"What a masterful move, using someone else's blade to commit murder." Shen Xitang’s silver needle pried open the lining of a Magnetic Pith ingot. Beneath, thin-as-cicada-wings gold leaf was densely packed with coordinates for the Canal's diversion. "Cao Minzhong’s remnant faction feigned surrender to Beidi, but their true goal was to draw the disaster toward..."
A deafening explosion cut her off, and a pillar of indigo smoke surged from the northwest corner of the Imperial City.
Shen Xitang grabbed the Improved Armillary Sphere and dashed out the door. As she approached the Imperial Ancestral Temple, the magnetic needle suddenly reversed—a sign that the Ley Lines' magnetic poles were shifting.
Chapter 73