Jiang Ziya was once an unfulfilled cultivator at the foot of Mount Kunlun. Chosen by the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning to wield the Investiture of the Gods, he was charged with guiding the Zhou dynasty in its campaign against King Zhou and conferring titles upon the gods. But as the war progressed, he gradually uncovered a shocking conspiracy hidden behind the so-called "Mandate of Heaven": the Investiture War was actually a scheme devised by the Sages, who used the blood of countless fallen gods to reinforce an ancient seal and suppress a primordial beast on the verge of awakening. Faced with the silence of Lady Nuwa, the madness of King Zhou, and the sacrifices made by the Chan and Jie sects, Jiang Ziya struggles painfully between the common people and the truth. In the end, he must choose: fulfill his mission and leave Earth without gods and drained of spiritual energy, or defy fate, expose the Sages' hypocritical masks, and seek a third way to save the world.
