"Ding Ye, hold the boss and make sure its back is facing us."
As the First Sword Servant was about to reach the safe zone, Wen Ding Cang Sheng quickly said to Ding Ye.
"Got it!"
Ding Ye nodded, charged in to activate his taunt skill, then turned to face Jiang Yuan and the others, his back to the other five sword servants, pulling the First Sword Servant to the edge of the safe zone and holding it there.
"Summon Sand River Turtle!" "Summon Beast Evolution!"
Seeing Ding Ye quickly stunned by the First Sword Servant and unable to move, Jiang Yuan swiftly used a skill to combine a Heaven-tier Sand River Turtle and tossed it beside Ding Ye to help him taunt the boss.
"Alright, aggro is stable, you can start dealing damage now."
As the stun wore off, Ding Ye quickly cast his taunt skill to hold the First Sword Servant, then shouted to Wen Ding Cang Sheng and the others.
Wen Ding Cang Sheng carefully crept behind the First Sword Servant to start attacking, while Jiang Yuan and Chuang Shi Xiao Yun kept a safe distance. One commanded his summon beast, the other shot arrows from afar, both enjoying a very comfortable damage-dealing position.
These six Sword Servant bosses didn't have much health—just like the previous tower, only 300 million. Soon, the First Sword Servant was taken down by the group's focused fire, dropping a pile of materials and potions on the ground.
"Leader, which boss should we pull next?"
After finishing the First Sword Servant, Chuang Shi Xiao Yun, bow in hand, looked at Wen Ding Cang Sheng and asked.
"Pull the second one. It can freeze people, which is tricky. Let's take it out first."
Wen Ding Cang Sheng looked up at the remaining five bosses ahead, weighed the options, and made a decision.
Swish!
An arrow shot straight at the Second Sword Servant. It raised its long sword and slowly walked toward Chuang Shi Xiao Yun. When it was about ten meters away, it lifted its sword and froze her in place.
"Mocking Taunt!"
As the Second Sword Servant approached, Ding Ye immediately taunted it, then adjusted its facing so the boss could only attack him.
A few seconds later, the ice on Chuang Shi Xiao Yun shattered, and she regained movement. With a hint of anger, she fired arrow after arrow into the Second Sword Servant, venting her frustration at being frozen.
Cang Shu Bu Ding kept a close eye on Ding Ye's condition. Whenever Ding Ye got frozen, she quickly threw out a healing skill to prevent him from dying.
"Carefree Dream!"
"Blazing Starfall!"
"Sudden Green Flash!"
"Soul-Severing Strike!"
The team's artifact skills rained down on the Second Sword Servant one after another, also applying various debuffs to it.
Poor Ding Ye became the boss's favorite target for freezing, turning into an ice block every now and then. Luckily, he was tough and thick-skinned, so taking a couple of hits while frozen didn't kill him immediately—though the experience was far from pleasant.
At one point, Jiang Yuan activated the ultimate skills of all three sacred beasts at once, causing Ding Ye to lose aggro. The Second Sword Servant turned around, froze Jiang Yuan solid, and then slashed him with its sword.
Smack!
-380,000
A damage number floated above Jiang Yuan's head. Fortunately, Jiang Yuan had the Sacred Beast Xuanwu's [Water Healing Shield] on him. As Xuanwu's level increased, the shield's thickness had grown to ten million.
"You lost aggro on me, and now you're frozen, huh? Hahaha!"
Seeing Jiang Yuan frozen and hit, Ding Ye pointed at him and laughed, a look of pure schadenfreude on his face.
"So what? I've got a shield that can absorb ten million damage. Do you?"
Jiang Yuan broke free from the frozen state, shot Ding Ye a glare, and said with a grin.
"What! A ten-million shield? I'm warning you, take it off and give it to me right now, or you know the consequences!"
Ding Ye's eyes immediately turned red with envy as he looked at Jiang Yuan, even threatening him.
"If I could give shields to everyone, I'd put one on each of you!"
Jiang Yuan shrugged helplessly. The Sacred Beast Xuanwu's shield could only be applied to its host. Otherwise, if everyone in the team had a shield that absorbed ten million damage, they'd be able to bulldoze through the dungeon!
The group chatted while dealing damage. Before long, the Second Sword Servant fell with a crash, dropping a bunch of light pillars.
[Ding! Player Ding Ye obtained item: Divine Artifact Scroll*1!]
"Wow! A treasure exchange ticket dropped!"
Seeing the item fly into his inventory, Ding Ye was first stunned, then his face lit up with wild joy.
"Sister Xiao Yun, here, this is for you. You're the only one in our team without an artifact yet!"
Ding Ye was generous, quickly walking over to Chuang Shi Xiao Yun and initiating a trade request.
"Let me be clear upfront—I don't have any money to give you!"
Chuang Shi Xiao Yun accepted Ding Ye's trade request and smiled at him a bit sheepishly.
"Sister Xiao Yun, what are you saying? Would I take your money? Forget an artifact—even if you wanted a star from the sky, I'd find a way to pluck it down for you!"
Ding Ye placed the Divine Artifact Scroll in the trade window, clicked confirm, and said to Chuang Shi Xiao Yun with a fawning expression.
"Really? Then go pluck one for me to play with!"
Chuang Shi Xiao Yun clicked confirm, stashing the Divine Artifact Scroll in her bag, and made a funny face at Ding Ye, giggling as she spoke.
"Uh! I was just joking, don't take it seriously, hehe!"
His bluff called, Ding Ye's face was a picture of awkwardness. The other three in the team burst into laughter.
"I was joking too, hehe!"
Seeing Ding Ye at a loss, Chuang Shi Xiao Yun shot him a flirtatious glance and said with a smile.
"Half the dungeon time is already gone. Save the chatter for outside. Xiao Yun, pull the Sixth Sword Servant over now."
Glancing at the remaining time in the dungeon, Wen Ding Cang Sheng quickly cut off the group's banter and said to Chuang Shi Xiao Yun.
"Got it!"
Chuang Shi Xiao Yun nodded. A "Meteor Arrow" shot out, hitting the Sixth Sword Servant, which immediately began walking toward her.
The Sixth Sword Servant's control effect was continuous health drain, but Ding Ye had over a million HP, plus Cang Shu Bu Ding's impressive healing output, making this boss the easiest to take down.
In less than ten minutes, the Sixth Sword Servant fell, dropping a pile of loot on the ground, which the group quickly scooped up clean.
At this point, under Wen Ding Cang Sheng's "divide and conquer" strategy, only the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sword Servants remained. This time, Wen Ding Cang Sheng had Chuang Shi Xiao Yun pull the Fifth Sword Servant, which could seal players' food consumption. In terms of annoyance, the Fifth was the worst of the six.
"Mocking Taunt!"
Ding Ye taunted the Fifth Sword Servant at his usual spot, and the group immediately started fighting. Before long, the Fifth Sword Servant slammed its sword into the ground, and a seal mark appeared above everyone's heads!