Introduction (200 words version)
Folklorist Lin Ye hid half of the mysterious fragments of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Before his death, his grandfather told him that "this is for those who can see the 'shadow'." One rainy night, the square pattern on the broken slip suddenly became hot, dragging him into the dangerous world of mountains and seas.
Here, the mythical beasts are on the verge of extinction due to the depletion of their will power in the human world. The mysterious "Ink Man" tampered with the lines of ancient books and used false will power to turn strange beasts into vicious beasts, in an attempt to turn the world of mountains and seas into an "Ink Prison". Lin Ye accidentally awakens the bloodline of the "picture recorder", Bi Fang pattern appears on his wrist, and forms a contract with the dying Bi Fangniao.
With the broken bamboo slips and the folk secrets left behind by his grandfather, he embarked on a journey to find the "original" Kunlun Xu - using the sound of wood leaves to awaken the mythical beasts, and the batik technique to gather the power of will. In the darkness where the turbid ink spreads, he not only wants to clear the truth of the tampered myth, but also uncover the thousand-year-old secret of his life experience and the "recorder".
