The Dragon-Quelling Inkstone

The Dragon-Suppressing Inkstone: An epic suspense novel spanning the dragon veins of China

Lu Yancheng, an ancient-book restoration specialist, lives in seclusion in Jiangcheng. A murder involving the “Seven Stars Soul Lock” forces him to take up his compass once more. Together with Shen Qingci, a female police captain, he uncovers a century-old seal on a “Hidden Dragon” beneath the city, only to discover that this is merely the prelude to a catastrophe.

The shadow of the mastermind, the “Heavenly Gate Society,” looms over all of China. In the Miao regions of the southwest, a blood-moon Nuo ritual seeks to awaken the mountain spirits. In the Central Plains, the theft of the Nine Tripod Cauldrons of Yu the Great throws the dragon veins out of balance. In the East Sea’s Guixu, the rupture of an ancient seal puts the surrounding waters at risk. And atop Kunlun, a mad plan to forcibly “raise the dimension” is already underway.

Armed with a mysterious ancient inkstone, in truth the remnant essence of the stone Nuwa used to mend the heavens, Lu Yancheng goes from guarding one city to protecting the roots of civilization. He ventures into secret Nuo sanctuaries, communicates with the spirits of the cauldrons, and repairs the sea’s eye, ultimately confronting an eight-hundred-year-old conspiracy on Kunlun. As the Heavenly Gate is about to open, he offers himself as a sacrifice. The inkstone shatters and his heart fuses with it, turning the tide just as all seems lost.

After returning, he founds the Hall of Harmonious Light. Though he has lost all his cultivation, his Daoist heart is complete. From the baleful lone-yang energy of skyscrapers to development crises in ancient villages and the cold indifference of city life, he resolves every problem with the wisdom of harmony.

This is an adventure that grows from extraordinary feng shui formations into an epic of civilization, and a transformation from techniques for suppressing evil to the way of protecting all things. See how one inkstone can guard the dragon veins of the four seas, and how one ancient book can restore the lights of countless homes.