The Pupil-less Imperial Tomb
A nameless imperial tomb in the Guanzhong mountains. On the surface, only a small village shrine pressing down on a breath-mouth, and a stele worn down until only the two characters 'Gate of the Emperor' can be made out.
A nameless imperial tomb in the Guanzhong mountains. On the surface remain only a small village shrine—facing west, seated to the east—pressing down on a breath-mouth, and a stele worn smooth of its text, on which only the two characters 'Gate of the Emperor' can still be made out.
The true entrance lies deep in a mountain gully: past the second saddle, the dry riverbed, and the broken stone tower, then across a boundary called the 'Dog-Bark Line,' before you can feel out the cave mouth. Judging by the proportions of the passage, this tomb hardly seems built for people to walk through—more like something for a thing larger than a person to crawl through.
It belongs to the very class of tomb the Fenjin school should least touch. Yet precisely for that reason, someone is paying a steep price to have people go in.
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