I have received Xu Fu’s report. The matter of the Ruins at the End of the Eastern Sea is now clear. The so-called elixir of immortality is in fact the essence of countless poisons. Touch it, and it corrodes; its harm is endless. As for your earlier proposal to “forge golden warriors with the power of the Ruins and awe the world,” I will not approve it!
“The power of the Ruins is perilous and beyond mortal control. Even if the golden warriors were completed, they would be a double-edged sword, harming both foe and wielder. They would hardly be divine weapons to protect the nation, but rather a source of calamity! I unified the four seas not to rely on demonic power to hold my realm together!
“I decree: First, everything obtained from the Ruins’ Eye, whether metal, stone, marrow, or liquid, must be sealed away immediately and not used without authorization! Second, every golden warrior in the making, whether completed or not, must be destroyed, or sunk forever into the Sea’s Eye. Not an inch of it may be brought back to the Central Plains! Third, build an Eternal-Suppression Platform above the Ruins’ Eye. Unite the strength of every school, establish the Nine Provinces’ Forbidden Array, lock its veins, halt its flow, and extinguish its will!
“Xu Fu, you are a clever man. You should understand my intentions. This concerns the destiny of Huaxia and the lives of its people. No selfish desire of any one family or clan may sway it. If you again entertain the delusion of ‘fighting poison with poison’ or ‘controlling the power of the Ruins,’ do not blame me for forgetting our past ties!
“This decree is to be proclaimed to all involved and carried out at once! Anyone who disobeys shall be treated as a traitor, and their entire clan punished!”
“Written in the thirty-seventh year of the First Emperor, by Ying Zheng himself”
So pretty, so pretty