Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan challenged Daoist Feng to prove that Wang Ling would suffer an incident within three days, while Wang Ling livestreamed to accuse Lin Fan of being a fraud. After returning to Jiangzhou, Lin Fan prepared to confront Daoist Feng, and Dao Tianji warned him that a Daoist arts duel could provoke Qingfeng Daoist Temple.

• Lin Fan challenged Daoist Feng to keep Wang Ling livestreaming for three days, then ended his own livestream.
• Daoist Feng reassured Wang Ling that Lin Fan could not change her fate so quickly and urged her to livestream under his protection.
• Wang Ling streamed continuously and accused Lin Fan of being a charlatan, drawing hostile comments from viewers.
• Lin Fan told Xiao Tuantuan that Daoist Feng planned to use Wang Ling to build his reputation before making her fate worse.
• Lin Fan and his companions returned to Taihe Street in Jiangzhou, where Dao Tianji warned him against a dangerous duel that could anger Qingfeng Daoist Temple.

Lin Fan bought several Daoist arts from the System Mall and used Yin Five Hundred Coins to give Wang Ling a splitting headache. Daoist Feng countered the technique, burning Lin Fan’s paper figure to ash and leaving their clash unresolved.

• Lin Fan rejected Dao Tianji’s warnings about Qingfeng Daoist Temple, and Feng Wu promised that she and Dao Tianji would support him.
• Lin Fan purchased four Daoist arts from the System Mall, including the Complete Compendium of Yin-People Taoist Arts, and gained mastery of them.
• After learning Wang Ling was still slandering him, Lin Fan used Yin Five Hundred Coins to target her with her birth date and time.
• Wang Ling suffered a severe headache, while Daoist Feng recognized that Lin Fan had attacked her and prepared to intervene.
• Daoist Feng used a Peachwood Sword and yellow talisman to counter the attack, causing Lin Fan’s paper figure to burn to ash.

Lin Fan summoned Worms of the Yin Realm to torment Wang Ling, while Daoist Feng used mirrors and a powerful lamp to counter the attack. Wang Ling recovered after half an hour, but Daoist Feng was badly weakened and feared he could not withstand another assault.

• Wang Ling claimed her earlier pain had been an act and won more support from her livestream viewers.
• Lin Fan told Dao Tianji he had been testing Daoist Feng, then cast a spell to summon Worms of the Yin Realm against Wang Ling.
• Wang Ling saw worms in her water and ants on her skin, and Daoist Feng recognized Lin Fan’s technique.
• Daoist Feng gathered the villa’s mirrors and used reflected light from a powerful lamp to drive the worms away, causing Wang Ling severe pain.
• After half an hour, Lin Fan’s Spiritual Power ran out and the worms disappeared, while Daoist Feng coughed blood and feared another attack.

Lin Fan sought corpse oil from his old classmate Wang Xiaohua so he could use a powerful Daoist art against Wang Ling, who was challenging his prediction. Wang Xiaohua believed Lin Fan and agreed to help, but his request left her startled.

• Lin Fan decided not to use Spirit Pills and considered using the dangerous Yin-Yang Corpse Poison Method against Wang Ling.
• Lin Fan left his shop and called Wang Xiaohua at the Funeral Home, saying he needed her help.
• Wang Xiaohua checked Wang Ling's livestream and saw viewers arguing over whether Lin Fan was a fraud.
• Wang Xiaohua said she trusted Lin Fan's character and asked how she could help him.
• Lin Fan told Wang Xiaohua he needed corpse oil, and she reacted with surprise.

Lin Fan sought permission to take corpse oil from Meng Xiaoyun’s body so he could use the Yin-Yang Corpse Poison Method against Wang Ling, while Wang Xiaohua and the director insisted on her parents’ consent. After Meng Shan and his wife arrived, Lin Fan revealed that they had concealed their own role in the dispute over their daughter’s death and planned to pressure her company for more money.

• Lin Fan explained his plan to Wang Xiaohua, who refused to take corpse oil without the director’s approval and the family’s consent.
• The director agreed to contact Meng Xiaoyun’s parents, and Lin Fan asked him to bring them to the Funeral Home so he could explain his request.
• At the shop, Xiao Tuantuan fretted over Lin Fan’s absence while Dao Tianji and Han Bing discussed how the Wang Ling affair had affected him and Han Bing said she would respect his refusal of help.
• Meng Shan and his wife arrived at the Funeral Home, and Lin Fan asked to take corpse oil from their daughter’s body.
• Lin Fan revealed that Meng Shan and his wife had received fifty thousand yuan from Meng Xiaoyun’s company and had signed an agreement, but were planning to bring the media to demand more compensation.

Lin Fan revealed that Meng Xiaoyun’s parents had drained her income and that their demands kept her from getting medical care, while her spirit asked whether they had ever loved her. Meng Shan knelt to apologize, but his wife defended their treatment of Xiaoyun, leaving the family’s reconciliation unresolved.

• Meng Xiaoyun’s corpse shed bloody tears, and Lin Fan explained that her parents had taken her earnings, including money she borrowed to see a doctor.
• Meng Xiaoyun’s spirit appeared and asked Lin Fan to find out whether her parents had loved her.
• Lin Fan challenged Meng Shan and his wife over their demands and their failure to care for Xiaoyun after her death.
• Meng Shan asked if his daughter was present, then knelt before her and apologized for neglecting her and favoring her younger brother.
• Meng Shan’s wife tried to stop his apology, and he turned on her, insisting he had never agreed with exploiting their daughter.

After Meng Xiaoyun said goodbye to her father and vanished, Lin Fan collected her corpse oil and returned to his shop. He rested to recover before confronting Daoist Feng, while Wang Ling continued streaming and accusing him of fraud.

• Meng Xiaoyun told Lin Fan to comfort her father, pass a birthday gift message to her best friend, warn her parents about the company, and take her corpse oil before she disappeared.
• Lin Fan relayed Meng Xiaoyun's final words, and Wang Xiaohua collected the corpse oil; Meng Shan later discovered Lin Fan had transferred five hundred thousand to the family.
• Lin Fan returned to the shop and told his companions to rest, explaining that he needed to recover his spiritual power before facing Daoist Feng.
• Dao Tianji urged Lin Fan to spare Daoist Feng's life, and Lin Fan said he was only targeting Wang Ling.
• The next morning, Lin Fan learned Wang Ling was still streaming and accusing him of fraud, and some viewers had begun to believe her.

Lin Fan used corpse oil and yin-yang energies to cast the Yin-Yang Corpse Poison Method on Wang Ling, causing her skin and flesh to decay during her livestream. Unable to treat her in time, Daoist Feng told Wang Ling to beg Lin Fan for mercy, and she admitted she had lied.

• Lin Fan drew a Taiji diagram on yellow paper and used corpse oil to target Wang Ling with a ritual.
• Wang Ling's skin began falling off during her livestream, and Daoist Feng recognized the Yin-Yang Corpse Poison Method.
• Daoist Feng contacted the Temple Master, who said the curse could only be undone by destroying the corpse oil and would take too long to break in time.
• Daoist Feng tried to expel the poison with his spiritual power but exhausted himself within minutes.
• Daoist Feng told Wang Ling to beg Lin Fan for mercy, and Wang Ling apologized for lying.

Lin Fan ended his magical contest with Daoist Feng after helping stop Wang Ling’s supernatural affliction, then resumed his livestream and randomly connected with a viewer. The call opened on a mature-looking woman, and Lin Fan was about to examine her situation.

• Wang Ling begged Lin Fan to stop the affliction, and he told Xiao Tuantuan to advise her to seek hospital treatment and relay a challenge to Daoist Feng for the Daoist Assembly.
• Wang Ling and her husband rushed to the hospital, while Daoist Feng resolved to change her family’s fate again and return to Qingfeng Daoist Temple after dealing with her situation.
• Lin Fan reflected on his duel with Daoist Feng, then asked Old Daoist about progress at Linjiang Wildlife Reserve and learned it should be finished in about a week.
• Lin Fan started a new livestream, told viewers that his dispute with Daoist Feng was settled, and announced a random video call.
• Lin Fan selected a viewer at random, and the call connected to a mature-looking woman.

Lin Fan warned Qian Manman that her husband, Yi Qing, did not love her and directed her to investigate what he had been hiding. After finding a used lipstick in his suit, she suspected he had been with her best friend, but Lin Fan urged her to focus on her inherited company and check Yi Qing’s bank account; she went to a nearby bank.

• Lin Fan read Qian Manman’s fortune and said she had handed her company over to Yi Qing after becoming pregnant, then questioned whether Yi Qing loved her.
• Qian Manman defended Yi Qing, and viewers who knew the couple described his public romantic gestures and apparent devotion to her.
• Lin Fan told Qian Manman to search the suit Yi Qing had worn the previous night, and she found a used lipstick in its pocket.
• Qian Manman recognized the lipstick as identical to one owned by her best friend and asked whether Yi Qing had been with her.
• Lin Fan told Qian Manman that Yi Qing’s affair was not her biggest concern and advised her to check his bank account.
• Qian Manman went to a nearby bank, where the lobby manager came out to greet her.

After Lin Fan exposed Yi Qing’s affair and his schemes to siphon off Qian Manman’s money and company assets, Qian Manman investigated, reclaimed control of the situation, and caught him with her best friend at a hotel. She left Yi Qing confronted and beaten while preparing to take decisive action against him and the company’s failing project.

• Qian Manman checked Yi Qing’s bank statements and discovered he had transferred fifty million into properties registered under her best friend’s name.
• Lin Fan warned Qian Manman that Yi Qing was draining her father’s company through a project and urged her to return as chairwoman and cancel the partnership.
• Qian Manman investigated the company’s finances, learned her best friend was the project client, and called a shareholders’ meeting.
• Qian Manman and her friends went to hotel room 360, forced their way in, and found Yi Qing with Wang Yunyu.
• Qian Manman accused Yi Qing of betraying her and trying to strip her of her assets and company, while her friends beat him.

Qian Manman exposed Yi Qing and her accomplice, then received Lin Fan’s endorsement as she prepared to rebuild her business. Meanwhile, Daoist Feng returned to Qingfeng Daoist Temple for training before the Daoist Assembly, and Lin Fan sensed that a powerful force was shielding him from divination.

• Qian Manman slapped Yi Qing, threatened legal action, fired her, and thanked Lin Fan before ending the livestream call.
• Lin Fan praised Qian Manman’s resilience and encouraged viewers to work with her, prompting several wealthy viewers to offer investments.
• Daoist Feng returned to Qingfeng Daoist Temple after losing to Lin Fan and showed the Daoists recordings of their contest.
• Daoist Feng asked for special training before the Daoist Assembly, and the Temple Master offered him a month in the rear mountain’s Spiritual Pool.
• Lin Fan sensed that Daoist Feng’s fate was now blocked from his divination and anticipated trouble at the Daoist Assembly.

Xiong Ruoshui and Gu Wanli, a couple on their first budget trip through Xizhou's uninhabited region, connected with Lin Fan, who predicted their car would break down and warned them to be careful around others. After the breakdown, he revealed that Gu Wanli had angered the driver of a pickup truck, leaving the couple facing a potentially dangerous situation as they waited for help.

• Lin Fan connected with Xiong Ruoshui and Gu Wanli, learned their backgrounds, and warned that their car would stop in one minute.
• The car lost power and stalled, and Gu Wanli could not restart it.
• Lin Fan predicted that a truck would pass in five minutes and take them to a nearby town, but warned they would not get help on their own within a day.
• Lin Fan recalled that Gu Wanli had nearly hit a pickup truck and later gave its occupants only a perfunctory apology at a gas station.
• Lin Fan cautioned Gu Wanli not to treat people poorly in the remote region, and Gu Wanli admitted the near-collision had been his fault.

After their livestream connection dropped, Gu Wanli and Xiong Ruoshui trusted a truck driver who offered to help them find a mechanic, unaware he planned to kidnap Xiong Ruoshui and extort their cash. Lin Fan learned their fates had returned to their original course and urged the Xizhou Uncle Cops to send a larger team, but two officers had already set out.

• Lin Fan warned Gu Wanli and Xiong Ruoshui not to get into the truck, but Xiong Ruoshui's signal failed before they could hear him clearly.
• The truck driver helped Gu Wanli and Xiong Ruoshui move their broken-down car, then offered to take one of them to a Small Town for a mechanic.
• Xiong Ruoshui decided to go with the truck driver while Gu Wanli stayed behind to guard their car.
• Lin Fan realized the couple's fates had not changed and told the livestream that the truck driver intended to kidnap Xiong Ruoshui and extort their cash.
• Lin Fan asked the Xizhou Uncle Cops to send at least five officers, warning that the truck driver belonged to a group and two officers might be killed.
• The Xizhou Uncle Cop discovered that two colleagues had already set off for the uninhabited area.

Lin Fan warned Gu Wanli that Xiong Ruoshui had been abducted by the truck driver and that the kidnappers planned to kill them both for their money. Gu Wanli learned that the truck driver and the men in the red pickup were working together, but he still did not understand why the accomplices had left when the truck arrived.

• Lin Fan accepted Gu Wanli's connection request after his phone regained a signal and told him Xiong Ruoshui had been abducted.
• Gu Wanli initially doubted Lin Fan, then learned the truck driver's accomplices had overheard him mention their cash and bank balance at the gas station.
• Lin Fan warned Gu Wanli that the kidnappers planned to torment and kill Xiong Ruoshui, then kill him after taking the money.
• Gu Wanli suggested asking people in Small Town for help, and Lin Fan identified the two people in the red pickup as the truck driver's accomplices.
• Gu Wanli asked why the accomplices had left when the truck arrived instead of attacking them together.

Lin Fan warned Gu Wanli that his wife, Xiong Ruoshui, would be assaulted within half an hour unless he attempted a dangerous solo rescue, while their changing fates resisted his divination. Gu Wanli chose to go after her, fixed his car with help from Lin Fan’s reading, and made it around Small Town, where the story left him preparing to continue the rescue.

• Lin Fan explained that the attackers had backed off after spotting Gu Wanli’s dagger and urged him to wait for the police rather than seek help in Small Town.
• Lin Fan divined that Xiong Ruoshui would be assaulted within half an hour if Gu Wanli waited, while a solo rescue offered a chance to save them both; Gu Wanli chose to pursue her.
• Lin Fan struggled to read their constantly shifting fates and revealed that two people from the red pickup were watching the entrance to Small Town, while Xiong Ruoshui was being held fifteen kilometers away.
• Gu Wanli asked the livestream viewers to diagnose his broken car, and Lin Fan told him to check beneath the front, where he found and reconnected two snapped wires.
• Gu Wanli drove off-road around Small Town to avoid the watchers and reached the far side, where he prepared to continue toward Xiong Ruoshui.

Lin Fan guided Gu Wanli to the gang’s remote base to rescue Xiong Ruoshui, but shifting fates forced him to keep revising his advice. After offering Gu Wanli three risky options, Lin Fan watched as Gu Wanli tried to steal the cellar key from the truck driver’s house.

• Lin Fan directed Gu Wanli to the warehouse where Xiong Ruoshui was being held, then warned him to hide his car when the men in the red pickup came looking for him.
• Gu Wanli entered the warehouse but hid in a loft when the truck driver and two accomplices arrived and locked Xiong Ruoshui back in the cellar.
• The truck driver and his accomplices discussed forcing Xiong Ruoshui to call her husband for money, then left her locked in the cellar.
• Lin Fan told Gu Wanli he could try stealing the cellar key, ambushing the truck driver, or taking the truck driver’s wife and son hostage; Gu Wanli rejected the ambush and preferred stealing the key.
• Gu Wanli crept to the second house on the left and spotted the keys on the shoe rack outside its open door.

Gu Wanli took the truck driver's wife and son hostage to force the kidnappers to release Xiong Ruoshui. The two accomplices seized Xiong Ruoshui themselves, leaving both her and Gu Wanli in mortal danger.

• Lin Fan warned Gu Wanli that stepping on the boards would alert the truck driver, but a gust of wind made Gu Wanli stumble onto them; the driver and his companions investigated, then went back inside.
• After the three men left for the warehouse, Gu Wanli held the truck driver's wife at knifepoint and then took their son hostage.
• Gu Wanli forced the wife to come to the warehouse, where she saw the truck driver and his companions hauling Xiong Ruoshui.
• The truck driver stopped when Gu Wanli threatened his son, but his two accomplices seized Xiong Ruoshui and said they wanted the money in Gu Wanli's car.

Gu Wanli and Xiong Ruoshui escaped with the truck driver’s son after the driver’s companions accepted money for releasing Xiong Ruoshui, but Gu Wanli broke his promise to return the boy. The truck driver chased them until they reached the police, who surrounded and arrested the pursuers.

• Lin Fan urged Gu Wanli to offer the two men the ninety thousand yuan in his car for Xiong Ruoshui’s release, and they agreed after the truck driver pleaded for his son.
• The men took the money and freed Xiong Ruoshui, who joined Gu Wanli and the boy in their sedan.
• Gu Wanli and Xiong Ruoshui drove away without returning the boy at the intersection, prompting the truck driver to chase them in his truck with a red pickup following.
• Lin Fan warned them to reach Xizhou Uncle Cop, and Xiong Ruoshui drove past Small Town as the truck pursued them for about twenty minutes.
• Gu Wanli and Xiong Ruoshui reached the police vehicles, and the cops surrounded the truck and pickup, forcing the truck driver and the two men to surrender.

Lin Fan recovered after helping Gu Wanli and Xiong Ruoshui escape danger, then revealed that he had given the police information about the truck drivers’ past crimes. He resumed his livestream and connected with an exhausted middle-aged man, who greeted him as Master.

• Lin Fan said Gu Wanli and Xiong Ruoshui should return to the city and avoid the uninhabited region, then ended their call.
• An officer took Gu Wanli and Xiong Ruoshui to Small Town and showed them missing-person notices linked to the uninhabited region.
• Lin Fan recovered some of his Spiritual Power while Xiao Tuantuan spoke with the livestream viewers.
• Lin Fan said he had supplied Xizhou Uncle Cop with information about the three truck drivers’ earlier crimes.
• Lin Fan randomly connected with a tired middle-aged man, who said he had been about to rest.