Murals were carved into the walls of the corridor.
They depicted a vast sea, with rough waves and torrential rain. A lone boat drifted and swayed upon the ocean.
A strikingly handsome young man, so beautiful his gender was impossible to distinguish, stood atop the lone boat's sail, waving an unyielding arm against the storm.
Then, the lone boat sank, and the young man fell into the sea, plunging deeper and deeper.
Whirlpools churned across the surface like Dragon Sucking Water.
Before long, the Dragon Sucking Water whirlpools seemed to extend all the way to the seabed, opening up a miraculous passage.
The young man who had fallen into the sea bobbed helplessly underwater before finally being sucked into the passage.
On the other side of the passage was, astonishingly, a Sunken Prosperous City.
Winding curves were carved into the Ancient City Wall.
At the top was the city's name—Arkham.
Below that was A Line of Twisted Vine-like Text: "Unknown Land."
The last time Empress Tantai Zijun had entered, she had been too nervous to pay any attention to the murals along the corridor.
Now that she saw them clearly, her expression turned somewhat strange.
Because she could tell that this was the Founding History known to every citizen of the Beichen Empire.
And the young man on that lone boat was the ancestor of their Tantai Clan—Tantai Lin.
It was just that this Ancestor seemed rather fond of Beauty Filters...
She silently mocked him in her heart.
Because she knew what the ancestors of the Tantai Family looked like.
Especially Tantai Lin, the Founding Emperor. His portrait had been passed down throughout the Beichen Empire for ten thousand years. Who wouldn't recognize him?
Yet in the murals, he had made himself look so beautiful...
His gender was practically impossible