The small boat pitched violently in the vortex. Shen Xitang used her silver hairpin to pick the wax seal off a scrap of parchment; the characters revealed by the magnetic dust made her pupils shrink: "Magnetic Marrow Liquid used as medicine can dissolve a hundred poisons..."
She abruptly tore open the armor on Xiao Jingming’s left arm. The arrow wound he had sustained only yesterday had already crusted over. "You knew this?"
"Seven days ago, when you took that arrow for me, your blood stained the magnetic heart-guard."
Chapter 60