There are 365 righteous gods in the list of canonized gods. Jiang Ziya is responsible for canonizing the list, mainly the fallen soldiers and immortal cultivators of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The upper four parts are thunder, fire, pestilence, and fighting; the lower four parts are the gods of stars, mountains, rain and clouds, and gods of good and evil. At the top of the list, Baijian is the god of Qingfu, Wenzhong is in charge of the thunder department, Jinling Shengsheng is the leader of the fighting department, and Huang Feihu is the leader of the five mountains. The gods are in charge of celestial phenomena, misfortunes and blessings, punishments and rewards, and mountains and rivers. They form a complete system of heaven, corresponding to the degrees of the heavens. Each of them performs his own duties and checks and balances the three realms. Every righteous god in the book has his or her own legendary journey. For them, the human world is both a calamity and a practice...
