Sword of the Mad Ink Sage

There is a scholar in blue robes, always carrying a battered wooden sword on his back.
To the world, he appears mad—a drunken drifter lost in dreams and delusions.
But what the world does not see… is that his sword is the finest under heaven.

His name is Chen Xun.

Every three years of madness, he is granted a brief moment of clarity.
Thus the cycle repeats—endlessly, tirelessly—through the flow of time.
A tale forgotten by the world, yet still unfolding in silence…

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