(This update contains contents that can be experienced in the test branch)
(Some contents have not been fully localized, and we will improve them later)

Happy New Year

• The Spring Festival is coming, the Pavilion of Spirits has been immersed in a festive atmosphere recently.

New Heroine

New Mechanism

• Journey Route Selection System: You can choose a suitable route for yourself among random adventure routes. After beating the game for the first time, you can further unlock [Dangerous Levels] and [Furious Boss]!

New Level & New Bosses

• Great Wall: After beating the game for the first time, you can unlock a new chapter II level "Great Wall", which currently has two unlockable Bosses.

New Content (Weapons)

New weapons series: 6 unique and powerful cannons.

New Content (Item Sets)

• New Item Set: Magic Power Set
• New Item Set: Maggot Set
• New Item Set: Ace Up the Sleeve Set
• New Item Set: Momentum Set
• New Item Set: Hero Set
• New Item Set: Raystone Set
• New Item Set: Practitioner Set

New Content (Relics)

• New Relic: Heavenly Weed
• New Relic: Familiar Balm
• New Relic: Century Knotweed
• New Relic: Magic Toad Bead
• New Relic: Enraged Bovine's Brain
• New Relic: Gloomgourd
• New Relic: Corpse Maggot
• New Relic: Bloodthirsty Maggot
• New Relic: Heartbane Maggot
• New Relic: Puppet Maggot
• New Relic: Chaos Band
• New Relic: Blood Shield
• New Relic: Sword of Illusion
• New Relic: Killer Vine Seed
• New Relic: Skycutter Combo
• New Relic: Hunter Trap
• New Relic: Assist Bomb
• New Relic: Power Belt
• New Relic: Sprint Shoes
• New Relic: Fists of Momentum
• New Relic: Earthshaker
• New Relic: Badge of Bravery
• New Relic: Tome of the Inner Eye
• New Relic: Tome of Mastery
• New Relic: Spirit Seal
• New Relic: Wind Raystone
• New Relic: Flame Raystone
• New Relic: Water Raystone
• New Relic: Earth Raystone
• New Relic: Gold Raystone
• New Relic: Phantom Raystone
• New Relic: Time Raystone
• New Relic: Pill of Marching
• New Relic: Violet-golden Gourd
• New Relic: Cloud Gloves
• New Relic: Gauze Herb
• New Relic: Golden Silkworm
• New Relic: Toad Saliva

Balance (Heroines & Weapons)

• Ajiela: the effect of her skill is strengthened.
• Polearms: charged stab now has the "break defense" effect; Hit protection caused by jab is slightly increased to prevent incorrectly repeated hit; increase the damage of jab attacks.
• Bloodletter: increase the damage of Chain Strike.
• Iron-studded Staff: adjust the damage factor of jab attacks.
• Shields: a counter-attack is automatically triggered after blocking.
• Flamebrand: can perform riposte as other longswords.
• Zanbatou: can perform riposte as other longswords.
• Poison Fang: can perform riposte as other longswords.
• Character Talent - Vigor: only affects targets that are of type "Character".
• Character Talent - No Equal: only affects targets that are of type "Character".
• Character Talent - Sneak Attack: only affects targets that are of type "Character".

Balance (Bosses)

• General Nara: no longer dodges after casting whirlwind slash.
• Pachi: the scroll of Sword of Illusion will be dropped by defeating it.
• Hsing T'ien: change the soul bonus to 10 points (same as other chapter 2 bosses).
• Gray Immortal: immune to poison.
• Willow Immortal: immune to poison; adjust some battle logic; add Revenge Attack mechanism.
• Yellow Immortal: adjust some battle logic; add Revenge Attack mechanism.
• White Immortal: adjust some battle logic; add Revenge Attack mechanism; slow the startup animation for certain attacks.
• Fox Immortal: adjust some battle logic; add Revenge Attack mechanism; claw attacks will track the target.
• modify the unlocking order of chapter 2 bosses to General Nara -> Hsing T'ien -> Pachi.
• modify the unlocking order of chapter 3 bosses to Gray Immortal -> Broodmother Nest -> Arboreal Maiden -> Forest Devil.

Balance (Enemies)

• Mire Squad: no longer stop the target from attacking; hit protection caused by it is increased.
• Mire Battalion: no longer stop the target from attacking; hit protection caused by it is increased.
• Skeleton Spearman: charged stab now has the "break defense" effect.
• Skeleton Pikeman: charged stab now has the "break defense" effect.
• Devil Slayers with a spear: charged stab now has the "break defense" effect.
• Farmer Bandit: charged stab now has the "break defense" effect.
• Carrion Maggot Nest: immune to all status effects.
• Skeleton Pit: immune to all status effects.
• Headless Clansmen: unify the elite aura for the head and the body; the body is immune to some status effects now.
• King of Thieves：add 500 spirit armor; a jade pendant will be dropped by defeating him.

Balance (Misc)

• Electric Damage: the stun effect has been changed to a 50% chance to trigger.

Experience optimizations

• adjust running animations of all heroines.
• reduce the amount of souls required to unlock new items / talents / game features.
• improve the way of locking targets by push the right stick of controllers.
• when you play with a keyboard only or with a controller and not locking any target, you can control the attack direction by WSAD keys (keyboard) and left / right sticks (controller).
• improve the buffer of player inputs.
• limit the characters' turn ability during attacks, to avoid strange visual results and reduce the difficulty of targeting the enemy using a mouse.
• set some practices to unlock by default.
• improve the game data saving process. try to reduce save failures.
• add a little waiting time after the opening movie, and slow the followed fade in.
• improve the input logic of the mouse.
• Solve the problem of lag when the heroine dies.
• display a prompt dialog when Steam fails to initialize.
• General Nara: add a new achievement for beating him.
• Fallen Buddha: add a new achievement for beating it.
• stop the game time when in a Soul Room.
• now you can set a custom distance threshold value for auto-switching target and auto unlocking.
• achievements can no longer be unlocked in Free Mode.
• add dialogues for the wooden man.
• rearrange the start menu after selecting a profile to avoid being misleading.
• Bone Shield: change the implementation to avoid the old misleading 1000%-damage-reduction way.
• Bonecrusher: change the implementation to avoid the old misleading 1000%-damage-reduction way.

UI and Effects

• adjust the layout and font size to enhance the display effect at 720p resolution.
• pause the world when any unlocking UI opens.
• change the picture of Bosses to a new version.
• add "View Save File" in the setting menu.
• increase the dialogue play speed for English.
• add some random pauses while playing the dialogue sound.
• improve the loading speed of some UI.
• improve the scrolling logic of items in the pause menu.
• FPS display can be turned on from the setting menu.
• rework the HP bar of bosses.

Bug Fixes

• Survival Challenge: fix the problem that errors may occur when you start a survival challenge.
• Timestone: fix the problem of displaying incorrect effects.
• Fox Immortal: fix a sound timing error.
• General Nara: fix the error setting of cancels.
• Forest Devil: fix an issue that Forest Devil would be obstructed by his killer vine.
• King of Thieves: fix the problem that the drop sequence may repeat.
• Scrooge: fix the problem that the drop sequence may repeat.
• Eye Devourer's Pupil: fix the problem that the King of Thieves is not affected by this item.
• Luoyang Shovel: fix an issue that the bonus of treasure boxes appeared before picking up Luoyang Shovel would not be doubled.
• Familiar Mirror: fix an issue that the Familiar Mirror would not work when the familiar is dead.
• fix an issue that the portal may not open after defeating the Lantern Keeper in White Immortal's room.
• fix incorrect picking logic that may cause an increase in relic purchase count and cause prices to increase.
• fix an issue that the wooden man in Pavilion of Spirits could be burned to death.
• fix an issue that the shop keeper is not affected by any curse.
• fix an issue where the unused controller would vibrate while playing with a keyboard.
• fix the problem that the font size is incorrect after switching languages.
• fix the incorrect sound of some heroine.
• fix some texture error.
• fix some typos.

Localization

• improve the localization of the "new unlockable item" window.
• improve the display of weapon descriptions in some languages.
• fix some issues with translated text.

Misc

• optimize character animation update process to improve efficiency.
• optimize scene loading speed.
• other minor modifications and adjustments.