Sword Writes Mountains and Rivers

Gu Changan wrote a petition for someone to save his neighbor's son who was arrested and sent to hard labor. He wrote the word "prison", but before the ink was dry - the Yamen changed the sentence, and the prefect suddenly fell to the ground with heartache. He thought he was just lucky. Little did he know that every word he wrote came alive. Write "mountain" and the table will crack; write "horizontal" and it can cut off three feet of air; write "vertical" and it can nail things within one foot. But as powerful as words are, there is also as much "debt" as every word changes reality, while leaving a price elsewhere. His pursuers are coming. The green-shirted official of the imperial court wants to "correct" the loopholes in his writing; the pen-writer of the Ink Tower in the East China Sea wants to collect the ink debt he owes; and the heirloom jade pendant around his neck is actually the mold fragment of nine magic pens three hundred years ago. The father disappeared, the family history was cut out of all books, and the only clue pointed to a non-existent island in the East China Sea. When the scholar discovers that his words are rewriting the world, the world is also rewriting him - he can only hold on to the old sword and write while staying alive. But what he didn't know was that the first word he wrote had caused the truth that had been sealed three hundred years ago to crawl back into the world along the ink marks.