When Yaoji secretly descended to the mortal world and gave birth to her fourth son, Yang Zhao, **thirty thousand li of purple qi streamed in from the east**, drawing Taishang Laojun himself to come and take the boy as his disciple.
After ten years of cultivation in the Tusita Palace, Yang Zhao comprehended the secrets of heaven, only to glimpse a blood-soaked omen: the Heavenly Court’s hundred thousand soldiers would slaughter the Yang family!
Defying his master’s instruction and sacrificing his cultivation, he sent a warning through the earth’s ley lines:
**“Run!”**
In an instant, heaven and earth were thrown into chaos:
His eldest brother, Yang Jiao, was shot down into the sea and rescued by the mischievous child Nezha;
His younger sister, Yang Chan, found protection under Nuwa and took up the Lotus Lantern;
And his second brother, Yang Jian, insisted on saying goodbye to his mortal lover, A Xiu, before being shackled and dragged off to the Heavenly Prison…
**“Do nothing? I refuse to give up this one chance to survive!”**
On the battlefield of the Investiture of the Gods, he took the name Daoist Xuanguang and trapped a hundred thousand soldiers in the Eight Trigrams Formation;
Before the Judicial Divine Palace, he berated Yang Jian: “You’ve become the very person you hate most!”
At last, when Chenxiang cleaved Mount Hua with his axe and the Queen Mother brought out her Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife
Yang Zhao appeared atop the Taiji Diagram, his horsetail whisk summoning the divine thunder of the Violet Heavens:
> **“The Heavenly Dao is heartless? Then today, I’ll defy heaven with love!”**
This heaven-defying gambit, forged in the furnace of the Dao and fueled by the fire of blood ties, would ultimately blaze into a radiant new set of heavenly laws!
