Daji

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Daji a major character featured within the famed Chinese novel Investiture of the Gods (or more commonly known as Fengshen Yanyi). Daji is the first featured killer of the Shang Dynasty within this novel. When Daji had first been featured however, she was simply the average daughter of Su Hu. A major conflict arose because of King Zhou's lust for the beautiful Daji; Su Hu eventually allowed this desire to be fulfilled. During a strange wind at night however, the original Daji was killed and replaced by an evil fox specter known as the Thousand-Year-Old Vixen. Within Investiture of the Gods, they is a specific poem that tells the trickery of Su Hu and the replacement of Daji's flesh and blood with a vixen that will fool the world to the very end. Thus following Daji's arrival at Morning Song - the capital of the Shang Dynasty - Daji would be considered as the greatest concubine under King Zhou and would be the only true attention of the king.

Chaos soon spread throughout the Shang Dynasty because of the idiotic ways of the inept king - the favoring of lust and wealth and shunning of the officials. A chapter in the two later on in the novel, a renowned man by the name of Cloud Dweller would be the first man to act against Daji by giving a magical wooden sword to the king that would make Daji sick and ill -- and eventually die. Even after many loyal officials pleaded for change - as to avoid the kingdom's death - Daji would always manage to grab hold of King Zhou's colossal idiocy and use it as a shield to kill "the evil". Thus, following Daji's future in the novel, she would even rise to the rank of queen and continue her mission - the destruction of Shang Dynasty.