Each stood roughly thirty feet tall, cast entirely from gold, gleaming brilliantly beneath the light of the pearls.
Each held a Qin Sword scaled to its enormous frame, weighing over a thousand jin. The twelve giants stood in two rows like a sleeping army, guarding the passage to the next level.
Liu Xuance took out the map and carefully compared it with their surroundings.
The map marked it clearly: the mechanisms on this level were these twelve Golden Men.
But these were no ordinary golden statues. They were creations of Qin Mohism-"Spirit-Communing Puppet Armor"!
Since its birth during the Spring and Autumn period, the Mohist School had split into three branches over the centuries:
Chu Mohism emphasized debate, Qi Mohism emphasized righteousness, and Qin Mohism-craft.
When Qin Shi Huang unified the realm, he summoned skilled craftsmen from across the land. Among those who pledged themselves to him were supreme Grandmasters of Qin Mohism. Drawing on a lifetime of learning and the Gongshu Family's secret mechanical arts, they forged these twelve suits of Spirit-Communing Puppet Armor. Every single one possessed Fifth Realm strength.
Every single one had intricate runic formations inscribed within its body.
Powered by the spiritual qi of the earth's veins, they could absorb the origin qi of heaven and earth on their own to replenish their reserves.
They neither lived nor died, neither slept nor rested. As long as the earth's veins endured, they could fight until they crumbled completely!
Even Liu Xuance had to proceed with extreme caution.
He lowered his head and examined the ground. Hundreds of identical tiles paved the tomb passage ahead.
But the map made it clear: only one correct route would let them slip silently past the Twelve Golden Giants. One wrong step, and all twelve Fifth Realm suits of Automaton Armor