Kong Xuyang's eyes were red with anger, and he almost tore the Maoshan Taoist book in half with his hands: "Why is it set up like this!"
Yang Zhi was frightened by his crazy look, and took two steps back before carefully handing the diary over: "...Brother Kong, do you want to see the contents of the diary?"
Kong Xuyang closed his eyes, took two deep breaths, forced himself to calm down, took the diary and began to read quickly.
No matter what the character setting is, if the game gives it, there will definitely be a way to pass it.
They are now playing the role of the upright sorcerers who attacked Yinshan Village a hundred years ago. The fact that these two upright sorcerers were buried so solemnly at the entrance of Yinshan Village proves that they were the winners a hundred years ago!
The roles they played were victorious a hundred years ago, and they will certainly be victorious a hundred years later!
As for how to win, it must be recorded in the two diaries buried with the two warlocks.
The sheepskin diary was written in English. Because it was written a long time ago, some of the language habits are different from today's. The translation is a bit literary. It is obviously English written by Chinese people, but Kong Xuyang can still understand it:
The diary records:
[On November 25, the year of Gengzi, the imperial court discussed matters with the adults, drafted a decree to give Yinshan Village to the adults.]
[Foreign soldiers carried firearms into the mountains and searched for Yinshan Village everywhere but could not find it. Only two roads remained at the beginning and end of the village. Yinshan Village disappeared from the plain and no one could get in. They suspected something strange was going on and fired cannons. The cannons rebounded and injured several people. They were furious and said they were being fooled. They ordered the court to hand over the people of Yinshan Village on a certain day, otherwise they would go to Beijing soon.]
[The court was in a state of panic. Some people said that someone may have some strange magic from Mount Mao and hid the traces of Yinshan Village. The court suggested finding a capable person to help the village.]
[The next day, the court found me and my junior brother and ordered us to assist the foreigners in attacking the village. We obeyed silently.]
[Three days later, my junior fellow apprentice and I went into the mountains to investigate. We found a person with profound Taoist skills who was hiding in Yinshan Village with the evil magic of Maoshan. He used evil methods to practice the righteous way, and his power increased greatly. My junior fellow apprentice and I used his magic to protect the village, but we were unable to break his magic.]
[My junior fellow apprentice and I reported the matter to the court, and the court forced us to break the spell. After reading the classics for many days, we found a spell.]
【The Tao follows the natural laws of heaven, and can use the power of heaven to suppress current practices, disrupt their righteous ways, and break their formations.】
[The court approved it.]
[In the Gengzi year, on the 13th day of the 11th month, the New Year is approaching, the imperial court issued an order that the whole country should not harm foreigners. Those who harm foreigners are disobeying the heaven, which is intolerable under the law and should be severely punished.]
[The next day, the decree was implemented throughout the country. It rained heavily, and thunder struck the mountain from the sky, splitting the barrier. The magic of Yinshan Village was broken, and the entire village of 513 people, including the old and the young, women and children, knelt in front of the village, weeping and wailing, and pointing out that heaven and earth were unkind.]
[A Taoist priest in yellow stood in front of the village, raised his hands and let the mist fall, once again hiding Yinshan Village in the poisonous mist and insect miasma. There were 9981 kinds of formations in the mist. The foreigners forced their way in, and more than a hundred people were killed or injured. My junior brother and I dared not enter.]
[For four months, the people guarding the gate of Yinshan Village were unable to enter. The foreigners were impatient and put pressure on the court. The court was frightened and issued a new order.]
[You must not resist the use of force by foreigners, you must not refuse missionaries entry, you must not speak harshly to foreigners, and you must agree to pay a compensation of 450 million taels.]
[That day, the barrier of Yinshan Village was broken, the village gate was opened, and the foreigners forced their way in with firearms.]
[Walking to the village gate, Yinshan Village was covered in blood, and only one person out of a hundred survived. The Taoist in yellow robes shouldered a hundred years of sins, withstood the thunder of ten thousand feet, refined hundreds of fierce ghosts, and led the dead to guard the village gate, not retreating a single step.]
[Foreigners were afraid and did not dare to enter.]
[Such a scene is unbearable. Forcing my way in is against the Dao. I have reported to the court that I cannot enter. The court has issued a golden imperial edict to force the Taoist monk in yellow to surrender. All nine clans of Yinshan Village will be implicated. If I do not surrender, I and my fellow Taoist disciples will be killed.]
[…With yellow silk covering their bodies, fierce ghosts prostrated themselves on the ground, and all the people in Yinshan Village were sealed by the imperial decree. ]
[My junior fellow apprentice and I secretly altered the imperial edict and changed the date of the surrender to 100 years.]
[The foreigners brought their artillery into Yinshan Village. My junior fellow apprentice and I hid the surviving descendants of Yinshan Village in the ancestral tomb underground, secretly sending them sacrificial wine and food to keep them alive.]
[Descendants, in accordance with my and my junior brother's request, built a magic array inside the tomb, using water as the body, to protect the corpse inside the tomb from decaying for a hundred years. The souls of the descendants of Yinshan Village will not disperse for a hundred years after death, and will not enter the underworld or heaven. They will avoid the imperial edict from the court for a hundred years, and will be protected from being struck by thunder.]
[After a hundred years, all the evil obstacles will be eliminated, Yinshan Village will be empty, all descendants will die, and the surrender will be invalid. ]
[Yinshan Village is no longer a sinner in the world, and can enter the six realms of reincarnation and start all over again...]
The more he saw, the brighter Kong Xuyang's eyes became. He suddenly turned his head to look at Yang Zhi, grabbed Yang Zhi's arm, and said in a hoarse voice that was unrecognizable as a human voice: "I know what the weakness of that zombie is."
"It's the imperial edict of surrender! Hurry up and dig, this imperial edict must be in the tomb of these two foreign Taoists!"
…
Bai Liu was also looking at the almanac thrown out by Mu Sicheng. He held up the almanac and spread it out page by page, standing at the entrance of the village. Next to him was the motionless Taoist zombie. No other zombies dared to approach Bai Liu.
After Mu Sicheng's spirit value dropped, he was in a killing mood. After being pinned down by Bai Liu, his hands and feet were tied with a whip. He fell at the village gate and leaned against the village archway. At first, he bared his teeth at Bai Liu, but Bai Liu didn't take him seriously at all.
After a while, Mu Sicheng stopped moving, his eyes staring straight ahead with a strange expression, as if he had seen something that shouldn't exist here.
Bai Liu held the almanac in one hand and tied Mu Sicheng with the other. He put his right foot on Mu Sicheng's shoulder to make him behave. He looked at the almanac, scanned it quickly, and muttered to himself:
"So that's how it is. The formation in the tomb was not set up by the Taoist priests in the tomb, but by the upright Taoist priests and the descendants of Yinshan Village. The purpose of gathering Yin Qi is not to refine corpses, but to repair the souls of the Taoist corpses that were struck by thunder, so that their souls will not be scattered after a hundred years and they will not be able to enter reincarnation."
"…The newlyweds and the drowned old men in the tomb were all those who had been fighting against the invading foreign enemies. They were desperate and had no other options, so they knelt before the Taoist priest and begged him to use the most powerful evil method to turn them into fierce ghosts to protect Yinshan Village."
Bai Liu softly read the words on the almanac: "We died tragically because we were unable to protect our great country and our family."
"But if we die, we will be ghosts with a family, not slaves of a conquered country."
"According to sorcery, a girl who has not yet married can become a red evil spirit and die on the way to get married. She is a powerful ghost in the world and her power is beyond words. This is true. So 51 girls from Yinshan Village gathered to get married. They wore double wedding veils on their heads, got on a sedan chair, and cut their own throats with a pair of scissors on the way to get married. They turned into a red evil spirit and guarded the village on the left..."
"The names of the fifty-one women are: Wang Yixi (daughter of Wang Wu), Jiang Pinglu (engaged)..."
"It is said in sorcery that old men and women who are dying and drown in a pond can become powerful ghosts of the time, with an evil spirit beyond words. This is true, so 271 old women and men in Yinshan Village gathered themselves to die, wearing white clothes and white pants, jumped into the water and drowned themselves, kicking their legs and refusing to come out of the water, turning into white ghosts, protecting the village..."
"Two hundred and seventy-one old ladies and old men named: Zhang Yishan..."
"The red and white evil spirits are complete. The Taoist priest buried their bodies in the ancestral tomb, gathered the negative energy, endured countless pains, and refined himself into a corpse alive, becoming a form that is neither human nor ghost. He protects the village and stands in the right position. The whole village bows down and mourns for him. They kneel down and worship him as a god. It is decided to build a temple to worship him..."
"Soon, we will open the village gate to welcome the enemy..."
When Bai Liu read this, the Taoist zombie who had been motionless next to him suddenly opened his eyes.
The talismans on its body moved automatically without wind, and the hem of its yellow Taoist robe trembled in the night wind that came from nowhere. It clasped two fingers of its right hand and pointed it toward the sky. The peach wood swords behind it flew out automatically, crossed over and landed in front of the gate of Yinshan Village, becoming a signpost blocking people from moving forward.
The Taoist in yellow robes spoke calmly, looked outside the village gate, and asked, "Who is coming?"
The dark forest outside the village gate shook, as if a large number of things were moving. From the shadows came intermittent, sharp, and hoarse laughter and crying, which merged into an unclear piece. A cold energy that made people's backs cold spread from the ground, all the way to Bai Liu's feet.
A person holding a candle slowly emerged from the darkness. It was Kong Xuyang.
Half of his face was reflected in the red light of the candle, and he couldn't stop laughing hoarsely in his throat. He looked a little crazy, and he was holding a candle in his right hand, which was casually tied with a layer of bandage made of torn clothes and was still bleeding. In his left hand, which was raised at his side, he held a glittering golden scroll wrapped in a layer of cloth. It looked very much like the imperial edict prop in Qing palace operas.
Behind him was a group of zombies with talismans on their foreheads, and further behind them were some wobbly skeletons. These skeletons were holding rusty guns and cannons in their hands, and were wearing old-fashioned Western-style uniforms, looking very much like foreigners.
Yang Zhi followed behind Kong Xuyang, his face calm and peaceful, all his previous panic gone.
"Didn't expect that?" Kong Xuyang laughed out loud. He opened his hands and said, "Bai Liu, look, what happens when the character I play gets the imperial edict?"
"The military, the war preparations, everything is there."
Kong Xuyang looked at Bai Liu and the Taoist zombie in Yinshan Village with contempt, and the evil smile on his lips grew bigger and bigger uncontrollably: "A hundred years ago, you and the zombie next to you were just defeated by [my] hands, and you survived by relying on my charity."
"I am not that kind now."
"If this imperial edict had not been deliberately tampered with a hundred years ago, you evil creatures would have been killed long ago!"
Kong Xuyang's expression turned cold. He raised his hand and used a brush to scratch out the carefully added [100-year] limit on the imperial edict, and read out the contents of the imperial edict in a loud voice: "The people of Yinshan Village are disloyal and unjust, unkind and untrustworthy, attacking others, cultivating fierce ghosts, and repeatedly disobeying the imperial edict. The laws of heaven and earth cannot tolerate this, and they should be punished with the nine clans and their souls should be scattered!"
"Attack the village and kill all the monsters in the village that have hurt me!"