The Legend and the Hero 2 is an adaptation from the classical novel Fengshen Bang (also known as Investiture of the Gods or Creation of the Gods). Fengshen Bang or Fengshen Yanyi is one of the major vernacular Chinese epic novels written during the Ming Dynasty and consist of 1000 chapters.The story, a romanticized retelling of the overthrow of King Zhou, last ruler of the Shang Dynasty, by King Wu, establishing the Zhou Dynasty in place of Shang,is set in the era of the declining Shang Dynasty (1600 BC–1046 BC) and the rise of the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC–256 BC). It intertwines numerous elements of Chinese mythology, including deities, immortals and spirits.