The Marquis of the West's Helplessness: If Great Shang Was Doomed, Why Was Its Destiny Soaring?

West Qi.

Inside the city, at the Marquis of the West's Mansion.

Ji Chang gazed at the Chan Sect Immortal, who sat as still as a mountain.

"Is what you said really true?" he asked helplessly.

"Is my West Qi truly the land where the Human Lord will rise?"

"Of course. Why does the Marquis of the West have such doubts?"

Immortal Elder Nanji looked at him calmly. "The phoenix cried in West Qi, and the Heavenly Mandate descended. Zhou Rule will replace Shang. That is where the Heavenly Mandate lies. Why trouble yourself with worry, Marquis of the West?"

"If that is true, why hasn't... why hasn't Shang Zhou fallen? Why has his Fortune Aura grown stable instead?"

Ji Chang's expression darkened.

A great deal had happened over the past year or two!

It had begun when King Zhou convened an assembly of feudal lords and announced that he would reclaim their powers and impose centralized rule.

Voices of opposition had risen across the entire realm!!

Some tried to dissuade him, some fled, some rebelled, and some submitted...

The first to rebel was E Chongyu, the Marquis of the South and one of the four regional lords.

The Marquis of the South led an army of five hundred thousand against Shang Zhou.

But who would have thought Three Mountains Pass would hold him up for days? Then Chaoge sent some Grand Marshal of the Southern Campaign named Jiang Ziya, and the Southern Lords Alliance collapsed without a fight!!!

Who knew what sorcery that Jiang Ziya had used!

He had cursed a vast swath of the Southern Lords Alliance's lords to death. Afterward, Kong Xuan, a Disciple of the Sect of Interception, took command at Three Mountains Pass.

He slew Ying Zhao, the Demon Saint the Feudal Lords Alliance had