Time flew by, and Di Yi's reign was nearing its end. Calamity Qi surged turbulently.
The Great Shang had also reached the time to choose its next heir, ever since Shang Tang overthrew Great Xia.
Including Di Yi's generation, the Great Shang had inherited the throne for sixteen generations and gone through twenty-nine Human Emperors.
Aside from the first few generations, when younger brothers sometimes succeeded their elder brothers, the subsequent generations had all followed the tradition of father succeeding father.
If nothing unexpected happened, the Great Shang's thirtieth ruler would emerge from among Di Yi's descendants.
Di Yi had only three sons: his eldest, Wei Zi Qi; his second, Wei Zi Yan; and his third, Zi Shou.
Wei Zi Qi and Wei Zi Yan were born of the same mother, but both were of concubine birth and had not been born to the Empress.
Only his third son, Zi Shou, possessed the Empress's bloodline and was the legitimate heir. Moreover, his innate origin was extraordinarily powerful, and he possessed boundless strength.
During a change in the celestial phenomena, when Calamity Qi surged violently, the Great Shang's Fortune was thrown into turmoil. The disturbance accidentally spread to the Nine-Chamber Hall, the Great Shang's central hall for state affairs, activating its formation inscriptions.
It nearly killed Di Yi and the ministers participating in the court assembly at the time. Before Di Yi could mobilize the power of the Human Emperor to save them,
Zi Shou displayed tremendous might. Using his own imperial majesty, he successfully suppressed the rampaging Nine-Chamber Hall, preserving the Great Shang's dignity.
Not only did he allow the ministers to witness the bearing of the Third Prince, but he also made them owe him a small favor.
Seeing that Zi Shou possessed such power at such a young