Kawashima Yoshiko turned the auction catalog to page seventy. In the yellowed photograph, the Taotie motif on the tripod seemed to writhe under the harsh light. She bit her fingertip and drew a blood talisman on the back of the page, and the eerie ink was instantly swallowed by the paper.
"The seventeenth lot..."
As the auctioneer pulled back the red silk, Zhang Ming instinctively pressed his hand against the vibrating silver needle pouch at his waist. The fragmented jade plaque on the display stand clearly bore the cloud-and-thunder patterns of the Kunlun Mountain forbidden zone!
Chapter 83