—In that case, let's eliminate them as enemies!

Om-! ! !

Yang Xiying frowned and stared, an invisible pressure spreading outwards from her body, instantly engulfing the wave of surroundrs and those being surrounded!

puff--! ! !

Those people instantly rolled their eyes, collapsed to the ground, utterly exhausted, leaving only one person who was barely able to stand, kneeling on the ground, trembling all over.

"...Yang, you've already mastered the art of intimidation to this extent?" Izayoi Sakuya exclaimed in surprise.

Although she had seen scenes of intimidation before, she never used this technique indiscriminately, regardless of whether the opponent was friend or foe.

They did enjoy the benefit of not being harmed by friends when they teamed up with Yang Xiying, but there was still someone on the other side who was conscious.

This wasn't because the opponent was strong enough to be immune, but because Yang Xiying deliberately prevented him from fainting due to the aura she released.

"Conqueror's Haki, this is one of the results of my cultivation in the Immortal Realm. I will explain it to you later," Yang Xiying replied directly.

However, now is not the time to explain this, because the conscious one finally spoke, though he was still holding on.

"...You, who are you?"

He still had great difficulty speaking, because he had just felt as if he were surrounded by dozens or hundreds of wild beasts. No, this was no longer just the level of wild beasts, but the level of ghosts and gods!

"Are you still going to treat us as accomplices of that beast over there who poisoned and killed an entire family just because of a disagreement?"

Yang Xiying revealed a playful expression.

"My...My lord! Your Majesty, please forgive me! I acted impulsively! I offended you just now, please forgive me!" The man quickly knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

This is absolutely not the time to confront the other side, or you'll experience something even more terrifying!

So he had to be respectful, looking at their strange but elegant attire, which made them seem like royalty or nobility.

Moreover, only someone like that can cultivate that kind of aura. My lord, Your Majesty... that's the right way to address them!

“…Heh,” Yang Xiying grinned, immediately switching into her ‘speak human language to humans and ghost language to ghosts’ mode.

"Then I will be magnanimous and forgive you, as long as you can answer my questions truthfully."

This guy was the one who challenged me before. Judging from how much he can say, I should be able to answer a lot of his questions now.

"I...I will tell you everything I know!"

"Okay, then tell me your name first, and then tell me what this place is, be specific, and what else is around here."

“Good…good! My name is Yao Zhong, and I am from Dongchuan. This is a place in the northern part of Xishu.”

"There aren't many villages or houses around, and not many places whose names you can remember. There's a beggar's hut if you go west."

"That is a place where many beggars gather, and if you go southeast, you will reach a place called Zanghuacao Shed."

"It is said that it was the residence of a famous doctor in Sichuan. His medical skills were so superb that even people from other places would come here for treatment."

"I see... Then tell me about the other famous places in Western Shu as well."

Yang Xiying seemed to understand what he was hearing, and then continued to ask questions. He seemed to have now heard the location that was engraved in the DNA.

So I'd like to ask more questions.

"Uh... In the famous places of Western Shu, there's the Qingcheng Sect and the Yishifugui Winery in the south, and an academy in the east..."

"that's it?"

"And Dayan Town! Karma Monastery! Shijiazhuang. I only came here to chase after my enemies, so these are all I remember!"

Hearing the questioning words from the other end, Yao Zhong became even more nervous and quickly added, but he seemed unable to get any other information out of him.

"Alright, thanks for letting me know. You can do whatever you want from now on. Your companions are just unconscious; we can wake them up."

"As for that enemy, he was already unconscious and had no power to resist, so it would be easy to kill or torture him."

"We won't bother you any longer."

Upon hearing the reply, Yang Xiying nodded thoughtfully, indicating that he roughly knew where he was.

So there's no need to keep asking. He can explain it to his companions now. With that, he looked at Yukari Yakumo, who nodded in response.

"Thank...thank you!"

Upon hearing this, Yao Zhong felt as if he had been granted a pardon, and when he heard that his brother was still alive, he was so excited that he almost jumped up.

The other side even said that he would have to kowtow three times and nine times to his enemy if he could do whatever he wanted with him, but it wouldn't hurt to kowtow to such an adult.

"My lord... eh?"

Just as he finished kowtowing and looked up, he found that Yang Xiying and the other two had disappeared, which left him bewildered but also filled him with a sense of awe.

Because these three strangely dressed people seemed to be more than just royalty; they also wanted to ask him these common-sense questions.

—This is more like a fairy or celestial being who has just emerged from the mountains…

"Does Brother Yang already know where this place is?"

In the brief moment, Yakumo Yukari suddenly asked Yang Xiying, and judging from his expression, he seemed to already know what was going on.

“Okay, let’s go to the front-line base now and explain it to everyone,” Yang Xiying nodded.

These things also need to be made known to everyone, so the three of them traveled to the front-line base inside the painting.

“We’ve already gained a basic understanding of this other world, the ancient Yan Kingdom. Yang Xiying, you still look like you know something.”

Inside the front-line base's living room, the Gensokyo girls who had come along were gathered, and they could also see what was happening outside through the gaps.

So Remilia knew what Yang Xiying and the other two wanted to say when they came in, and that's why she asked them this question.

"Is this a world from an entertainment production set in your ancient homeland?"

“Yes,” Yang Xiying nodded, “The place names I learned from that person correspond to the place names in the video games I’ve played before.”

"So this place could be the world of that video game, and its name is 'The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel'."

"The Legend of Heroes of the River and Lakes..." Upon hearing this somewhat profound name, a group of people seemed to be deep in thought, because they felt as if they had heard this name before.

—Isn't this one of the sources mentioned behind the Heavenly Book?

"It sounds like a martial arts-style name unique to Yan Kingdom."

Yukari Yakumo spoke up at this moment. Although they had heard of these worlds, they did not inquire about the details of these worlds.

Therefore, she could only associate this with the martial arts world through the words "xia" (侠) and the more classical-sounding term "Heluo" (河洛), and she was somewhat familiar with the novel "Qunxia Zhuan" (群侠传).

"Yes, The Legend of Heroes: The Great River is a martial arts game where modern people travel to an alternate ancient time to find a celestial book."

"Why does this sound like your experience?" Hearing Yang Xiying say that, Reimu Hakurei's eye twitched, and she couldn't help but retort.

Yang Xiying is from another time and space, and Gensokyo has an ancient feel to him. Most importantly, he also wants to find the Heavenly Book.

"Actually, 'Heavenly Book' is just a simplified name for those secret manuals that suddenly appear in various worlds," Yukari Yakumo said at this moment.

"So the Heavenly Book here should be something else entirely, maybe it's one of the fourteen books: Flying Snow Shoots the White Deer, Laughing at the Divine Hero and Leaning on the Jade Couple."

“It seems you’ve read ‘The Legend of the Condor Heroes’, Sister Zi,” Yang Xiying couldn’t help but say when she heard Yukari Yakumo say that.

Only this game could describe "Flying Snow Shoots the White Deer, Smiling Proud Wanderer, Divine Swordsman, and Jade Couple" as if they were divine scriptures.

"After all, the heavenly book that descended has a source in 'The Legend of the Condor Heroes' by Jin Yong, while this is a video game in our Gensokyo world."

"So I had some contact with it, which was also the content of modern Yan people traveling to another time and space to collect the heavenly book."

"But the knowledge in there seems to be useless now, after all, Brother Yang calls this world 'The Legend of Heroes of the River and Lakes'."

"In my world, The Legend of Heroes: The Great River is almost a remake of The Legend of Heroes: Jin Yong, but for various reasons it is more like a sequel."

Yang Xiying responded that "The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel" is a martial arts-themed, seamless open-world game launched by Heluo Studio in 2018.

Its predecessor was "Jin Yong's Heroes", which was based on Jin Yong's martial arts novels. It was basically a martial arts version of "Super Robot Wars".

However, the term "mecha-like" here mainly refers to "The Legend of Jin Yong," a game created by Heluo Publishing Co., Ltd. because they had the rights to adapt Jin Yong's martial arts novels.

However, when they were making "The Legend of the Condor Heroes," they no longer had the copyright to Jin Yong's martial arts novels...

"Therefore, the character settings and story settings have been changed. The Heavenly Book here is not fourteen books, but two different things."

“The animal hides called Hetu and the tortoise shells called Luoshu are like the heavenly books we know, from which we can learn all kinds of techniques.”

"Even becoming emperor here wouldn't be a problem. Besides, this thing is also the key to opening the sanctuary."

"And this sanctuary is the spatial rift connecting this world to other worlds, but the local king sealed it off with a palace."

“...This book sounds like an incredible treasure,” Marisa Kirisame exclaimed, eager to try it out.

"—Should we collect all the celestial books we know as well?"

"Regarding this, let's first find all the scattered Heavenly Books. I already sensed it just now."

"—The west and southeast sides both have the aura of celestial books."

"So, which side should we go to first?" Reimu Hakurei asked, and Yang Xiying responded directly.

"The flower-covered hut in the southeast direction. To confirm whether this world is the same as 'The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel,' we need to look at the events that happen there."

Although the previous encounters with several revenge-seeking individuals resembled storylines from the game, he skipped through much of the plot of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel.

All they know is how to play this game: get the Dragon Balls at the start, exploit bugs to help those with affinity achieve success—this is like skipping through life.

So he can consider it a victory if he can remember the main storyline and some side stories, and he has a deep impression of the storyline of the Hidden Flower Hut.

—After all, there are two beasts that can't be killed in the game.

……

"Hmm... your illness has reached a critical stage, but it is not incurable."

Zanghuacaopeng is a building located beside a river. It was the residence of Chen Zhiji, a famous physician in Sichuan.

As a result, even people from other places travel long distances to seek medical treatment here, so you can see long queues of people every day.

Chen Zhiji was treating a middle-aged man, and he frowned as soon as he saw the man's complexion and pulse.

"Really? Dr. Chen, is there still hope for me?"

Although the person on the other end initially claimed the illness was terminal, the middle-aged man perked up as soon as he heard there was a cure.

Because he and his wife had searched for many doctors but to no avail, they had no choice but to come from afar to try their luck at the flower shed.

“There is indeed hope, but this method…” But Chen Zhiji did not offer much optimism, explaining the cost of this medical approach.

"I observe that your illness is unusual and cannot be diagnosed using conventional methods. Therefore, I will take an unconventional approach and use poison to fight poison..."

"Therefore, this medical method is extremely domineering. Regardless of whether you can withstand the poison of the pills, just look at your body, which is currently ravaged by the disease."

"I'm afraid you can't even handle slightly heavy medicinal herbs, let alone the pills I've made which contain several very hot ingredients. You simply can't withstand them."

Such treatment is very risky; one wrong move and one could die during treatment. Chen Zhiji felt he couldn't bear that responsibility.

"Ah? How could this happen?" Upon hearing Chen Zhiji's words, the middle-aged man's face showed a look of despair, but he still pleaded.

"Dr. Chen... I have a family to support. I... I will grit my teeth and get through this. No, I will definitely pull through. You must save me."

"Sigh, never mind, I'll take care of you for a while first. If your body can withstand the effects of that potent medicine, then I'll treat you."

"Madam Cheng, please prepare a bed and bring Uncle Shui to my room."

Chen Zhiji sighed and turned his gaze to the black-haired woman in white robes who was waiting quietly beside him. She seemed to be his assistant, and after hearing what Chen Zhiji said, she went to make the arrangements.

"Yes, sir."

And so, Chen Zhiji finished seeing the first patient and moved on to treating the next one in line, all of which was observed by the two men.

"That uncle doesn't seem sick; he looks more like he's been poisoned," one of the girls commented.

—And this was Reimu Hakurei, and beside her was Yang Xiying.

PS: This is a two-in-one compilation of four thousand words.

NO.113+114 Shi Hongtu and Du Jinpeng! They deserve to die!

Oh? You've already figured it out?

Upon hearing Reimu Hakurei's words, Yang Xiying couldn't help but respond, her words entering the mind of the person opposite her.

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