The Sequel to Investiture of the Gods: Yang Jian

The blood at the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation had yet to dry, and the 365 gods named on the Investiture of the Gods had each taken their appointed places. Thirty years later, an urgent report arrived at Guanjiangkou: the spirit of the Golden-Spirit Holy Mother, titled the Dipper Mother of the Kan Palace, had vanished without a trace. Who stole her soul? To steal a god from a treasure personally refined by the Heavenly Worthy of Primordial Beginning, there could only be three explanations: the Western Church's guiding hand, the embers of revenge among the remnants of the Jie Sect, or the hand of someone within the Chan Sect itself. Yang Jian was ordered to investigate, and the deeper he dug, the colder he grew: more than half of the Chan Sect's Twelve Golden Immortals had fallen, and bureaucrats had seized power in the Jade Void Palace. The Celestial Court was using the Investiture to consolidate its authority, steadily shifting the fortunes of the Three Sects into the Hall of the Golden Chariot. The Eastern Daoist tradition was being hollowed out inch by inch. He was carrying out the Chan Sect's orders, yet investigating its grave.