Legendary Son-in-Law: The Man with Poison Talismans

[Iron Belt, Defense 0-3, Magic Defense 0-1, Attack 0-2, Requires Level 22. Allows you to attach frequently used medicines or scrolls to the belt for easy access.]

Chapter 175 Crescent Blade

At the end, there were a few lines of dim text, which were coordinates that had not been activated and were not yet wearing the memory suit.

After looking at the status bar, Lin Mu shifted his gaze from the numbers in his mind and his attention returned to the darkness of the Demon Sealing Hall.

By this time, the bosses of all three maps and the top-tier Zuma monsters had been defeated, and the skeletons had also cleared out the small monsters and a few white boars in the area near the entrance.

Monster remains were scattered everywhere on the ground, mixed with dark red blood, which gleamed with a somber light under the torches made of the Wuji Staff and amulets.

In the darkness, the torchlight flickered on the stone wall, illuminating the indistinct outlines of monsters in the distance. The sound of wedge moths' wings came from the darkness, sometimes near, sometimes far.

The monsters' glowing spots flashed on the skull's minimap, and there were quite a few of them.

Lin Mu glanced into the darkness and patted the skull's shoulder blade.

The skeleton, carrying the dragon slayer, charged forward.

White boars, black maggots, red boars, black boars, wedge moths, and bats swarmed in from all directions, surrounding the skeleton in the blink of an eye.

The chain hammer slammed down, the spiked club swung around, wild boars nudged with their snouts, bats fluttered in the sky, and wedge moths spat out mouthfuls of sticky sap. Lin Mu leaned against the wall, watching, silently counting the numbers that appeared above the skull in his mind.

The white boar's hammer can deal 30 to 40 points of damage when it hits the body, while other monsters' attacks rarely deal single-digit damage when they hit the skeleton. Most attacks don't even break through the defense, and the damage numbers don't fluctuate much.

The skeleton's health bar dropped a bit, then slowly started to recover. With four points of health regeneration per second, plus the life steal from the Rainbow Demon Set and Lin Mu's healing spell, it actually managed to hold on steadily.

The health bar drops a bit, then rises back up, dropping and rising again, like a sawing motion.

Lin Mu took out some medicinal powder and applied a handful of red poison to the white wild boar.

The skeleton's damage instantly multiplied several times. With one slash, -318 appeared above the white boar's head; with another slash, -242... As the damage doubled, the skeleton's life steal also doubled.

The skull's head displayed +20, +17...

With the bonus of [Attack Speed ​​+3], the skeleton's dragon slayer danced with figure-eight slashes amidst hordes of monsters, leaving afterimages in its wake.

One after another, white lights flashed, as fast as lightning.

At the same time, tiny blue arcs of electricity exploded on the blade, the current crackling and popping as it surged through the monsters. Single-digit damage numbers floated above the monsters' heads; though not high, the wide range of the damage dealt was significant, striking large areas with a single strike.

The skeleton slashed left and right, the dragon-slaying sword flew up and down, and the health bar stopped decreasing and even started to rise.

Looking at the invincible skeleton, Lin Mu felt that it could handle two more white boars.

But clearing groups of monsters is still slow. It would be great if the skeletons learned the Crescent Slash skill.

Lin Mu thought about the instructor's words and recited them while using his mind to transmit them to the skeleton.

"The crescent blade is a weapon used by warriors for group attacks. The energy is channeled into the arm and the power is channeled into the blade. It is not like the thrusting that penetrates armor and stone, but rather uses energy to form a shape and shape to expand the momentum."

"When drawing the sword, the Qi rises from the Dantian, passes through the Jianjing point, goes through the elbow, enters the wrist, and is released through the blade. Before the blade arrives, the Qi has already moved, forming a crescent arc to sweep away the enemy in the half-circle in front of the body."

"This arc is not a mere illusion, but the condensation of qi, capable of injuring the enemy where the blade cannot reach. Therefore, those who practice this technique should first train the circularity of qi, and then train the arc of the blade."

"When the energy is round, the arc is full; when the arc is full, the coverage is wide. When the energy is insufficient, the arc is incomplete; when the arc is incomplete, the enemy is exposed. The wonder of the crescent moon lies not in the strength, but in the roundness of the energy and the fullness of the arc. With a sweep of the blade, the entire half-circle in front of you is under the blade."

……

The skeleton was too eager to kill the monster, and before Lin Mu could finish speaking, the Dragon Slayer Blade swept across the room.

But the blade got stuck in the black boar's belly halfway through the swing, its trajectory abruptly cut off, and the crescent-shaped slash was reduced to a simple horizontal cut instead of a sweeping motion.

The skeleton paused for a moment, then tried again, but was still blocked.

The monsters surrounded us too tightly; I couldn't swing my knife.

Lin Mu continued chanting while using his mind to transmit the message to the skeleton.

"However, there is one key point about this technique that you must remember: the crescent moon is not the mark of a blade, but the mark of qi."

"When the Qi is formed, it envelops the blade, and the blade transforms into Qi, its form is empty but its substance remains. When the enemy sees the blade, he blocks its form, but the Qi has already passed."

"Parrying is no match for its power, and parrying is no match for its power. If you are hit by this technique, your armor can reduce the damage, but parrying and parrying will be ineffective."

"Once the blade is drawn, wherever the energy reaches, it will surely cause injury. It is not about where the blade goes, but about where the energy reaches."

(This means that the arc of light from the crescent-shaped blade isn't created by the blade itself, but by the qi (energy). Once the qi takes shape, it envelops the blade, making the blade appear tangible and substantial, though it's actually an illusion, but the damage is real. When an enemy sees the blade coming and tries to block it with their weapon, they're only blocking the illusion; the real qi can penetrate the weapon's defense and strike them. Those hit by this strike may have their armor and natural resistance reduced, but blocking and parrying are useless.)

Lin Mu chanted it over and over again, while the skeleton swung its knife repeatedly.

The blade was blocked by the monster's body time and time again, getting stuck in its thick flesh, but the skeleton didn't stop. Like a tireless machine, it swung its blade, was blocked, swung again, and was blocked again.

However, he never grasped the essence of it, couldn't open the skill book, and couldn't unleash the true Crescent Slash.

Lin Mu remembered that when he attended that class, the instructor was speaking with great enthusiasm on the stage, but the students below listened with little interest.

No one spoke, no one asked questions. Some people were looking down at other books, some were dozing off with their heads propped up, and some were staring blankly out the window.

That's true. Crescent Slash is an area-of-effect skill, but how many people in this world can actually charge into a horde of monsters and clear them out in groups?

As for the fact that the Qi of the half-moon will not be blocked, it sounds impressive, but so what?

Why not use assassination in a one-on-one fight? You can strike from a distance without being blocked, and it ignores defense, making it much more powerful than a half-moon strike.

So everyone at most learns a skill, then abandons it once they've mastered it; nobody puts in the effort to practice it. The skeleton might glance at someone from afar occasionally, but it never actually learns the skill.

Lin Mu sighed, signaling it not to try.

Trying any further is a waste of effort; let's focus on efficiently farming monsters first.

He raised his hand and cast a collective invisibility spell. The white mist exploded, and the skeleton's figure became semi-transparent.

The monsters lost their target, their attacks stopped, and they wandered around aimlessly.

With a thought, Lin Mu caused the skeleton to disappear from the monster horde, and a new skeleton stood beside him.

Lin Mu removed the skeleton's equipment, closed his eyes, and with a thought, merged with it.

Silvery-white light surged toward him, and bone armor enveloped his body layer by layer.

He opened his eyes and drank two large bottles of magic potion, causing his mana bar to slowly rise.

He gripped the Wuji Staff tightly, swung it forward, and the silvery-white bone skin on the staff glowed slightly. The bone skin peeled off from the tip of the staff and rapidly condensed in the air, transforming into a bone-white axe. It flew out with a whoosh of wind and struck a black maggot in the distance.

Chapter 176 Mass Farming, Catching Evil Maggots, Jiang Mansion

Although his throwing axe attack doesn't have the blue electric current of the skeleton, it carries his own green poison, dealing 45 damage every two seconds for 7 minutes, resulting in 9450 poison damage alone.

Aside from tanky monsters like the White Boar, no other monster can withstand a single axe blow; once poisoned, they'll fall to the ground in four or five minutes.

The flying axe struck a black maggot squarely in the center.

-102.

Instantly, the black maggot glowed green, and -45, -45 appeared above its head as it rolled towards him. Lin Mu ignored it, turned around, and threw another axe, hitting the red boar in the distance.

One, two, three...

Once all the monsters in this area have been poisoned with green poison.

Lin Mu switched to his teleportation ring and used Flash to teleport to a new location, then repeated the attack on the unpoisoned monsters.

After several rounds, Lin Mu's arms were sore from swinging, but he didn't stop for a moment.

Before long, the entire Demon Soul Palace was covered in lush greenery.

The wedge moths turned green, the bats turned green, the red and black wild boars all turned green, and even the hornfly in the corner got a hit from his axe.

Some monsters had already fallen halfway down the road, while others were still following behind him, swaying and chasing. But after Lin Mu merged with his body, he had over 4,000 HP and ridiculously high defense, so he wasn't afraid of being chased at all.

Even if surrounded by several white boars and small monsters, you won't die if you just tough it out.

If all else fails, cast an invisibility spell on them, and the monster will stop.

With another flash, a white light appeared, and he broke through the encirclement, continuing to apply poison with his flying axe.

He would only glance back occasionally to check if the poison was still there, and to replenish what needed to be replenished or wait for what needed to be waited for.

Seeing that everyone had turned green, Lin Mu released the fusion with a thought.

The silvery-white light spots peeled off his body, and the skeleton stood beside him again.

He equipped the skeleton, patted its shoulder blade, and pointed at the green monsters.

The skeleton understood and charged forward with the dragon slayer sword.

After all, the white boar has high defense and high health, and poison alone is too slow to kill it; you also need skeletons to go in and hack it down.

After some time, the monsters in the Demon Soul Palace were almost all cleared out, leaving only one black evil maggot trapped in eight blue and white pillars of light, as if it had been frozen in place, not moving at all.

It took Lin Mu a long time to finally trap it. He squatted outside the pillar of light and stared at the dark, round thing for a long time.

He recalled the wheels of Yang Xiong's car; if he wasn't mistaken, they resembled eight black maggots, moving in unison, fast and steady.

How did they get that thing out?

He pondered for a while, then took out a mount pouch from his Qiankun bag and released a yellow horse.

The moment the yellow horse's four hooves touched the ground, it sensed the intense demonic energy around it and immediately began to neigh uncomfortably, snorting, pawing the ground with its front hooves, and its mane standing on end, appearing restless and agitated.

Lin Mu quickly took out another mount pouch and put the restless yellow horse inside. The two horses were squeezed into the same pouch, the space was cramped, and the horses' bodies were pressed together, but it was still manageable for a short time.

He held the brocade pouch that had floated into the air, aimed it at the black maggot in the beam of light, and with a thought, he put it away.

The black maggots vanished instantly from the beam of light.

Lin Mu peeked into the brocade pouch of his mount. The thing was curled up in a ball, lying quietly in the gray space, motionless.

A smile crept onto his face as he wondered if he could get a car too, which would be much more comfortable than riding a horse.

At this moment, the monsters in the Demon Soul Palace were finally completely wiped out.

Lin Mu stuffed the brocade pouch, let out a long breath, and his tense nerves slowly relaxed. The soreness in his shoulders and the aching in his legs and feet surged up like a tide.

He slowly sat down against the cold stone wall and cast an invisibility spell to prevent monsters from suddenly spawning.

After all this fuss, it's time to take a break.

The skeleton stood to one side, the dragon slayer on the ground, the flames in its eye sockets flickering, silently guarding.

Lin Mu took out two sesame seed cakes from his Qiankun bag and started eating them.

With one bite, the aroma of wheat mixed with the fragrance of oil spread in his mouth. He chewed slowly, as if he were savoring some extraordinary delicacy.