Gongsun Jiuniang's successful design gave Xie Mingzhe new ideas.
There are several very famous ghosts in Liao Zhai - for example, the ghost couple with the best ending: Qiao Sheng and Lian Cheng.
Qiao Sheng was a very talented scholar. Although he was poor, he was righteous and always helped his friends, so he was respected by scholars. At that time, there was a man named Shi. He had a daughter named Liancheng who was proficient in embroidery and well-educated. He wanted to find a good marriage for his daughter, so he took his daughter's embroidery works and asked young scholars to write poems based on the pictures.
Qiao Sheng's poems were the most elegant and were very popular with Lian Cheng. Knowing that Qiao Sheng was poor, she secretly gave him a lot of silver so that he could study hard. Qiao Sheng was very grateful. The two of them came and went, and although they had never met, they had already regarded each other as close friends.
However, her father thought that Qiao Sheng was too poor and refused to marry his daughter to him. Instead, he arranged for her to be engaged to the son of a wealthy businessman.
After getting engaged, Liancheng suddenly fell seriously ill. A monk told her that she needed to cut off a piece of flesh from her chest with a knife, grind it up and add medicine to cure her illness. Her fiancé scolded the monk and drove him away. Liancheng's father publicly said: I will marry my daughter to whoever can save her. The infatuated Qiao Sheng ran over without hesitation and cut off a piece of flesh from her chest with a knife to cure her illness. The illness was cured.
However, Liancheng's father was afraid to break off the engagement due to the power of the rich businessman, and only gave Qiaosheng 1,200 taels of silver as a thank you, but refused to marry his daughter to him. Qiaosheng did not accept a penny, and left with a sentence "I saved her not for money, but because she is my confidant".
After hearing about this, Liancheng fell seriously ill again and died directly. Qiaosheng came to pay his respects to her and died of grief. The two could not be together in the human world, but met in the underworld, expressed their love, and decided to get married in the ghost world.
Compared to the tragic stories of other female ghosts in "Liao Zhai", Qiao Sheng and Lian Cheng are a couple with a happier ending. The key is that they are infatuated with each other and regard each other as confidants. The hero of this story, Qiao Sheng, is the most decisive character in "Liao Zhai". He cuts off the flesh on his chest without hesitation. When the person he loves dies, he doesn't want to live alone in the world, and he is particularly decisive when getting married in the underworld.
In terms of appearance, according to the description in the book, these two people should be a perfect match. Xie Mingzhe designed Qiao Sheng to be dressed as a traditional scholar, with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, hair tied up, holding a book, and elegant temperament; Liancheng is a beautiful girl from a small family, delicate and gentle, holding a white handkerchief and colorful embroidery threads in her hand, with exquisite patterns embroidered by her.
Xie Mingzhe designed both Qiao Sheng and Lian Cheng as jokers and created a double-card linkage skill.
Qiao Sheng (Earth)
Level: Level 1
Evolution Star Level:★
Use times: 1/1 time
Basic Attributes: HP 1000, Attack 1200, Defense 1000, Agility 20, Crit 20%
Additional Skills: Cutting Flesh (The girl he loves is sick and can only be cured by using human chest flesh. Qiao Sheng did not hesitate and decided to cut off his own chest flesh to save her. Qiao Sheng will lose 50% of his own health each time he cuts flesh, and permanently increases the attack speed of the designated target by 50%. It can only be used once per game)
Additional Skill: Suicide for Love (Having heard that his beloved had died, Qiao Sheng was so grief-stricken that he also committed suicide for love. After activating this skill, Qiao Sheng can immediately commit suicide and transform into a joker. As a ghost, Qiao Sheng searches for his beloved in the ghost world, dealing 50% earth-based group damage to enemy targets on the straight path during the search. When he finds his beloved Lian Cheng, the search ends and an additional 200% critical damage is dealt to the target Lian Cheng is attacking; cooldown time 35 seconds)
Additional Skill: Knowing and Loving Each Other (Joint Skill. Qiao Sheng and Lian Cheng love each other, but due to their father's obstruction, they could not get married in the human world. They finally got together after becoming ghosts. If Qiao Sheng and Lian Cheng become jokers and are present at the same time, Qiao Sheng's speed will automatically increase by 500% when moving towards Lian Cheng)
Liancheng (Earth)
Level: Level 1
Evolution Star Level:★
Use times: 1/1 time
Basic Attributes: HP 500, Attack 1500, Defense 500, Agility 30, Crit 30%
Additional Skills: Embroiderer (Liancheng has learned embroidery since she was a child, and the patterns she embroiders are extremely exquisite. She can use a large amount of colorful embroidery threads to attack opponents from a distance, causing 200% group earth damage to enemy targets within a range of 23 meters; cooldown time is 30 seconds)
Additional Skills: Vengeful Ghost (Liancheng died of illness because her father prevented her from marrying her beloved. She can abandon her embroidery thread and become a vengeful ghost at any time. As a ghost, she is full of resentment, increases her attack speed by 50%, teleports behind the enemy target, and attacks with claws. Each normal attack causes 10% basic earth damage. When the number of combos reaches 5/10/15 or multiples of 5, an additional critical damage is caused; normal attack skills have no cooldown time, and the combo is effective within 1 second. It is reset to zero and recalculated after being interrupted)
Additional Skill: Knowing and Loving Each Other (Joint Skill. When Qiao Sheng turns into a joker and finds Lian Cheng, he is moved and immediately goes into a violent state, increasing his basic attack by 50% and critical damage by 50% for 5 seconds)
In designing these two cards, Xie Mingzhe used a completely new idea - two modes and two functions: human and ghost.
Ghosts are not born out of thin air. Every ghost was once a human being in their previous life. This makes perfect sense in terms of design.
The transformation of the demon card is a complete change in data and form, just like two cards. Qiao Sheng and Lian Cheng, whether they are human or ghost, have not changed in appearance, and their data has not changed much, so there is no need to force them to be classified as demon cards. It can be understood as different skills in different time periods.
Lian Cheng in the human stage is a powerful group attack card, relying on the group attack skill of embroidery to deal one-time group damage. In ghost form, she is a super strong general attack card. The 50% attack speed bonus given to her by Qiao Sheng and the 50% attack speed bonus from her transformation into a ghost just bring her attack speed to the maximum value of 100%.
Each normal attack causes only 10% damage, which seems very low, but once the attack speed is stacked up, the time interval between each attack is extremely short, and 2 to 3 combos can be made within 1 second. Multiple combos have additional critical strike bonuses. As long as she is alive, there will be output, and the amount of damage accumulated over a long period of time is not inferior to the ultimate move of the card that relies on skills!
The combination of these two cards is also very interesting. When Qiao Sheng moves towards Lian Cheng, he will get a 500% movement speed bonus, which is almost as fast as Shan Lan's bird card. The fast speed allows Qiao Sheng to support Lian Cheng in time, not only causing group damage to enemies on the path, but also making a critical strike to the target Lian Cheng is attacking.
If Liancheng moves during this period, Qiaosheng can also follow her and trigger the linear damage of skill 2 multiple times.
The two cards echo each other. If you want a group attack, you can do a group attack. If you want to attack individually, you can reap the rewards together. It's almost like whoever you stare at will die!
The addition of these two flexible linkage cards can greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of Yu Ke's ghost card deck.
With Xiao Ke's reaction speed, he can control the four ghost cards, Nie Xiaoqian, Gongsun Jiuniang, Qiao Sheng, and Lian Cheng, to focus their fire on people and kill them instantly - there is almost no card that he cannot kill instantly.
These output cards are very versatile and suitable for any lineup. They can also be used as assassins with extremely strong explosive power in the later team games. They can choose the right time to harvest the remaining blood and threaten the opponent's core cards at all times, so that the opponent will not dare to be careless.
Xiao Ke will definitely be very happy when he sees these new cards, right?
Xie Mingzhe smiled and put away a few joker cards, then immediately started making a function card that he had wanted to make for a long time.
This card is called "Painted Skin" and is also a very famous female ghost in Liao Zhai. Her fame and influence are no less than Nie Xiaoqian. Later, she was adapted into movies and TV series many times and is a household name.
The story of the Painted Skin also comes from Liao Zhai, which tells the story of a woman who had a tragic fate and died in grief. She transformed into a fierce ghost, but put on the most beautiful human skin, pretending to be a stunning beauty, specifically to seduce lustful men.
When a lustful man is obsessed with her, she will dig out his heart and peel off her own skin to reveal her true face as a fierce ghost... It's really bloody and terrifying.
For this card, Xie Mingzhe came up with an interesting idea, which was inspired by the human skin disguise of the Painted Skin Ghost.
She can put on the skin of a beauty and dress herself up as a beautiful lady. Of course, she can also put on other skins and transform herself into various people. For her, human skin is just a mask to disguise herself. No one knows what her real image is.
So when designing the image, Xie Mingzhe directly drew a female ghost with a voluptuous figure and no face. In other words, she actually has a face, but it lacks eyebrows, eyes and other clear facial features. Only a bloody mess is left, which looks particularly scary.
The clothes were painted as a fluttering white long skirt, like a ghost that could be blown away by the wind.
Painted Skin Ghost (Earth)
Level: Level 1
Evolution Star Level:★
Use times: 1/1 time
Basic Attributes: HP 800, Attack 800, Defense 800, Agility 30, Crit 30%
Additional Skill: Beauty Temptation (Painted Skin Ghost hates lustful people. She can use her disguised beauty to seduce the designated target. When the skill is activated, the designated enemy target within 23 meters is forced to accept the temptation, walk in front of her, and cause a 300% single-target critical damage to the target; the cooldown time is 60 seconds)
Additional Skill: Human Skin Disguise (Painted Skin Ghost can peel off the skin of others, cover his own face, and disguise himself as the other party - when using the skill, Painted Skin Ghost can disguise himself as the image of a designated card on the scene, and immediately inherit one of the skills of the card, excluding dead cards; limited skill, can be activated at most once in a game)
Additional Skills: Peeling (Painted Skin Ghost can take the initiative to peel off her own skin and restore her original appearance. Because her true appearance is too scary, when she peels off the human skin mask, it will cause group fear to enemy targets within a range of 23 meters, which lasts for 5 seconds; peeling must be initiated after disguising, and can only be done once per game)
According to the original novel, after Painted Skin seduces lustful men, she will dig out their hearts.
However, if this setting of digging out the heart is added to the card skill description, it is a bit too bloody. Nie Shen's tiger and Lao Zheng's elephant, it is impossible for Painted Skin to dig out the heart, right? What about those without heart... For example, what about Senior Brother's plant card? Dig out the tree roots?
Many children are playing this game, and the official will definitely not approve the "heart-digging" skill.
Therefore, Xie Mingzhe directly removed the overly bloody descriptions, retaining only the 300% critical damage after hooking the person over. The story of digging out the heart can be placed in the card encyclopedia as a supplementary introduction.
The first skill of the Painted Skin card is single-target control. Beautiful Temptation can force a designated card to come in front of itself, and be used to lock the opponent's core card and pull it over to kill it instantly, but this kind of forced displacement skill is not uncommon and is not particularly outstanding.
The most powerful skill of Painted Skin is actually its second skill: disguising oneself in human skin.
- Disguise as any card and instantly gain its abilities.
For example, when fighting Ghost Hell, when the Ghoul comes out, Painted Skin can disguise himself as the Ghoul; when fighting the Temple of the Gods, when Lucifer comes out, Painted Skin can also temporarily pretend to be Lucifer. If the opponent's cards are not very useful, Painted Skin can also choose one of his own to pretend to be, for example, pretend to be a harvester card like Cao Pi or Sun Shangxiang, to help teammates deal explosive damage.
During the disguise period, she can only choose one skill to inherit, and her own attack power is not high, so her statistics are not very amazing.
In essence, she is similar to the "puppet master" of Guiji. The choice of the object of disguise has a great impact on her strength. She is a functional card that "becomes stronger when facing a stronger opponent".
This card is highly malleable and flexible. It tests the player's overall view and grasp of the rhythm of the game, knowing when to pretend and when to scare people.
The basic stats of Painted Skin Ghost are very poor, and he looks like an inconspicuous ghost in the joker deck.
But her skills determine her unlimited possibilities.
In a real competition, as long as the Painted Skin can choose the right person to impersonate and the right time to peel off the skin at the critical moment, Xie Mingzhe believes that this functional joker card can definitely create a miracle!
The author has something to say:
There are too many cards designed before, and it will become increasingly difficult to design more outstanding cards. I will consider making a batch of new cards for the playoffs.
Not many people have read Liao Zhai, so the stories of several female ghosts are described in more detail. The backgrounds of other Three Kingdoms, Water Margin character cards and well-known ghost and god cards will not be described in detail.