Ink Cut

Ink Cut is a Phantom Edge, and it is one of the few weapons with an on-screen card in both languages. In S-GAME’s official walkthrough of the 2025 S-Party demo, its card reads: “Repeatedly tap R2 to launch a 3-hit medium range combo. The damaging effect lingers for a while if the combo is interrupted after the second hit. Deals additional damage and stunning effect when used against Huangxing.” A Chinese capture of the same demo shows 墨血无痕 with the same text line for line, and makes clear that what lingers is sword energy (剑气). Its lore line calls it the sidearm of someone named 墨?子 (the third character is hard to read), “its blade like black jade, showing no cold glint”; the rest is cut off.

The January 2025 build shows how the combo looks. gcores describes a one-handed long sword with a striking blue trail: the first press is a wide sweep; pressed again at the right moment, Soul throws the sword out to form a circular sword array that keeps cutting around the enemy; a third press has him catch it in mid-air and finish with a straight thrust. In that build it was the only public Phantom Edge whose energy recharged by itself. Press notes for the Year of the Snake trailer, its first public trailer, say its attacks chain with primary-weapon hits to extend combos and that it “serves as a key plot device” with unique effects in specific battles.

The Huangxing bonus has a history. Ink Cut was playable before that trailer: in the 2024 closed demo, 墨血无痕, also called 墨刀, was one of three Phantom Edges and the reward for the side quest 异闻-英雄悲歌, in an area whose guardian boss was the Kunlun Renegade Huangxing (荒行子). That makes Ink Cut the designated counter to the 血滴子-wielding boss.

All of this comes from demo builds. How the retail game hands it over, whether it still recharges by itself, and what it costs in Remnant Sparks are not yet documented.