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

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Then he threw two more axes, both of which were effective.

But the light in Lin Mu's mind was flashing intensely; the skeleton seemed unsatisfied with this.

The skeleton thought: Since you want to take the axe, then I'll let you take it.

The axe that flew past earlier was caught by catching its handle precisely where the axe handle was positioned to better hit the electric zombie's body. This time, it's the axe blade that flies towards the electric zombie's hand; you catch that too.

The skeleton timed it perfectly, striking with its axe just as the electric zombie finished its attack, paused to catch its breath, and was about to raise its hand.

The electric zombie reached out to catch the flying axe, but the axe flew past and landed right on the blade, slicing off three of its fingers.

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This interrupted all the electric zombies' attacks.

In no time, the electric zombie's fingers were all cut off, its ability to raise its hands became slower and slower, and the electric arcs became weaker and weaker.

The last current streaked out crookedly, striking the rock at the mutated skeleton's feet and exploding into a small ball of sparks.

The mutated skeleton swung its axe backhand, striking the electric zombie squarely in the forehead.

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Finally, the electric zombie swayed, its arms hanging limply, unable to be lifted again, before crashing to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

Experience gained: 360

Lin Mu looked at the corpse on the ground, and was shocked.

My skeleton is really good at learning and adapting. I'm just a little worried that if I'm too smart, will I look down on myself for being too stupid in the future?

But that's all for later; looting the corpse is the priority.

Lin Mu walked over, squatted down, and began to rummage through the corpse of the electric zombie.

There were two gold coins and a thin booklet lying on the ground.

He picked it up and took a look: "Attack and Kill Sword Techniques".

Excellent, this is perfect for the skeleton to see. He's spent a lot of time explaining the principles and techniques of offensive swordplay to the skeleton in the medicine pool before. Now that he has a book, it might be able to learn even faster.

He handed the skill book to the skeleton.

At this moment, Lin Mu suddenly felt the light spot representing the skull in his mind start flashing intensely again, one beat after another, like a heartbeat, or like excitement.

The skeleton stretched out its bony hand, took the book, and tried to open it. But the pages didn't budge.

The skeleton tried again, but still couldn't flip it over.

Before Lin Mu could react, the skeleton had already stuffed the book into the gaps between its bones, holding it firmly in place.

Lin Mu stared, mouth agape, for a long while. He hadn't expected the skeleton to want him to keep the skill book. He could only pat the skeleton's shoulder blade and say, "Let's go, we'll study it later."

He hadn't gone far when he came to an official road.

The official road was much smoother than the wilderness, paved with gravel, with sparse pillars on both sides, each with a torch stuck in it. The torchlight flickered dimly in the grayish-purple miasma. The miasma, like a thin veil, enveloped the torchlight, preventing it from penetrating far and illuminating only a small area underfoot.

Lin Mu stepped on the gravel road, his footsteps making a soft rustling sound. The indescribable smell in the air was even stronger than in the wild.

As soon as Lin Mu stepped onto the official road, he saw a group of people walking towards him, heading towards the Sealed Demon Mine.

The leaders wore the familiar gold-edged phoenix emblem embroidered on their chests. The procession was long, escorting over a hundred people, both men and women, dressed in drab gray cloth, their hands shackled with black iron chains, their steps heavy, their heads bowed as they walked towards the mining area.

Behind the procession were also some Imperial Guards, carrying whips and coldly scanning the group.

Lin Mu's heart tightened. He stopped by the roadside, stood with his hands hanging down, and waited for the other person to go first.

He now knew these people were the Imperial Guards, and the things he had done made him feel somewhat guilty when facing them.

The procession marched past him, the sound of footsteps rustling, the clanking of shackles, and the occasional shouts of the Imperial Guards: "Hurry up! Don't dawdle!"

One prisoner slowed down, and the Imperial Guard lashed out with his whip. With a crack, the man groaned and quickened his pace.

As one of the Imperial Guards walked past Lin Mu, he paused, turned back, and glanced at him. His gaze lingered on Lin Mu for a moment before shifting to the skeleton, scrutinizing it from head to toe, before turning and following the group.

Lin Mu and his team breathed a sigh of relief after walking a distance.

The skeleton was two heads taller than Lin Mu, with a large frame, and it was indeed quite conspicuous.

He quickly took out an old robe, a pair of shoes, and a pair of gloves from his storage bag and dressed the skeleton in them.

You know what, dressed up like this, it actually looks pretty convincing from a distance.

Lin Mu felt it was about time, so he followed the group from a distance.

Chapter 92 The Road to Officialdom

They hadn't gone far when an electric zombie suddenly darted out from in front of the escort team.

At this moment, a Taoist priest in the Jinwu Guard team, holding a Wuji staff, calmly raised the staff and spun it around his head a few times.

The Wuji Staff spun faster and faster in his hands, creating a whooshing sound. The staff began to emit a pale blue light, which drew a complete circle in the air as it spun.

Then, a pale blue halo flew out from the tip of the spinning stick, flashed through the air, and landed precisely at the feet of the electric zombie.

The light circle exploded the moment it touched the electric zombie, turning into eight pillars of light that stuck into the ground, trapping the electric zombie in the middle.

This is a Taoist skill, the Demon-Binding Spell.

The electric zombie, surrounded by eight beams of light, seemed to be frozen in place, its body stiffening as if under a spell. Its arms remained half-raised, and it didn't even blink.

The Imperial Guards walked past the electric zombies without stopping, as if nothing had happened. After all, their mission was not to fight monsters, but to escort prisoners, and they could not afford to cause any trouble.

The prisoners' shackles rattled as the procession passed the electric zombie. A few prisoners glanced at it furtively, then quickly lowered their heads and continued on their way.

Adhering to the principle of not wasting anything, Lin Mu waited until the group had gone far away before approaching them.

He stood at a distance, took out some powder, and sprinkled a mixture of green and red poison over it. The electric zombie's body glowed green and then turned red, and a poison levitated from its head.

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Then he used an invisibility spell, becoming semi-transparent and standing motionless in place.

The skeleton also swung its axe, throwing it one after another, and with the occasional soul fire talisman thrown by Lin Mu, the electric zombie's health gradually dropped.

In no time, the electric zombie collapsed.

Lin Mu stepped forward and touched the corpse. Next to the electric zombie's body lay a thin booklet, "Lightning Technique".

Lin Mu picked it up, blew off the dust, and stuffed it into his Qiankun bag.

This skill book is worth a few gold coins.

Just as Lin Mu finished defeating the electric zombies, a small squad of Golden Guards walked over from the other side.

Five people, all skilled in martial arts, magic, and Taoist arts, each with a golden phoenix embroidered on their chests, marched in unison, their armor gleaming coldly in the dim light.

Lin Mu, however, led the skeleton forward as if nothing had happened.

The Imperial Guards glanced at the corpse of the electric zombie with its fingers cut off on the ground, then looked at Lin Mu, their gaze lingering on him for a moment before shifting away.

They are a patrol team on the official road, responsible for clearing out monsters near the road and maintaining its operational efficiency.

Now that the monster had been dealt with, they saved themselves the trouble and left in orderly steps without saying anything.

Lin Mu breathed a sigh of relief after they had gone far away, and quickened his pace to continue following the group ahead.

Soon, Lin Mu caught up with the group of Imperial Guards escorting prisoners ahead of him.

After all, the Imperial Guards were escorting over a hundred people, and with so many people, the pace of the procession slowed down. The sounds of shackles, footsteps, and coughs mingled together, making the procession quite long.

Lin Mu maintained a distance of about fifty paces, following him at a moderate distance.

After walking for a while, they encountered another orc warrior.

The huge creature was all muscle and much taller than an ordinary orc. It was covered in tattered leather armor and carried a huge axe, the blade of which gleamed coldly in the firelight.

When it saw someone coming, it rushed out of the woods by the roadside, its heavy steps making a thud on the ground with each step.

Lin Mu watched from a distance and saw that the orc warrior was indeed running faster than those in the Woma Forest, almost at the speed of a normal person jogging.

Just then, a mage calmly raised his wand from the ranks of the Golden Guards. Blue and white arcs of electricity flew from the tip of the wand, darting out like a serpent and engulfing the orc warrior's head.

That's a mage's skill, Temptation Light.

The giant creature seemed to have its brainwaves affected by the blue and white electric arcs; its body stiffened, and it stood motionless, its arm holding the axe still suspended in mid-air.

The crowd walked past it again, their steps uninterrupted, and no one gave it a second glance.

Lin Mu suddenly remembered that none of the mages he had met before, including a great mage like Cai Ling, had ever seen one with an orc warrior as a pet.

It seems the monsters of this world are not easy to seduce.

Before Lin Mu could even implement his "no waste" strategy, another small squad of Golden Guards rushed over from the opposite side and started fighting the orc warriors without saying a word.

Lightning spells, soul fire spells, assassination sword techniques—white light and firelight flashed incessantly on the dimly lit official road. The clash of swords, the sounds of skills, and the roars of monsters mingled together, making one's ears ring.

It seems there are quite a few Imperial Guards patrolling near the mining area, and they react quickly, immediately surrounding and clearing out any monsters that appear.

Lin Mu had no choice but to walk away, unaware of what the orc warrior had obtained in the end.

However, based on Lin Mu's experience playing games, the orc warriors in Fengmo Valley don't drop anything good; at most, they drop some mysterious equipment and healing potions.

Mysterious equipment is a real rip-off; its attributes only become apparent after you equip it, and top-tier items are extremely rare.

Moreover, some of them are so difficult to take off once you put them on, they take up a piece of equipment space, and you have to use "magic water" to remove them, which is extremely expensive. It's a complete rip-off.

Lin Mu used to be quite impulsive when playing games, harboring a gambler's mentality, thinking that he was the chosen one and would get a top-tier mysterious equipment.

I started putting on all sorts of mysterious rings, belts, and helmets, and then I got scammed several times. When I put them on, they all had useless attributes, but some of them I couldn't take off.

Later, he returned to the city, stripped off all his equipment, and had people kill him repeatedly until he finally managed to get that damn mysterious equipment to drop.

Then a guy passing by, young and naive, saw someone drop some equipment, picked it up and put it on...

Alternatively, Lin Mu could just keep wearing the mysterious equipment that he couldn't remove while fighting monsters, and wait for the equipment to break and disappear. However, this would be very slow and inefficient.

Finally, he learned his lesson and started avoiding any equipment that started with "mysterious," out of sight, out of mind.

After following the group of Golden Guards for a while, they arrived at the entrance of the Sealed Demon Mine.

The cave entrance was small and dark, carved into a gray-black stone wall, like a giant, open mouth. Inside, it was pitch black and nothing could be seen.

The stone walls on both sides of the cave entrance were covered with runes, the dark red patterns gleaming faintly in the firelight, as if something was flowing inside.