Battlefield Tales: I Lead the Corpse King in Slaughtering the Japanese Invaders

Zhang Xiaodao is a character I created, but he is by no means made up out of thin air. He is a reflection of the countless Taoist priests who fought against the Japanese. They should not be sealed away by the passage of time, much less forgotten by their people.

Everyone knows how brutal the War of Resistance was, yet few know that Chinese Taoism once took up the banner of national salvation in the most tragic way. When the Japanese invaders' iron hooves trampled our land, nine out of ten Taoist temples lay empty ruins. Bells and drums fell silent, and the Taoist canon turned to ash. Faced with disaster on the brink of annihilation, the priests who had once devoted themselves to spiritual cultivation resolutely put down their scriptures and took up swords and guns.

They shattered the stereotype of