Within Jade Void Palace.
Yuanshi was divining Ji Chang's whereabouts when he suddenly demanded in a harsh voice.
He had discovered to his shock that Ji Chang had already led men straight into the royal palace—and not only him; three others had arrived alongside him!
Unwilling to let it rest, Yuanshi continued his divination. Moments later, the full course of events finally rose to the surface.
It all began with Empress Jiang, Jiang Huanchu's most beloved only daughter.
His cherished daughter had been brutally murdered, and Di Xin, bewitched by Demonic Evil, had committed one absurd atrocity after another.
Jiang Huanchu became convinced that this Son of Heaven had long since turned muddleheaded and tyrannical, and the thought of raising troops against the Shang Dynasty quietly took root in his heart.
But Di Xin was no fool. He had long sensed that something was amiss, and naturally sought to prepare for trouble before it came, strangling the root of disaster in its cradle.
Under one pretext after another, he forcibly summoned the four feudal lords who commanded heavy armies into the imperial palace in Chaoge. No matter how unwilling they were, they could not refuse: so long as they had not openly raised the banner of rebellion, they remained nominally subjects of the Shang Dynasty.
At the morning court, Jiang Huanchu finally could no longer restrain himself. He sternly demanded before the entire court, "Demonic miasma runs rampant within the palace and state affairs are collapsing, yet you still indulge yourself in pleasure? You watched my daughter endure torture after torture until she died alive—how could your heart bear it?"
He knew full well that his daughter had been tortured to death by the cruelest instrument of punishment of that time! Fury scorched his heart, and he wished he could