At the fifth watch, Shen Xitang stood beneath the battered plaque of the Suzaku Gate. Her Ice Silkworm Gloves absorbed the sulfur crystals lodged in the brick seams, revealing a Big Dipper Formation that pointed straight to the watchtower's hidden compartment.
She climbed the nine-foot-tall bronze crane's head and pried open the gold-plated box within the hidden compartment—lying there was the complete pair of twin Chiwen Seals, their knobs concealing a lodestone mechanism that could freely switch between the new emperor's and the crown prince's imperial impressions.
"Look, Boss!" Old Qin's Miao Saber flicked open a blood-stained banner, the veins revealed on its surface aligning perfectly with the blood seal on the Northern Suppression General's heart-protecting mirror.
Chapter 29