Qing Ming the Supreme had uttered these words, but no one heard them.
Then he retreated, directly ordering people to nail the coffin lid back on; no body, then no body,let it be treated as a cenotaph.
He then went to speak with the Qin Emperor.
It was said that after their conversation, the Qin Emperor was devastated, his spirit crushed, and the desolation within him simply bursting at the seams.
"Alas, it's all my fault, all my fault!"
"I failed to see things through from beginning to end; it's all my fault!"
"I am terribly wrong, regret came too late!"
"Oh my... heavens..."
"If only I had known earlier..."
Reportedly, the Qin Emperor was vexed for several years thereafter, yet it highlighted the mysteriousness of the incident, not to be probed by ordinary people.
And with that, the storm had passed.
