More than a thousand years after the War Between the Liches, Cangwu, a descendant of Zhulong, the Ancestral Time Wizard, unexpectedly joins the Jie Sect and becomes a disciple of Wen Zhong, Grand Preceptor of the Great Shang. He fights to protect himself and defend the Great Shang. This is a whole new Investiture of the Gods, tender and nuanced. Di Xin is not bewitched by a fox demon, and Empress Jiang, Bi Gan, and Wen Zhong are spared their tragic, unjust deaths. This is the Primordial World as I imagined it.