"Careful, Proprietor!" Old Qin’s Miao Saber slashed aside a venom-tipped arrow in mid-flight. Shen Xitang’s pupils constricted at the sight of the Twining Branch Lotus Pattern etched onto the arrow’s tail.
This was a type of arrow Xiao Heng had refined during his time at the Ministry of Works. The hollow arrowheads, which should have been filled with gunpowder, were currently seeping with Wolfsbane Powder.
She tore the Ice Silkworm Gloves from her wrists, stretching the threads across the snow to form the Big Dipper formation. The missing position of the Dubhe star pointed directly at the Chinese juniper tree where Xiao Heng was hiding.
Chapter 26