Chapter Summaries

Yin Yunze used the Prefectural City God’s jade pendant to make the county City Gods submit, then offered them pure incense-offering food and secured an agreement to keep their followers from interfering with his. He revealed that his real aim was to have them help seal the drought’s source in the Tomb of Prince Jing, and ordered them to comply.

• The City Gods recognized the freshly carved pendant’s connection to the Prefectural City God and knelt to acknowledge Yin Yunze as the County Princess of Qingping.
• Yin Yunze stopped his mortal body from sending City God Xie to rebirth, gathered the City Gods around a table, and served them delicacies made from pure incense offerings.
• Yin Yunze asked the City Gods to keep their subordinates from interfering with those under his command, and they readily agreed.
• Yin Yunze ordered the City Gods to help seal the source of the drought in the Tomb of Prince Jing in Qingling County, warning them to bear the consequences if they disobeyed.

Yin Yunze arrived at Anqing City in a grand procession as the people prayed for him to end the drought, while his growing prayer power impressed the Prefectural City God. Yin Yunze acknowledged that popular support had left him no choice but to fulfill the people’s hopes and resolve the drought.

• Tens of thousands of people welcomed Yin Yunze’s divine palanquin and prayed for the drought to end as the procession approached Anqing City.
• Prefect Liu Zhengyuan led the procession into the city, strengthening the crowd’s faith in Yin Yunze.
• Yin Yunze thanked the Prefectural City God for allowing him to build a temple, and the City God observed prayer power rising across Anqing Prefecture.
• Yin Yunze suggested that the Prefectural City God could better serve the people, but the City God stopped him from raising a particular matter again.
• The Prefectural City God warned Yin Yunze to stop, but Yin Yunze said popular expectations had carried him too far to turn back.
• Yin Yunze recognized that failing to end the drought could turn the people’s prayer power into resentment and destroy him.

Yin Yunze faced the people’s wishes as they tested whether he could become a true prefectural god, then led them to confront the Yin Immortal Sect’s grand elder at the Tomb of Prince Jing. The chapter ended with Zhou Changqing’s Weight of the Realm spell summoning a tiny but immensely heavy cauldron above the black-and-white demon god.

• Yin Yunze rejected the Prefectural City God’s claim that the people’s wishes had driven his actions and declared that he wanted what the people wanted.
• Officials appointed Yin Yunze County Princess of Qingping, and the wishes across Anqing Prefecture formed a true dragon that tested him.
• Yin Yunze called on the believers, lesser demons, and Orthodox Gods to join him in suppressing evil, then rode the true dragon to the Tomb of Prince Jing.
• The Tomb of Prince Jing produced a black-and-white demon god, and Yin Yunze summoned Zhou Changqing to help confront it.
• Yin Yunze lent Zhou Changqing the karmic luck of his third-rank title, and Zhou Changqing cast Weight of the Realm, summoning a palm-sized cauldron above the demon god.

Yin Yunze sealed the Drought Demon beneath the Tomb of Prince Jing using the power of Anqing Prefecture’s people and gods, and the long-awaited rain finally fell. The people’s praise granted Yin Yunze the Great Perfect Halo Aspect and new authorities, including Suppressing Evil and the Agriculture God’s power to control wind, rain, and plant growth.

• Yin Yunze called on the seventeen City Gods, led by Guo Jing, to suppress the Tomb of Prince Jing with their cities’ protective authority.
• Yin Yunze united the people, lesser demons, Orthodox Gods, and other living beings of Anqing Prefecture in the cry, “Suppress evil, end the drought,” then sent the wish-power true dragon into the tomb to swallow the Drought Demon and Yin Yunze’s opponent.
• Yin Yunze flooded the tomb with seawater and purifying water, struck it with Mystic Lightning, froze it, and buried it ten thousand meters underground beneath layers of earth and evil-destroying power.
• Rain fell across Anqing Prefecture, and the people praised Yin Yunze, whose faith-gathered power manifested the Great Perfect Halo Aspect and granted the Authority over Suppressing Evil.
• Yin Yunze merged the new authority into a tail and then received the Authority of the Agriculture God, which let Yin Yunze control wind, rain, and plant growth.

After suppressing the Tomb of Prince Jing, Yin Yunze discovered that his new authorities had strengthened his divine treasures and that his growing power was bringing him closer to becoming a Prefecture God. The City Gods recognized his rising status and pledged their respect, while Yin Yunze left the door open to cooperation.

• Yin Yunze assessed how the Great Perfect Halo Aspect, Suppress Evil, and Agricultural God authorities had improved his Demon-Summoning Banner, Jeweled Tree Glazed Branch, and Mutton-Fat Jade Purification Vase.
• Zhou Changqing reported to Yin Yunze after displaying Weight of the Realm, and Yin Yunze healed him with the Agricultural God authority and told him to rest in Clear Creek Village before receiving a gift.
• Yin Yunze decided Zhao Yuanlang was the best person to cultivate as a wielder of the Imperial Qi World-Pacifying Canon, since his family ties connected him to Yin Yunze's household.
• The City Gods recognized Yin Yunze's Great Perfect Halo Aspect and the genuine Prefecture God's presence emerging from him, then knelt and addressed him as the Primordial Lady of the Azure Heavens.
• Yin Yunze thanked the City Gods for their assistance and offered to help them if they ever needed Qingnü.

After suppressing the Drought Demon and receiving an imperial title, Yin Yunze settled affairs at the new temple and summoned Liu Zhengyuan to discuss grain seeds and a way to free him from the Yao woman's control. The chapter ended with Yin Yunze suggesting that Liu could join an agreement with the Supernatural Pursuit Bureau.

• The City Gods left after Yin Yunze offered them a chance to seek his help, and Guo Jing returned to Qingling County.
• Yin Yunze traveled to the County Princess of Qingping's temple, where worshippers celebrated the rain and his victory over the Drought Demon.
• In the temple's Dao Field, Yin Yunze's mortal body played with the Great Perfect Halo Aspect while his divine body rested.
• Yin Yunze invited Liu Zhengyuan into the Dao Field and told him to arrange an inspection of higher-yield grain seeds with Magistrate Xu.
• Yin Yunze told Liu Zhengyuan that the Supernatural Pursuit Bureau had reached a preliminary agreement with him and that Liu might join to escape the Yao woman's control.

Yin Yunze recruited Liu Zhengyuan to bring the Marquis of Zhenping into a lucrative purified-water business, hoping to secure help for Xie Rou and her daughter. After stopping the rain before it could cause a flood, Yin Yunze thanked Zhou Changqing for his help and gave him Azure Heavens Jade Dew Pills.

• Yin Yunze explained the scale of the purified-water trade to Liu Zhengyuan and appointed him as his authorized representative to negotiate with the Marquis of Zhenping.
• Yin Yunze gave Liu Zhengyuan three kinds of purified water, set their prices, offered him a five percent discount, and required the marquis to arrive within a month.
• Yin Yunze dispersed the rain clouds with the Authority of the Agriculture God before the prolonged downpour could cause a flood in Anqing Prefecture.
• Yin Yunze found Zhou Changqing recovered and preparing lessons with Zhou Hongxia and Zhao Yuanlang, then presented him with ten Azure Heavens Jade Dew Pills as thanks for his help.

Yin Yunze gave Zhou Changqing Azure Heavens Jade Dew Pills and arranged a major purified-water deal that could advance Zhao Yuanlang’s career. Later, Yin Yunze’s attempt to change his appearance by replacing his statue failed, so he prepared to try a different approach with a battle-ready version of Green Hill Yi Yun.

• Yin Yunze gave Zhou Changqing ten Azure Heavens Jade Dew Pills and asked him to arrange a meeting with the Supernatural Pursuit Bureau about buying ten thousand jin of purified water.
• Yin Yunze asked Zhou Changqing to recommend that Zhao Yuanlang be placed in charge of transporting the purified water, and Zhou Changqing agreed to relay the request.
• Yin Yunze tried placing a statue of a male god in silver armor on the altar, but believers’ Power of Faith destroyed it because its appearance clashed with their established image of him.
• Yin Yunze accepted that he could not change his fundamental appearance that way, returned Green Hill Yi Yun’s statue to the altar, and brought out a silver-armored fox-girl statue with white hair and red eyes.

Yin Yunze established the True Lord of the Azure Source and the Prefecture Lord of the Azure Nether as new Avatars with war and death offices, then revealed all three as one deity through a shared dream across Anqing Prefecture. The believers accepted the new divine arrangement, but the True Lord of the Azure Source gained far more faith than the Prefecture Lord of the Azure Nether, whose office remained unanchored.

• Yin Yunze placed statues of the silver-armored True Lord of the Azure Source and the black-eyed Prefecture Lord of the Azure Nether beside the Primordial Lady of the Azure Heavens, and the believers did not reject them.
• Yin Yunze sent every living being in Anqing Prefecture the same dream, where Green Hill Yi Yun revealed the three Avatars and their divine offices.
• The people discussed the dream and accepted that the Primordial Lady of the Azure Heavens, the True Lord of the Azure Source, and the Prefecture Lord of the Azure Nether were one deity with different offices.
• Believers began offering incense to the new Avatars; the True Lord of the Azure Source received nearly five times as much as the Prefecture Lord of the Azure Nether.
• Yin Yunze found that the True Lord of the Azure Source had begun condensing her office, while the Prefecture Lord of the Azure Nether had not yet anchored hers.

Yin Yunze tested how the Three Azures’ divine offices interacted with her divine and mortal bodies, discovering that her mortal body could bear the True Lord of the Azure Source’s War God office and that she could fuse with her divine body. After deciding she might eventually travel to spread the other Azures’ faith, she received a call from her mother and promised to come home for the New Year in a few days.

• Yin Yunze found that her divine body could bear the True Lord of the Azure Source’s War God office only briefly before the conflicting offices forced her to withdraw.
• Yin Yunze transferred the War God office to her mortal body, which endured it and began refining itself for combat.
• Yin Yunze discovered that her mortal and divine bodies could fuse, greatly increasing her strength, but the fused body could not bear the weaker War God office alongside the Primordial Lady of the Azure Heavens’ office.
• Yin Yunze considered leaving Anqing Prefecture to spread faith in the True Lord of the Azure Source and the Prefecture Lord of the Azure Nether, but postponed the idea because of the approaching visit from Supernatural Pursuit Bureau officials.
• Yin Yunze answered her mother’s call, disguised her appearance and voice, and promised to come home for the New Year in a few days.

Yin Yunze returned to her hometown after a year away and found that her parents knew she was a Nine-Tailed Fox. A pink-haired fox born from her abandoned incense offerings had claimed to be her daughter, and the chapter ended with the fox showing Yin Yunze a video of Green Hill Yi Yun introducing herself as a novice Incense God.

• Yin Yunze returned home and greeted her mother and father, noticing that her father seemed angry rather than happy to see her.
• Father Yin confronted Yin Yunze about her appearance and ordered her to reveal her true form as a nine-tailed fox-eared girl.
• Father Yin accused Yin Yunze of abandoning Yiyi, a pink-haired Nine-Tailed Fox who appeared and called Yin Yunze her stinky daddy.
• Yin Yunze realized Yiyi had formed from the pink incense offerings she had ignored and had altered her parents’ understanding of events.
• After Father Yin went downstairs, Yiyi turned on the television and showed Yin Yunze a video of Green Hill Yi Yun introducing herself as a novice Incense God.

Yin Yunze confronted Qingqiu Yiyi, a fox spirit born from the faith stirred up by old videos of him, and learned she wanted his help. She brought him to a temple, where he realized the world no longer had active gods because an awakened being had ended its age of myths.

• Yin Yunze subdued Qingqiu Yiyi after she copied his old video and attacked him with an illusion, then his divine body appeared and stopped her escape.
• Qingqiu Yiyi identified herself as the God of Pleasure and explained that copies of Yin Yunze’s videos had gathered faith that gave rise to her as an independent Innate Holy Spirit.
• Yin Yunze understood that Qingqiu Yiyi called him her mother to avoid being devoured, and she asked him to accompany her somewhere.
• Qingqiu Yiyi led Yin Yunze to a temple from his childhood, where he saw faith incense clinging to statues that held no divine presence.
• Qingqiu Yiyi explained that the world had once had an age of myths, but the boss awakened and brought the age of gods to an end.

Qingqiu Yiyi told Yin Yunze that his Gate of Incense tied the real world to an incomplete other world whose gods were sending tentacles to prepare for its expansion. She asked him to sever those gods’ foundations before the conflict awakened the world’s consciousness and destroyed human civilization.

• Qingqiu Yiyi explained that Yin Yunze was considered an outsider because he was deeply bound to another world, and that his Gate of Incense was a tentacle linking the worlds.
• Qingqiu Yiyi said the Gate of Incense had stopped evolving after Yin Yunze rejected this world’s faith incense, which had helped create her as an independent countermeasure.
• Yin Yunze learned that several hundred otherworldly tentacles were active and that Qingqiu Yiyi wanted his help cutting away their foundations in the other world.
• Qingqiu Yiyi warned that the incomplete other world sought to use its tentacles to repair itself, risking divine conflict and the destruction of human civilization.
• Yin Yunze realized he had been asked to save the world and questioned Qingqiu Yiyi about his role.

Yin Yunze agreed to cooperate with Qingqiu Yiyi to find and eliminate the otherworldly gods’ tentacles, while postponing the work until after the New Year. After learning why Yiyi could not enter the other world and seeing her collect faith through livestreaming, Yin Yunze was interrupted by her sister and niece, who accepted the pair’s fox forms as normal.

• Qingqiu Yiyi swore that her mission was to drive out the otherworldly gods and explained that she had been born knowing her purpose.
• Yin Yunze agreed to cooperate with Qingqiu Yiyi but sent her divine body back to the other world and warned Yiyi not to meddle with her parents again.
• Yin Yunze and Qingqiu Yiyi returned to the family meal, where Yiyi charmed Yin Yunze’s parents while Yin Yunze stayed quiet.
• Qingqiu Yiyi livestreamed her real tricks to gather Incense of Faith, then explained that Yin Yunze could give her parents money but could not bring them into the other world.
• Qingqiu Yiyi explained that she needed Yin Yunze’s help because entering the other world would make her an invading extraterrestrial heavenly demon.
• Yin Yunze’s older sister and niece entered the room, and Yiyi explained that her perception correction made others accept their fox forms as normal.

Yin Yunze went on a blind date arranged by Sister Yin and discovered that Miss Zhu’s snake-patterned charm carried an evil power that could drain her life force. Suspecting the charm’s maker was one of the supernatural threats she had been tracking, Yin Yunze decided she could not ignore it.

• Qingqiu Yiyi explained that she was only a month old, and Yaoyao and Sister Yin doted on her while Sister Yin scolded Yin Yunze for abandoning her.
• Yin Yunze sent Sister Yin ten thousand yuan and boasted about her wealth, but Sister Yin arranged a blind date for her anyway.
• Sister Yin introduced Yin Yunze to Miss Zhu at a restaurant, then left them alone together.
• Miss Zhu dismissed Yin Yunze’s claims about her work and showed her a snake-patterned charm from a cult leader.
• Yin Yunze sensed that the charm was evil and would drain Miss Zhu’s Qi and Blood, and resolved to investigate to protect her family.