Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan warned Xue Lang that Snow Armor Village was dangerous and traveled there to save him. At the village chief’s daughter’s wedding, Xue Lang discovered the villagers were using hell money as gifts and glimpsed something horrifying in the bride’s reflection.

• Lin Fan told Xue Lang to carry the Guan Emperor Portrait and attend the wedding, then set out for Snow Armor Village with Young Taoist Acolyte.
• Lin Fan left Dao Tianji behind to guard the Seven-Star Lamp while they traveled to the village.
• Xue Lang’s mother took him to the wedding banquet, where the village streets were dark despite the red lanterns and villagers seemed strangely normal.
• Xue Lang found that the wedding gifts on the table were all hell money and asked Lin Fan if the villagers were dead; Lin Fan warned him not to run.
• Villagers led Xue Lang to watch the bride get her makeup done, and he saw her face in the dressing-table mirror and cried out in shock.

Xue Lang saw the village chief’s daughter’s grotesque face but found the villagers acting as though nothing was wrong, while his mother’s presence calmed him. Lin Fan reached Snow Armor Village and learned it had been under lockdown for a week, then clashed with Murong Xiaoxiao, who doubted he could solve the crisis.

• Xue Lang saw the bride’s distorted face and ran back to the courtyard after the villagers dismissed his concerns.
• Xue Lang’s mother soothed him and reminded him to bring his camera to photograph the village chief’s family at the wedding feast.
• Lin Fan reached Snow Armor Village and was stopped by soldiers enforcing a lockdown.
• After Lin Fan identified himself and called Han Bing, Wang Xiao welcomed him and introduced Murong Xiaoxiao, who scorned his fortune-telling and combat ability.
• Lin Fan pointed out that Murong Xiaoxiao had failed to resolve the village’s crisis despite working on it for a week.
• Xue Lang admitted he did not know whether he was alive or dead, despite feeling warm and moving normally.

Lin Fan and Young Taoist Acolyte entered Snow Armor Village, where the villagers were spirits and a wedding was underway. They found Xue Lang at the village chief’s home and stayed for the banquet, where the food vanished from the guests’ plates even as the villagers appeared to eat.

• Lin Fan ignored Murong Xiaoxiao’s warning and entered Snow Armor Village with Young Taoist Acolyte, explaining that the villagers had died and become spirit bodies.
• Lin Fan used spiritual power to warm Young Taoist Acolyte as they crossed the village and reached the wedding at the village chief’s home.
• Xue Lang greeted Lin Fan and asked to leave, but Lin Fan insisted they wait until the wedding ended.
• After the wedding bows, Lin Fan and Young Taoist Acolyte sat at the banquet while Xue Lang’s mother joined them.
• Xue Lang found that the banquet plates were empty, though his mother and the other villagers appeared to be eating.

Lin Fan confronted the dead villagers of Snow Armor Village and explained that he had to perform the Soul-Refining Rite and remove the object sustaining their existence. As the village chief agreed to continue the wedding and say goodbye, Xue Lang discovered that his camera could not photograph the spirit bodies and asked Lin Fan for help.

• Lin Fan revealed that the wedding food was condensed yin energy, warned the villagers he would perform the Soul-Refining Rite, and ate some safely by converting the yin energy into spiritual power.
• The village chief arrived and objected to Lin Fan's plan, but Lin Fan explained that the villagers had died over a week earlier and that a special object was letting them live normally in Snow Armor Village.
• Lin Fan warned that the villagers' yin energy was spreading and that the evil spirit inside the object could harm others, so the village chief agreed to continue the wedding and say goodbye.
• The village chief asked Xue Lang to take a family photo, but Xue Lang's DSLR camera showed no one in the viewfinder or on the screen.
• Lin Fan explained that the villagers were spirit bodies and that seeing them through his livestream did not mean they could appear in cameras, and Xue Lang asked if Lin Fan could help preserve a record of them.

Lin Fan enabled Xue Lang to photograph Snow Armor Village’s spirit villagers and subdued Murong Xiaoxiao when she considered attacking them. After warning her about the yin energy, he headed to the Ancestral Hall to confront the thing that had killed the village, leaving its strength and the outcome unknown.

• Lin Fan attached a talisman to Xue Lang’s camera, allowing him to photograph the spirit villagers, and Xue Lang took pictures of them.
• Murong Xiaoxiao entered Snow Armor Village to test the yin energy and found it more concentrated than before.
• The spirit villagers turned toward Murong Xiaoxiao, and Lin Fan used his pressure to stop her from attacking them.
• Lin Fan warned Murong Xiaoxiao to leave before the yin energy harmed her, but she stubbornly chose to stay longer.
• The village chief warned Lin Fan that the villagers had died after leaving a discovered object in the Ancestral Hall, but Lin Fan said he would destroy it.
• Lin Fan left for the Ancestral Hall with Young Taoist Acolyte following him.

Lin Fan entered Snow Armor Village’s ancestral hall and drew out the powerful evil spirit inside a Ten-Thousand-Person Stone. The spirit reached early Foundation Establishment, leaving Murong Xiaoxiao convinced that Lin Fan could not defeat it.

• The village chief and spirit villagers followed Lin Fan toward the ancestral hall, while Xue Lang chose to stay so he could spend more time with his mother’s spirit.
• Lin Fan entered the ancestral hall with Young Taoist Acolyte and found the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone on a red table.
• Lin Fan picked up the stone and provoked the evil spirit hidden inside it to emerge.
• The evil spirit took the form of a bewitching young man and used the stone’s power to reach early Foundation Establishment.
• Murong Xiaoxiao sensed the evil spirit’s strength and doubted that Lin Fan could defeat it.

Murong Xiaoxiao sought reinforcements for Lin Fan, but her superiors told her to trust his strength. As villagers struggled to turn on the ancestral hall lights, Lin Fan absorbed the stone’s power, broke through to middle Foundation Establishment, and clashed with Bewitching Young Man, leaving everyone nearby battered by the shock wave.

• Murong Xiaoxiao warned her superiors that the evil spirit might be at middle Foundation Establishment, but they reprimanded her for underestimating Lin Fan and refused to send help.
• Xue Lang asked the village chief to turn on the ancestral hall lights, and the bride approached the entrance but lost consciousness in the dense yin energy.
• The village chief braved the yin energy, switched on the lights, and pulled his daughter back before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Lin Fan absorbed power from the stone and broke through from early to middle Foundation Establishment, while Bewitching Young Man prepared to exploit his distraction.
• Bewitching Young Man attacked Lin Fan with a Yin Blade, but Lin Fan blocked him with the Evil-Warding Sword, and the resulting shock wave sent Young Taoist Acolyte and the villagers flying and injured Murong Xiaoxiao.
• Xue Lang returned to the open ground outside the ancestral hall and stayed at its edge.

Lin Fan fought the alluring young man inside the ancestral hall, where the evil spirit drew power from the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone. Lin Fan began absorbing the stone’s power as well, leaving his opponent stunned, while Murong Xiaoxiao watched the livestream outside and regretted offending him.

• Lin Fan and the alluring young man clashed, and Lin Fan tried to weaken him with golden hand seals while the evil spirit replenished himself from the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone.
• As his spiritual power dwindled, Lin Fan bought pills from the System Mall and resumed fighting, then realized he could absorb power from the stone using the Heaven-Peering Art.
• The alluring young man discovered Lin Fan was drawing power from the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone and exclaimed that it was impossible.
• Murong Xiaoxiao watched the livestream outside the ancestral hall and realized Han Bing had stayed beside Lin Fan because she understood his strength and potential.

Lin Fan weakened the evil spirit by destroying the wronged souls fused inside it, but the spirit trapped him in a red ring of concentrated resentment. The chapter ended with Young Taoist Acolyte injured after trying to reach Lin Fan, whose condition remained unseen.

• Lin Fan discovered that his swords could destroy the wronged souls inside the evil spirit and began pouring his spiritual power into each attack.
• The evil spirit offered Lin Fan the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone in exchange for being released, but Lin Fan refused.
• The evil spirit spread a red ring around himself and Lin Fan, unleashing the resentment of more than ten thousand wronged souls against Lin Fan's consciousness.
• Young Taoist Acolyte rushed toward the red ring to help Lin Fan but was thrown back and injured.

Lin Fan resisted the bewitching young man's assault of resentment and forced him back into the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone when the evil spirit found a way to escape defeat. After storing the stone in System Storage, Lin Fan realized he might be able to contain the evil spirit there without sealing or destroying it.

• Lin Fan recited the Soul-Deliverance Canon to dispel the resentment battering his consciousness, forcing the bewitching young man to end their confrontation inside the red circle of light.
• The bewitching young man attacked Lin Fan, then used the clash to slip back into the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone.
• Lin Fan tried to provoke the bewitching young man into coming out, but the evil spirit refused and stayed hidden inside the stone.
• Lin Fan praised Young Taoist Acolyte for facing the danger bravely and said he would help him practice against evil spirits as he grew stronger.
• Lin Fan put the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone into System Storage and realized he might not need to seal or destroy the evil spirit.

Lin Fan sealed the evil spirit and gave Snow Armor Village’s spirits one final day before they had to leave. He then went with Xue Lang to reunite with his mother, whose spirit was nearly scattered by Xue Lang’s Guan Emperor Portrait.

• Lin Fan trapped the Ten-Thousand-Person Stone in System Storage, preventing the evil spirit from escaping.
• Lin Fan told the villagers he would destroy the evil spirit later and ordered them to gather at the Ancestral Hall at six the next afternoon to depart.
• Murong Xiaoxiao knelt to apologize, but Lin Fan declined to guide her and advised her to steady her temperament.
• Xue Lang hugged his mother at home, but the Guan Emperor Portrait struck her spirit body and sent her flying.
• Lin Fan told Xue Lang to take out the Guan Emperor Portrait, and Xue Lang put it away before his mother’s soul could be scattered.

Lin Fan revealed that Xue Lang was only a soul separated from his body after a car accident, and hurried him to Jiangzhou Hospital before he could lose the chance to return. Xue Lang reunited with his body, and the doctors saw his vital signs improve as he began to move.

• Xue Lang and his mother spent the night talking and exchanging farewells in Snow Armor Village.
• Lin Fan told Xue Lang that his body was in a hospital and that he would die if he remained in the village.
• Xue Lang remembered his car accident and learned that his soul had separated from his body.
• Lin Fan took Xue Lang to Jiangzhou Hospital, where doctors were still trying to resuscitate him.
• Xue Lang entered the emergency room, returned to his body, and began showing signs of recovery.

Lin Fan completed the Soul-Refining Rite for the villagers of Snow Armor Village and returned to his shop. With the paper figure for Flexible Little Chubby still unfinished, he went to Linjiang Wildlife Reserve to cultivate and strengthen himself.

• Lin Fan performed the Soul-Refining Rite through the night, sending the villagers' spirit bodies below one by one until only the village chief's family remained.
• The village chief and his family departed in a beam of white light, and Lin Fan encouraged pessimistic viewers to keep living before leaving Snow Armor Village with Young Taoist Acolyte.
• Lin Fan learned that Old Li and Li Shu needed more time to finish the paper figure and decided to cultivate rather than livestream.
• Lin Fan went to his villa in Linjiang Wildlife Reserve and entered deep meditation, drawing in spiritual energy as strange light and wind stirred across the reserve.
• Mountain Patrol Members saw the disturbance, learned Lin Fan was at the reserve, and decided not to approach his villa.

Lin Fan returned from the reserve with his cultivation stabilized and received a lifelike paper figure of Flexible Little Chubby from Uncle Li. After giving Uncle Li talismans and a magical Little Pixiu, Lin Fan prepared to use a Seven-Star Lamp in an attempt to save Flexible Little Chubby, warning him that his survival depended on the lamp burning for seven days and seven nights.

• Lin Fan stabilized his cultivation at the peak of middle Foundation Establishment, flew back to his shop, and met Uncle Li.
• Uncle Li presented Lin Fan with a paper figure that closely resembled Flexible Little Chubby, impressing Young Taoist Acolyte and the livestream viewers.
• Lin Fan gave Uncle Li ten protective yellow talismans and a magical Little Pixiu, then told Young Taoist Acolyte he could choose one of the Pixius in his room.
• Uncle Li left, and Young Taoist Acolyte brought the groggy Flexible Little Chubby to Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan told Flexible Little Chubby to sit inside the Seven-Star Lamp and explained that the lamp had to burn for seven days and nights for him to have a chance to survive.

Lin Fan activated the Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation to extend Flexible Little Chubby’s life, triggering a violent disturbance and drawing Jiangzhou’s evil spirits to the shop. As Dao Tianji fought off the attackers, an evil spirit struck him from behind and sent him crashing into a wall.

• Lin Fan lit the Seven Lamps and activated the formation, absorbing the power of heaven and earth as it descended on Flexible Little Chubby.
• Dark clouds covered Jiangzhou, the ground shook, and Lin Fan warned viewers to leave Taihe Street and go home.
• The wind blew open the windows and front door, and Lin Fan explained that the formation’s gathered life force was attracting evil spirits across Jiangzhou.
• When the talismans burned away, hordes of evil spirits rushed into the shop, and Dao Tianji fought them with Lin Fan’s Evil-Warding Sword.
• Young Taoist Acolyte spotted an evil spirit sneaking up behind Dao Tianji and shouted a warning, but Dao Tianji was struck and slammed into the wall.

Lin Fan maintained the Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation while Dao Tianji and Feng Wu fought waves of evil spirits drawn to its life aura. Qianshan and Xiao Tuantuan arrived to help, but Lin Fan remained tense, waiting for the little temple’s “immortal” to appear.

• Feng Wu joined Dao Tianji in fighting the evil spirits attacking the shop while Lin Fan reinforced the Seven-Star Lamps with spiritual power.
• Lin Fan gave Dao Tianji and Feng Wu restorative pills as they fought through two days of continuous attacks, and he contacted Han Bing, Qianshan, and Xiao Tuantuan for help.
• Qianshan and Xiao Tuantuan arrived on the third day, with Xiao Tuantuan restoring the group and Qianshan using jade beads to destroy weaker evil spirits.
• Lin Fan stayed on guard because he feared the little temple’s “immortal” would appear and doubted he could withstand its attack.

Lin Fan negotiated with the Little Temple Immortal to spare Hong Yun in exchange for bringing more worshippers to its temple, with the Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation’s success as a condition. After the immortal left, Lin Fan and the others resumed fighting evil spirits while he absorbed the power of heaven and earth, hoping to hold out for four days.

• The Little Temple Immortal appeared and crushed Lin Fan with its pressure before striking him through a wall, but Lin Fan healed himself with a spirit pill.
• Lin Fan offered to increase the Little Temple Immortal’s incense worship if it spared Hong Yun and stopped pursuing him.
• The Little Temple Immortal agreed to wait four days for the Seven-Star Life-Extending Formation to succeed, warning that failure would mean Lin Fan had to reveal how to attract worshippers and Hong Yun would die.
• The Little Temple Immortal departed, and Lin Fan told the others it was a Golden Core Stage being and that the power of heaven and earth had strengthened.
• Qianshan and the others fought the returning evil spirits while Lin Fan absorbed the power of heaven and earth, planning to use spirit pills to help everyone endure the next four days.

Lin Fan endured seven days of Heaven and Earth’s power and evil-spirit attacks to save Flexible Little Chubby, then received a generous system reward. He told Little Temple Immortal where to gain more worshippers and left viewers to find its temple on East Mountain.

• Lin Fan and Qianshan’s group fought through the final day as the Seven-Star Lamp’s flames went out one by one, while Lin Fan resisted the force trying to change Flexible Little Chubby’s fate.
• At midnight, the last flame entered Flexible Little Chubby’s brow, and the evil spirits withdrew as the child fell into a deep sleep.
• Little Temple Immortal agreed to spare Hong Yun after Lin Fan succeeded, and Lin Fan promised that worshippers would soon bring it more incense offerings.
• The system rewarded Lin Fan with the Incense Cultivation Technique and 20,000 Heavenly Secrets Points for completing the mission.
• Lin Fan told viewers that Little Temple Immortal’s temple was on East Mountain, then considered how to earn more Heavenly Secrets Points and advance his cultivation.

After waking from a two-day sleep, Lin Fan learned that viewers had flocked to East Mountain to visit Little Temple Immortal, whose growing incense wish power delighted it. He helped Flexible Little Chubby recover but refused his savings, then resumed his livestream and invited Ninety Below Zero to visit his shop.

• Viewers traveled to East Mountain, where Little Temple Immortal welcomed their offerings and gained incense wish power by listening to their troubles.
• Lin Fan woke after sleeping for two days and discovered that he was close to breaking through to late Foundation Establishment.
• Xiao Tuantuan served Lin Fan a meal, and he confirmed through divination that many viewers had visited East Mountain.
• Flexible Little Chubby thanked Lin Fan for saving his life and offered him his savings, but Lin Fan refused the bank card and sent him home.
• Young Taoist Acolyte returned Lin Fan's phone, and Lin Fan invited Ninety Below Zero to visit his shop.

Lin Fan told Wang Gudan that he could die in an accident connected to the woman he had fallen for, whom he met while swimming. Wang Gudan feared she might be a serial killer, while viewers urged him to seek help.

• Lin Fan announced that Xiao Tuantuan had treated the ill viewers and arranged for her to see patients at Linjiang Wildlife Reserve after her training in Xizhou.
• Xiao Tuantuan and Qianshan left for Xizhou, and Lin Fan asked her to tell the village doctor spirit body that he had found an Incense Cultivation Technique for her.
• Lin Fan connected with Wang Gudan and revealed that the twenty-nine-year-old had never been in a relationship until he met a woman who made his heart flutter three days earlier.
• Lin Fan warned Wang Gudan that he would have a swimming accident at this time the next day and that even avoiding the river would not prevent an incident that night.
• Lin Fan said the woman was closely connected to Wang Gudan's coming accident, prompting him and the viewers to wonder whether she might be a serial killer.