The Pagoda-Bearer Doesn't Come from Heaven

Li Jing is reborn in Chentang Pass. When he opens his eyes again, he's still the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, still the father of three sons, and still the "Heavenly Court's chosen martial general" on the Investiture of the Gods. This time, he isn't leaving. He turns the thirteen passions of joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hatred, desire, birth, death, hearing, sight, speech, and smell into thirteen separate incarnations. Using the pagoda as his furnace and passion as fuel, he takes apart the threads of karma in the Investiture of the Gods and reconnects them, one by one, down to their very bones. Others cultivate immortality by severing their emotions to attain the Dao. He chooses passion as his Dao. Others bear pagodas to suppress demons and protect their children. He bears his pagoda, but refuses to follow Heaven