Chapter Summaries

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.

Yin Yunze confronted Judge Li over the eyes he had taken from her and killed him with the Three-Origin Mystic Lightning Array. She then destroyed the newly rebuilt City God Temple with explosives and escaped, while the City God learned that Judge Li had fallen and still underestimated Yin Yunze.

• Yin Yunze fought Judge Li and demanded the return of her eyes, which he had taken to complete his assignment.
• Judge Li offered Yin Yunze a favor, but she trapped him in the Three-Origin Mystic Lightning Array and demanded her skill and the eyes back.
• Judge Li returned Yin Yunze's eyes, and she struck him with Mystic Lightning, killing him.
• Yin Yunze had her mortal body drop explosives on the City God Temple ten times, destroying it again.
• The Lord of Du Mountain fled after the furious City God confronted her, and the City God learned that Judge Li's divine statue had collapsed.

Yin Yunze reviewed Guo Jing’s account of the City God’s crimes and ordered him to begin spreading the stories throughout Qingling County to pressure the City God. She also praised Xuan’er for persuading thirty percent of the local little demons to worship and serve her, while the remaining demons continued to resist or hide.

• Guo Jing recognized the Lord of Du Mountain in her white-winged tiger form and reassured Xuan’er that she was not an enemy of Yin Yunze.
• Guo Jing presented Yin Yunze with a rough first draft compiling fifty-seven accounts of the City God’s crimes, which he and former classmates had gathered.
• Yin Yunze sent the manuscript to the real world to be scanned and printed, then instructed Guo Jing to find speakers who could explain and spread the stories to every village in Qingling County within three days.
• Xuan’er told Yin Yunze that she and Rui’er had persuaded about thirty percent of the little demons to worship her, while the rest had begun avoiding the fox clan.
• Yin Yunze praised Xuan’er, explained that many demons remained unwilling to submit, and began considering what to do next.

Yin Yunze ordered Xuan'er and Rui'er to purge and recruit lesser demons in Qingling County, then tasked Guo Jing with spreading word of the City God's evil deeds. After gifting Guo Jing materials and a forging method, Yin Yunze healed Xuan'er's damaged eye with an Innate Holy Spirit eye and healing dew, leaving Xuan'er able to see something mysterious.

• Yin Yunze sent Xuan'er and Rui'er to eliminate flesh-eating demons in Qingling County, recruit those willing to submit, and finish within three days.
• Yin Yunze ordered Guo Jing to gather people to publicize the City God's evil deeds and gave her authority to command demons and wild gods in the county.
• Guo Jing accepted Yin Yunze's orders with fanatical devotion, while Yin Yunze realized she had gained complete control over the Pure Fox Robe.
• Yin Yunze forged a weapon blank from Judge Li's broken saber and materials, then gave Guo Jing the blank and a Bright Incense Artifact Refining Method.
• Yin Yunze replaced Xuan'er's pale eye with one of her own and healed her with sweet dew, restoring her body and clearing old injuries.
• Xuan'er regained sight in the new eye and told Yin Yunze she could see things through it that she could not explain.

Yin Yunze sent Guo Jing and Xuan'er to carry out their tasks, dealt with the Lord of Du Mountain’s advances, and helped her save face with her followers. He then ordered Sun Qin to stop distributing Fox Rice until the City God reversed his ban, setting the stage for public anger against the City God.

• Guo Jing and Xuan'er left the Dao Field, and Yin Yunze pulled the Lord of Du Mountain inside before she could confront them.
• The Lord of Du Mountain asked Yin Yunze for a child, but he refused and asked why she had not returned to her temple.
• The Lord of Du Mountain admitted she was ashamed to face her followers after losing, so Yin Yunze suggested she claim their fight had ended in a draw.
• The Lord of Du Mountain accepted the explanation and flew back to her temple to tell her followers.
• Yin Yunze ordered Sun Qin to tell the people and the county magistrate that the City God’s ban had forced him to stop supplying Fox Rice.

The Qingling County City God struggled against a mysterious clouding of his thoughts as resentment power gathered above his temple. After discovering that rumors had driven the temple workers away, he briefly regained clarity, ordered an investigation, and vowed to destroy whoever was targeting him.

• The City God noticed the resentment lake hanging just above his temple and repeatedly lost his train of thought while trying to divine what was wrong.
• The new Civil Judge reported that Qingnü had stopped distributing Fox Rice, and the City God praised her while recalling his former judges.
• The City God scolded the new judges for failing to report the workers’ growing refusal to rebuild his temple.
• The Martial Judge revealed that rumors about the City God had driven the workers away, prompting the City God to recognize that someone was attacking him.
• After three divinations returned the same auspicious result, the City God realized his spirit platform had been clouded and ordered the Day and Night Wandering Gods to find the rumor-spreader.
• The City God resolved to confront and kill the mastermind once they were found.