It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

Chapter 589 Another Wave Rises, Xu Fu Sets a Trap
Li Xian was helped up. When he saw the knife, he realized that the expert Xu Zhi had brought was a member of Wang Ben's army.

Zhao Gao, now a corpse lying on the ground, had his eyes wide open in anger, as if filled with countless grievances.

What Zhao Gao said before his death was true; Ying Zheng punished him but did not order his execution.

For nearly twenty years, Li Xian had devised numerous schemes. In Shu, in Nanzheng County, and even in Handan, on the day the emperor ascended the throne, he sought to incite him to commit a grave error, thereby using the law to eliminate him. He had also arranged assassins, but Zhao Gao almost never left the Xianyang Palace. During imperial tours, he always accompanied the emperor, leaving Li Xian with no way to carry out a decisive action.

Not long ago, while he was supervising the construction at Mount Li, he also committed some shady 'accidents'.

But Li Xian didn't understand why good luck always seemed to favor bad people.

As Mo Qi said, the trajectory will continue forward.

He didn't believe that Zhao Gao died shortly after his death, not even two days later.

He will be killed by Ziying. Zhao Gao himself also said what Mo Qi said.

Now, Ying Hehua has killed him, and Zhao Gao has indeed died at the hands of the Qin royal family.

If he had thought one step further, he would have immediately realized that the crisis he and Xu Zhi were facing had been transferred to Xu Fu.

A cry of alarm rang out, "Your Highness, be careful!" Shen Zhi supported Xu Zhi.

Since she had come to kill, she had to clean up the mess. She was carefully instructing the leading soldier named Cheng, and had no time to be distracted. For a moment, she did not pay attention to her footing.

That was truly dangerous; if she had taken another step forward, she would have stepped into the Silver River!

Fortunately, Shen Zhi and Cheng grabbed her arm.

That was not ordinary water, but a fluid refined from various copper ores. Even though cinnabar (mercury) was added at the very end to seal the gate, it would still burn the skin of anyone who touched it, just like lava.

The underground palace passageway has little oxygen, so craftsmen cannot use large torches when descending into the tomb.

When the longevity candle was lit, the river reflected the light, illuminating the entire room.

Yu Ji realized they seemed to be taking a detour. She pointed to the stone beast with fangs and said, "Your Highness, it seems we've passed this place. Lord Li is seriously injured, and Your Highness just bumped your forehead. We need to hurry out and find a doctor."

Zhao Gao said that without stargazing and blueprints, they would not be able to leave the underground palace.

Li Xian was locked up almost in the middle, near the Mo family's stone bridge, whose direction had changed over time and also matched the constellation image on the dome.

They were also unable to return the way they came.

Even though less than one-fifth of the underground palace has been completed so far, it is still almost the size of ten Forbidden Cities.

Including the four soldiers, including Cheng, there were a total of eight people.

Xu Zhi pointed to the stone beast that Yu Ji had pointed to earlier, "It seems we're taking a detour. Zhao Gao said we can't get out without blueprints."

"Princess? You just said that. We don't have the blueprints, we're taking a detour..."

"Princess, are you okay?"

Yu Ji looked at the princess with concern. The blood on the princess's face had been cleaned up, but she still felt that something was wrong with her.

"Your Highness, shall we go and find a way first?"

Cheng nodded, "I think Miss Yu is right. Your Highness and Lord Li, why don't you rest here for a while? I'll take some men to investigate first, and then..."

Xu Zhi interrupted him, "No," she continued, "No. In horror movies, once the main characters separate, they'll all get into trouble one after another."

Yu Ji and Cheng looked at each other, unable to understand what Ying Hehua was saying.

Li Xian paused, realizing in time that she had suddenly started speaking in modern language.

"Princess." Only when he called out did Xu Zhi react.

Li Xian had many abrasions on his cheekbones and his shoulders were covered in blood. It was a miracle that he could walk, given his serious injuries.

Li Xian's suspicions were the same as Yu Ji's. She was injured, and it looked quite serious, so he tried to remove the bandages binding her to check the extent of the head injury. However, his arm was injured and he couldn't lift it. Given the difference in their relationship, he couldn't make a princess kneel in front of Cheng and the others.

Xu Zhi realized what he was doing when he stood there motionless and kept staring at the strip of cloth on her head.

She pressed his hand, shook her head, and gave him a reassuring smile, saying, "I don't look like anything's wrong. I just fell and bled a little, it's nothing."

Blood was flowing. The city was in a state of panic, and General Wang Ben personally intervened, repeatedly emphasizing that Princess Yong'an must not be allowed to suffer even the slightest injury.

It's not surprising that Xu Zhi spoke so casually, because compared to Li Xian, the blood she shed was indeed 'a little'.

At the altar, besides the knife wounds and whip marks, she also saw a heavy bruise on his left arm, indicating a clear fracture.

He got into this state, but after waking up, he didn't say a word about any discomfort he felt, acting as if nothing was wrong.

Xu Zhi, of course, did not know that he had lost consciousness due to pain. She thought that he was like his father and had no pain receptors. Back then, when Li Si was stabbed in the palace and his blood flowed all over the steps, he was still able to get on the carriage without any worries.

His son is about the same.

This looks far more terrifying than the torture I suffered in Handan back then.

Blood kept dripping from his sleeve.

Is it true, as Zhao Gao said, that he chose to die such a tragic death in order to avoid her fate?
Why? She's not Ying Hehua, she's Xu Zhi. She never loved him, never had any childhood sweetheart relationship with him, and was even stingy with trust, always harboring suspicion and threats.

Why would he do that?

These words rushed to her throat, but before she could finish speaking, she remained silent.

She summoned Cheng and Shen Zhi, saying, "Lord Li is seriously injured; we must get out of here quickly." She couldn't quite grasp the cause of her sudden, disordered speech. She only felt that although her head had been hit and was bleeding, she was still able to think clearly and should be alright.

Xu Zhi looked up at the stars overhead again. Fortunately, because she had to be wary of Zhang Liang, she had managed to read the silk scroll he had drawn while he was studying celestial phenomena over the past two weeks.

The Twenty-Eight Mansions corresponded to the various states during the Warring States period.

The quail head corresponds to Qin, the quail fire to Zhou, the longevity star to Zheng, the split wood to Yan, and the star record to Wu and Yue.

When the world is unified, the constellations correspond to the forty-eight counties in the underworld.

Cheng was extremely skilled; he leaped across walls and used his knife to draw a map of the present moment.

Xu Zhi was stunned when she saw it.

The person standing there is the God of Longevity, corresponding to the State of Zheng, which is the Yingchuan Commandery of the State of Qin.

She couldn't help but chuckle softly.

"Your Highness?"

She wasn't familiar with the water system maps of other places, but because of Zhang Liang, she had the water system map of Chengfu in Yingchuan County etched into her mind.

"Zhao Gao probably never imagined that this place, the dividing line between the constellations, would be here."

She doesn't even need to think much to know which brick to step on, and then wait for the stone bridge to float to the corresponding path, so she can find the way step by step.

The latter half of the passageway lacked the light reflected from the glass, and it grew darker and darker as you walked.

Cheng and the others walked at the front, but the passageway was too long, and they walked too fast for a while, and they lost contact with each other.

Yu Ji was just a girl in her early teens.

"Don't be afraid. I thought Ah Gao's gold and silver jewelry was useless, but it turned out to come in handy."

The bead was the size of a fist and glowed.

Xu Zhi walked ahead, holding up the luminous pearl like a torch, illuminating much of the path. But since it was her first time in the underground palace, she could only proceed by shuffling along.

Li Xian supported himself and quickened his pace slightly to walk in front of her.

"Your Highness, please walk in the middle and stay with the little girl."

Yu Ji shook her head, "Lord Li, you are still injured."

"I am used to darkness, it's no problem."

As we approached the end of the passageway.

He was stopped by Xu Zhi.

"Lower your height."

Li Xian didn't understand what it meant, but he still obediently lowered his head.

“You’ve been locked up inside for almost half a month. If it’s daytime outside, your eyes can’t take it…” she said, pulling off her hair ribbon and tying a knot behind his head to secure the silk cloth.

The further forward you go, the higher you go.

The environment is getting brighter and brighter.

She turned around and said to them with delight, "The rain that had been falling for days has actually stopped."

"Great, this is a good day."

She waved her hand in front of him. "Li Xian, can you feel it? The sunlight outside?"

He removed his blindfold, gazed at that radiant light, and could never forget her smile.

Upon reaching the ground, Mount Li is verdant, with the glow of the setting sun shining among the mountains, and the distant Zhongnan Mountain can be faintly seen hidden in a dark hue.

Chang Cong was extremely anxious, but when he finally saw someone emerge from the outermost door, he felt both joy and worry.

Xu Zhi took several deep breaths of fresh air.

But after taking only two steps, Xu Zhi's sense of confusion intensified.

She felt an inexplicable, strange, throbbing pain in her head, spreading from the spot where she had been injured...

She felt dizzy and lightheaded, and an unprecedented blur spread before her eyes.

Could she have suffered a concussion from the impact?

She felt a little dazed, and her head started to ache.

Not far away, Xu Fu sat in a luxurious carriage, with a large black flag fluttering in the wind.

The Qin army surrounded the entire exit of the underground palace.

A hail of arrows were fired, all aimed at her.

Xu Fu raised a scroll of imperial edict and proclaimed loudly:

"Emperor Qin Shi Huang decrees: Princess Yong'an went to the underground palace without reporting, released prisoners without reporting, and killed officials without reporting. She shall be escorted to the Mirror of the Gallbladder. If she shows any evil intentions, she shall be executed immediately without fail."

This system originated in ancient times, and the first systematic record of the correspondence between the twelve divisions of the celestial sphere was made in the Book of Han, Geography. The division of the celestial sphere into twelve constellations was formed in the pre-Qin period, and it was further developed in the Han Dynasty into the twenty-eight mansions corresponding to thirteen states and twelve provinces. The basic framework was established in the Astronomical Treatise of Huainanzi and the Treatise on Celestial Offices of the Records of the Grand Historian.