Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan discovered that the Taiyin Spirit Array beneath the hospital was harming its staff and patients, so he began drawing Peace Talismans to protect them. The chapter ended with the Security Captain refusing to let him work and accusing him of promoting superstition.

• Han Bing arrived after the higher-ups ordered her to investigate the thousands of spirit bodies beneath the hospital, and Lin Fan said he would not break the array outright.
• Lin Fan gave the female head of obstetrics and gynecology a Peace Talisman, warning that she might not survive the night without it.
• Lin Fan used the Qi-Observing Technique and found that doctors and nurses who had worked at the hospital were suffering from the array's effects, especially the women.
• Lin Fan asked Han Bing and the female doctor to distribute Peace Talismans to hospital staff and other vulnerable people, then began drawing talismans in the lobby.
• The Security Captain and other guards tried to drive Lin Fan away, and the Security Captain dismissed the female doctor's authority and accused Lin Fan of promoting superstition.

Lin Fan distributed Peace Talismans to Eastern Suburbs Hospital staff and protected the Female Doctor from the hospital’s growing yin energy. He then took Han Bing and the Young Taoist Acolyte to the basement morgue, where he sensed Magical Artifacts embedded in the walls.

• Han Bing reported the situation to her superiors, who ordered the hospital to cooperate with Lin Fan and secured the area outside.
• Lin Fan removed black qi from the Security Captain, who then helped clear the crowd and maintain order.
• Lin Fan drew hundreds of Peace Talismans as Han Bing and the Female Doctor distributed them to long-serving hospital staff.
• Lin Fan noticed the Female Doctor’s Peace Talisman had burned away in places, explained that it had absorbed yin energy, and gave her an Evil-Warding Talisman.
• Lin Fan stored his table and chair, then went with Han Bing and the Young Taoist Acolyte to the first basement level and spotted Magical Artifacts glowing in the walls.

Lin Fan discovered that a Foundation Establishment-level cultivator had hidden a clone outside the hospital morgue and was holding thousands of spirit bodies in a magic array. Unable to attack without risking the hospital, Lin Fan stayed to find another solution while the authorities began planning an evacuation.

• Lin Fan identified the middle-aged man outside the morgue as a clone and asked to see his original body.
• Han Bing showed her Unusual Tales Investigation Bureau identification and ordered the original body to cooperate, but the clone refused and threatened to release thousands of spirit bodies.
• Lin Fan left the morgue rather than fight, explaining that the trapped spirits could harm ordinary people if released.
• Han Bing reported the situation, and the authorities proposed relocating the hospital's patients, doctors, and nurses.
• Lin Fan decided to stay overnight and look for a way to quickly deal with the cultivator while keeping everyone safe.

Lin Fan sought a way to stop the Taiyin Spirit Array’s thousands of spirit bodies without endangering Pingzhou’s residents, then decided to build his own array and asked fans to bring him high-quality jade. After a jade-bearing visitor arrived at the hospital almost immediately, Lin Fan realized his appeal could disrupt the hospital and needed to move his exchange elsewhere.

• Lin Fan told Han Bing he could not stay at the hospital for months, while she planned for a possible evacuation and prepared her subordinates to respond if spirit bodies escaped.
• Lin Fan estimated that the array held more than seven thousand spirit bodies and said he could temporarily stop two or three thousand, but feared fighting its creator could put hospital patients and Pingzhou residents at risk.
• Young Taoist Acolyte suggested Lin Fan cover the hospital with a stronger array, and Lin Fan decided to build one capable of trapping the spirit bodies.
• Lin Fan asked viewers in Yunzhou, Jiangzhou, and Pingzhou to bring him high-quality jade within a day in exchange for a Peace Talisman or money.
• A man arrived with jade only ten minutes after Lin Fan’s announcement, and Lin Fan realized that a flood of fans could overcrowd the hospital and interfere with patients’ care.

Lin Fan traded Peace Talismans for high-quality jade at Eastern Suburbs Square while preparing to counter the Taiyin Spirit Array and protect the hospital. As viewers crowded in with jade, he kept drawing talismans and collecting pieces for possible spiritual artifacts.

• A jade-collecting middle-aged man traded Lin Fan a piece of jasper for a Peace Talisman, and Lin Fan warned him that his much younger wife was cheating on him.
• Lin Fan told Han Bing he had a way to protect the hospital’s patients and staff when he countered the Taiyin Spirit Array, then headed to Eastern Suburbs Square with her and Young Taoist Acolyte.
• Police and soldiers evacuated the square, and Lin Fan gave the middle-aged man an address where he could find his wife.
• Lin Fan began drawing Peace Talismans and invited viewers carrying jade into the square, prompting people from nearby cities to rush to Pingzhou.
• Viewers arrived with jade, and Lin Fan filled a wooden crate with pieces that met his requirements while continuing to make Peace Talismans.

Lin Fan spent a day making Peace Talismans for the jade brought by his viewers, then ended the event at the announced six o’clock deadline despite a crowd’s protests. He drove the crowd back with his aura and Pure Yang Magical Sword, leaving them retreating as he prepared to focus on the danger at Eastern Suburbs Hospital.

• Lin Fan drew Peace Talismans through the night and into the next day, while Young Taoist Acolyte watched and learned about the value of experience.
• At six in the evening, Lin Fan stopped accepting jade as he had promised, even though hundreds of people still waited outside the square.
• Angry viewers insulted Lin Fan and caused a disturbance, so he used his aura to immobilize them and warned them not to make trouble.
• When the crowd continued protesting, Lin Fan pushed them back and threatened to act if they stayed another ten minutes, citing the danger at Eastern Suburbs Hospital and his limited time.
• Lin Fan drew the Pure Yang Magical Sword and released a terrifying aura, prompting the crowd to retreat.

Lin Fan rested briefly after drawing Peace Talismans, then spent another day refining Jade Stone Ritual Artifacts for a Taiji Yin-Yang Spirit Array. He began placing the artifacts around Eastern Suburbs Hospital, where a middle-aged man sensed his work, and Lin Fan waited to see whether he would emerge.

• Lin Fan fell asleep after a day and night of drawing Peace Talismans, then woke after half an hour and told Young Taoist Acolyte to bring him jade.
• Lin Fan decided to refine Jade Stone Ritual Artifacts for a Taiji Yin-Yang Spirit Array capable of trapping nearly ten thousand spirit bodies.
• Lin Fan refined hundreds of Jade Stone Ritual Artifacts over another day and night, then sent the remaining jade to Linjiang Wildlife Reserve.
• Han Bing and Young Taoist Acolyte packed the artifacts and loaded them for the trip back to Eastern Suburbs Hospital.
• Lin Fan used his Qi-Observing Technique to bury jade at the array's nodes around Eastern Suburbs Hospital.
• Lin Fan sensed the middle-aged man's divine sense probing outside, released his aura, and heard that the higher-ups had received a phone call.

Lin Fan confronted Tongtong Daoist beneath the hospital while arranging a magic array to contain the thousands of spirit bodies. After Lin Fan distracted him, Young Taoist Acolyte and Han Bing’s subordinates buried the ritual artifacts at every node, and Lin Fan left the array ready to activate.

• Tongtong Daoist released a dozen resentful spirit bodies into the hospital, and Lin Fan, Han Bing, and Young Taoist Acolyte eliminated them while protecting staff with Peace Talismans.
• Lin Fan gave Young Taoist Acolyte a layout of the magic array and went underground to keep Tongtong Daoist occupied.
• Lin Fan confronted Tongtong Daoist and warned that he intended to destroy both him and his true body, which was using the spirit bodies to cultivate.
• Tongtong Daoist threatened to release thousands of spirit bodies, but Lin Fan bluffed that he was willing to risk the consequences of attacking.
• Young Taoist Acolyte and Han Bing’s subordinates buried Jade Stone Ritual Artifacts at every node while Lin Fan kept Tongtong Daoist distracted.
• Lin Fan gave Tongtong Daoist three hours to hand over control of the array and the spirit bodies, then returned to the lobby as Young Taoist Acolyte asked whether they could activate the array.

Lin Fan completed protective arrays around the hospital and confronted Tongtong Daoist in the center of the Taiyin Spirit Array. Tongtong Daoist prepared to fight as Lin Fan advanced into his territory.

• Lin Fan used the God-Striking Whip as the eye of a large array and placed the remaining Jade Stone Ritual Artifacts in the hospital lobby.
• When Tongtong Daoist released twenty spirit bodies, Lin Fan dispelled them with chants from the Soul-Deliverance Canon and activated the Seven-Star Spirit-Protecting Array to shield the hospital floors.
• Lin Fan activated the Taiji Yin-Yang Spirit Array around the hospital, trapping the spirit bodies, then headed underground after Tongtong Daoist refused to release them.
• Lin Fan destroyed Tongtong Daoist's paper effigy clone with the Pure Yang Magical Sword and entered the expanded morgue with the Young Taoist Acolyte.
• Lin Fan found Tongtong Daoist at the center of the Taiyin Spirit Array and approached him, prompting Tongtong Daoist to prepare for battle.

Lin Fan fought Tongtong Daoist, who drew power from the Taiyin Spirit Array and over a thousand spirit bodies. Rather than risk destroying the spirits in a direct battle, Lin Fan dismantled the array, but Tongtong Daoist seized Young Taoist Acolyte to force him to stop.

• Tongtong Daoist used the Taiyin Spirit Array and the spirit bodies to raise his power to the Extreme Realm and attacked Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan clashed with Tongtong Daoist, but pulled back after realizing their battle was causing spirit bodies to disappear.
• Lin Fan endured the array’s attacks as he removed the magical artifacts anchoring the Taiyin Spirit Array.
• Tongtong Daoist rushed at Young Taoist Acolyte, grabbed him by the neck, and threatened to kill him unless Lin Fan stopped.

Lin Fan destroyed Taoist Tongtong’s Taiyin Spirit Array while Taoist Tongtong released nearly ten thousand spirit bodies, which Lin Fan’s safeguards contained. After the array collapsed, Lin Fan exposed the spirit bodies Taoist Tongtong had hidden inside himself and questioned his cultivation method.

• Taoist Tongtong tried to kill Young Taoist Acolyte, but a golden power within the acolyte repelled him and forced him to let go.
• Taoist Tongtong released nearly ten thousand spirit bodies as Lin Fan continued destroying the array eyes.
• Han Bing and her subordinates confronted the spirit bodies in the hospital, while Lin Fan’s barriers and the God-Striking Whip prevented them from escaping.
• Lin Fan destroyed the Taiyin Spirit Array’s main array eye, causing the array to vanish and Taoist Tongtong to lose his accumulated magical artifacts and much of his strength.
• Lin Fan drew the spirit bodies hidden inside Taoist Tongtong out of him and explained that Taoist Tongtong had been saving their power for a breakthrough.

Lin Fan crippled Tongtong Daoist and left him to face the spirit bodies he had imprisoned and tormented. Nearly ten thousand spirits swarmed Tongtong Daoist in the hospital lobby.

• Lin Fan explained that Tongtong Daoist had harmed innocents, then received 100,000 Heavenly Secrets Points and a Spirit-Merging Bottle as mission rewards.
• Lin Fan pulled Tongtong Daoist's soul from his body but returned it after the Young Taoist Acolyte reminded him that they were livestreaming.
• Lin Fan drove the Evil-Warding Sword into Tongtong Daoist's dantian, destroying his cultivation, and dragged him into the hospital lobby.
• Lin Fan urged the imprisoned spirit bodies to take revenge, and they confirmed Tongtong Daoist was powerless.
• The spirit bodies engulfed Tongtong Daoist and gnawed at his soul power.

Lin Fan destroyed Tongtong Daoist and used the Spirit-Merging Bottle to absorb the spirit bodies and yin energy haunting Eastern Suburbs Hospital. After collecting the Jade Stone Ritual Artifacts and reassuring the survivors, he left to prepare for his cultivation breakthrough and the battles ahead.

• Tongtong Daoist’s soul was devoured by the spirit bodies, and his body turned to ash as Lin Fan told Han Bing about his crimes.
• After some spirit bodies grew stronger and one attacked him, Lin Fan used the Spirit-Merging Bottle to draw thousands of them inside and discovered it produced spiritual liquid.
• Lin Fan absorbed all the spirit bodies and yin energy around the hospital, then asked Han Bing to reassure the people inside.
• Lin Fan retrieved the God-Striking Whip and several hundred Jade Stone Ritual Artifacts, intending to use them in future battles against Venerable Lianhua.
• Lin Fan explained the damaged Peace Talismans to the hospital staff, advised them to recover their strength, and left with Young Taoist Acolyte.
• Lin Fan spent his hundred thousand Heavenly Secrets Points on cultivation resources and realized he needed more points.

Lin Fan prepared to gather the resources needed for his Golden Core breakthrough and stayed awake to tell fortunes. When he connected with Zhang Xiaoquan, he warned him to flee an alley, helping him escape a group of thugs.

• Lin Fan told Dao Tianji that he needed more spirit herbs and two days to prepare for his breakthrough, while Dao Tianji returned to his villa to cultivate.
• Lin Fan ate barbecue with Xiao Tuantuan and told viewers he would stay awake for two days and connect with them through the night.
• Lin Fan connected with Zhang Xiaoquan and used divination to identify him and warn him to leave the alley immediately.
• Zhang Xiaoquan took a taxi home just as a group of thugs approached, and they failed to catch the car.

Lin Fan explained that A Yin had died three years earlier but had remained a spirit protecting Zhang Xiaoquan, then began recounting their trip to Jiangzhou. The story left off the morning after A Yin brought two sisters back to the inn, when Zhang Xiaoquan could not wake him.

• Zhang Xiaoquan said a rich young man had sent thugs after him, and Lin Fan scolded him for ignoring A Yin’s warning to leave the bar.
• Lin Fan revealed that A Yin had protected Zhang Xiaoquan for years and had died three years ago, though his spirit still watched over him.
• Zhang Xiaoquan recalled seeing A Yin at the bar, where A Yin urged him to flee before disappearing.
• At the viewers’ request, Lin Fan described how Zhang Xiaoquan and A Yin had gone to Jiangzhou soon after graduating and stayed at an inn near Jiangling Mountain.
• Lin Fan recounted that A Yin brought two sisters back to the inn on their first night, while Zhang Xiaoquan declined to join them and struggled to sleep.
• The next morning, Zhang Xiaoquan went to wake A Yin for their climb but got no response.

Lin Fan revealed that A Yin’s murderers were the sisters Zhang Xiaoquan remembered, and He Yingxiong connected the old case to a new one involving them. Lin Fan told He Yingxiong to arrest the sisters once Han Bing arrived, warning that they were not ordinary people.

• Lin Fan recounted how Zhang Xiaoquan had been arrested after A Yin was murdered, and said Zhang would have met the same fate if he had returned to the inn.
• Lin Fan explained that police surveillance showed no sign of the two sisters Zhang Xiaoquan said had entered A Yin’s room, though Zhang insisted they were real.
• Lin Fan confirmed that the sisters existed and had killed A Yin, prompting Zhang Xiaoquan to ask him to locate them for the police.
• He Yingxiong called Lin Fan and revealed that a new case he had encountered was connected to the sisters.
• Lin Fan told He Yingxiong he had already sent him the sisters’ location and instructed him to wait for Han Bing before attempting the arrest.

Lin Fan revealed that the Wang Family Sisters were human killers who used witchcraft to hide from surveillance and smuggled illegal goods inside corpses. Zhang Xiaoquan learned why A Yin had died and discovered that A Yin’s spirit was still guarding him, while Lin Fan offered to help them meet.

• Lin Fan sent Han Bing to help He Yingxiong arrest the Wang Family Sisters and protect the officers.
• Lin Fan explained that the sisters had killed A Yin, targeted Zhang Xiaoquan too, and used witchcraft to evade surveillance.
• Zhang Xiaoquan recounted the innkeeper’s story about two murdered sisters, and Lin Fan revealed that the sisters had used the inn’s spirit bodies to make the murders seem supernatural.
• Lin Fan said the sisters transported illegal goods inside corpses, and Zhang Xiaoquan realized A Yin’s death was linked to their shared hometown of Dongzhou.
• Lin Fan told Zhang Xiaoquan that A Yin’s spirit was present, and A Yin admitted he had stayed nearby to protect him.
• Lin Fan offered to help A Yin appear to Zhang Xiaoquan by possessing someone or manifesting through a burst of power.

Lin Fan confirmed that the Sisters had been arrested, allowing A Yin to meet Zhang Xiaoquan and prepare to leave the human world. After a brief break, Lin Fan resumed his livestream and connected with a young woman in a dim dorm room.

• Lin Fan told A Yin that the Sisters would soon be arrested, and He Yingxiong showed the livestream that Han Bing had captured them.
• A Yin appeared before Zhang Xiaoquan, and the two reunited and talked about their years of friendship.
• Lin Fan told A Yin to contact him so he could perform a Soul-Refining Rite, then took a ten-minute break from the livestream.
• Lin Fan resumed the calls and connected with a young woman in a dorm room.

Lin Fan read the fortunes of Dong Bingxue and her roommates, revealing their romantic and academic prospects and that Qiao Maiyun’s parents secretly owned a large company. After Qiao Maiyun confronted her parents and learned the truth, Lin Fan explained that they had raised her with little money so she would become resilient and inherit their business.

• Lin Fan recognized Dong Bingxue as a senior at Nanzhou University of Science and Technology and began answering questions from her roommates.
• Lin Fan predicted that one roommate would find love after graduation, another would fail the postgraduate entrance exam unless she changed her priorities, and Qiao Maiyun would become a millionaire because her parents were wealthy.
• Lin Fan warned the student preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam that her boyfriend would pass and break up with her, prompting her to decide to study harder.
• Lin Fan told Qiao Maiyun that her parents owned Dingdang Company and several villas in Nanzhou, despite having given her only a small allowance.
• Qiao Maiyun called her parents, confirmed they owned Dingdang Company, and hung up in tears after they admitted hiding the truth.
• Lin Fan told Qiao Maiyun that her parents had wanted her to grow up resilient so she could inherit their businesses.

Lin Fan revealed that Dong Bingxue’s dead ex-boyfriend had emailed her to lure her to their usual place, where she would die if she went. He told her to go to the hill behind the school that night, explaining that he needed to deal with the ex-boyfriend’s spirit body and the spirit body of the junior schoolmate who had forwarded her the news.

• Lin Fan told Dong Bingxue that her ex-boyfriend had emailed her to meet at the hill behind the school, despite having died in a hiking accident two days earlier.
• Dong Bingxue confirmed the news was real and wondered whether someone had impersonated her ex-boyfriend.
• Lin Fan said the email was genuine and that her ex-boyfriend wanted her to die and join him.
• Lin Fan reassured Dong Bingxue and her roommates, then told her to go to the hill behind the school immediately.
• Lin Fan revealed that Dong Bingxue’s junior schoolmate from the news department had also died the previous morning and that he would deal with both spirit bodies.