Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan revealed that Qing Xiaowan’s hidden cameras were streaming her life on a site where users bid to hunt their targets, and police arrested the site’s developer and the man planning to kill her. He Yingxiong said the neighbor was a repeat offender with a record of livestreamed hunts, but the man demanded proof.

• Lin Fan told Qing Xiaowan that her home surveillance feeds were being streamed to a special website, and she feared she would be targeted.
• Jiangzhou Uncle Cop announced that police had arrested Rich and Reckless, the website’s developer, while Lin Fan explained that users bid to hunt people like Qing Xiaowan.
• Lin Fan revealed that the person who intended to kill Qing Xiaowan was her neighbor and said police were moving to arrest him.
• Police arrived at Qing Xiaowan’s home and arrested the monkey-thin neighbor, who had planned to act while the livestream audience watched.
• He Yingxiong told Qing Xiaowan that her neighbor was a repeat offender who had carried out livestreamed hunts, but the man laughed and demanded evidence.

Lin Fan helped the Uncle Cops expose Skinny Monkey Man’s hidden evidence and shared information that led to the arrest of the Special Website’s founders and other criminals. After recordings from the site spread online, he warned viewers to protect their privacy and challenged the remaining operators to come after him.

• He Yingxiong revealed that Lin Fan had uncovered Skinny Monkey Man’s basement evidence and planned escape safeguards, leaving the suspect convinced he would be caught.
• Lin Fan gave the Uncle Cops information about other Special Website criminals, and Captain Uncle Cop ordered arrests while Qing Xiaowan agreed to move and disable her cameras.
• The Uncle Cops reported that all three Special Website developers were in custody, but one had uploaded the site’s recordings before the raid.
• Lin Fan told viewers that many had been secretly livestreamed and urged them to be wary of suspicious offers, while Qing Xiaowan unplugged her cameras and prepared to move.
• Lin Fan told the remaining operators to come after him, then teased the village chief for hiding from the Village Doctor Spirit Body.

Lin Fan helped Xiao Tuantuan study the Medical Cultivator Codex, then guided Qianshan as he tried to retrieve the souls of Peng Qingshui’s three children. Qianshan met resistance from another practitioner, while two gray-robed figures waited at a remote graveyard in Nanzhou.

• Lin Fan stopped Xiao Tuantuan’s study session for a meal, but she continued digesting her insights into medical cultivation.
• The village doctor spirit body praised Xiao Tuantuan’s dedication and recalled her own childhood study of the Medical Cultivator Codex.
• Qianshan arrived at Peng Qingyu’s home and told Lin Fan that Peng Qingshui’s three sons had lost their souls and bore traces of a spell.
• Qianshan revealed that his master’s wife was Murong Xue, whom the village doctor spirit body recognized as a highly accomplished medical cultivator and her senior martial aunt.
• Qianshan set up a Dharma Altar and cast spells to summon the three children’s souls, but another practitioner resisted his efforts.
• Two people in gray robes sat before a graveyard deep in the mountains of Nanzhou.

Qianshan restored the three children by returning their souls, but the two gray-robed practitioners came to reclaim them. They incapacitated the six cops with a talisman, leaving Peng Qingyu alarmed as the confrontation began.

• Two practitioners failed to stop the three souls from returning and hurried to the Peng sisters’ residence to retrieve them.
• Qianshan returned the three souls to the children, and Peng Qingshui found their fevers had broken.
• Lin Fan warned Qianshan that the practitioners were coming and sent him a message detailing their weaknesses.
• Six Nanzhou cops arrived to guard the family, but Qianshan and Lin Fan doubted they could help.
• The two gray-robed men entered the courtyard with swords and used a talisman that left the six cops staring blankly.

Lin Fan helped Qianshan confront the Cheng Brothers, who were trying to reclaim three children’s souls for their master, Daoist Shanhai. After the brothers mocked Lin Fan and attacked, Qianshan defeated them by striking their weaknesses, though they could not understand why their blows had failed to hurt him.

• Lin Fan told Peng Qingyu that the six unconscious police officers would recover within an hour, and Qianshan confronted the Cheng Brothers outside her home.
• Qianshan accused the Cheng Brothers of trying to take Peng Qingshui’s three children’s souls because they could not find suitable souls elsewhere.
• Lin Fan identified the brothers and their master, warned them not to target children, and invited Daoist Shanhai to confront him if he objected.
• Cheng Jianghai mocked Lin Fan and his master, then the Cheng Brothers attacked Qianshan together.
• Qianshan used Lin Fan’s information about their weaknesses to strike both brothers and temporarily disable them without seriously injuring them.
• The Cheng Brothers collapsed and wondered why their full-strength attacks had left Qianshan unharmed.

Qianshan defeated the Cheng brothers with Lin Fan’s Peace Talismans, while Lin Fan restored the Peng children’s souls and ended the livestream early so Xiao Tuantuan could rest. The Village Doctor Spirit Body then discovered that Xiao Tuantuan had comprehended all the medical codices.

• Qianshan revealed that Lin Fan’s Peace Talismans had blocked the Cheng brothers’ attacks and warned them he would report their actions to the Daoist Assembly.
• After the Cheng brothers left, Qianshan admitted he had exhausted his spiritual power and told Lin Fan he had protected the three children’s souls.
• Lin Fan used a soul-soothing spell to reunite the children’s souls with their bodies, then advised Peng Qingshui and Peng Qingyu to flee and contact him if danger returned.
• Lin Fan invited Qianshan to Xiaoyao Village and said he would see Xiao Tuantuan become a medical cultivator, then ended the stream and forced her to go to sleep.
• Lin Fan threatened Zhou Xingxing over the viewers’ teasing and ended the livestream, while the Village Doctor Spirit Body spotted the open medical codices and realized Xiao Tuantuan had comprehended them all.

Lin Fan connected with mystery writer Wang Yunshu on his livestream and read her promising future, but then asked about something strange she had recently experienced. Meanwhile, Xiao Tuantuan studied to become a Medical Cultivator as Hu Sanjin approached Xiaoyao Village.

• Lin Fan suppressed the Village Doctor Spirit Body's cursed power and promised that those who had harmed her would be punished.
• Lin Fan gave Xiao Tuantuan his last Enlightenment Spirit Pill, while he realized Hu Sanjin's shifting fate still held a chance of survival.
• Lin Fan began his livestream and told viewers that Hu Sanjin would arrive in five or six hours.
• Lin Fan connected with Wang Yunshu, praised her successful mystery-writing career, and predicted that her deeds would appear in textbooks.
• Lin Fan asked Wang Yunshu whether she had recently encountered anything strange, and her smile vanished.

Lin Fan revealed that Wang Yunshu’s three short stories mirrored real crimes committed by a man across from her, including the kidnapping and killing of one of her fans. Wang Yunshu denied arranging the crimes, but viewers began to suspect she had directed them.

• Lin Fan told Wang Yunshu that her illness would not endanger her life and delayed explaining it until the call was nearly over.
• Lin Fan described how a man had committed killings matching the first two stories in Wang Yunshu’s book and had tied up a fan as depicted in her latest story.
• Wang Yunshu looked through binoculars and saw the man across from her killing someone.
• Wang Yunshu denied knowing anything about the murder or kidnapping, while viewers suspected she had arranged the crimes.

Lin Fan revealed how Wang Yunshu manipulated a delusional man into committing three murders for material for her novel, and the police arrested her. The chapter ended with Wang Yunshu asking why the police had not arrested the man who carried out the killings.

• Police officers arrived at Wang Yunshu's home with warrants and arrested her on suspicion of involvement in three murders.
• Lin Fan explained that Wang Yunshu had watched a man in the opposite building, discovered his delusions, and encouraged him to believe he needed to cleanse the world's filth before the apocalypse.
• Wang Yunshu admitted she had given the man hints but claimed she had never told him to kill anyone, and she explained that she used his crimes as material for her novel.
• Lin Fan revealed that after the first murder made her writing go viral, Wang Yunshu encouraged the man to continue and had him kidnap and kill a fan she mistakenly thought knew her secret.
• Northern Continent Uncle Cop told the livestream viewers that the man had not been arrested, and Wang Yunshu asked the officers why they were not pursuing the actual murderer.

Lin Fan revealed that Wang Yunshu had hallucinated the building and the man she believed was responsible for the murders; she had killed three people while mentally unstable. The police took her away for questioning, and Lin Fan explained that her resentment toward late-night disturbances had made the Ghostfire Boy and the loud sound system player her targets.

• Lin Fan had Captain Uncle Cop open the curtains, revealing there was no building opposite Wang Yunshu’s home.
• The forensic examiner and the police found a bound, unclothed corpse in Wang Yunshu’s wardrobe, and Lin Fan identified Wang Yunshu as the killer.
• Lin Fan explained that Wang Yunshu had developed hallucinations under mental strain and had imagined herself as a character in her book.
• Lin Fan said Wang Yunshu would avoid prison but spend the rest of her life in a psychiatric hospital, where she might still write.
• Lin Fan explained that Wang Yunshu had killed the Ghostfire Boy and the person playing loud music because they disturbed her at night.
• An Uncle Cop admitted he had noticed that Wang Yunshu’s book resembled the recent cases, and Captain Uncle Cop took her away for questioning.

Lin Fan connected with Niu Guli, a 37-year-old internet company employee, and revealed his difficult career situation. The call ended with Lin Fan clarifying that Niu Guli had sent his new wife to his director’s home to work as a servant, not given her away.

• After Wang Yunshu’s crime became widespread news, Lin Fan reassured viewers that anyone with a fated connection could reach him and invited Old Ox Doesn't Want to Work onto the livestream.
• Niu Guli introduced himself as a fan of Wang Yunshu and explained that he had joined the stream to hear about the murder revelation.
• Lin Fan identified Niu Guli as a 37-year-old employee who had worked at the same internet company for nine years without being promoted, and Niu Guli confirmed the details.
• Niu Guli described his worries about changing jobs, supporting his family, and being considered too old for technology work.
• Lin Fan said Niu Guli had sent his wife over, alarming viewers, then clarified that he had sent her with him to serve at his director’s home after their wedding.
• Niu Guli denied giving his wife away, and the viewers apologized after Lin Fan explained the misunderstanding.

Niu Guli reluctantly believed Lin Fan’s warning that he would soon have an accident, and Lin Fan described Niu Guli’s strained finances and offered support if he became a fan. The conversation left Niu Guli stunned to learn that two viewers who had offered to help him were genuinely wealthy.

• Niu Guli held back details about his director because he feared losing his job, while Lin Fan explained that Niu Guli supported four elderly relatives on his salary.
• Lin Fan warned Niu Guli that he would soon have an accident and said he would help if Niu Guli believed him and became a fan.
• Niu Guli admitted that Lin Fan’s past predictions convinced him to take the warning seriously because his family depended on him.
• Lin Fan identified Boss Xiu as a major Pingzhou businessman and Zhou Xingxing as someone among the world’s top hundred wealthiest people, leaving Niu Guli shocked.

Lin Fan revealed how Niu Guli and his wife had been repeatedly humiliated by their director and the director’s wife, convincing Niu Guli that Lin Fan’s divination was accurate. Lin Fan promised to tell him how to avoid a coming accident when the time was right, and Niu Guli left work to go home.

• Lin Fan recounted how the director’s wife insulted Niu Guli’s wife during their first visit, while Niu Guli stayed quiet for the sake of his job.
• Lin Fan described the second visit, when the director’s wife overturned a pot of soup and scalded Niu Guli’s wife’s hands; Niu Guli confirmed every detail.
• Lin Fan explained that the director invited newly married employees to provide his wife with people to mistreat, and Niu Guli confirmed that other employees had suffered similarly.
• Lin Fan told Niu Guli that he could avoid his coming accident by doing something at home once the time came.
• Niu Guli left work early and hurried home as Lin Fan had instructed.

Lin Fan revealed that Niu Guli had cursed his director’s wife after the director threatened his job and pressured him to go skiing, and that the curse appeared to leave her unable to walk. After government officials asked about the dangerous book Black Witchcraft, Lin Fan told Han Bing he had arrangements to relay, and she was startled by his message.

• Lin Fan explained that the director had pressured Niu Guli and his wife to ski despite a coworker’s severe accident, and Niu Guli confirmed he had refused after learning of the danger.
• Lin Fan revealed that Niu Guli bought Black Witchcraft, tortured a frog, and used its blood to curse the director’s wife by stabbing her photograph’s legs.
• Niu Guli said the director’s wife had soon been in a car accident and might never walk again, and admitted he had kept his role secret from his own wife.
• Han Bing brought Lin Fan a call from higher-ups concerned about Black Witchcraft, and Lin Fan assured them it would not spread.
• Lin Fan told Han Bing he would send her arrangements, and she received his message and looked at him in disbelief.

Lin Fan revealed that Niu Guli had used witchcraft to attack his director and three women on his community committee after conflicts involving his wife. The chapter ended with viewers debating whether Niu Guli was wrong, while Lin Fan had not yet explained the full consequences of the third curse.

• Lin Fan said Niu Guli had deliberately used a second curse, stabbing a bloodied knife into the director’s heart in a photograph and leaving him hospitalized.
• Niu Guli stayed silent when viewers accused him of intending to kill the director, then insisted he considered himself a good person.
• Lin Fan revealed that Niu Guli’s third curse had left three women in comas and involved killing a stolen kitten and puppy.
• Lin Fan explained that the women were committee leaders who had pressured Niu Guli’s wife to collect donations alone, and that Niu Guli had grown enraged after failing to get them to treat her fairly.
• Viewers debated whether Niu Guli’s anger and actions were justified because he was protecting his wife.

Lin Fan questioned Niu Guli’s motives for using black witchcraft and learned about Niu Guli’s devoted, charitable wife. As Niu Guli neared home, Lin Fan warned him about an impending accident whose nature remained unknown.

• Lin Fan told Niu Guli that his revenge had gone beyond self-defense and asked whether he had enjoyed torturing animals or wanted the three women dead.
• Niu Guli praised his wife as exceptionally kind, explaining that she took in stray animals and had once brought a homeless man home.
• Lin Fan said Niu Guli’s wife seemed perfect to others and revealed she had also taken the homeless man in.
• Niu Guli admitted he planned to keep his black witchcraft secret from his wife and explained that the homeless man had left after three days.
• Lin Fan confirmed that Niu Guli’s wife rehomed the animals she rescued and defended the existence of kindhearted people.
• Niu Guli recognized the familiar streets near his home and grew nervous about the accident Lin Fan had predicted.

Niu Guli followed Lin Fan’s instructions and discovered his wife performing a Black Witchcraft ritual with the bodies of dead animals. Lin Fan revealed that she was trying to curse Niu Guli, leaving him stunned and questioning why she wanted to harm him.

• Niu Guli asked Lin Fan what danger awaited him, and Lin Fan told him to enter his home quietly and open his bedroom door.
• Lin Fan assured Niu Guli he would survive, though he might be injured, while Niu Guli praised his wife’s care and kindness.
• After the livestream connection briefly cut out, Han Bing told Lin Fan that her subordinates had reached Niu Guli’s residential complex, and Lin Fan warned them to be careful.
• Niu Guli entered his dimly lit home and opened the bedroom door, where he saw his wife with a bloodied knife beside dead cats and dogs, candles, and a blood-drawn ritual circle.
• Lin Fan told Niu Guli that his wife was using Black Witchcraft to curse him, and Niu Guli collapsed in shock, wondering why she wanted to hurt him.

Niu Guli interrupted his wife’s witchcraft ritual, learning she planned to kill him for an insurance payout. Three men sent by Master Lin and Captain Han Bing subdued and arrested her, while Niu Guli was told to cooperate with the police investigation.

• Lin Fan warned Niu Guli that he had three minutes to stop his wife’s ritual or die.
• Niu Guli rushed into the bedroom, seized the knife, and disrupted the blood-red runes, suffering backlash but surviving.
• Niu Guli’s wife admitted she wanted to kill him for the insurance payout and blamed him for years of humiliation and misery.
• Niu Guli’s wife snapped his wrist and threatened him, but the ritual’s backlash made her cough blood.
• Three young men arrived, used magical artifacts to weaken Niu Guli’s wife, and bound her with rune-marked chains.
• One of the men told Niu Guli they were acting on Master Lin and Captain Han Bing’s instructions and that he should cooperate with the police.

Lin Fan exposed Jiang Lili as a cultivator who had used black witchcraft to harm and kill people while pretending to be kind, and she was arrested by Han Bing’s subordinates. Niu Guli learned that his wife was responsible for the attacks he had blamed on his own witchcraft, while Lin Fan said Niu Guli lacked the ability to become like her.

• Lin Fan told Niu Guli that Jiang Lili had harmed the company director, his wife, and three women in their residential complex.
• Lin Fan revealed that Jiang Lili had killed the stray animals she took in, and she admitted that Black Witchcraft belonged to her and that she had used it against people she hated.
• Jiang Lili explained that she had held back from killing the director and the other victims, while Lin Fan revealed that her gentle persona had helped her evade suspicion after a resident died.
• Lin Fan said Jiang Lili had killed the homeless man and other people, whose bodies were buried beneath a garden in the residential complex.
• Jiang Lili admitted Lin Fan’s claims, and Han Bing’s subordinates arrested her as a genuine cultivator.
• Lin Fan reassured viewers that Niu Guli could not become like Jiang Lili because he had no talent for cultivation.

Lin Fan exposed Jiang Lili’s crimes, and she was taken away while Niu Guli was sent to the police for questioning. Back at the livestream, Xiao Tuantuan began gathering spiritual power, appearing close to becoming a medical cultivator.

• Lin Fan ordered Han Bing’s subordinates to find and burn sixteen books of evil spells hidden in Jiang Lili and Niu Guli’s bookcase.
• Jiang Lili admitted she had once loved Niu Guli and revealed she was forty-nine but did not age in appearance.
• Lin Fan said Jiang Lili had to spend the rest of her life in prison because she had killed too many people, and Jiang Lili told Niu Guli about her savings before asking to be taken away.
• Han Bing’s subordinates took Jiang Lili into custody, and the police took Niu Guli in for questioning; Lin Fan said Niu Guli had not harmed anyone but would lose his job.
• Lin Fan noticed Xiao Tuantuan surrounded by azure light as spiritual power gathered around her, and he said she was about to become a medical cultivator.