Rivers and Mountains in Rebellious Ink

Synopsis of Ink-Stained Mountains and Rivers

The nine great clans rule the world through Origin Ink, with ink treasures held supreme and bloodlines forming an insurmountable divide.

Lu Yanzhi is an inkless man from a collateral branch of the Lu family. On his tenth birthday, the day of his awakening, he becomes a laughingstock. Once hailed as a prodigy of insight, he is reduced to a servant who wipes abacus beads, cast aside by the entire cultivation world.

At death's door, he falls into the lonely tombs of nine rebels and obtains the Record of Merging Ink, a forbidden art that teaches one to merge ink into the body and nourish the body with spiritual energy.

From then on, though inkless, he inherits the residual spirits of the nine clans' ink treasures. He uses the Lu family's abacus techniques to calculate life and death, the Xiao family's formation-breaking spear to tear through desperate situations, and the Wen family's medicinal cauldron to restore vitality, forging an unprecedented path of body cultivation.

When he appears wearing a pitch-black mask, rebels oppressed by their clans and outcasts bound by the rules come to his side, gathering to form the Inkbound.

“The nine clans use ink to define order?” A pitch-black edge gathers at Lu Yanzhi's fingertips. “Then I'll use pitch-black ink as my blade and shatter that order!”

Saintly bloodlines, inherited ink treasures?

See how this abandoned inkless man wields the forbidden color, tramples the rules of the nine clans, and writes a legend of his own.