Supreme Wisdom: The Legend of Jiang Ziya

Name: Supreme Wisdom: The Legend of Jiang Ziya
Author: Ping Yi

智慧无上：姜子牙传奇

by Ping Yi (平义)

Status: Completed
Length: 113k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: Eastern Cultivation
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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At the end of the Shang Dynasty, amid a world in chaos, the white-haired recluse Jiang Ziya fishes with a straight hook in the Wei River, waiting for a chance to defy fate and change his destiny. King Wen of Zhou dreams of a flying bear and makes three visits to seek out a worthy man, setting in motion a deadly game between mortals and gods. Questioned at court, targeted by Shang assassins, and caught in the schemes of a nine-tailed fox who stirs up alliances among the feudal lords, Jiang Ziya wields The Six Secret Teachings as his blade and breaks through nine deadly trials. But at the decisive Battle of Muye, he is punished by Heaven: the Investiture of the Gods List conceals a curse that traps its subjects forever in their divine posts. To protect his disciples’ souls, he stakes his lifespan on a bargain with a mountain god and uses heavenly lightning to destroy the nine-tailed fox’s true form, finally ending the tyranny of King Zhou of Shang with a mortal body. In his twilight years, he passes his straight hook to a young boy: “The bait lies in the hearts of all living beings.” A thousand years later, the Wei River still flows, and the wisdom that once fished the world without bait continues to ring out amid the smoke and flames of troubled times.

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