Tao Rong had a rare treasure hidden in his robes called the "Wind Gathering Banner." He flicked his wrist and drew it out, then shook it three times. In an instant, flying sand struck their faces, rocks whirled through the air, the sky darkened, and mist churned. At first, dust billowed; then bricks and tiles flew wildly, while shattered stones fell like rain.
The Xiqi soldiers had no warning. They were blown this way and that, abandoning flags and drums, their helmets askew and armor split, their ranks collapsing completely.
Jiang Ziya was carried back into the city and treated with an immortal elixir.
He recovered in less than the time it took to burn half an incense stick. After resting for a day or two, he regrouped and returned to the front to challenge Grand Tutor Wen once more.
This time, he was bursting with anger. From afar, he spotted Grand Tutor Wen and hurled the God-Beating Whip into the air. The whip was three feet, five inches, and six fen long, secretly corresponding to the measures of the cosmos. Its entire body had twenty-six sections, each engraved with four talismanic seals, eighty-four in total. It was specifically used to command the Eight Departments' True Gods; any god who saw it would immediately submit.
But it could not strike immortals, nor could it injure mortals.
Grand Tutor Wen knew nothing of the whip's origins. He still swiftly raised the Yin-Yang Twin Whips to meet it in midair, and the two treasures tangled and battled fiercely overhead.
Who could have expected that he was destined to become a Thunder Department True God listed on the Investiture of the Gods List? The moment the female whip touched the God-Beating Whip, it snapped with a crack and fell into the dust, completely