Prologue.
Qin Shi Huang had united China and thus became her first emperor of the Jin dynasty, but the emperor was not content with his achievement, for he knew death would make him forfeit his throne to another, throughout his reign he was obsessed with unlocking the knowledge of eternal life. It was then on the second year of his reign as emperor, he had sent out his court sorcerer Xu Fu on a journey east to the Penglai mountain to fetch the immortal Anqi Sheng who’d make for the emperor the elixir of immortality, many years later Xu Fu returned but without the elixir he claimed that a giant sea serpent had blocked his path, the emperor unshaken by this failure decided to send out a Xu Fu with a larger fleet this time consisting of 60 barques and around 5,000 crew members and soldiers, 3,000 boys and girls and craftsmen of different fields. The emperor had died the same year as this new expedition was sent out, but it did not return, and many claimed the Xu Fu had found a land of Flat lands and swamps and declared himself king.