Cao Jinxing entered the secret passage.
The merfolk candles on either side burned quietly.
Occasionally, a faint breeze swept past, making the flames sway, and eerie howls drifted from the deepest recesses into his ears, like an army of ghost soldiers passing through, men cheering and horses neighing!
Unmoved, Cao Jinxing carried the Zhuxian Sword and raced toward the deepest part of the passage.
Soon, another enormous bronze door, about ten feet tall, came into view.
Standing before the door, Cao Jinxing took a deep breath, walked to the stone wall on the right, and felt around behind a protruding rock for a while before finally finding the mechanism. He slowly turned the stone. With a rumble, the bronze doors opened, revealing a vast space and a magnificent hall.
It was just as Sima Qian had recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian: "Palaces, officials, marvelous vessels, and rare treasures were brought in to fill it... Mercury was used to fashion the hundred streams, rivers, and seas, circulated by mechanisms, with the heavens represented above and the geography below... Merfolk oil was used for candles, calculated to burn for a long time without going out."
With his hand on his sword hilt, Cao Jinxing held his breath and slowly walked through the doors, entering the true Hall of the Four Seas Returning to One.
Qin Shi Huang's Imperial Mausoleum was an unprecedented imperial tomb, built by Great Qin with over seven hundred thousand conscripted laborers over more than forty years.
Its purpose was to let the First Emperor sleep peacefully, undisturbed by the tomb robbers of later generations.
The twelve golden figures, the twelve immortal artifacts, and even the [Nine Provinces Cauldrons] were, after all, inanimate objects. Beneath the Nine Provinces Cauldrons were also the Three Fiends. If descendants