Recaps

Yin Yunze appointed Guo Jing and Zhao Zixuan as his Subordinate Deities, gave them cultivation techniques, and assigned them divine offices. He then appointed Zhang Yufei as Judgment Envoy, but she still needed to use incense offerings to shed her mortal body before she could truly become a deity.

• Guo Jing accepted the Pure Fox Robe and willingly became Yin Yunze's Subordinate Deity, taking the office of Envoy of Punitive Expedition.
• Yin Yunze gave Guo Jing the Asura Battle Body cultivation method and placed her statue beside Green Hill Yi Yun's to share in the incense offerings.
• Zhao Zixuan accepted the office of Spirit-Attending Envoy, gained two tails, and received the Immovable Wisdom King Seal.
• Yin Yunze gave Zhao Zixuan the Pure Scenery Ruyi Saber to keep as she attended him.
• Yin Yunze appointed Zhang Yufei Judgment Envoy, but explained that she must temper away her mortal body with incense offerings before she could become a true Subordinate Deity.

Yin Yunze appointed Zhang Yufei, Sun Qin, and Qi Rongrong to new roles, equipped them with weapons, techniques, and other rewards, and strengthened the seven shrine maidens. He arranged for the shrine maidens to visit their families, then asked Xuan'er whether she knew any little demons in nearby counties.

• Yin Yunze established a divine tablet for Zhang Yufei, appointed her a Subordinate Deity, and gave her a divine-steel blade and the Great Wisdom Sword cultivation method.
• Yin Yunze appointed Sun Qin as an Incense Distribution Envoy and gave her an armored chariot and the Vajra Rope cultivation method.
• Yin Yunze declared the four envoys' elevated status, then gave the tearful Qi Rongrong an honorary clerk post under Fei'er and the Great Sun Wheel to practice.
• Yin Yunze bestowed sealed icy internal force on the seven little shrine maidens and arranged for them to visit their families with Fox Rice.
• After sending the shrine maidens out of the Dao Field, Yin Yunze asked Xuan'er if she knew any little demons in the surrounding counties.

Hu Lü and Hu Cheng returned to their families with gifts and faced very different welcomes, while Zhang Yufei visited her dissolute, badly injured master, Zhang Liuyun. The chapter ended with Zhang Yufei confronting Zhang Liuyun about her past as a notorious flower-picking thief.

• Hu Lü arrived at her family home with grain, silver, and food, and reunited tearfully with her mother and grandfather.
• Hu Lü’s grandfather celebrated her return and welcomed villagers to a feast, while Hu Lü insisted she was only Lady Qingnü’s servant.
• Hu Cheng ordered the White Fox Corps guards to break down her family’s gate, then had them restrain her sister-in-law and broke several of the woman’s fingers.
• Hu Cheng confronted her brother after her sister-in-law admitted that she had bullied Hu Cheng and pushed for her sale.
• Zhang Yufei left the convoy and hurried to Qingling County to visit her master, Zhang Liuyun, whom she found drinking among wine jars.
• Zhang Yufei argued with Zhang Liuyun about her past and her injuries, calling her the Jade-Stealing Lady and saying she had been a flower-picking thief.

Zhang Yufei fought with Zhang Liuyun, accidentally injured her with her new frost internal force, then healed the scars on her face and began recounting her recent experiences. Meanwhile, the little fox girl and Guo Jing reached a sealed fox den, where the foxes emerged begging the revered god for mercy.

• Zhang Yufei blocked Zhang Liuyun's attacks and revealed her Innate Realm strength and frost internal force, accidentally knocking Zhang Liuyun down and making her spit blood.
• Zhang Yufei used Heal Character Talismans to heal Zhang Liuyun's facial scars, and Zhang Liuyun softened toward her and asked about her journey with her senior brother.
• The little fox girl and Guo Jing traveled to recruit minor demons and evil spirits, while their divine presence kept the local creatures hidden.
• The little fox girl found the entrance to her old fox den sealed beneath fresh soil and sent a cold wind inside to ask what had happened.
• Red foxes emerged from the cave, prostrated themselves before the little fox girl, and begged the revered god to spare them.

Zhao Zixuan reunited with her fox relatives and killed a leopard that had once hunted her, while Yin Yunze received the county magistrates and confronted their disrespect. The officials ended the chapter facing Yin Yunze’s cold warning inside Qingnü Temple.

• Zhao Zixuan recognized Great-grandma Fox, healed her, and told her fox relatives how she became an Orthodox God under Lady Qingnü.
• Great-grandma Fox asked Zhao Zixuan to seek Lady Qingnü’s protection for the mortal foxes, but a leopard interrupted and tried to ingratiate himself with Zhao Zixuan.
• Zhao Zixuan recognized the leopard as the one that had chased her seventy years earlier and killed him with an icicle.
• Zhao Zixuan explained that Lady Qingnü had sent her to find Demon Race members willing to believe in and obey her.
• Lord Li demanded that Sun Qin kneel, and Lord Zhou tried to make her his concubine.
• Yin Yunze ordered Peng Shulan to throw the county magistrates into Qingnü Temple, then warned them that their disrespect could cost them their lives.

Yin Yunze negotiated with seven county magistrates to secure grain for drought relief in exchange for temples and official recognition, then asked about the Heavenly Wheel Sect. The magistrates’ differing reactions left her uncertain who was connected to the sect.

• County Magistrate Li and County Magistrate Zhou challenged Yin Yunze’s authority, while County Magistrate Liu defended the need to prioritize the starving people and criticized both sides.
• Yin Yunze apologized for her discourtesy, and the magistrates sat down to discuss disaster relief.
• Yin Yunze offered unlimited Fox Rice in return for the magistrates publicizing her aid, building temples, and granting her official recognition; Liu and Xu Hanxian supported building temples.
• When Liu questioned whether Yin Yunze had enough grain, she swore by Heaven and her divine office that she would provide it or be destroyed, convincing the magistrates to accept her terms.
• Yin Yunze asked whether the magistrates knew of the Heavenly Wheel Sect, and Liu, Feng, Wang, Shen, and Yang said their searches had found no sect members or mysterious illnesses.

Yin Yunze learned that the magistrates had found no evidence of the Heavenly Wheel Sect’s plot because her intervention had caused the Third Prison Warden to suspend it. She offered Fox Rice in exchange for support and temples, then violently punished Magistrate Li for opposing her demand to expel the sect, leaving the other magistrates frightened.

• Yin Yunze used her incense-nourished copper coin to learn that saving Xu Yue had disrupted the Third Prison Warden’s scheme across the prefecture, and the Warden’s death had halted it.
• Yin Yunze offered the magistrates Fox Rice at a low price in exchange for limiting its resale price, building at least five temples to Qingnü, and driving Heavenly Wheel Sect followers from their jurisdictions.
• Magistrate Li objected to expelling the sect, and Yin Yunze concluded that he was allied with it.
• Yin Yunze ordered Peng Shulan to sever and repeatedly cut Magistrate Li’s hand, healing it between attacks while the other magistrates watched in terror.
• Yin Yunze sent Peng Shulan to continue punishing Magistrate Li outside and told the magistrates that his treatment showed how much she hated the Heavenly Wheel Sect.

Yin Yunze intimidated the county magistrates into accepting his terms, then softened his approach and offered them tea. All eight magistrates ultimately agreed to distribute Fox Rice, build temples, expel Heavenly Wheel Sect followers, and promote Qingnü in exchange for aid and possible snowfall.

• Yin Yunze threatened County Magistrate Liu with torture and replacement by a spirit puppet, while County Magistrate Zhou begged for mercy and pledged to oppose the Heavenly Wheel Sect.
• Yin Yunze apologized to County Magistrate Liu, ordered Sloth to heal County Magistrate Li, and persuaded the magistrates to return to their seats.
• Yin Yunze served snow-boiled tea and proposed selling Fox Rice cheaply, requiring temples and official recognition, expelling Heavenly Wheel Sect followers, and offering snowfall if enough believers gathered.
• County Magistrates Li, Zhou, Xu Hanxian, Wang, Yang, Shen, Feng, and Liu all agreed to Yin Yunze's terms.
• Yin Yunze asked the magistrates to swear an oath to uphold their agreement.

The fox great-grandmother met Yin Yunze at Qingnü Temple and submitted her clan to Lady Qingnü. She asked for a younger form and was transformed into Zhao Rui, a white-haired, red-eyed fox-eared girl.

• The little fox girl brought her great-great-grandmother to Qingnü Temple, where Guo Jing emerged from the Pure Fox Robe and startled the old fox.
• Yin Yunze welcomed the fox great-grandmother and healed her, then accepted her offer to lead her clan in serving him.
• The fox great-grandmother presented a leopard-skin token linked to her clan’s heart Essence Blood, and Yin Yunze examined and accepted it.
• The fox great-grandmother asked Yin Yunze to grant her a name and a younger body, and he named her Zhao Rui and began her transformation.
• Zhao Rui emerged from her old fox body as a young white-haired loli, received a shrine maiden outfit, and insisted she could dress herself.

Yin Yunze welcomed Zhao Rui as a follower and began forging a banner that could summon foxes and other lesser demons as he gathered them under his rule. After Zhao Rui became his first fanatic, he tasked her and Xuan'er with recruiting foxes, promising Zhao Rui a position as a Subordinate Deity if they succeeded.

• Zhao Rui completed her transformation into a young fox spirit, and Yin Yunze invited her kin and other foxes to gather in the Clear Creek Basin.
• Yin Yunze forged a half-finished banner from fox fur and blood, giving it the power to sense and summon the foxes whose essence it contained.
• Zhang Liuyun visited Qingnü Temple, became a devout believer, and produced pink Power of Incense Offerings before leaving.
• Yin Yunze explained the banner's purpose to Xuan'er and Zhao Rui and said he planned to expand it into a Demon-Summoning Banner for lesser demons.
• Zhao Rui became a fanatic after hearing Yin Yunze's ambitions, and he asked her to help Xuan'er recruit foxes in exchange for the promise of becoming a Subordinate Deity.

After organizing affairs across the eight counties, Yin Yunze enjoyed some quiet days tending a chicken farm and orchard near Qingnü Temple. His divine body recovered and began shaping two companion Spirit Artifacts, choosing practical functions for the worshippers to anchor in their beliefs.

• Yin Yunze arranged for Zhang Yufei, Qi Rongrong, and the Seven-Colored Shrine Maidens to distribute grain, build temples, and spread the faith across eight counties while the fox clans gathered and the Demon-Summoning Banner was refined.
• Yin Yunze set up a chicken farm in Clear Creek Village and planted an orchard around Qingnü Temple that worshippers named the Four Seasons Garden.
• The growing Incense of Faith healed Yin Yunze's divine body's injuries, and it returned to the Dao Field with prototypes of a jade purification vase and a precious tree branch.
• Yin Yunze's mortal body complained about the divine body taking half their consciousness, then withdrew when it saw the two companion Spirit Artifacts taking shape.
• Yin Yunze made imitation vases and branches for the shrine maidens to demonstrate and establish the treasures' functions among worshippers.
• Yin Yunze chose for the jade purification vase to hold the waters of the four seas and produce pure water and sweet dew, and for the precious tree branch to split mountains and seas and conjure fine food.

Hu Huang left her shrine to answer a call for help, using Qingnü’s treasures to heal an injured child and provide food to his family and village. After distributing Fox Rice to the villagers, she rode off again to continue her journey.

• Hu Huang prepared to leave her shrine, but departed only after explaining to the worshippers that Lady Qingnü had sent her to help the county’s villages.
• When a messenger reported an injured child, Hu Huang summoned spirit foxes with the Demon-Summoning Banner and rode to the village.
• Hu Huang poured sweet dew from the Mutton-Fat Jade Purification Vase onto the child’s head wound and gave him some to drink, healing him and waking him.
• Hu Huang used the Jeweled Tree Glazed Branch to produce eggs and roast chickens for the child, then created Fox Rice for the villagers to take after praying to Lady Qingnü.
• After the Fox Rice had been distributed, Hu Huang packed her belongings, mounted the spirit fox, and rode away.

Yin Yunze and the little shrine maidens spread faith in Lady Qingnü across the eight counties, strengthening his Frost and Snow Authority and expanding his Land God territory. As Judge Qian arrived in the Clear Creek Basin to interfere, Yin Yunze decided the mortal body should meet him first.

• The little shrine maidens used Qingnü’s Three Treasures to aid villagers and punish a malevolent being, spreading word of Lady Qingnü across all eight counties.
• Yin Yunze’s mortal body agreed to help with the miracles in exchange for one hour of priority use each day, and the two bodies worked together to handle the tasks.
• Yin Yunze gained believers, expanded his Land God Divinity to more than a hundred villages, and increased his power over Frost and Snow.
• Yin Yunze considered postponing the Golden Core Lightning Tribulation until he had strengthened his faith and condensed his two companion Spirit Artifacts.
• Judge Qian arrived in the Clear Creek Basin, and Yin Yunze’s divine body told the mortal body to make contact first to avoid being restrained by the Divine Dao.

Yin Yunze ambushed Judge Qian and his four Yin generals, using specially prepared bullets and Mystic Lightning to overcome his defenses. After luring the generals away with her mortal body, she struck Judge Qian with lightning and pinned him with the Soul-Shaking Scabbard, demanding payment for his life.

• Yin Yunze waited at Clear Creek Village and fired ordinary and Mystic Lightning-filled bullets at Judge Qian, injuring him with lightning concealed inside the shots.
• The Day and Night Wandering Gods and the Two Generals of Punishment attacked Yin Yunze, who obscured their vision with snow and escaped underground using Earth Escape.
• Judge Qian cursed Yin Yunze and revealed that the Third Warden was named Yan Chenqi, so Yin Yunze struck him with lightning from the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag.
• Yin Yunze used her mortal body to draw the four Yin generals away, then struck Judge Qian with three more bolts of Evil-Slaying Mystic Lightning and skewered him with the Soul-Shaking Scabbard.
• Yin Yunze tortured Judge Qian with soul-shaking attacks and lightning, rejected his threats, and demanded to know how much he would pay to stay alive.

Yin Yunze tricked Judge Qian into surrendering part of his wealth, then sealed him in a Soul-Capturing Pearl instead of honoring their bargain. He joined his mortal body to capture the four Yin generals, who were left near death after heavenly lightning struck them.

• Judge Qian swore to give Yin Yunze all his wealth in exchange for his life and handed over a storage ring as a deposit.
• Yin Yunze used divination to confirm Judge Qian intended to honor the deal, but then trapped him in a Soul-Capturing Pearl and set off to help his mortal body.
• Yin Yunze's mortal body lured the four Yin generals into a golden net woven from the Vajra Rope and struggled to keep them bound as their combined power strained the cords.
• Yin Yunze's divine body struck the four Yin generals with Evil-Slaying Mystic Lightning, disrupting their merged state and leaving them near death.

Yin Yunze captured five of the City God's subordinates and gave their souls to Guo Jing as nourishment and a chance to avenge his wife. Guo Jing began devouring the Night Wandering God, leaving the fate of the other captives unresolved.

• Yin Yunze and his divine body captured Judge Qian, the two punishment generals, and the Day and Night Wandering Gods in Soul-Capturing Pearls.
• Yin Yunze summoned Guo Jing, showed him the captives, and said they were the first payment toward his revenge.
• Guo Jing asked to deal with the Day and Night Wandering Gods after identifying them as accomplices in his wife's suffering.
• Yin Yunze told Guo Jing to devour all five captives, and Guo Jing overcame his hesitation and seized the Night Wandering God.
• Guo Jing tore pieces from the Night Wandering God's soul and absorbed them as Yin Qi, then covered them both with the Pure Fox Robe as he continued eating.

Guo Jing absorbed the souls of four Yin Generals and Judge Qian, formed his three-headed, six-armed Asura Battle Body, and passed the Golden Core Lightning Tribulation. Yin Yunze then asked him to write and distribute a proclamation denouncing the Qingling County City God.

• Guo Jing used the Asura Battle Body Cultivation Method to absorb the Night Wandering God and other souls from the Soul-Capturing Pearls, growing stronger as his three-headed, six-armed form took shape.
• Yin Yunze moved Guo Jing away from Qingnü Temple so his Golden Core Lightning Tribulation would not damage it.
• Guo Jing struck Judge Qian before eating his soul and completed the formation of his Asura Battle Body.
• Guo Jing endured all nine bolts of the Golden Core Lightning Tribulation while Yin Yunze observed from afar.
• Yin Yunze decided to keep his mortal body in the Illuminating Mystery Realm longer to build a stronger foundation.
• Yin Yunze asked Guo Jing to write and distribute a proclamation denouncing the Qingling County City God.

Yin Yunze explained to Guo Jing how exposing the Qingling County City God's crimes could weaken the faith protecting him and help clear the way to kill him. She chose Zhang Liuyun to carry a message to Xu Hanxian, but their meeting took an awkward turn when Zhang Liuyun mistook Yin Yunze's offer to heal her leg for an invitation to touch her hand.

• Yin Yunze told Guo Jing to gather evidence of the Qingling County City God's crimes and spread the stories throughout Qingling County to turn the people against him.
• Yin Yunze explained that she needed to strip away the City God's divine appointment and the people's faith before killing him, and that she had to act before the Anqing Prefecture City God intervened.
• Yin Yunze decided that Zhang Liuyun was a safer messenger than Peng Shulan or Zhang Yufei and appeared before her at Qingnü Temple.
• Zhang Liuyun eagerly greeted Yin Yunze, who offered her a reward if she completed a task and pointed toward her injured leg.
• Zhang Liuyun interrupted Yin Yunze's offer to heal her leg by asking if she could touch Yin Yunze's hand.

Yin Yunze sent Zhang Liuyun to Qingling County with a letter for magistrate Xu Hanxian, while the City God reacted to Qingnü’s destruction of Judge Qian’s party by exiling Judge Li to investigate. Yin Yunze then left Clear Creek Village and confronted the Land God of another village.

• Zhang Liuyun asked to lick Yin Yunze’s hand, then accepted his letter and hurried toward Qingling County to find Peng Shulan.
• The City God told Judge Li that Qingnü had killed Judge Qian and four other subordinates, and ordered him to investigate alone.
• Judge Li realized the City God suspected him of leaking information and accepted the assignment to prove his loyalty.
• The City God began choosing a replacement Civil Judge and considered rebuilding that faction to balance the Martial Judge’s power.
• Yin Yunze left Clear Creek Village, entered another Land God’s territory, and called for the Land God to appear.

Yin Yunze subjugated Land Gods to expand his control over local Earth Vein Power, binding the benevolent Bai Xian'er to the Demon-Summoning Banner and killing corrupt gods. He continued to the next villages, where he killed a red fox Land God after sensing it had consumed flesh and blood.

• Yin Yunze threatened Bai Xian'er until the hedgehog Land God agreed to become his Divine Vassal, connecting her territory's Earth Vein Power to his own.
• Yin Yunze took Bai Xian'er's spine, Essence Blood, and soul fragments and fused them into the Demon-Summoning Banner, binding her to answer anyone who held it.
• Yin Yunze gave Bai Xian'er ten portions of incense offerings and consecrated her into human form before leaving for another village.
• Yin Yunze destroyed a corrupt Land God's temple, drew out the god with the Demon-Summoning Banner, and killed it, adding the local Earth Vein Power and possessions to his control.
• Yin Yunze froze the red fox Land God of South Mountain Village after sensing it had consumed flesh and blood, then killed it with the Demon-Summoning Banner and took its private stash.

The Lord of Du Mountain agreed to protect the local land gods from Qingnü after they promised to submit to him, but Qingnü arrived before he could act. After Qingnü captured one of the gods, Yin Yunze used the Demon-Summoning Banner to consume him and faced the winged tiger.

• The immortal land gods begged the Lord of Du Mountain to protect them from Qingnü, and he demanded that they submit to him first.
• The Lord of Du Mountain made the land gods promise to follow him, then learned that Qingnü had been destroying temples and using the Demon-Summoning Banner to kill gods.
• A land god cried out that Qingnü had arrived at his temple and was seized by an unseen force.
• The Lord of Du Mountain rushed after the captured god, but Qingnü swept him into the Demon-Summoning Banner.
• The Lord of Du Mountain attacked the banner, but Yin Yunze countered his wind with snow and caught his attention.
• Yin Yunze consumed the captured land god with the banner, then identified the winged tiger as the Lord of Du Mountain.

Yin Yunze ended his campaign against the wild gods when the Lord of Du Mountain confronted him, but the winged tiger demanded that Yin Yunze become his wife and bear him a child. The chapter left Yin Yunze facing an unwanted proposal from a powerful Orthodox God.

• Yin Yunze reflected on how his campaign had strengthened him and transformed the Soul-Summoning Banner into a large, deadly Demon-Summoning Banner.
• The Lord of Du Mountain recognized Yin Yunze as Qingnü, a Nine-Tailed Fox, and demanded an explanation for killing his subordinate and targeting lesser gods.
• Yin Yunze offered to stop his campaign to avoid conflict with the Orthodox Gods, but the Lord of Du Mountain insisted that he owed compensation for the dead subordinate.
• The Lord of Du Mountain demanded that Yin Yunze become his wife and bear him a child, arguing that their powers and unusual bloodlines would produce an exceptional offspring.

Yin Yunze fought the Lord of Du Mountain, using the Demon-Summoning Banner, his authorities, and help from his mortal body to restrain the tiger god. When Yin Yunze tried to castrate him, he discovered the Lord of Du Mountain was a tigress.

• Yin Yunze punched the Lord of Du Mountain, freezing his nose and eyes, but the tiger god answered with a storm that drove him back.
• Yin Yunze used a targeted summon to force the Lord of Du Mountain back toward the ground, then trapped him in a fissure with earth and ice.
• The Lord of Du Mountain broke through the fissure with a powerful storm, and Yin Yunze prepared to fight using his Dark Heavenly Lightning Flags.
• Yin Yunze distracted the Lord of Du Mountain while his mortal body struck him with the Demon-Suppressing Vajra and bound him with the Vajra Rope.
• Yin Yunze approached the restrained Lord of Du Mountain to castrate him, but he and his mortal body discovered that the tiger god was a tigress.

Yin Yunze and her two bodies discovered that the Lord of Du Mountain was a female tiger who transformed into a childlike girl, revealing that their fight had begun with a misunderstanding. After capturing her, Yin Yunze struggled with whether to release or punish her, while the Lord of Du Mountain earnestly proposed that they have children together to continue their rare exotic-beast bloodlines.

• The Lord of Du Mountain revealed that she was a tigress, and Yin Yunze realized she had mistaken her intentions.
• Yin Yunze forced the Lord of Du Mountain to transform, exposing her human form as a young girl bound tightly by the vajra rope.
• Yin Yunze and her bodies debated what to do with the captured Lord of Du Mountain, whom they did not want to kill but feared releasing.
• The Lord of Du Mountain worried that Yin Yunze might eat her, then offered to become her wife and bear her children.
• The Lord of Du Mountain insisted that they should have children to preserve their bloodlines, while Yin Yunze rejected the idea.

Yin Yunze learned why the Lord of Du Mountain was obsessed with bloodlines and children, then agreed to release her under a magically enforced oath when the divine body was attacked through her statue. The Lord of Du Mountain carried Yin Yunze toward Qingling County while the divine body confronted Judge Li.

• Yin Yunze's taunt about the Lord of Du Mountain's bloodline triggered her to reveal that her father had abandoned her and her mother after she inherited only wind powers.
• Yin Yunze comforted the Lord of Du Mountain but refused to promise her a child, while the divine body suddenly lost her eyes and bled from their sockets.
• The Lord of Du Mountain identified an attack on Qingnü's golden statue, and Yin Yunze released her after using Forge Oaths to bind her promise not to cause harm.
• The Lord of Du Mountain transformed into her winged tiger form and carried Yin Yunze at great speed toward Qingling County to intercept the attacker.
• The divine body tracked down Judge Li and thrust the Demon-Summoning Banner toward the spot between his brows.