Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan revealed how Zhuang Ran’s father had made a deal with the haunted apartment’s spirit body, leading to years of suffering before he sacrificed his life to destroy it. Zhuang Ran and his mother reunited with his father’s spirit, while Lin Fan foresaw a hopeful future for them.

• Lin Fan explained that Zhuang Ran’s father had been lured into gambling by the spirit body, which took half his remaining lifespan and tormented his wife and son.
• Zhuang Ran learned that his father had killed himself to destroy the spirit body and protect his family, and his mother admitted she still loved him.
• Lin Fan told Zhuang Ran and his mother that his father had been waiting to apologize, and they entered the apartment together.
• After Zhuang Ran’s mother disconnected from the livestream, she saw her husband’s spirit body in the rocking chair and forgave him as Zhuang Ran joined their reunion.
• Lin Fan foresaw that Zhuang Ran’s mother would sell the apartment, while Zhuang Ran would work for Boss Xiu and build a happy future.
• With little time left before midnight, Lin Fan decided to connect with Flexible Little Chubby.

Lin Fan guided Flexible Little Chubby through a fate-changing ritual while unseen forces interfered with his memory and altered the signs he encountered. Flexible Little Chubby continued into a run-down neighborhood after Lin reminded him of the forgotten third step.

• Flexible Little Chubby told Lin Fan he could not memorize the ritual steps, and Lin explained that the Power of Heaven and Earth was interfering with his memory.
• Lin instructed Flexible Little Chubby to carry the Red Paper outside at noon and warned him not to respond to anything Lin said.
• Flexible Little Chubby walked about a hundred steps but encountered an old man pushing a milk cart instead of leading a real cow; Lin saw a glimmer of red light in his black qi.
• Flexible Little Chubby turned right at an intersection and entered a run-down Urban Village as the sky grew overcast.
• Flexible Little Chubby forgot the third step, so Lin reminded him to keep walking in the direction the chickens' beaks were pointing.

Lin Fan guided Flexible Little Chubby through fate-changing encounters, helping him reduce the deathly aura surrounding him. After a powerful force injured Lin Fan when he tried to change Flexible Little Chubby’s fate, he revealed that an Immortal who had received worship for over a hundred years had taken the man’s lifespan.

• Flexible Little Chubby followed Lin Fan’s clues to Yunxiao Street after seeing two women arguing over a client.
• Flexible Little Chubby found a fat man nicknamed Big-Bellied Woman and wished him the early birth of a noble son before fleeing.
• Lin Fan explained that the encounters borrowed joyful fortune to improve Flexible Little Chubby’s luck, and he saw that a tenth of the man’s black aura had disappeared.
• A powerful force struck Lin Fan as he helped Flexible Little Chubby defy fate, leaving him injured until he took pills from the System Mall.
• Lin Fan told viewers that an Immortal who had received incense offerings for over a hundred years had taken Flexible Little Chubby’s lifespan.

Lin Fan guided Flexible Little Chubby through fate-changing steps while unseen forces turned his instructions into dangerous encounters. Flexible Little Chubby survived a runaway road roller, and Lin Fan saw that his bad aura had begun to fade.

• After Han Bing relayed the higher-ups’ warning, Lin Fan explained that the Village Doctor Spirit Body could become a folk-belief immortal through offerings.
• Lin Fan told Flexible Little Chubby to laugh at an empty house, but it was a funeral hall, and mourners chased him through the alleys.
• Lin Fan directed Flexible Little Chubby up a slope without moving aside, where a runaway road roller approached with failed brakes.
• The driver swerved the road roller into an iron shed, and Flexible Little Chubby survived.
• Lin Fan observed that about thirty percent of Flexible Little Chubby’s black aura had dissipated and his fortune was improving.

Lin Fan guided Flexible Little Chubby through a series of steps to improve his fortune, ending with a humiliating bath at a former bathing center that had become a dyeing workshop. After confirming Flexible Little Chubby’s fortune had partly recovered, Lin Fan sent him to his shop to wait while he dealt with the Su Family.

• Flexible Little Chubby found the closed Everyday Bathing Center, which had been converted into a cloth-dyeing workshop, and waited until the women left to bathe in a vat.
• A woman caught Flexible Little Chubby naked, and the workshop women cornered and beat him before taking him to the Police Station; an Uncle Cop who watched Lin Fan's livestream explained what had happened.
• Flexible Little Chubby returned home and called Lin Fan, who examined his fortune and confirmed it had improved enough that he would be safe for the next day or two.
• Lin Fan told Flexible Little Chubby to go to his shop on Taihe Street, where his disciple would set up a Magic Array, and warned him not to leave until Lin Fan returned.
• Flexible Little Chubby headed to the shop as livestream viewers asked Lin Fan why someone had taken his lifespan.

Flexible Little Chubby learned that a being from a small temple had revived his younger brother in exchange for taking his lifespan, and Lin Fan planned to extend his life while protecting them both. After Flexible Little Chubby reached Lin Fan’s shop, Lin Fan instructed the Old Daoist to prepare a Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation, then called Wang Bo, whose future appeared unusually smooth.

• Lin Fan explained that Flexible Little Chubby had offered his lifespan to save his younger brother, and that the temple’s being might threaten the brother if Lin Fan intervened.
• Lin Fan planned to extend Flexible Little Chubby’s lifespan at the moment it was taken, then negotiate with the being and offer more incense offerings.
• Flexible Little Chubby reached Lin Fan’s shop safely despite Nian Xiaoqian’s killing intent, and Lin Fan warned him to hurry inside.
• Lin Fan told the Old Daoist to prepare the Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation while Flexible Little Chubby waited in the shop.
• After eating with Han Bing, Lin Fan called Bobo Doesn't Love Anymore and divined that Wang Bo would pass his postgraduate entrance exam and enjoy a smooth research career.

Lin Fan used Dream Conveyance to let Wang Bo meet his deceased mother after learning the regrets behind his wish to see her again. Wang Bo fell asleep and embraced her in the dream while Lin Fan sustained the spell for two hours.

• Lin Fan divined that Wang Bo's mother had died and revealed that Wang Bo wanted to speak with her spirit.
• Lin Fan explained that Wang Bo's mother had hidden her cancer and died by suicide after Wang Bo was accepted into Jiangzhou University, leaving him with unresolved regrets.
• Lin Fan offered to use Dream Conveyance instead of summoning his mother's spirit, and Wang Bo agreed to close his eyes.
• Lin Fan performed the spell, and Wang Bo fell asleep and saw his mother emerge from the mist in his dream.
• Wang Bo embraced his mother as she comforted him, while Lin Fan continued the spell for about two hours and grew sweaty from the strain.

Wang Bo woke from a dream in which he had reunited with his mother, then Lin Fan connected with Bu Xiaoyao, an overworked teenager supporting his younger sister through leukemia treatment. Lin Fan’s viewers offered to help Bu Xiaoyao, and the chapter ended with them discussing treatment and financial support.

• Wang Bo woke after two hours, remembered spending days with his mother in the dream, and thanked Lin Fan before ending the call.
• Lin Fan invited Carefree World to join the livestream, and the viewer accepted after Lin Fan mentioned saving his younger sister.
• Lin Fan identified Carefree World as Bu Xiaoyao and revealed that he had worked exhausting jobs since age fifteen to pay for his sister’s leukemia treatment.
• Bu Xiaoyao asked how Lin Fan knew his circumstances, and Lin Fan explained that he hoped viewers would help him.
• Viewers suggested that Xiao Tuantuan treat Bu Xiaoyao’s sister, while Zhou Xingxing and Boss Xiu offered to cover Bu Xiaoyao’s expenses.

Bu Xiaoyao accepted financial support from Zhou Xingxing and Boss Xiu, while Lin Fan arranged for his sister’s treatment. Lin Fan then answered Coiled Dragon’s urgent call for help after Coiled Dragon revealed that his sect had lost a dangerous magical artifact called a Smiling Face.

• Bu Xiaoyao resisted Zhou Xingxing and Boss Xiu’s offer to cover his expenses, but agreed to accept their support after Lin Fan reassured him.
• Lin Fan told Bu Xiaoyao to bring his sister to the Linjiang Wildlife Reserve so the Mountain Patrol Members could take them to his residence for treatment.
• Lin Fan sent Bu Xiaoyao’s information to Zhou Xingxing and Boss Xiu, then decided to return to Jiangzhou soon to help Flexible Little Chubby.
• Coiled Dragon messaged Lin Fan for help after his sect assigned him to recover a missing magical artifact in Xuanwu Province.
• Lin Fan connected with Coiled Dragon on the livestream, where Coiled Dragon revealed that the missing artifact was a Smiling Face and warned that its loss could cause a catastrophe.

Lin Fan guided Coiled Dragon to a temple on Turtle Mountain to retrieve the Smiling Face Mask before it killed the abbot. Coiled Dragon found that the mask had fused with the abbot’s soul, and Lin Fan revealed that only heartfelt tears could make it come off.

• Lin Fan told Coiled Dragon that the Smiling Face Mask was on the abbot at a temple on Turtle Mountain and warned that time was running out.
• Coiled Dragon ran to Turtle Mountain, using a Spirit Pill to restore his strength, while Lin Fan corrected his estimate and said the abbot had less than an hour left.
• Coiled Dragon reached the temple and found the abbot laughing uncontrollably, with the fused mask visible only as a red mark between his eyebrows.
• Lin Fan explained that the mask would not come off unless someone cried from the heart in front of the abbot.

Coiled Dragon knocked out the temple keeper to slow the Smiling Face Mask’s deadly effects, then met the keeper’s daughter, Xuanyin, who feared he was a robber until Lin Fan explained. Lin Fan said he could save the temple keeper and began discussing Xuanyin’s resentment toward her father, leaving the reason for their conflict unrevealed.

• Coiled Dragon knocked out the temple keeper and warned viewers not to imitate him.
• Xuanyin mistook Coiled Dragon for an attacker, but Lin Fan identified her as the temple keeper’s daughter and reassured her.
• Lin Fan explained that the Smiling Face Mask made its wearer laugh until their muscles stiffened and said he would save the temple keeper with an incantation.
• Lin Fan told Xuanyin that she had long wanted to inherit the temple and help people, but had grievances against her father.
• Xuanyin confirmed Lin Fan’s account and said she did not understand her father’s decision.

Lin Fan helped Xuanyin realize that her father had not barred her from inheriting the temple because she was a girl, and the Temple Master awoke free of the Smiling Face Mask’s influence. After arranging to meet Coiled Dragon’s sect elders, Lin Fan ended the livestream and checked on Su Jiaojiao, whose Cursed Power was approaching a dangerous eruption.

• Lin Fan explained to Xuanyin that her father wanted her to choose her own path, and she reconsidered her belief that he favored boys over girls.
• Xuanyin began crying as she realized she had misunderstood her father, and the Temple Master awakened after the Smiling Face Mask fell away.
• Coiled Dragon wrapped up the Smiling Face Mask, and Xuanyin asked her father whether he would rather she had been a boy or a girl.
• Coiled Dragon promised to introduce Lin Fan to his sect’s elders, and Lin Fan ended the livestream.
• Lin Fan warned that Su Jiaojiao’s Cursed Power would erupt within two days if it kept accumulating, and Su Wanwan came to see her sister.

Lin Fan prepared to perform a Soul-Refining Rite to eliminate the Cursed Power inside Su Jiaojiao, while Su Wanwan and Su Tong faced the consequences of the family curse. When Su Tong visited Su Jiaojiao, her Spirit Bodies generated Resentful Qi and caused the Cursed Power to surge, forcing Lin Fan to seal it.

• Lin Fan warned Su Wanwan that he would deal with the Cursed Power inside Su Jiaojiao at noon and left her with her sister.
• The next morning, Lin Fan discovered that all twenty-three of Su Jiaojiao’s Spirit Bodies had awakened and stopped Su Wanwan from releasing the Cursed Power.
• Lin Fan told Han Bing that the curse’s source was beyond his divination and likely came from someone at the Golden Core Stage, then began drawing talismans for the Soul-Refining Rite during his livestream.
• Su Tong visited Su Jiaojiao, apologized for tearing open her skin, and cried over the harm she had caused her daughters.
• Su Jiaojiao’s Spirit Bodies generated Resentful Qi, doubling the Cursed Power; Lin Fan stopped drawing talismans, rushed to seal it, and ordered Su Tong to leave.

Lin Fan performed a long Soul-Refining Rite to remove the Cursed Power and Spirit Bodies from Su Jiaojiao, exhausting himself in the process. After Su Jiaojiao and the Spirit Bodies vanished and Su Tong died, Lin Fan comforted Su Wanwan and left for Jiangzhou.

• Lin Fan stabilized the Cursed Power inside Su Jiaojiao, then spent the morning preparing talismans as the seals began to fail.
• Lin Fan used the Evil-Warding Sword and burning talismans to perform a Soul-Refining Rite, driving the Spirit Bodies from Su Jiaojiao while absorbing and converting her Cursed Power.
• Su Tong told Su Wanwan to live well and keep her identity secret as the rite continued for six hours.
• Lin Fan completed the rite, causing Su Jiaojiao and the Spirit Bodies to vanish; Su Tong also died after losing the Cursed Power sustaining her.
• Lin Fan explained that stopping the rite would have triggered a dangerous backlash, then reassured Su Wanwan that she might see her mother and sister again in another world.
• Lin Fan left for Jiangzhou while Han Bing stayed behind to handle the aftermath and Su Wanwan remained in her care.

Lin Fan returned to his shop in Jiangzhou and forced Nian Xiaoqian to abandon her plans to attack people, then sent her flying with a golden Hand Seal as punishment. Inside, he found preparations underway for Flexible Little Chubby’s survival, while Xu Zhixin and Radio Station Operator hoped his return would let them leave sooner.

• Lin Fan arrived on Taihe Street with Dao Tianji and Young Taoist Acolyte, sensed Nian Xiaoqian nearby, and called her down.
• Nian Xiaoqian apologized for threatening people entering the shop and admitted she had wanted Xu Zhixin and Radio Station Operator to die; Lin Fan warned her they would be punished with bad luck instead.
• Ninety Below Zero asked Lin Fan whether an old camera could capture spirit bodies, and Lin Fan told him he could try while Dao Tianji warned him against attracting unclean things.
• Lin Fan told Nian Xiaoqian that her extreme behavior required a lesson, then struck her with a golden Hand Seal that sent her spirit body flying away.
• Lin Fan entered the shop, praised Old Daoist’s preparations for Flexible Little Chubby, and met Xu Zhixin and Radio Station Operator, who asked if they could leave sooner.

Lin Fan prepared a Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation to save Flexible Little Chubby, but worried that the small temple’s immortal would attack when his lifespan increased. He recalled the Paper Effigy Substitute Technique and left to find a craftsman who could make a lifelike paper effigy.

• Lin Fan told Xu Zhixin and Radio Station Operator they could leave, while Flexible Little Chubby returned to his room to rest.
• Lin Fan refined seven pieces of jade into jade water and added it to the Seven-Star Lamps.
• Lin Fan realized that the small temple’s immortal might attack Flexible Little Chubby and considered using a paper effigy to block the first blow.
• Lin Fan remembered Taihe Street’s paper offering shops and told Dao Tianji to guard the lamps while he went to see Old Li.

Lin Fan rebuked people who demanded fortunes, then went to find Old Li for a paper figure needed to save a life. He learned Old Li was seriously ill and asked Uncle Li to make the figure within a day, though Uncle Li said the work normally required a week.

• Lin Fan silenced the crowd pursuing him for fortune-telling and explained that he could only help so many people, then pushed them back when they threatened to follow.
• Lin Fan told Young Taoist Acolyte that he rejected the Incense Path and would cultivate through his own comprehension and talent.
• Lin Fan went to the paper effigy shops at the end of Taihe Street to find Old Li and learned from the shopkeepers that Old Li was seriously ill.
• Lin Fan divined Old Li's condition and met Uncle Li, who said his paper effigy skills matched his father's.
• Lin Fan asked Uncle Li to make a life-size paper figure resembling a living person by at least seventy percent, and Uncle Li said it would take a week.
• Lin Fan explained that the paper figure was needed to save someone's life and asked whether Uncle Li could finish it in one day.

Lin Fan arranged for Uncle Li and Old Li to make a paper figure resembling a living person, then discovered that Uncle Li’s nephew was in danger after breaking a protective yellow talisman. Lin Fan saved the boy from a spirit and learned that the talisman, given to Old Li by a powerful expert thirty years earlier, had finally worn out.

• When no other shop owner could make a sufficiently realistic paper figure in one day, Lin Fan asked Uncle Li to finish it in two days with Old Li’s help, and Uncle Li agreed.
• After reading the fortunes of Uncle Li’s family, Lin Fan learned that his nephew had broken the yellow talisman on the rooftop and rushed with Uncle Li to the house.
• Lin Fan found the boy trying to stab himself with a fruit knife while a dark spirit controlled him, then drove the spirit out and destroyed it with the Evil-Warding Sword.
• The boy admitted that he had accidentally broken the talisman and hidden a piece because he feared Uncle Li would scold him.
• Lin Fan explained that the thirty-year-old talisman had been given to Old Li by an expert and had worn out from exposure to the weather and the boy’s accident.

Lin Fan saved Uncle Li’s nephew from an evil spirit and gave Old Li a Spirit Pill to extend his life. After learning that Lin Fan needed a lifelike paper figure of a living person, Old Li agreed to help make it.

• Lin Fan explained that Uncle Li’s nephew had brought grave soil home, broken the protective Yellow Talisman Paper, and allowed an evil spirit to possess him.
• Lin Fan visited Old Li, whose vitality was nearly exhausted, and used spiritual power to improve his condition.
• Lin Fan mixed a shaving of a Spirit Pill into warm water for Old Li and gave Uncle Li the pill to administer in tiny daily doses.
• Lin Fan told Uncle Li that Old Li might live a few more years but could not regain the vitality to live another ten or twenty.
• Uncle Li asked Old Li to help make a paper figure within two days, and Lin Fan clarified that it should resemble a living person and contain Yellow Talisman Paper.

Lin Fan arranged for Old Li and Li Shu to make a life-size paper effigy so he could use the Paper Effigy Substitute Technique to save Flexible Little Chubby. Afterward, he connected with Xue Lang, whose strange homecoming led Lin Fan to suspect that his mother was the one in danger.

• Old Li initially refused to make a paper effigy of a living person, but agreed after Lin Fan explained he meant to save Flexible Little Chubby with a substitute.
• Uncle Li photographed and measured Flexible Little Chubby, and Old Li and Li Shu returned to their shop to design a life-size effigy with at least a seventy-percent resemblance.
• Lin Fan kept Flexible Little Chubby safe in his shop and prepared to extend his life once the effigy was finished.
• Lin Fan connected with Xue Lang, who described a traffic accident, fog and a pungent smell in his village, and his mother's fear of the Guan Emperor Portrait.
• Lin Fan told Xue Lang that his mother, rather than Xue Lang, seemed to be the one with a problem.