Jiang Zhizhou followed the procession delivering food and entered the Imperial Mausoleum without any trouble.
But where would the Imperial Testament be?
With a flicker of movement, Jiang Zhizhou slipped into a secluded corner of the Imperial Mausoleum.
"From south to north, ascend the steps."
Those eight characters were all Jiang Zhizhou had found about the Imperial Testament in the Library Tower.
What could those eight characters mean?
A direction? Or something else?
Jiang Zhizhou had no way of knowing. For now, all he could do was follow their literal meaning and search.
Judging by those words, the place they referred to had to run from south to north, with a passage containing steps.
Since ancient times, imperial mausoleums had been built to follow the rise and fall of the terrain, safeguarding the dragon veins, as the saying went.
Finding that south-to-north passage within the Imperial Mausoleum might therefore prove troublesome.
A passage running straight through from end to end could clash with the terrain of the Imperial Mausoleum if it was not properly laid out.
As such, an alignment running due south to due north was generally avoided.
There would always be some deviation, however slight.
But in Jiang Zhizhou's view, the Late Emperor had been a ruler who refused to follow the rules. It was entirely possible that he had laid things out along that exact south-to-north axis.
Jiang Zhizhou moved swiftly through the Imperial Mausoleum. Those nearby felt only a faint breeze before he was already far away.
Yet he had searched almost the entire mausoleum, front to back, without seeing a south-to-north passage, let alone any steps.
If there were no steps, what did "ascend the steps" mean?
Anxiety burned through Jiang Zhizhou like fire. Before he left Tong City, his covert contact had brought him