Bi Linglong raised her eyebrows: "What kind of demons and monsters are playing tricks here?"
With a flick of his sleeve, a burst of energy shot out, and the lid of the coffin flew off with a bang, spun many times in the air, and finally crashed heavily to the ground.
Zu An thought to himself, "This woman is really violent. She'll flip someone's coffin lid off at the slightest disagreement."
Bi Linglong's eyes gleamed with admiration. She greatly admired the other party's behavior and wondered when she could experience such swift and decisive revenge.
Mi Li floated over directly, and Zu An and Bi Linglong hurriedly followed.
Inside the coffin lay a lifelike corpse, a middle-aged man in a blue robe and a crown, dressed almost exactly like the sorcerer in the mural.
"So it was you!" A hint of surprise flashed in Bi Linglong's eyes. As soon as she finished speaking, the middle-aged man's once plump face in the coffin disappeared at a visible speed, eventually turning into a pile of ashes and vanishing without a trace. In the end, only a pile of bones remained in the coffin.
Bi Linglong felt a chill run down her spine and subconsciously moved closer to Zu An.
Zu An thought to himself that these coffins were indeed specially made, capable of preserving human flesh from decay for a long time, and would oxidize instantly once the coffins were opened and exposed to air.
"Master, who is this person?" Zu'an asked curiously. He could understand why Fusu's physical body had been preserved for so long, after all, he was the crown prince and had a special status. But why was this person also treated the same way?
“Remember when I mentioned to you that Ying Zheng, in his quest for the elixir of immortality, gathered all the alchemists in the world to help him find it?” Mi Li said. “He was one of them, Lu Sheng.”
After speaking, she pointed to the mural next to her and explained, "Actually, I had a guess as soon as I saw the mural. The first picture describes the story of Lu Sheng seeking Xianmen. Xianmen is a deity in ancient legends, and it is also a homophone for Xianmen, so it was valued by Ying Zheng."
"However, he did not find the elixir of immortality. He spent a lot of manpower and resources, and finally found a book called 'The Book of Records,' which is said to have been written by an immortal and could know the past and the future."
"When Ying Zheng asked him about the future of the Qin Empire, he learned a sentence from the Book of Records: 'The one who will destroy Qin is the Hu.' Upon hearing this, Ying Zheng immediately thought it was the nomadic Hu people of the north, the Xiongnu. So he sent Meng Tian with an army of 300,000 to the north to build the Great Wall to prevent the Hu people from moving south."
Zu An thought to himself that the famous saying in history originated from here. Unfortunately, Qin Shi Huang's plans were no match for those of Heaven. In the end, the "Hu" in "Hu Hai" did not refer to the Xiongnu, but to his successor, Hu Hai.
Bi Linglong pointed curiously to the pictures behind and asked, "What's going on in the pictures behind that?"
Mi Li replied, "As I just said, in order to find the elixir of immortality, Ying Zheng granted Lu Sheng's every request. But the more he did this, the more afraid Lu Sheng became. After so many years of searching for immortality, he knew that there was no such thing as the elixir of immortality. He was worried that if he couldn't find it, Ying Zheng would punish him. So he secretly fled. When Ying Zheng found out about this, he was furious. He felt that he had been so good to Lu Sheng, but Lu Sheng had betrayed him. So he launched a nationwide search, investigating all the alchemists to see who had conspired with Lu Sheng. In the end, he found hundreds of people, and he ordered them all to be buried alive."
Zu An was startled: "Isn't this the burning of books and burying of scholars alive?"
"The burying of scholars alive?" Mi Li frowned. "Back then, Confucian scholars were not yet influential. What does it have to do with them?"
Zu An immediately understood. He realized that later dynasties had exaggerated Qin Shi Huang's cruelty and deliberately smeared him in order to legitimize their own rule.
Just then, a voice suddenly came from behind: "I never thought that after so many years, I would still be able to see the Empress."
Zuan whirled around, staring at the mural on the wall, because he realized the sound was coming from inside the wall.
A faint, eerie light flickered across the image of the sorcerer on the mural, as if a transparent figure was about to emerge.
Mi Li was equally surprised: "Huh, you've actually survived until now?"
Soon a semi-transparent figure crawled out of the wall, and at that moment the original image on the wall disappeared.
“A wisp of remnant soul is sealed here. Now it senses a destined person awakening it, but it will soon vanish into thin air again. How can it be considered alive?” The transparent figure was clearly Lu Sheng, and his tone was exceptionally desolate.
However, he suddenly looked at Mi Li, his eyes becoming exceptionally eager: "Eh, Empress, why are you still alive? Is there really an elixir of immortality in this world?"
Mi Li said calmly, "There is no such thing as immortality in this world. The fact that I have lived to this day is due to a series of coincidences and is not replicable."
She clearly didn't want to explain her situation in detail.
Hearing her answer, Lu Sheng was not disappointed at all, but breathed a sigh of relief: "As expected, as expected, it seems that my judgment back then was not wrong."
"What exactly happened back then? Why were you hiding in the mural in this state?" Mi Li couldn't help but ask. With her sharp eyes, she could tell that he wasn't lying. If he remained asleep in the mural for a long time, he might be able to last for a few more years, but if he chose to wake up, he was destined not to live for long.
Lu Sheng glanced at the mural on the wall and couldn't help but sigh: "Everyone thinks that I successfully escaped back then, causing the emperor to massacre hundreds of alchemists. But how could they know that I did not successfully escape, but was captured?"
"Caught? What happened?" Mi Li was puzzled; it was different from her memories from back then.
Lu Sheng shook his head: "I am now just a remnant of my soul that I separated in a moment of panic. I have lost many memories and can't recall what happened back then."
Mi Li: "..."
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