Version Upgrade

Suddenly forced back to reality, Yin Yunze was given a terrible fright.

After traveling back and forth over the past few days, this was the first time Yin Yunze had been forced to return.

Yin Yunze hurriedly concentrated and visualized the door.

The good news was that the door formed from the power of incense offerings in Yin Yunze's mind had not disappeared. Instead, it had become increasingly real and detailed. Yin Yunze could even make out fine patterns that had appeared on the wooden door.

The bad news was that the door would not open!

It was as if the door had suddenly been locked. No matter what Yin Yunze tried, the Gate of Incense would not budge, as though it were refusing to let him in.

This unprecedented situation had Yin Yunze beside himself with anxiety.

He had finally managed to gain a foothold in that world, and now this?!

Had it happened before today, Yin Yunze could have just treated it as playing a demo of the Fox Immortal Simulator.

But just moments ago, Yin Yunze had spent several thousand yuan on a pile of supplies and sent them over!

It was like spending thousands on a game, only to be told the servers were shutting down!

If this happened with a game in real life, Yin Yunze could at least take it up with the operator.

But with the Fox Immortal Simulator, Yin Yunze had no way of finding the mastermind behind it! Even if he wanted to vent, he had nowhere to do it.

Then Yin Yunze remembered that he had even taken a day off for this, costing him several hundred yuan in attendance bonuses!

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. Yin Yunze felt awful!

The door remained impossible to open, with no change whatsoever by the next morning.

Having slept poorly all night, Yin Yunze could only drag his sleep-deprived face to work in a gloomy mood.

Funnily enough, Yin Yunze looked so half-dead that his troublesome boss thought he really was sick.

After saying a couple of things, the boss did not pursue the matter of yesterday's leave any further.

It was not until the afternoon that Yin Yunze heard a somewhat familiar call by his ear again.

"Lord Fox Immortal, can you hear me? Lord Fox Immortal..."

Hearing Zhao Wan's call, Yin Yunze immediately perked up.

He put down his work, concentrated, and once again came before the incense door.

Looking at the Gate of Incense, which was still shut, Yin Yunze braced himself and gave it a hard push.

The next moment, Yin Yunze felt as though he had fallen through the door. After a moment of weightlessness, he once again saw the dilapidated temple before him.

At that moment, four figures-three adults and a child-stood inside the temple, urgently discussing something.

But Yin Yunze paid no attention to the four people before him. Instead, he was drawn to a new change.

As if the system had spent the past day and night upgrading, Yin Yunze found that the images before him had changed from simply watching a movie to a visual experience more like playing a game with VA glasses.

The overall visuals had clearly risen to another level.

However, as the image quality of this world improved, Yin Yunze found that his attention to the real world had also been considerably divided.

Before, the real world had clearly dominated his view, with this world taking a secondary place. To focus on this world, Yin Yunze had needed to close his eyes in reality to avoid distractions.

But now, the visuals of the two worlds were nearly on equal footing. Whichever world Yin Yunze focused on more, the other would blur and fade to the edges.

Besides the improvements to sight and hearing, Yin Yunze discovered that he could also smell this world.

Of course, inside this dilapidated temple, the smell was obviously not going to be pleasant.

"So, does this count as a version update?"

The improvement was so significant that Yin Yunze could not resist a silent quip.

As he made his quip, Yin Yunze noticed something else. If he fully immersed his attention in this world, a map resembling a simple sketch and something like a radar display would appear in his mind.

The map did not cover a large area, only about the size of a village.

Although simple, it depicted the features of each location in great detail. What caught Yin Yunze's attention most, however, were the dozens upon dozens of faintly glowing dots scattered throughout the village.

Just looking at the dots, Yin Yunze had a vague feeling that there seemed to be a connection between them.

Just then, one of the dots suddenly began to blink.

At the same time, a man's call reached Yin Yunze's ears.

"Lord Fox Immortal, please bless me. Lord Fox Immortal, please bless me..."

A little curious, Yin Yunze tried to see whether he could touch the blinking dot. The moment the thought arose, his vision blurred, and a shabby room appeared before him.

In the room, right before Yin Yunze, stood a married couple dressed in ragged clothes.

"Please, Lord Fox Immortal, bless our family with wealth..."

Then Yin Yunze heard the couple's heartfelt prayer.

I want to get rich too!

After that silent quip, Yin Yunze took a careful look around. This was just a perfectly ordinary rural household.

Finding nothing that needed his attention, Yin Yunze turned his focus back to the map.

The map seemed to have been activated now, and several more blinking dots had appeared.

Whenever Yin Yunze focused on one of the dots, he would also hear that person calling to him in his mind.

When he selected another dot, Yin Yunze's vision blurred again, and he found that, as before, he had arrived at an ordinary farming household.

This time, however, it was an old man praying there.

Seeing this, Yin Yunze roughly understood what was going on.

Perhaps because he had gained a large number of followers and much faith by manifesting before people earlier, Yin Yunze's earlier quip had been right: his Fox Immortal Simulator had clearly received a version upgrade!

Originally, he could only respond to believers in that particular dilapidated temple. Now that he had the radar map, as long as a believer who worshipped Yin Yunze prayed sincerely within Clear Creek Village, Yin Yunze would receive a notification and be able to respond.

To test his guess, Yin Yunze entered several more blinking dots in succession.

Without exception, they were all Clear Creek Village villagers praying to Yin Yunze.

After several tries, however, Yin Yunze noticed something that concerned him: his viewpoint when he appeared before believers was exactly the same as it was in the dilapidated temple.

In each case, he faced the believers and had a 180-degree field of vision.

Although his viewpoint was still restricted, compared with this upgrade, it was a minor issue of no great consequence.

Turning his attention back to the radar map itself, Yin Yunze focused on it again and discovered that he seemed able to make out some images dimly.

After focusing on the area near one of the dots, Yin Yunze found that the image became a little clearer, and he could even see figures moving around.

Even so, although it was a little clearer, it was still hazy, like looking at flowers through fog.

By now, Yin Yunze had a rough idea of what the radar map did.

One function was to serve as a surveillance camera with extremely low resolution; the other was to locate those believers who were praying.

With the former, Yin Yunze could point and look wherever he wanted, but the drawback was that the resolution was too low. With the latter, he could see the surroundings of the person praying in full, but the drawback was that the camera was fixed, with only a 180-degree view to the front.

Even so, combining the two could make up for Yin Yunze's previous predicament of being trapped in the dilapidated temple.