The Follower Zixuan

Upon hearing that the other party had come because of a severe drought that had lasted for months, Yin Yunze immediately understood.

Well, it's all because of Prince Jing's corpse again.

Indeed, if it weren't for places like this, plagued by natural disasters and man-made calamities, cults would have a hard time causing trouble!

Upon hearing that it was the Third Prison Warden of the Evil Ghost Division in charge, Yin Yunze casually asked, "How strong are the Third Prison Warden of the Evil Ghost Division?"

"This— Siniang hasn't actually seen the Third Prison Warden in action either—" Looking up at Yin Yunze, Hu Siniang said cautiously, "However, I imagine they're no match for Your Majesty!"

Although he felt that Hu Siniang's words were just flattery, Yin Yunze felt somewhat relieved.

After a pause, Hu Siniang said softly, "Actually, Siniang was also under the Beast Division, and belonged to the Second Prison." Hearing Hu Siniang's words, Yin Yunze thought of how she had been led around by Wang Guisheng before, and couldn't help but ask, "Since you and Wang Guisheng belong to the same sect, why are you—but you have been placed under a restriction?"

"Your Majesty is too kind. How could we beasts possibly be respected by them?"

Upon hearing this, Hu Siniang said bitterly, "The Beast Division is different from the other five divisions. It is a division that enslaves us beast-like Demon Race. Their daily operations involve capturing us Demon Race, imposing restrictions on us, and then using us as servants of the other five divisions. Years ago, Wang Guisheng and I went out to see the world and inadvertently stumbled into this Heavenly Wheel Sect, and the result was—"

"You're an unlucky kid too----"

After listening to what Hu Siniang had to say, Yin Yunze finally understood what was going on.

This kind of thing happens in every era; to put it nicely, it's called "Non-Self our kind," but to put it bluntly, it's racial discrimination.

Like Yin Yunze, wasn't he subconsciously looked down upon by Xu Hanxian, a scholar-official, because of his identity as a fox spirit?

However, since Yin Yunze still had the real world as his greatest reliance, he didn't feel anything was amiss.

In comparison, Hu Siniang, this native little fox, was not so lucky.

After joining the church, Wang Guisheng was considered to have some talent, so he was still treated as a human being, which meant he was assigned to do some dirty and tiring work.

Hu Siniang was in a much worse situation; she was treated like an ordinary wild animal.

It was only because Wang Guisheng spared her from abuse out of consideration for their past relationship that Hu Siniang was able to raise such a smooth and soft fur.

Although he never abused her, Wang Guisheng, influenced by what he saw and heard, didn't treat Hu Siniang as an equal partner. In Wang Guisheng's eyes, Hu Siniang was at most an old dog he had brought from his hometown and had been with him for many years.

This can be seen from the fact that Hu Siniang still spoke in a high-pitched voice in front of Wang Guisheng.

Therefore, Hu Siniang really didn't think much of Wang Guisheng's death and never thought of taking revenge.

Conversely, after Wang Guisheng's death, the restrictions were temporarily unactivated, allowing Hu Siniang to finally regain a degree of freedom after a long time.

After discovering that Wang Guisheng was dead, Hu Siniang really did intend to seek refuge with Yin Yunze.

It's not that Hu Siniang hasn't met other great evil spirits over the years, but the fact that she's a fellow Fox Immortal is the biggest guarantee.

If you seek help from other powerful evil spirits, who knows whether you'll end up as their prey?

At least, Fox Immortal wouldn't do something like skinning and eating other foxes.

However, at that time, Hu Siniang appeared before Yin Yunze together with Wang Guisheng.

If Hu Siniang were to suddenly appear before Yin Yunze, she feared she would be killed by Yin Yunze before she could even utter a single word.

Therefore, Hu Siniang lingered around Clear Creek Village for more than a month.

These past few days, Yin Yunze and his little witches have been busy with the temple construction, and Zhao Wan, who had nothing to do and no one to play with, was wandering around when Hu Siniang found an opportunity.

Hu Siniang had witnessed Yin Yunze Spirit Descent Zhao Wan's spirit, so she knew Zhao Wan was no ordinary person. Therefore, Hu Siniang's plan was to first befriend Zhao Wan, and then have Zhao Wan help introduce her to Yin Yunze.

With Zhao Wan speaking up for him, at least he wouldn't be left speechless and get slapped to death by Yin Yunze.

Unfortunately, this plan was discovered by Yin Yunze ahead of time.

After all, normally, Yin Yunze would most likely have already returned to the real world by this time. Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone unnoticed in the past few days.

In fact, according to custom, Yin Yunze should have lost his connection to this place because of the closure of the Great Gate of Incense.

Although she wasn't doing anything bad, Hu Siniang hadn't prepared for Yin Yunze to find her on the way, or for the person in question to come to her door.

But my first instinct was to run away.

However, Hu Siniang's experience does seem unfortunate at first glance. But upon closer examination, isn't it also a kind of luck?

If she hadn't been captured and enslaved by the Heavenly Wheel Sect and unable to return to her hometown, and had truly stayed in Clear Creek Village, Hu Siniang might have ended up like her sister Hu Sangu, being struck dead by the thunder in that single day due to her shallow cultivation.

If it were a normal meeting, Yin Yunze wouldn't have so readily experimented with this "serious game" on the friend introduced by Zhao Wan.

Hearing the pity in Yin Yunze's tone, Hu Siniang, her eyes brimming with tears, quickly said, "Your Majesty, Siniang is truly grateful for Your Majesty's grace in freeing me! Siniang does not wish to return to the Heavenly Wheel Sect. Please, Your Majesty, have pity on me and, for the sake of our kin, take Siniang in! Siniang is willing to do anything!"

Hu Siniang's previous words were indeed sincere, but they also had an element of trying to gain sympathy. Now that she has discovered that Yin Yunze has truly felt pity for her, how could she not seize this opportunity?

Upon hearing Siniang's plea for shelter, Yin Yunze immediately understood that the little fox spirit was feigning pitifulness!

However, despite his feigned pitifulness, his words of pleading for submission did indeed tempt Yin Yunze somewhat.

Are you kidding me? A devout little fox girl who has already Transformation is asking for shelter. How many decent people can handle that?!

And don't be fooled by the fact that the little fox girl looks like a delicate, easily pushed-over fox-eared loli in front of Yin Yunze. In terms of actual combat power, even Peng Shulan would probably die rhythmically when facing this Transformation fox demon.

After all, this was nurtured by Yin Yunze using a hundred portions of Power of Incense Offerings.

Just considering the cost of the Power of Incense Offerings, Yin Yunze never intended to let her off the hook from the start. Now that the little fox girl has brought it up herself, it saves him some trouble.

"Since you are so sincere in your submission, I will naturally not turn you away."

He readily agreed, but a thought struck Yin Yunze, and he decided to stamp her seal.

"Fourth Siniang is just a nickname, hardly suitable for formal occasions. Therefore, from now on you will take Wan'er's surname, Zhao, and your given name will be Zixuan. The Zixuan symbolizes strength and forgetting sorrow. I hope you can forget the sorrows of the past and live each day strongly from now on!"

With this bestowal of a surname and a name change, Yin Yunze found that a portion of his Power of Incense Offerings were flowing out again.

However, this time, the Power of Incense Offerings transformed into a snowflake-shaped white pattern, which was imprinted on Hu Siniang's forehead.

"Thank you so much, Your Majesty! Siniang, no, Zixuan will never forget Your Majesty's kindness in this lifetime!"

Upon hearing the name bestowed upon her by Yin Yunze, Zhao Zixuan was overjoyed and kowtowed to Yin Yunze repeatedly.

This time, it's a little different from the previous Transformation. The little fox girl has been given a surname and name by Yin Yunze and taken in as a follower.

For these wild spirits, building their own temples is never the best solution.

The optimal solution is always to find an Orthodox God and then seek the status of a follower.

Running your own small temple and eventually establishing it as a deity seems perfect, but in reality, it's incredibly difficult.

Leaving aside how to make people willing to become your believers, the mere disturbances from other evil spirits are enough to give the lesser demons a major headache.

The final result may be that after years of hard work, all efforts will be in vain.

Yin Yunze was lucky to have encountered a period of vacuum in Clear Creek Village, a time when evil spirits were at a disadvantage. Otherwise, along the way, in addition to trying to gather believers, Yin Yunze would have had to deal with disturbances from all sorts of evil spirits.

After all, with Grandfather Huang Three's masterpiece as a precedent, the evil spirits certainly didn't want Clear Creek Village to be monopolized by someone else.

Therefore, compared to the seemingly smooth road of establishing temples and bestowing titles upon gods, this path is actually fraught with thorns.

Becoming a follower of an Orthodox God is the best righteous path in the eyes of the lesser demons.

If one could befriend an Orthodox God, even if it's just a little bit of Incense of Faith slipping through their fingers, it could be a level of influence that an ordinary minor demon might not be able to achieve even after years of hard work.

The mere fact that it's good to have a big tree to lean on is enough to make little demons, who lack a sense of security in daily life, flock to it.

In the eyes of these minor demons and evil spirits, no matter how bad a phoenix tail is, it's still a phoenix's tail. And no matter how good a chicken head is, it'll still end up being chopped off and used as a snack.

Unless you can rise to the top and become a phoenix, a chicken is just a chicken, not even worth a single phoenix tail feather.

Putting everything else aside, with an Orthodox God like Yin Yunze backing her up, even those so-called great evil spirits in the little fox girl's eyes will have to treat her with utmost respect and deference in the future.

If one could become Subordinate Deity in the future and have a statue of that Subordinate Deity erected in Yin Yunze's temple, that would be an even greater stroke of luck.

Thinking this way, the little fox girl also began to try to sense the snowflake mark imprinted on her forehead.

Upon sensing this, the little fox girl was immediately stunned.

Within these snowflake imprints, the little fox girl sensed two forces at work: the Earth Vein Power and the Power of Frost and Snow.

The little fox spirit never expected that Yin Yunze would be so generous. She hadn't accomplished anything, yet she had been given power.

For any other Incense God, simply qualifying as a follower would require numerous merits. And after becoming a follower, gaining further authority would require even more merits.

This is also an important means for the Incense God to control his Servants. Even though it doesn't actually cost the Incense God anything, how can the value of the Servants be demonstrated if he doesn't do this?

After all, what is called a separation is actually just Yin Yunze lending out a small portion of the authority to these two sets of powers.

Unlike Yin Yunze, who could use these two powers at will as the master, Zhao Zixuan, as the follower, could only borrow them at most.

The Power of Frost and Snow was alright, granting Zhao Zixuan the authority to control ice and snow. The extent of its power depended primarily on Zhao Zixuan's own abilities.

In comparison, the Earth Vein Power was much more stingy, only granting Zhao Zixuan passive abilities such as Earth Escape is a type of ability or skill) in the Clear Creek Basin.

However, regardless of the circumstances, both of these forces possess authority that only Orthodox God can wield, far beyond Zhao Zixuan's reach.

For a moment, Zhao Zixuan was so happy she almost fainted.

It's both about being granted a divine Transformation and becoming a follower of Orthodox God to gain authority.

While extremely happy, Zhao Zixuan also felt uneasy, wondering if she was dreaming, otherwise why would things be developing so ridiculously!

Thinking this, Zhao Zixuan pulled up her sleeves, opened her mouth and bit down hard on her fair arm, tearing off a small piece of flesh.

Immediately, blood gushed from his arm.

"Ouch! It hurts so much! But it feels so good!" Looking at her bleeding arm, Zhao Zixuan laughed as tears streamed down her face, "It's not a dream! This isn't a dream!"

"Your Majesty!" Tears streamed down her face as Zhao Zixuan lowered her head and sobbed, "You've been so good to me, how can I ever repay you! ---- You're a god of our own kind, you even care for us beasts----"

"Hey! Sister Zixuan, what are you doing!"

Seeing the little fox girl suddenly bite her, Zhao Wan immediately went over to check the wound.

"Miss Wan'er, it's alright." Upon hearing this, Zhao Zixuan quickly wiped away her tears and showed her frozen wound, saying, "I've frozen the blood, so it won't stain the clothes Your Majesty bestowed upon me!"

"Is this about the clothes?" Zhao Wan looked at her frozen arm, then at Yin Yunze, and said, "Lord Yi Yun— "

Yin Yunze observed this scene because he noticed that the little fox girl seemed to be somewhat possessed.

Perhaps she had really suffered too much in the past, because Yin Yunze let slip a little bit, and the little fox girl got a little too excited.

Yin Yunze was also afraid that he hadn't done a good job, so he had the little fox spirit perform a scene of Fan Jin passing the imperial examination on the spot.

It was Zhao Wan's interruption that calmed the little fox girl down a bit. Only then did Yin Yunze use his Heal Wounds and Cure Illness to cure her wounds.

"Your Majesty, Zixuan has lost her composure. Please punish her!"

Feeling the warmth of the Heal Wounds and Cure Illness effect, the little fox girl realized that her crying and screaming were very inappropriate, and quickly bowed her head to apologize.

"This will not happen again."

Yin Yunze naturally glossed over this and didn't take it to heart.

The little fox girl was deeply moved by Yin Yunze's kindness. Just then, as if remembering something, she took off running in one direction, saying, "Your Highness, Zixuan has a treasure to offer!"

After running a few steps, Zhao Zixuan remembered the Earth Vein Power that Yin Yunze had given her. Somewhat awkwardly, she wrapped it around her body and used the Earth Escape is a type of escape technique).

Whether it's a devout believer or that follower's mark, both allow Yin Yunze to keep track of the little fox girl's movements, so he just lets her be.

The little fox spirit did not disappoint Yin Yunze's trust and returned quickly, presenting Yin Yunze with a black, glass-like bead.

"This is a magical Law Artifact of the Evil Ghost Division, the Soul-Capturing Pearl! It has the effect of capturing and nourishing souls. It was bestowed upon it by the Third Prison Warden of the Evil Ghost Division, originally intended to capture the soul of the magistrate's daughter and control the magistrate!"

As she said this, Zhao Zixuan thought for a moment and did not reveal that Wang Guisheng had given it to her to use to capture Yin Yunze's soul.

It wasn't that she was deliberately hiding it, it was just that Zhao Zixuan felt...

Such nonsense is an insult to Yin Yunze!

Yin Yunze reached out and took the Soul-Capturing Pearl, then began to examine it.

However, since it hasn't been refined, you can't tell anything about it just by looking at it.