In Chaoge, Wen Zhong had finally returned from his eastern expedition. This campaign to pacify King Pingling of the East Sea had gone exceptionally well; within mere days, the East Sea rebellion was crushed by Wen Zhong.
However, upon hearing that the army of one hundred thousand Yin Shang troops led by the veteran general Luxiong had been completely frozen to death outside the walls of Xiqi City after Jiang Ziya used his Daoist magic to alter the heavens and earth, Wen Zhong flew into a rage.
"How dare that scoundrel Jiang Ziya resort to such methods! Relying on Daoist magic to slaughter one hundred thousand of our Yin Shang soldiers—it is an outrage against both gods and men, entirely intolerable under the laws of heaven!"
Chapter 87