Zhang Yuanqing realized he had been focusing on the wrong thing.
Based on his experience at Mountain God Temple and the knowledge he had accumulated from reading countless guides, he had instinctively assumed that in this kind of survival instance, Spirit Realm Walkers needed to uncover clues themselves, find ways to handle the crises, and then resolve them one by one.
Just as he had done back at Mountain God Temple.
So, after successfully surviving the Ghost Doll crisis using intelligence, he had actively searched for the rouge box, believing that it surely contained a way to resolve the paper effigy crisis.
And indeed it did. From it, he had grasped the rule that the paper effigies killed one person per night, or stopped killing once their need for blood essence had been met. That was how he had survived.
But that was unreasonable. Not every Night Wanderer had resources like his.
It could be said that, given the difficulty of just the first two stages, 99.9% of Night Wanderers would have been unable to pass. Death would have been certain—and that was not even the instance's greatest danger.
He had gotten the focus wrong. Speechless Village was a survival instance, not a combat instance—though combat was also for the sake of survival. Survival was the main quest. He should not have started fighting in the first place.
But in the village, one could not survive without fighting. The elusive Ghost Doll and the teleporting paper effigies would inevitably be encountered once the time came. Without fighting, there was no way to live.
So the correct way to play was—leave the village and head for the ancient tomb.
Yes. The ancient tomb and the village together made up the complete map of Speechless Village.
From the Spirit Realm's introduction, to