You call this the way of the sword?

Yang Qingfeng checked the status of the instance immediately.

Sure enough, after an 8-hour cooldown, I couldn't play any other difficulties.

Then look at your own situation.

Name: Yang Qingfeng

[Cultivation: Swordsmanship]

[Cultivation Level: 105 days]

[Level: 10 (72%)]

It took me an hour to clear the dungeon. It was a bit slow on my first run, but I can speed things up later.

The experience gained was more than expected.

Although the cooldown time is a bit long and it doesn't allow you to level up directly, the experience gained in the dungeon is fixed, making it a monster-dense area that you can repeatedly clear, so it's very cost-effective.

Yang Qingfeng was somewhat surprised by the increase in his cultivation level.

"They only added one day."

Upon hearing Yang Qingfeng's words, someone immediately said, "You mean cultivation level? Dungeons are different from the open world. Dungeons offer more experience and a higher drop rate for equipment, but you'll get far less cultivation level. If you want to increase your cultivation level, you still have to hunt in the open world."

Yang Qingfeng turned around at the sound and realized that quite a few people were watching him.

The one speaking at this moment was the squad leader who had previously wanted to invite him to run the hellish dungeon.

"Thank you for clearing up my doubts, senior brother."

As soon as Yang Qingfeng said something, the others couldn't help but chime in.

"How did you do that?"

"How many attributes does your Wolf King Bone Club add?"

"The Demonic Cloak! This is a boss set only available in Hell-level content!"

"Hey bro, are you selling your cloak?"

Yang Qingfeng shook his head: "Not for sale."

The man said urgently, "You're a swordsman, so the cloak probably won't be of much use to you. Just sell it to me; I can offer a high price!"

Yang Qingfeng frowned slightly, not wanting to waste time here, so he simply turned around and left.

Many people present were there later and didn't know about Yang Qingfeng. They were quite annoyed to see that Yang Qingfeng was so arrogant just because he had only cleared the Hell level.

However, the captain's words made them happy: "He's a solo hell-level player."

Suddenly, all was silent, then the sound of gasps for air rose and fell.

"What does 'single-player Hell difficulty' even mean?"

"Even if we tied all of us together, we still wouldn't be enough to defeat him."

"That's perverted..."

Yang Qingfeng didn't know what they were saying about him, nor did he care. After walking for a while, he summoned the Yu Jun Sword and rushed to the Ghost King's Secret Realm without stopping.

According to Yun Yao, only players below level 20 can enter the Ghost King's Secret Realm. If you want to obtain the Little Ghost King's jewelry, it's best to find a team of level 19 players to carry you.

It's easy to imagine that the Ghost King's Secret Realm is the most difficult place in the Misty Valley.

But Yang Qingfeng wanted to give it a try.

Successfully breaking through the hellish Void Mist Peak gave Yang Qingfeng considerable confidence.

If his intuition is correct, both the Sword Soul and the Lesser Spirit Sword can handle higher-level monsters, and the Ghost King's Secret Realm is the best testing ground.

Following the specific directions given by Yun Sheng, Yang Qingfeng quickly found the place.

At the entrance to the Ghost King's Secret Realm, there were also many cultivators gathered, but there was no commotion of recruiting teammates or any eagerness to fight, and the atmosphere suddenly became somewhat oppressive.

Yang Qingfeng glanced at them and found that these cultivators should be two full teams, with an average level of around 18, which is very close to the highest level.

However, everyone looked disheveled, as if they had challenged the secret realm more than once, but all of them ended in failure. Yet they were unwilling to leave. Did they have to risk their lives?

"Young man, you're only level 10, what are you doing in the Ghost King's Secret Realm?"

Suddenly someone walked over and asked, "Where are your teammates?"

This is a rather aloof young man who looks very responsible.

Yang Qingfeng shook his head: "I don't have any teammates, I just came to check it out."

The young man breathed a slight sigh of relief: "That's good. This godforsaken place isn't suitable for leveling up alone. If you want to go in and take a look... how about this, I'll take you in, and if there's any danger, I'll protect you and bring you out."

what?

Yang Qingfeng asked suspiciously, "Why is that?"

Why?

The young man was taken aback, then realized he had been a bit abrupt. He smiled and explained, "Young man, don't misunderstand. My name is Dong Guangnian. My elder sister was once a student at Wendao Caotang. Seeing your robes, I felt a sense of kinship."

Yang Qingfeng wasn't interested in the previous female students, but Dong Guangnian's behavior did make him feel favorably towards her, so he couldn't help but ask, "Do the senior brothers also want the Little Ghost King jewelry?"

"No, that thing is useless to us."

Dong Guangnian looked at Yang Qingfeng's robes and said with some envy, "We came here to seek the heart of the Ghost King. After you enter the academy after the big exam, we may not have the chance."

"The Heart of the Demon King?"

Yang Qingfeng immediately became interested. Yun Sheng hadn't mentioned this, and the teacher hadn't taught it either. "Why is there no chance after the big exam?"

Dong Guangnian glanced back at his teammates and chuckled self-deprecatingly: "Because we are independent cultivators. We were ignorant when we were young and failed to live up to the nurturing of this blessed land. Later, when we wanted to cultivate seriously, it was difficult to get into an academy again."

"The Heart of the Ghost King is a very special material. It can help cultivators sublimate their Dao Body at level 30. However, this thing is very rare, and it only drops about once a year."

Dong Guangnian laughed and said, "Got it? Once you get into the academy and meet a good teacher, he will assign you tasks, let you elites form teams to conquer secret realms, and even find some experts to guide you. Basically, there will be nothing for us to do."

So that's how it is, the sublimation of the Dao body...

Yang Qingfeng remained outwardly calm, but his heart was already churning with turmoil.

I never expected that such a low-level level 20 secret realm would contain such a precious treasure, and I had never even heard of it before.

This must have become a habit; the academy always kept the items under its control, and ordinary cultivators couldn't get their hands on them. Gradually, no one took it seriously anymore, and naturally, no one mentioned it.

Yang Qingfeng thought for a moment, then his eyes lit up. "Senior brother, do you mean the Ghost King's Heart has been refreshed?"

"That's right, it's been refreshed for several days now."

Dong Guangnian made no secret of it, and his words became increasingly bitter. "This can be considered an opportunity for us independent cultivators from the academy. The refresh time of the Ghost King's Heart has never been a secret, but knowing it is useless. We've been fighting for several days... it's just too difficult."

Yang Qingfeng immediately perked up and quickly asked for advice.

Dong Guangnian's teammates were all resting and recuperating, so he didn't mind chatting with Yang Qingfeng a little longer and started talking about the situation in the secret realm.

As Yun Sheng said.

The monsters in the Ghost King's Secret Realm are all at least level 20, with a main attribute starting at 2000, and these monsters are unusual.

They are the soldiers under the Ghost King, a terrifying army.

In other words, the monsters in the secret realm are not scattered; if one moves, the whole situation is interconnected. They might even release a signal arrow, triggering a full-scale attack.

It's easy to imagine that in this situation, an ordinary five-person team would either run or die.

Dong Guangnian said that many teams had come in the past few days, but they were basically driven out along the way. They were lucky enough to break through the outer perimeter and enter the core town in the secret realm, but they still failed to see the Ghost King.

When talking about his successful infiltration of the core town, Dong Guangnian's eyes shone with light, as if as long as they took another step forward each time, they would have a chance to obtain the Heart of the Ghost King.

Yang Qingfeng, however, disagreed.

Although he had only run one Empty Fog dungeon, the Hell difficulty level left a deep impression on Yang Qingfeng.

He felt that the difficulty of dungeons and secret realms lay not in the mobs, but even in the bosses.

The stronger the minions and the more ferocious the leader, the more terrifyingly powerful the leader's attributes will be.

In this way, even if you manage to outmaneuver the smaller monsters and the boss, there will only be one outcome when you finally face the boss: feeling despair while weakened.

However, Yang Qingfeng would not say such things. What concerned him was that there seemed to be a lot of monsters in the Ghost King's Secret Realm, and their level was the highest in the Void Mist Canyon.

Perhaps this is where the fastest upgrades are made...