Jingshi Mountain lay in the Luoyang region, once part of the royal domain of Eastern Zhou. After Qin conquered and destroyed Eastern Zhou, the land was incorporated into Sanchuan Commandery under Qin rule.
The bloodline of Qin's royal family could be traced back to antiquity. They descended from Zhuanxu, the Yellow Emperor's grandson and one of the Five Emperors, and from E Lai, a minister under King Zhou of Shang. Their ancestor Bo Yi had been granted the surname Ying for helping Emperor Shun tame numerous birds and beasts.
Qin's ancestor Qin Feizi had earned the appreciation of the reigning Son of Heaven of Zhou through his skill at raising horses, leading to the founding of Qin. Later, after King You of Zhou played tricks on his lords with beacon fires and was killed, Duke Xiang of Qin led troops to rescue Zhou and escorted the succeeding King Ping of Zhou east to Luoyi. For his service, he was elevated to the ranks of the feudal lords.
It was rather ironic. Qin had risen through the favor of the Son of Heaven of Zhou, yet it was also Qin that ultimately extinguished the Zhou dynasty's last bloodline. Western Zhou was destroyed by King Xiaowen of Qin, the grandfather of Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, while Eastern Zhou was conquered by troops led by the current Qin chancellor, Lü Buwei. The Zhou royal bloodline was slaughtered almost to extinction.
Even King Xiao of Zhou, who had rewarded Qin Feizi with a fief and allowed him to establish a state, and King Ping of Zhou, who had invested Duke Xiang of Qin as a feudal lord, could hardly have foreseen that their great Zhou dynasty would be annihilated by the "unfailingly loyal" Qin.
Passing through a sparsely populated village, Ye Uchiha