Chapter Thirty-Five: Undercurrent is about to Rise
Shisanlingshen Road, Grand Vermilion Gate
The steles on either side declared: Officials and persons shall dismount here.
North of the Shrine of Divine Power and Virtue, along the road were various stone carvings, a qilin, camels, standing lions, reclining horses, a military officer holding a melon-shaped hammer, and civil officials in tall hats and broad belts.
There were also odd, human-faced sculptures over a yard tall, carved from dark stone, with sunken eyes, prominent noses, solemn and majestic.
Pei Yunhu's fingertips exuded black small seal script, which flowed like water, moving along the road's edge, enveloping all the stone carvings and human faces within the tomb garden.
The black small seal script seeped into the human faces and stone carvings, causing Pei Yunhu's complexion to turn increasingly pale as his body trembled incessantly.
After a long while, he finally opened his eyes.
