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

Lin Mu gripped the Wuji Staff tightly, his back pressed against the wall, and the stone statues awoke one by one.

The sound wasn't coming from just one or two statues, but from the entire surrounding area.

Under the pillars, beside the walls, and in the middle of the passage, a dozen Zuma guardians and Zuma statues simultaneously peeled off their stone skin, lit up their eyes, and took steps.

Their low growls and hums mingled together, echoing back and forth in the narrow passage.

The skeleton stood at the front, the flames in its eye sockets staring intently at the awakened monsters.

Lin Mu took a deep breath, took out some medicinal powder, and applied red and green poison to the Zuma Guardian in front of him. After sprinkling two handfuls of powder, the guardian's body glowed green and then red, with -38, -38 jumping above its head.

Lin Mu dared not linger. He took a step forward and broke the invisibility spell. Then he raised his hand and cast another invisibility spell, making himself semi-transparent again.

The Zuma Guardian, who was originally going to bypass the skeleton to attack Lin Mu, suddenly lost its target. The head that had just turned around turned back and locked onto the skeleton.

The skeleton watched as the Zuma Guardian turned red, then swung its axe down, striking the Zuma Guardian squarely in the chest.

-157.

The guard, in pain, roared and charged at the skeleton, hammer in hand.

The skeleton remained calm, sidestepped, and slammed its hammer into the ground with a dull thud, sending shards of stone flying.

Next, the Zuma statue came over and stabbed the skeleton with its halberd. This time, the skeleton couldn't dodge it.

-19.

Soon, the skeleton was surrounded by a circle of Zuma Guardians and Zuma statues.

Lin Mu carefully observed their movement speed; they were all equally slow, indicating they were all ordinary, with no exceptional specimens.

Even ordinary Zuma monsters have considerable attack power.

祖玛卫士攻击40-70，祖玛雕像攻击35-65，而骷髅的防御只有30-35。

With each strike of the halberd and the hammer, the skeleton was knocked back, and numbers floated above its head.

-21, -32, -27...

On average, each hit deals more than 25 damage.

The skeleton was surrounded and had nowhere to hide; it could only take the hits or block.

Lin Mu watched as the skeleton's health bar slowly dropped, and he felt uneasy.

Although skeletons have high health and can withstand attacks for a while, this isn't a sustainable solution.

He raised his hand and sent out a protective talisman that granted collective invisibility. With a "bang," the white mist exploded, and the skeleton's figure instantly became semi-transparent.

The Zuma monsters surrounding the skeleton lost their target and stood frozen in place, hammer and halberd in hand, turning their heads in confusion.

With no other monsters to interfere, the skeleton began to focus on attacking the Zuma Guardian in front of it.

One axe blow, two axe blows, three axe blows—one after another, white light flashed, and the guard's health bar visibly dropped.

Lin Mu kept casting the collective invisibility spell on the skeletons, and the white mist exploded one after another, but the skeletons' figures remained semi-transparent.

The surrounding Zuma monsters were distracted by the invisibility spell, and apart from the targets the skeletons were directly attacking, they were all spinning around in confusion.

The skeleton seized the opportunity to unleash a barrage of attacks, its axe flying up and down. Under the relentless onslaught of the figure-eight slash, the Zuma Guardian didn't even last a minute before collapsing to the ground.

[Experience gained: 1000]

About a minute later, a Zuma statue let out a long, pitiful "baa" and collapsed.

[Experience gained: 850]

One after another, tips and tricks popped up one after another.

Lin Mu leaned against the wall, concealed, watching the skeleton slay monsters with a bored expression, occasionally casting a healing spell on it, but never applying poison.

It wasn't that he didn't want to help, but the monsters around him were too close, and there wasn't a suitable place to land. If he were poisoned, the monsters would lock onto him, putting him in danger.

Therefore, he could only let the skeleton whittle down the monster with its own attacks and the meager damage from the green poison, while he stayed on the sidelines to heal.

After killing more than a dozen Zuma Guardians and Zuma Statues, the surrounding monsters were finally mostly cleared out.

Lin Mu originally wanted to direct the skeleton to move closer to the door, as the evil serpent was still waiting there.

But then he realized something was wrong; there were no more cute little monsters here that could attack skeletons without breaking their defenses.

I've already tried using the melee Zuma Guardians and Zuma Statues; they both deal damage to skeletons, and quite a bit of it.

Without minions to act as meat shields, skeletons simply cannot withstand being surrounded and attacked in open areas.

He needs to find a corner for the skeleton first.

Finding a random wall only protects you from melee monster attacks from one direction, but a corner can protect you from melee monster attacks from two directions, allowing you to withstand attacks for a longer period of time.

Lin Mu directed the skeletons to clear the area along the wall away from the doorway, clearing out a corner first.

Skeletons lack vision, but thanks to the radar system they develop after assimilating with monsters, they can accurately lock onto those annoying Hornflies, Wedge Moths, and Zuma Archers.

Axe blades flew out one after another, sounds rising and falling in the darkness. The wings of the wedge moths fluttered for a while, then fell silent; the hornflies stopped opening their mouths and spitting out bats; the bowstrings of the Zuma archers twanged intermittently, and finally fell silent as well.

As for the Zuma monsters that are still in their sleeping stone statue state, rouse the ones that are blocking the way, and leave the ones that are not blocking the way as long as they don't affect his monster-hunting and monster-luring later. After rousing them, the Zuma Guardians with high attack power will kill them.

Lin Mu deliberately left the Zuma statues with lower attack power behind him, so they could act as a wall of monsters for a while.

And so, the skeleton led the way, with Lin Mu following behind, taking one step at a time and carefully making his way forward.

After clearing for a while, we finally found a corner at the end.

Lin Mu had the skeleton stand inside, and the Zuma statues that followed also surrounded the skeleton in the corner and began to attack it. This way, he only needed to face the Zuma statues from the front, side, and diagonal directions, and he wouldn't be surrounded by a large number of monsters. There were also two Zuma statues that couldn't get in and were wandering around outside.

Lin Mu used a group invisibility spell to make the skeletons invisible, then switched to a teleportation ring, turned around and flashed out, then summoned a skeleton and started clearing monsters towards the entrance.

However, this time, with the minions in the meat wall, Lin Mu no longer held back against the monsters that had been brought to life, and killed them all.

Chapter 125, Level 25

As they cleared the way to the door, they could see the shadow of the evil serpent in the distance, its dark green body slithering in the darkness.

Lin Mu wanted the skeleton to lure the evil snake over, but as soon as it got close, a "clang" sound of a bowstring came from afar.

Suddenly, a stone arrow pierced the air and struck the skeleton's breastbone.

-34.

High attack power, looks like a top-tier Zuma archer.

Lin Mu frowned, deciding not to deal with it for the time being; dealing with the evil venomous snake was more important.

He made the skeleton endure the attacks of the top-tier Zuma archer and continue to advance.

Once at the right distance, the skeleton hurled a flying axe, its blade glowing white as it disappeared into the darkness. Moments later, the pained hiss of an evil serpent could be heard from afar.

After being poisoned, the evil serpent's dark green body emerged from the darkness, its scales gleaming coldly in the firelight, and flames of -3, -3... rising from its head.

When the evil venomous snake reached the skeleton, Lin Mu used a group invisibility spell to fly out, and the white mist exploded.

In the evil serpent's vision, the skeleton's figure vanished instantly.

The wicked serpent hissed, flicking its tongue, and wandered around blankly, unaware of where its prey had gone.

Lin Mu left the invisible skeleton in place to wait, then drank a large magic potion and ran towards that corner.

After running for a while, Lin Mu turned around invisibly, only to find the dark purple demonic energy surging, making it impossible to see anything.

However, this was no challenge for Lin Mu.

Lin Mu closed his eyes and sensed the point of light in his mind. His perspective shifted to that of the skeleton, where he saw the evil venomous snake still sticking out its tongue in a daze.

Unfortunately, Lin Mu can only see what's in front of the skeleton in this way right now; he can't yet use radar to sense the monster's location.

Lin Mu summoned a skeleton, bringing it to his side and making it invisible. He then had the skeleton use its throwing axe to lure the evil snake away.

This was repeated several times, not only shaking off that annoying, top-tier Zuma archer, but also attracting the evil venomous snake to follow.

Finally, Lin Mu summoned a skeleton, pointed his Wuji Staff at the corner, and summoned the skeleton to stand in the corner, so that the skeleton's back and sides were against the wall.

Once the skeletons were firmly in place, he first cast a collective invisibility spell on them, making their figures semi-transparent.

The skeleton that had gone invisible immediately understood and threw a flying axe, attracting the few Zuma statues that had been wandering around.

Several Zuma statues strode heavily to the corner, completely surrounding the skull from the front, one side, and an angle.

Despite the attack from the Zuma statue, the skeleton hurled another flying axe at the evil serpent lurking in the darkness.

The evil serpent hissed in pain.

It emerged from the thick demonic aura in no time, its dark green scales gleaming coldly in the firelight.

Once the evil venomous snake emerged from the thick demonic aura, Lin Mu took out the medicinal powder.

Two handfuls of powder were sprinkled over, and the snake's body glowed green and then red, its head throbbing with -38, -38.

Lin Mu dared not linger. He took a step forward and broke the invisibility spell. Then he raised his hand and cast another invisibility spell, making himself semi-transparent again.

The evil serpent lost its target, hissed, flicked its tongue, and shook its head a few times before finally locking onto the skeleton surrounded by the Zuma statue in the corner.

The skull-shaped throwing axe struck the evil serpent again and again, flashes of white light appearing one after another, and then emerging from above its head as the red poison damage intensified.

-102, -127, -117.

The evil serpent hissed as it was hacked at, its four pincers snapping and its tail hooks swishing arcs through the air. It tried to squeeze in, but couldn't reach the skeleton inside.

But the three Zuma statues surrounding the skull showed no mercy, stabbing the skull repeatedly with their halberds.

-21, -15, -26...

Lin Mu leaned against the wall, concealed, idly waiting for the poison to dissipate and for him to either replenish it or cast a healing spell on the skeleton.

Seeing that the skeleton's health had dropped significantly, he quickly cast a healing spell on it.

The healing spell's recovery speed couldn't keep up with the Zuma statue's attack frequency, and the skeleton's health continued to drop.

The skeleton held on for a few minutes, but then it snapped and shattered into pieces.

Lin Mu sighed and raised the Wuji Staff.

The debris on the ground turned into silver specks of light, which wrapped around the stick and flowed with silver light.

He pointed the tip of his stick at the corner of the wall, and a silver light darted out like a serpent, re-coalescing in the corner. The skeleton emerged from the silver light, completely intact.

At this moment, the formation of the Zuma statues was still intact, tightly surrounding the newly summoned and condensed skeletons.