Hwang Geummo was the perfect heir: obedient, emotionless, a living scale balancing the four great clans of the Heavenly Union. Then his fiancée and her lover framed him for a treason he didn't commit. The Union chose convenience over truth.
Stripped of his name, his power, and his clan, he was sealed with a Binding Script and thrown into the Cursed Ink Valleys—a living graveyard where the last war's horrors still writhe. There, at the edge of death, the sadness he'd locked away his entire life awakened.
An ancient black tattoo stirred on his skin—the Void Eclipse Wyrm, a Script Beast born not of qi, but of consumed grief, swallowed rage, and smothered tears. His mediocre Neutral Realm twisted into a devouring abyss. He doesn't cultivate. He consumes. Memory. Emotion. Light. Hope. The very techniques used to break him become fuel for his descent.
This is not a story of triumphant return.
This is a chronicle of becoming the abyss.