He reached out and pushed open the great door, which had been sealed for who knows how many years. The palace itself didn't collapse, but the scene inside left Song Changsheng utterly astonished.
A massive, circular pit had been dug in the center of the main hall, and on its surface, he could faintly make out mottled bloodstains of an unknown age.
Arranged along the edge of this great pit were rows of grotesque, mummified corpses. Their hands were bound as if they were criminals, and they were all kneeling, facing the pit.
They formed one concentric circle after another, radiating outward, all of them kneeling mummified corpses.
Beneath each body was a carved groove, and without exception, these grooves all led to the circular pit in the hall's center. Inside the channels, dried blood was clearly visible.
