Chapter Summaries

Cloudwater Daoist abducted Sister Wang to force Lin Fan to cripple his cultivation, so Lin Fan ended his livestream and headed to the Cloudwater Daoist Temple with Han Bing. They reached the temple, where Boss Xiu revealed that he had been thrown out after trying to investigate.

• Cloudwater Daoist abducted Sister Wang from the Koi Tea Shop and left word for Lin Fan to come to the Cloudwater Daoist Temple.
• Boss Xiu called Lin Fan, who ended his livestream and asked Han Bing to drive him to Yunzhou.
• Han Bing warned Lin Fan against acting rashly and considered contacting her superiors, but ultimately stayed silent.
• Lin Fan and Han Bing reached the mountain summit, where Boss Xiu appeared and said the temple's people had kicked him out.

Lin Fan rescued Sister Wang from Daoist Yunshui, severed Yunshui’s hand, and crippled his cultivation after Yunshui threatened her. The higher-ups warned Lin Fan that Yunshui’s powerful master might seek him out, while Yunshui and his fellow Daoist reached a cave in the mountains.

• Lin Fan entered the temple and found Daoist Yunshui holding Sister Wang hostage, demanding that Lin Fan cripple himself.
• Daoist Yunshui slapped Sister Wang and dismissed Han Bing’s warning that he would face punishment for harming an ordinary person.
• Lin Fan cut off Daoist Yunshui’s hand, rescued Sister Wang, and shattered Yunshui’s dantian and meridians before crippling his legs.
• Han Bing stopped Lin Fan from killing Daoist Yunshui, and Lin Fan left the temple with Sister Wang.
• The higher-ups learned Yunshui and the middle-aged Daoist had disappeared, and Han Bing warned Lin Fan that Yunshui’s master might come after him.
• The middle-aged Daoist brought the injured Daoist Yunshui to a cave deep in the mountains of Nanzhou.

Longyue Daoist learned from his disciples that Lin Fan had crippled them and decided to confront him, while Lin Fan refused the higher-ups’ demand that he apologize and cripple his cultivation. After Longyue Daoist sent a challenge letter, Lin Fan chose Linjiang Wildlife Reserve for a battle to the death.

• Cloudwater Daoist and the middle-aged Daoist told Longyue Daoist a distorted account of how Lin Fan had crippled them, and Longyue Daoist healed Cloudwater Daoist’s injuries before leaving the mountain.
• Lin Fan sensed danger connected to Cloudwater Daoist and the middle-aged Daoist, then postponed helping Huzi and Xiaoying to avoid putting them at risk.
• Han Bing told Lin Fan that Longyue Daoist had persuaded the higher-ups to demand an apology and that Lin Fan reduce his cultivation to Qi Refining, but Lin Fan refused and told Longyue Daoist to come find him.
• Han Bing relayed Lin Fan’s refusal to the higher-ups, and Lin Fan separately told them he would not back down or apologize.
• Longyue Daoist arranged to send Lin Fan a challenge letter proposing a match in three days, and Lin Fan chose Linjiang Wildlife Reserve and declared it would be a battle to the death.

Lin Fan told factory worker A Ming that his visions of a faceless woman were hallucinations caused by two months of exhausting overtime, not a spirit body. He warned A Ming that he risked going insane without rest and advised him to get a medical certificate after seeing a psychiatrist.

• Lin Fan went live and warned viewers that he might have less time to stream while he dealt with recent problems.
• A Ming told Lin Fan that he had seen a faceless woman in a red dress in an alley and glimpsed a red figure after waking.
• Lin Fan explained that A Ming's extreme sleep deprivation and mental strain had caused hallucinations.
• A Ming said he could not take time off because he feared losing his job and needed his income for his mortgage.
• Lin Fan warned A Ming that his condition could worsen and advised him to see a psychiatrist to obtain a medical certificate.

Lin Fan revealed that Wang Lulu’s friends had written wishes on mysterious wishing paper and said their wishes were coming true. Wang Lulu dismissed the claim, insisting his friend had not won the five million he wished for.

• Lin Fan ended Ah Ming’s call after advising him to let change come when he was ready.
• Lin Fan called Wang Lulu, whose forehead bore black qi, and learned that he doubted fortune-telling.
• Lin Fan recounted how Wang Lulu had received six sheets of wishing paper from an old woman and shared them with five friends.
• Lin Fan said the five friends’ wishes were coming true one by one.
• Wang Lulu rejected Lin Fan’s claim and mocked the idea that his friend had won five million in the lottery.

Lin Fan revealed that Wang Lulu’s friends A Ken and Hua Shao had their wishes granted by the wishing paper, but warned that the wishes consumed their future luck and would lead to deadly consequences. Wang Lulu tried to warn them and, as Hua Shao arrived, faced the chance to intervene.

• Lin Fan persuaded Wang Lulu to call A Ken, who confirmed he had become general manager after the previous manager was arrested.
• Wang Lulu called Hua Shao, who revealed he had won five million in the lottery and was on his way to visit.
• Lin Fan explained that A Ken would pay with his life and Hua Shao would remain unconscious forever, unless they gave up everything they had gained.
• Wang Lulu tried calling A Ken and sent him a message urging him to resign, then called Hua Shao but got no answer.
• Wang Lulu saw Hua Shao standing across the road outside his home as he arrived, and realized the danger Lin Fan had predicted.

Wang Lulu tried to stop Hua Shao from claiming the five million promised by a wish paper, but Hua Shao was struck by a car and left unconscious. Lin Fan explained the wishes’ costs and began revealing the fate of Wang Lulu’s other friends, leaving Yue’er’s price undisclosed.

• Wang Lulu warned Hua Shao that claiming his five million would leave him in a vegetative state, but Hua Shao rejected the warning and crossed the road.
• An out-of-control sedan hit Hua Shao, and Wang Lulu took the lottery ticket from his pocket but waited for a doctor’s diagnosis before deciding whether to destroy it.
• Lin Fan told Wang Lulu that the wishes came from a being who could be angered, and that his friends could be safe if they gave up what they had gained.
• Wang Lulu stayed behind when the ambulance took Hua Shao to the hospital and asked Lin Fan about his three other friends.
• Lin Fan revealed that Yue’er had wished for one million and eternal beauty, and that she would have received wealth in the future but now had to pay a price.

Wang Lulu rushed to warn Yue'er that the wishes she had written were coming true at a terrible cost. After she received the promised million, he pleaded with Lin Fan to save her.

• Wang Lulu hurried to Yue'er's home and warned her that Young Master Hua's lottery wish had come true and that A-Ken would die that night.
• Yue'er checked Young Master Hua's winning lottery numbers and confirmed his wife had said he was in the hospital after an accident.
• Wang Lulu urged Yue'er to abandon her million-yuan and eternal-youth wishes, but she said she had received no money and had only been sleeping.
• Yue'er's colleague called to say she had earned a million-yuan commission, and the company transferred the money immediately.
• Wang Lulu saw that Yue'er had received the million and pleaded with Lin Fan to save her.

Lin Fan explained that Yue'er’s wishes would bring a year of misfortune and force her into cryogenic freezing, even if she refused the program. As Yue'er panicked, Wang Lulu confessed his long-held love for her, and Lin Fan proposed luring the Wish Paper’s source out so he could negotiate about Yue'er.

• Lin Fan said Yue'er would lose her job and face bad luck after wishing for a million, while a cryogenic-freezing program would fulfill her wish to stay young forever.
• Yue'er refused the researchers who arrived to offer cryogenic freezing, but Lin Fan warned that the Wish Paper would still make her sign a contract and be frozen.
• Lin Fan offered a Spirit Pill as a way to fulfill Yue'er's wish himself, but explained that the Wish Paper's power would still exact a price unless he negotiated with its source.
• Wang Lulu knelt and begged Lin Fan to save Yue'er, then confessed that he had loved her since childhood.
• Yue'er thanked Wang Lulu but said she loved A Ken, and Lin Fan told Wang Lulu to write a wish to lure the source out so he could negotiate about Yue'er.

Lin Fan explained that the wishing paper had brought deadly consequences for Wang Lulu’s friends, then helped Wang Lulu reach Xiao Wu before the Peach Blossom Talisman’s danger could claim him. Xiao Wu left the hotel to help his friends, but learned that the talisman would keep drawing women to him and that resisting temptation would determine whether he survived.

• Lin Fan told Wang Lulu that Xiao Wu’s Peach Blossom Talisman and Li Jinwei’s wish for his dead son could both lead to their deaths, though Wang Lulu could temporarily save them.
• Wang Lulu decided to rescue Xiao Wu, and Lin Fan agreed to go help negotiate with the old woman behind the wishing paper.
• Wang Lulu and Yue'er found Xiao Wu at a hotel surrounded by women, and Lin Fan explained that the Peach Blossom Talisman had merged into Xiao Wu’s soul.
• Wang Lulu reminded Xiao Wu that Hua Shao, Yue'er, A Ken, and Li Jinwei were in danger, prompting Xiao Wu to leave the hotel with him.
• Wang Lulu explained the situation in the car, and Lin Fan warned Xiao Wu that women would keep seeking him out wherever he went.
• Xiao Wu said he trusted Lin Fan because he had followed his livestream for two months and believed Lin Fan could predict even city-level disasters.

Xiao Wu chose to keep enjoying his extraordinary luck with women despite knowing it would eventually cost him his life. Lin Fan helped Li Jinwei’s son’s spirit leave its skeleton, but Li Jinwei still wanted to see his dead son again, leaving Lin Fan to warn that he could offer only limited protection.

• Xiao Wu admitted he would refuse Lin Fan’s help because he did not want to lose his luck with women, and Wang Lulu accepted that he had made his own choice.
• Lin Fan joined Wang Lulu and the others at Li Jinwei’s home, where they found Li Jinwei’s son’s mud-covered skeleton standing inside.
• Lin Fan immobilized the skeleton and performed a Soul-Refining Rite, after which the spirit left the house to return to the earth.
• Lin Fan explained that the spirit had controlled the skeleton and would return, while Li Jinwei confessed that he still wanted to see and speak with his son.
• Lin Fan warned that Li Jinwei’s son might take his life and said that the talismans he could leave would each protect Li Jinwei only once.

Lin Fan gave Li Jinwei ten Evil-Warding Talismans so he could see his deceased son, despite the cost to his luck, then helped Wang Lulu write his wish to be with Yue'er. As night fell at Yue'er's house, Wang Lulu worried about A Ken, and Lin Fan said A Ken's situation was different.

• Li Jinwei accepted ten Evil-Warding Talismans from Lin Fan, choosing to see his son even though each encounter would consume his luck.
• Lin Fan warned Xiao Wu not to blame others for the consequences of his choices, then told Wang Lulu to write his original wish on the wishing paper.
• Wang Lulu wrote that he wished to be with Yue'er, and Lin Fan said they would not end up together, though the night might fulfill the wish in some way.
• Lin Fan and the others returned to Yue'er's house and waited through the night with all the lights on.
• Wang Lulu asked whether A Ken could escape danger if the old woman came, and Lin Fan replied that A Ken was different from them.

Lin Fan confronted the old woman who had lured Wang Lulu away and fought her after she refused to release him and Yue'er. He won the duel, and the old woman agreed to spare them but insisted on taking the fortunes of the other four.

• A blackout left Wang Lulu under the old woman's control, and Lin Fan followed him with Yue'er and the others to a corner of the residential complex.
• The old woman appeared in Yue'er's likeness and offered to fulfill Wang Lulu's wish; Lin Fan revealed himself and asked her to spare Wang Lulu and Yue'er.
• The old woman refused to abandon the terms of the Wish Paper deal, so Lin Fan offered ten magical artifacts and challenged her to a fight.
• Lin Fan and the old woman fought with their magical weapons until she stopped, realizing he could replenish his spiritual power faster than she could.
• The old woman conceded defeat and agreed to let Wang Lulu and Yue'er go, but said she would still take the fortunes of the other four.

Lin Fan saved Wang Lulu, Yue'er, and Hua Shao from the old woman's scheme, then prepared for his coming fight with Longyue Daoist. While Lin Fan cultivated at Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, masked men attacked his shop on Taihe Street.

• Lin Fan forced the old woman to give up taking Hua Shao's fortune and agreed that she could take one year of Yue'er's fortune, while she destroyed Wang Lulu's Wish Paper.
• Wang Lulu, Yue'er, and Xiao Wu returned home with Lin Fan, and Wang Lulu thanked him for saving them.
• Wang Lulu learned that A Ken had died after his wish came true, and he went to the hospital with Yue'er and Xiao Wu to see him.
• Lin Fan failed to learn more about Longyue Daoist, bought several magical artifacts from the System Mall, and went to Linjiang Wildlife Reserve to cultivate.
• A group of masked people charged down Taihe Street and ordered their companions to smash Lin Fan's shop to please Longyue Daoist.

Masked attackers tried to smash Lin Fan’s shop, but Feng Wu, Dao Tianji, and Han Bing stopped them and the authorities took them into custody. After resuming his cultivation at Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, Lin Fan invited Longyue Daoist to come meet him, leaving their confrontation imminent.

• A group of masked people attacked Lin Fan’s shop, where Dao Tianji fought a cultivator while Han Bing battled a burly man and Feng Wu drove off the attackers.
• Feng Wu incapacitated more than a hundred masked people as viewers watched the fight on a livestream.
• Dao Tianji and Han Bing continued fighting until Feng Wu stepped in and defeated their opponents, then Han Bing’s superiors took the attackers away for questioning.
• At Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, Lin Fan calculated that Longyue Daoist’s followers had attacked his shop and resumed cultivating after confirming Feng Wu could handle the situation.
• After another day of cultivation, Lin Fan asked Han Bing to tell her superiors that Longyue Daoist could come to Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, where Longyue Daoist and his two disciples were already staying nearby.

Lin Fan confronted Longyue Daoist over his disciples’ crimes and moved their fight to a mountain to protect the wildlife reserve. The battle began as Lin Fan blocked the moonlight that was strengthening Longyue Daoist.

• Longyue Daoist entered Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, marveled at its spiritual energy, and planned to claim it as his cultivation home after defeating Lin Fan.
• Han Bing and her subordinates arrived to monitor the duel, followed by Dao Tianji, the Young Taoist Acolyte, and Feng Wu.
• Lin Fan challenged Longyue Daoist to a fight to the death and accused him of enabling his disciples’ harmful actions.
• Lin Fan and Longyue Daoist moved to a mountain, while the Young Taoist Acolyte began livestreaming the confrontation.
• Lin Fan noticed moonlight strengthening Longyue Daoist, then used a huge talisman to block it as Longyue Daoist drew his sword.

Lin Fan and Longyue Daoist fought on the mountaintop, trading magical artifacts as their battle escalated. Lin Fan gained the advantage with the God-Striking Whip and attacked Longyue Daoist with two flying swords, whose next move remained unresolved.

• Longyue Daoist struck Lin Fan’s Heaven-Covering Talisman but was thrown back by its power.
• Longyue Daoist used rusty scissors to corrode the Heaven-Covering Talisman, which then consumed the scissors before turning to ash.
• Lin Fan and Longyue Daoist clashed with the Nine-Section Whip and long sword, and their impact destroyed the mountaintop and left Longyue Daoist coughing blood.
• Lin Fan revealed that his Nine-Section Whip was the perfect-grade God-Striking Whip, then told Longyue Daoist the fight was to the death.
• Lin Fan sent the Pure Yang Magical Sword and Evil-Warding Sword after Longyue Daoist, who blocked them only for the swords to turn and attack again.

Longyue Daoist used a forbidden technique powered by moonlight to raise his cultivation to Foundation Establishment peak, and his attack wounded Lin Fan. As Longyue Daoist advanced, Lin Fan prepared to keep fighting despite the disadvantage, with his next breakthrough close at hand.

• Young Taoist Acolyte told the livestream viewers that his senior brother had taught him, Han Bing, and Dao Tianji the Flying Sword Art, and Dao Tianji stopped him from revealing more.
• Longyue Daoist used Moon Kill, sacrificing twenty years of lifespan and halting his cultivation progress for ten years to draw on moonlight and reach Foundation Establishment peak.
• Han Bing openly encouraged Lin Fan, and her subordinates accepted her explanation that he deserved their respect for helping and saving people.
• Longyue Daoist struck Lin Fan with the Crescent Moon Saber, and the clash sent a shock wave across the surrounding peaks.
• Lin Fan coughed up blood and realized Longyue Daoist could maintain his enhanced strength, but he chose to keep fighting as he neared a breakthrough.

Lin Fan fought Longyue Daoist through the night as Longyue used moonlight and a forbidden technique to reach Foundation Establishment Peak. Lin Fan kept healing and growing stronger amid the battle, but Longyue’s saber overwhelmed his talisman shield, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Lin Fan prepared for the fight by swallowing Spirit Pills and clashed head-on with Longyue Daoist while onlookers watched from a distance.
• Cloudwater Daoist and his senior brother called for help from a pit after losing their cultivation, while Cloudwater worried that Longyue might lose.
• Lin Fan limited the battle’s damage to Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, repeatedly healed his injuries, and sensed that the barrier to his next realm had loosened.
• Longyue Daoist urged Lin Fan to cripple his cultivation, but Lin Fan mocked his borrowed peak strength and charged back into battle.
• Longyue Daoist unleashed the Crescent Moon Saber against Lin Fan’s Peace Talisman shield, then let the saber dissipate and reformed it in his hand.

Lin Fan fought Longyue Daoist while injured, then broke through to Foundation Establishment Peak during the battle and used the time to stabilize his cultivation. After healing himself, he struck back with the God-Striking Whip, shattering Longyue Daoist’s Crescent Moon Saber and leaving him afraid.

• Longyue Daoist stabbed Lin Fan in the shoulder, but Lin Fan absorbed the sword qi and healed himself with a pill.
• Longyue Daoist pressed his advantage as viewers and Lin Fan’s companions worried about the fight.
• Lin Fan broke through to Foundation Establishment Peak while fighting, drawing spiritual energy from the surrounding area.
• For about half an hour, Lin Fan defended himself while his cultivation stabilized, then healed his injuries with three Healing Spirit Pills.
• Lin Fan attacked with the God-Striking Whip, shattered Longyue Daoist’s Crescent Moon Saber, and made him retreat in fear.