels.
• Yueyue's corpse attacked Zhang Xiaoshuai, but Coiled Dragon used a golden light to destroy both evil spirits and leave the corpses inert.
• Coiled Dragon joked with the viewers about being weakened, while Lin Fan praised his strength and looked forward to sparring with him in Jiangzhou.
• Lin Fan ended the call, told the viewers he would help Long Xuanxuan change her fortune, and ended his livestream.
• Lin Fan told Long Xuanxuan and Xiao Tuantuan to eat before heading to Long Xuanxuan's place.

After helping Zhang Xiaoshuai leave his haunted home, Coiled Dragon vanished, and Zhang arranged to move out. Lin Fan adjusted Long Xuanxuan’s feng shui and drew talismans for her, leaving her with protection and advice for the future.

• Coiled Dragon warned Zhang Xiaoshuai that yin energy at his neighbors’ former home could attract more spirits and told him to move; Zhang called a moving company and planned to sell the house.
• Lin Fan inspected Long Xuanxuan’s home and advised her on improving her bedroom and romance position.
• Xiao Tuantuan livestreamed Lin Fan’s feng shui advice, and Lin Fan cautioned viewers not to make arrangements without knowledge.
• Lin Fan explained wealth-attracting feng shui and had Long Xuanxuan note his instructions.
• Lin Fan drew five talismans for Long Xuanxuan and placed a House-Guarding Talisman on her front door.
• Lin Fan gave Long Xuanxuan the talismans and explained that her Peach Blossom Talisman would disappear after she found true love.

Lin Fan learned that Wang Ling’s fortune had changed after she sought help from a Daoist priest in the Northern Continent, and she publicly challenged him to discredit his predictions. As Lin Fan prepared to return to Jiangzhou, Wang Ling planned to confront him live under the priest’s direction.

• Lin Fan promised to make Long Xuanxuan a jade magical artifact later, then prepared to return to Jiangzhou while Qianshan left to deliver invitations for the Daoist Assembly.
• Lin Fan told Xiao Tuantuan she could take any talismans from his shop and said her fate was favorable for decades.
• In the Northern Continent, a Daoist priest told Wang Ling that her fate had changed and urged her to record a video provoking Lin Fan.
• Wang Ling posted a video calling Lin Fan’s fortune-telling wrong, and Xiao Tuantuan woke him to show it to him.
• Lin Fan confirmed that Wang Ling and her family’s fates had changed, and said the priest had altered them faster than he expected.
• The Daoist priest told Wang Ling to insist Lin Fan had been wrong, and she proposed requesting a live call to damage his reputation.

Lin Fan confronted Wang Ling and Daoist Feng after they claimed his earlier prediction about Wang Ling was wrong. He admitted the predicted timing was mistaken and declared that something would happen to Wang Ling within three days, leaving his reputation dependent on whether the prediction came true.

• Wang Ling connected to Lin Fan's livestream and accused him of misreading her fate, while viewers argued over whether he had been wrong.
• Wang Ling pretended to urge Lin Fan to admit his mistake as Daoist Feng watched and supported her challenge.
• Lin Fan identified the Daoist as Daoist Feng and described his background at Qingfeng Daoist Temple.
• Lin Fan said Daoist Feng intended to use Wang Ling to ruin his reputation and then change her fate again, unsettling Daoist Feng.
• Lin Fan acknowledged his earlier prediction was wrong about the timing and predicted that something would happen to Wang Ling within three days.
• Viewers realized that if Wang Ling remained unharmed, Lin Fan could face a serious loss of credibility.