Jiuding Beacon Record: Zhaoxiang Era

During the Warring States Period, King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Ying Ji, stood up and crushed the alliance of the six kingdoms with his iron hoof. Only the nine tripods of the Zhou Dynasty were left hanging in the world. These nine heavy bronze vessels were cast from the mountains and rivers of Jiuzhou and engraved with the secret of destiny. Ying Ji used "distant friendship and close attack" as an edge to defeat Qi and Chu in Hangu, and killed the Zhao army in Changping. When he approached Luoyi, he saw a blood letter written by King Nan of Zhou, "Nine tripods return to Qin, one tripod controls the heart." He sent people to search for the tripod up the river, fished up the tripod's feet covered with war patterns from the bottom of the Surabaya River, and unearthed the blood-stained tripod's ears from the ruins of Chu. Only then did he realize that behind King Wu of Qin's lifting of the tripod, there was hidden the astrological formation of Jiuding's branch town Jiuzhou. When the Eight Cauldrons gathered in Xianyang, the inscription on the body of the cauldron hit the heart like a heavy hammer: "Destiny is endless, but virtue is the assistant." - Those cities burned by the flames of war, the flat bones, and the ruins of Luoyi are causing cracks in the bronze cauldron body. On the night of worshiping the heaven, Ying Ji stared at his own reflection in the cauldron, and suddenly realized that the importance of the cauldron was not in the thousands of people, but in the gazes of millions of Guizhou heads. He sealed the eight tripods in the Lishan Mausoleum, leaving only one tripod standing outside Xianyang Palace. No military achievements were engraved on the tripod, only the four words "the people are the foundation of the tripod" were engraved on it. The Warring States period has faded away, and only the blood and fire on bronze will forever be engraved with a hero's ultimate inquiry into destiny and people's hearts.