In the night of Jingnan, the fire burned down the Golden Tower, and the hidden dragon wandered into the mountains of central Guizhou.
The treasure hidden in Tallin leads to murderous intentions, and the prophecies on the banks of Luobei River are cold.
In the fourth year of Jianwen, it was midnight on the 13th day of the sixth lunar month.
In the direction of the Fengtian Hall in the Imperial City of Jinling, the flames tore through the silk-like night curtain, and the thick smoke, carrying the smell of burning, shot straight into the sky. Within the palace walls, cries, clashes of weapons, and the roars of the rebels merged into a wave of despair. The young emperor Zhu Yunwen sat slumped on the cold gold bricks of the side hall, his nine-dragon robe stained with smoke and splattered blood. The face of grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang and Shen Yi flickered in and out of light in the beating candlelight, as if he was still staring at him.
"Your Majesty, if you don't leave, it will be too late!" The old eunuch Wang Yue threw himself at his feet with a hoarse voice. He placed a heavy red lacquer box in his hands, "Taizu has ordered that this be opened only in times of crisis."
Yun Wen opened it with trembling hands. There was no seal or edict in the box, only a yellowed old monk's robe, a mottled bronze key, and a simple map of the Southwest. On the picture, a bit of ink is specially circled - "Yangbaoshan, Central Guizhou". On the edge of the map, there are several lines of small characters as thin as a mosquito's feet: "The place where the white clouds rest, the top of the lotus peak, the secret realm of the pagoda forest, hidden forever."
The palace door was slammed open, and the cold light of Yan Jun's armor came into view. Yun Wen took one last look at his ancestral inheritance, put the monk's robes on top of his Chinese clothes, and escaped into the deep darkness of Yugou under the cover of the veteran Cheng Ji and several dead soldiers. Behind him, the center of the empire was changing hands amid flames and carnage. Ahead are the misty southwest mountains thousands of miles away.
