Chapter Summaries

Cheng Qin and Chu Yong explained the film series’ planned twists to Xiao Yu and Xia Mo, then faced a string of influencer cast members demanding better roles and higher pay because Xiao Yu was earning more. Cheng Qin asked to speak privately with Xiao Yu, leaving Chu Yong to handle the disgruntled cast.

• Cheng Qin and Chu Yong told Xiao Yu and Xia Mo that their characters would become the true leads in later installments, while Qi Qing and Du Zhen’s leads would turn out to be villains represented by skulls.
• Qi Qing and Du Zhen confronted Cheng Qin over their roles and pay, demanding script changes and a raise.
• Tao Yan and Luo Lian protested Tao Yan’s replacement as the villain boss and threatened to quit or sue unless he got the second male lead.
• Tao Yan suggested demoting Xiao Yu to a minor role, prompting another cast member to defend his own part.
• Cheng Qin asked to discuss the dispute privately with Xiao Yu while Chu Yong stayed with the angry influencers.

Xiao Yu convinced Cheng Qin to keep him as the second male lead by proving his fortune-telling ability and sharing her future. Cheng Qin stood by her decision, while the influencers faced the prospect of accepting reduced roles or leaving.

• Cheng Qin told Xiao Yu that the influencers’ pressure had made her feel she had to give up his role to save the series.
• Xiao Yu decided he would play the second male lead and offered to give Cheng Qin more confidence by demonstrating his fortune-telling.
• Xiao Yu accurately described Cheng Qin’s plans for a firefighter series, her disagreement with her husband Chu Yong, and an embarrassing bus ride.
• After hearing Xiao Yu’s prediction about the future, Cheng Qin returned to the room and confirmed that he would play the second male lead.
• Cheng Qin told the cast they could stay or leave, and Tao Yan stormed out while Luo Lian stayed.

Cheng Qin demoted Du Zhen, Qi Qing, and Luo Lian after they tried to raise their fees and threaten the production, while Xia Mo defended Xiao Yu. The three actors accused Xiao Yu of manipulating Cheng Qin, and Qi Qing ended by demanding five times his appearance fee or threatening to sabotage the shoot.

• Cheng Qin reassigned Du Zhen, Qi Qing, and Luo Lian to smaller roles without changing their pay and told them they could leave if they objected.
• Du Zhen, Qi Qing, and Luo Lian protested the demotions and accused Xiao Yu of deceiving Cheng Qin to push them out.
• Xia Mo mocked the trio and defended Xiao Yu, boasting about his influence and warning them not to insult him.
• Qi Qing demanded five times Xiao Yu's appearance fee and threatened to stop trying and make trouble if Cheng Qin refused.

Xiao Yu confronted the three influencers who had threatened to slack off and smear the production, exposing damaging secrets to make them back down. Luo Lian agreed to act, Qi Qing fled in tears, and Du Zhen quit and ran off to avoid a contract penalty.

• Qi Qing, Du Zhen, and Luo Lian threatened to slack off, spread accusations, and make trouble after Cheng Qin and Chu Yong refused their demands.
• Xiao Yu warned Luo Lian that he knew about her past false molestation accusation against Wang Cheng, and she agreed to stop causing trouble and act in the production.
• Xiao Yu threatened to expose Qi Qing's former identity as Huang Xiaomei and her past, and she ran away crying after Xia Mo mocked her.
• Xiao Yu turned to Du Zhen, who quit the production and hurried away after asking Xiao Yu not to sue him or demand a contract penalty.

After Xiao Yu helped settle the trouble on set, he recommended Li An for the male lead and allowed Luo Lian to audition for the female lead. A month later, the series promotion drew millions of viewers to Xiao Yu’s livestream, where fans eagerly awaited the trailer.

• Cheng Qin asked Xiao Yu for lead recommendations, and he suggested Li An for the male lead because Li An had risked his life to save someone.
• Luo Lian pleaded for a chance at the female lead, and Cheng Qin persuaded Xiao Yu to let her audition despite his doubts about her acting.
• Cheng Qin and Chu Yong considered making Xiao Yu the series lead, while Luo Lian silently worried that she would lose her role.
• A month later, promotional images for Sea Werewolf: God-Slaying Plan appeared on the Yanjing Live-Streaming Platform homepage, featuring Xiao Yu prominently.
• Fans and unfamiliar viewers flooded Xiao Yu’s livestream, driving its concurrent audience past 3.3 million as they discussed the series and waited for its promotional video.
• Xiao Yu went live, and viewers immediately asked him to play the trailer and explain the homepage promotion.

Xiao Yu premiered a trailer for his mystery series and discovered that its future rating had risen to 8.7, then resumed his livestream fortune-telling. After the draw, Zhou Yanchen asked him for help after being drugged and sexually assaulted, an incident that had also led her boyfriend to break up with her.

• Xiao Yu showed viewers a trailer made from his filmed scenes, and he saw that the series’ future review rating had improved to 8.7.
• Xiao Yu began fortune-telling as many newcomers questioned his popularity and called his stream dull, while his fans urged them to wait for the draw.
• After an hour, Xiao Yu held the draw with 3.15 million viewers still watching.
• Zhou Yanchen told Xiao Yu that someone had drugged and assaulted her after she went to a bar, and that her boyfriend had broken up with her because he thought she had cheated.
• Zhou Yanchen explained that she had not reported the assault because she feared humiliation, gossip, and losing her job, and she asked Xiao Yu for help.

Xiao Yu called celebrity Xue Lin and accused him of drugging and raping Zhou Yanchen, as well as assaulting two fans months earlier. Xue Lin denied the crimes and mocked Xiao Yu’s offer to improve his luck, leaving the confrontation unresolved as he hung up.

• Xiao Yu told Zhou Yanchen he understood what she wanted and would help bring the culprit to justice.
• Xiao Yu called Xue Lin while the celebrity traveled to a countryside variety-show shoot with his assistant, Lian Juan.
• Lian Juan recognized Xiao Yu and handed the phone to Xue Lin, who dismissed him as a fraud.
• Xiao Yu accused Xue Lin of drugging and raping Zhou Yanchen, then revealed that evidence might exist from an earlier assault on two fans.
• Xue Lin denied the accusations, threatened to sue Xiao Yu, and refused to turn himself in before hanging up.

After Xue Lin dismissed Master Xiao’s warning, Lian Juan watched the livestream and learned that Master Xiao had cast a spell against him. Xue Lin’s misfortunes began immediately, and Lian Juan feared what might happen next.

• Xue Lin hung up on Master Xiao and insulted him, while Lian Juan grew curious and opened Master Xiao’s livestream.
• Lian Juan heard Master Xiao tell Zhou Yanchen that he had cast a spell on Xue Lin and that an accident would happen within ten days or a fortnight.
• Xue Lin fell on flat ground, scraped his forehead, and needed Lian Juan to bandage him.
• At the Farmhouse Courtyard, Xue Lin cut his finger while chopping vegetables and scalded himself by flinging hot food onto his forehead.
• Lian Juan suspected that something would also go wrong when Xue Lin tried to eat.

Xue Lin’s string of bizarre misfortunes continued after Master Xiao warned him, until his career and reputation collapsed and he finally begged Master Xiao to stop. The chapter ended with Xue Lin admitting he was wrong and pleading for help.

• Xue Lin choked on a rib bone, and Lian Juan suspected Master Xiao’s warning had caused his misfortune.
• Traffic delayed Xue Lin’s ambulance, but doctors eventually removed the bone; Xue Lin dismissed the bad luck as coincidence.
• Xue Lin suffered more mishaps outside the hospital, including falling into a shallow river after a child shoved him off a bridge.
• Xue Lin endured weeks of accidents and public scandals, while his endorsements and entertainment contracts fell apart and his followers abandoned him.
• After nearly choking on rice again, Xue Lin found Lian Juan and called Master Xiao to apologize and beg him to end the bad luck.

After Xue Lin turned himself in to escape the bad luck Xiao Yu had inflicted on him, Xiao Yu rushed to Yanjing when the Heavenly Mandate Stone revealed an impending disaster. A hotel fire had already trapped dozens of people, including his Top Supporter Liu Shan, and Xiao Yu flew toward the flames to rescue them.

• Xue Lin agreed to turn himself in after enduring two weeks of bad luck, and Lian Juan offered to accompany him.
• Lian Juan told fans how Master Xiao's prediction had led Xue Lin to surrender.
• Xiao Yu arrived in Yanjing after foreseeing a disaster, but reached the burning hotel only after the fire had begun.
• Xiao Yu discovered that Liu Shan and fourteen others were on the future death list, including a mother and her ten-year-old daughter.
• Xiao Yu summoned the True Shadow Sword and flew toward the hotel to save the people trapped inside.
• A child spotted Xiao Yu flying into the flames and shouted that Superman had come to rescue people.

Xiao Yu used his flying sword to rescue Liu Shan and a girl from the burning hotel, then returned inside to save more people. As survivors escaped and Liu Shan waited outside, Xiao Yu had still not emerged from the worsening fire.

• Witnesses saw Xiao Yu fly into the burning hotel on a blue-green sword, and the police chief confirmed the footage captured it.
• Xiao Yu found Liu Shan and an unconscious girl trapped on the eighth floor, carried them out on his flying sword, and sent them to safety.
• Liu Shan reassured the girl's father that a Sword Immortal was rescuing people, and the girl's mother soon escaped and reunited with her family.
• Xiao Yu repeatedly returned to the hotel as more people escaped, while Liu Shan grew increasingly anxious that he had not come back out.

After the hotel fire, Xiao Yu discovered that the Heavenly Dao’s cause and effect had fallen into disarray, prompting him to stream more often and cultivate rapidly. He and Liu Shan became a couple, and as the new year began, Hu Feifei returned from vacation to visit him.

• Liu Shan rushed back into the burning hotel looking for Xiao Yu, then found him safe and kissed him in relief.
• Xiao Yu’s investigation revealed that a fire had occurred in the wrong place because the Heavenly Dao’s cause and effect had become disordered, so he began streaming daily to strengthen himself and prevent future disasters.
• Xiao Yu reached the eighth level of the Core Formation Stage, unlocked the Misfortune-Averting Spell, and raised his merit cultivation to the fifth level.
• Liu Shan persistently courted Xiao Yu until he agreed to become her boyfriend, and she moved to Magic City to cultivate in seclusion.
• Xiao Yu’s web series and livestreams grew popular, while Boss Wei created a queueing app and an exclusive streamer title for him.
• At the start of the new year, Hu Feifei returned from vacation and teased Xiao Yu about pretending to be his girlfriend.

Xiao Yu investigated two century-old ghosts that Hu Feifei had encountered and found them playing chess in a residential community. The ghosts explained that they had escaped from a small otherworldly realm months earlier and had no way to return.

• Hu Feifei told Xiao Yu about two century-old ghosts, and he decided to find them while leaving her and Zhong Qi at the shop.
• Xiao Yu entered the garden at Tianhuang Residential Community and found two ghosts playing Chinese chess in the black mist.
• Xiao Yu corrected the old ghost’s chess move, revealing that he could see and speak with the ghosts.
• The ghosts told Xiao Yu that they had once been trapped together in a small world in another dimension and had opened a rift to reach the human world about three months earlier.

Xiao Yu brought Mo Yi and Jiang Yue back to their Spirit Realm secret realm using the Heavenly Mandate Stone and discovered a trove of cultivation techniques and pills in their house. Mo Yi then demanded the stone and threatened to possess Xiao Yu, leaving their reunion on the verge of conflict.

• Xiao Yu offered to help Mo Yi and Jiang Yue return to their home and invited them to come with him afterward.
• Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mandate Stone to open the secret realm at the place where the ghosts had first appeared.
• Mo Yi and Jiang Yue confirmed the realm was their home, and Xiao Yu entered their wooden house.
• Xiao Yu found cultivation techniques, including ghost cultivation methods, and more than a hundred bottles of pills for ghost cultivators.
• Mo Yi demanded the Heavenly Mandate Stone in exchange for the house's treasures and threatened to take over Xiao Yu's body if he refused.

Xiao Yu confronted Mo Yi and Jiang Yue after they coveted the Nuwa Stone and tried to take it from him. Xiao Yu instantly destroyed Mo Yi with an Evil-Breaking Arrow, leaving Jiang Yue alone and ready to die.

• Mo Yi revealed that he wanted the Nuwa Stone so he could possess a living person and be reborn, and he persuaded Jiang Yue to help him seize it.
• Mo Yi altered the array formation to fill it with murderous energy, while Xiao Yu warned both ghosts to abandon their plan.
• Mo Yi explained that he had delayed possessing someone because he wanted Jiang Yue to accept the idea after experiencing the human world.
• Xiao Yu fired a probing Evil-Breaking Arrow, which instantly scattered Mo Yi despite the array formation.
• Jiang Yue mourned Mo Yi and gave up resisting, telling Xiao Yu to kill him because he had lost hope of continuing as a ghost.

Xiao Yu returned from the Secret Realm after destroying Mo Yi and Jiang Yue, then shared cultivation methods with Zhong Qi and Hu Feifei and continued helping Liu Shan cultivate. During his livestream, he met Yun Xue, a reluctant internet celebrity who asked him for help with trouble caused by her sudden fame.

• Xiao Yu destroyed Jiang Yue after refusing to imprison him, and left the Secret Realm without learning what had caused the Heavenly Dao's abnormality.
• Xiao Yu gave cultivation methods to Zhong Qi and Hu Feifei, then visited Liu Shan at Experimental Middle School and continued raising her cultivation with pills.
• Xiao Yu started streaming and reflected on how his audience and public reception had grown since he began.
• Xiao Yu drew Three Unfilial Acts as his first guest and recognized Yun Xue as the gaming streamer who had gained ten million followers overnight.
• Yun Xue told Xiao Yu that her unwanted internet fame had brought her trouble and asked him to help.

Xiao Yu investigated Yun Xue’s stalking problem and discovered that the refined Mr. Mi Jun was one of her stalkers. Mi Jun admitted to harassing her and promised to stop, leaving Yun Xue relieved and praising Xiao Yu.

• Xiao Yu learned through divination that Yun Xue was being stalked and told her there was more than one stalker.
• Xiao Yu called Mi Jun and demanded that he stop harassing Yun Xue and apologize.
• Mi Jun denied the accusation until Xiao Yu revealed his QQ password and threatened to expose secrets on his devices.
• Mi Jun admitted to stalking Yun Xue, apologized, and promised not to harass her again.
• Yun Xue and her roommates accepted Xiao Yu’s ability and joked about him being their husband.

After exposing Mi Jun’s stalking of Yun Xue, Xiao Yu confronted Luo Lin, who had hired someone to follow her and planned to frame her for a crime. Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Fate Curse to ensure Luo Lin would rot in prison, leaving the arrogant man unaware that his fate had been set.

• Xiao Yu recognized that Mi Jun’s harassment was less dangerous than the threat posed by Luo Lin and another stalker hired to investigate Yun Xue.
• Xiao Yu repeatedly called Luo Lin, then confronted him about hiring someone to follow Yun Xue, writing love letters, and planning to frame her.
• Luo Lin denied everything, mocked Xiao Yu, and hung up without apologizing or confessing.
• Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Fate Curse on Luo Lin, first failing to make him get caught red-handed and then successfully cursing him to rot in prison.
• Xiao Yu left Luo Lin with a warning, while the livestream viewers speculated that Luo Lin would soon commit a crime and end up in prison.

Yun Xue was rescued after Luo Lin kidnapped her, and she learned Master Xiao had seemingly allowed events to unfold until the police could catch him. Xiao Yu then read Yai Wu’s future and warned that she had a high chance of dying in three years, leaving her pleading for a better outcome.

• Yun Xue learned Mi Jun had resigned and Luo Lin had withdrawn from campus, so she gradually stopped worrying about him.
• Luo Lin kidnapped Yun Xue and took her to a basement, where police arrived in time to rescue her.
• Yun Xue learned Luo Lin had been sentenced to ten years and concluded Master Xiao had protected her while waiting for him to commit a crime.
• Xiao Yu connected with livestream viewer Yai Wu, who asked him to read her future.
• Xiao Yu predicted Yai Wu would face job loss and divorce, and warned she had a high chance of dying in about three years if she stayed in Huaxia.

Xiao Yu used Misfortune-Averting Spell! to erase Yai Wu’s future brush with death, then promised to guide her toward mutual love in exchange for following his plans. His final livestream caller, Lü Xingqiu, learned that his son Lü Junbo would kill himself in a week, and Xiao Yu began questioning the parents about their treatment of him.

• Xiao Yu cast Misfortune-Averting Spell! on Yai Wu, removing her future brush with death.
• Yai Wu chose a future of mutual love despite poverty and agreed to follow Xiao Yu’s instructions for three years.
• Xiao Yu drew Lü Xingqiu as his last caller and told him that his son Lü Junbo would kill himself in a week.
• Lü Xingqiu and Yao Xia initially dismissed Xiao Yu’s warning, but he asked them to recall how long it had been since Lü Junbo smiled, played with classmates, or received praise.
• Xiao Yu told the couple that Lü Junbo’s obedience was the biggest problem and asked whether they had heard of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.