In the blink of an eye, time hurried on to the twenty-fifth year of King Zhou's reign...
When Wen Zhong, the Grand Tutor of Great Shang—the trusted minister Di Yi had entrusted King Zhou to before his death, and a senior statesman whom King Zhou had trusted, respected, and feared since childhood—could no longer bear to remain in Chaoge and watch those clowns from Xiqi carry on their antics and humiliate Great Shang's generals in the west, he resolutely raised an army of more than three hundred thousand, crossed the Yellow River to Mianchi, and marched against Xiqi!!
And so,
On the third day after Wen Zhong left Chaoge, the capital of Great Shang, King Zhou—feeling his body grow weaker with age, finding himself less capable of satisfying Daji, and unable to resist the temptation of immortality any longer—once again ordered Shen Gongbao, who had ties to the disciples of the sect on Cloudpeak at Cuiping Mountain, to use the miraculous Accio banner to take him, Daji, and two guards there. The five of them arrived at the increasingly prosperous sect headquarters of the Flame Immortal on the mountainside of Cloudpeak.
"..."
Watching the great glowing orb of the Lord God, placed in the middle of a celestial lake in the distance and surrounded by wondrous formations and several rows of Cloudpeak disciples in fitted uniforms, King Zhou secretly seethed. At the same time, he couldn't help letting out a faint sigh.
"Your Majesty, the buildings here are truly beautiful. The pavilions and towers in the Heavenly Court probably aren't any better, are they?"
Daji had heard many accounts of this place's wonders over the years, but this was her first time accompanying King Zhou to Cloudpeak at Cuiping Mountain. Seeing the thriving sect, which looked like a paradise fit