On the illusory plane, deities and immortals dwelled in the heavens, playing their game like unseen hands behind the curtain. They guided the course of All Under Heaven, bestowed their mandate upon Zhou, and raised armies to overturn the realm!
In reality, the Shang Dynasty suffered nine generations of turmoil over succession; its fraught diplomacy shattered its alliance with the Dongyi; and disputes over sacrifices and interests set it against nobles within and lords without. Rebellions erupted on every side, and Zhou in the west seized the chance to march east and take its place!
But the illusory plane changed again. Someone was plotting to Establish a Path. Seizing the moment when the Shang Dynasty was beset within and without and turmoil gripped every quarter, he rallied immortals and gods, gathered the thoughts of the people to seek the Path, and aimed to claim the station of master of the Heavenly Dao in one stroke!
All these scenes reflected one another and shifted without cease, alternating and overlapping between the real and illusory planes. Neither could wholly suppress the other.
"This is..."
Sensing the change, Chen Cuo stirred his thoughts. His Divine Sense surged and the Jade Belt trembled as he tried to force his way through. But when the belt pierced into it, it seemed to sink into a mire. Its progress grew ever slower and harder as it shifted back and forth between the real and the illusory!
Whether Heroic Spirits from history or demons, immortals, and gods from Myth, their deeds fell as fragments of scenes into the Jade Belt, where each unfolded its own Rise and Fall. Yet in the blink of an eye, events from the late Shang Dynasty and early Zhou changed again and again, giving rise to countless contradictions—
The same event