Chapter 92
It is impolite not to reciprocate!
Chapter 92 It is impolite not to reciprocate!
The night was hazy, and a cold wind blew through the mountains.
The densely intertwined vines were like weeds that could never be cut down; they would grow back after being cut.
Only after the wooden puppet soldiers kept swinging their swords did a tiny gap finally appear.
A thick, scarlet light emanated from the crevice.
That was the flickering spiritual fire within the lantern ghost.
Shen Yi glanced at the two wooden puppet soldiers still guarding the wall.
They have begun attacking the approaching spirits. Sensing human presence, spirits are slowly approaching from all directions within the Black Mountain.
However, the lantern ghost's lair sealed off the entrance, and without the lantern ghosts, there were only twenty or thirty of these monsters in total.
Although a family might feel very scared and panicked if they were faced with twenty or thirty monsters.
But now that Shen Yi and his companions have experienced so many grand events, this number of spirits is no longer of any concern to them.
These low-level monsters aren't even enough to fill their teeth.
"It seems that even ghosts don't want to come to this remote mountain valley."
Shen Yi sighed.
It can be said that this place is now a safe haven for ordinary people.
Before long, the two wooden puppet soldiers killed all the monsters that approached.
However, their popularity still shines like a lighthouse in the darkness, attracting the surrounding spirits to gather around them.
Shen Yuan immediately chimed in, "If we wipe out this lantern ghost's lair tonight, there will be even fewer monsters in this area."
Shen Kun chuckled and said, "Big Brother needs spirit materials. If we don't have enough spirits, we'll go check out Yanling Village. If that doesn't work, we'll move to a place where there are spirits."
"Moving it to another location is fine, otherwise all the territory I worked so hard to build would be for nothing."
Shen Yi pondered for a moment, "We could set up temporary outposts in other places, like we are today, to hunt monsters."
"However, the problem is that we don't know what level of monsters will appear in other places."
"Forget it, we can study those later. Let's take down the lantern ghost's lair first."
Shen Yi finished speaking.
At this moment, the three wooden puppet soldiers that were constantly attacking the entrance of the vine cave finally made new progress.
Click click—
The vines' regenerative ability couldn't keep up with the wooden golems' destructive speed, and soon a large opening appeared that allowed people to enter and exit.
A large mass of blood-red light illuminated the scene inside, turning it a deep crimson. You could clearly see the countless lantern ghosts piled up inside the lair!
At least a thousand!
It's quite frightening.
at this time.
The "Target Acquisition" trait of the Wooden Puppet Soldier is activated.
They aimed at the lantern ghosts inside, burst through the gap in the vines, and darted inside.
The writhing vines contracted helplessly, only able to withstand the fierce impact of the wooden puppet soldiers.
Click! Click! Click!
The wooden puppet soldier wielded his sharp wooden sword.
Upon entering the lair, he immediately slashed at the targeted monster beside him!
In an instant, the lantern ghost was cleaved in two, and the two flames of spirit quickly dissipated in the darkness!
Shen Kun was extremely excited as he read it.
"The wooden golems have finally broken in!"
"Once they're inside, they'll be much easier to deal with!"
Shen Yi couldn't help but reveal a hint of joy in his eyes.
He first stood up and looked out at the lantern ghost's lair, which was just a few meters away.
Following the fine gaps where the vines gradually converge.
Beyond the crowded lantern ghosts, one could vaguely see the shadows of several enormous monsters deep within the lair, their blood-red lanterns hanging from their waists swaying slightly.
"One, two, three, four, five —"
"Seven!"
Shen Yi quickly counted the several monsters that were clearly different in appearance.
It's not four or five heads as Mo Guanhai previously mentioned, but seven!
In the past sixty years, it seems that a few more lantern ghosts have evolved from this lantern ghost's lair!
This was incredibly good news for Shen Yi!
Sensing the intruder, the lantern ghost immediately launched a counterattack, fiercely attacking the wooden puppet soldiers.
With a single, effortless swing of his sword, the wooden puppet soldier could kill and slay several lantern demons.
The vines at the lantern ghost's lair no longer gathered, as if waiting for the intruders inside to be driven out.
This also made it convenient for Shen Yi and his group to check the situation inside.
As the wooden puppet soldiers continued to slash, hundreds of lantern ghosts lost their spiritual fire and fell to the ground with a "thud," motionless.
This quickly attracted the attention of the Lantern Ghost deep within the lair.
Immediately afterwards, five enormous figures strode out from the depths of the lair.
Their figures are small in head and large in body, with human-like limbs, and their bodies are shrouded in dark, turbid energy. A blood-red lantern extends from their right arm, and their pair of ghostly hands are long, sharp, and can move at any angle to launch attacks.
Shen Yi finally saw the Lantern Ghost he had been longing for again!
He clenched his fists, his emotions running high: "Kill them all!"
Tonight.
It is destined to bring him great rewards!
Yin Soul Wood, Soul Nourishing Wood — even essence!
Once he destroys the lantern ghost's lair, he can immediately begin refining the weasel's essence!
Almost immediately, the wooden golem soldiers, who were constantly killing the lantern ghosts inside the lair, were attacked by the lantern ghosts!
Their ghostly hands suddenly stretched out, their sharp five fingers extending half a meter into the air towards the wooden puppet soldier!
Snapped!
Sharp fingertips were about to pierce into the wooden puppet's body.
【Durability: 79→78】
"Depend on!"
This actually caused the level 4 wooden golem to lose a bit of durability!
Looking into the distance, Shen Yi could almost see the fierce black light flashing on the Lantern Ghost's five fingers.
It was this powerful attack of the sharp black light that caused the wooden puppet's durability to drop slightly.
Five clear finger marks immediately appeared on the wooden puppet soldier's body without any pause.
It has changed its target, focusing on the more threatening Lantern Ghost.
Then, he swung his knife down at the ghostly hand that was grabbing him!
Click!Click!
Instantly, the five ghostly wooden fingers that had landed on the wooden puppet soldier were severed and fell to the ground.
Black blood immediately spurted from the five severed fingers of the Lantern Demon.
It let out a sharp, mournful scream, quickly withdrew its hand, and its already bizarre, enormous figure became even more distorted!
next moment.
Black energy surged inexplicably over its body, and five ghost wood fingers grew back from the five broken ends.
As the wounds healed, the murky aura swirling around the lantern-bearing ghost and the blood-red lantern on its right arm dimmed in color.
Its screams stirred up the other lantern ghosts, making their attacks even more ferocious and violent!
With only three wooden puppet soldiers, they were somewhat unable to withstand the onslaught of the Lantern Demon.
One of the wooden puppet soldiers had its joints firmly bound by the long, pointed wooden fingers of two lantern-carrying ghosts, each half a meter long.
Immediately, the wooden puppet soldiers were immobilized by the restraints and could no longer wield their wooden swords.
Inside the lair, the Lantern Ghost reigns supreme.
They casually tore off a handful of vines and bound the wooden puppet soldiers to the wall like cocoons.
The eerie vines kept wriggling, holding it firmly in place!
As the vines wrapped around, they quickly covered the entire wooden puppet soldier's body!
Shen Yi kept a close eye on the battle and immediately gave the order to the other two wooden puppet soldiers: "Swing your swords to the upper left!"
*Pfft*
The two wooden puppet soldiers immediately received the order and swung their swords almost simultaneously, sending two gusts of wind slashing out at the wall to their upper left!
The vines that were wrapped and wriggling on the wall were quickly cut off, leaving two marks.
Once the wooden puppet that had been entangled in vines was freed, it immediately fell off the wall.
Two deep knife marks appeared on its body!
This was because the two wooden golems attacked without any regard for friendly units, causing friendly fire.
【Durability: 76→66】
"It fell so hard!"
Shen Yi watched as the durability value suddenly dropped by 10 points, but he didn't even have time to feel sorry for himself.
At this moment, the three wooden puppet soldiers were completely under attack from the five lantern demons.
He immediately dispatched the two wooden puppet soldiers guarding the area to provide support.
Swish!Swish!
Upon receiving the order, the two wooden puppet soldiers, who had been killing nearby monsters, quickly took off running towards the lantern ghost's lair.
Shen Yi called out, "Little sister, Guan Yue, keep an eye on the spirits around us. Notify me immediately if anything unusual happens!"
"Okay, big brother!"
Shen Yuan and her companion moved swiftly, quickly taking over the positions of the two wooden puppet soldiers and taking out the Deep Black Arrows to continuously shoot at the approaching monsters.
"Ah Kun, the wooden puppet soldiers are still too rigid in their movements. You and I will provide them with some support."
"Alright, let me see them off!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Kun responded in a loud voice, immediately drawing a dark black arrow and nocking it on the bowstring.
After aiming at the lantern ghost, he released the bowstring.
The Deep Black Arrow immediately shot out at an extremely fast speed!
The arrow shot straight into the lantern demon's lair, piercing deeply into one of the lantern demons.
The lantern-carrying ghost's movement speed was immediately affected and slowed down by a fraction.
"efficient!"
Shen Kun's face lit up with joy.
"Let's continue!"
Bang!
But his joy didn't last long.
The next second, the Deep Black Arrow was wrapped around the Lantern Ghost's five fingers by the furious ghost and flung out of the nest. The arrow was driven directly into a tree with great force.
It raised its head, and its eerie, ruthless gaze immediately locked onto the four people, discovering their location.
"ah!!!"
A piercing scream, like that of a vengeful ghost, emanated from its mouth!
It seems they received a signal.
then.
The entire Lantern Ghost's lair began to riot.
The wooden puppet soldiers' target has fallen on the lantern ghost.
The lantern ghosts, without any hindrance, surged out of their lair in droves and rushed towards the four of them!
As the large group of lantern ghosts approached like a black tide in the night, Shen Yi's face darkened under the moonlight.
He quickly put down the Yin Wood Longbow and picked up a Yin Wood Spear.
With a flick of his wrist, the spear flew out of his hand!
It transformed into a streak of black light and crashed into the group of lantern ghosts, instantly piercing and shattering more than ten of them!
"return!"
Then, Shen Yi raised his hand and grabbed, causing the Yin Wood Spear to fly back quickly.
Although the return process caused no damage, it still impacted the lantern ghost.
Guan Yue and the others stood on the wall, not even daring to wipe away their sweat.
Despite his vision being blurred by sweat and his breathing becoming heavy, he struggled to maintain the frequency of his thrusts!
Like a fisherman who catches fish with a harpoon.
A single stab to the lantern ghost is all it takes!
The lantern demons were of too low a rank to even get close to the level 2 city wall. Before long, nearly a hundred of them died under the combined efforts of the four!
Sensing the unusual situation, the five lantern demons fighting the wooden puppets inside the lantern demon's lair let out a shriek of alarm and anger.
Just as they were about to rush out, a lantern-bearing ghost bumped into the blade of a wooden puppet soldier falling from behind.
*Sizzle*
The blade sliced in from his left shoulder and went down.
Half of his body was immediately severed.
It stumbled and fell heavily to the ground, its roots wriggling as it tried to repair the broken wound.
However, another wooden puppet soldier swung down its long sword, slicing the lantern ghost's head in two.
At this moment, two wooden puppet soldiers followed and swung their swords down.
The lantern-bearing ghost, whose head was severed and who was still struggling, was immediately cut into several pieces.
He was lifeless.
Successfully killed the Lantern Demon!
"not good!"
After the death of their kind, the remaining lantern ghosts went berserk, their attack speed nearly doubling!
The surrounding vines surged forward, entangling the five puppet soldiers!
Shen Yi seized the opportunity and threw the Yin Wood Spear with all his might!
puff!
The spear fell into the lantern demon's lair, piercing through the body of one of the lantern demons.
"Attack the leftmost target!"
The five wooden puppet soldiers immediately obeyed the order, and their wooden swords fell simultaneously towards the wounded lantern ghost.
"ah!!"
The lantern-carrying ghost screamed in terror and anger, watching helplessly as five wooden knives fell upon it, cleaving it into several pieces!
Shen Yi had already taken the level 7 spear from Shen Kun's hand and threw it forcefully!
This time the aim wasn't good, and the target wasn't hit.
But it also caused the lantern-carrying ghost to lose its balance!
"Attack the target in the middle!"
Shen Yi seized the opportunity and gave the order, and the blades of the five wooden puppet soldiers slashed down simultaneously once again!
puff! !
In the blink of an eye, the three lantern-bearing demons had turned into pieces of broken wood and lost their breath.
At this time.
The entity deep within the Lantern Demon's lair has been alerted.
It slowly walked out with a lantern-bearing ghost beside it; the two lantern-bearing ghosts seemed to be a couple.
Upon witnessing the death of its own kind, its red eyes immediately turned crimson, as if it possessed a sliver of intelligence.
This is probably the leader of this den.
It patted the lantern-carrying ghost that was walking out beside it.
He then took a long spear made of dark wood that had fallen into the nest.
Shen Yi was recalling it when he discovered its unusual behavior, and his expression changed slightly.
The wooden spear was completely unable to break free from the hands of this distinctly different lantern ghost.
It looked up coldly in the direction where Shen Yi and the others were, aimed the spear at Shen Yi, and threw it back!
hum! !
The spear flew back, piercing through the level 2 Yin Wood wall with tremendous force!
【Durability: 100→81】
The level 2 wall immediately lost a significant amount of durability.
Shen Yi narrowly escaped the attack, his heart pounding with fear. He glanced back at the long spear of dark wood, its tail trembling violently as it was deeply embedded in the mountain wall.
"good!!"
"It is impolite not to reciprocate!"
Shen Yi smiled, his killing intent fully revealed, and without hesitation, he took out a special dark yellow arrow from the quiver at his waist.
"Let's see how tough you are against my spirit-piercing arrow!"
He swiftly drew his longbow to its fullest extent, aiming at the position of the lantern-bearing ghost leader!
Even a second-tier zombie couldn't withstand this arrow, so using it on a mere lantern ghost is a waste of its potential.
call out-
The long arrow, like a rainbow, transformed into a ghostly light and disappeared into the darkness, causing a great alarm to rise in the heart of the lantern-bearing ghost.
It instinctively lunged forward, its body leaping out of the den like a tiger or leopard, and shot towards the target at the wall!
However, the next moment, a streak of light flashed by at lightning speed, followed by a loud bang.
The lantern ghost, which was moving at high speed, suddenly exploded with a "bang" and a hole appeared in its head without warning!
Then its entire body quickly fell to the ground, creating a long trench in the ground.
The lantern ghost never expected that he wouldn't even have a chance to make a move.
He was instantly killed by an arrow!
Click! Click! Click!
then.
A series of cracking sounds rang out.
The lantern ghost, still struggling on the ground, suddenly had cracks with a faint, eerie glow spreading all over its body.
Then, a burst of spiritual malevolent energy erupted from it!
His entire body instantly disintegrated into pieces!
This is----
The finishing move effect of the Spirit Arrow has been triggered!