3 pieces from Investiture of the Gods — each retold in modern English and traced to its source.
As Daji tightens her hold on King Zhou, the loyal ministers of the Shang die one by one — burned on a bronze pillar, broken against the palace steps, and at last the king's own uncle Bi Gan, ordered to cut the heart from his living body.
Huang Feihu is the Shang dynasty's greatest general, loyal through seven generations — until a New Year's visit to the palace ends with his wife dead on the ground and his sister thrown from a tower. This is the story of what it takes to break a loyal man, and the long road west it sends him down.
He was the one general the dying Shang dynasty did not deserve — upright where the court was rotten, brilliant where it was blind. So heaven sent three hundred thousand men west with him, and a road that ended at a ridge named for the dying of dragons.