The Unfinished Spirit Descent

Compared to Heal Wounds and Cure Illness, however, the skill Yin Yunze was most interested in now was Spirit Descent.

Based on the information the skill provided, Yin Yunze discovered that he could use Spirit Descent to possess a devout believer who had a devout faith in him.

Once Spirit Descent succeeded, Yin Yunze could temporarily control that believer's bodily movements.

It looked much like the ghost possessions in ghost stories.

But people possessed by ghosts would suffer damage to their Yang Qi and fall seriously ill. At the very least, they would be listless for a while.

Spirit Descent, on the other hand, was an immortal skill that had evolved from the Power of Incense Offerings, so it would not harm others for the user's benefit.

As long as Yin Yunze did not harm the believer's body during the process and maintained its normal physiological needs, the believer would feel as though they had merely slept once Spirit Descent ended and he departed, suffering no actual harm.

In fact, having been possessed by Yin Yunze and nourished by the Incense of Faith, the believer could even receive some gifts, such as good health.

Simply put, after Yin Yunze used Spirit Descent on a believer, the believer would receive a small Blessing.

And as it happened, right in front of Yin Yunze was a devout believer who, aside from being a little young, met the requirements for Spirit Descent in every other respect.

Yin Yunze went over the information about Spirit Descent again and again. Once he confirmed that it would benefit the believer and do no harm, he could not help feeling an itch to try it.

Looking at the tiny Zhao Wan, Yin Yunze somehow felt an impulse to test Spirit Descent's effects immediately.

"Wan'er, don't worry. I've found a way to save your mother!" Looking at Zhao Wan, Yin Yunze spoke like a creepy uncle trying to trick a little girl out of her candy. "All you have to do is say, 'Fox Immortal, descend into my body,' and I can help cure your mother!"

Although Spirit Descent was Yin Yunze's skill, it differed from his other skills, which he could use whenever he wished. Since it involved possessing a believer, it required the believer's cooperation.

The believer had to make the request of their own accord, and only after receiving permission could Yin Yunze use Spirit Descent to possess them.

Even a god could not just seize a believer's body without a word, could they?

Only evil gods did that!

However, the description of Spirit Descent also said that if a believer's faith reached the level of a fanatic, the step of having the believer make a request could be skipped.

After all, fanatics belonged to their god in life and were their god's dead in death. Even buried in the earth, they were the sort of lunatics who would cry out in rotting voices, "My god, I will never forsake you!"

Since they were already prepared to surrender themselves body and soul to their god, there was naturally no need to go through that unnecessary ritual.

"Lord Yi Yun, really?" Zhao Wan did not hesitate in the slightest at Yin Yunze's half-deceptive words. "Fox Immortal, descend into my body! Fox Immortal, descend into my body! Fox Immortal, descend into my body!"

To make it more effective, Zhao Wan even repeated it three times.

Then Yin Yunze saw a white spiritual thread extend from Zhao Wan and appear before him, as though it had crossed the void.

"This doesn't seem quite right, does it?"

Watching the scene, Yin Yunze realized that it seemed somewhat different from what he had learned about Spirit Descent.

According to the information Yin Yunze had received, under normal circumstances, once a believer made a request, their body would emit a faint light, like a torch, drawing the god into their body.

So what the hell was this spiritual thread coming out of Zhao Wan?

"Wait, a thread? How am I supposed to use Spirit Descent with that?"

Looking at the spiritual thread extending before him, Yin Yunze grumbled inwardly and tried to make contact with it.

As soon as the thought arose, Yin Yunze's Power of Incense Offerings surged, and a spiritual thread formed from it appeared on his side as well.

When the two threads of different colors touched and intertwined, Yin Yunze felt something new.

At that moment, if Yin Yunze wished, he could take control of Zhao Wan's body.

But now that the preparations were complete and he was only one final step away, Yin Yunze hesitated.

If he had succeeded at the outset, Yin Yunze might have possessed Zhao Wan directly.

But after the unexpected appearance of the spiritual thread interrupted him, Yin Yunze looked at Wan'er's completely unsuspecting face and hesitated after all.

Honestly, tricking a little girl who was desperate to save her mother was a bit too inhuman.

Besides, Zhao Wan and Sun Qin were Yin Yunze's own people.

Although using Spirit Descent on Zhao Wan would not really count as doing her wrong, so long as Yin Yunze did nothing excessive, that did not change the fact that he was tricking a child.

Yin Yunze thought it over. Surely he would not actually experiment on a child who did not know any better just because he had a momentary itch to try a skill.

If nothing else, he could treat Sun Qin first.

Once Sun Qin recovered, he could explain everything to her.

Given that Sun Qin was also a devout believer, she probably would not refuse Yin Yunze, who had just cured her.

Luckily, in everyone's eyes, Green Hill Yi Yun, the Fox Immortal Yin Yunze had invented, was a vixen. Otherwise, it really might have been hard to convince her.

With that thought, Yin Yunze finally abandoned the ill-conceived idea that had seized him on a whim.

However, although Yin Yunze had given up on using Spirit Descent, the intertwined spiritual threads did not break off when he stopped thinking about it. They remained connected.

Whenever Yin Yunze wished, he could resume the halted Spirit Descent ritual.

Of course, conversely, if Yin Yunze did not wish to proceed, the spiritual threads would simply remain at this stage and have no effect on Zhao Wan.

After several unsuccessful attempts to sever the spiritual threads, Yin Yunze decided to leave them alone for now.

"Very good. What a good girl you are, Wan'er." After praising Zhao Wan, Yin Yunze instructed her gently, "Wan'er, go home now. When you get there, you'll see that your mother has recovered."

"Okay!" Zhao Wan nodded vigorously, wiped away her tears, and smiled happily. "Thank you, Lord Fox Immortal!"

"Be careful on your way, and don't run too fast."

After giving her that final reminder, Yin Yunze did not worry about anything happening to the little girl in the village. After all, it was normal for children to run around in the countryside. Yin Yunze himself had grown up that way.

His gaze fell on the radar display, and, somewhat to his surprise, Yin Yunze found that it had not changed.

Unlike the last time, when the radar display had appeared as a new function, Yin Yunze sensed no other new functions this time.

Even its resolution and the level of detail on the display remained unchanged.

Yin Yunze did not feel strongly about it, though, and simply assumed the first time had been special.

Getting four new skills this time was already a gain.

Searching the radar display with practiced ease, Yin Yunze soon found the point of light representing Sun Qin.

As he focused on that point of light, the scene inside Sun Qin's home appeared before his eyes.

Compared with its bare walls when he first met her, Sun Qin's home now showed signs of repair and had gained a good deal of new furniture.

Sun Qin was lying in bed with a quilt over her and a damp towel lying beside her head.

Clearly, Zhao Wan had seen that something was wrong with Sun Qin and wrung out the damp towel for her.

But because Sun Qin was sleeping restlessly, the towel had slipped off her head and fallen to the side.

Sun Qin had an unnaturally flushed face from her high fever. She was also delirious, her brows tightly knit as she tossed her head from side to side, muttering disjointed nonsense.

Yin Yunze was not in the habit of eavesdropping, so when he saw this, he cast his newly acquired Heal Wounds and Cure Illness on Sun Qin.

The Power of Incense Offerings turned into a healing light and fell upon Sun Qin. A few breaths later, her tightly knitted brows relaxed, and her delirious muttering gradually stopped.

As her breathing gradually steadied, Sun Qin slipped into a normal sleep.

"Tsk, an immortal's Law Technique really is different!"

Yin Yunze had thought his newly acquired Heal Wounds and Cure Illness might work, but he had not expected it to work so well.

Leaving everything else aside, its immediate effect on a minor illness like a cold and fever was simply too good.

In the real world, even a shot in the butt would take half an hour or an hour to bring down a fever, and medicine taken by mouth was slower still.

Yet a single cast of the Fox Immortal's Law Technique had cured her immediately.

Marveling inwardly, Yin Yunze was quite satisfied with this first small test of Heal Wounds and Cure Illness.

The appearance of this skill meant that, from this moment on, Yin Yunze was no longer the half-baked Fox Immortal who brought supplies over from the real world and used them to pretend he had Divine Abilities.

Instead, he was a half-baked Fox Immortal who truly had Law Techniques to cure illnesses and save people, and could use normal Law Techniques to increase his Incense of Faith!