Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan warned Bai Yun about the convoy she had joined, revealing that its leader planned to exploit her during their journey into the Kunlun Mountains. Bai Yun left with Lin Fan, while the convoy continued toward the mountains despite his warning about a bee attack.

• Bai Yun defended Lin Fan when the convoy members called him a charlatan, then took her luggage and joined his vehicle.
• Lin Fan warned the convoy that bees would attack them near the first peak, but its leader decided they would turn back only if the attack happened.
• The convoy searched Lin Fan online after he left, learned he was a famous fortune-teller, and continued toward the Kunlun Mountains despite their doubts.
• Lin Fan explained that Bai Yun had met the convoy while traveling alone and accepted their invitation because they seemed friendly.
• Lin Fan told Bai Yun that the convoy leader and the others planned to exploit her in the mountains, and Bai Yun was shocked to learn the leader had targeted her despite having a girlfriend.

Lin Fan took Bai Yun to the Kunlun Mountains and sent her away with a warning to avoid Qingzhou for three years. At the crowded campsite, he told the visiting viewers’ fortunes and warned them not to enter the mountains, then explained to Han Bing that his plans could attract powerful beings and agreed they should travel separately.

• Lin Fan told Bai Yun that the convoy would be attacked by bees and that his driver would take her away, warning her not to return to Qingzhou for three years.
• Lin Fan reached the Kunlun Mountains and found many cultivators gathered at the campsite for the Daoist Assembly.
• Lin Fan told the viewers who had come to meet him their fortunes, then warned them to leave and not enter the mountains.
• Han Bing arrived with her subordinates and said she had already discussed matters with Qianshan by video call.
• Lin Fan told Han Bing that the elders had arranged tests for him and that his next action could attract powerful beings, so he could not protect her as well as Xiao Tuantuan and the others.
• Han Bing and Lin Fan agreed to travel separately, with Han Bing responsible for her own safety if she entered the mountains.

Lin Fan transformed the Nine-Spirit Blood Lotus on a snowy mountain where an Ice and Snow Phoenix had perished, drawing powerful ice and snow energy from the mountain. On the Kunlun main mountain, a middle-aged man noticed the disturbance and questioned why someone was absorbing so much of that energy.

• Lin Fan led his group across dozens of snowy mountains to find a suitable place to cultivate the Nine-Spirit Snow Lotus.
• Lin Fan identified a phoenix-shaped mountain as the place where an Ice and Snow Phoenix had died and told Venerable Lianhua to protect the others.
• Lin Fan placed the Nine-Spirit Blood Lotus in the snow and used seals and a spell to make it absorb the mountain's ice and snow energy.
• The lotus's blossoms began turning white as the snowy mountain trembled under the gathering energy.
• On the main mountain, a middle-aged man sensed the disturbance and warned that the Kunlun Mountains' ice and snow energy should not be absorbed in large quantities.

Lin Fan transformed the Nine-Spirit Blood Lotus into a Nine-Spirit Snow Lotus, then headed alone to a snowy mountain surrounding Kunlun’s Main Mountain and began dismantling its array. The arrays activated before he could finish, and the cultivators gathered at the Main Mountain watched as a vast formation surrounded them.

• Lin Fan stored the Nine-Spirit Snow Lotus and left with Venerable Lianhua and the others for the Main Mountain.
• At the foot of the Main Mountain, Lin Fan sent the others ahead and went to inspect a nearby snowy mountain’s magic array.
• Lin Fan identified the nine linked arrays and began removing their array eyes and magical artifacts.
• The old man who had set up the arrays summoned Qianshan and activated all nine formations to confront Lin Fan.
• Light pillars rose from the snowy mountains, forming a huge array around the Main Mountain and alarming the cultivators gathered there.

Lin Fan dismantled the Kunlun Daoist Assembly’s magic arrays while an elder used their combined power to attack him. The chapter ended as a spiritual sphere struck Lin Fan, sending a powerful shock wave across the snowy mountain.

• Venerable Lianhua and Coiled Dragon suspected the activated arrays were aimed at Lin Fan, while Xiao Tuantuan revealed she had cultivated for about a month.
• An old man at the Main Mountain used a bronze mirror to identify Lin Fan and moved other cultivators away from the surrounding snowy mountains.
• The old man directed the arrays’ power at Lin Fan, but Lin Fan calmly found and destroyed an array eye, surprising him.
• Qianshan warned his Senior Martial Uncle not to provoke Lin Fan, but the old man combined all nine arrays into a sphere of light.
• Venerable Lianhua recognized Lin Fan as the sphere descended toward him, while Lin Fan continued removing magical artifacts from the array eyes.
• The spiritual sphere struck Lin Fan, and a powerful shock wave swept outward.

Lin Fan survived the Kunlun Daoist Assembly’s spiritual orb attack unharmed and began dismantling its arrays to collect their magical artifacts. As Qianshan went to meet him, the president tried to conceal Lin Fan’s identity and dismissed him as a young cultivator relying on an artifact.

• Lin Fan endured the spiritual orb with his body, changed clothes, and hid his face beneath a hat.
• Qianshan confronted his senior martial uncle for attacking Lin Fan, then saw that Lin Fan had emerged unharmed.
• The president arrived at the palace and stopped the old man from activating the Mountain-Guarding Magic Array, ordering Qianshan to speak with Lin Fan instead.
• Lin Fan broke the arrays across all nine snowy mountains and took their magical artifacts.
• The president reassured the Golden Core cultivators that his disciple had gone to handle Lin Fan, while privately planning to put him in his place.

Lin Fan arrived at the Kunlun Daoist Assembly with Qianshan and prepared to challenge its fortune-telling cultivators. He taught Cui Mu Mu a soul-seizing spell, but the Millennium Demon Tree grew suspicious as the assembly was set to begin the next morning.

• Lin Fan met Qianshan, who explained that the Kunlun Daoist Assembly was angry about Lin Fan taking the buried magical artifacts; Lin Fan welcomed a chance to spar with Qianshan’s senior martial uncle, who was at the middle Golden Core stage.
• Qianshan asked Lin Fan not to reveal his identity at the summit, and Lin Fan agreed to avoid damaging their relationship.
• Venerable Lianhua brought Xiao Tuantuan and the others to Main Mountain, where they discussed the cultivators gathered for the assembly and Young Taoist Acolyte praised Lin Fan’s strength.
• Lin Fan arrived at the summit with Qianshan, then moved into a palace Qianshan had arranged for his group.
• Cui Mu Mu asked Lin Fan for fortune-telling lessons, and Lin Fan gave him a Soul-Seizing Spell while warning that his first opponent would try to seize his soul; the Millennium Demon Tree watched suspiciously.
• Lin Fan explained the assembly’s challenge rules, said it would begin the next morning, and resumed cultivating.

Lin Fan refused the Kunlun Daoist Assembly president’s demand that Xiao Tuantuan and the others give up their front-row seats, despite the president threatening to expel them. The president prepared to act, but Qianshan arrived with a group of Golden Core cultivators.

• Lin Fan led Xiao Tuantuan and the others to the front row of the opening ceremony, where the best spirit fruits were served.
• Qianshan warned Lin Fan that the front seats were reserved for Golden Core cultivators and that others might demand they move.
• The assembly president ordered Lin Fan to move his companions to the middle seats, but Lin Fan objected to his threatening manner.
• The president threatened to expel Lin Fan and his group from the Kunlun Mountains, while Lin Fan realized the assembly relied on its powerful formation and sleeping cultivators.
• Xiao Tuantuan offered to move, but Lin Fan insisted that they stay seated and recalled that his master had once been beaten over a seat.
• As the president prepared to strike Lin Fan, Qianshan entered with a group of Golden Core cultivators.

Lin Fan defused a confrontation over the Daoist Assembly’s front-row seats by revealing the chairman had provoked him, then moved Xiao Tuantuan and the others to the second row. After Lin Fan demonstrated his fortune-telling skill to Daoist Lanyue, the Golden Core cultivators warmed to him and began introducing themselves.

• Qianshan brought Golden Core cultivators to the front row, where they objected to Xiao Tuantuan and the others occupying seats and one cultivator pressured them with his might.
• Lin Fan shielded his friends and challenged the custom that strong cultivators should sit at the front.
• Lin Fan told Daoist Lanyue that the chairman’s earlier threat had made him refuse to move his friends, prompting the Golden Core cultivators to accuse the chairman of stirring up conflict.
• The chairman apologized and asked Lin Fan again, and Lin Fan had Xiao Tuantuan and the others move to the second row.
• Lin Fan recounted Daoist Lanyue’s past achievements, and Daoist Lanyue and the other Golden Core cultivators recognized Lin Fan as an accomplished fortune-teller and befriended him.

At the Kunlun Daoist Assembly, Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling challenged Lin Fan to a fortune-telling contest, blaming his fame for harming their disciples’ livelihoods. Lin Fan accepted their wager, and the chapter ended as two powerful auras erupted nearby.

• Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling mocked Lin Fan and accused him of overshadowing other fortune-tellers.
• Lin Fan defended his skill and challenged the two to prove themselves in a contest.
• The chairman announced that fortune-tellers at the Daoist Assembly would compete for a Heaven-Calibrating Ruler.
• Lin Fan wagered a middle Golden Core stage magical artifact for each opponent, while demanding they call him their ancestral master if they lost.
• Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling accepted and added that Lin Fan would have to kowtow and call them Grandpa if he lost.
• Two powerful auras erupted as someone called out to Venerable Qiongli, drawing everyone’s attention.

At the Kunlun Daoist Assembly, Lin Fan, Venerable Nanyu, and Daoist Beiling began a fortune-telling contest to locate Venerable Qiongli’s missing master. The contest’s rules were set, and Venerable Qiongli waited impatiently for them to start.

• Venerable Qiongli demanded that Venerable Lianhua reveal where his master was, and she insisted she did not know.
• Venerable Nanyu proposed that the three fortune-tellers compete to divine the master’s location, and Venerable Qiongli agreed.
• The Kunlun Daoist Assembly president held the opening ceremony and led the contestants to the fortune-telling venue.
• Daoist Beiling proposed writing each result on a slip for the president to reveal when time was up, and Lin Fan agreed.
• Venerable Qiongli urged the fortune-tellers to begin, and Venerable Nanyu set a one-incense-stick time limit.

Lin Fan, Venerable Nanyu, and Daoist Beiling competed to divine the whereabouts of Venerable Qiongli’s master. The president revealed that Lin Fan had pinpointed her exact location: she was trapped beneath Cold Boat Island, south of Nanzhou.

• The president set a quarter-hour deadline, and Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling quickly submitted their divined answers while Lin Fan waited.
• Venerable Nanyu placed Venerable Qiongli’s master somewhere among the islands south of Nanzhou, while Daoist Beiling narrowed her location to within a hundred li of the coast.
• Lin Fan submitted his answer at the last moment and told Venerable Qiongli that a renewed bond of fate would let him find his master.
• The president read Lin Fan’s result: Venerable Qiongli’s master was imprisoned a thousand meters beneath Cold Boat Island in an Extreme-Cold Prison.
• The president explained that Venerable Qiongli’s master had triggered a trap while investigating unusual spiritual-power fluctuations beneath the sea.

Lin Fan’s divination was verified when Han Bing’s subordinate found Venerable Qiongli’s master trapped beneath Cold Boat Island. Venerable Qiongli left to rescue her, while Lin Fan demanded that Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling admit defeat and call him their ancestral master.

• Lin Fan told Venerable Qiongli that his master was trapped on Cold Boat Island, and Han Bing arranged for a subordinate to verify the claim.
• Han Bing’s subordinate livestreamed his descent beneath the sea and found a long-haired woman imprisoned in a cage of blue light.
• Venerable Qiongli recognized his master, thanked Lin Fan, and promised to help him in the future.
• Lin Fan warned Venerable Qiongli that he and his master must leave Cold Boat Island and avoid the ruins beneath it.
• Venerable Qiongli departed to rescue his master, and Lin Fan asked Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling to address him as their ancestral master.
• Venerable Nanyu refused to accept the demand and said, “Wait!”

Lin Fan accepted the chairman’s challenge to divine Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling’s fates after the chairman ruled that the first round did not count as a win. The contest was set to last one incense stick, leaving Qianshan troubled by his master’s attempt to target Lin Fan.

• Daoist Beiling and Venerable Nanyu insisted they had also divined Venerable Qiongli’s master, and the chairman ruled that Lin Fan’s more precise answer did not count as a victory.
• Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling secretly discussed how to challenge Lin Fan, while the chairman proposed that the contestants divine information about one another.
• Daoist Beiling and Venerable Nanyu agreed to the new contest, confident their higher cultivation would protect their fates from Lin Fan.
• Cui Mu Mu and the Millennium Demon Tree doubted that anyone could divine Lin Fan’s fate, and the tree recalled that Lin Fan seemed absent from the River of Time.
• Lin Fan agreed to divine the others’ fates within the time it took an incense stick to burn, while Qianshan worried that his master was targeting someone he had once urged him to befriend.

Lin Fan relied on his own fortune-telling spells as Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling tried to divine his fate, only to find it impossible. Daoist Beiling’s feather fan shattered and injured him, leaving the gathered fortune-tellers stunned as the challenge continued.

• The president lit a large incense stick to begin the fortune-telling contest, and Lin Fan chose not to use any magical artifacts.
• Venerable Nanyu failed to divine Lin Fan’s fate, then used the Luo River Forbidden Technique and staggered back after discovering an unbelievable result.
• Young Taoist Acolyte defended Lin Fan against the cultivators mocking him, and Lin Fan told him to ignore them.
• Daoist Beiling used his golden feather fan to divine Lin Fan’s fate, but the artifact cracked and shattered, injuring him.
• Venerable Nanyu told Daoist Beiling to try another method, while the president asked whether Daoist Beiling was all right.

Lin Fan outmatched Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling in their fortune-telling contest, forcing them to concede and call him Grandmaster. The surrounding cultivators accepted his victory, and Lin Fan explained that his skill posed no threat to capable fortune-tellers.

• Daoist Beiling used a strange stone to divine Lin Fan’s fate but found no trace of it in the River of Fate.
• Lin Fan began divining Venerable Nanyu’s fate, overwhelming his resistance with power that astonished the chairman.
• Lin Fan effortlessly divined Daoist Beiling’s fate after overcoming Venerable Nanyu’s defenses.
• Lin Fan revealed details about Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling’s past, and both men conceded before he could disclose more.
• The surrounding cultivators reacted with disbelief as Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling called Lin Fan Grandmaster.
• Lin Fan welcomed them as his granddisciples and said his fortune-telling business could not threaten anyone with enough ability.

Lin Fan won the fortune-telling contest but had to wait until the Daoist Assembly ended to claim the Heaven-Calibrating Ruler. He then met Qingfeng Daoist Temple, where Daoist Feng took responsibility for his past challenge and the Temple Master stood by him.

• The Assembly President declared Lin Fan the winner but delayed awarding the Heaven-Calibrating Ruler until the Assembly's final day, allowing others to challenge him meanwhile.
• Lin Fan left the Fortune-Telling Hall, while Cui Mu Mu stayed to strengthen his karmic fortune and avoid challenging Venerable Nanyu and Daoist Beiling.
• Lin Fan entered a contest between Daoist temples and approached the Qingfeng Daoist Temple cultivators, reminding them of their earlier challenge.
• Daoist Feng confessed that he had instigated the conflict and offered to accept Lin Fan's punishment, stopping his senior brothers from attacking.
• The Qingfeng Daoist Temple's Temple Master stepped forward to bear Lin Fan's might in Daoist Feng's place, and Lin Fan acknowledged their loyalty to each other.

At the Daoist Assembly, Lin Fan accepted Qingfeng Temple Master’s proposed punishment for Daoist Feng and sent Xiao Tuantuan to the Medical Cultivator Hall to learn from Qianshan’s Master's Wife. After touring the halls, Lin Fan decided to compete in artifact refining, setting up a new kind of contest.

• Lin Fan accepted Qingfeng Temple Master’s terms: public apologies for three months, Daoist Feng serving him for three years, and Qingfeng Daoist Temple assisting him when called.
• Lin Fan ordered Daoist Feng to run around the nine snow-covered mountains until he was completely exhausted.
• Xiao Tuantuan entered the Medical Cultivator Hall, where Qianshan’s Master's Wife welcomed her and introduced her to the other medical cultivators.
• Lin Fan told Young Taoist Acolyte and Dao Tianji that he would begin issuing challenges after the first day of the Daoist Assembly.
• After Dao Tianji suggested artifact refining, Lin Fan agreed to compete and noted that the assembly’s president was a powerful artifact refiner who resented him.

Lin Fan entered the Kunlun Daoist Assembly’s artifact refiners’ hall, where Master Yin Zi challenged his claim to be an artifact refiner. Lin Fan carved an ordinary piece of jade into a ritual artifact, stunning the gathered refiners and leaving them to witness his skill.

• Master Yin Zi barred Lin Fan and his companions from the artifact refiners’ hall because they were not recognized as artifact refiners.
• Dao Tianji defended Lin Fan, who stopped him and claimed he was an artifact refiner.
• Master Yin Zi mocked Lin Fan and promised to kneel and obey him if Lin Fan’s artifact-refining skills surpassed his own.
• Lin Fan carved artifact patterns into an ordinary piece of jade with a Carving Knife.
• Lin Fan used a hand seal to turn the jade lion into a peak Qi Refining Jade Stone Ritual Artifact and asked whether anyone wanted it.

Lin Fan defeated Master Yin Zi in an artifact-refining contest, then offered to guide him and criticized the Kunlun Daoist Assembly President’s methods. The Assembly President arrived with Qianshan, setting up a comparison of their skills.

• Lin Fan refined a perfect peak-level magical artifact, and Master Yin Zi admitted defeat and knelt before him.
• Lin Fan helped Master Yin Zi up, explained why he understood his earlier actions, and offered to improve his artifact-refining skills.
• Lin Fan told Master Yin Zi that the Assembly President’s methods were unsuitable for him, but Master Yin Zi defended his senior martial uncle.
• Lin Fan said the Assembly President was about to arrive, and the President came with a group of disciples led by Qianshan.