Recaps

Yin Yunze uses prayers and Incense of Faith to provide food and water to Clear Creek Village, establishing himself as its Fox Immortal and turning the villagers’ needs into a grain trade. After quitting his job, he puts Sun Qin in charge of village affairs and leaves her with authority over a grain-credit allowance.

• Yin Yunze stopped the sacrifice of Xiao Wan'er, then gained his first offerings when she prayed to him and offered him wild fruits.
• Yin Yunze fed Xiao Wan'er and Sun Qin, learned that they needed water more than rain, and devised a way to channel lake water into their world.
• Yin Yunze supplied water and food to Clear Creek Village, winning the villagers’ worship and unlocking new abilities as his Incense of Faith increased.
• Yin Yunze used Illusion Technique and Fox Fire to frighten Spirit Medium Wang and Laizitou, then began providing the village with daily water.
• Yin Yunze offered rice in exchange for gold, recruited Sun Qin to sell grain, and appointed her to manage villagers’ requests.
• Yin Yunze quit his job, secured a warehouse and more rice, and gave Sun Qin and Zhao Wan supplies and new clothes.
• Sun Qin asserted her authority over Song Zhao and managed his gold-for-rice exchange after Yin Yunze delivered five thousand jin of rice.
• Sun Qin promised grain on credit without permission, and Yin Yunze punished her by denying her dinner while granting her a five-thousand-jin credit allowance.

Yin Yunze supplied Clear Creek Village with grain and rain, then gained Land God authority after rescuing Zhao Wan from a kidnapping plot. As he prepared to investigate the force behind the drought, he discovered Zhao Wan’s unique bond with him and devised talismans that mortals could use.

• Yin Yunze refused Peng Shulan’s demand for five hundred thousand jin of rice, frightened him and Yu Liu with his fox form, then gave grain to the villagers and set strict terms for future supplies.
• When villagers protested the grain limits and begged for water, Yin Yunze offered to bring rain in exchange for gold, then used Sun Qin and Zhao Wan’s ceremony to make rain fall across Clear Creek Village.
• After Sun Qin became ill, Yin Yunze learned healing techniques and cured her, then used Spirit Descent to follow Zhao Wan when Zhao Cheng kidnapped her.
• Yin Yunze exposed Spirit Medium Wang’s plan to extort Sun Qin, dispelled her summoned ghost, and killed Wang Laizi and Zhao Cheng when they broke his order to remain inside an illusory boundary.
• Yin Yunze’s growing belief made him Clear Creek Village’s guardian deity and Land God, granting him authority over the village’s earth veins when he possessed Zhao Wan.
• Yin Yunze sensed that a malice beyond the village had caused the drought and tried to use Sun Qin as his vessel, but learned that only Zhao Wan could bear his full power through Spirit Descent.
• Yin Yunze accepted that Zhao Wan’s bond with him could not be reversed, promised to respect her consent, and prepared to investigate the drought’s source.
• Yin Yunze sealed illusion, healing, fire, and expulsion techniques into talismans and asked Sun Qin to make ten of each for mortals to use.

Yin Yunze uncovered Prince Jing’s role in the drought, defeated Wang Guisheng, and began arranging food relief for the starving people of Qingling County. The arc ended with Xu Hanxian disputing Yin Yunze’s account of the Drought Demon and offering to buy the grain at a higher price.

• Yin Yunze rejected the villagers’ plan to make human blood offerings, built a temple, and began stockpiling food for the coming famine.
• Yin Yunze followed the malice to the Tomb of Prince Jing, found the dead Prince Jing and a white-robed cultivator, and escaped with a black command flag.
• Wang Guisheng attacked Yin Yunze on the road, but Yin Yunze defeated him with fire and talismans.
• Yin Yunze reached Qingling County, saw starving people outside its gates, and secretly gave food to a little girl before meeting Song Ran and Song Zhao.
• Yin Yunze learned from Peng Shulan that County Magistrate Xu Hanxian’s daughter was ill and that Xu believed Yin Yunze had run out of grain.
• Yin Yunze persuaded Peng Shulan to serve him and arranged a banquet where he offered Xu Hanxian two million jin of grain at five copper coins per jin.
• Yin Yunze revealed that Prince Jing’s corpse had become a Drought Demon and caused the drought, but Xu Hanxian dismissed his explanation and offered seven wen per jin for the grain.

Yin Yunze healed Xu Yue, challenged Xu Hanxian’s treatment of the people, and built support in the villages while investigating Grandfather Huang Three. Trapped in Upper Creek Village, Yin Yunze fought the corrupted weasel god and unleashed the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Yin Yunze rescued Xu Hanxian’s daughter Xu Yue from a ghostly illness, destroyed the Ghost Bone that had drained her Essence Blood, and accepted her as his goddaughter.
• Yin Yunze returned to Clear Creek Village and set up a Fox Rice porridge shed, while Xu Hanxian ordered it shut down and then admitted he had been wrong to oppose the fox immortal.
• Yin Yunze secured Lower Creek Village’s support and learned that Grandfather Huang Three had gone mad and was driving Upper Creek Village toward attacking its neighbors.
• Yin Yunze confronted Grandfather Huang Three, resisted his attempts to lure him into the temple, and destroyed the temple with an explosive before cutting off the old weasel’s head.
• Grandfather Huang Three revealed his monstrous true body and sealed Yin Yunze inside Upper Creek Village with earthen walls, then hunted him with enslaved ghosts.
• Yin Yunze used explosives and talismans against Grandfather Huang Three, but the weasel god’s black coating extinguished his Fox Fire and trapped him beneath its claws.
• Yin Yunze drove the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag into Grandfather Huang Three’s chest, freeing himself and destroying nearby tiger ghosts as the flag stripped away the weasel god’s black coating.
• Grandfather Huang Three lost a claw while trying to remove the flag, then poured out the incense power of Upper Creek Village’s believers to suppress it.