The first snow of the beginning of winter covered the epidemic graves of Cangzhou as Shen Xitang knelt before her mother’s cenotaph.
The glow of a Glazed Lamp reflected off the ice crystals on the headstone, revealing several faint sword marks—the exact traces left by "Returning Wind Pointing at Snow," the seventh stance of the "Xuanji Sword Technique" her mother had created.
Shen Xitang brushed the Ice Silkworm Silk over the sword marks, and the accumulated snow particles suddenly converged into the Big Dipper Formation. She pressed the Xuanji Lock into the center of the formation, causing a hidden compartment at the base of the tombstone to pop open, revealing half a volume of a "Border Defense Diary."
Chapter 31