He ran forward into a ditch. His companions, a little to the rear, could see the snow and sand sprinkling down into the shallow gully where he had gone.

He calmed down totally, slowing and weakening his breath nearly to silence. If it wasn't for Ziqi's rosy cheeks and flexible body, Yancheng Ziyou would believe that his master was died.

The shallow value is the value of the specific element only, as opposed to the deep value, which includes the values of all descendent elements concatenated into a single string.