Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan explained how Fan Jian and Yu Qianqian lost their child, then revealed that Yu Qianqian had recently taken Wang Sinian’s son, Wang Pingping, believing him to be her missing child. Wang Sinian joined the livestream and described his absent wife, while the child’s identity remained unresolved pending a DNA test.

• Lin Fan recounted that Fan Jian and Yu Qianqian’s five-year-old child disappeared during a lakeside camping trip ten years earlier, and the police concluded the child had drowned.
• Lin Fan revealed that Yu Qianqian had been taken in by the police three days earlier for allegedly taking another person’s child, whom she believed was hers.
• Lin Fan explained that the police had arranged a DNA test between Yu Qianqian and Wang Pingping, the fifteen-year-old son of Jiangzhou entrepreneur Wang Sinian.
• Wang Sinian joined the livestream and accused Yu Qianqian of harassing his son and taking him to another city, whereupon he called the police.
• Wang Sinian said Wang Pingping’s mother had left for abroad when the boy was one, sent her last letter when he was six, and then stopped contacting the family.

Lin Fan brought Wang Sinian, Wang Pingping, and Yu Qianqian to the police station to reveal the DNA results, which showed Yu Qianqian was Wang Pingping’s biological mother and Wang Sinian was not his father. Wang Sinian was arrested on suspicion of child trafficking, while Wang Pingping was left frightened and unsure whom to trust.

• Lin Fan took everyone to the Jiangzhou Police Station to examine the DNA results.
• Captain Uncle Cop revealed that the test showed a 99 percent chance that Yu Qianqian and Wang Pingping were related by blood.
• Lin Fan showed the second report, which stated that Wang Sinian and Wang Pingping had no chance of being related by blood.
• Wang Sinian denied the results and approached Wang Pingping, who backed away and threatened him with a small knife.
• Three cops seized Wang Sinian and took him in for questioning on suspicion of child trafficking.

Lin Fan exposed that the paternity tests involving Wang Sinian and Wang Pingping were fake, then privately persuaded Wang Sinian to cooperate with the police. After Yu Qianqian reunited with Wang Pingping, Lin Fan ended the livestream and invited Captain Uncle Cop to join a camping trip at Jiangzhou Dragon Lake the next morning.

• Lin Fan ordered the police to bring Wang Sinian and Wang Pingping back, then suggested both paternity tests were fake.
• Lin Fan praised Yu Qianqian’s bond with her younger brother Yu Cheng, while Fan Jian accepted the test results.
• Lin Fan whispered to Wang Sinian, who agreed to confess and cooperate with the police investigation.
• Yu Qianqian reunited with Wang Pingping, and Lin Fan criticized her extreme efforts to get close to him before sending them home.
• Lin Fan ended the livestream and invited Captain Uncle Cop to camp and barbecue at Jiangzhou Dragon Lake the next morning.
• Lin Fan returned to his shop and began preparing hot pot after buying ingredients.

Lin Fan took his companions camping at Jiangzhou Dragon Lake and told them that guests would arrive, leaving everyone curious as a white sedan approached the campsite. The chapter also left Captain Uncle Cop wondering about Lin Fan’s warning that his health would soon show signs of strain.

• At dinner, Dao Tianji questioned Lin Fan about Yu Qianqian and Wang Sinian, and Lin Fan promised to reveal the truth the next day.
• Han Bing guessed that Yu Qianqian and Wang Pingping might not be mother and son, and Lin Fan privately approved of her reasoning.
• The next morning, Lin Fan woke everyone and led them to Jiangzhou Dragon Lake for a camping trip.
• Lin Fan warned Captain Uncle Cop that his body would start showing signs of strain within a year if he kept working without rest.
• At the campsite, Xiao Tuantuan started a livestream, and viewers began making plans to join the group.
• A white sedan approached the campsite just as the group and livestream viewers awaited Lin Fan’s mysterious guests.

Lin Fan exposed Yu Cheng’s kidnapping of Wang Pingping and revealed that Yu Cheng had falsified DNA reports to make Wang Pingping appear to be Yu Qianqian’s son. Yu Cheng was arrested, while Yu Qianqian apologized to Wang Pingping and explained that she had only learned the truth that morning.

• Lin Fan had Dao Tianji and Han Bing stop Yu Cheng’s car, and they pulled him out and opened the trunk to free Wang Pingping.
• Wang Pingping told Lin Fan and Xiao Tuantuan that Yu Cheng had admitted the DNA reports were fake and had tried to kill him.
• Lin Fan explained that he had concealed the truth to gather evidence against Yu Cheng, who had altered the test results and abducted Wang Pingping.
• Lin Fan asked Captain Uncle Cop to arrest Yu Cheng for attempted murder and suspected evidence tampering.
• Yu Qianqian arrived with Fan Jian and her mother, apologized to Wang Pingping, and said she had learned that morning that he was not her son.
• Lin Fan explained that Yu Qianqian had sought her mother’s help after discovering the real test result, and Yu Qianqian asked Yu Cheng why he had done it.

Lin Fan revealed that Yu Cheng had accidentally caused Yu Qianqian’s son’s death ten years earlier, then concealed the body in the lake, and Yu Cheng was taken away by police. Afterward, Lin Fan told Captain Uncle Cop he planned to help solve old cases in nearby cities, and they sat down for barbecue.

• Lin Fan explained that Yu Cheng altered the paternity test report because he felt guilty toward Yu Qianqian, then revealed that Yu Cheng had caused her son’s death.
• Lin Fan said Yu Cheng had accidentally struck the child’s head on a rock while trying to stop him following Fan Jian and Yu Qianqian’s Best Friend into the woods, then secretly sank the body in the lake.
• Fan Jian confirmed his affair with Yu Qianqian’s Best Friend and said Lin Fan’s account of the incident was correct.
• Yu Cheng apologized as Yu Qianqian grieved, and police arrived and took Yu Cheng away with Wang Pingping and Yu Qianqian.
• Lin Fan told Captain Uncle Cop he would help solve old cases in nearby cities, then invited him to stay for barbecue.

Lin Fan told Tang Lihua that a slimming talisman could help her lose weight, but warned she would regain it without improving her self-control. He revealed that her classmates had recently humiliated her at a pool party, leaving her in tears as the viewers comforted her.

• Lin Fan announced plans to visit eight cities and asked Captain Uncle Cop to prepare information on local cases.
• While fishing by the lake, Lin Fan selected Tang Lihua for a livestream call and learned she was a 130-kilo university student struggling to lose weight.
• Lin Fan said he could use a talisman to make Tang Lihua slim in three months, but predicted she would regain the weight and exceed 150 kilos within a year.
• Lin Fan revealed that Tang Lihua's classmates had taken her clothes at a pool party and left her to run home naked.
• Tang Lihua confirmed that the classmates never returned her clothes, and viewers stopped teasing her and offered comfort.

Tang Lihua asked Lin Fan for help with self-control, but he warned that her mother would be murdered that evening and revealed that nine classmates who tormented her at a pool party had died. The police found the classmates’ bodies, while Lin Fan’s divination still showed danger for Tang Lihua and her mother at six o’clock.

• Tang Lihua asked Lin Fan for help losing weight and building self-control, and Lin Fan warned her that her mother might be murdered that evening.
• Viewers accused Tang Lihua of killing her missing classmates, but Lin Fan said she was not the murderer and revealed that nine people from the pool party had died.
• Lin Fan directed Nanzhou Uncle Cop to search a wooded area east of the pool for clues, then asked Tang Lihua whether he should reveal the truth she seemed to know.
• Lin Fan privately messaged Nanzhou Uncle Cop after his divination showed that Tang Lihua and her mother still faced misfortune at six that evening.
• Nanzhou Uncle Cop reported that officers had found the bodies, and a video briefly showed a bloodstained pit containing dismembered remains.

Lin Fan insisted that Tang Lihua was innocent despite evidence linking her to the bodies, and he refused to reveal the killer’s identity. He ordered officers to protect Tang Lihua and her mother, then move them outside and turn on every light, leaving the reason for his warning unclear.

• Officers reported finding three bodies, Tang Lihua’s silk scarf, and footprints resembling hers, while Lin Fan maintained that she was neither the killer nor an accomplice.
• Lin Fan refused to name the real killer and told the officers to keep searching nearby dirt pits for the remaining bodies.
• Tang Lihua appealed to Lin Fan for help, and he hinted that he knew what she had done while the girls were missing.
• When officers arrived at Tang Lihua’s home, Lin Fan told them to protect her and her mother, and Tang Lihua’s mother defended her against their suspicions.
• Lin Fan ordered the officers to take Tang Lihua and her mother outside and turn on every light in the house, and their superiors instructed them to follow his directions.

Lin Fan helped the police capture the killer hiding in Tang Lihua’s house and revealed that he had murdered nine girls to avenge the bullying she suffered. He then explained that the killer would have targeted Tang Lihua’s mother that evening, while insisting Tang Lihua herself was only a bystander.

• Lin Fan warned Tang Lihua and the Uncle Cops that the killer was hiding inside her house, so they left and waited for more officers to arrive.
• Lin Fan identified the killer’s hiding place beneath the stairs, and the Uncle Cops subdued him with stun guns when he attacked.
• Lin Fan explained that the killer had been bullied as a child and began following Tang Lihua after seeing her mocked; he killed nine girls who had bullied her.
• Lin Fan told Tang Lihua that the killer would have attacked her mother after she found a bloodstained scarf and argued with her.
• Lin Fan said Tang Lihua was not involved in the murders and recounted how she had fled into the woods after being harassed by young men.

Lin Fan revealed that Tang Lihua had witnessed the killer abducting her classmates but had chosen not to alert the police, and she apologized for her decision. Later, his devoted livestream fans arrived to meet him, and he drew a Peace Talisman for each of them.

• Lin Fan explained that Tang Lihua had seen the killer and the kidnapped girls but had stayed silent because the girls had bullied her.
• Tang Lihua apologized, and the Nanzhou police captain thanked Lin Fan for helping with the case.
• Lin Fan told Tang Lihua to consider moving after her release and to visit him so he could help her slim down.
• Lin Fan's longtime livestream fans arrived, and Xiao Tuantuan pulled Ragdoll Cat away when she hugged his arm.
• Lin Fan drew one Peace Talisman for each fan who had come to meet him.

Lin Fan’s livestream accidentally connected him with a Dongzhou Evening News reporter interviewing a boy whose body was gradually becoming fishlike. After renowned doctor Ouyang Lingfeng explained that the condition had no known cure, viewers asked whether Lin Fan could help, leaving his response unresolved.

• Lin Fan returned to his shop and decided to keep streaming, choosing to randomly connect with another streamer.
• Lin Fan’s connection reached a Dongzhou Evening News reporter who was interviewing a boy with unusual, fishlike features.
• The reporter connected with Ouyang Lingfeng, who explained that the boy appeared to be undergoing evolutionary regression and that treatments had failed.
• The reporter asked viewers not to mock or disturb the boy, whose condition had drawn discrimination despite his otherwise stable health.
• Viewers asked whether Lin Fan could cure the boy, and Lin Fan answered, “Yes, and no.”

Lin Fan explained that Xu Min’s strange condition began after his mother survived a shipwreck while pregnant, and that Xu Min had endured years of ostracism because he could breathe underwater. He revealed that invisible rain worms were attached to Xu Min and warned Xu Gugu that curing him would make him disappear, leaving the choice unresolved.

• Lin Fan told Xu Gugu that he could cure Xu Min, but Xu Min would disappear afterward rather than die.
• Lin Fan divined Xu Gugu’s history, including her husband’s death in a shipwreck while she was pregnant with Xu Min.
• Lin Fan recounted Xu Min’s unusual abilities and the discrimination and isolation he faced from the village and his classmates.
• Lin Fan told Xu Gugu that she would have to choose between curing Xu Min and allowing him to continue facing ridicule.
• Lin Fan revealed that rain worms were attached to Xu Min, and Ouyang Lingfeng challenged the claim because medical examinations had found nothing.

Lin Fan explained that rain worms inside Xu Min had kept him alive but would leave during an approaching flood and storm, causing him to disappear. Xu Gugu and Xu Min refused treatment, and Lin Fan discovered a costly Transformation Pill might delay Xu Min’s transformation before warning that the worms would draw him toward the sea that night.

• Lin Fan told Xu Gugu and Ouyang Lingfeng that rain worms had entered Xu Min before birth, changed his body, and kept him alive.
• Lin Fan explained that the rain worms would leave during the coming flash flood and storm, and Xu Min would disappear with them.
• Xu Gugu and Xu Min chose not to pursue treatment, despite Lin Fan warning that Xu Min would eventually become a monster and seek the sea.
• Lin Fan found that a Transformation Pill could affect Xu Min’s fate, but it cost thirty thousand Heavenly Secrets Points.
• Lin Fan predicted that the flood and storm would arrive at midnight and that Xu Min would walk into the river under the worms’ control.

Lin Fan warned Xu Min and his companions to leave the fishing village, but a landslide blocked their escape and forced them back. After a second landslide nearly struck them, Lin Fan explained that a force was restoring Xu Min’s fate and hinted that Ouyang Lingfeng’s own past involved a strange encounter; Ouyang’s supposed wife became the focus of a public mystery.

• Xu Gugu refused to risk keeping Xu Min in the village, and the reporter and cameraman tried to drive them out, but rocks blocked the road.
• Lin Fan sensed that Xu Min’s fate was being forced back onto its original course and told the cameraman to reverse; a landslide then destroyed the road ahead.
• Lin Fan said his impending Foundation Establishment breakthrough might be provoking interference from heaven and earth, and told the group to keep Xu Min away from the river at midnight.
• Ouyang Lingfeng suggested Lin Fan might have miscalculated, but Lin Fan reminded him of a strange incident involving Ouyang’s wife.
• The reporter and viewers insisted Ouyang had never married, while Lin Fan challenged Ouyang to explain whether he had a wife.

Lin Fan revealed Ouyang Lingfeng’s hidden past and explained why his wife was difficult to see, leaving the viewers learning that Ouyang’s childhood sweetheart and wife, Siyun, had served his family as a housekeeper.

• Ouyang Lingfeng said he had never deliberately hidden his wife and recognized Coiled Dragon as the person who had helped him when he was young.
• Coiled Dragon explained that Ouyang often took his wife out, but others could not see her, and Lin Fan said Ouyang could barely see her himself under pressure.
• Lin Fan offered to explain Ouyang’s situation and recounted his privileged upbringing in a family of doctors in Dingzhou’s Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Lin Fan revealed that Ouyang’s wife was his childhood sweetheart, Siyun, who had been his family’s housekeeper.

Lin Fan explained how horizon worms had caused Siyun to become translucent after lifting her into the sky, and revealed that the insects had all gone dormant. He continued recounting how Siyun had been stranded in a tree until Coiled Dragon rescued her.

• Lin Fan told Ouyang Lingfeng that Siyun had disappeared when they were sixteen, after they had promised to marry.
• Lin Fan explained that Coiled Dragon had sensed Siyun in the forest and found her stuck in a tree, where she appeared translucent to others.
• Lin Fan revealed that Siyun was alive but had been affected by invisible horizon worms, which lived in clouds and released a substance that changed her body.
• Lin Fan described how a horizon worm's thread had lifted Siyun into the sky before snapping, leaving her unharmed but stranded in the canopy.
• Lin Fan divined that all horizon worms had gone dormant, so people would not encounter them for the next century or two.

Lin Fan revealed how Ouyang Lingfeng overcame his doubts about Siyun and married her, while Siyun learned that Lin Fan could see and hear her. The chapter left Ouyang determined to cure Siyun, though Lin Fan foresaw that his efforts would fail.

• Siyun realized Lin Fan could see her through the livestream, astonishing Ouyang Lingfeng and the viewers.
• Ouyang Lingfeng explained that he had wanted to marry Siyun, but his parents and village elders opposed the match.
• Lin Fan revealed that Ouyang's wavering belief in his love had made Siyun disappear from his sight.
• Coiled Dragon explained that Ouyang regained the ability to see Siyun by recalling their love and reaffirming that she existed.
• Ouyang said he had studied medicine for years to cure Siyun, while Lin Fan foresaw that modern medicine could not treat the substance inside her body.

Ouyang Lingfeng learned that he would never cure Siyun on his own, but Lin Fan promised to absorb and digest the substance causing her condition with his Seven Rare Treasures. Ouyang Lingfeng and Siyun agreed to visit Lin Fan in about a month, leaving Lin Fan time to prepare.

• Lin Fan told Ouyang Lingfeng that he would never identify the substance inside Siyun and that his changing feelings could make her disappear from sight and float away.
• Siyun urged Ouyang Lingfeng to forget her, but Lin Fan promised he could resolve her condition and invited them to bring her to his shop or Linjiang Wildlife Reserve.
• Lin Fan explained that he would absorb the substance produced by the Horizon Worm and use the Seven Rare Treasures to digest it, despite Coiled Dragon warning that the process was dangerous.
• Lin Fan reassured Ouyang Lingfeng that he was confident he could make Siyun normal again, and Ouyang Lingfeng praised him as a good person.
• Lin Fan asked Ouyang Lingfeng and Siyun to come in two weeks to a month, preferably after a month, so he could prepare.

Xu Min was compelled to walk toward the river during the storm, and Lin Fan warned that he would disappear if he reached it. The villagers joined Xu Gugu and the others in holding him back until dawn, while Lin Fan rested and turned his attention to the Transformation Pill.

• At midnight, Xu Min got out of bed with vacant eyes and tried to leave as the storm began, while Lin Fan warned that he must not reach the river.
• Xu Gugu, the reporter, and the cameraman repeatedly pushed Xu Min back onto the bed, but he kept getting up and they grew exhausted.
• Xu Gugu pleaded with the villagers for help, explaining that Xu Min would leave her forever if he reached the river.
• The villagers gathered in the house and helped restrain Xu Min, while others called more people to join them.
• Lin Fan said the storm would end at five thirty in the morning and left Xiao Tuantuan to watch the livestream as he went to rest.
• Lin Fan sat cross-legged on his bed and thought about the Transformation Pill.