Facing a Samurai General with only one life, Zhang Yi did not try to brute-force his way through. Instead, he chipped away at its health bit by bit.
Since Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice had no Stamina Bar restrictions, he could attack while running indefinitely.
After dying several times in a row earlier, he had basically grasped the moveset of the Samurai General before him. There were only two truly threatening attacks.
One was a Charge followed by two sweeping slashes, while the other was a leaping Mountain-Splitting Strike straight ahead.
After the sweeping attack, running to the side could easily get him hit.
But after the leaping slash, Retreating Backwards could easily get him hit.
The rest of its moves posed no threat whatsoever.
There was also an unblockable low sweep marked by the danger symbol above its head. It was difficult to dodge while attacking, but if he prepared in advance, it was practically free.
Then there was the white glow around its body, which could greatly reduce his Posture Bar. Zhang Yi did not care about that either, because he had never intended to fill the Posture Bar. He planned to slowly carve away at the Samurai General's health until it died.
Two lives were hard to chip through, but could he really fail to wear down one life?
With the Healing Gourd, the healing pellets he had picked up along the way, Dragon's Heritage that let him revive, and the Shuriken prosthetic tool—
Zhang Yi spent five or six minutes forcibly grinding the general's health bar down to nothing.
He also discovered a detail: the less health a BOSS had left, the longer its Posture Bar remained.
At the beginning, two hits would raise the Posture Bar by around one-sixth. But once he retreated for less than