> **Some fight for the realm, some fight to survive. He fights for the truth.**
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> The history books say the Qin fell to tyranny. The unofficial histories say the First Emperor sought immortality and failed.
> No one knows that in the final years of his life, the emperor who ruled through the ages marshaled the strength of the entire nation to conceal a secret powerful enough to shake the Mandate of Heaven. He entrusted the key to the darkest of shadows: the Black Bird Guard.
> Chen Sanlang, the last ember of the Black Bird Guard. From a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, he picked up the Black Bird Talisman, a symbol of the power to oversee all under heaven, and inherited a fate capable of burning everything to ash.
> In this age of rising warlords and bones strewn across the wilderness, he must keep himself and the brothers who follow him alive. More than that, he must find the answer before the other ruthless factions pursuing the same secret do: What did the First Emperor mean by “immortality”? When will the prophesied “Eternal Night” arrive? And is the Black Bird Talisman’s true purpose to protect, or to destroy?
> **This is the story of a foot soldier defying fate amid the tide of history, uncovering the empire’s ultimate secret, and redefining the Mandate of Heaven.**
The writing is smooth and well-organized. It feels like you are immersed in the scene. I really like it.