Junior Uncle is too cunning.

As the saying goes, when you're down on your luck, even drinking water can cause problems. The Shang Dynasty court, which had just begun to recover, was targeted by Western Buddhism, which had long been eyeing the East. This led to the Nuwa Temple incident.

King Zhou had no choice but to remain holed up in the palace to avoid attracting the attention of the two Western Saints again.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Marquis Su Hu of Jizhou, for some unknown reason, actually rebelled. Although he was quickly suppressed by Wen Zhong and punished, due to internal reasons within the royal family and the court, he failed to make an example of Su Hu.

This fueled the already restless ambitions and audacity of the feudal lords. After all, there would be no consequences for rebelling; at most, they would lose their titles and some internal power. However, as long as they did not seize the entire feudal state, this gamble was entirely worthwhile.

King Zhou was certainly aware of the problems left behind by the Marquisate of Jizhou. However, his self-reproach and the Nuwa Temple incident made the already somewhat controversial royal family even more unstable. Although it wouldn't affect his own throne, he should indeed pay attention to the thoughts of his ancestors. After all, they had contributed a lot to the war against the barbarians over the years, and even many members of the royal family had died. More importantly, the Marquisate of Jizhou actually had Su Daji, who held the rank of Red Phoenix, and judging from her rank, she even had the qualifications to be promoted to Phoenix. In the end, King Zhou still chose to give way.

Even disregarding the wishes of the royal ancestors and the discussions of the court officials, King Zhou still chose to yield to Su Daji, who held the rank of Red Phoenix.

There are simply too few women who can be promoted to the Phoenix rank. For the entire Shang Dynasty court, they are extremely important figures, no less so than King Zhou, who possesses the True Dragon rank.

Take, for example, the current Empress Jiang, the current head of the harem in the Shang Dynasty, who is the mother of Yin Jiao and Yin Hong. Her rank is only that of a Qingluan. She was able to sit in the position of head of the harem thanks to the strong support of King Zhou and the fact that there were no other women in the harem.

Normally, having the Azure Phoenix rank as Empress is already quite good. After all, since the founding of the Great Shang Dynasty, the number of concubines with the Phoenix rank can be counted on one hand. The majority of the remaining concubines are Azure Phoenixes, Red Phoenixes, and other concubines with Phoenix bloodline branches.

However, the current Shang Dynasty imperial court is different from the previous emperors. As the human emperor and the master of the Shang Dynasty imperial court, King Zhou, although only a mortal with the cultivation level of a mortal, possesses the golden dragon of human fortune. How could he not sense the undercurrents surging beneath the calm surface of the Southern Continent?

Moreover, even if he was slow to react, he still realized the matter of the Nuwa Temple. The matter of the Great Shang Dynasty in the Southern Continent was no longer just a conflict between the vassal states and the Great Shang Dynasty, but had already involved several sages and the sects behind them.

The Shang Dynasty's imperial court and the vassal states were merely pawns in their game. Although King Zhou, as the human emperor, deeply resented and even hated the feeling of treating billions of people as pawns, it pained him greatly.

But he could only watch helplessly. After all, although he was the Human Emperor, he could not stop the ambitions of those feudal lords. They cooperated with the Sage for their ambitions, so he could only watch helplessly. After all, this was just an internal matter of the human race. Even if he wanted to deal with the feudal states, he had to deal with the internal affairs of the Great Shang Imperial Court first and unite them as one.

Otherwise, even if the Great Shang Imperial Court could easily defeat any of the feudal lords, how could it possibly win against all the feudal lords in the world if it itself was not stable?

Therefore, he could only secretly accumulate strength in order to find the best opportunity, and Chen Fusheng's sabotage of the Western Buddhism's plot against Su Daji, who possessed the Red Phoenix rank among the human race, became a perfect reason.

Although he was initially furious when he heard this, even disregarding the fact that Su Daji was the woman he had already chosen, she was undoubtedly a great asset to him and the current Shang Dynasty.

King Zhou originally planned that as soon as Su Daji entered the palace, he would use the greatest power of the royal family to cultivate her, preferably to elevate her Red Phoenix rank to the Phoenix rank. With this, combined with his True Dragon rank, the Shang Dynasty royal court would not dare to say that it could take on a sage, but the combination of True Dragon and Phoenix could definitely ensure that the Shang Dynasty royal court and the human race could overcome this crisis. It was even possible that they could directly transform from pawns into players.

Although he had considered that the Western Buddhist Association might take action against Su Daji, after all, the two Western Saints dared to plot against even him, the Human Emperor, let alone Su Daji, who was only a Phoenix.

He hadn't expected that the Buddhist side would take drastic measures so soon after he learned of it. If it weren't for a mysterious person disrupting their plans, Su Daji would have truly become a pawn in their hands against him.

However, King Zhou immediately saw this as a good opportunity to deal with Western Buddhism. It should be noted that those who possess the status of a true dragon or phoenix can be said to be people protected by the fortune of the human race, and are born to be favored by the fortune of the human race more than others.

They all carry the immense fortune of humanity behind them. Such people are often those who have a special mission for humanity. Western Buddhism's attack on Su Daji is equivalent to destroying the human race's fortune.

It should be understood that whether it is the Three Pure Ones, the Goddess Nuwa, or the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of the Fire Cloud Cave, they all enjoy the fortune of the human race. For people of their cultivation level, ordinary natural treasures and spiritual objects are of no help to them.

In the entire primordial world, only sects and disciples whose fates are closely intertwined with their own can attract their attention.

After all, even saints need to cultivate. If they want to advance quickly, they can only absorb chaotic energy. However, the chaotic energy within the chaos is too turbulent. Even saints dare not directly absorb it for cultivation. They can only honestly transform it into gentle chaotic energy in order to absorb it and advance further.

However, once one reaches the level of Quasi-Saint and Saint, each advancement requires a large amount of chaotic energy and insights into the Great Dao, and fortune is an excellent accelerator and tool for gaining insights into the Great Dao.

There are countless races in the primordial world, but only a few races are blessed with great fortune. In the past, there were the demon race and the dragon race, but after the East Sea War and the Human-Demon War, the dragon and demon races gradually withdrew from the world stage, while the human race, which was already the number one in the Three Realms, directly established its dominant position.

If the fortune of all races in the primordial world were divided into ten parts, the human race would have at least seven parts or even more, while other races would have had less than three parts.

This is also why the human race can support the Three Pure Ones, the Goddess Nuwa, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of Huoyun Cave, and numerous ancestors at the level of Great Luo Golden Immortals and Golden Immortals.

Now, the two Western Saints want to enter and divide up a portion of the human race's fortune. Faced with the already established distribution of fortune, they can only choose to establish a separate sect, break the old system, and re-establish the imperial court. Only in this way can they use the power of the dragon to divide up the human race's fortune.

King Zhou took advantage of the irreconcilable conflict between the sages and chose to confront Western Buddhism head-on. After all, even if the Shang Dynasty's imperial court did nothing, according to the wishes of Western Buddhism, it would certainly overthrow the Shang Dynasty's rule.

The Three Pure Ones, Goddess Nuwa, and the Fire Cloud Cave would certainly not be happy to add the two Western Saints to the already crowded pool of dividers. Now that King Zhou has the courage to confront Western Buddhism, they are also very happy to cause some trouble for Western Buddhism and make them give up the idea of ​​invading the East or the human race.

King Zhou, using their reputation as a shield, planned to reshuffle the entire imperial territory of the Southern Continent. Meanwhile, Wei Zi Qi, leveraging the prestige of the Five Emperors, had already begun to reorganize the imperial family.

Afterwards, King Zhou planned to turn the sword of execution against the feudal lords once the royal family had finished its work, thus eliminating the feudal lords, the biggest bloodsuckers clinging to the Shang Dynasty's royal court.

Unexpectedly, the seemingly unremarkable Jiang Ziya saw through his plans with just three words in less than a day. This political foresight and wisdom was probably something that even Shang Rong, Bi Gan, Wen Zhong and others had not anticipated.