Godfrey finds himself in a city that looks much like the real Forbidden City but maybe a bit bigger than the estimates of the actual city.
He stood on a broad paved space before five bridges. Beyond the bridges was a neat formation of crimson taotie footmen with their black broad axes.
Ten thousand of them filled the courtyard, standing before the first gate. The Gate of Blood Accord. It was a wall with a gate in the middle and lying on this wall with its head resting on the roof above the gate was a crimson-scaled eastern dragon.
Four golden horns protruded out of its massive head and its long whiskers fell right down to the ground from the rooftop. The dragon had to be the guardian of this gate, and although its eyes were closed, Godfrey could feel the might of a Divine Tier radiating from it.
Of course it was weaker than the emperor's ghosts but this was just the first guardian. There were more before he got to the emperor.
