A Daoist elder shows up and tells the sect leaders, "I don't care who started it (though Grandmaster of Heaven clearly started it)! Now swallow these magic poison pills!"

Members of the Chan Sect upgrade their transportation options at the expense of their Jie Sect rivals.

The author recycles plot again as the Zhou forces encounter another pestilence-wielding sorcerer.

Jiang Ziya gets help from a guy with eye-popping powers.

Politics turn blood relations into blood enemies.

King Zhou gets literal and puts a figure of speech into practice, with predictably disastrous results.

The Chan and Jie Sects stop pretending they're frenemies and start acting like straight-up enemies.

A Shang commander learns the pros and cons of letting your kids talk to random beggar monks.

One of the Zhou's officers discovers that his powers aren't so unique after all.