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

The Hall of Radiance is similar to the Hall of Gale, but it is wider and divided into two rectangular halls. There are also narrow passages connecting the two halls on both sides and in the middle, which makes the entire Hall of Radiance have many more corners.

In corners and along walls, people were building stone walls to fight monsters. There were far more teams than in the Gale Palace. The place was bustling with noise, the sounds of skills, shouts, and monster roars all mixed together, as lively as a market.

However, the flying bats greatly reduced the effectiveness of their defensive low walls. But since there were more leveling teams and a higher proportion of mages, they simply used Explosive Flame to clear out the flying bats over a wide area. Balls of fire exploded overhead, and the bats fell down with a squeak, like a bat rain.

Lin Mu ignored them, taking one step at a time, disappearing through the monster horde, and walked to the entrance leading to the Blazing Flame Palace.

It was a huge stone gate, made of rough bluestone blocks, with a stark white skull relief embedded in the center of the lintel. The skull's eye sockets were dark and hollow, as if it were staring at everyone who approached.

The surrounding area was filled with sharp stone spikes, exuding a fierce aura, their tips gleaming coldly in the firelight. The door frame was covered with densely packed runes, their dark red patterns faintly glowing in the firelight, as if something was flowing within them, or like blood slowly flowing through veins.

A hornfly was perched in the corner by the door, and a swarm of bats were crawling on the door, a dark mass with their wings fluttering slightly.

As Lin Mu approached the gate, the gate slowly slid open to the sides with a deep rumble that echoed in the empty hall like the roar of an ancient beast.

The bats that had been clinging to the door scattered with a whoosh, squeaking and flying wildly within a certain area, making Lin Mu's scalp tingle.

The door opened a crack, and a strong stench of blood rushed out, making him wince. The smell was even stronger than rotting flesh, as if someone had splashed a bucket of blood on his face.

He squeezed in sideways before the door was fully open.

The bats behind him saw Lin Mu break through the invisibility and pounced on him, but Lin Mu had already entered the door. The bats missed their target, squeaking as they tried to get in, but it was as if they were blocked by some invisible force. They could not fly in no matter what they did, and could only frantically flap their wings outside.

The group of people who were camped in the corner behind him, grinding monsters, watched Lin Mu's figure disappear through the crack in the door. Someone shook his head: "He's really a newborn calf who's not afraid of tigers. He dares to enter the Blazing Flame Palace all by himself."

The people next to them chimed in, "I wonder if they'll make it out alive." Their voices carried a hint of regret, but also a touch of schadenfreude.

The moment Lin Mu passed through the gate, everything went black before his eyes. Before he could even become invisible, everything went white again.

It wasn't light, but rather a plump, tall, and strong white wild boar. I wonder if it was lured here by some unscrupulous person to block the door.

The white wild boar was pure white, as if it had just come out of a bathhouse. Its skin was so white it shone, and its round body was like a small mountain of flesh. It carried a huge chain hammer in its hand, the head of which was covered with sharp spikes.

Lin Mu felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, this time psychological, because the white boar reacted quickly, raising its chain hammer high.

He knew that monsters were inflexible; when a monster raised its hand to attack, the attack had to come down, meaning that even invisibility couldn't stop the white boar's attack.

Parry? Don't be ridiculous. The hammerhead and handle are connected by an iron chain, and the hammerhead can bend. You can't parry it at all.

As for dodging, the chain hammer's attack range is much larger than it looks. When the hammerhead is swung, it can cover the entire body. Combined with the white boar's arm length and the chain hammer's extension, there is simply not enough space to move left or right. Even 30 points of agility cannot guarantee 100% dodge of this attack.

Lin Mu hurriedly tried to summon a skeleton to block the attack.

Before he could even raise his weapon, the light in his mind seemed to sense its master's danger and began to throb violently, as if it were about to explode. With a "whoosh," everything went white again, and a tall figure descended upon him.

The broad, white spine stood before Lin Mu like an iron tower, its joints as thick as mountain ridges, its shoulder blades like two shields, protecting Lin Mu from view.

But the skeleton was clearly not used to being teleported in this way for the first time. It had barely appeared and was hit hard by a white boar's hammer.

-71.

The skeleton took a step back, its bony foot carving a deep mark on the ground, almost pushing Lin Mu, who was protecting it, back into the corridor of light.

Fortunately, the skeleton only took one step back before regaining its footing. Lin Mu took the opportunity to step to the side, leaving the crowded doorway, and then used an invisibility spell to make himself semi-transparent.

Looking at the towering skeleton before him, Lin Mu felt a surge of inexplicable emotion. That moment was no less moving than the legendary Monkey King arriving on a colorful cloud to rescue Zixia.

He took a deep breath, suppressing his emotion, and began to wonder how the skeleton had flown over on its own before he had even used any skills.

It even made a "whoosh" sound, which wasn't the case before. Could it be because of that Woma horn?

The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed. The skeleton must have absorbed the power of the Woma Horn and inherited a portion of the Woma Cult Leader's abilities, which were undoubtedly teleportation.

I just don't know how to use this teleportation. Is it controlled by thought or does it require some special triggering condition?

However, the atmosphere is a bit tense right now, so fighting monsters is the priority, and we shouldn't let our minds wander.

He shook his head, clearing his mind of those chaotic thoughts, and refocused his attention on the battlefield before him, taking in the Flame Palace and the monsters around him.

The Blazing Palace is composed of two rectangular spaces, one large and one small. The first place you enter is the smaller rectangular space. After passing through a narrow passage in the middle, there is a larger rectangular space behind it.

Ahead of Lin Mu, two black wild boars and one red wild boar were rushing towards the skeleton.

The black wild boar's skin was shiny black, as if it had been coated with oil, but it was still not very noticeable in the dark hall, and it was easy to miss if you didn't look closely.

Red wild boars are dark red, like congealed blood, making them slightly easier to spot than black wild boars, but only by a tiny margin; they remain blurry in the dim firelight.

In the distance, a black maggot was launched and rolled this way. The thing was curled up into a ball, like a black wheel, and rolled rapidly on the ground at an astonishing speed, bringing with it a whooshing sound. However, its pitch-black color blended almost into the shadows inside the hall, making it the most difficult thing to observe.

In a corner not far away, a horned fly with its mouth open, its grayish-white body huddled in the shadows, spits out a bat every three seconds. The bats squeak and line up, also heading towards the skeleton.

Lin Mu noticed that the monsters here were all trotting forward, a bit faster than in the previous two maps. It seemed that the stronger the demonic energy, the greater the bonus to the monsters.

Chapter 101 Eight-Character Slash

The white boar's attack frequency was also very fast, swinging its short-handled chain hammer up, down, left, and right, looking like it was drawing an "8" horizontally, just like slapping left and right diagonally. Numbers kept appearing above the skull.

-82, -34, -65...

The zombies and other monsters that the skeleton fought before had very simple attacks, just like the orcs, they were straightforward, they would either grab, bite or headbutt, their movements were clumsy and easy to dodge.

However, this white boar possesses attack techniques similar to those of orc warriors, wields a chain mace, is impossible to block, and has a wide attack range that is difficult to dodge.

At this moment, the smaller monsters also surrounded them, with black boars pushing from the left and red boars nudging from the right, each attack dealing about 10 points of damage.

The black maggots also crashed into the side, occasionally dealing single-digit damage, while bats flew overhead, but their damage couldn't break through the defense.

There's a door behind the skeleton, and it can't retreat. It's surrounded so tightly that the skeleton has no room to hide. Anyone facing it would be confused.

For a moment, the white boar stunned the skeleton. Although the skeleton was still swinging its axe, its rhythm was obviously out of control, and it was struggling to defend itself and looked quite disheveled.

No wonder Lin Mu didn't see many people in this small rectangular space of the Blazing Flame Palace; this place is indeed not for ordinary people.

The observation was over; there was no one around, so Lin Mu could go solo.

He switched back to the Taoist bracelet from the third level, his Taoist skill returned to 33 points, and he immediately cast a healing spell on the skeleton.

Then I took out the powder and applied the green poison to the hornets.

[MP: 119/123 → 89/123]

The horned fly sensed his presence, its grayish-white body trembling slightly. However, it could not attack and could only spit out bats. But the bats it spat out were new individuals, and they had no telepathic connection with their mothers. They could not sense Lin Mu's presence, so the poisoned horned fly could only obediently lose blood, with a -33 appearing above its head every three seconds.

After poisoning the boar, he took out a magic potion and drank it down. His mana bar slowly returned to normal, and then he applied red and green poison to the white boar.

[MP: 90/123 → 30/123]

Two handfuls of powder were sprinkled over, and the white wild boar's body glowed green and then red, jumping around with a -33, -33 sound above its head.

The poisoned white boar instantly shifted its aggression to Lin Mu, and trotted over, its heavy footsteps pounding the ground like a tank approaching.

Seeing this, Lin Mu quickly took a step to break his invisibility, then became invisible again, his entire body becoming semi-transparent once more.

[MP: 31/123 → 26/123]

This gave the skeleton a much-needed breather. It shook its dazed white skeletal head, ignored the surrounding monsters, and charged straight at the white boar.

The skeleton charged forward and unleashed a deadly sword technique, its axe blade flashing white light as it struck the white boar squarely.

-189.

Then the skeleton imitated the white boar, swinging its axe up, down, left, and right with incredible agility. And you know what? Its attack frequency suddenly increased considerably.

It seems my luck wasn't on my side. I swung my axe several times, but I couldn't unleash my offensive sword techniques. I could only do ordinary basic attacks, which significantly reduced my damage.

Looking at the skeleton and the white boar brandishing their weapons, Lin Mu suddenly recalled the scene from his childhood in the woods of his village, where he and his friends would wave sticks around wildly, making "8" shapes with their sticks, creating a whooshing sound that looked quite intimidating.

Among the group of friends, the best dancer was undoubtedly Lin Mu, who had been clever since childhood. Whenever a group of children gathered to practice, he would always come up with something new, swinging the branches with great force, which amazed his friends.

When he grew up, he saw this move online, which is called "figure-eight slash". It looks fancy, but it is actually used to maintain the rhythm of attack and the defensive posture. It can both attack and defend, killing two birds with one stone.

He immediately used his mind to pour all his insights into the feel, rhythm, and force of drawing the figure "8" into the skull's consciousness.

The skeleton understood quickly; it stopped swinging the axe haphazardly and began to draw arcs in front of it with a methodical rhythm, one axe blow after another.

Once he had a methodical approach, his breathing became smooth, and his offensive swordsmanship returned. Almost every two axe strokes produced a flash of white light as he struck the white boar.

-187, -138, -194...

Numbers popped out one after another.

The white wild boar howled as it was hacked at, just like when pigs were slaughtered in the village during the New Year when I was a child. Its cries were sharp and loud, echoing in the empty hall. The rhythm of swinging the chain hammer became a little disordered, and the momentum weakened a bit.

Lin Mu leaned against the wall, watching the skeleton get better and better at fighting, which made him feel much more at ease, and his tense nerves relaxed.

But he wasn't idle either. When Lan came back, he took out the medicine powder, applied the green poison to each of the little monsters, and then went invisible again to wait.

He slowly approached the disgusting horned fly and began hacking at it with figure-eight slashes.

You know what, this method really did speed things up a lot. In no time, the horned flies, which were only taking hits without fighting back, were deflated.

Experience gained: 150

But just then, something went wrong with the skeleton. The white boar kept hitting it with its hammer, and with several small monsters chipping away at its health, the skeleton's health was quickly depleted. Two seconds later, the skeleton's health was gone, and with a crisp "crack," bone fragments scattered all over the ground.

The white boar and the few smaller monsters lost their target, their ferocity fading, and they began to sway their plump bodies aimlessly in the open space.

All that remained was a -33 number popping up above my head every three seconds.

The skeleton shattered, and Lin Mu's heart tightened. It was impossible not to feel heartache when such a powerful skeleton was broken so easily.

However, if even a skeleton as powerful as mine can't withstand the attack, how badly must other skeletons fare? They're probably only good against orc warriors and the like. Here, they're just tools to attract monster fire and can't contribute much in terms of combat power.

Although, given his current situation, he could actually do without skeletons and just wait with the green poison; the white boars could be poisoned to death, it would just be slower.

But in order to allow the skeleton to continue to grow and to improve the efficiency of fighting monsters, he chose to summon it again.

Lin Mu raised his weapon, and the bone fragments on the ground turned into fine silver sand, winding up the sword. The silver light flowed, mixed with some golden light, like scattered gold in the Milky Way.

Lin Mu was stunned for a moment. Why did that gold color look so much like the color of a powdered Woma Horn sprinkled in a medicine pool?

It seems that the horn powder was not fully absorbed at the time and remained hidden in the bones, and some of it was stimulated again this time.

At the same time, the surrounding black demonic energy seemed to sense the aura of its own kind and was drawn over, mixing into the golden light spots and accelerating the fusion.

Gold, black, and silver intertwined, swirling across the sword for a moment before finally transforming back into fine silver sand, quietly entwining the blade.

Lin Mu pointed the tip of his sword behind the white boar, and the silver sand reformed into a skeleton behind the boar.

He felt the point of light in his mind suddenly brighten, and the connection between him and the skull became stronger than before.

Chapter 102 Water-Injected Pigs and Extremely Evil Maggots

He looked up at the skull. The bones were no longer smooth; a layer of fine scales seemed to have grown on the surface, gleaming with a dark luster in the firelight, as if it were wearing a layer of armor.