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

As long as he kept an eye on the black boars with camouflage, Lin Mu could vaguely see their outlines in the firelight once he focused his attention and with the support of his mental combat technique. He then commanded the skeletons to lure them over with long-range throwing axes and quickly killed them with the figure-eight slash.

Meanwhile, the skeleton itself also has green poison, which can continuously prevent monsters from regenerating health. It just takes a little longer to kill them, but that doesn't matter. It saves on potions and powder, and it doesn't wear out your equipment.

That's how games were back then. Taoists had summoned creatures to help them, making monster hunting the cheapest and even allowing them to make a profit; they had invisibility and healing spells, making them highly survivable and forgiving; they could silently kill bosses with poison, and their equipment requirements weren't high. Lin Mu was living that kind of life now, very comfortably.

Lin Mu fought off another wave of monsters along the wall, getting closer and closer to the location between the Blazing Flame Palace and the Thunder Path. Looking out by the firelight, he saw another white boar and several smaller monsters blocking the entrance to the Thunder Path.

It seems the wild boars here have bad habits; they like to block the entrance.

It's also possible that someone going to Thunder Path accidentally lured the monster there.

As for deliberately luring a bunch of monsters to block the door, many people do that in the game, but probably no one in this world would do that.

Because they also have to consider that their way back cannot be blocked, unlike in games where there are return scrolls or dungeon escape scrolls that make it easy to leave whenever they want.

Once you're in here, you have to obediently walk back. If your way back is blocked by monsters, you'll have to fight your way through to get back to the city, and you'll be exhausted.

Just as Lin Mu was about to lure the white boar over and kill it, a female Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe suddenly appeared from the doorway.

She appeared and immediately went invisible, moving much faster than Lin Mu. But the white boar reacted even faster. As soon as she appeared, the white boar's chain hammer swung over and slammed solidly into her shoulder.

-90.

The female Taoist priest let out a muffled groan, her body swayed, and her health dropped by a quarter. However, the invisibility had already been activated, and the white boar lost its target, stopping after only one hit. It shook its head blankly, holding its chain hammer.

Lin Mu's heart tightened. The female Taoist priest was fast enough to hide, but she still couldn't dodge. It seemed that the white wild boars here were really hard to deal with.

He secretly weighed his options and figured that if he were to take that blow, he'd probably be left with only a sliver of blood.

The female Taoist glanced at Lin Mu, raised her hand and cast a healing spell on herself, then took out a bottle of wound medicine and drank it down. A white light shone, and her health slowly began to recover. Then she raised the dragon-patterned sword in her hand.

Five protective talismans flew out from her waist and spun around her. Then she pointed her dragon-patterned sword at a certain point in front of her, and the five talismans changed direction, wrapping around the sword in the direction it pointed, and then gathered and burned at that designated spot.

Chapter 104 Monster Slaying

The ashes from the burning amulet quickly coalesced in the remaining firelight, forming a crouching divine beast. The beast lay on the ground and suddenly roared, its body swelling violently as it stood upright, the firelight above its head illuminating the surroundings.

Lin Mu sighed inwardly, thinking how wonderful it was to have a divine beast; it saved him a lot of trouble with torches.

At that moment, the dot of light in his mind flickered, like a skull expressing its dissatisfaction. Just a moment ago it was calling her "sweetie," and now it's "old hag."

The white boar and the little monster instantly sensed the divine beast's aura, turned around, and trotted over to surround it. In no time, they had the divine beast encircled and beat it until it howled in agony.

Lin Mu thought to himself, "My own skeleton is still the best; it won't utter a sound even if I beat it to death." The light spot in his mind seemed to have received this somewhat eerie praise as well, and became calmer.

The skeleton tilted its chin up slightly, as if to say, "See? I'm still the best."

Seeing this, the Taoist priest stepped forward, then vanished again. With a flick of his wrist, five more protective talismans flew out and burned further ahead. The divine beast shattered, turning to ashes and disappearing, only to reappear at the new burning ashes. The monsters then swarmed around the newly appeared divine beasts.

The entrance was suddenly empty.

At this moment, more than a dozen people emerged from the gate, including two who were also wearing level 40 heavy armor, a male mage, and a female warrior. All of them were carrying torches, illuminating the Blazing Hall brightly.

The Taoist priests who came out later used a collective invisibility spell to make everyone invisible.

Lin Mu noticed that three people in the group were carrying others on their backs, who appeared to be unconscious companions. The people being carried all had short horns on their heads, and their faces were ashen, clearly indicating they had been in the Demon Sealing Valley for too long and had been severely corrupted by demonic energy. The entire group looked exhausted, their steps heavy.

Looking at the horns on those people's heads, Lin Mu subconsciously touched his own forehead. Fortunately, it was still flat.

He stood silently to the side, watching the group leave in a hurry.

As the leading female Taoist priest passed by, she glanced at him and nodded slightly: "Young brother, you're quite something. You managed to break into the Blazing Flame Palace with just one person and a skeleton."

She glanced at the tall skeleton behind Lin Mu and said, "The skeleton is well-trained, but we need to be careful when we go a few more maps."

At this point, she sighed and glanced at the people on her teammates' backs. "They're really powerful. The demonic energy is powerful, but the people are even more powerful. Don't stay in there for too long."

Lin Mu knew that the real boss, the Evil Serpent, was already at the beginning of the Netherworld Corridor, and there would definitely be people vying for it. But since he was already there, he had to go in.

Besides, I still have the high agility and high magic evasion equipment that Gu An gave me. If all else fails, I can switch to it. There's a margin for error. Also, I just collected a lot of Sun Water from fighting the White Boar.

Lin Mu nodded: "It's okay, I'll be careful."

The female Taoist priest didn't say anything more. She turned around and, together with the other Taoist priests in the group, used summoned creatures to lure and distract monsters in front of them, protecting the group as they slowly retreated.

Lin Mu watched them leave, secretly thinking: This person is not bad. I wonder if I will ever meet him again.

He looked away, patted the skull's shoulder blade, and continued walking inside.

The gate from the Blazing Flame Palace to the Thunder Road is just ahead. The white boars and monsters at the entrance have been lured away by the group of Taoists, leaving the place empty.

But the group was only focused on luring the monster away and didn't fight at all; they just kept walking back without looking back.

Lin Mu looked at the empty door and was about to enter the Path of Thunder when he suddenly heard heavy footsteps behind him.

He looked back and saw the white boar trotting out of the darkness with heavy steps, then returning to the doorway and blocking it completely.

Lin Mu cursed inwardly, "Damn it, this white wild boar really knows how to block the door, how despicable!"

As a young man of the 21st century, he decided to eliminate it in the name of justice...

Lin Mu was still complaining when suddenly a white wild boar appeared out of nowhere at the door. It just appeared so suddenly, as if it had been thrown out of the void by some force.

As soon as its plump, white body appeared, it squatted down by the door frame, blocking the way alongside the previous one.

Immediately afterwards, other monsters began to appear out of thin air in the surrounding darkness: black boars, red boars, and black maggots. They emerged one by one from the corners of the walls, the passageways, and behind the pillars. There was no light, no sound, and no warning. One second the surroundings were empty, and the next second they were crowded together.

The newly appeared monsters roared collectively, as if venting the frustration pent up in their hearts. The roars echoed throughout the hall, making Lin Mu's eardrums ache and his head buzz, as if someone was banging a gong next to his ear.

He was so startled that he pressed his back against the wall and held his breath.

The wild boars brushed past him toward the skeleton beside Lin Mu, their coarse bristles brushing against his clothes. He could even hear the heavy breathing of the black boar next to him, panting like a bellows.

Fortunately, Lin Mu's invisibility was still intact. His semi-transparent body leaned against the wall, motionless, and no monster noticed him.

He then understood why so few people came to the Blazing Flame Palace. No wonder that group of people left in such a hurry. The number of monsters spawning was terrifying. Being surrounded by a horde of monsters would inevitably lead to a fierce battle.

It seems that when I first came in, the Blazing Hall had been cleared out by someone else, otherwise I would have been wiped out in the first wave.

At this moment, the skeleton was already fighting with the surrounding monsters. Its axe flew up and down, and white light flashed one after another. Black boars and red boars fell one after another.

But as soon as the monster next to the skeleton fell, the monsters behind it stepped over the corpses of their companions and continued to surround them, blocking the area around the skeleton and Lin Mu completely. Pig heads were next to pig heads, and pig butts were squeezed together, with not even a gap to be seen.

Lin Mu also wanted to learn from the female Taoist priest's method and summon the skeletons to a distance to make his side more open.

He raised his sword and tried several times, but the area in the distance was also crowded with monsters. As far as his mind could see, there were only dark swarms of pigs, and he couldn't summon the skeleton at all.

Finally, the skeleton was recalled to its original position. Seeing this, Lin Mu decided that his efforts were not in vain.

Lin Mu himself dared not make any rash moves, nor did he dare to apply poison, because if he did, the monster would lock onto him.

What? You're saying you can take a step to break stealth and then go invisible again.

Sorry, there's no space around Lin Mu right now, there's nowhere else to land, so he can't actively break the stealth.

Besides, even if you find a place to settle down, the monsters here react quickly. If you're unlucky, the moment you break stealth, the boars will turn around and hit you with their spiked clubs, and you'll be done for.

So now he has no choice but to stick close to the wall, occasionally casting a healing spell on the skeleton, and trying his best to maintain his invisibility.

Although Lin Mu can poison monsters at a distance, monsters that cannot hit the skeletons at a distance or nearby will keep moving and adjusting their positions, and it is unknown when a monster will be able to reach Lin Mu.

The monsters here have such ridiculously high stats that Lin Mu doesn't have the toughness of a skeleton. He can't handle being caught in close combat by them.

Chapter 105, Level 22

Fortunately, the Blazing Flame Palace doesn't have those giant fluttering moths that can break invisibility; otherwise, if you were exposed and surrounded by a group of wild boars, you wouldn't be able to escape.

And so, he didn't know how much time had passed or how many monsters he had killed. He only remembered that the skeleton had been shattered several times and then summoned back. The monster corpses piled up like mountains at his feet, but most of the monster corpses had been swallowed up and disappeared by the floor of the hall.

Furthermore, every time the white boar was killed, it would release a dense demonic aura that made Lin Mu feel suffocated. Fortunately, the light in his mind kept protecting him.

Fortunately, a considerable amount of space had been cleared around him, allowing him to use poison to assist the skeleton in farming monsters.

Another black boar fell, and another notification popped into my mind:

Experience gained: 600

Immediately afterwards, a golden light flashed before Lin Mu's eyes.

Congratulations on reaching level 21!

[Level: 21]

Experience: 470/250000

HP: 140/140

[MP: 134/134]

……

His own attack, Taoist magic, and magic defense all increased by 1-1.

However, there were still many monsters, and we spent an unknown amount of time farming them, during which we also killed quite a few white boars.

This time, the White Boar finally got its loot: two gray books and a slender staff.

Lin Mu picked it up and looked at it:

[Magic Shield, requires level 31]

[Group Invisibility, requires level 21]

[Wand, Attack 5-10, Magic 2-5, Requires Level 26]

He smirked and first activated the collective invisibility spell.

The skill book transformed into a beam of light and entered his brow, a cool sensation spreading from his brow to his entire body. He closed his eyes and felt it; the feeling was indescribable, like having gained an instinct to extend the range of his invisibility spell to several people around him with a simple gesture.

He opened his eyes, raised his hand to subdue the demon, and a protective talisman imbued with spiritual power suddenly flew from his fingertips, silently drifting towards the skeleton and sticking to its breastbone with a snap. Then, with a bang, it exploded, turning into a cloud of pale blue mist that enveloped the skeleton, Lin Mu, and a small area around them.

The mist was cool and refreshing, like the morning fog, with a faint scent of herbs.

As the fog dissipated, the skeleton and its figure became translucent, as if blending into the surrounding darkness. Lin Mu looked down at himself, then at the skeleton, and nodded in satisfaction.

After testing it, Lin Mu put the magic shield and wand into his Qiankun bag, patted the skeleton's shoulder blade, and continued to clear monsters.

I don't know how much time has passed.

Finally, another golden light exploded before my eyes, and a line of words flashed into my mind:

Congratulations on reaching level 22!

Lin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that thanks to such a powerful skeleton protecting him and drawing fire, probably no one but himself could stay in the Blazing Flame Palace to level up alone.