The biggest difficulty in dealing with ghost enemies is their erratic movements.
Lu Xiao had just waved his sword to clear the road, and the Seven-faced Warrior had disappeared from his sight. At the same time, Lu Xiao noticed a strong sense of threat coming from behind.
Instinctively, he ducked to the left to avoid, and a torrent of purple beams suddenly roared past the place where he was standing before.
The attack that looked like a beam cannon actually had no physical damage capability. After being dodged by Lu Xiao, the beam shot directly through the cave wall into the distance.
The killing move was dodged, and the Seven-Faced Warrior also revealed his new position.
In order to prevent this guy from disintegrating and escaping again, Lu Xiao used a shrinking gait and rushed straight towards the place where the Seven-faced Warrior was.
"boom!"
Another beam of light came towards Lu Xiao. This time, Lu Xiao did not make any evasive action and put the Immortal Slash back into the scabbard in advance to accumulate power.
Before the last moment when the beam of light approached, the Immortal Slash, which began to glow purple in the scabbard, suddenly came out of its sheath.
"Secret · Dragon Flash!"
The secret technique learned from Ashina Isshin erupted with sharp sword energy, and the sword energy wrapped with the special ability of Immortal Slash split the beam of light released by the Seven-faced Samurai from the middle, and continued to sweep towards the Seven-faced Samurai without losing force.
After Lu Xiao learned the two secret skills of Dragon Flash and Yishin through the secret book Yishin left to Yongzhen, these two tricks were classified by the system into Wei Mingren, and received the C-level Wei Mingren skill bonus.
The surging sword energy hit the Seven-faced Samurai head-on, who was unable to dodge. The undead slashing power contained in the sword energy caused the Seven-faced Samurai to let out a strange and shrill scream.
"嘤嘤嘤!"
When the Seven-Faced Warrior was hit by the sword energy and fell into a state of freeze, Lu Xiao finally moved in front of the Seven-Faced Warrior.
The runes temporarily imprinted on the body of the Immortal Slashing Blade dissipated very quickly, and the purple light on the blade began to dim. Apparently, the previous dragon flash consumed a lot of the magic power that Lu Xiao had pre-stored in the runes.
"Ashina Cross Slash!"
Two overlapping purple sword lights passed through the dark cave, and the noises made by the Seven-faced Samurai and the Wrong Souls finally stopped.
The seven-faced warrior whose spirit body was cut into pieces quickly faded in mid-air, and could no longer condense into a solid body. The innocent souls gathered by the seven-faced warrior also disappeared one by one with expressions of relief on their faces.
"Huh~"
Sheathing the sword, the magic power of the rune was exhausted at this moment.
The originally heavy and turbid air in the cave was cleared, and the threat of the Seven Faced Warriors to the dungeon was eliminated.
…
When Lu Xiao arrived in front of the huge pit that Wolf was talking about, an old woman with her hands clasped together in a praying posture was sitting on her knees in front of the huge pit, muttering to herself.
"The bottom of Ashina's name...the bottom of Ashina's name..."
Lu Xiao tried to go up and talk to the old woman, but the old woman with very cloudy eyes kept saying a few words over and over again, like a robot that could only answer automatically.
Looking down from the edge of the giant pit, nothing could be seen below the pitch-black entrance, and Lu Xiao's night vision was unable to penetrate the thick darkness below.
'Well... just in case, let's make some preparations.'
After raising Wei Mingliu to level C, Lu Xiao still had 5 free skill points left. Considering the life safety issues that might arise if he made a mistake, Lu Xiao spent 4 skill points to increase Leap of Faith to level B.
"B-level Leap of Faith: Completely immune to the damage caused by falling into straw and water when falling from high altitude, greatly reducing the damage caused by falling from high altitude to the ground. Under extreme conditions, it can retain the 'immortality of one blood' for the host."
If possible, Lu Xiao does not want to trigger the so-called "one-blood immortality". The B-level Leap of Faith can only guarantee that Lu Xiao will not fall to death, but there is no guarantee that he will not fall to his death. It should be a higher A-level talent.
effect achieved.
It takes 5 free skill points to move from level B skill points to level A. Lu Xiao doesn't have that many free points now.
Immortality at least guarantees Lu Xiao's life safety. If he is unlucky enough to trigger this effect, Lu Xiao will have no choice but to activate the time gem to reverse his own time regardless of the consequences, but this will inevitably affect his next plan.
Spreading his arms and leaping high from the edge of the giant pit, Lu Xiao fell into the deep pit in front of him under the meaningful gaze of the mysterious old woman.
"Hu~hu~"
The howling cold wind blew past Lu Xiao's face. Lu Xiao, who opened his eagle eyes with all his strength, ignored the interference of the cold wind and concentrated on looking for possible ground platforms and fulcrums below.
"Saw it!"
Lu Xiao, who was falling rapidly, threw out the hook lock in his arm armor. Amidst the crisp sound of the metal chain stretching, the sharp hook claws caught a large protruding stone.
Lu Xiao relied on the counter-shock force from the fixed hook to swing his body up and change the direction of his fall. While shaking his arms to retract the hook, he landed lightly on a dark boulder platform.
"boom!"
Even with the hook lock helping to reduce the force of his fall, Lu Xiao still made a huge impact sound when he landed.
The Leap of Faith, which had reached level B, greatly reduced Lu Xiao's injuries when he landed. Lu Xiao, whose legs were numb, stood there for a few seconds and then resumed normal activities.
There was a shimmering cave entrance at the far end of the boulder platform. Lu Xiao walked along the cave and entered a wide underground cave with the help of the weak illumination of luminous moss.
The bottom of this cave is a smelly swamp, and there are obvious traces of manual ax gouging nearby.
Several huge Buddha statues are located around the swamp, and a dozen weirdos with their heads wrapped in white cloth live in this poisonous swamp and around the Buddha statues.
Lu Xiao temporarily filtered out the stench of the swamp and squatted on the high platform to look at the distribution of people below with his eagle eyes.
Most of these weirdos with white cloths on their heads held matchlock guns in their hands, and some even carried miniature cannons. At a glance, you could tell that they were individuals specializing in long-range.
If Lu Xiao remembers correctly, these weirdos should be the Ashina civilian armed group known as the Tie Pao Zhong. Their leader is a woman named Snake Eyes, who is said to have part of the blood of the Yujiamei clan.
Even though most of Snake Eyes' face was wrapped in cloth, her eyesight was actually quite amazing. Lu Xiao saw with his own eyes that she used the special musket in her hand to accurately hit an unknown small flying insect flying above the swamp.
This little flying insect was at least a hundred meters away from Snake Eyes, and I don't know how she managed to do it with an inferior matchlock gun with poor accuracy.
Considering that he might pass through this passage many times when traveling to the Palace of Origin after getting the Stone of Ending, Lu Xiao planned to get rid of this group of iron cannons once and for all.
It would be best if they could be persuaded through peaceful communication, but before arriving, Lu Xiao had heard Genichiro say that the Tiepao people had no good impression of Ashina officials at all, and anyone who broke into their stronghold would be killed without distinction between friend and foe.
was attacked mercilessly.
To put it simply, the Iron Cannons are a wild monster-type organization that lives alone in the wild. They do not have any position or preference. It is impossible to persuade them to give way.
Lu Xiao stood high on the cliff and observed the distribution of the iron cannons, and hesitantly touched his chin.
'Should we deal with Snake Eyes first or clear out the miscellaneous soldiers first?'