Tomb-Seeking Arts

The dying words of Shen Zhaoye's grandfather. The Masterless Vault, the Reverse-Dragon Vault, the Emperor's Molting Vault — site the third one right and a living man turns into something else.

The fenjin book handed down in the Shen family, ostensibly a record of fengshui rhymes. Only half of it survives — the latter half was torn away and locked up in a generation nobody can name.

A craft that can be verified. Compass, sand-and-water, strata, magnetic declination, the firing date of tomb brick, ancient characters cross-checked against each other — you work down the list one item at a time before you can say where the vault is.