Acquiring Skills Proactively

"Lord Yi Yun! Lord Yi Yun! Please save Mother!"

In the end, Yin Yunze hadn't gotten his wish to sleep until he woke naturally.

Through the haze of sleep, Yin Yunze heard a young girl's voice by his ear, childish and urgent.

Though Yin Yunze hadn't wanted to pay it any attention at first, the voice continued for several minutes, and he finally emerged from sleep.

He opened his eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling for two seconds before it suddenly struck him: why was Zhao Wan calling him this time?

Ever since he had entrusted all the worldly affairs of that world to Sun Qin, Yin Yunze had only heard Sun Qin calling to him.

Come to think of it, Yin Yunze hadn't heard Zhao Wan's prayers in a long time.

And what was Zhao Wan saying? Save her mother? Had something happened to Sun Qin?

Puzzled, Yin Yunze turned his attention to the Gate of Incense.

The Great Gate of Incense had changed again since the last time. It had grown even more exquisite and gained a sense of weight and solidity.

But Zhao Wan's calls were so urgent that Yin Yunze paid the Gate of Incense little attention and went straight into the Fox Immortal Temple.

When the scene inside the Fox Immortal Temple came into view, Yin Yunze saw Zhao Wan kneeling alone before him in a child's red-and-white shrine maiden outfit, calling out to him again and again.

Yin Yunze glanced around instinctively and found that Zhao Wan really was the only child in the small temple.

Perhaps it was because Zhao Wan was still a child at heart, and even if she was sensible, accidents couldn't be ruled out. So, to keep her from making a mistake without knowing the consequences, Sun Qin had long since repeatedly warned her not to disturb Yin Yunze without reason.

As for coming to Yin Yunze alone, that was even more out of the question. Most of the time, Sun Qin forbade Zhao Wan from going to the Fox Immortal Temple to see Yin Yunze. Even when she did let Zhao Wan go, Sun Qin would usually stand guard nearby, terrified that Zhao Wan might say or do something wrong.

At the very least, Sun Qin would never have allowed Zhao Wan to disturb Yin Yunze's rest so early in the morning!

Yet now Zhao Wan was here alone, and from the tears filling the little girl's eyes, something really did seem to have happened.

The situation left Yin Yunze puzzled. Could something really have happened to Sun Qin?

But if something had happened to Sun Qin, how had a child like Zhao Wan escaped to bring him word?

Turning over several possibilities in his mind, Yin Yunze hurriedly asked, "Wan'er, what's wrong? Did something happen to your mother? Did people from the county come and take her away?"

If something had happened to Sun Qin, the most likely possibility Yin Yunze could think of was that the county magistrate wanted to seize the grain and had sent men to attack.

Otherwise, it had just rained, a genuine downpour that had lasted all night. They had also put on that act with the Dragon Lord, borrowing the tiger's might as a fox would.

It could be said that Yin Yunze's prestige in the village was at its height right now. And as Yin Yunze's spokesperson, Sun Qin's standing had naturally risen with the tide.

It would be no exaggeration to say that, in Clear Creek Village now, Sun Qin's word was law.

On top of that, there was the whole crowd of Zhao brothers gathered around Sun Qin to beg for food.

Nowadays, even Song Ran, the village chief, had to greet Sun Qin with a smile and respectfully address her as Immortal Lady.

Yin Yunze could hardly imagine anyone in the village other than an outsider daring to lay a hand on Sun Qin, the Fox Immortal's spokesperson.

"Mother's dying!" Zhao Wan's first words came through sobs, making Yin Yunze's heart lurch.

"Mother's been lying in bed all day, from last night until now, and she's been talking nonsense..."

But Zhao Wan's next words made Yin Yunze exclaim inwardly that sure enough, he really couldn't take a child's words too seriously.

Feeling somewhat helpless, Yin Yunze asked a few simple questions and learned from Zhao Wan that Sun Qin was merely sick.

After all, getting drenched at night could make someone sick even in summer, let alone when the weather in this world had only just begun to warm.

With everyone watching, Sun Qin couldn't very well go home and change. She had slept in her wet clothes, so it was only natural that she had caught a cold.

When it came down to it, this was because Yin Yunze had been so focused on making it rain that he hadn't thought everything through.

"Your mother is just sick." Even so, Yin Yunze was still a little puzzled as he looked at Zhao Wan. "Shouldn't you be finding a doctor for your mother instead? Why did you come to me?"

Although Yin Yunze was a fox immortal in this world, he had received a modern education. When faced with an illness, his first thought naturally wasn't to pray to gods and Buddhas, but to see a doctor.

After all, of the skills Yin Yunze currently possessed, the only one whose purpose he didn't understand was Blessing, and it didn't have any effect on illness either.

Besides, Yin Yunze himself didn't know the first thing about medicine.

Although he had the modern pharmaceutical system to rely on, Yin Yunze didn't dare casually buy some cold medicine and give it to Sun Qin, a person from ancient times.

Often enough, wasn't it precisely because people pretended to know what they didn't and took medicine recklessly that minor illnesses became serious ones?

Professional matters should be left to professionals!

"Mother... Mother wouldn't let me find a doctor!"

Hearing Yin Yunze say that, Zhao Wan cried even harder. She wiped her tears and choked out, "Mother... Mother said she's Lord Yi Yun's temple keeper! If word got out that Mother... Mother had gone to a doctor because she was sick, it would hurt Lord Yi Yun's prestige..."

Hearing this, Yin Yunze realized that Sun Qin hadn't avoided a doctor out of superstition. On the contrary, she had been thinking of him.

Come to think of it, she had the backing of a lord fox immortal who could summon wind and rain and call the Dragon Lord his brother.

Yet when Sun Qin fell ill, she still had to go running to a doctor.

No matter how one looked at it, in other people's eyes, whether Yin Yunze was unwilling to treat her or unable to, it would affect his reputation to some extent.

Perhaps Sun Qin hadn't really meant to forgo a doctor, but had only wanted to ask Yin Yunze's opinion before seeing one.

If Yin Yunze could treat her, there would be no need for a doctor.

Unfortunately, Yin Yunze had happened to be undergoing a version upgrade yesterday and had been unable to respond to Sun Qin.

In all likelihood, Sun Qin had simply endured it for the whole day, letting a minor illness turn serious. Now she was so sick that she was delirious, making it even harder for her to find a doctor.

And as a dutiful, obedient daughter, Zhao Wan hadn't dared defy Sun Qin's earlier orders and sneak off to find a doctor.

So, with no other choice, Zhao Wan had come to disturb Yin Yunze early in the morning.

After all, this time Zhao Wan really did need to ask Yin Yunze for help.

Having figured this out, Yin Yunze was genuinely a little moved.

After all, putting himself in her shoes, Yin Yunze knew he could never have gone as far as Sun Qin had.

What was some lousy fox immortal compared to his own health?

With that thought, Yin Yunze also felt a desire to help Sun Qin.

And rather than casually finding some medicine, Yin Yunze chose a mystical method better suited to a fox immortal's constitution this time.

After Yin Yunze's last upgrade, he had gained four skills.

Although Yin Yunze had tried to reproduce it afterward, he had never succeeded again.

But things were different now. This was, after all, his second version upgrade, so by rights he should be able to unlock new skills.

The trigger for the skills Yin Yunze had gained last time had been anger. Afterward, Yin Yunze had speculated that the skills might have been unlocked by an emotional fluctuation.

This time, Yin Yunze wanted to try proactively acquiring skills in a particular area.

If that didn't work, then he would try buying some modern cold medicine!

And if that really didn't work, he would go find a doctor in this world.

Compared with the life of a living person like Sun Qin, a little damage to Yin Yunze's reputation was nothing.

Concentrating, Yin Yunze began chanting silently, I want skills to cure illness! I want skills to cure illness!

The considerable quantity of Incense of Faith was kind enough to oblige Yin Yunze.

Yin Yunze hadn't been chanting for long before the Power of Incense Offerings reacted.

As nearly thirty percent of the Power of Incense Offerings visibly vanished, Yin Yunze gained an intuitive understanding of several skills, just as he had last time.

After briefly sorting through them, Yin Yunze found that four skills had appeared this time as well: Spirit Descent, Shelter, Heal Wounds and Cure Illness, and Expel Evil and Dispel Filth.

After focusing on the Heal Wounds and Cure Illness skill, Yin Yunze knew he had this in the bag.