The Shadowy Blade Arong wore red clothes, had red hair, a red blade sheath, and a bright red scar on his face. His eyes, now opening to face the five, faintly revealed a crimson red.

"Watch the Shadowy Blade's eyes. The redder they are, the stronger his combat power," Ye Xiu introduced to the newcomers.

"Give me your lives!!" As it turned out, the Shadowy Blade was extremely impatient, even more so than Steamed Bun Invasion, who already had a brick in hand. He leapt into the air, the sound of the blade whistling, opening with a majestic Collapsing Mountain.

"Careful! His Collapsing Mountain's ground-shaking wave has a higher qinkong!" Ye Xiu hurriedly reminded them.

Qinkong means the ability of an attack to strike opponents in the air. Higher qinkong can be understood as this strike having a longer attack distance against airborne targets.

The ground-shaking wave of an ordinary Collapsing Mountain can be avoided by jumping once you're familiar with its qinkong height. But the Shadowy Blade's Collapsing Mountain was different in this attribute, so Ye Xiu reminded them, lest Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion judge it as a normal version.

Unfortunately, the reminder came a little too late.

Tang Rou reacted quickly. Before Ye Xiu had finished speaking, she had already responded to the attack with a jump. Moreover, while jumping to dodge, she also controlled Cold Mist Softening to launch a Dragon Tooth attack at the Shadowy Blade. Tang Rou was just that aggressive.

As for Steamed Bun Invasion, he didn't jump to dodge. Seeing Collapsing Mountain arrive, he quickly ran back a few steps to escape the range of the ground-shaking wave, and then threw a brick. Steamed Bun Invasion was just that devious.

As a result, Tang Rou knew she was in trouble when she heard Ye Xiu's reminder.

Her jump hadn't been extremely high. The most perfect operation was to have everything just right, using neither too little nor too much force. Her jump was perfectly timed based on her understanding of a normal Collapsing Mountain, but facing the Shadowy Blade's attack…

The ground-shaking wave that rose from where the blade struck the ground faintly glowed red, like a cloud of blood mist. Cold Mist Softening was hit by the ground-shaking wave, unable to dodge at all, and flew into the sky, spinning like a top.

The Boss knew how to seize opportunities for combos. The Shadowy Blade immediately retracted his move and jumped up, using a Swordsman skill, Rising Dragon Slash, slashing upwards at Cold Mist Softening.

Although Tang Rou's control was good, her character spun wildly like a top after being blown away by Collapsing Mountain. Naturally, she saw a 360-degree view change on the screen, so she couldn't perform any precise operations in this situation. Tang Rou randomly fired a shot, not knowing where it was going.

Ye Xiu's Lord Grim had already charged up, thrusting his spear and releasing a Circle Swing, wanting to pull the Shadowy Blade down. But he immediately witnessed the Shadowy Blade Arong's unique skill that he had emphasized to everyone earlier: the left-handed blade.

A cold light flashed.

It wasn't particularly turbulent, very fine, very fast, seeming to disappear in an instant. But this blade hit Lord Grim's spear, knocking Circle Swing to the side, and the attack missed.

"Boom boom boom," three cannon shots rang out.

While the left-handed blade deflected Circle Swing, Flowing Wind's Anti-Tank Missile had already been fired, hitting him squarely. Three cannon flowers exploded on the Shadowy Blade's body in mid-air. But after all, the Boss was a Boss. This skill, which could have pushed the monster away, was endured by the Shadowy Blade in mid-air, and his body only trembled. The Rising Dragon Slash still hadn't been broken, and the blade light slashed upwards, still hitting the spinning Cold Mist Softening squarely.

The top spun Cold Mist Softening even faster, crashing sideways into a cliff. The blood flowers raised by the blade scattered and fell from the air, and Cold Mist Softening also bounced off the wall and back to the ground, looking listless. But at the moment of landing, she suddenly performed a nimble Ukemi, and stood up again, full of vigor. As long as the master's fighting spirit hadn't disappeared, the game character would never appear dispirited.

The Shadowy Blade's Rising Dragon Slash also soared much higher than the player's skills. This was one of the more troublesome aspects of encountering a Boss. Although many of the Boss's skills were within the game's skill tree, the effects were often different from those of the players, and in most cases, they were stronger.

The extremely high Shadowy Blade had already retracted his move in mid-air. When he landed, he suddenly pointed his sword, actually using a Silver Light Falling Blade, aimed directly at Lord Grim, who was closest to him.

Ye Xiu swiped the keyboard, and Lord Grim had already moved to the side, letting the Silver Light Falling Blade land. He drew his blade from the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella. A silver light drew an extremely large semicircle, and on the other side, an identical arc of sword light flashed, the two sword lights intertwined, as if forming a bright, full moon.

It was Qiao Yifan who made the move, almost at the same time as Ye Xiu, using the same skill, the Ghostblade's level 15 skill, Moonlight Slash.

"Good!" Ye Xiu called out. The Shadowy Blade received two blows in mid-air. This Silver Light Falling Blade was broken. His body was clamped in mid-air by the blade light, and just as he was about to fall, two larger arcs of blade light flashed out at the same time, following the trajectory of the previous Moonlight Slash, but flying backwards in the opposite direction, forming a complete large arc.

Ghostblade level 20 skill: Full Moon Slash.

This skill originally carried a bit of knockback, but at this moment, Qiao Yifan and Ye Xiu each held one side, and executed the skill at the same time. The effects of the two skills canceled each other out, cutting the Shadowy Blade and suspending him in mid-air as if unable to move. As the blade light faded and he was about to land, a laser beam shot towards his face, hitting the Shadowy Blade's chest and pushing him several steps away, knocking him to the ground.

This skill was naturally Flowing Wind's Laser Cannon.

"Ice Array!" Ye Xiu shouted, and at the same time, Qiao Yifan had already released the skill. The ice frost condensed and dissipated in the sword's edge, and the ice frost barrier controlled by the ghost spirit ice soul condensed. Ye Xiu also took this opportunity to wave his blade, releasing a blade array of ghost spirit blade soul power.

The devious Steamed Bun Invasion now looked like a passerby, running past the two of them with a whoosh, and waving his hand to throw sand at the Shadowy Blade who had just gotten up.

Blind effect triggered!

The Shadowy Blade clearly lost his sense of direction, unable to find his opponent. He spun around twice in place, and the effect of the ice array had already activated, the power of ice frost eroding his body. With a "pop," the freezing probability was also triggered, and the Shadowy Blade was frozen into a large ice cube.

Tang Rou, who had suffered a great loss as soon as she came up, had already controlled Cold Mist Softening to rush over quickly. In the short moment of freezing, she released three skills in a row: Continuous Thrust, Dragon Tooth, and Falling Flower Palm. Accompanying the three skills that flew out were the three magic Chasers around her.

The freezing also dissolved after three skills. The Shadowy Blade shattered the ice cube and immediately swung his sword in a Cross Slash. The scarlet cross didn't look like blade light, but rather two strings of blood flowers flying towards Cold Mist Softening. Tang Rou immediately jumped back to dodge, but she didn't expect that there was a small Cross Slash hidden behind this large Cross Slash. In that instant, Tang Rou only saw the Shadowy Blade's left hand returning to his waist, and realized that in that instant, the Shadowy Blade had actually used his secret move "left-handed blade" again, releasing two Cross Slashes at the same time, with the large one concealing the small one, cleverly to the extreme.

Poor Tang Rou was tricked again this time, and was hit squarely by the small Cross Slash. Looking down from a low angle, she saw a cross-shaped wound in front of her where she had been hit, and blood was constantly flowing outwards. She knew that this was the bleeding effect triggered by the probability of the Cross Slash, and she had caught up with it again in a tragic way.

The depressed Tang Rou didn't dare to advance rashly again, and quickly retreated after eating a blood recovery potion. The bleeding level of the Shadowy Blade's skill was extremely high. Even after eating the blood recovery potion, she still couldn't stop the natural decrease in her life. Tang Rou felt a little flustered. She didn't know how much health she would lose this time, and whether her life could hold out.

"Rest for a bit." Ye Xiu's Lord Grim rushed past her and blocked the Shadowy Blade, leaving these words behind. Tang Rou immediately felt relieved. She trusted Ye Xiu's judgment and knew that she wouldn't die, at least.

Tang Rou, with her low health, temporarily became a spectator, while Steamed Bun Invasion continued his deviousness, not daring to get too close. He used Sand Toss and Brick Throw as long-range attack skills, taking the opportunity to come up and use them. So in the end, it was Ye Xiu and Qiao Yifan who were truly facing the Shadowy Blade head-on. Flowing Wind was a Gunner, so naturally, she couldn't rush into close combat.

Ye Xiu saw everything. After all, professional players were professional players. Whether it was him, Su Mucheng, or Qiao Yifan, they all seemed to be handling the Shadowy Blade with ease. Tang Rou was half-killed as soon as she came up, but it was still her old problem: lack of experience. As for Steamed Bun Invasion, he was now wandering deviously outside the team. This kind of performance had very limited effect on a team.

Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were actually not very suitable team players.

Tang Rou was too competitive, too aggressive, and her performance was basically centered on herself. Her problem was actually very similar to the problem that Sun Xiang of Excellent Era showed in his first match after joining: overly strong individual performance, leading to disconnection from the team.

However, in the current team, there was Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, and Qiao Yifan, whose strength was far stronger than Tang Rou, so they were still able to suppress her performance. However, as Tang Rou's level improved, this problem would eventually be exposed.

As for Steamed Bun Invasion, this guy was too casual and had too much personal style. Individually, he might become a player that others couldn't copy, but for a team, this kind of player would be unable to achieve 100% harmony with the team because his style was too unique.

There were precedents for this kind of player.

Wang Jiexi, the current captain of Team Tiny Herb. The Magician's style was the most cunning and elusive in the entire alliance. In the individual competition, Wang Jiexi had an extremely high win rate, but in the team competition, the help he gave to the team was always limited. How to integrate this style into the team was a problem that Wang Jiexi ultimately couldn't solve. In the end, he made sacrifices for the team, changing many of his styles to actively adapt to the team. Team Tiny Herb relied on his changes to win two league championships in the four years after Excellent Era's three championships.