Dark inkstone

Among rank seven immortal materials, dark inkstone is considered very firm and difficult to process. Fang Yuan’s ancient sword dragon claws leave no mark on a giant specimen. A dragon-tail whip opens only a thin crack, and even dragon breath, firmer-cutting than against subterranean adamantite, needs many breaths to carve deep marks and deform the stone. Dark inkstone is firmer than subterranean adamantite. Gu Immortals’ defensive methods at rank seven are normally stronger than dark inkstone. ^{ch. 1198}

With practiced control, Fang Yuan cuts a dark inkstone in two with dragon breath while keeping most of the force on the stone and leaking only a small part of the power. ^{ch. 1200} The ancient sword dragon’s tail is more terrifying than its claws and can smash dark inkstone outright, so lesser star fragments break under the same swing. ^{ch. 1204} Elsewhere the text ranks dark inkstone with subterranean adamantite as a hardness benchmark: even an ancient sword dragon’s claws cannot leave a mark on it. ^{ch. 1474}

Fang Yuan moves a mineral vein built from rank seven immortal material dark inkstone out of an earth path Southern Border captive’s immortal aperture. That captive had relocated outside-world dark inkstone mines into the aperture; Fang Yuan imitates the practice. The vein expands by absorbing surrounding earth qi, so limited yearly extraction can yield a continuous flow of dark inkstones for sale in treasure yellow heaven. Among rank seven immortal materials its price is not high, but it remains a rank seven immortal material. ^{ch. 1615}

A huge dark inkstone vein is moved to rockman territory, to Shi Shi Cheng’s delight. In the same Southern Border captive haul, Mini Western Desert also gains a dozen hibiscus trees, every branch an immortal material. ^{ch. 1790}

Fang Yuan spends dark inkstone among other immortal materials while setting up formations, drawing notice for how freely he expends treasury stock on that work. ^{ch. 1904} Listings place dark inkstone among earth path immortal materials. ^{ch. 2133}

When Mini Southern Border is half devastated, coiling thread caves, stalactite caves, and the dark inkstone mines are among the heavily protected areas: they sit underground and are easier to preserve, and rockmen live in those places. ^{ch. 2050}

Four Gu Immortals leave Inkman City to watch white steel bowl valley, rotten swamp, hibiscus trees, and other resource points, ready to retrieve what they can into city storage if the situation turns urgent. In Mini Southern Border a downpour covers the whole dark inkstone mine, and corrosive rain inflicts heavy damage on the dark inkstones; a stationed rockman Gu Immortal can protect only a small part of the mine. ^{ch. 2204} Reports soon say the dark inkstone mine is completely destroyed even as the tribulation clouds over it are destroyed as well. ^{ch. 2205}