"Owner Shen, you really did manage to track me down." Xiao Heng’s Dark Iron Whip coiled around the web-covered *Records of Weaponry*.
"In the first year of the Yonghe era, the new Emperor melted down three hundred and sixty ceremonial vessels from the Jingtai Dynasty—yet he missed this batch of killing machines hidden deep within the ley lines."
Shen Xitang pressed her magnetic thickness gauge against the throat of the crossbow; the arc of the needle’s deflection made her sneer. "This heavy crossbow has a range of eight hundred paces, yet it uses the magnetic strings that the Armillary Firm sold to the Ministry of Works just last month."
Chapter 36