(shah-cho)  
This substance was extracted from  jindan   (jeen-DON) , a specimen that is thought to be a key ingredient in a mixture called the "Cold-Food Powder". Enormous amounts of this substance are supposedly situated in between candles made of "man-fish" oil in a location whose bronze roof is studded with pearls to represent the constellations. The  Records of the Grand Historian  claims that automatic crossbows fire at intruders at a location where (*)  "rivers" of this substance represent the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers. A ruler succumbed to a mixture of pulverized jade and this substance while travelling in Shaqiu  (shah-cho)  outside of his capital of Xianyang  (sh'yen-yong) . To attain immortality, Qin Shi Huangdi consumed pills of, for 10 points, what liquid metal that Chinese alchemists called quicksilver?
This substance was extracted from  jindan   (jeen-DON) , a specimen that is thought to be a key ingredient in a mixture called the "Cold-Food Powder".
mercury  [or  quicksilver ] 