Chapter Summaries

Yin Yunze defeated Grandfather Huang Three when the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag summoned heavenly lightning that killed the Land God. After the battle, Yin Yunze claimed Grandfather Huang Three’s Land God Divinity and learned how rare it was for a Divinity to survive its god’s death.

• Grandfather Huang Three sensed imminent danger as a black cloud formed overhead, but purple lightning from his chest paralyzed him before he could escape.
• A bolt of black heavenly lightning struck Grandfather Huang Three dead, and Yin Yunze collapsed in relief as Zhao Wan praised him.
• Yin Yunze burned Grandfather Huang Three’s corpse to dust with a Fire Character Talisman, revealing the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag, the dragon-headed cane, and the Land God Divinity of Upper Creek Village.
• Yin Yunze cautiously grasped the Divinity, which entered his body and briefly flooded his mind with Grandfather Huang Three’s memories.
• Yin Yunze learned that a Land God’s Divinity normally dissipated upon death and that obtaining one through other means was difficult, leaving him less concerned about being hunted for his own Divinity.

Yin Yunze learned the truth behind Grandfather Huang Three’s plan to transfer the Upper Creek Village Land God Divinity and discovered how greed turned a request for help into a scheme against him and Zhao Wan. The chapter ended with Yin Yunze learning that Grandfather Three Temple and its golden statue could form a Dao Field under an Incense God’s control.

• Yin Yunze concluded that local terrain and Earth Vein Power made him difficult for equal-ranked gods to challenge, while stronger gods had little reason to target him.
• Yin Yunze learned that Grandfather Huang Three had prepared the Upper Creek Village Land God Divinity for a second life, intending to inhabit a vessel and destroy his corrupted original body.
• Grandfather Huang Three split off part of his rational mind, but it was too weak to control his increasingly mad original body, which required blood sacrifices to keep pacified.
• Grandfather Huang Three initially sought Yin Yunze’s help to weaken his original body, but he changed his plan after discovering Zhao Wan’s extraordinary affinity for Incense Gods.
• Grandfather Huang Three grew greedy and planned to take Zhao Wan as his vessel, consume Fox Immortal, and kill Yin Yunze, relying on Yin Yunze entering Grandfather Three Temple.
• Yin Yunze learned that an Incense God could use the temple and golden statue to create a protected domain called a Dao Field.

Yin Yunze reviewed how Grandfather Huang Three’s scheme had failed, inherited Upper Creek Village’s Land God Divinity, and examined the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag. He left with a stronger divine territory and a powerful but unrefined weapon, whose cultivator’s imprint had been erased in the battle.

• Yin Yunze pieced together Grandfather Huang Three’s plan and realized the god had not plotted Upper Creek Village’s attack on Clear Creek Village.
• Yin Yunze inherited Upper Creek Village’s Land God Divinity and sensed its Earth Vein Power and spiritual energy exceeded Clear Creek Village’s.
• Yin Yunze used the new divinity to travel underground around Upper Creek Village and returned to the four-walled prison without lowering its walls.
• Yin Yunze considered eventually claiming Lower Creek Village’s divinity and uniting the three villages under his authority.
• Yin Yunze discovered that the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag’s refinement progress had reset, but the cultivator’s Divine Sense imprint had been erased.
• Yin Yunze concluded that Grandfather Huang Three’s final lightning strike had blocked a bolt triggered as the cultivator’s imprint was being erased.

After defeating Grandfather Huang Three, Yin Yunze collected his ashes and claimed his remaining treasures, including the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag and Soul-Shaking Staff. He learned how the lightning flag worked and realized how formidable Grandfather Huang Three had been, while his uneasy suspicion about the flag’s history remained unresolved.

• Yin Yunze sensed that Grandfather Huang Three’s ashes held concentrated evil-breaking power, gathered them, and sent them to the real world.
• Yin Yunze used Grandfather Huang Three’s Incense Offering Artifact Refining Method to refine the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag and make it his own.
• Yin Yunze learned that the flag released increasingly powerful water-attribute lightning, with its strongest attack particularly effective against Drought Demons like Prince Jing.
• Yin Yunze judged that using the flag would consume too much energy and sent it to the real world without testing its lightning.
• Yin Yunze identified Grandfather Huang Three’s dragon-headed cane as the Soul-Shaking Staff and learned about its soul-shaking strikes and curses.
• Yin Yunze recognized that Grandfather Huang Three’s strength and accumulated resources had far exceeded his earlier estimate, though they now belonged to him.

Yin Yunze refined the Soul-Shaking Staff, claimed Grandfather Huang Three’s hidden fortune, and staged a display for the people of Upper Creek Village. After they watched the white nine-tailed fox defeat Grandfather Huang Three and transform into a fox-eared beauty, the villagers were left dumbstruck.

• Yin Yunze refined the Soul-Shaking Staff into his Law Artifact and decided he could later upgrade Wang Guisheng’s Snake Bone Whip for his subordinates.
• Yin Yunze uncovered Grandfather Huang Three’s hoard of gold, silver, and valuables beneath the Grandfather Three Temple and transferred it to the real world.
• Yin Yunze made the earthen walls tremble, causing the watching Upper Creek villagers to flee before he sank the walls underground.
• The villagers saw the nine-tailed white fox pin Grandfather Huang Three, strike him with Mystic lightning, and burn away his corpse with Fox Fire.
• The nine-tailed white fox shrank and transformed into a fox-eared beauty with nine white tails, leaving the villagers speechless.

Yin Yunze confronted Liu Zhu, chief of Upper Creek Village, after killing its Land God, Grandfather Huang Three, and tried to win the villagers’ faith. Liu Zhu appeared to support him while steering suspicion and loyalty toward herself, and Yin Yunze challenged her account of the planned attack on Clear Creek Village.

• Liu Zhu introduced herself as Upper Creek Village’s chief, and Yin Yunze announced that he had slain Grandfather Huang Three and demanded that the villagers worship him.
• When a villager questioned the demand, Yin Yunze threatened that unbelievers would die, but Liu Zhu reassured the crowd and caused some believers’ faith to falter.
• Yin Yunze questioned Liu Zhu about turning away his earlier messenger and about Upper Creek Village’s plan to join Lower Creek Village in attacking Clear Creek Village.
• Liu Zhu admitted the plan but blamed Grandfather Huang Three, then urged the villagers to worship Yin Yunze; their renewed faith left Yin Yunze suspecting they trusted Liu Zhu more than him.
• Liu Zhu denied intending to attack Clear Creek Village and blamed the dead Huang Three, but Yin Yunze recognized inconsistencies in her account.

Yin Yunze realized Liu Zhu had orchestrated the conflict with Grandfather Huang Three to manipulate him and nearly cost Zhao Wan her life. He killed Liu Zhu with the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag, then demanded the villagers’ belief as new believers began to appear.

• Yin Yunze pieced together how Liu Zhu had used Qi Siyuan, Qi Rongrong, and the attack on Clear Creek Village to draw him into a fight with Grandfather Huang Three.
• Yin Yunze blamed Liu Zhu for withholding crucial information that had left Zhao Wan nearly dead, and dismissed her offer of twenty taels of gold.
• Liu Zhu mistook Yin Yunze’s apparent forgiveness for mercy, but he struck her with blue lightning from the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag and killed her.
• Yin Yunze declared that those who used honeyed words and pleasing looks, and those who did not believe in him, would die.
• After Liu Zhu’s death, the crowd stayed silent, and clusters of lights representing new believers appeared.

Yin Yunze returned from Upper Creek Village after turning many residents into followers and encountered Song Ran transporting eight girls. When Song Ran warned him about the village’s dangerous old yellow weasel and Liu Zhu, Yin Yunze revealed he had already burned the weasel and cut down a bamboo stalk.

• Yin Yunze used Earth Escape to reach a deserted spot, made spiritual characters for Upper Creek Village, and found that nearly four hundred of its six hundred residents had become his followers.
• Yin Yunze left Upper Creek Village on foot and met Song Ran driving two ox carts carrying eight girls.
• Song Ran recognized Yin Yunze’s Spirit Descent in Zhao Wan’s body, and Yin Yunze signaled him to keep his identity secret from the girls.
• Song Ran explained that Constable Peng had delayed the journey by insisting they select girls with good foundations, and Yin Yunze noticed one proud, well-dressed girl among them.
• Song Ran warned Yin Yunze that an old yellow weasel who had attained the Dao and the formidable Liu Zhu lived in Upper Creek Village.
• Yin Yunze told Song Ran he had gone there to burn the yellow-furred old rat and cut down a crooked bamboo stalk.

Yin Yunze arranged for Song Ran to help manage Upper Creek Village and dealt with Zhang Yufei, a martial artist who challenged his authority. After he manifested Green Hill Yi Yun, Zhang Yufei and the other girls bowed to the fox immortal, and Yin Yunze recognized them as new believers.

• Yin Yunze told Song Ran that Upper Creek Village had been left without leaders and asked him to work out a management plan with Sun Qin.
• Song Ran ordered the girls to move between the carts, but Zhang Yufei objected and walked beside Yin Yunze instead.
• Zhang Yufei reached for Yin Yunze, caught his wrist, and resisted his attempt to break free with the Power of Incense Offerings.
• Song Ran revealed that Zhang Yufei was Constable Peng Shulan's junior sister, so Yin Yunze chose not to punish her.
• Yin Yunze manifested Green Hill Yi Yun, prompting the seven girls to kneel and thank the fox immortal; Zhang Yufei then knelt and paid her respects.

Yin Yunze accepted Zhang Yufei as a devout believer and put her under Zhao Wan’s authority, then discovered that she was a skilled martial artist. The group set off for the village after Zhang Yufei damaged Song Ran’s cart while showing off her abilities.

• Zhang Yufei’s faith in Green Hill Yi Yun made Yin Yunze appoint her as a follower under Zhao Wan and warn the girls not to turn against one another.
• Zhang Yufei apologized to Zhao Wan, asked how she had earned the right to speak with Yi Yun, and offered to carry her back to the village.
• Zhang Yufei revealed that she knew Flowing Smoke Steps and leaped high into the air before landing lightly.
• Zhang Yufei demonstrated Net Cloud Palm by shattering the ox cart’s railing, prompting Song Ran to scold her for damaging it.
• Zhang Yufei offered to demonstrate her Returning Wind Saber Technique, but Yin Yunze climbed onto the cart and Song Ran resumed driving toward the village.

Zhang Yufei explained that she wanted to meet Lady Yi Yun to repay her for helping Peng Shulan free her from an exploitative master. Yin Yunze learned that Zhang Yufei was a capable young martial artist and considered recruiting her as a combat deputy.

• Zhang Yufei told Yin Yunze that her master had raised and trained her after buying her as a child, but later tried to make her a concubine.
• Yin Yunze criticized Zhang Yufei for remaining loyal to her abusive master, while recognizing that her gratitude made her difficult to persuade.
• Zhang Yufei explained that Peng Shulan had traded a treasure bestowed by Lady Yi Yun for her freedom, and she wanted to thank the goddess.
• Yin Yunze realized that Peng Shulan had used the two beauty paintings he had given him to secure Zhang Yufei's release.
• Zhang Yufei said she could last ten moves against Peng Shulan and at least fifty against other third-rate experts, prompting Yin Yunze to consider her for a combat role.

Yin Yunze welcomed the newly recruited shrine maidens, gave them names and supplies, and used Earth Vein Power to build two residences. He organized an armed force to take control of Upper Creek Village the next day and planned to buy armored vehicles in the real world.

• Yin Yunze met the new shrine maidens, gave the seven unnamed girls Hu surnames and color names, and handed out colored bangles to them, Qi Rongrong, and Zhang Yufei.
• Yin Yunze used Earth Vein Power to raise two three-story buildings and assigned Sun Qin and Wan'er to oversee the new residences.
• Yin Yunze hosted a welcome feast, then provided the shrine maidens with clothes and other supplies.
• Yin Yunze gave Song Ran, Qi Siyuan, and Sun Qin orders to select two hundred men, arm them, and take control of Upper Creek Village the next day.
• Yin Yunze assigned Zhang Yufei to protect Sun Qin and gave her a blade, which she praised as superior to the weapons in her master's collection.
• Yin Yunze considered the work ahead and planned a real-world trip to buy armored vehicles.

Two starving brothers arrived in Clear Creek Village and were fed and offered free Fox Rice in Lady Fox Immortal’s name, while Xu Hanxian came to apologize to Yin Yunze and grant the fox immortal official recognition. During the temple ceremony, the crowd mistook Yin Yunze for Azure Heavens Jade Maiden and chanted that name, leaving him furious that someone seemed to be taking over his ceremony.

• Two starving brothers reached Clear Creek Village, ate free steamed buns, and learned they could receive twenty jin of Fox Rice by worshipping Lady Fox Immortal.
• Xu Hanxian arrived with Zuo Xiaoyu, Xu Yue, and Peng Shulan to apologize to Yin Yunze and offer recovered gold and official recognition under the title “World-Saving Immortal Fox.”
• A temple appeared at the ceremony, and snow fell over the drought-stricken village as Yin Yunze manifested as a white-haired, nine-tailed beauty.
• Xu Hanxian identified the figure as Azure Heavens Jade Maiden, and the crowd spread the claim that Lady Fox Immortal was the frost-and-snow deity.
• When Yin Yunze tried to lead the crowd in calling out Green Hill Yi Yun, they instead shouted “Azure Heavens Jade Maiden,” prompting his anger and confusion.

Yin Yunze was pulled into the statue of Green Hill Yi Yun and became a real fox-eared, nine-tailed divine body through the believers’ faith. His three Land God Divinities fused into one, expanding his territory across the Clear Creek basin, and he discovered that one tail gave him power over frost and snow.

• Yin Yunze realized the believers’ calls to Azure Heavens Jade Maiden still directed their Incense of Faith to Green Hill Yi Yun, so he decided the unfamiliar title had not harmed him.
• A tremendous force pulled Yin Yunze into the Green Hill Yi Yun statue, where he gained a living body resembling the statue’s white-haired, green-eyed fox deity.
• Yin Yunze confirmed his new body was real and understood that the believers’ wishes had turned his fabricated identity into an actual existence.
• The three Land God Divinities entered Yin Yunze’s divine body, fused into one, and expanded his domain across the Clear Creek basin, greatly increasing his Earth Vein Power.
• Yin Yunze found that one of his nine tails controlled frost and snow, then stopped his attempt to gather the snowfall after it created a powerful gale that nearly knocked over the spectators.

Yin Yunze discovered that his temple ceremony had unexpectedly helped him condense the divine office of God of Frost and Snow, granting him powerful ice abilities and the ability to fly. He decided to keep the authority despite the risk of offending the Azure Heavens Jade Maiden, then wondered whether his other eight tails could gain divine offices too.

• Yin Yunze tested his new Authority over Frost and Snow by creating ice, forming a sword, and lifting himself into the air.
• Yin Yunze realized he had become both the Land God of the Clear Creek basin and a Divine Office God whose power depended on followers and their Incense of Faith.
• Yin Yunze suspected the Azure Heavens Jade Maiden had granted or inspired his new authority, and considered the karmic risk of letting people mistake him for her.
• Yin Yunze chose to keep the divine office and authority, reasoning that its combat power and flight were worth the risk.
• Yin Yunze examined his eight dimmer tails and wondered whether they could each condense another divine office and authority.

Yin Yunze completed the temple-establishment ceremony, and his new temple bonded with the local Earth Vein Power and began gathering incense offerings. After discovering the temple’s protections and Dao Field, he saw Xu Hanxian and his family among the visitors and prepared to receive them.

• Yin Yunze flew above the crowd and ordered the shrine maidens to carry Green Hill Yi Yun’s statue into the temple, easing its weight with wind and snow.
• Zhang Yufei kept the shrine maidens in order as they set the statue on the altar, completing the ceremony.
• Yin Yunze saw the temple join with the area’s Earth Vein Power, gain incense-offering protection, and become covered by a layer of purple-gold light; the abandoned old temple collapsed.
• Yin Yunze returned to the statue and recognized Xu Hanxian and three other acquaintances among the visitors.
• Yin Yunze activated the temple’s Dao Field and learned that it served as a private resting place for gods and their attendants as well as a means of confronting enemies.

Yin Yunze explored his newly acquired Dao Field and nine-tailed fox form, then brought four visitors inside to meet him. He learned Xu Hanxian had spread the belief that he was Lady Qingnü, the Azure Heavens Jade Maiden, a claim that had helped his growing divine reputation.

• Yin Yunze revealed his nine-tailed white fox form in the empty Dao Field and struggled to move on four legs.
• Yin Yunze adjusted the Dao Field’s transparency, observed worshippers in the temple, and pulled Xu Yue, Zuo Xiaoyu, Peng Shulan, and Xu Hanxian inside.
• Xu Yue rushed over to cuddle Yin Yunze and played with his tail until Zuo Xiaoyu pulled her away.
• Yin Yunze greeted Zuo Xiaoyu and sarcastically challenged Xu Hanxian, who came to apologize for previously neglecting him.
• Xu Hanxian called Yin Yunze Lady Qingnü and explained that he believed Yin Yunze was the Azure Heavens Jade Maiden because of his snow powers and white-haired appearance.
• Yin Yunze realized Xu Hanxian had been telling people he was the Azure Heavens Jade Maiden and considered how that belief had supported his growing worship.

Yin Yunze accepted Xu Hanxian’s offer of official recognition under the divine name Qingnü, hoping the ceremony would strengthen his frost-and-snow godhood. After discovering that the Great Gate of Incense had closed without sending him back to reality, he left arrangements for the ceremony to his shrine maiden.

• Xu Hanxian apologized for letting Yin Yunze’s identity slip, and Xu Yue explained that he had done so twice.
• Xu Hanxian offered Yin Yunze official recognition, and Yin Yunze chose the name Qingnü rather than Azure Heavens Jade Maiden.
• Yin Yunze discovered the Great Gate of Incense was closed and trapping him in this world while continuing to consume a third of his Power of Incense Offerings.
• Yin Yunze asked Xu Hanxian to hold the recognition ceremony that afternoon and summoned his shrine maiden to discuss the arrangements.
• Yin Yunze authorized his shrine maiden to represent him in all matters, including money and provisions, and Xu Hanxian smiled.

After accepting Xu Hanxian’s gold and gifts, Yin Yunze discovered four new skills and studied the tiers of her Divination ability. She used her first reading to ask about borrowing the Azure Heavens Jade Maiden’s name, then tried to divine whether the Drought Demon in the Tomb of Prince Jing would emerge, but missed the coin as it fell.

• Xu Hanxian gave Yin Yunze two thousand taels of gold for relief efforts, and she accepted his offer of friendship and family ties.
• Yin Yunze gave Xu Hanxian a gift, then sent him, Zuo Xiaoyu, and Sun Qin out of the Dao Field after arranging for Sun Qin to handle the official consecration.
• Yin Yunze discovered the skills Divination, Grant Wishes, Forge Oaths, and Avatar, and learned the costs and limits of Divination’s three tiers.
• Yin Yunze used Casting Stones to Ask the Way to divine the consequences of borrowing the Azure Heavens Jade Maiden’s name and received a result of fortune.
• Yin Yunze tried to divine whether the Drought Demon in the Tomb of Prince Jing would emerge, but missed the falling copper coin, which landed on the ground.

Yin Yunze tested the limits of divination and examined four newly unlocked divine skills, learning how they could aid and bind his believers. After deciding the Tomb of Prince Jing posed no danger for six months, he began experimenting with sealing frost abilities into the characters he created.

• Yin Yunze failed to divine answers about Prince Jing's corpse and the drought, then indirectly learned that Peng Shulan would be safe on Emerald Forest Mountain for half a year.
• Yin Yunze failed to divine whether being trapped in this world was good or bad and set a personal limit for failed divinations.
• Yin Yunze studied Grant Wishes and Forge Oaths, which could improve believers' chances and enforce contracts or oaths.
• Yin Yunze examined Avatar and learned he could sense distant believers and appear before them, while Spirit Descent could now be used on the ten shrine maidens with their consent.
• Yin Yunze remembered to make the day's characters and began sealing ice-based abilities into them with his Authority over Frost and Snow.