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

Thinking of this, Lin Mu felt a chill run down his spine.

Furthermore, it seems that the tree spirit's attack power increases as it gets closer to the edge of its attack range, and its attack speed also increases slightly.

林牧回想了一下骷髅刚才跑出来的过程，前200米地刺的伤害稳定在370点左右，到了250米左右伤害涨到了390多，快到300米的时候最后一刺“-427”直接干掉了骷髅。

With each step you take, the spikes deal more damage and increase your speed, like slowly accelerating while chasing prey—not too fast, not too slow, but you just can't escape.

Lin Mu tried again.

This time, he stood 305 meters away from the tree spirit and let the skeleton go in.

The skeleton walked within 50 meters of the tree spirit, and the tree spirit began to attack again. Sensing the movement under its feet, the skeleton turned and ran.

When Lin Mu reached a distance of 295 meters from the tree demon, he raised his hand and cast a collective invisibility spell. The white mist exploded, and the skeleton's figure instantly became semi-transparent.

The ground stopped bulging, and the spikes stopped.

As expected. Just like in the game, the tree spirit cannot break stealth.

Lin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling more confident. As long as the hidden power wasn't broken, the fight would be easier.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, the ground shook again, and another spike emerged from under the skeleton's foot, heading straight for its groin.

Just as the spikes were about to pierce the skeleton, Lin Mu moved his mind, and the skeleton disappeared from its original spot with a "whoosh" and returned to his side.

The spike missed its target and retracted.

Lin Mu cursed, "This old sixth tree demon can actually break through stealth?"

No, there was a clear pause just now. The spikes did stop, and then they reappeared two seconds later.

He fully healed the skeleton and let it run one more time.

The skeleton once again entered the treant's 50-meter range, and the treant began to attack. The skeleton ran away, and Lin Mu cast a group invisibility spell when the skeleton ran to 295 meters.

This time he timed it precisely: one, two. As soon as two seconds were up, the ground began to shake again, and the spikes shot up once more.

After trying a few more times, Lin Mu discovered that no matter how he hid, the tree demon could re-lock onto the target after two seconds.

Even if it immediately re-emerges after breaking stealth, it's useless. The tree spirit seems to have memorized its presence, and the two-second interval is the limit for the tree spirit to pause.

It seems that invisibility only lasts for two seconds.

Unless the target completely leaves the 300-meter attack range and the tree spirit completely loses its sense of the target's aura, it will reset its perception of the aura.

Standing 305 meters away from the tree demon, Lin Mu went over this crucial information in his mind several times, and gradually a vague plan formed in his head.

He squatted down, took out a torch from his storage bag, lit it, and stuck it at his feet.

The orange-red flames danced in the hazy mist, like tiny lamps. This was to prevent myself from panicking and running off course, or taking a longer route, when it was officially opened later.

At the same time, he closed his eyes, and with a thought, memorized the coordinates.

[Memory failed. Should the already memorized coordinates be replaced?]

【whether】

"Yes".

Please select the coordinates to replace.

【1. Beech Province (Mining Area Entrance), 71820/36627】

【2. Demon Sealed Palace, 1867/1578】

【3. Beech Province (Lin Mansion Secret Chamber), 25/11】

【4. Beech Province (Rugui Inn), 042/019】

Lin Mu made a slight thought and chose "4".

The line in his mind, "[Bichon Province (Rugui Inn), 042/019]", slowly transformed into "[Fengmo Valley, 01071/01825]".

This way, if anything goes wrong, you can be teleported back directly.

Unfortunately, this is only a backup plan. The teleportation cooldown is 24 hours, so you can't just rely on teleportation to run back and forth; you also need to use Flash.

Having prepared all that, he opened his eyes and dusted off his hands.

Fit.

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

He pulled a large magic potion from his belt and gulped it down, then pulled out a healing potion, unscrewed the cap, and put it in his mouth.

Then slowly, step by step, they moved towards the tree spirit.

Beneath my feet was dark red soil, soft and yielding, like stepping on the flesh of some living thing.

Chapter 196 Mouth Opened in an O-shape

He tried to walk as quietly as possible, but his heart was pounding louder than his footsteps.

I felt a little nervous about taking the stage myself.

Those spikes target the lower body, hitting the target every time. Even if a skeleton's skeleton is pierced, it can be resummoned. But if his little brother were pierced, he dared not think about what would happen next.

Lin Mu moved forward step by step, taking more than ten steps, then stopping to look at his feet, then taking a few more steps, and looking again.

The fog grew thicker, and the tree's outline became clearer. Its gray-white canopy, like a giant open umbrella, obscured the hazy sky above.

The scars and knots on the bark were faintly visible in the mist, as if they were slowly wriggling. Countless distorted faces were squeezed together on the trunk, some looking like they were crying, some like they were laughing, and some with their mouths open, as if they were shouting silently.

Finally, they moved to a position 51 meters away from the tree demon.

Lin Mu stopped and let out a long breath.

There was no vibration underfoot; the ground was as calm as a drum.

He squatted down, took out another torch from his storage bag, lit it, and stuck it in the ground.

The orange flames danced in the grayish-white mist, echoing the torch in the distance like two guiding lights.

At the same time, Lin Mu breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this tree demon had no memory and only knew how to lure the enemy in. He didn't even change his strategy after his own trump card was exposed.

Lin Mu stood up, cast an invisibility spell, and with a thought...

With a flash of white light, he teleported to a position more than 20 meters away from the tree demon. This distance was exactly within the range of his poison spell.

His feet landed on the dark red soil, and he didn't dare to breathe, his eyes fixed on the ground beneath his feet.

Fortunately, the land remained calm, without any bulges, cracks, or tremors.

It seems the tree spirit is usually in a dormant state; as long as its first attack isn't triggered and it's not woken up, its stealth-breaking mechanism won't work. Stealth does have some effect after all.

He looked down at his groin again. The white bone armor covered his groin completely, with layers of armor plates stacked on top of each other like an upside-down bowl.

Still not satisfied, he took out a dagger from his storage bag and tied it with a rope to the underside of the bone armor in his groin, with the blade facing outwards, like a small groin protector.

He was genuinely nervous, even more so than Jiang Yanzhou was on the ring.

All I can do is pray that my little brother will be safe and sound soon.

At the same time, it's a pity that his little brother has been following him for so long, but he hasn't tasted blood yet.

He gritted his teeth and made up his mind: No, this time it's over. I have to improve my little brother's diet and let him taste the fish.

He took a deep breath, clearing his mind of those chaotic thoughts, and refocused his attention on the towering tree in front of him.

He raised his hand, and a pale blue beam of light flew from the tip of the dragon-patterned sword, landing on the tree demon's thick trunk.

The beam of light trembled on the tree bark and then dissipated.

No response.

He tried again, and the beam of light still trembled on the bark before dissipating.

Lin Mu shook his head, deciding not to try anymore. This ancient demon's level might be even higher than the Rainbow Demon Lord's, so it was normal that he couldn't see through the Mind Revelation. It didn't matter that he didn't know its health; he would just whittle it down slowly.

He took a deep breath, first removing the teleportation ring and then putting on the Titan ring, restoring his magic power to its maximum value.

He had just taken out the gray powder when he sprinkled a handful of green poison out.

The powder dispersed in the air, like a gray-green mist, drifting towards the tree spirit.

The largest scar on the tree trunk suddenly contracted, as if it had been burned by something.

The distorted faces on the tree bark opened their mouths at the same time, screaming silently.

The tree spirit turned green.

Before Lin Mu could even see the effect, a violent tremor ran beneath his feet, as if the entire earth was shaking.

He quickly switched back to his teleportation ring, and with a thought, he appeared in a flash.

With a flash of white light, he disappeared from his spot. At this moment, Lin Mu was 125 meters away from the tree demon.

At the same time, a grayish-white spike pierced through the air from where he had just been standing, and then retracted.

Lin Mu didn't even have time to catch his breath as he continued to change equipment. First, he quickly took off the lantern necklace from his neck and put on the white tiger tooth necklace with [70% magic evasion], which boosted his magic evasion to 80%.

Because he remembered that the spike attack was a magical attack, and perhaps magic evasion would be effective.

Then she took off the three-eyed bracelet from her wrist and put on the evasion bracelet instead.

His long-term practice of changing equipment made his hand speed astonishing; he could change three pieces of equipment in less than a second.

He changed as he ran, and just as he finished changing the necklace and two evasion bracelets, he had only taken two steps when...

He felt a jolt beneath his feet as a spike shot out from beneath his feet. At that moment, Flash was still on its 5-second cooldown, so Lin Mu had no choice but to leap into the air, thanks to this exoskeleton-like white bone armor.

Lin Mu jumped incredibly high, just like the pole vaulters in his previous life.

But the spikes rise faster and higher. No matter how high you are, once the attack is initiated, the spikes will reach you even if you don't fly away.

The spikes suddenly shot up from the ground with a "whoosh," reaching high into the air, grazing Lin Mu's inner thigh, and striking the dagger and bone armor at his groin.

A crisp clang rang out, like a hammer striking an anvil.

Lin Mu's mouth opened into an "O" shape, his eyes widened, and his whole body arched in the air like a shrimp.

It felt like my groin had been hit hard by something heavy. It wasn't just pain, but the uncomfortable feeling of two round things being squeezed together. It was swollen and sore, shooting from my crotch all the way to the top of my head, and my whole body felt numb.

His legs were shaking when he landed, not from pain, but from an indescribable discomfort.

Looking down, he saw a white mark on the bone armor in his groin area, and the dagger tied underneath had been pierced through a hole.