You call this the way of the sword?

When Dong Guangnian left the secret realm, he was still in a daze.

"Young Master, what's wrong?"

"But something happened to that young man?"

"Should we go save him?"

His teammates gathered around and asked him with concern.

The young people who were about to enter the secret realm stopped in their tracks and pricked up their ears to eavesdrop.

Dong Guangnian looked at his teammate, shook his head with a complicated expression, and said evasively, "Junior Brother Yang is fine, he's just a little mischievous, let him be."

That's all I can say.

Yang Qingfeng's displayed strength was simply unbelievable.

Even Dong Guangnian, who witnessed it firsthand, couldn't understand how a newly promoted cultivator at only level 10 could possibly defeat the Ghost King Secret Realm.

Even if he could fight, judging from Yang Qingfeng's sweeping momentum, he might actually be able to go toe-to-toe with the Ghost King. But is that right?

This is clearly abnormal.

Dong Guangnian felt that either he had gone mad or the world had gone mad, so he preferred to say less rather than more, lest people not believe him and instead worry about his mental state.

The teammates looked at each other and quickly understood what was going on, then laughed and shook their heads.

"Young master, you used that mischievousness well."

"Sigh, it's always inevitable. Every year there are new people eager to die, and you can't stop them."

"Young master, there's no need to take it to heart. Such a person doesn't deserve to die."

Dong Guangnian shook his head with a wry smile, thinking to himself that we were the ones who came here to risk our lives.

Dong Guangnian's teammates were unaware of his thoughts, and the young men beside him were even less able to see through them.

They originally thought that having Dong Guangnian by Yang Qingfeng's side would be troublesome, but now that Dong Guangnian has come out, leaving Yang Qingfeng alone in the secret realm, this is a golden opportunity!

Indeed, arrogance and conceit deserve to die.

The young man in the lead spoke in a low voice, a fierce glint in his eyes: "Let's go, grab that kid first, then we'll deal with him slowly!"

In the secret realm, sword light whistled through the wilderness.

The nine sword spirits swept forward relentlessly, almost clearing out the outermost ghost soldiers, yet they encountered no obstacles whatsoever.

Dong Guangnian said he would resolve the issue within 30 minutes, but Yang Qingfeng did it in less than 10 minutes. However, he was not complacent because of this; instead, he became even more cautious.

As the saying goes, even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit; one should never be careless.

The more excited Yang Qingfeng was, the more he repeated these two sentences.

Flying on their swords, they arrived at the other side of the mountain in the wasteland and could see the ghost soldiers' stronghold below the mountain, as well as several watchtowers in the stronghold.

Yang Qingfeng used the same method, summoning his small spirit sword and killing the sentries on several towers from hundreds of meters away. At the same time, his body lit up with light, and he leveled up!

"A 30% increase in experience points in just one area? This isn't some secret realm, it's practically a newly opened paradise!"

Yang Qingfeng clenched his fist in a moment of excitement, then calmed himself down and immediately summoned his new sword spirit.

As his level increases, his main attribute increases by 100 points, bringing his total mana to 650 points.

With 650 mana points depleted to 200, a spatial rift quietly opened, and the tenth sword spirit answered the call and immediately joined the battle.

Under Yang Qingfeng's orders, it took the lead and rushed towards the back of the mountain, storming into the ghost soldiers' stronghold.

The ghost soldiers in the stronghold were immediately alarmed, and a large number of them rushed out of the barracks.

Most of them are hideously ugly, with gray-black bodies, many eyes and limbs, and strange and varied shapes. The only constant is that they all have a single horn on their heads, which emits a black aura of evil.

Under the command of some elite ghost soldiers, they roared and howled as they charged toward the sword spirit, and the entire stronghold instantly began to tremble.

Yang Qingfeng stood atop the hill overlooking the battlefield, his gaze scanning the area like a scanner, quickly locking onto the presence of the moving sentries. At the same time, he used the small spirit sword hidden on the watchtower to assassinate them once more.

With the watchtower destroyed and the mobile sentry suddenly killed, the ghost soldier stronghold temporarily lost its alarm function, leaving nearly a thousand ghost soldiers as an isolated force.

"It appears to have a well-established system, but in reality it is quite backward."

"I don't know where these otherworldly demons came from; besides their high level and large numbers, they have no other merits..."

Before unleashing his full power, Yang Qingfeng had already used his sword spirit to conduct a high-altitude reconnaissance, confirming that the Ghost King's Secret Realm was divided into inner and outer layers.

The inner layer is the core town that Dong Guangnian mentioned, located behind the mountains.

With the mountains as the boundary, dozens of outposts are scattered across the outer wasteland, extending into the mountains.

Each stronghold appears to have nearly a thousand ghost soldiers, spaced about a kilometer apart, with countless patrols and sentry posts in between. It is an army of tens of thousands of troops, guarding the ghost king in the town.

Judging from the overall layout alone, this secret realm has almost no chance of being cleared.

Only cultivators below level 20 can enter, and teams can consist of a maximum of 5 people. Without the cooperation of other teams, how can a mere five-person team fight against an army of tens of thousands?

However, the fact that Dong Guangnian and his team were able to break into the inner layer proves that their method was correct.

By disabling the alarm function of the outposts, you can have two hours to advance. Moreover, this advance is skillful; by choosing the right route, you only need to pass through a few outposts, which can greatly reduce combat casualties.

However, Yang Qingfeng did not do that.

In his view, while the method of rushing into the inner layers was correct, it was too wasteful.

Killing the sentries buys us time, which we should definitely use to sweep through the outpost!

Destroying dozens of strongholds in two hours would be impossible for other cultivators, but for the tireless sword spirit, even if the strongholds weren't completely wiped out, by the time the all-out attack was triggered, there wouldn't be many ghost soldiers left.

Yang Qingfeng thought it through very thoroughly.

He wants the Little Ghost King's jewelry, and he also wants the upgrade experience right in front of him.

If anything goes wrong along the way, we can just run away. As long as we are far away, we can run fast. Even if the Ghost King leaves the town and appears ahead of time, the sword spirit responsible for covering the rear will not suffer any losses.

Unless the Ghost King has a special skill to keep himself from being captured, he's determined to get his hands on this piece of meat!

"Kill them! Kill them until the world is in chaos!"

The nine sword spirits on the outermost edge wiped out the ghost soldiers completely, and then roared out from behind Yang Qingfeng, rushing into the stronghold one after another and slaughtering them.

After Yang Qingfeng leveled up, his Sword Soul also reached level 21.

Each attribute increases by 300, bringing the total to 3500 points across all four dimensions. So far, the highest attribute I've encountered among the ghost soldiers is only 2500.

The attribute differences in the data are not real.

Having dealt with the demonized warriors, Yang Qingfeng had already realized this problem.

Demonized warriors are boss-level monsters, so their attribute conversion into combat power is relatively strong, while the attribute conversion rate of lesser monsters is relatively low.

Therefore, even though the level 20 ghost soldiers seemed to have a level advantage and their attributes were much higher than those of ordinary cultivators, they still couldn't stop Dong Guangnian and his group from advancing.

The ghost soldiers couldn't even stop Dong Guangnian's team, let alone the sword souls who were of the same level as them and had 1000 more attributes than them.

Don't be fooled by the mere 1000 attribute points difference between Ghost Soldiers and Sword Souls; their combat power is on completely different levels. With the 21x damage amplification from [Sword Control], it's just a matter of two or three sword strikes.

The ten sword spirits exerted their power simultaneously, causing a continuous surge of spiritual energy.

Less than 5 minutes after the upgrade, the experience points have already reached 20%, which is amazing.

When skipping levels or even tiers, the impact of the level 5 hurdle and the level 10 quantitative change is greatly diminished, and it seems that it is no longer difficult to advance from level 10 to level 15.

Yang Qingfeng looked at the other strongholds inside and outside the mountains and suddenly understood.

"I see... Those ruthless people who break through level 15, reach level 16 or even level 17 in the early stages have most of them challenged high-level secret realms."

"And you don't need to clear the entire dungeon, you just need to be able to kill monsters of higher levels..."

Yang Qingfeng's eyes flickered, and a thought flashed through his mind.

The current highest level for new promotion is 18. If he can reach or exceed level 18...