Chapter Summaries

He Yingxiong identified Gu Hui as Wang Hui’s murderer and had him arrested, explaining that Gu Hui killed her out of obsessive fear of losing her. Police began digging up the well beneath Gu Hui’s bedroom, where He Yingxiong believed Wang Hui’s body was buried, while Gu Hui continued to deny the crime.

• Lin Fan confirmed that Gu Hui killed Wang Hui because his obsession made him believe they could stay together forever if she were dead.
• He Yingxiong explained that he inferred Gu Hui’s motive from his argument with Liang Xiaoxiao and located the hidden body using the village’s house layouts.
• He Yingxiong confronted Gu Hui and accused him of burying Wang Hui beneath the well in his bedroom, but Gu Hui denied the murder and refused to confess.
• He Yingxiong’s officers restrained Gu Hui as Liang Xiaoxiao and the villagers gathered outside the house.
• Police entered Gu Hui’s bedroom, found the well beneath the floor, and began digging it out while Gu Hui watched helplessly.

Lin Fan helped He Yingxiong uncover Wang Hui’s body beneath the well’s concrete bottom and calm her spirit. Gu Hui was taken into custody, while Wang Hui prepared to reunite with her family before moving on.

• Lin Fan identified a Corpse-Suppressing Stone in the well, and He Yingxiong removed it while using the talismans Lin Fan had given him.
• Wang Hui’s spirit emerged, and He Yingxiong told her that Gu Hui had been arrested and would face justice.
• Lin Fan purified the room’s yin energy, and the officers cleared the well but initially found no body.
• Lin Fan pointed out that the well’s concrete bottom was unusual, and He Yingxiong drilled through it to uncover Wang Hui’s body.
• He Yingxiong ordered Gu Hui arrested and arranged for Wang Hui to see her family before her spirit moved on.
• Lin Fan ended the call, took a ten-minute livestream break, and prepared to resume taking viewers’ calls.

Lin Fan helped Wen Xin find the remains of her daughter, who had been kidnapped six years earlier, and promised to let Wen Xin and her husband see their daughter’s spirit. He revealed that the kidnapper was nearby, leaving the couple wondering whether the culprit lived in their residential complex.

• Lin Fan told Wen Xin that her kidnapped daughter was buried beneath a large tree in the woods near her home and that he had alerted the police.
• He Yingxiong arrived with officers and helped Wen Xin locate and exhume her daughter’s remains.
• Wen Xin collapsed at the sight of the bones, but Lin Fan told her he could let her see her daughter’s spirit body.
• He Yingxiong accompanied Wen Xin home, where her husband learned that their daughter’s remains had been found.
• Wen Xin’s husband asked Lin Fan about the kidnapper, and Lin Fan said the culprit was nearby.

Lin Fan revealed that Wen Xin and Uncle Qiao’s daughter had returned as a Spirit Body and lived inside a Jade Pendant, then warned that keeping her in the human world could turn her into an Evil Spirit. Wen Xin chose not to let her go, and Lin Fan revealed that the killer would soon arrive with a birthday cake.

• Lin Fan explained that Wen Xin’s daughter had been living in the Jade Pendant and that her Spirit Body had returned home six years earlier.
• Lin Fan summoned the little girl’s Spirit Body, allowing Wen Xin and Uncle Qiao to embrace her and speak with her before she grew too weak to remain visible.
• Lin Fan warned Wen Xin that her daughter might become an Evil Spirit if she continued lingering in the human world, but Wen Xin was unwilling to part with her again.
• Lin Fan said the killer would arrive in five minutes with a cake and invite Wen Xin and Uncle Qiao to the killer’s daughter’s birthday party.
• Wen Xin realized who the killer was and reacted with disbelief.

After Lin Fan identified Li Lili as the person who killed Wen Xin’s daughter, Wen Xin and Uncle Qiao tried to attack her, but He Yingxiong restrained them and an officer arrested Li Lili. Lin Fan then revealed that the crime scene had been destroyed and he could find no evidence, leaving He Yingxiong unsure how to convict her.

• Li Lili arrived at Wen Xin’s home with a cake, unaware that Wen Xin knew she had killed her daughter six years earlier.
• Lin Fan warned He Yingxiong that Wen Xin and Uncle Qiao were about to kill Li Lili, and He Yingxiong restrained them before they could reach a fruit knife.
• Wen Xin confronted Li Lili about taking her daughter and locking her in a cabinet, while Li Lili denied the accusation and tried to flee.
• An officer arrested Li Lili, who demanded evidence and threatened to sue if she was held without it.
• Lin Fan said the crime scene had been destroyed and no fingerprints could be found, prompting He Yingxiong to ask how they could convict Li Lili.

Lin Fan revealed that Li Lili’s daughter was the sacrifice demanded by a fake Buddhist amulet, forcing Li Lili to choose between confessing to Wen Xin’s daughter’s murder and protecting her own life. The chapter ended with Wen Xin condemning Li Lili for hesitating while her daughter was in danger.

• Lin Fan said Li Lili had destroyed the evidence of her murder, and Wen Xin asked him to let her and Uncle Qiao handle Li Lili themselves.
• Lin Fan said Li Lili would confess and warned that her daughter’s tenth birthday marked the time for Li Lili to fulfill a sacrifice; Li Lili rushed to her apartment.
• Li Lili saw her daughter talking to thin air as a chilling wind swept through the apartment, and He Yingxiong suspected a spirit body was present.
• Lin Fan explained that Li Lili’s fake Buddhist amulet, a Little Black Amulet, demanded a life as an offering, and Li Lili tried unsuccessfully to burn it.
• Li Lili begged Lin Fan to save her daughter, but he asked her to tell the truth about the murder; she hesitated, and Wen Xin called her cold-blooded for valuing her own life over her daughter’s.

Lin Fan stopped the spirit inside Li Lili’s Buddhist amulet from targeting Li Lili’s daughter and returned to Wen Xin’s home. He revealed that Li Lili had killed Wen Xin’s daughter out of jealousy, leaving Wen Xin to confront the truth about her daughter’s final hours.

• Lin Fan took the Buddhist amulet from Li Lili, ordered the spirit to spare her daughter and punish Li Lili instead, then left with Wen Xin and Uncle Qiao.
• Li Lili tried to discard and burn the amulet, but it returned unharmed, and the spirit told her it would claim her as the offering she had promised.
• Lin Fan warned Wen Xin and Uncle Qiao not to kill Li Lili, explaining that sin could turn them into evil spirits and separate them from their daughter.
• Lin Fan said Li Lili had grown jealous over Wen Xin’s family and their daughters’ toys, then acted on that jealousy by luring Wen Xin’s daughter away and locking her in a cabinet.
• Lin Fan revealed that Wen Xin had searched the junk storage area without opening the cabinet, and that Li Lili later found the girl dead, concealed the evidence, and buried her in the woods.

Lin Fan forced Li Lili to confess to murdering Wen Xin’s daughter and sent her to prison while the Buddha Amulet’s spirit accepted a pill and returned overseas. He returned Wen Xin and Uncle Qiao’s Jade Pendant and Peace Talismans, then went back to the Linjiang Wildlife Reserve.

• Li Lili begged Lin Fan for help, but he urged her to confess and awakened Wen Xin’s daughter’s spirit body to confront her.
• Lin Fan restored Li Lili’s senses and persuaded her to confess the murder to He Yingxiong, who took her away.
• Lin Fan gave the Buddha Amulet’s spirit an Essence-Restoring Pill as an offering and ordered it to return overseas.
• Lin Fan returned the Jade Pendant to Wen Xin and Uncle Qiao and gave them Peace Talismans, advising them to protect their daughter’s spirit body.
• Lin Fan left and used the Flying Sword Art to return to the Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, where he watched the lake and read livestream comments.

Lin Fan told hairdresser Wang Jun that accepting Yu Xiao Mei’s advances would restore his normal life, then connected Yu Xiao Mei to the livestream. The chapter ended with viewers seeing how strikingly beautiful she was, while Wang Jun still resisted dating someone he barely knew.

• Lin Fan connected with Wang Jun, who explained that a woman’s obsessive pursuit had disrupted his life with stalking, false police reports, and threats of self-harm.
• Lin Fan urged Wang Jun to accept the woman’s advances, saying that doing so would let him return to a normal life.
• Wang Jun refused, explaining that he did not know the woman’s name and could not accept a romance without an emotional foundation.
• Lin Fan revealed that the woman was watching the livestream and invited Yu Xiao Mei to join the call.
• Yu Xiao Mei appeared on the livestream in pajamas, and Xiao Tuantuan praised her beauty.

Lin Fan explained that Yu Xiao Mei’s life was tied to a fate pet Wang Jun had saved, and revealed that Wang Jun’s collection of a customer’s hair had put both of them in danger. The chapter left the reason for that danger unexplained.

• Lin Fan offered Yu Xiao Mei a Matchmaker’s Red Thread but said she had to become Wang Jun’s girlfriend because he had once saved her life.
• Lin Fan explained that Qianshan's master's wife had used a fate pet to take Yu Xiao Mei’s eight calamities, binding her fate to a cat with nine lives.
• Wang Jun recalled saving a stray cat three years earlier, and Lin Fan revealed that the cat had been Yu Xiao Mei’s fate pet with only one life remaining.
• Lin Fan asked Wang Jun about his actions three months earlier and revealed that he had secretly kept a lock of hair from a customer who had paid to take all her cut hair home.

Lin Fan explained that Wang Jun had been cursed after secretly keeping a witch cultivator’s hair, and that Yu Xiao Mei had become involved while trying to save him. He offered to negotiate with the witch cultivator after Yu Xiao Mei arrived, then ended the call and began a new one with Wang Qiufeng.

• Lin Fan explained that the witch cultivator had cursed Wang Jun to find true love within three months, and Yu Xiao Mei’s attempt to intervene had drawn her into the curse.
• Yu Xiao Mei asked Lin Fan to save Wang Jun instead of her, while Wang Jun accepted responsibility and said he would apologize to the witch cultivator.
• Lin Fan agreed to speak on Wang Jun’s behalf and told Yu Xiao Mei to come to Linjiang Wildlife Reserve so he could remove the cursed power from her.
• After ending the call, Lin Fan planned to use Yu Xiao Mei’s curse to draw the witch cultivator to him, then invited another viewer to connect.
• Lin Fan identified the new caller as Wang Qiufeng, a twenty-six-year-old university lecturer.

Wang Qiufeng asked Lin Fan to help his friend, Brother Li, whom he believed had developed hysteria after losing his son, Xiao Yu. Lin Fan revealed that Brother Li had encountered Xiao Yu’s spirit body, but declined to perform a soul-refining rite for now; when Wang Qiufeng visited, Brother Li insisted the spirit was his son and warned him to stay out of it.

• Wang Qiufeng explained that Brother Li had withdrawn from life after Xiao Yu died and later began speaking to an unseen child and preparing food for him.
• Lin Fan said Brother Li’s condition was not simple hysteria and confirmed that he had encountered a spirit body, likely Xiao Yu’s.
• Wang Qiufeng asked Lin Fan to perform a remote soul-refining rite, but Lin Fan said they would discuss it later.
• Wang Qiufeng went upstairs to Brother Li’s home and found him acting as if Xiao Yu were beside him.
• Wang Qiufeng told Brother Li that the child was only Xiao Yu’s spirit body, and Brother Li angrily ordered him to stay out of his business.

Lin Fan warned Brother Li that the spirit child with him was not his son, despite knowing that facing the truth could drive him to suicide. Brother Li rejected Lin Fan’s claim and forced Wang Qiufeng toward the door.

• Wang Qiufeng saw Brother Li feeding cake to an invisible child and urged Lin Fan to perform a Soul-Refining Rite.
• Lin Fan explained that Brother Li would take his own life if he lost the spirit’s company, so he hesitated to intervene.
• Wang Qiufeng showed Brother Li the livestream and explained who Lin Fan was.
• Lin Fan told Brother Li that the child spirit was not his son and suggested it belonged to someone else’s family.
• Brother Li angrily ordered Wang Qiufeng to leave and shoved him outside.

Lin Fan went to help Wang Qiufeng and Brother Li after Brother Li’s obsession with the spirit body resembling his son worsened. He revealed Brother Li’s real son’s spirit, pressured the obsession spirit’s child to release its aura, and sensed the obsession spirit approaching to reclaim it.

• Lin Fan flew to Wang Qiufeng’s residential complex, warned that Brother Li might take his own life, and opened the locked door.
• Lin Fan explained that the childlike spirit was an obsession spirit’s offspring, which was feeding on Brother Li’s growing obsession.
• Lin Fan used a talisman and a spell to reveal the spirit of Brother Li’s real son.
• Lin Fan threatened to seal the obsession spirit’s child in the Spirit-Merging Bottle, and it agreed to release its aura so its father could find it.
• The released aura intensified Brother Li’s and Wang Qiufeng’s obsessions, while Lin Fan remained unaffected.
• Lin Fan sensed the powerful obsession spirit rushing toward the apartment to retrieve its son.

Lin Fan helped the Thought Spirit reunite with its son and learned that Brother Li still planned to die so he could join his own deceased son. After Lin Fan explained that staying alive would let Brother Li see his son and support him with offerings, Brother Li reconsidered, while Lin Fan left to prepare for the Daoist Assembly.

• The Thought Spirit confronted Lin Fan, discovered its powers could not affect him, and gave him a life-bound incantation for helping it find its son.
• After the Thought Spirit and its son left, Brother Li and Wang Qiufeng recovered, and Brother Li admitted he still intended to take his own life to join his son.
• Wang Qiufeng urged Brother Li not to abandon their brotherhood, while Lin Fan explained that Brother Li could see his son's spirit body every seventh month and send him offerings by staying alive.
• Brother Li learned that taking his own life might make life harder for him and his son below, and he reconsidered his plan.
• Lin Fan left and resolved to enter secluded cultivation after the next livestream so he could reach the Golden Core Stage before the Daoist Assembly.

Lin Fan lifted Yu Xiao Mei’s curse and waited for the witch cultivator to arrive, intending to negotiate about Wang Jun. During a break from livestream calls, he connected with wealthy businessman Cui Mu Mu and discovered that a mysterious force prevented him from learning more about the man.

• Lin Fan brought Yu Xiao Mei to the lake and absorbed the cursed power within her, while the witch cultivator sensed the curse breaking and hurried toward the reserve.
• Yu Xiao Mei asked Lin Fan to save Wang Jun, but Lin Fan said he would first speak with the witch cultivator and would not take Wang Jun’s side without reason.
• Lin Fan took a ten-minute break, then invited the viewer Just Want to Be the Top Donor onto the livestream.
• Cui Mu Mu appeared and asked to disconnect, but Lin Fan tried to divine his fate and found a terrifying force blocking further investigation.
• Cui Mu Mu said he had protected his personal information and again asked to end the call.

Lin Fan forced his way through the defenses around Cui Mu Mu's fate, learning that Tong Yu'er was connected to him and that a powerful being was backing him. He revealed Cui Mu Mu's past as a fortune-teller, while the trapped being's presence made further divination dangerous.

• After Cui Mu Mu declined Lin Fan's calls, Lin Fan used the Heaven-Peering Art to divine his fate and was struck by a powerful karmic force.
• Xiao Tuantuan healed Lin Fan, and he learned that a powerful being behind Cui Mu Mu was trapped and could attack him if he tried to divine further.
• Lin Fan told Cui Mu Mu that he was also a fortune-teller, then revealed how a blind master had taught Cui Mu Mu the craft after Cui Mu Mu saved him twenty years earlier.
• Cui Mu Mu challenged Lin Fan to divine his entire life and promised to call him Dad if he succeeded.
• Lin Fan said the powerful being backing Cui Mu Mu could not leave because it was trapped, and Cui Mu Mu's expression changed.

Lin Fan confronted Cui Mu Mu on a livestream and exposed details from his past, prompting Cui Mu Mu to challenge him to a divination contest. The being aiding Cui Mu Mu failed to divine Lin Fan’s fate, and Cui Mu Mu tried to conceal that failure with an elaborate explanation.

• Lin Fan recounted how Cui Mu Mu’s first fortune-telling client beat him up, then returned to thank him after marrying a wealthy heiress.
• Cui Mu Mu accepted the being’s offer to help him defeat Lin Fan and take his fortune, then joined the livestream call.
• Lin Fan challenged Cui Mu Mu to divine his fate, but the being discovered that Lin Fan left no trace in the river of time and could not be divined.
• The being urged Cui Mu Mu to back down, but Cui Mu Mu told it to claim that Lin Fan’s fate was uncertain.
• Cui Mu Mu told Lin Fan that his fate left no trace in the river of time or history, while viewers accused him of bluffing.

Lin Fan challenged Cui Mu Mu to a wager over his past and future, with half of Lin Fan’s karmic fortune at stake if he failed. After they swore a divine soul oath, Lin Fan revealed Cui Mu Mu’s role in the Li Family Ancestral Grave incident, unsettling him while the entity behind him urged him to stay confident.

• Lin Fan offered to recount Cui Mu Mu’s past in exchange for three favors and warned that Cui Mu Mu had little time left because the entity behind him would eventually demand his life.
• Cui Mu Mu rejected Lin Fan’s warning, then proposed that Lin Fan risk half his karmic fortune if he failed to divine Cui Mu Mu’s past and possible future.
• The entity behind Cui Mu Mu approved the wager, and Lin Fan and Cui Mu Mu swore a divine soul oath binding them to its terms.
• Lin Fan recounted how Cui Mu Mu’s fortune-telling career grew before the Li Family Ancestral Grave incident led him to retire from feng shui work.
• Cui Mu Mu hid his alarm as the entity behind him reassured him that Lin Fan could not divine what happened after they met.

Lin Fan exposed how Cui Mu Mu had encouraged the Li Family to seize the Tong Family’s ancestral grave, then recounted the spirit’s retaliation and revealed that Cui Mu Mu had later murdered someone for money. Cui Mu Mu denied the accusation, while Lin Fan insisted he was still describing events to win their bet.

• Cui Mu Mu challenged Lin Fan to explain the details of the Li Family Ancestral Grave incident, and Lin Fan said Cui Mu Mu had urged the Li Family to move their graves to the Tong Family’s auspicious site.
• Lin Fan revealed that Cui Mu Mu had hinted the Li Family should seize the site, after which the Li Family dug up the Tong Family graves and drove away a nearby Tong Family household.
• Lin Fan recounted how the Tong Family Ancestor’s spirit attacked the Li Family, frightening Cui Mu Mu and the Li Family head into fainting; afterward, the Li Family returned the site and Cui Mu Mu stopped telling fortunes.
• Lin Fan said Cui Mu Mu later murdered someone for money and awakened a Millennium Demon Tree, shocking Cui Mu Mu and the entity behind him.
• Cui Mu Mu denied committing murder and demanded evidence, while Lin Fan said he still needed to describe what Cui Mu Mu had experienced to win their bet.