Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan revealed that the woman Wang Gudan liked was a headless murder victim’s spirit, which planned to drown him so they could be together. Lin Fan brought Wang Gudan to Jiangzhou Great River to draw out the spirit and perform a Soul-Refining Rite, leaving him poised to put his hand in the water.

• Lin Fan told Wang Gudan that the woman would cause his death, and Jiangzhou Uncle Cop confirmed a dismembered woman had been found near Jiangzhou Great River three days earlier.
• Lin Fan explained that the woman was a spirit possessing only her head and sent the killer’s information to Jiangzhou Uncle Cop, who rushed to make an arrest.
• Lin Fan told Wang Gudan the spirit intended to drown him and agreed to perform a Soul-Refining Rite rather than destroy her.
• Wang Gudan hurried to Lin Fan’s shop, and Lin Fan took him with Young Taoist Acolyte to the riverbank.
• Lin Fan pushed Wang Gudan toward the water and told him to put his hand in so the spirit would come, assuring him he was there to protect him.

Lin Fan subdued and delivered the spirit in a young woman’s head, then reassured Wang Gudan that he would find love in five years. He resumed his livestream and connected with He Yun, a new hotel server whose workplace has an unusually high staff turnover.

• He Yingxiong arrived with police as Wang Gudan put his hand in the river and the young woman’s head approached him.
• Lin Fan immobilized the head with his power and a Yellow Talisman Paper, then used a Daoist scripture to deliver its spirit.
• Lin Fan told Wang Gudan he would have poor romantic luck for five years before meeting someone he liked.
• Lin Fan returned to his shop, warned viewers about walking alone at night, and said he would connect with more viewers.
• Lin Fan connected with He Yun and divined her background, including her new job at the Pingzhou Grand Hotel.
• He Yun described the hotel’s unusually high turnover despite its good working conditions, and Boss Xiu was asked whether he knew the proprietress.

Lin Fan warned He Yun that a woman was targeting her and that her life was in danger that night. Police arrived at the Pingzhou Grand Hotel to arrest its female owner, and He Yun followed them to the top floor as they prepared to confront her.

• Lin Fan told He Yun that someone intended to harm her and identified the person as a woman.
• Lin Fan said he had contacted Pingzhou Uncle Cop, and police arrived at the hotel with search and arrest warrants.
• He Yun suspected the hotel’s single female owner and followed the police into the elevator.
• Captain Uncle Cop told He Yun to stay behind the officers because the owner might be dangerous.
• The police reached the top floor, prepared for a confrontation with the hotel owner.

Lin Fan helped the police expose the Pingzhou Grand Hotel proprietress as a serial killer who murdered thirty-six waitresses and planned to kill He Yun. The proprietress was arrested after officers found the evidence, while He Yun struggled to accept what she had learned and asked why the woman targeted waitresses.

• The proprietress stayed composed when police arrived, but became uneasy after Lin Fan said the evidence was in her home.
• The proprietress rushed toward He Yun after learning Lin Fan was involved, and the police handcuffed her.
• The proprietress begged Lin Fan to spare her and offered him the Pingzhou Grand Hotel, but he refused and revealed she had killed numerous waitresses.
• A police officer reported finding body parts from thirty-six girls and videos of the proprietress committing the murders.
• Lin Fan told He Yun that the proprietress had planned to make her part of her collection, and the proprietress admitted she had hidden the evidence behind extensive security.

Lin Fan helped expose the proprietress’s murders, and the police issued a notice identifying the victims. He then connected with graduate student Feng Xiaojun, who asked Lin Fan to help his advisor, Professor Wang Wei, whose frightening visions had been mistaken for a mental illness.

• The proprietress confessed to murdering the waitresses and collecting their body parts after the police confronted her with the evidence.
• Lin Fan reassured He Yun and warned her to be less trusting, while she went with Captain Uncle Cop to give a statement.
• The police published a notice about the murdered girls, revealing to their families that the proprietress had deceived them with fake letters about their daughters working abroad.
• Lin Fan invited Feng Xiaojun onto the livestream and learned that the graduate student wanted help for his advisor.
• Lin Fan described how Professor Wang Wei had spent three months seeing a woman glare at him, despite doctors dismissing the visions as stress-related hallucinations.

Feng Xiaojun asked Lin Fan to help his adviser, Wang Wei, whom Lin Fan confirmed was being tormented by a spirit body. Lin Fan sent Feng Xiaojun to visit Wang Wei, where the spirit’s presence became apparent, and Wang Wei again saw her at the bedroom door.

• Feng Xiaojun explained that Wang Wei’s condition had worsened despite treatment and asked Lin Fan for help.
• Lin Fan confirmed Feng Xiaojun’s suspicion that a spirit body was haunting Wang Wei and told him to visit his adviser.
• Feng Xiaojun entered Wang Wei’s apartment and felt the unusual cold, while Lin Fan spotted a resentful woman’s spirit in the room.
• Feng Xiaojun found Wang Wei hiding in bed and tried to calm him, but Wang Wei saw the woman at the bedroom door and asked whether Feng Xiaojun could see her.
• Feng Xiaojun told Wang Wei that he believed him.

Lin Fan explained that a spirit body had targeted Wang Wei because Wang Wei rescued the substitute she had chosen. Lin Fan performed a Soul-Refining Rite remotely and sent the spirit body away, leaving Wang Wei free of her torment.

• Feng Xiaojun showed Wang Wei Lin Fan on the livestream, but Wang Wei doubted Lin Fan was a genuine master.
• Lin Fan asked about Wang Wei rescuing a student at the E District Teaching Building three months earlier and explained that the woman in red had been seeking a substitute.
• The woman in red admitted that Wang Wei had found a capable master, then mocked the masters she had driven away before.
• Lin Fan recited a Daoist scripture through the phone and used a Soul-Refining Rite to overpower the woman in red.
• After about ten minutes, Lin Fan sent the woman in red below, and Feng Xiaojun noticed the room warming as Wang Wei's torment ended.

Lin Fan helped Wang Wei overcome his distress from seeing Spirit Bodies, then discovered that the E District Teaching Building had a dangerously chaotic magnetic field. After Lin Fan proposed renovations, Wang Wei agreed to bring the design to Yunzhou University’s administrators, and Lin Fan began connecting with another viewer.

• Feng Xiaojun thanked Lin Fan, and Wang Wei thanked him for ending the torment that had troubled him for three months.
• Lin Fan warned Wang Wei that problems could recur at the E District Teaching Building, so Feng Xiaojun showed its layout to the livestream viewers.
• Lin Fan urged Wang Wei to test the building’s magnetic field, and the instrument confirmed it was extremely chaotic and could weaken people over time.
• Lin Fan drew a renovation design, and Wang Wei promised to present it to the university’s administrators.
• Lin Fan ended the call, calculated that Wang Wei’s fate had changed and the building would be renovated, then invited another viewer to connect.

Lin Fan reunited with Wang Xiaohua’s older sister, Koi Madam, and investigated why her Pingzhou tea shop had lost its customers. He revealed that the rival shop’s owner had used a wealth-blocking spirit body against her, leaving Sister Wang shocked by the betrayal.

• Lin Fan recognized Koi Madam as Wang Xiaohua’s older sister and learned that her tea shop was deep in debt.
• Sister Wang showed viewers her shop, while Boss Xiu explained that he had felt an unexplained resistance and gone to the shop opposite instead.
• Lin Fan said Asheng Tea Shop’s arrival coincided with Sister Wang’s customers disappearing and other shops losing business.
• Lin Fan revealed that Asheng’s owner had an expert place a wealth-blocking spirit body at Sister Wang’s entrance to turn customers away.
• Sister Wang said Asheng’s owner had acted like a friend and often visited her shop, and she was shocked that he had plotted against her.

Lin Fan removed the wealth-blocking spirit body troubling Sister Wang’s tea shop, then rushed to Pingzhou after sensing the Daoist who had subdued it was coming to retaliate. He arrived at Koi Tea Shop and calmly drank tea while the Daoist prepared to confront him from Asheng Tea Shop.

• Lin Fan explained that Asheng Tea Shop’s owner had likely blocked Sister Wang’s wealth, then used a Soul-Deliverance Canon rite to destroy the spirit body at her entrance.
• The middle-aged Daoist in Pingzhou sensed the spirit body’s destruction, spat blood, and drove toward Sister Wang’s tea district.
• Lin Fan learned the Daoist was approaching, took the jade Pixiu, and flew to Pingzhou on the Pure Yang Magical Sword after ending his livestream.
• Lin Fan arrived at Koi Tea Shop, restarted his livestream, and asked Sister Wang to serve him tea while he sensed the Daoist across the street.
• The middle-aged Daoist confirmed the spirit body had been destroyed and ordered Asheng to bring him stone lions and a large mirror.

Lin Fan identified the stone lion and mirror outside Sister Wang’s shop as Feng Shui attacks and restored the shop’s magnetic fields while arranging for Boss Xiu to come help. He then revealed that Sister Wang was pregnant again after years of a troubled relationship, leaving her to explain that her boyfriend had pursued her before their initially happy relationship deteriorated.

• Lin Fan recognized the stone lion outside Koi Tea Shop as Tiger’s Mouth Sha and restored the shop’s magnetic fields.
• The middle-aged Taoist had A Sheng’s employees set up a mirror to channel baleful qi toward Sister Wang’s shop, while Lin Fan told her to wait for Boss Xiu.
• Lin Fan said Sister Wang’s love life had been troubled and revealed that she had dated her boyfriend for six years and was pregnant again after he had repeatedly refused to marry her.
• Sister Wang explained that her eighteen-year-old boyfriend had pursued her for a year when she was twenty-nine, and she said their first two years together had been happy.

Lin Fan helped Sister Wang face the truth about her boyfriend and outfitted the Koi Tea Shop with a Bagua Mirror and Pixiu carving to counter the Asheng Tea Shop’s form sha. When the middle-aged Taoist confronted him, Lin Fan’s overwhelming might revealed the gap between them.

• Lin Fan told Sister Wang that her boyfriend had no intention of marrying her and that she would find better partners after moving on.
• Boss Xiu brought Lin Fan a century-old Bagua Mirror, which Lin Fan refurbished with spiritual energy.
• Lin Fan hung the Bagua Mirror at the Koi Tea Shop and placed a Pixiu carving in its wealth position, reflecting the baleful qi back at the Asheng Tea Shop.
• The reflected baleful qi injured the middle-aged Taoist and shattered his mirror and Stone Lion.
• The middle-aged Taoist confronted Lin Fan at the Koi Tea Shop, and Lin Fan warned him to leave if he had come to cause trouble.
• Lin Fan released a wisp of might, forcing the middle-aged Taoist to realize how greatly Lin Fan surpassed him.

Lin Fan exposed the middle-aged Taoist’s repeated use of harmful form sha and crippled his cultivation after discovering he planned to continue. The Taoist left vowing revenge, while Sister Wang thanked Lin Fan and gave him a valuable tea cake.

• Lin Fan confronted the middle-aged Taoist over the deaths and harm caused by his form sha, and the man admitted he knew the risks.
• The middle-aged Taoist offered to hand over the Asheng Tea Shop and give Sister Wang ten gold bars, but Lin Fan divined that he planned to harm competitors again.
• Lin Fan refused to let him go and shattered his dantian, crippling his cultivation before warning others not to scheme against Sister Wang.
• The middle-aged Taoist left with Asheng, then asked him to investigate Lin Fan and said he would seek help from his senior brother.
• Sister Wang thanked Lin Fan for saving her and gave him a valuable tea cake, which Lin Fan accepted after she insisted.

Lin Fan discovered that Huzi’s pregnant wife had a Child-Giving Bodhisattva tattoo that would cost her life when she gave birth. He told Huzi that removing the tattoo could save his wife but would mean losing the unborn child.

• Lin Fan stayed at Koi Tea Shop to livestream and welcomed local viewers who planned to visit him.
• Lin Fan connected with Huzi and revealed details about his marriage and his wife’s recent pregnancy.
• Lin Fan explained that Huzi’s wife had become pregnant after visiting a village yin-yang practitioner, who had given her a Child-Giving Bodhisattva tattoo.
• Lin Fan warned Huzi that his wife would die when the child was born and said that removing the tattoo could save her, but the baby would be lost.
• A woman with a slightly rounded belly appeared behind Huzi.

Lin Fan stopped Huzi and Xiao Ying from removing Xiao Ying’s tattoo, then devised a plan to protect her unborn son and help her have children in the future. He promised to make protective jade carvings and told the couple to accumulate good deeds to gradually change their fate.

• Xiao Ying revealed that she was willing to risk her life to give Huzi a child, but Huzi said he would rather stay with her and planned to have her tattoo removed.
• Lin Fan received a system mission to change Xiao Ying’s fate so she could have both a son and a daughter, and realized her unborn child was a boy.
• As Huzi and Xiao Ying prepared to leave for the village’s yin-yang practitioner, Lin Fan called them back and said removing the tattoo would cost them the child.
• Lin Fan devised a plan involving Xiao Tuantuan’s medical methods and jade carvings of the Child-Giving Guanyin, peace buckles, and peace locks to protect Xiao Ying and her children.
• Huzi offered Lin Fan five apartments in exchange for saving Xiao Ying and the child, but Lin Fan declined and urged the couple to do good deeds to change their fate.

Lin Fan refused Huzi’s offer of five apartments and told him and Xiao Ying to use the rental income for good deeds, then prepared protective jade carvings for their future children. After viewers crowded the Koi Tea Shop, Lin Fan asked them not to disrupt nearby businesses, and he went to Pingzhou’s jade market with Boss Xiu to buy high-quality jade.

• Lin Fan refused Huzi’s five apartments and urged Huzi and Xiao Ying to use the rental income for good deeds to improve their children’s destinies.
• Lin Fan told Huzi that Xiao Ying was carrying a boy and would later have a girl, and warned that both children must wear their jade pendants and locks constantly.
• Lin Fan declined Boss Xiu’s suggestion to ask the Ma Family for jade and headed with Boss Xiu to Pingzhou’s jade market.
• Viewers crowded the Koi Tea Shop to seek Lin Fan’s fortune-telling, so Sister Wang contacted him and police officers arrived to keep order.
• Lin Fan asked viewers not to gather in ways that disrupted nearby businesses, then sensed unusual auras at the jade market and began buying jade for magical artifacts.

Lin Fan bought over a million yuan worth of jade in the market and accepted an additional bag from Ma Xian. Back at the Koi Tea Shop, he agreed to tell the waiting viewers’ fortunes and began with a parent worried about their daughter.

• Lin Fan bought jade from stalls throughout the market, spending over a million yuan before deciding he had enough.
• A man delivered a large bag of jade from Ma Xian, and Lin Fan accepted it and asked Boss Xiu to carry it.
• Lin Fan explained that Ma Xian and Ma Jin would worry if he refused the gift.
• A crowd of viewers surrounded Lin Fan outside the Koi Tea Shop, so he told them to line up for readings until ten that night.
• Lin Fan began telling fortunes and reassured one viewer that their daughter had gone to Dongzhou to meet an online friend and was safe.

Lin Fan spent the day telling fortunes at the Koi Tea Shop, earning two hundred thousand Heavenly Secrets Points before ending his livestream at ten. When the crowd demanded he continue, he refunded their gifts double and went inside to rest, where he found Sister Wang’s room unexpectedly awkward.

• Lin Fan rapidly told fortunes for the waiting viewers, and the growing crowd outside the Koi Tea Shop continued to swell.
• After eating and resting briefly, Lin Fan resumed fortune-telling and accumulated two hundred thousand Heavenly Secrets Points by ten that night.
• Lin Fan ended the livestream and told the crowd he would stop for the day, but some viewers heckled him and demanded that he keep working.
• Lin Fan used his Might to silence the crowd, then calculated their bank details and refunded each heckler twice the value of their gifts.
• Lin Fan entered the Koi Tea Shop to rest in Sister Wang’s room and found some unmentionable garments on the bed.

Lin Fan carved and began refining a Child-Giving Bodhisattva from jade while viewers watched Boss Xiu’s livestream. Meanwhile, a crippled Daoist sought help from his senior brother, who recognized Lin Fan and revealed that many cultivators resented him.

• Sister Wang and Boss Xiu stayed at the shop while viewers discussed Lin Fan’s fatigue, and some left the Eastern District.
• After two hours of meditation, Lin Fan selected jade and began carving a Child-Giving Bodhisattva, Peace Buttons, and Peace Locks.
• Boss Xiu livestreamed Lin Fan’s glowing carving to the group chat, and Lin Fan completed the statue before beginning to refine it with flames.
• A middle-aged Daoist told his senior brother that Lin Fan had crippled him after he helped someone open a source of wealth for a tea business.
• The young Daoist said many cultivators loathed Lin Fan and asked his junior brother what had happened.

Lin Fan finished refining jade magical artifacts for Huzi’s children, Boss Xiu, and Sister Wang, then returned to Taihe Street to focus on Huzi and Xiaoying’s situation. Meanwhile, a Taoist whose cultivation Lin Fan had crippled came to the Koi Tea Shop with his senior brother, intent on revenge.

• Lin Fan completed five high-quality jade carvings for Huzi’s children and put the exhausted Boss Xiu to sleep with spiritual power.
• Lin Fan refined three peace buckle pendants for Boss Xiu’s daughters and a pixiu and peace buckle pendant for Sister Wang, then placed the pixiu in the Koi Tea Shop’s wealth position.
• Lin Fan meditated to restore his mental energy, gave Boss Xiu and Sister Wang their jade carvings, and left the tea shop street.
• Lin Fan told the gathered viewers he would hold more special fortune-telling sessions later, then flew back to Taihe Street and encouraged Young Taoist Acolyte to work harder at cultivation.
• The middle-aged Taoist and his senior brother arrived at the Koi Tea Shop, where A Sheng warned them about Lin Fan’s strength; the middle-aged Taoist slapped A Sheng and refused to abandon his revenge.