You only need to kill the dancer to get to lothric castle lmaooooo that’s like 1 boss. Just get the large titanite and titanite chunks from that area then proceed to cleansing chapel, touch the painting and get the easy slab. That’s like 2 hours from start to get a +10 weapon with 3 bosses killed, you can also just kill the dancer and not go to the painted world to get a +9 weapon.