Wen Zhong, Grand Tutor of the Shang, summoned Caishen from his mountain hermitage to break the siege of Xiqi, and together they led the supernatural defense of the doomed dynasty against Jiang Ziya's forces.
Caishen descended from his mountain retreat to champion the Shang cause, wielding his iron whip and black tiger against Jiang Ziya's forces at Xiqi until sorcery brought him low and set the stage for his posthumous enfeoffment as God of Wealth.
Jiang Ziya, taught the Nail-Head Seven Arrows curse by Lu Ya, shot arrows at a straw effigy of Caishen for seven days until Caishen sickened and died, ending his devastating campaign against the Zhou forces.
Caishen distributes fortune and prosperity from the celestial treasury at the Jade Emperor's command, dispensing wealth to mortals whose conduct merits heavenly reward.
After the Shang dynasty fell, Jiang Ziya read from the Investiture list and enfeoffed the slain Caishen as Zhengyi Longhu Xuantan Zhenshen — the God of the Dark Altar — charging him with overseeing wealth and answering the prayers of merchants and the poor.
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