Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan revealed that Cui Mu Mu profited from Zhang San’s murder and later used the Millennium Demon Tree’s guidance to build his wealth. Cui Mu Mu still refused to admit defeat, while the Millennium Demon Tree claimed Lin Fan could not divine his future.

• Lin Fan explained that Cui Mu Mu chased Zhang San’s killer to steal a valuable vase, accidentally killed the man, hid his body, and kept the vase.
• Lin Fan revealed that the Millennium Demon Tree awakened after being soaked in the killer’s blood and later directed Cui Mu Mu to retrieve robbers’ hidden loot.
• Lin Fan said Cui Mu Mu used the vase and stolen money to start a business, which grew with the Millennium Demon Tree’s help.
• Cui Mu Mu silently accused the Millennium Demon Tree of failing to conceal their past, and the tree insisted Lin Fan could not divine Cui Mu Mu’s future.
• Cui Mu Mu continued to refuse to admit defeat, while livestream viewers discussed the lack of evidence against him.

Lin Fan exposed Cui Mu Mu’s many crimes, but Cui Mu Mu refused to concede and challenged him to divine the future. Lin Fan’s attempt was blocked by the Millennium Demon Tree, which badly injured him, leaving Cui Mu Mu confident he had won.

• Lin Fan listed several crimes Cui Mu Mu had committed with the Millennium Demon Tree’s help, while the police said they lacked evidence to arrest him.
• Cui Mu Mu confronted the Millennium Demon Tree for failing to hide his past, and it urged him to keep fighting by challenging Lin Fan to predict the future.
• Cui Mu Mu demanded that Lin Fan divine what would happen to him, and Lin Fan asked Xiao Tuantuan to prepare a healing spell before using the Heaven-Peering Art.
• The Millennium Demon Tree attacked Lin Fan through their karmic connection, and Xiao Tuantuan healed him as he tried to break through its power.
• Lin Fan stopped divining after failing to see Cui Mu Mu’s fate, and the Millennium Demon Tree and Cui Mu Mu took his survival as proof that Lin Fan could not predict the future.

Lin Fan bypassed the Millennium Demon Tree’s obstruction by predicting what would happen in Cui Mu Mu’s office, then revealed that the tree planned to sacrifice Cui Mu Mu to escape. Cui Mu Mu still refused to concede, but began to fear that Lin Fan’s warning was true.

• After failing to divine Cui Mu Mu’s fate and coughing up blood, Lin Fan realized he could predict the actions of people around him instead.
• Lin Fan predicted that Cui Mu Mu’s assistant would bring him a contract, and the assistant arrived as he said.
• Cui Mu Mu refused to concede, even after Lin Fan offered to ask him to perform a good deed rather than take his life or fortune-telling ability.
• Lin Fan said Cui Mu Mu had three months left and exposed the Millennium Demon Tree’s plan to use the Nine Heavens Xuanhuang Liquid, Cui Mu Mu’s flesh, and his soul to gestate a demonic fetus and free itself.
• The Millennium Demon Tree denied Lin Fan’s claims, but Cui Mu Mu grew more afraid and began to believe Lin Fan.

Lin Fan persuaded Cui Mu Mu to concede their wager by offering to help him at the Daoist Assembly, while concealing his true plan from the Millennium Demon Tree. After Cui Mu Mu admitted defeat, Lin Fan secured the divine soul oath and challenged Xiao Tuantuan and the livestream viewers to suggest a better way to make him lose.

• Cui Mu Mu denied Lin Fan’s claims about the Millennium Demon Tree, but secretly asked the tree whether to keep the wager in a stalemate.
• The Millennium Demon Tree decided Cui Mu Mu should concede, fearing Lin Fan’s influence and the danger of continuing the dispute.
• Lin Fan offered to teach Cui Mu Mu fortune-telling techniques and help him increase his luck at the Daoist Assembly.
• Cui Mu Mu admitted defeat, and the divine soul oath bound Lin Fan to the wager’s terms.
• Xiao Tuantuan and the livestream viewers questioned Lin Fan’s decision to help Cui Mu Mu, but none offered a workable alternative when he asked what he should have done.

Lin Fan made Cui Mu Mu promise to restore Tong Yu'er's grandfather's grave, revealing that the grave's occupant had been secretly changed. He exposed how Tong Yu'er's misfortune and declining health began two years earlier, while explaining that the Millennium Demon Tree made it too dangerous for him to intervene in person.

• Lin Fan told Xiao Tuantuan that confronting Cui Mu Mu in Nanzhou could get him killed because the Millennium Demon Tree protected him.
• Lin Fan required Cui Mu Mu to restore Tong Yu'er's grandfather's grave and protect it, binding the demand to their soul oath.
• Cui Mu Mu resisted and offered Lin Fan his company instead, but Lin Fan refused and explained that the Millennium Demon Tree made the mountain too dangerous for him to visit.
• Lin Fan invited the viewer Fairy-tale World, whose real name was Tong Yu'er, onto the livestream, and Tong Yu'er accepted.
• Tong Yu'er said he believed his grandfather's grave remained untouched, and Lin Fan revealed that someone had replaced the occupant inside.
• Lin Fan described Tong Yu'er's two years of misfortune, poor health, and poverty, and Tong Yu'er confirmed that he had joined the livestream hoping Lin Fan would help change his fortune.

Lin Fan revealed that Cui Mu Mu had moved Tong Yu'er's grandfather's grave to suppress the Tong Family and explained Tong Yu'er's unusual spiritual constitution. Cui Mu Mu agreed to restore the grave after Lin Fan refused to yield, though he resented being forced.

• Tong Yu'er questioned why Lin Fan wanted to help him, and Lin Fan said he had discovered that Cui Mu Mu moved Tong Yu'er's grandfather's grave.
• Cui Mu Mu offered to find another burial site, but Lin Fan warned that moving the grave again would worsen Tong Yu'er's fate unless the new site was equally auspicious.
• Lin Fan exposed Cui Mu Mu's old feud with the Tong Family and his fear that Tong Yu'er might rise and become an obstacle.
• Tong Yu'er recalled that his great-grandfather's grave had once been moved and realized his recent misfortune was tied to Cui Mu Mu.
• Lin Fan told Tong Yu'er he had a Netherworld Body and could cultivate quickly, prompting Cui Mu Mu to promise to restore the grave.
• Cui Mu Mu threatened to do nothing, but Lin Fan dismissed the threat and reminded him that breaking the Divine Soul Oath would destroy his soul.

Lin Fan helped Tong Yu'er choose the dangerous path of cultivation and had Han Bing's subordinates bring her to Jiangzhou. He then sensed a witch cultivator approaching Linjiang Wildlife Reserve and prepared to negotiate over Wang Jun's offense.

• Lin Fan explained that Tong Yu'er could choose a peaceful business life or become a cultivator who hunted evil spirits, and warned her that the second path could be deadly.
• Tong Yu'er removed her jade pendant and chose adventure and cultivation, after which Han Bing's subordinates arrived and took her toward Jiangzhou.
• Lin Fan explained that he had arranged Tong Yu'er's removal to protect her from Cui Mu Mu and the dangers in Nanzhou.
• Lin Fan sensed a witch cultivator approaching Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, called Yu Xiao Mei and Wang Jun, and prepared to ask the witch cultivator to forgive Wang Jun.

Wu Qingqing confronted Yu Xiao Mei over breaking her curse, but Lin Fan protected Yu Xiao Mei and proved immune to Wu Qingqing’s spells. Wu Qingqing refused to forgive Wang Jun, and Lin Fan warned that he could handle her master, leaving Wang Jun’s fate unresolved.

• Wu Qingqing arrived at Linjiang Wildlife Reserve and threatened Yu Xiao Mei for breaking her curse, but Lin Fan stopped her from striking Yu Xiao Mei.
• Wu Qingqing’s curse spells failed against Lin Fan, who revealed his Foundation Establishment Peak cultivation and removed a curse she cast on Xiao Tuantuan.
• Wu Qingqing agreed to leave Yu Xiao Mei alone but insisted that she would not forgive Wang Jun for keeping a lock of her hair.
• Lin Fan told Wu Qingqing that her master, Wu Yueyue, had cultivation equal to his and that he could divine information about them.

Lin Fan traded Wu Qingqing a Curse Feather to spare Wang Jun, who was taken away for three years of hard labor, and Yu Xiao Mei left owing Lin Fan a favor. He then called Cui Mu Mu, who began exhuming his ancestor’s grave on Mount Five Aggregates as Lin Fan exposed the Millennium Demon Tree’s deception.

• Lin Fan gave Wu Qingqing a Curse Feather in exchange for her promise to keep Wang Jun alive during three years of hard labor, and she took Wang Jun away.
• Lin Fan told Yu Xiao Mei that he had repaid her debt to Wang Jun and that she now owed him a favor; she left the reserve.
• Lin Fan messaged Qianshan that Yu Xiao Mei had returned safely, then called Cui Mu Mu on Mount Five Aggregates.
• Lin Fan explained that the Millennium Demon Tree had lured Cui Mu Mu into relocating his ancestral grave to strengthen his karmic fortune until he died.
• Cui Mu Mu ordered his men to open the crude grave and remove the coffin containing his ancestor’s bones.

Lin Fan completed his wager with Cui Mu Mu, learned the Millennium Demon Tree’s origins and strength from the Complete Herbal Codex, and brought Tong Yu'er to Linjiang Wildlife Reserve. The chapter ended with Tong Yu'er asking Lin Fan what to do after choosing the second path.

• Lin Fan chose an auspicious Feng Shui site for Cui Mu Mu, who moved his ancestral grave there and repaired Tong Yu'er's grandfather's grave at Mount Five Aggregates.
• Lin Fan received 100,000 Heavenly Secrets Points and a Complete Herbal Codex after Cui Mu Mu adjusted the Feng Shui.
• Lin Fan learned that the Millennium Demon Tree had grown from a battlefield willow and possessed at least Golden Core Peak cultivation.
• Cui Mu Mu and Lin Fan ended their wager, and Lin Fan said they would meet again at the Daoist Assembly.
• Han Bing's subordinate brought Tong Yu'er to Linjiang Wildlife Reserve, where Lin Fan let her choose a villa.
• Tong Yu'er told Lin Fan she had chosen the second path and asked what she should do next.

Lin Fan warned Xu Qingqing that her father was about to attack her sister-in-law, and she reached him in time to stop him. After restoring her father to his senses, Lin Fan told the family to gather so he could explain what had happened.

• Lin Fan told Tong Yu'er to exercise and said Han Bing would guide him in cultivation while Lin Fan searched for a suitable technique after the Daoist Assembly.
• Lin Fan resumed his livestream and connected with Xu Qingqing, whose camera was initially black while she showered.
• Lin Fan calculated Xu Qingqing's fate and urgently told her to go to the sixth floor and stop her father.
• Xu Qingqing found her father pinning her sister-in-law to a bed, but he shoved Xu Qingqing aside and tried to attack the woman again.
• At Lin Fan's instruction, Xu Qingqing slapped her father, bringing him back to his senses; her sister-in-law cried as Xu Qingqing comforted her.
• Lin Fan told Xu Qingqing to help her father up and asked the family to sit outside while he explained what had happened.

Lin Fan exposed Xu Tu’s past failure to defend a girl from Leiyun Village after she was assaulted, and explained that the girl’s brother had returned to take revenge. Xu Tu learned that his accumulated good deeds had protected him so far, while his son remained safe for the moment.

• Lin Fan told Xu Tu and Wang Xiaoxiao that someone had controlled Xu Tu’s mind and revealed a hidden camera recording him in the bedroom.
• Xu Tu suspected business rivals, but Lin Fan said the threat came from someone seeking revenge for a mistake Xu Tu made thirty years earlier in Leiyun Village.
• Lin Fan revealed that Xu Tu had stayed silent after a village girl was assaulted, and that she later died by suicide while her parents also died and her younger brother was left alone.
• Xu Tu admitted he had refused to testify because the assailant had business ties to his company, and revealed he had stopped his son from speaking out as well.
• Lin Fan said Xu Tu’s good deeds had protected him from harm so far, while the girl’s brother had already punished the assailant; Xu Tu’s son was safe for now.

Xu Little Dog confronted Xu Tu over the decades-old refusal to testify and vowed to torment him and his son. He used Jade Beads to control Xu Tu, but Xu Qingqing broke the spell, and Lin Fan urged him to talk.

• Lin Fan warned Xu Tu that Xu Little Dog would come after him again and told him not to call the police or fight.
• Xu Little Dog arrived disguised as an air-conditioning technician, and Xu Tu recognized him.
• Xu Tu apologized and offered to kneel, give up his fortune, and sacrifice himself to spare his son, but Xu Little Dog refused.
• Xu Little Dog used glowing Jade Beads to control Xu Tu and make him approach his daughter-in-law, but Xu Qingqing slapped him and broke the control.
• Xu Qingqing stood between her father and Xu Little Dog, while Lin Fan said Xu Tu's son had spent years trying to find him.

Lin Fan revealed that Xu Tu’s son had tried to help Xu Little Dog and had searched for him for years, easing Xu Little Dog’s doubts about taking revenge. Lin Fan then foretold that Xu Tu would face public condemnation and worsening mental problems, and Xu Little Dog left him to suffer rather than killing him.

• Lin Fan told Xu Little Dog that Xu Tu’s son had tried to expose the old injustice and had searched for Xu Little Dog through the Xiao Xiao Detective Agency.
• Xu Little Dog confirmed the search and asked Lin Fan to divine his fate and whether he should seek revenge on Xu Tu.
• Lin Fan said Xu Little Dog would become a master and that revenge on Xu Tu was karmically justified, but warned against harming others.
• Lin Fan predicted that problems with Xu Tu’s company products would bring public condemnation and that Xu Tu would develop serious mental problems.
• Lin Fan explained that the spirit bodies haunting Xu Tu were the victims of Xu Little Dog’s past revenge, who expected Xu Tu to be his next target.
• Xu Little Dog said he would leave Xu Tu to suffer, then pushed his cart out of Xu Tu’s home.

Lin Fan warned Guan Song that he and everyone at the Strange Research Institute would die in half a month because their spirit-body research had exposed them to danger. He urged Han Bing to withdraw her subordinate and help the researchers evacuate, but Guan Song revealed the institute had successfully observed a spirit body and was unlikely to stop.

• Lin Fan ended Xu Tu's call, and Dongzhou police investigated Xu Tu and his father before clearing Xu Little Dog's sister's name in a public statement.
• After resting by the lake with Xiao Tuantuan, Lin Fan called Guan Song, a researcher at the Strange Research Institute, and detected dense yin energy around him.
• Lin Fan told Guan Song that he would die in half a month and that everyone at the institute faced the same fate.
• Lin Fan brought Han Bing over, and she explained that her subordinate had been assigned to protect the researchers studying spirit bodies.
• Lin Fan warned that spirit bodies could become dangerous once their consciousness awakened and told Han Bing to recall her subordinate and offer the researchers a chance to evacuate.
• Guan Song revealed that the institute had secretly observed a spirit body, while Lin Fan's warning offered him a chance to escape by leaving.

Lin Fan explained that the researchers had caused a child's mother's death by trapping the child's spirit body, and warned that her emerging spirit body would come to the institute. Han Bing ordered an evacuation, while her subordinate began removing researchers by force.

• Guan Song defended the institute's research, but Lin Fan said the lens was a magical artifact and their experiments would not let ordinary people see spirit bodies.
• Han Bing relayed the evacuation question, and Lin Fan told her to notify the researchers while leaving those who refused to evacuate to their fate.
• Lin Fan rejected viewers' calls to destroy or perform rites on the child's spirit body, explaining that it sought repayment because the researchers had prevented it from saving its mother.
• Guan Song denied intentionally killing anyone, and Lin Fan clarified that trapping the child had effectively caused his mother's death.
• Han Bing told her subordinate to warn the researchers and flee, then tacitly allowed him to forcibly evacuate friends who refused to leave.
• Lin Fan told Guan Song that the mother was becoming a spirit body and would follow the threads of cause and effect to the research institute.

Lin Fan revealed that Director Yunding had kept a child’s spirit body imprisoned despite knowing it was harming the child’s mother, so Guan Song confronted Yunding at the research institute. Yunding denied the accusation, but Guan Song publicly challenged him as his colleagues listened.

• Lin Fan told Han Bing that the mother’s spirit body had reached the qi refinement peak and the child’s had reached the foundation establishment peak, and explained that they would disappear after killing everyone karmically connected to them and reuniting.
• Lin Fan said Yunding knew the child’s identity, had discovered the mother was hospitalized, and had kept the child trapped so its spirit body would not fade, even though the mother was dying.
• Guan Song rushed to the laboratory, where he saw the child’s spirit body through Lin Fan’s livestream, then confronted Yunding about the mother’s death.
• Yunding denied knowing the child’s identity or causing the mother’s death and tried to usher Guan Song out of the laboratory.
• Guan Song refused to move and accused Yunding of lying, while the researchers present realized that others at the institute might also have known about the decision.

Lin Fan exposed Yunding’s role in the death of Ding Jiujiu’s mother and explained why the institute’s magnetic field could trap Ding Jiujiu but not other spirit bodies. The chapter ended with Yunding realizing that particle collision experiments had given Ding Jiujiu a special magnetic field.

• Lin Fan told Guan Song that Yunding had taken away Dong Xiaoli’s chance to survive for the sake of his experiment.
• Yunding accused Guan Song of spreading lies until Guan Song showed his live call with Lin Fan, causing the researchers to reconsider the accusation.
• Lin Fan warned that Dong Xiaoli had become a spirit body and would soon seek revenge on Yunding and his colleagues.
• Lin Fan explained that the institute’s magnetic field trapped Ding Jiujiu because it affected only his spirit body, while Guan Song confirmed that other spirit bodies were unaffected.
• Lin Fan revealed that Ding Jiujiu was buried in the Lavender Sea of Flowers, and Yunding connected his unusual spirit body to particle collision experiments at a nearby abandoned center.

Lin Fan explained how Yunding’s experiments had caused Ding Jiujiu’s mother’s death and warned that her spirit body was coming to take revenge. He urged the institute to evacuate, but when the higher-ups asked him to preserve researchers and help develop weapons, he refused to devote his time to the effort.

• Yunding admitted responsibility for Ding Jiujiu’s mother’s death and urged his colleagues to leave the research institute, but they chose to stay with him.
• Lin Fan revealed that Ding Jiujiu had died from an incurable illness, become powerful through a particle-collision experiment, and secretly kept his mother alive by sharing his power.
• Lin Fan blamed Yunding for trapping Ding Jiujiu and cutting off the power that had sustained his mother, and warned that her spirit body would kill those remaining at the institute.
• Yunding again urged the researchers to evacuate, but Guan Song and the others stayed, while Lin Fan insisted that everyone else needed to get out quickly.
• Han Bing told Lin Fan that the higher-ups wanted him to preserve useful researchers and lead work on weapons against spirit bodies, but Lin Fan refused because the task would consume too much of his time.

Lin Fan refused to save Yunding and the researchers who had knowingly helped him, while most of the laboratory staff evacuated. He then began a new livestream reading for Wanqiu, whose confidence in her relationship was challenged when Lin Fan revealed her circumstances.

• Lin Fan told the researchers who had not known about Yunding's actions to leave, and their families called to urge them to evacuate.
• Guan Song left but handed his phone to Yunding, while the researchers who remained learned they could not safely leave because Ding Jiujiu's mother would follow them.
• Yunding asked whether releasing Ding Jiujiu might help them survive, and Lin Fan warned that Ding Jiujiu would attack them in a rage.
• After the research institute evacuated, Lin Fan took a break and then connected with Wanqiu for a reading about her boyfriend, Wang Youqian.
• Lin Fan revealed Wang Youqian's wealth and appearance, and Wanqiu mistook the viewers' sarcastic breakup advice as praise of her own worth.
• Lin Fan told Wanqiu that her income, appearance, family circumstances, and inner qualities were not as impressive as she believed.