Chapter 89 Cutting open the Bellies of Pregnant Women Then Yao Shuliang and Peng Zushou arrived to face a battle with Chang Hao and Dragon Wu. During the fight, Chang and Wu shift-shaped to their original forms, respectively a huge snake and a centipede dragon, to gush out venomous air to kill the challengers. Also Nezha and Yang Bliss, using their magic weapons, tried to slay them, but just failed. Yuan Hong sent a messenger to inform to King Zhou the preliminary success. News of this success prompted King Zhou to celebrate. King Zhou ordered Fei Lian to bring his reward. During the banquet of celebration, Daji bragged to King Zhou about her divination abilities. As he and Daji stood in their tower, they saw an old man and a young man fording a small river in bare feet. The old man seemed unconcerned to the cold water and walked fast, while the young man vacillated under the fear of cold water. King Zhou consulted Daji about the different behaviors and Daji told that the old man was born when his parents were young, so his bone marrow was well formed. She claimed that to the case of the young man, for him having been born to aged parents, resulted the opposite. King Zhou ordered his guards to take the two men to the court and break their calves to check if it was so and indeed was entirely as Daji had alleged. Next Daji bragged also that she had learned magic arts, so she could predict the gender and position of a baby within a woman's womb. King Zhou again ordered the guards to bring in several pregnant women, to cut open their wombs and examine the sex of the babies. Daji had been accurate in all instances. When King Zhou's relatives, Wei Zi and Jizi came to reproach King Zhou, the king felt offended and declassed Jizi to be a slave. Wei Zi took the ancestral tablets and fled the capital to become a recluse. One day Gao Ming and Gao Jue, who were two people with ugly and disturbing appearance, came to look for Fei Lian. They claimed they intended to assist King Zhou to defeat Ziya. Fei Lian took them to see King Zhou, who designated them generals and sent them to Meng Ford.
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