Chapter Summaries

Yin Yunze delegated Clear Creek Village’s affairs to Sun Qin, trusting her to handle ordinary requests while he focused on his plans. After receiving his salary and clashing with Supervisor Song at work, Yin Yunze quit his job and left.

• Sun Qin refused a reward, and Yin Yunze appointed her to handle village requests and decide which matters needed his attention.
• Sun Qin realized she could oversee the villagers’ gold-for-grain exchange and planned to deny grain to those who had mistreated her and Zhao Wan, especially Village Chief Song, Song Zhao.
• Supervisor Song scolded Yin Yunze for resting at work, and Yin Yunze decided he no longer needed to tolerate him.
• Yin Yunze received his salary, told Supervisor Song he quit, and formatted the D drive containing his work files.
• Yin Yunze insulted Supervisor Song, said goodbye to his colleagues, and left in the elevator as Supervisor Song called after him.

Yin Yunze quit his job, rented a warehouse, and ordered ten tons of rice to prepare for transporting grain between worlds. He visited Sun Qin and Zhao Wan with modern gifts, and Sun Qin resolved to repair the Fox Immortal Temple without asking him for help.

• Yin Yunze rented a warehouse and arranged delivery of ten tons of rice after leaving his job.
• Yin Yunze entered the other world and used the Radar Map to reach Sun Qin and Zhao Wan at their home.
• Yin Yunze gave Sun Qin and Zhao Wan a solar lamp, food, fruit, and new clothes.
• Sun Qin was astonished by the solar lamp, while Zhao Wan eagerly examined the gifts.
• Sun Qin accepted the clothes as befitting the Fox Immortal's representative and decided to put repairing the Fox Immortal Temple on her agenda.

Song Zhao brought a group of villagers to the Fox Immortal Temple to meet its new master, but Sun Qin confronted them as the temple keeper and used a fox mask to reveal the phantom of a nine-tailed white fox. Song Zhao and his men were left facing the Fox Immortal’s power without meeting Lord Yi Yun.

• Song Zhao arrived at the Fox Immortal Temple with a wrapped bag of gold and more than a dozen young men from Clear Creek Village.
• Song Zhao recognized Zhao Wan and was startled by Sun Qin’s elegant new appearance and clothes from Lord Yi Yun.
• Sun Qin explained that Lord Yi Yun, a nine-tailed fox from the Qingqiu Kingdom, had replaced Fox Seventh Aunt as master of the temple.
• Song Zhao demanded to see Lord Yi Yun, but Sun Qin told him that she would handle mundane matters and he must not bother the master.
• Sun Qin put on her fox mask, revealing a towering nine-tailed white fox phantom to Song Zhao and the villagers.
• The villagers fell to their knees, while Song Zhao hunched his back at the sight of their fear and reverence.

Song Zhao brought eleven taels of gold to repay his debt and request more rice, but Yin Yunze had Sun Qin handle the exchange and deliver only five thousand jin. Sun Zhao protested the reduced amount, and Sun Qin rebuked him for treating Lord Yi Yun’s charity like a fixed bargain.

• Song Zhao offered Sun Qin eleven taels of gold, using one tael to repay the old debt and asking for rice with the other ten.
• Yin Yunze accepted the gold and instructed Sun Qin to manage the exchange.
• Sun Qin prayed, and Yin Yunze delivered five thousand jin of rice before the watching villagers.
• Song Zhao questioned why he had received half the rice he expected, and Sun Qin told him he had no right to haggle over Lord Yi Yun’s charity.

Sun Qin confronted Song Zhao over his grain exchange and used Yin Yunze’s support to undermine his authority in the village. After she admitted overstepping by promising grain on credit, Yin Yunze punished and rewarded her, granting her a five-thousand-jin credit allowance.

• Sun Qin refused Song Zhao’s demand to reclaim his offering and reduced the grain he and his companions could exchange for ten taels of gold.
• Yin Yunze made a thousand jin of rice vanish, visibly backing Sun Qin, who then offered to plead for grain on credit for struggling households.
• Song Zhao left with his men after they began carrying grain only once Sun Qin allowed them, while Sun Qin’s control over the villagers grew.
• Sun Qin knelt before Yin Yunze and admitted that she had promised credit without his permission, and Zhao Wan pleaded for her mother.
• Yin Yunze said Sun Qin’s unauthorized promise deserved punishment but praised her service, then gave her the choice of whether her merits and faults should cancel out.
• Sun Qin left the decision to Yin Yunze, who denied her dinner and granted her a five-thousand-jin grain credit allowance.

Yin Yunze’s grain trading brought prosperity to Clear Creek Village, while Song Zhao rebuilt his standing by helping villagers sell grain and buy supplies. Sun Qin brought Song Ran and two armed outsiders to the Fox Immortal Temple to request an enormous amount of rice, and one outsider challenged Yin Yunze to prove his divine power.

• Yin Yunze reflected on the success of his grain trade, his growing gold reserves, and the villagers’ repairs to his Fox Immortal Temple.
• Sun Qin arrived at the temple with village chief Song Ran and two unfamiliar, armed men, prompting Yin Yunze to suspect trouble.
• Yin Yunze learned that Song Zhao had opened a rice store, helped stabilize prices, and regained the villagers’ trust while Song Ran served as chief.
• Sun Qin explained that Song Ran wanted to request an unusually large supply of grain.
• One of the outsiders announced that the request was for five hundred thousand jin of rice and taunted Yin Yunze, asking whether he could swallow it.

Yin Yunze suspected Peng Shulan and Yu Liu had brought a thousand taels of gold to trick him into producing grain and expose him to the authorities. Fearing the risks of a huge deal with government-connected men, he refused to trade and sent them away.

• Peng Shulan introduced himself and his disciple Yu Liu, presented a chest of gold, and demanded five hundred thousand jin of rice from Yin Yunze.
• Yin Yunze noticed Dynastic Karmic Luck around Peng Shulan and Yu Liu and used his radar map to spot a dozen people waiting outside the Fox Immortal Temple.
• Yin Yunze suspected the men planned to seize the grain and intimidate him, then use their government connections to force him into cooperation.
• Yin Yunze weighed the gold against the danger of revealing his abilities to the authorities and decided not to make the deal.
• Yin Yunze told Peng Shulan that only believers could receive his grain and ordered the men to leave.

Yin Yunze rejected the county magistrate’s grain request after Yu Liu threatened him, then used a display of Fox Fire to force the envoys to respect him. He revealed that he had already been allowing grain to reach nonbelievers, but ended by warning that the people would suffer now that the gifts had been treated as a transaction.

• Yu Liu threatened Yin Yunze when he refused to provide grain, while Song Ran and Sun Qin tried to calm him and Peng Shulan asked Yin Yunze to make an exception.
• Yin Yunze refused and claimed that breaking his rule would bring punishment, but Yu Liu drew his saber and threatened to tear down the temple.
• Yin Yunze manifested as a gigantic nine-tailed white fox and trapped Peng Shulan and Yu Liu inside a dome of green Fox Fire.
• Peng Shulan invoked the county magistrate’s effort to protect the county’s livelihood, and Yin Yunze stopped the flames after the men had been frightened into submission.
• Yin Yunze told Peng Shulan that Song Zhao had been able to supply grain to nonbelievers because he had turned a blind eye, then warned that the people would suffer after the gifts were called a transaction.

Yin Yunze gave Peng Shulan ten thousand jin of grain for the people and sent him away, wary of becoming entangled with the county magistrate. Sun Qin then summoned two hundred bags of rice for the gathered people, who celebrated the miracle but questioned why it was far less than the promised amount.

• Yin Yunze offered Peng Shulan ten thousand jin of grain for the people, free of charge, and ordered him not to return to the temple.
• Peng Shulan became a believer in Yin Yunze and thanked him, while Yin Yunze told Sun Qin to escort the visitors out.
• Peng Shulan and Yu Liu left the temple, and Peng Shulan blamed Yu Liu for botching their assignment as the crowd questioned them.
• Sun Qin prayed to Yin Yunze, and two hundred bags of rice appeared before the gathered people.
• The crowd celebrated the rice but wondered why there were only two hundred bags, while Peng Shulan realized the county officials had misunderstood the situation.

Yin Yunze gave ten thousand jin of grain to Peng Shulan’s officials and tried to recover his losses by changing the villagers’ grain offer. Sun Qin returned to the Fox Immortal Temple with several men as angry villagers confronted her, leaving Yin Yunze watching their dispute.

• Sun Qin refused Peng Shulan’s silver, gave him two taels of gold, and told him not to return; Peng Shulan ordered his men to haul away the grain and chest of gold.
• Yin Yunze lamented the cost of giving away ten thousand jin of rice and ordered Sun Qin to announce that the next day’s offer would be one tael of gold for two hundred jin, once per person.
• Sun Qin told the villagers about the offer, and Yin Yunze waited for her report while anticipating their anger.
• Older women gathered at the Fox Immortal Temple to complain about Sun Qin and revealed that her late husband had been a successful examination candidate before being demoted and falling ill.
• Sun Qin returned with several men and challenged the women blocking the temple entrance, who accused her of raising prices and threatened to expose her to the fox immortal.

After villagers confronted Sun Qin over the grain quota, Yin Yunze appeared as the Fox Immortal and punished them by reducing the next grain blessing and ending the daily water supply. The chapter ended with the youngest person Sun Qin had brought speaking up to plead for water.

• Yin Yunze watched the older village women curse Sun Qin over the grain price and quota.
• Yin Yunze revealed his nine-tailed white fox form to the women and rebuked them for defying his order.
• Yin Yunze told Sun Qin to announce that the next grain blessing would be reduced to one hundred jin.
• Yin Yunze further ordered Sun Qin to announce that the daily half hour of water would end starting the next day.
• The youngest person Sun Qin had brought asked Yin Yunze how the villagers could live without water.

Yin Yunze let Sun Qin handle Zhao Cheng’s insubordination, and Sun Qin disciplined him before securing her promised grain credit. After sending her relatives to explain the grain and water restrictions to the villagers, Yin Yunze asked Sun Qin to bring Zhao Wan so they could continue the Rainfall Technique.

• Zhao Cheng spoke out of turn, so Sun Qin apologized to Yin Yunze and he warned her to keep her subordinates in line.
• Sun Qin slapped Zhao Cheng and ordered him to leave, while her other relatives berated him until he slunk away.
• Sun Qin asked whether she could still take five thousand jin of grain on credit, and Yin Yunze confirmed the promise with a limit on replenishing it.
• Sun Qin ordered the men surnamed Zhao to explain the restrictions and identify those who had caused trouble at the Fox Immortal Temple.
• Yin Yunze asked Sun Qin to bring Zhao Wan to continue helping him perform the Rainfall Technique.

Sun Qin and Yin Yunze pressured Clear Creek Village’s residents to pay for water after Yin Yunze stopped supplying it, and the villagers had to decide whether to part with their gold. Yin Yunze left them facing his ultimatum: pay two taels of gold per household for him to ask the Dragon Lord for rain, or find their own way to survive.

• More than a hundred villagers gathered at the Fox Immortal Temple to beg for water after their fields began drying out.
• Sun Qin scolded Song Ran, who defended himself by blaming the county yamen and urged the villagers to focus on pleading for water.
• Sun Qin told the villagers that Yin Yunze could no longer borrow water from the Dragon Lord because the Dragon Lord had learned of it.
• The villagers proposed buying water, and Sun Qin asked Yin Yunze whether it was possible.
• Appearing as a nine-tailed white fox on the temple roof, Yin Yunze offered to ask the Dragon Lord for rain if every household paid two taels of gold.
• Yin Yunze warned the villagers not to come begging later if they refused his offer.

Yin Yunze persuaded Clear Creek Village to promise gold in exchange for rain, then arranged a nighttime ceremony with Sun Qin and Zhao Wan to make the rain seem like divine favor. As the ceremony began, Sun Qin danced beneath music and a solar-powered lamp while the villagers watched in awe.

• Yin Yunze convinced the villagers to offer two taels of gold after the rain and ordered them to follow Sun Qin's instructions.
• Yin Yunze checked the forecast and saw that rain was expected to begin the following evening, with sunny weather afterward.
• Yin Yunze went to a mountain pavilion in the real world while hundreds of villagers gathered to watch Sun Qin and Zhao Wan's ceremony.
• Yin Yunze told Sun Qin to begin when the first raindrop fell, and Sun Qin instructed Zhao Wan to turn on the light.
• Zhao Wan switched on a solar-powered lamp as music played, and Sun Qin began her practiced dance while the villagers mistook the display for sacred signs.

Yin Yunze used a rainmaking ritual and his power to bring real rain to Clear Creek Village, earning the villagers’ stronger faith. After the rain lasted through the night, he stopped it at dawn, and Sun Qin announced that the rite was complete.

• Yin Yunze used a crude illusion of dark clouds while Sun Qin performed a dance and called the villagers to pray for rain.
• Yin Yunze brought rain down on the villagers, who rejoiced and prayed as their faith in him grew.
• Yin Yunze spent nearly half an hour expanding the rain until it covered all of Clear Creek Village, using up his stored Incense of Faith.
• Yin Yunze maintained the rain through the night, then stopped it at dawn because he was exhausted and feared being noticed in daylight.
• Sun Qin returned to the platform and announced that the rain had stopped and the rite was complete.

After Yin Yunze brought rain to the villagers, he staged a terrifying vision of the Dragon Lord to make them pay the gold they owed. The villagers’ fear strengthened their Incense of Faith, pulling Yin Yunze back to reality as the Gate of Incense closed again.

• Sun Qin gathered the exhausted villagers for the ceremony’s closing, and Yin Yunze conjured a hazy nine-tailed white fox to demand his payment.
• When a villager asked to delay paying, Yin Yunze revealed a vast, furious Dragon Lord, frightening the man into fainting and then pleading to pay double.
• Yin Yunze warned that the gold belonged to the Dragon Lord, while Sun Qin reminded the villagers that their families could suffer if they broke their promises.
• The villagers’ fear caused the Incense of Faith to surge, and Yin Yunze was pulled back to the mountain forest in reality.
• Yin Yunze found the Gate of Incense closed again and went home to sleep, expecting its version update to finish.

When Zhao Wan came to the Fox Immortal Temple for help, Yin Yunze learned that Sun Qin had fallen ill after staying in her wet clothes and had refused to see a doctor to protect his reputation. Yin Yunze proactively acquired healing skills and prepared to use them to treat her.

• Zhao Wan woke Yin Yunze with an urgent plea to save her mother, and he learned that Sun Qin had been bedridden and delirious since the previous night.
• Yin Yunze discovered that Sun Qin had caught a cold after remaining in her wet clothes and had refused to seek a doctor because she feared damaging his prestige.
• Yin Yunze decided to acquire healing skills rather than risk giving Sun Qin unfamiliar medicine or letting her go untreated.
• Yin Yunze spent nearly thirty percent of his Power of Incense Offerings and gained Spirit Descent, Shelter, Heal Wounds and Cure Illness, and Expel Evil and Dispel Filth.
• Yin Yunze focused on Heal Wounds and Cure Illness, confident he could now help Sun Qin.

Yin Yunze considered using Spirit Descent through Zhao Wan but stopped before possessing her, then used Heal Wounds and Cure Illness to cure Sun Qin’s fever. He realized he now had a genuine healing Law Technique that could help him gain more Incense of Faith.

• Yin Yunze learned that Spirit Descent could temporarily possess a devout believer and considered trying it on Zhao Wan.
• Zhao Wan requested that the Fox Immortal descend into her body, and spiritual threads connected her to Yin Yunze.
• Yin Yunze hesitated to possess the unsuspecting child and left the Spirit Descent ritual unfinished, though the threads remained connected.
• Yin Yunze told Zhao Wan to go home, then used the radar display to look in on Sun Qin.
• Yin Yunze cast Heal Wounds and Cure Illness on Sun Qin, quickly curing her fever and calming her delirium.
• Yin Yunze concluded that his new healing Law Technique could let him save people and increase his Incense of Faith.

Yin Yunze used his healing skill to revive Sun Qin and collected the gold she had gathered for him. When he realized Zhao Wan had left the village and vanished beyond his radar’s range, he resumed the interrupted Spirit Descent ritual to find her.

• Yin Yunze used Heal Wounds and Cure Illness a second time, and Sun Qin woke up.
• Sun Qin told Yin Yunze how she felt and gave him the 126 taels of gold collected from Clear Creek Village’s 63 households.
• Sun Qin realized Zhao Wan was missing, and Yin Yunze saw her believer dot moving beyond the village and off his radar map.
• Yin Yunze spotted the spiritual essence thread from the interrupted Spirit Descent ritual and resumed it without telling Sun Qin.

Yin Yunze used Spirit Descent to possess Zhao Wan while Zhao Cheng carried her away, then learned Zhao Cheng had tricked her into leaving the village. After spotting Spirit Medium Wang and her son waiting nearby, Yin Yunze held back his attack to learn whether more people were involved.

• Yin Yunze entered Zhao Wan’s body through Spirit Descent and struggled with the nausea caused by Zhao Cheng carrying her over his shoulder.
• Yin Yunze recognized Zhao Cheng and prepared to attack him with Fox Fire, but heard Zhao Wan speaking inside their shared body.
• Yin Yunze identified himself to Zhao Wan as Green Hill Yi Yun and learned Zhao Cheng had lured her away by claiming Sun Qin wanted her home.
• Yin Yunze prepared a stronger Fox Fire attack, then spotted Spirit Medium Wang and Wang Laizi and decided to listen before acting.
• Zhao Cheng complained that Spirit Medium Wang and her son had made him carry Zhao Wan a long way, and Spirit Medium Wang blamed their troubles on Sun Qin’s influence in the village.