Yin Yunze

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Divine humanoid form: A white-haired, green-eyed girl with fox ears and nine tails. The ears and tails can be withdrawn to present a fully human appearance 130 139.
• Fox form: A nine-tailed white fox. His transformed real-world body can assume a white fox form approximately three meters tall 117 139.
• Early divine distinction: Initially, only one tail embodies an authority—the power of ice and snow. Having nine visible tails does not make him a fully realized mythical Nine-Tailed Fox 117.
• Ceremonial attire: A phoenix coronet and ceremonial robes formed from Dynastic Karmic Luck identify him as a third-rank County Princess 211.
• War God aspect: Silver armor, hair gathered into a high bun, and red eyes replace his palace dress and green eyes 231.
• Disguises: Uses illusions to conceal his fox features, including an appearance as an ordinary black-haired woman 203.

Personality

Yin Yunze is compassionate without considering himself a saint. He stops Xiao Wan’er’s sacrifice before understanding whether the temple experience is real, and later places Sun Qin’s life above the risk of damaging his divine reputation. However, he refuses to reward open hostility and initially restricts food and water to believers 1 3 10 37.

He approaches worship as a reciprocal exchange: he supplies food, protection, and healing, while believers provide Incense of Faith. Gold and trade matter to him, but he recognizes faith as the foundation of his existence as a deity 10 19 223.

Caution shapes his dealings with officials and rival gods. He rejects unequal partnerships, considers the political consequences of revealing his abilities, and is willing to retreat rather than expose his weakness. When he makes mistakes, he reflects on them and changes tactics instead of defending his pride 27 28 30 95.

His willingness to kill develops over time. Initially troubled by the prospect of taking human lives, he engineers a conditional Fox Fire trap for three child kidnappers. Later, he executes Liu Zhu for manipulating him and nearly killing Zhao Wan, and refuses reconciliation with the Qingling County City God 44 108 185.

He respects personal agency among those close to him. He acknowledges that Sun Qin is a free person rather than his possession, delegates substantial authority to her, and accepts changing social distance as his divine status rises 19 21 145.

Abilities & Skills

Incense of Faith

His divine power is sustained by sincere belief rather than the physical burning of incense. Faith directed toward his invented name and titles still reaches Yin Yunze himself 1 115.

• Uses incense power to acquire skills, fuel techniques, aid understanding, and refine artifacts 37 144 148.
• Can assess followers through their degree of faith, making genuine devotion a practical measure of trust 113 169.
• Cannot obtain entirely unknown information merely by spending incense power to analyze a problem 48.
• Believers’ expectations can reshape his body and self-perception. Sexually charged pink offerings pose a particular danger, prompting him to seal them rather than absorb them 139 150.
• His discarded pink offerings eventually coalesce into Qingqiu Yiyi 232.

Great Gate of Incense

The gate connects the real world with the other world and his Dao Field 139 150.

• Transfers offerings, grain, equipment, and eventually entire military warehouse inventories between worlds 1 52 150.
• Allows direct bodily passage once the Great Gate of Incense is manifested 139.
• Initially, his entry coordinates are tied to the Fox Immortal Temple; Zhao Wan later becomes a more stable living anchor 50.
• Access is not always available: the gate remains shut during upgrades and before his summons by the City God’s officials 11 129.

Believer Perception, Spirit Descent, and Avatar

His connection to worshippers develops from a village-scale prayer map into distant manifestation and possession 11 120 121.

• Believer map: Locates praying believers and lets him observe their surroundings 11.
• Spirit Descent: Temporarily inhabits a suitable believer. Zhao Wan’s connection is strengthened by her having been offered to him as a sacrifice 45 48.
• Consent-based possession: Receives Zhao Wan’s permission before possessing her; later gains access to additional shrine maidens on the same basis 50 121.
• Avatar: Senses distant believers and appears before them; uses it to intervene in an attack on a leopard demon outside Qingling County 121 202.

Land God Authority

Land God divinity grants control over Earth Vein Power and local Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi 45 46.

• Detects events throughout his territory without personal expenditure while Earth Vein Power remains available 45.
• Walks on water and walls; uses Earth Escape to travel underground. Moving himself underground costs no Earth Vein Power, but dragging others below ground does 45.
• Temporarily reshapes terrain, redistributes soil fertility, accelerates plant growth, and restores dead trees 45.
• Uses local spiritual qi instead of personal incense reserves to fuel his early eight skills 46.
• Restricts enemies’ access to local spiritual qi while benefiting from his own territorial support 46.
• Initially requires a physical anchor within his jurisdiction. Scattered territories increase coverage without automatically creating a unified reserve of Earth Vein Power 45 46 164.

Illusions, Fox Fire, and Dreams

His first offensive methods combine modest supernatural skills with convincing presentation 14.

• Illusion Technique: Projects false forms and scenes, including a mountain-sized nine-tailed fox inspired by modern visual effects 14.
• Fox Fire: Burns targets and can be concealed as a trap or spread along the Snake Bone Whip 44 97.
• Dream Entry: Enters and alters dreams. Larger alterations cost more incense power, but a completed dream does not require continuous maintenance 16.
• Extends Xu Hanxian’s dream to three years during their failed negotiations 76.
• Early illusions are chiefly effective against ordinary people; stronger opponents and Dynastic Karmic Luck can undermine them 30 95.

Healing, Protection, and Purification

His second skill set enables him to support believers without relying entirely on imported supplies 37 38 39.

• Heal Wounds and Cure Illness: Treats illness and injuries; also replenishes the vitality of the elderly fox Zhao Rui 37 140 160.
• Expel Evil and Dispel Filth: Purifies hostile supernatural influences. Later channels an entire prefecture’s spiritual qi into it while suppressing Prince Jing’s tomb 37 225.
• Shelter: Can replenish Guo Jing’s Yin Qi and support his recovery as a Subordinate Deity 143.
• Great Perfect Halo Aspect: Allows flight, keeps dust away, and wards off impurities; also keeps rain from touching him 226.
• Suppress Evil authority: Specializes against evil beings and fallen gods, potentially allowing him to fight above his own divine rank 225.

Frost, Snow, Lightning, and Agriculture

These authorities expand his power beyond his original fox-associated techniques.

• Frost and Snow: Creates ice and snow, forms ice weapons, freezes opponents, and can summon a city-covering blizzard 116 144 171.
• Lightning: Strengthened through heavenly lightning until it exceeds his frost authority in offensive power; supports large-scale lightning formations and body tempering 189 201.
• Agricultural God: Grants Summon Wind and Rain to ensure favorable weather. Its formation is delayed until the drought ends 202 225.
• The Agricultural God authority can also heal, as demonstrated when he treats Zhou Changqing 226.

Divination, Wishes, and Oaths

His third skill set adds prediction and enforceable supernatural commitments 120 121.

• Divination: Uses progressively stronger tiers with increasing costs and restrictions 120.
  • Burning Incense to Seek the Way: Gives two readings per use, can examine past and future without a six-month horizon, and can probe beings stronger than himself with reduced detail.
  • Set Up an Altar to Divine Fate: Has a cooldown of half a year.
• Divination can fail; direct questions about Prince Jing and the drought do not yield answers, so he tests related questions instead 121.
• Grant Wishes: Improves believers’ chances of achieving their aims 121.
• Forge Oaths: Enforces contracts and promises. Uses it to bind the Lord of Du Mountain’s pledge never to harm him 121 176.

Cultivation and Martial Arts

His divine aptitude and incense-assisted comprehension allow him to learn techniques exceptionally quickly 129 144.

• Cloud and Water Instruction: Establishes Innate internal force and a connection to Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi 144.
• Flowing Smoke Steps, Net Cloud Palm, and Returning Wind Saber: Learned from Zhang Yufei; the saber art later develops into the Six Proud Cold Techniques 144 187.
• Infinite True Scripture: Produces True Qi and records Size at Will, Dragon-Elephant Strength, and Immovable as a Mountain 129.
• Prison-Subduing Wisdom King Form: Combines cultivation with the eventual condensation of techniques into artifacts; chooses the defensive Immovable Wisdom King Seal as his primary technique 148.
• Heavenly Lightning Body Tempering: Uses lightning to strengthen his body, with his authority making the lightning easier to direct 201.
• Rapid mastery initially leaves him without practical combat experience; the City God later proves superior in close-quarters fighting 144 187.

Talisman Making and Artifact Forging

Yin Yunze seals existing skills into written characters through an unconventional use of Land God divinity 50.

• Produces illusion, healing, fire, and expulsion talismans, modifying them so mortals can activate them 50.
• Talismans containing sealed spiritual qi work in the real world even when he cannot directly use incense-derived skills there 52 53.
• Adds an activation phrase to prevent accidental use by mortals 53.
• Develops the Bright Incense Artifact Forging Method, which changes materials’ forms without destroying their original effects 148.
• Uses the method to turn the Soul-Shaking Staff into a saber sheath and to forge weapons containing fire, frost, and lightning 148 153.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag — A Law Treasure taken while escaping Prince Jing’s tomb. Serves as an expensive but powerful trump card; later reforged through heavenly lightning 60 106 189.
• Demon-Summoning Banner — Initially forged from fox fur and blood to sense and summon linked foxes. Later binds lesser demons and Divine Vassals through bodily essence and soul fragments 161 171.
• Jeweled Tree Glazed Branch — Produces food and splits mountains or parts water. After the tomb’s suppression, it can excavate over a thousand meters deep and part tens of kilometers of water 217 226.
• Mutton-Fat Jade Purification Vase — Supplies water and restorative divine dew. Its improved form produces about ten drops of dew daily, with sufficient regenerative power to restore multiple lost limbs 225 226.
• Pure Scenery Ruyi Saber — Taken from the Third Prison Warden and refined as a supportive Law Treasure; also wielded in combat against the City God 148 187.
• Soul-Shaking Staff — A captured artifact with soul-shaking, cursing, and evil-breaking effects. Automatically recharges in about three days; later reshaped into the saber’s sheath 106 148.
• Snake Bone Whip — An early weapon that can carry Fox Fire. Reforged into the Ice and Fire Whip and given to Zhao Zixuan 97 129.
• Pure Fox Robe — Used to wrap and constrict the City God when Yin Yunze cannot defeat him through strength alone 187.
• Modern explosives and military supplies — Uses an explosive to destroy Grandfather Huang Three’s temple, then later steals weapons, fuel, and supplies from an American military base 97 150.
• Mandarin duck pendant — A covert token of support from the Anqing Prefectural City God, presented as a congratulatory gift 211.

History / Major Arcs

Establishing the Fox Immortal Identity

Yin Yunze first awakens in a ruined temple while villagers prepare to sacrifice Xiao Wan’er. Believing the experience may be a lucid dream, he stops the ritual and promises rain. Her sincere gratitude produces his first Incense of Faith; waking with her three wild fruits proves that the encounter has consequences beyond a dream 1.

He invents Green Hill Yi Yun, a female nine-tailed fox from Qingqiu, to replace the disreputable identity of Fox Seventh Aunt. The claimed lineage and connection to the Dragon Lord are initially fabrications. He imports water and grain from the real world, presenting their delivery as divine blessings while collecting money and faith 4 6 7 10.

After acquiring genuine techniques, he drives away Spirit Medium Wang and begins developing healing and purification as sustainable services. Zhao Wan becomes his living anchor, allowing him to exercise Land God authority rather than merely observe the other world 12 14 37 39 45 50.

County Relief and Rival Gods

Yin Yunze refuses Peng Shulan’s initial large grain proposal because it threatens to expose him to government coercion. Later negotiations with Magistrate Xu Hanxian collapse when he concludes that the magistrate values his career over disaster relief. He instead treats Xu Yue, gains her as a goddaughter, and forms a sworn-sibling relationship with her mother, Zuo Xiaoyu 27 76 84.

His conflict with Grandfather Huang Three forces him beyond ordinary talismans and illusions. He destroys the god’s temple with an explosive, defeats its remaining aspects, and acquires its divinity and artifacts. Discovering that Village Chief Liu Zhu engineered the confrontation at Zhao Wan’s expense, he kills her with the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag 97 104 106 108.

The fusion of three territorial divinities establishes him as Land God of the Clear Creek Basin. A subsequent ceremony gives him a divine fox body and Frost and Snow authority—but the same faith shaping that body also transforms his original body in the real world 115 116 117 139.

Conflict with the Qingling County City God

A summons by the City God’s officials leads into shackling, an assassination attempt by the Third Prison Warden, and a struggle to escape. Yin Yunze survives and kills the warden, whose larger scheme had already been disrupted by his rescue of Xu Yue 129 135 137 138 158.

Preparing for confrontation, he gathers modern weapons, recruits foxes and lesser demons, and expands his territory by subordinating or eliminating neighboring Land Gods. Guo Jing helps investigate the City God’s crimes so that public faith can be turned against him 150 161 169 171.

Yin Yunze rejects the City God’s offer of joint rule. After a battle in which divine decrees suppress flight, magic, and transformation, he restrains the stronger opponent with the Pure Fox Robe. The conflict is ultimately more than personal revenge: the City God’s oppressive rule obstructs the peace and stability that gave rise to Yin Yunze’s divine body 185 187 190.

Anqing Prefecture and the End of the Drought

Li Miaoyan appoints Yin Yunze Second Warden of the Heavenly Wheel Sect’s Celestial Person Division and entrusts Anqing Prefecture to him. He recognizes the appointment as a calculated way to place both him and the eight counties within the sect’s sphere of influence 193.

The drought prevents his Agricultural God office from fully forming. Although he hesitates to provoke the power behind Prince Jing’s tomb, he gathers the County City Gods and obtains discreet support from the Prefectural City God 202 211 220.

He suppresses the tomb by freezing it, dropping it into a ten-thousand-meter-deep pit, and combining water, lightning, and prefecture-wide purification. Ending the drought grants the Agricultural God authority and accelerates his advance toward Prefecture God status 225 226.

Return Home and Qingqiu Yiyi

After experimenting with the War God office and body fusion, Yin Yunze returns to his hometown following a year away. His parents already accept that he is a Nine-Tailed Fox and believe that Qingqiu Yiyi is his abandoned daughter 231 232.

Yiyi is actually a being formed from the pink incense offerings he discarded. She has altered his parents’ understanding of events, leaving him unable to simply deny her claimed relationship. The two eventually reach a temporary cooperation agreement, while his parents continue treating them as father and daughter 232 235.

Relationships

• Zhao Wan / Xiao Wan’er — First believer, rescued sacrifice, and crucial living anchor. Her trust gives him his first faith, while threats to her become a major reason for his increasingly lethal responses to enemies 1 44 48 108.
• Sun Qin / Widow Sun — Zhao Wan’s mother and one of his earliest believers. Becomes his trusted administrator and a shrine maiden; he delegates daily affairs to her and acquires healing skills to save her 5 21 37 129.
• Zhang Yufei — Shrine maiden and trusted protector of Sun Qin. Teaches Yin Yunze martial arts and later receives support for cultivating both martial and immortal techniques 113 144 153.
• Peng Shulan — Initially a suspicious intermediary for the authorities; later handles recruitment, relief-related work, and errands for Yin Yunze 27 86.
• Zhao Zixuan / Xuan’er — Fox follower charged with protecting the shrine maidens. Receives the Ice and Fire Whip and helps recruit other foxes 129 161.
• Zhao Rui — Elderly fox transformed under Yin Yunze’s patronage. Becomes his first fanatic and is promised a Subordinate Deity position for helping gather fox followers 160 161.
• Guo Jing — Ghost king, Subordinate Deity, and ally against the Qingling County City God. Their alliance follows a shared life-threatening ordeal 143 169.
• Zhang Liuyun — Devout believer whose pink incense offerings irritate Yin Yunze. Her strong faith nevertheless makes her a trusted messenger; he later witnesses her independent breakthrough to Innate 161 169 184 185.
• Xu Hanxian — County magistrate and failed negotiating partner. Yin Yunze rejects cooperation over Xu’s priorities and deliberately cultivates ties with his household 76 84.
• Xu Yue and Zuo Xiaoyu — Goddaughter and sworn younger sister, respectively; their relationships form after Yin Yunze treats Xu Yue 84.
• Lord of Du Mountain — Initially a source of conflict, later an ally bound by an oath not to harm him. Her desire to have a child with a Nine-Tailed Fox complicates their relationship 176.
• Li Miaoyan — Heavenly Wheel Sect leader who treats him as a younger sister and grants him office. Yin Yunze recognizes the political trap but is softened by her kindness 193.
• Qingqiu Yiyi — Pink-haired Nine-Tailed Fox born from his discarded offerings. Claims him as her father, wins over his parents, and negotiates temporary cooperation with him 232 235.
• Father Yin and Mother Yin — His real-world parents. Yiyi alters their understanding so that they accept Yin Yunze’s fox identity and insist that he acknowledge his supposed daughter 232 235.