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In the "Fengshen Yanyi", King Wen of Zhou is a very important character.
The Battle of the Fengshen Gods depicts the replacement of the Shang Zhou Dynasty on earth, and as the founder of the Zhou Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou made great contributions.
There were eight hundred princes in the Shang Dynasty, and Ji Chang, the King of Zhou Wen, was the Marquis of Xibo, who commanded the two hundred small princes in the west and was the leader of the western princes of the Shang Dynasty. His widespread administration of benevolence made Xiqi prosperous, and he himself became the head of the four princes.
It was precisely because Ji Chang's prestige was so prosperous that the King of Shang would imprison Ji Chang in Chaoge. Later, he killed Ji Chang's eldest son, Bo Yikao. With the help of Sanyisheng, Ji Chang was able to return to Xiqi. Sensing the danger, Ji Chang exerted great efforts to cure it, and visited Jiang Ziya, a disciple of the Great Sage, who was a disciple of Yuan Shi Tianzun in Weishui.
With the assistance of Jiang Ziya, Xiqi changed with each passing day and became the most likely powerful force to overthrow the Shang Dynasty.
After the fall of the Shang Dynasty, Jiang Ziya held a ceremony to canonize the gods in Xiqi, but most of the human civil servants and warriors and disciples of various generations of Taoists who fell in the Shang-Zhou War were crowned as gods. Like the Shang Dynasty's Tianzi King, The Great Duke of Xiqi, Boyikao, were all named gods, and it is strange that Ji Chang, who was the King of Wen, was not even crowned as a god, why was this?
Could it be that Yuan Shi Tianzun would also make a mistake? Did Jiang Ziya miss sealing King Wen Jichang?
In the original book, the Twelve Golden Immortals once talked about three kinds of people in the world.
The first kind of person, who is at ease, cultivates the Supreme Dao, is not subject to the control of the Heavenly Court, and achieves the Supreme Immortal Dao, such as the saints, the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Jade Void Palace.
The second type of person, who has extraordinary roots and has achieved success in cultivation, still commits the precepts of greed and delusion, and cannot achieve the Supreme Immortal Path. Therefore, he could only experience the great war of conferring gods, and after his death, he could seal the gods and obtain eternal life with the help of Shinto. For example, many immortals, some disciples of the third generation of the Teachings, and famous literary and military generals of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, most of them belong to this category.
The third kind of people, these people have inferior root organs and have no success in cultivation. Reduced to cannon fodder in the Great War of The Gods, he has no hope of becoming a god, and can only turn into the ghost path and reincarnate. The vast number of ordinary soldiers in the Shang Dynasty War belonged to this list.
According to this standard, King Wen of Zhou fell during the Great War of Conferring Gods, and he himself was the leader of the human forces, and he was qualified to be canonized as a god, like his eldest son Bo Yikao, and several other sons were on the list of gods, so why couldn't King Ji Chang of Wen be listed on the list of gods?
It turned out that when Yuan Shi Tianzun drew up the list of gods, there was another rule, that is, if he enjoyed wealth in the human world and had descendants of sacrifices, he could not be canonized.
For example, Jiang Ziya, who made great contributions in the Battle of the Gods, was the first meritorious servant established by the Western Zhou Dynasty. However, there is no Jiang Ziya on the list of gods, and the most important reason is that Jiang Ziya has accepted the title of King Wu of Zhou and is the founding prince of the State of Qi. Since Jiang Ziya enjoyed human sacrifices, he could not be canonized as a god.
As for some friends saying that Jiang Ziya had the opportunity to be crowned Emperor of Heaven, that was pure nonsense. At the time of the Great War of the Gods, the Heavenly Court had a Lord, named HaoTian God. Hao Tian's god cultivation was advanced, and he was a Mixed Yuan Great Luo Golden Immortal who was comparable to yuan shi tianzun.
Jiang Ziya had only been under the Yuan Shi Tianzun Gate for only a few decades, but he had just glimpsed the path of immortality, and even the Golden Immortal Realm had not yet been achieved. He seemed to preside over the matter of sealing the gods, but in fact, the main messenger behind the scenes had always been the Yuan Shi Tianzun, and Jiang Ziya was just a puppet who acted according to orders.
Jiang Ziya, who was so low in cultivation and so low in strength, how could he become the Heavenly Emperor?
The same is true of King Wen Jichang. He was the founder of Western Zhou, and after King Wu of Zhou ascended the throne, he posthumously honored his father and often sacrificed him. It is also reasonable that King Jichang of Zhou Wen was not listed on the list of gods.