At a single command, the Zergling army surged forward. Their cicada-wing-like wings accelerated them, turning them into a black river pouring underground.
Ten seconds later, when Ye Luo and the others reached the second checkpoint, the battle was already underway.
This time, their enemies no longer came from stone statues, but... murals!
Murals resembling "Chang'e Flying to the Moon" stretched across the walls on both sides of the passage. One by one, translucent ghosts drifted directly down from the walls and clashed with the Zerg army. These ghosts had bodies similar to humans, with two arms and two legs, and walked upright. However, they stood between two and a half and three meters tall—even Yao Ming would have looked like a child among them—and a long tail trailed behind each of them.
These ghosts fought with two crescent-shaped blades in their hands, roaring furiously as they battled, as though rebuking the intruders who had shattered this place's peace.
Their bodies were peculiar. Unlike the incredibly resilient stone statues from before, the ghosts' defense was practically nonexistent!
Even shattered stones from the battle could injure them, even pass straight through their bodies, leaving behind blue-green blood.
But that did not mean they were easy to deal with.
The instant a ghost was injured, it became even more transparent. One could clearly see the wall behind it through its body. The greatest effect of this change was a reduction in physical defense—by fifty to one hundred percent!
Three Zerglings swarmed toward a blue ghost. The blue ghost hurled one of its crescent blades head-on at a Zergling. The weapon transformed into a ring of silver light, piercing in through the Zergling's head and out through its tail. Before the corpse could even fall, it was split in half midair.
The other two