Tales of Spark News

Minor Fixes:
1. Gems governing gem drops now yield more gems.
2. Drops from certain world secrets can now be affected by Crimson item drops.
3. Fixed the icon of the Traveler's Guide, which inexplicably turned black previously.
4. Inn teleportation no longer teleports to the Monk's Hut but to the Great Buddha Shrine; killing Nightlight Bats 3 times enables teleportation.
5. Upon forced refresh and entering the map, a prompt message will now be displayed.
6. Gu Qingming: Fixed the description of Snowflake Six Directions talent, Ghost Shadow Pursuit talent and skill descriptions, and Swallow Swirl skill description.
7. Mangzi's Crescent Moon Slash damage type changed to melee damage, Starlight Scatter changed to ranged damage.
8. Corrected text errors in Mangzi's prologue in the storyline.
9. Added a hint about secret drops in the monster handbook, as too many people were asking.
10. Adjusted lighting between bosses in East Desert, outside of Tianhuo Mountain, and Fire God Temple.
11. Made some adjustments to the size and layout of surface textures on the map.
12. Added to the list of developers: "720 Niang Who Charges In," for assisting in polishing quest texts. Thanks for the help!

Update Content:

1. Travel Handbook
The travel notes have added 60 small tasks, completing them can help you understand various operations and improve skills in the game;
At the same time, each profession's travel notes have added a professional set and a brown horse mount;
Can't defeat the King of Gaochang? Don't know what to do after reaching max level? Don't know how to improve your strength?
This is a very important feature for friends who have not joined our community!

2. New Magic Contract:
Added Gu Qingming's super skill magic contract Phantom Moluo, changing the effects of Snowflake Six and Faxiang Extending;
Added Mangzi's super skill magic contract Witch Mountain Goddess, greatly improving the ability of the Moon Blade Hand;
You can obtain a set with this magic contract through the travel notes, or you can go to Yueya City to buy it directly from Li Zheng.

3. Visual Effects
The vast majority of scenes such as Yuhang Palace, Yuxu Palace, Kunlun Mountain Gate, East City Desert, West City Desert, Valley, Tianhuo Mountain, and Guiaoling have rich resources added;
Added many scene resources and scene effects, and adjusted all scene lighting;
The loading scenery photos of all scenes are remade to match the optimized graphics of the scenes.

4. Other Values
The CD of Fairy Bite has been increased by 1 second;
Fixed the bug of Snowflake Six skill damage attribute error;
The Zhujian Cave scene has been restructured, and monster and route optimization has been carried out to avoid getting lost;
Fixed the bug that it was difficult to deliver the Yushi task of Yin Gongzi.

Urgent fixes for 3 minor bugs:
(1) Bug where the back door from Mingyue Inn to Yueya City was closed;
(2) Bug where the portal closed after Yuwen Xu Zhang meditated and left;
(3) Bug where the portal closed after the end of the Dongping demon extermination.

Updates:

Just as the Year Beast leaves, the Guild Hall welcomes Leopard Taro!

Innkeeper Mingyue at the Howling Moon Inn has a new task for you.
The Guild Hall is frozen in the chill of late spring.
Leopard Taro wears powerful silver armor, the more hits he takes, the higher his defense!
Immune to debuffs such as life drain, blindness, and intimidation!
Like other legendary bosses, starting at difficulty level two, the instance resets upon completion.
Completing the task rewards a Black Leopard mount.
Welcome all heroes to join the challenge!
Numerical Adjustments:

After 5 seconds of blindness, there will be a 10-second period of resistance.
Cooldown for life drain increased from 0.5 seconds to 1 second.
Maximum level of bleeding reduced from 20 to 10.
Description of charging effect has been appropriately modified.
Buff icon added for Sword Qi Double Dragon.
Normal modification made to the talent description of Gu Qingming's Seven Toads Spirit Realm.
Other Fixes:

Fixed an issue where a character would continue to attack a monster for a period of time, causing possible lag on laptops.
Fixed a bug where the Desert Mirage wouldn't refresh the second time entering, resulting in no teleportation portal.
Adjusted the triggering area of the Forbidden Area in the Back Mountain, removing monsters that affect the storyline.
Fixed an issue where the duration of buffs did not increase with level.
Fixed a bug where the sound of flowing water in the Tianshan Path would persist.
Art-related:

Minor adjustments made to the lighting in some scenes.
The lighting in the valley has been changed to night.
Fixed an issue where certain scene effects would not display properly during cutscenes.

I. Professions and Attributes:

Fixed a bug where Gu Qingming's Xuan Yi Lian Ci couldn't hit nearby targets.
Addressed an issue where poisoning with Gu Qingming's Xuan Guang Fen sometimes failed.
Gu Qingming's talent for Sword Wind Step now reduces cooldown time, increases skill level, and adds more uses.
Fixed a passive skill bug with Gu Qingming's automatic Lucky Point addition, resolving its ineffectiveness after level 2.
Slightly increased the damage of Gu Qingming's Xuan Guang Zhan.
Reduced the HP deduction of Xue Ming from 12.5% to 10%.
II. Power, Attributes, and Inventory:

Rectified icons and descriptions of all late-game power buffs.
Separated cooldown acceleration during battles from pre-battle cooldown reduction, fixing bugs related to cooldown reduction caused by skills like Gu Qingming's Concealed Shadow, Ghostly Echoes, Yuwen's Rapid Command, as well as Thunder Dragon's Roar, Hesperidium, and Fairy Bite Pact.
Fixed anomalies in UITips, skill buttons, and actual character cooldown reduction.
III. Scenes and Quests:

Adjusted monster positions and loot bag placements in Tian Shan Path.
Refine layouts in the Sword Casting Cave level.
Adjusted the positions of fire basin switches in Sandworm Cave, consolidating three switches into one.
After killing Chi Yang in the Crimson Flame Cave, a portal to Mount Tianhuo will now open.
Modified the rewards for the Blacksmith Tools quest, adding artifact rewards.
Characters will now prioritize displaying death animations during cutscenes.
IV. Art Related:

Adjusted lighting, fog effects, and post-effects contrast parameters in Tian Shan, Kunlun Mountain, East City Desert, Ghost Wilderness, Sandworm Cave, etc.
Refined some scenes (such as Tian Shan and Kunlun Mountain series maps), replacing some low-poly models.
When revealing the fog on the minimap, the range now matches the scene's field of view.
Added a minimap, including adjustments to the display size of its markers.
V. Optimization:

Modified the logic for selling items in the inventory, fixing issues where common and rare equipment couldn't be sold correctly.
Optimized some action codes to prevent potential errors when NPCs and chests perform actions.
Made some optimizations to the camera to improve efficiency.
Slightly improved UI efficiency.
Changed the image properties of the in-game mouse cursor icons.