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

At this moment, Lin Mu used his mind to urge it to concentrate, and it turned back to continue fighting.

Lin Mu leaned against the wall, watching the skeleton slicing through the three zombies like vegetables, and couldn't help but shake his head. This monster was being defeated too easily.

Experience gained: 120

Experience gained: 120

……

One of the people in the group ahead glanced back, his gaze lingering on the skeleton for a moment, then looked at Lin Mu, surprised by the skeleton's high damage output. He then quickly turned back and whispered something to the person next to him.

They assumed the two well-hidden individuals were just passing experts and dared not provoke them.

Lin Mu went over to take a look but nothing dropped, and complained that the drop rate of the little zombies was just too low.

Meanwhile, the seven or eight people in front hadn't finished clearing out the zombies.

It's not that they're slow at fighting, it's just that the zombies will revive and stand up again after being killed. Sometimes a zombie has to fall two or three times before it's completely dead.

Although the resurrected zombies are more mutilated and have less health, they are still incredibly annoying as they keep getting up.

A soldier had just cut down a zombie and turned to help his teammates when the zombie staggered to its feet again, grabbed him from behind, and scratched several bloody marks on his shoulder with its fingernails.

The soldier cursed and turned around to start fighting again.

As Lin Mu was watching them fight the resurrected zombies, something suddenly moved at his feet.

From the remains of those zombies, grayish-white mist re-condensed, and the zombie that had fallen to the ground stood up again. Its grayish-white skin was covered with cracks, like a dried-up riverbed, and its eyes were even redder than before, like two burning embers.

Then the other two standing zombies also came back to life, and the skeletons and zombies started fighting again.

Lin Mu was too lazy to apply poison, so he just watched the skeleton hack away, the axe hitting it again and again. After it revived, it was even easier to fight, and it fell down in no time.

Experience gained: 60

Experience gained: 60

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Chapter 95 Sudden Enlightenment

The three zombies that fell this time did not get up again.

Meanwhile, the group in front was still entangled with the resurrected zombies. The skeleton put away its axe, stood next to Lin Mu, and stared straight ahead with the flames in its eye sockets, watching them clear out the remaining zombies.

Just then, a Taoist priest poisoned a zombie, but the zombie stood up again. The Taoist priest sighed and took out another handful of powder.

The other warrior was also fighting very hard, occasionally letting out a shout as his axe blade flashed white light and he slashed at the zombie.

Lin Mu wasn't just staring blankly; he was sensing the point of light representing the skull in his mind.

Ever since that warrior used his offensive sword techniques intact several times in front of the mutated skeleton, the light spot in Lin Mu's mind has been pulsating violently, one after another, at a much faster frequency than before.

Well, this is another good teacher. The skeleton is learning from him. Lin Mu decided not to rush forward anymore and stood to the side with the skeleton, watching the group of people kill zombies.

The group didn't react much to Lin Mu watching the battle from the sidelines. The passage was only so wide; if they blocked the way, no one else could pass. They could only watch Lin Mu kill monsters.

Occasionally, someone would glance back, their gaze lingering on the skeleton for a moment before turning back to continue fighting. A dozen minutes later, the group finally finished off the last wave of zombies, grumbling as they packed up their belongings and moved on.

Lin Mu patted the skeleton, intending to follow. But the skeleton remained motionless, standing still, the flames in its eye sockets fixed on the direction where the group had disappeared.

Meanwhile, the light spot in Lin Mu's mind was pulsating more and more violently, as if something was churning inside, almost overflowing.

The skeleton seemed to have entered a state of enlightenment; Lin Mu could faintly hear its bones cracking, and the surfaces of the bones were brighter than usual. Lin Mu could only stay by its side without disturbing it.

After a while, the small group of people he had overtaken earlier caught up from behind. The leader, a warrior in heavy armor, glanced at Lin Mu, then at the motionless skeleton, paused for a moment, and led his men around to the side, continuing forward.

Lin Mu leaned against the wall, listlessly pulled out a sesame seed cake, took a bite, and then took out the map to look at it. He had only gone one-fifth of the way through the crossroads, and there was still a long way to go.

Two minutes later, Lin Mu finished his pancake, took a sip of water, and was about to stand up and stretch when suddenly an electric zombie appeared out of thin air in front of him.

The monsters are spawning. This startled Lin Mu. He instinctively wanted to use invisibility, but then he thought, what if the electric zombies can't see him and instead attack the skeletons, affecting the skeletons' enlightenment?

He had no choice but to take out the powder, and sprinkled a green poison and a red poison over it, causing an electric zombie to jump out from above.

-31, -31...

[MP: 123/123 → 63/123]

Then the electric zombie howled and turned to face Lin Mu, raising its hand.

Lin Mu dodged and retreated, and even took the time to drink a medium-sized magic potion to slowly replenish his mana.

The electric zombie is a ranged attacker, so he can't kite it like a melee monster, and he also has to keep an eye on the enlightened skeleton next to him.

Therefore, Lin Mu could only dodge left and right in the narrow passage.

At the same time, you should avoid standing in a straight line with the skeleton, to prevent yourself from dodging and then exposing the skeleton, so that the attack you dodged will hit the skeleton.

Fortunately, I had seen the skeleton fight the electric zombie before, so I knew its attack methods very well.

The electric zombie opened its hand, arcs of electricity crackled, it charged up, and then discharged, sending current surging out. Lin Mu had already crouched down in time. A pale white bolt of electricity flew over his head, struck the stone wall behind him, and exploded in a burst of sparks.

While dodging, Lin Mu threw fire talismans one after another.

-54, -46...

The electric zombie's health is dropping little by little.

But as the fight went on, Lin Mu's mana ran out. The mana potions were too slow to restore, only a little bit per second. He could only dodge and wait for his mana bar to slowly rise, occasionally throwing out a Soul Fire Talisman, but spending most of his time dodging.

The electric zombie's currents grazed past him one after another, the pale white beams flashing in the darkness, striking the stone wall and exploding into bursts of sparks, sending fragments of stone flying.

Later in the fight, he simply took out two evasion bracelets from his Qiankun bag and put them on, instantly increasing his agility by 30 points and making him incredibly fast.

Lin Mu dodged left and right, his steps becoming faster and faster, his body becoming more and more agile, as if the battle had forced out his potential.

Then, without even using the fire talisman, he grabbed the demon-slaying weapon and charged straight up to hack the electric zombies at close range.

-16, -20, miss... With the buff from the red poison, the damage from normal attacks is not low.

The benefits of high agility were immediate; the electric zombies' currents grazed past him one after another, but they couldn't hit him. He, on the other hand, attacked quickly and steadily, occasionally throwing out a fire talisman when his mana returned. Although his Taoist magic was a bit low, he attacked even faster.

Only then did Lin Mu realize Gu An's good intentions. In this world, mana regeneration is slow, so killing monsters is more efficient.

During this time, Lin Mu also wanted to learn from the skeleton and cut off the electric zombie's fingers.

However, its attack power was too low. The electric zombie's fingers were hard and thick, as if they were wrapped in a layer of iron. When the knife struck the electric zombie's hand, it only left a few shallow white marks. It could cause damage, but it could not cause any damage to its body at all.

Just as Lin Mu had whittled down the electric zombie's health to half, and dodged a bolt of electricity, a tall, standing figure suddenly appeared out of nowhere beside him.

The creature was enormous, two heads taller than him, with a hideous and terrifying face. Its body was covered in bluish-black rotting flesh, hanging in pieces from its skeleton like rotten wood soaked in water, emitting a pungent stench.

His arms were thick and strong, hanging down at his sides, his fingers were half-curled, and his nails were long and black, like five curved daggers.

Bound by rusty iron chains, stained with dried, dark red blood, the chains rattled with every movement, the clanging of the chains echoing through the passage like the footsteps of death.

[Corpse King, HP 32000, Attack 30-80, Defense 12-40, Magic Defense 8-20].

Lin Mu's heart sank. Just then, the electric zombie in front of him was about to launch its next attack. Its palm was already open, and arcs of electricity danced at its fingertips.

He looked to his left and saw a wall; he looked to his right and saw the Corpse King blocking his way.

Retreat? Behind him was the skeleton still in a state of enlightenment, and a few small zombies spawned not far away, standing or crawling blankly. Some were scratching at the wall, while others were wriggling on the ground like maggots that had just crawled out of the soil.

The roads are all blocked.

At this moment, the Corpse King also moved, and the iron chains rattled.

Chapter 96 Saving the Master

Lin Mu felt a chill run down his spine, and the talisman in his hand was already sweating. He was about to become invisible and abandon the enlightened skeleton, thinking that at worst he could just summon it again and let it have another enlightenment.

At the critical moment, Lin Mu felt the light in his mind flash suddenly, like a lightning bolt splitting the darkness.

The light was so dazzling that it made him lose consciousness for a moment. He seemed to hear the sound of bones breaking and then reforming, cracking and popping, as if something was exploding inside the bones, or as if something was being reborn inside the bones.

The next second, a large, bony hand reached out from behind, grabbed Lin Mu by the back of his collar, lifted him up like a chick, and flung him behind him.

Lin Mu somersaulted in the air and slammed his back against the wall. -5.

With a muffled groan, he slid to the ground and lay sprawled out.

He looked up and saw that the skeleton had moved at some point.

It stood in Lin Mu's original spot, the flames in its two eye sockets twice as bright as before, and the exposed bone surface, revealed by the fluttering robe, shimmered with a continuous flow of golden and emerald green light, as if something was flowing within the bones.

Lin Mu realized that his mutated skeleton had achieved enlightenment and saved its master.

The skeleton's act of saving its master deserves praise, but the way it did so needs improvement; I'll have to teach it to be gentler.

At this moment, the zombie that had just spawned behind Lin Mu sensed Lin Mu and walked towards him.

The electric zombie's current struck just in time, the pale white beam hitting the skeleton's sternum.

-14.

The electric current passed through the skeleton's body, shooting out from its back. Its power was greatly reduced, but it still managed to sweep across Lin Mu's shoulder.

-28.

At this moment, the several newly spawned zombies behind him also staggered towards him. Some had their mouths open, some had their claws outstretched, and some were crawling on the ground. They were not fast, but there were quite a few of them.

Ignoring the pain, Lin Mu quickly rolled to the side, shifting his position away from the skeleton so he wouldn't be standing in the same straight line and would avoid being hit by the electric zombie's penetrating current again.

He took out a bottle of Sun Water and drank it down, restoring his health to full.

HP: 98/131 → 131/131

My mana has also recovered by more than half.

[MP: 12/123 → 92/123]

Then, raising his hand, he cast an invisibility spell, making himself semi-transparent.

[MP: 96/123 → 91/123]

He pulled out another magic potion and drank it down; his mana bar slowly began to rise again.

At this moment, because of Lin Mu's invisibility, the zombies behind him could no longer see him and stopped in their tracks, shaking their heads blankly, like blind men who had lost their target, spinning around in place.

He raised the demon-slaying sword, and a white light shone on its blade—a healing spell.

[MP: 92/123 → 88/123].