These traitorous mantises moved silently, like bloated green ghosts. When they saw Lu Zhengkang approaching with bone nails, they did not rush forward, but took a few steps back to adjust the attack distance.
The guillotine-like blade tightened, the body tensed, and it lunged forward. The blade spread out like lightning, drawing a pair of intersecting death trajectories.
Lu Zhengkang dodged carefully and observed their fighting rhythm.
These plague-strengthened mantis warriors are indeed more agile and powerful, but they also suffer from a common and fatal problem of infected bodies, which is rigid thinking and lack of dexterity. This kind of enemy is the most boring. Lu Zhengkang took advantage of the buffer time after the attack.
Take their lives quickly.
After figuring out the fighting mode of the traitor mantis, Lu Zhengkang's sudden advance became more comfortable. He strolled on the building platform of the garden and checked the map to decide whether to enter the passage. He went round and round in this way and made several wrong steps during the process. It can be seen that this
The terrain is complex.
After crossing a long stretch of road full of painful thorns and jumping to the upper level, Lu Zhengkang came to a relatively dim passage. It was sealed by a mechanism, but judging from its shape, it was undoubtedly a stag-horned insect station.
Previously, he had longed to ride the stag bug directly to the garden, which seemed to save a lot of time. However, due to fate and the fickleness of fortune, the result of walking an extra mile was a rich reward, which actually saved him time to break through the Shadow Gate.
Lu Zhengkang is grateful for his good luck, but he will not rely on chaotic fate. He is a person who lacks the spirit of gambling.
Since the station can't be entered, Lu Zhengkang doesn't care. This is not the only way to go.
There are some machine doors on the road and we need to take a detour, which wastes a lot of time.
Continuing to explore, gradually, the density of buildings increases. The force of nature has not yet been able to assimilate this place, and the craftsmanship of artificial carvings is exposed. The surfaces of these building platforms are covered with moist floating soil and green moss, which are different from the carved ones.
The patterns are fused together and look like some shabby old maps, which are very historical and mysterious.
Several spiny bodies were wandering sluggishly on the platform. Their bodies were covered with plants. When the deer approached, sharp spikes protruded from some old round wounds on the body surface, and then shot in all directions.
The spikes flew very fast, and he was hit almost in the blink of an eye. Fortunately, the force was not strong and did not penetrate Lu Zhengkang's shield.
Lu Zhengkang used the soul ball to return color. The pure white ball hit these bodies and sank into their bodies. The explosion caused orange blood to splash everywhere. This stale blood polluted the environment.
We are already very close to our destination.
Lu Zhengkang looked around several passages and saw the Shadow Door.
The main body is four metal devices installed on the four walls of the passage. They are shaped like a round cone, with a circle of claw-like spikes on the sides, and a substance-like, rich darkness like a tide spurts out from the center.
Four devices form an array to block the entire passage. This is the door where the power of the void condenses. No one is allowed to pass without permission.
Lu Zhengkang concentrated on feeling the power of the void.
Deep, depressing, and violent, it originates from beneath the world, breeds the power to destroy everything, transcends the meaning of existence, defeats the passage of time, and is like the ultimate destiny of the universe.
The bound void energy washes back and forth between the four devices, like a turbulent flow, changing in many ways, but it never collapses and dissipates. Only a few shadow particles fly out from the torrent, and then are instantly annihilated and invisible.
Lu Zhengkang slashed out a sword energy, and the violent soul energy hit the void and disappeared without a trace.
This door seems to be connected to an abyss world, and any attack will just disappear like a stone thrown into the sea.
After realizing that he could not affect the Shadow Gate for the time being, Lu Zhengkang gave up the temptation and held out the key.
The surface of the spherical black key emits bright light after approaching the shadow door. On top of the complex lines, there is a pattern that is particularly clear, that is the Mark of Hallownest.
A hollow appeared in the center of the shadow door, which continued to rotate and expand, revealing the passage behind the door.
Lu Zhengkang held the key through the hole and came to the other side.
There are corpses everywhere here.
The traitor mantis, the broken limbs of Petra the mantis paved a section of the bloody floor. The orange blood condensed on the wall, soaked into the soil, and was absorbed by the plants, making the shade here particularly thick, almost like a midday scene.
The nightmarish and cold temperament cannot be transformed.
The feet stepped on the shriveled corpse, making squeaking sounds and the crackling sound of the carapace breaking. It was like walking in a swamp full of dead branches, and there was a sticky, heavy, crunchy feeling under the soles of the feet.
The closer you get to the White Lady, the more intense the battle becomes.
But the war seems to have ceased.
This battlefield is silent.
Going deeper, we came to a building that seemed to be a pergola or a viewing platform. The fence door was suddenly closed.
Several traitorous mantises emerged from the shadows of the building and were killed by Lu Zhengkang with a few nails.
Then, a huge shadow was projected on the ground. Lu Zhengkang raised his head, and a huge bloated mantis poked its head out from the gap in the roof. Its orange-red eyes were full of anger, violence and blindness. He was the traitor lord!
Lu Zhengkang smiled and said: "We have found the rightful owner!"
These words completely inspired the traitor lord's murderous intention. He jumped into the room, and his huge body made the spacious observation deck a little crowded.
The traitor lord let out a ferocious roar and waved his sword, creating orange-red wind scythes that filled the sky. His soul had been completely infected by the radiation, and even his soul energy had this unnatural color.
Lu Zhengkang dodged with teleportation and suppressed the urge to swing his sword.
The traitor lord's actions were incredibly flexible, and he seemed to have inspired some kind of superb hunting instinct, and his fighting skills were extremely cunning and flexible.
He would attack during Lu Zhengkang's teleportation. His huge blade was as heavy as a hammer. Even if he wasn't hit by the blade, it would still cause serious blunt injuries.
Faced with an attack as fierce as the flying snow in the severe winter, Lu Zhengkang flew up and down in the air like a butterfly in spring, not even a drop of ice crystals touching him.
It has to be said that the traitor lord is much stronger than the three mantis leaders. He is completely superior in size, strength, agility, and durability. When facing the traitor lord, the only thing the three leaders can do is to stay calm.
Lu Zhengkang tentatively swung a sword energy and slashed at the lord's thick carapace, only cutting a small hole. It seemed that his defense was also very strong.
The sword energy was greatly offset by the crazy and cruel soul energy in the lord, so it was difficult for Lu Zhengkang to gain an advantage by relying on soul attacks.
The lord still used the wind sickle to restrict Lu Zhengkang's route of action, and then intensified and sprayed out sword energy as thick as a wall, as if he wanted to completely crush this overly flexible opponent to death.
Lu Zhengkang's eyes could not see the other side through the sword aura, so teleportation became risky. Perhaps the moment he exited the soul coordinate system and returned to reality, the traitor lord's blade would come over his head.
Under such circumstances, I had to go all out.
Lu Zhengkang shouted loudly, and the bone nail he had been holding in his hand burst out with a dazzling light like the sun.
Chapter completed!