Tomb-Seeking Arts

The Shen grandfather's deathbed words: there are three kinds of spots in this world that must never be divined. Get the first two wrong, people die. The third—get it right, and a living person becomes something else.

The Shen family's hereditary fenjin text, ostensibly recording feng-shui formulas. But it's only half a book—the latter half was torn out and locked away by some past generation.

Not sorcery, but a verifiable technique: the compass, sand-and-water, strata, magnetic declination, the firing age of tomb bricks, and cross-reasoning from ancient glyphs.