Barbarian Ancestor Bone

Ten-year-old Chen Man had a savage bone tucked against his chest, one that could hear heartbeats. He could hear every wolf's thoughts on the snowy plains, the origins of every sword, and the last words spoken by every skeleton before it died.

That bone had also made the Bone Hunters of the Nine Domains pursue him for ten years. The Savage Tribe had been wiped out, leaving only him and a bone.

The old wolf said, "A descendant of the Savage Ancestor must never kneel." So he broke the nose of his tormentor and followed the old man who owed his mother a life, setting out along the snowy road toward a mountain full of swords to claim a sword that had waited for him for twelve hundred years.

Bones could speak. He would speak for the dead and make sure their words were heard.