Chapter Summaries

The Kunlun Daoist Assembly President arrived at the Artifact Refining Hall and boasted that his skills surpassed Lin Fan’s, prompting Lin Fan to expose the poor quality of his work. They agreed to compete at artifact refining with major stakes, leaving the contest yet to begin.

• The Assembly President arrived and claimed he had come to instruct the artifact refiners, while Lin Fan divined that he wanted to promote the Assembly’s reputation.
• The Assembly President’s disciples praised his skills and dismissed Lin Fan, and the Assembly President claimed he was the better refiner.
• Lin Fan revealed that the Assembly President’s Golden Core Peak Stage ring had shattered easily and was defective.
• The Assembly President challenged Lin Fan to an artifact-refining contest, and Lin Fan insisted they wager something meaningful.
• The Assembly President offered Lin Fan an honorary elder position if Lin Fan won, while Lin Fan offered to endure ten years in the Spirit-Sealing Cage if he lost.
• The Assembly President raised his offer, promising Lin Fan authority second only to himself and freedom to move throughout the Assembly’s territory if Lin Fan won, and Lin Fan accepted.

Lin Fan and the Assembly President swore a divine soul oath and began a three-hour artifact-refining contest, with the loser facing ten years in a cage. As the Assembly President worked with supreme-grade materials and a powerful furnace, Lin Fan quietly searched the System Mall for wood to use instead of jade.

• Qianshan warned the Assembly President against wagering so much, but the Assembly President dismissed him and ordered him to stand aside.
• Lin Fan told Qianshan to stop intervening, then demanded that he and the Assembly President swear divine soul oaths before the contest.
• The Assembly President set a three-hour contest to refine middle Golden Core stage magical artifacts, and Qianshan brought him a powerful artifact-refining furnace.
• The Assembly President began refining an artifact with supreme-grade Golden Core-level materials while Lin Fan kept his eyes closed.
• The viewers worried that Lin Fan lacked high-quality jade, while Lin Fan browsed the System Mall and bought pieces of wood for refining.

Lin Fan tied the Assembly President in an artifact-refining contest by carving a perfect-quality, middle Golden Core stage magical artifact in the shape of a little dog. When Lin Fan pushed for a higher-stakes rematch, Qianshan tried to mediate, but the Assembly President rejected his plea and insisted that he had not lost.

• Lin Fan used special spiritwood to carve a little dog magical artifact while the Assembly President refined a shield.
• The Assembly President completed a perfect-quality, middle Golden Core stage shield before Lin Fan finished carving.
• Lin Fan revealed that his wooden dog was also a perfect-quality, middle Golden Core stage magical artifact, and the Assembly President called the contest a draw.
• Lin Fan proposed that they compete using late Golden Core stage magical artifacts and explained why he would not back down.
• Qianshan asked Lin Fan to let the matter go, but the Assembly President pushed Qianshan aside and declared that he had not lost.

Lin Fan and the Assembly President competed to refine late Golden Core stage magical artifacts within six hours, and Lin Fan finished a wooden dog carving in just over three hours. The Assembly President continued refining while the others questioned the carving’s grade, which Lin Fan had not yet revealed.

• The Assembly President challenged Lin Fan to refine a late Golden Core stage magical artifact within six hours, and Lin Fan accepted.
• Lin Fan carved spiritwood while the Assembly President rested before beginning his own artifact.
• Both men began refining, and the artifact refiners watched the Assembly President’s familiar methods while Qianshan worried about being caught between his master and Lin Fan.
• After three hours, Lin Fan completed a golden wooden dog carving, startling the Assembly President and the watching refiners.
• Lin Fan explained that the carving’s aura would only be detectable after he activated it, and he avoided doing so to keep from disturbing the Assembly President.

Lin Fan won the artifact-refining contest against the Assembly President by producing a perfect-quality late Golden Core stage magical artifact. After revealing that he had studied artifact refining for only about four months, he received the Assembly President’s Access Token, which allowed him to travel throughout the Kunlun Mountains.

• The Assembly President completed a supreme-grade late Golden Core stage shield and believed he had beaten Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan activated his Little Dog Woodcarving, revealing that it was a perfect-quality artifact and winning the contest.
• Lin Fan said he had studied artifact refining for less than four months, while the Assembly President revealed he had practiced for three or four hundred years.
• The Assembly President accepted his loss and gave Lin Fan his Kunlun Access Token, prompting other cultivators to object.

Lin Fan accepted the Kunlun Token after defeating the Assembly President in artifact refining, then declined to press him into a fight at Qianshan’s request. The token unlocked a mission to explore the Kunlun Mountains’ spatial secret realms, and Lin Fan quietly asked Qianshan where to find them.

• The Assembly President gave Lin Fan the Kunlun Token despite his disciples’ objections, then revealed his suppressed cultivation could reach the Golden Core peak stage.
• Lin Fan challenged the Assembly President to a fight, but the President refused and directed him to the combat hall instead.
• Qianshan urged Lin Fan to respect the Assembly’s rules and avoid fighting his master, so Lin Fan dropped the challenge.
• The Assembly President left with his disciples, and Lin Fan thanked Qianshan before storing the token.
• The system recognized the Kunlun Token and offered Lin Fan a Space Codex for each new spatial secret realm he explored.
• Lin Fan asked Qianshan about the Assembly’s secret realms, and Qianshan wondered if he had learned of them by divining his master’s fate.

Lin Fan learned that the Kunlun Daoist Assembly’s secret realm locations were hidden in sealed memories and planned to obtain them from Qianshan’s senior martial uncle. After making Master Yin Zi stay by his side, Lin Fan taught the artifact refiners and asked them to make defensive magical artifacts for ordinary people ahead of an expected upheaval.

• Qianshan told Lin Fan that the Daoist Assembly’s disciples sealed away their memories of secret realms and that he could not unseal his own without severe consequences.
• Lin Fan planned to meet Qianshan’s senior martial uncle, who guarded the secret realms, and divine the locations from his memories without asking him directly.
• Lin Fan invoked Master Yin Zi’s promise and required him to stay by Lin Fan’s side and help whenever needed.
• Lin Fan guided Master Yin Zi and the other artifact refiners, openly teaching them techniques.
• Lin Fan asked the artifact refiners to make defensive magical artifacts for ordinary people because he foresaw a coming upheaval.

Lin Fan arranged for artifact refiners to supply Han Bing’s team with magical artifacts as he prepared for an ominous upheaval he could not divine. Back at his residence, he kept his reasons for helping Cui Mu Mu secret, then planned to spend the remaining hours before dawn connecting with livestream viewers.

• Lin Fan agreed that the artifact refiners would make standardized magical artifacts for Han Bing’s subordinates and warned them to honor their promises.
• Han Bing registered the refiners and considered expanding her team after Lin Fan explained that an unpredictable upheaval might exceed his control.
• Lin Fan learned that Cui Mu Mu was defeating fortune-tellers to accumulate karmic fortune for the Millennium Demon Tree’s demon embryo scheme.
• Lin Fan told his viewers he had his own reasons for helping Cui Mu Mu and promised he would not let Cui Mu Mu harm anyone again.
• Lin Fan decided to stay awake before dawn and connect with two viewers instead of resting or competing against other cultivators.

Lin Fan connected with singer Cai Yiyi and warned her that extremists planned to attack her concert, though police arrested thirteen suspects. He still foresaw danger if the concert went ahead, leaving Cai Yiyi torn between canceling it and disappointing fans who had traveled to attend.

• Lin Fan connected with Cai Yiyi, who was traveling from Dongzhou to Yunzhou for her concert after heavy snow closed the airport.
• Lin Fan warned Cai Yiyi to cancel the concert because someone intended to sabotage it.
• Lin Fan said police had already arrested thirteen extremists planning to attack her fans.
• Cai Yiyi asked whether the concert could proceed, but Lin Fan predicted more dangers, including a fan rushing the stage and problems with her voice.
• Cai Yiyi began considering canceling the concert, while viewers who had traveled to Yunzhou urged her not to.

Cai Yiyi consulted Lin Fan about dangers at her concert and ultimately decided to cancel it despite pressure from her fans, manager, and company. Before she ended the call, Lin Fan told her she was being cheated on, leaving her shocked as the company refused to accept her decision.

• Cai Yiyi's fans urged her not to cancel the concert, while her manager Xiaohua warned that cancellation could cost over a hundred million in compensation.
• Lin Fan predicted the stage would collapse, Cai Yiyi would lose her voice, and broken lights would trigger a stampede, and he explained that changing the venue, date, or performer would amount to canceling the concert.
• After fans and Xiaohua accused Lin Fan of fearmongering, Cai Yiyi said she believed him and asked Xiaohua to arrange the cancellation, with Cai Yiyi bearing the compensation herself.
• Lin Fan told Cai Yiyi she was being cheated on, and she reacted with disbelief as viewers speculated about her relationship.
• Xiaohua told Cai Yiyi that the company would not allow the concert to be canceled, but Cai Yiyi rejected the decision and asked Xiaohua to respect her wishes.
• Xiaohua agreed to call the company and report Cai Yiyi's decision.

Cai Yiyi refused to hold her concert despite threats from her company, then learned from Lin Fan that her boyfriend Wang Xiaojie had been cheating on her with her manager, Xiaohua. Lin Fan revealed that Wang Xiaojie also hosted monthly group sex parties, and said he had already asked the police to collect evidence.

• Cai Yiyi rejected her executives' threats and insisted she would cancel the concert because she trusted Lin Fan's warning about dangers.
• Cai Yiyi revealed that her boyfriend was award-winning actor Wang Xiaojie, and Lin Fan said they had fallen in love while filming together three years earlier.
• Lin Fan accused Xiaohua of having sex with Wang Xiaojie at Cai Yiyi's home, and Xiaohua threatened to sue him for slander.
• Lin Fan said Wang Xiaojie had recorded videos of the affair, and Cai Yiyi slapped Xiaohua after hearing the accusation.
• Lin Fan revealed that Wang Xiaojie held monthly group sex parties and said he had asked the police to secure the videos and recordings.

Cai Yiyi learned that her former agent Xiaohua had betrayed her and left her to face the consequences alone. Lin Fan helped her escape spirit bodies looping her car around a mountain road, but warned that another danger awaited at a roadside repair shop.

• Xiaohua admitted she had seduced Wang Xiaojie to advance her own entertainment career, and Cai Yiyi made her get out of the car.
• Cai Yiyi asked Lin Fan about further trouble, and he predicted that spirit bodies would trap her car near a cemetery before it crashed into a gravestone.
• The driver realized the car was looping around Qiuming Panshan Highway, while Coiled Dragon and Lin Fan identified spirit bodies outside the vehicle.
• Lin Fan recited from the Soul-Deliverance Canon, clearing the spirit bodies and allowing Cai Yiyi and her driver to escape the mountain road.
• Lin Fan warned that the car would soon break down beside a repair shop, where two men would be tempted to steal Cai Yiyi's valuables.

Cai Yiyi’s disastrous luck left her stranded with her driver near a remote repair shop, where two mechanics might threaten them. Lin Fan used divination and spells to find a way to protect them, while the mechanics approached their car.

• Lin Fan told Cai Yiyi that her calamity would pass after midnight, but he could not reach her or change her luck in time.
• When the car stalled near a repair shop, Lin Fan warned that waiting in the car would not keep Cai Yiyi safe, and said the police officers he had alerted were delayed by accidents.
• Coiled Dragon suggested finding someone whose birth chart complemented Cai Yiyi’s, and Lin Fan agreed to seek such a person after they survived the immediate danger.
• Lin Fan instructed Cai Yiyi and her driver to stay inside with the windows closed and remain silent, then wrote the mechanics’ birth charts and incantations on yellow paper.
• Two mechanics approached the car and speculated that its occupants might have gone elsewhere.

Cai Yiyi and her driver faced two predatory mechanics after their car broke down on a remote road, but Lin Fan immobilized the men with a remote spell. The pair escaped safely, and Lin Fan revealed that the mechanics were repeat offenders who had harmed many people.

• The mechanics discovered Cai Yiyi and the driver inside the broken-down car and noticed their expensive belongings.
• Cai Yiyi saw the livestream viewers' warnings and told the driver to close the window, but the mechanics smashed the windows and forced open the doors.
• Lin Fan used paper figures and a Remote Immobilization Spell to freeze both mechanics before they could harm Cai Yiyi.
• Cai Yiyi and the driver pushed the young mechanic out, shut the doors, and drove away after the car started working again.
• Lin Fan told Cai Yiyi that the mechanics were repeat offenders who had set up their shop in a remote area to murder people for their money.

Lin Fan helped Cai Yiyi avoid danger on the road and guided her to the Yunzhou Hotel, where two fans agreed to protect her in exchange for money and Lin Fan’s talismans and magical artifacts. At the hotel, Cai Yiyi and her driver felt a sudden chill, and Lin Fan revealed that a spirit body was on the bed.

• Cai Yiyi learned that two mechanics had been trapping cars and targeting wealthy drivers, while Yunzhou police prepared to arrest them using evidence Lin Fan had found.
• Lin Fan told Cai Yiyi she would reach a Yunzhou hotel safely and could avoid danger by giving an autograph to a spirit body who was her fan.
• Lin Fan identified White Dew Across the River and Great Dao to Simplicity as people whose birth charts could help Cai Yiyi, and Cai Yiyi offered them ten million each to come to the hotel.
• The two fans refused the money alone, so Lin Fan promised each of them twenty million, two talismans, and a protective magical artifact; they set off for the hotel.
• Cai Yiyi checked into the hotel’s presidential suite with her driver, where they felt an unnatural chill, and Lin Fan said a spirit body was on the bed.

Cai Yiyi met the spirit of a devoted fan, helped her receive a posthumous autographed photo, and learned the police had found her body and caught her murderer. Lin Fan then brought two viewers to meet Cai Yiyi, whose fate began to improve as they stayed together.

• Cai Yiyi spoke with the young woman's spirit, who revealed she was a longtime fan and asked for a Millennium Version autographed photo.
• Cai Yiyi burned the signed photo while focusing on the spirit, allowing the spirit to receive it.
• Lin Fan told Cai Yiyi that Yunzhou Uncle Cop had found the young woman's body beneath a bed at the Yunzhou Hotel and caught the murderer.
• The young woman's spirit vanished to return to her body, and Lin Fan told Cai Yiyi to wait for two viewers arriving at the hotel.
• Lin Fan used the Qi-Observing Technique and found Cai Yiyi's fate had begun to change after the two viewers arrived.
• Lin Fan told Cai Yiyi to talk with the two viewers and become friends with them to change her fate further.

Lin Fan arranged for two viewers to keep Cai Yiyi company, then called Xu Ruo, a factory worker who was being bullied. He revealed that Xu Ruo had once lured Fang Kong to the bullies to protect himself, and Xu Ruo admitted it.

• Lin Fan told White Dew Across the River and Great Dao to Simplicity that Cai Yiyi would pay them ten million and that he would send them talismans or magical artifacts.
• Lin Fan ended the call with Cai Yiyi and selected Diligent Worker, whose real name was Xu Ruo, for another livestream call.
• Lin Fan revealed that Xu Ruo was bullied and beaten by coworkers, who also took his wages and threatened him when he considered quitting or contacting the police.
• Lin Fan said Xu Ruo had once called Fang Kong to a rooftop under the pretense of helping him, where a group of bullies waited.
• Xu Ruo admitted that he had lured Fang Kong there to distance himself from him and please the bullies.