The Investiture of the Gods in the Underworld: Qin Shi Huang

Deep beneath the northern foothills of Mount Li, where the earth's veins run.

A bronze coffin hangs in a nine-zhang-deep subterranean palace. Mercury forms rivers, lakes, and seas around it, while pearls serve as stars. The undying merfolk lamps cast wavering shadows on the walls, illuminating the winding coiled-dragon patterns on the coffin. Suddenly, a muffled, thunderous rumble comes from underground, and the emperor sleeping within slowly opens his eyes.

Ying Zheng's consciousness rises from a long darkness. His last memory is of the bedchamber in the Palace of Sand Dunes, where Zhao Gao's obsequious face twisted in the candlelight. But now he senses that the tomb's structure has changed: the bronze chamber that once separated yin from yang is connected to a dark passage, and a chilling aura is surging from the other end.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.