Unreliable Sword Immortal.

Chapter 138 Sect Fashion

The celestial-class patrol ship was as if carved from white jade, capable of flying thousands of meters high at an extremely fast speed, drawing exclamations of wonder from Dugu Tian and Jiang Youxian along the way.

A moment later, Lu Chaoding arrived at Hongchen Seven Realms Mountain.

He "installed" Ding Quanzhen in the main hall of the mountain gate.

A large number of reliable sword sect disciples were immediately attracted.

Lu Chaoding also stood in the main hall of the mountain gate. He smiled and launched the second "Custom Title" interface, creating the title "Reliable Mall". He then pretended to be a "selling NPC".

Jiang Youxian and Dugu Tian were drafted and, at Lu Chaoding's request, were made to shout and yell on the sidelines.

"Take a look! The Reliable Sword Sect's Reliable Mall is now online! The Reliable Sect Leader is personally selling goods, including high-end, classy chilled watermelon juice that's being sold at a loss—only two yuan a bottle..."

"Click to buy watermelon juice from the sect leader. Remember to leave a five-star review after you buy it, otherwise the sect leader will arrest you and lock you in the dark room..."

Dugu Tian and Jiang Youxian were also a little depressed.

They felt like they were being a bit silly.

His previous image has completely collapsed.

However, Lu Chaoding said that as long as they promoted the product well, they would receive 5 yuan as a commission for every 10 bottles of chilled watermelon juice they sold. The two of them were just short of gold coins to commission Ye Quanzhen to upgrade their equipment, and it was difficult to make money elsewhere.

So, it's not shameful to make money by hawking your wares here.

Before long, Lu Chaoding's side had received more than ten five-star reviews from the reliable online store, and the store's rating quickly reached 100.

"Ding! Your successful operation of the Reliable Mall has reached its stage goal. You are rewarded with one Jade of Validity, one Jade of Inheritance, and one Jade of Enlightenment!"

"Ding! A new stage goal has been unlocked for the Reliable Mall: Achieve 100 five-star reviews and a mall rating of 1000! Goal achieved! Rewards: Two Jade Vouchers, Two Jade Inheritance, and Two Jade of Enlightenment!"

"Small goals, easy to achieve!"

Lu Chaoding remained standing still. The chilled watermelon juice was selling so well that less than ten minutes later, the new stage goal was achieved, and the target reward was in his hands again.

The third stage goal has also been achieved: to reach 1000 five-star reviews and 10000 store ratings!

The goal has been achieved, and the reward includes four Jade Certificates, four Jade Inheritance, and four Jade of Enlightenment.

"The rewards for this stage of the goal are getting more and more generous, not bad, not bad at all! Four Jade Tokens, four Jade Inheritance Tokens, and Jade of Enlightenment are all very rare items, and I can easily get them by selling some goods now!"

Lu Chaoding was secretly delighted. With the number of disciples entering the Broken Sword Sect now exceeding two thousand, although many had gone to Qian Yuan Island, most were still at their base. Lu Chaoding estimated that if he stood there for half a day, this stage of his goal would be achieved.

A little while later, Lu Chaoding received another system notification: "Ding, the mall's net profit has reached 10000 gold coins, advancing to LV2, and unlocking the second item slot!"

"Ding, activating the supply panel for you!"

"Ding! The supply panel is now open. You can choose one of the following twelve products and list it on the reliable online store."

"Ding! The mall's net profit has reached 10 gold coins, allowing you to advance to LV3 and unlock the third item slot!"

With the system prompt, a selection window appeared in front of Lu Chao.

That was, of course, the supply panel. Lu Chao looked closely and saw that there were indeed twelve items on the panel: "Weapon - Flying Goose Sword", "Weapon - Jade Sword", "Backpack - Green Paulownia Coffin", "Backpack - Anchor", "Fashion - Beach Bikini", "Fashion - Black Swallowtail Suit", "Pendant - Immunity Token", "Medicine - Small Yuan Pill", "Medicine - Large Yuan Pill", "Food - Roasted Gluten", "Food - Roasted Sweet Potato", and "Drink - Little Bird Vodka"!

Lu Chaoding studied it carefully.

From a profit-making perspective, he felt that the "food," "beverages," and "fashion" items among these twelve were excellent products, with unlimited supply and reasonable purchase prices.

However, considering usability, Lu Chaoding ultimately decided on the "Pendant - Immunity Badge" as the product.

This "Immunity Token" is a four-star special accessory. Its effect is to grant the player immunity from death daily. When a player is about to die, they can avoid death. The higher the refinement level, the more times the immunity from death is granted each day. Refining it to +9 will grant 10 immunity from death per day.

Its purchase price is not high, only 1000 yuan, but only 5 are available per day!

After Lu Chaoding put it on the shelves, he set the price at 1200 gold coins. In less than two minutes, all five gold coins that granted immunity from death were sold out. Jiang Youxian bought one and immediately hung it on her waist. Dugu Tian did not buy one and complained to Lu Chaoding.

Ten minutes later, the third stage goal of the reliable mall was also achieved, and Lu Chaoding once again obtained four Jade of Validity, four Jade of Inheritance, and four Jade of Enlightenment.

The fourth stage goal was then announced, requiring 10000 five-star reviews and a store rating of 10.

Lu Chaoding felt that this task was a bit difficult, so he was not in a hurry to complete it. After chatting casually with Jiang Youxian and Dugu Tian for a few minutes, he opened the entrance to his private cave and stepped inside.

Then they saw the performance elder, Gray Heron, standing blankly in the courtyard of the cave.

This Grey Heron is now a freelance fashion merchant and has no connection with Qian Yuan Lianhuan Dock.

Lu Chao opened his product list and found that he was still selling the same set of products, namely [Apprentice Pirate Costume], [Senior Pirate Costume], [Elite Pirate Costume], [Pirate Hall Master Costume], and [Pirate Helmsman Costume].

However, these outfits no longer have the ability to be equipped by pirate subordinates.

"Fashion merchant, don't you update your merchandise?" Lu Chao looked at Grey Heron and shook his head, saying, "Your fashions are already outdated."

The fashion merchant Grey Heron now reacted like a typical NPC, calmly saying, "To update my merchandise, I need to broaden my horizons."

"To broaden one's horizons?"

"That's right, I can replicate fashion items, especially sect-specific outfits! Look more, replicate more, and the fashion inventory will naturally be updated."

"So, it's just a knock-off?"

"I don't understand what you're saying. I make high-quality replicas, the kind that are indistinguishable from the real thing."

"All right!"

Lu Chaoding didn't ask any further questions. He planned to release the fashion merchant when they arrived in Tianyun Prefecture, take him around, and see if he could produce counterfeit fashion items.

"By the way, I've reached level 30. I've completed the sect quests and unlocked 10 exclusive sect costume designs. I haven't finished designing these yet."

Upon realizing this, Lu Chaoding immediately brought up the sect management panel. He discovered that the new sect missions had already been updated and altered. The original mission required Lu Chaoding to reach level 35, and the reward for completing the mission was two Elder Tokens and a Sect Contribution Hall.

"Level 53, looks like I'll be stuck on this sect quest for a while..."

Lu Chaoding continued to check the sect management panel and quickly found the "Sect Fashion Design" page. After studying it for a while, Lu Chaoding discovered that the "Sect Fashion Design ×10" he had obtained only allowed him to design ten sets of sect fashion.

The design page provides a large number of fashion samples. The so-called player design is just changing the colors, adding decorations and samples provided by the system, etc.

The designed sect costumes are actually virtual items. After setting the relevant permissions, sect players who meet the conditions can automatically claim them. After the "Sect Costume" effect is activated, the attributes of the player's real costume remain unchanged, but the appearance will change to the sect costume.

Lu Chaoding casually designed a trench coat-style outfit with the words "Reliable" in gold on the back and the words "Entry Disciple" in gold on the cuffs. He named it "Entry Disciple Outfit" and set it to be automatically available to anyone who became an entry disciple.

Then, Lu Chaoding casually created similar "Elite Disciple," "True Disciple," and "Elder" costumes.

"These four outfits should be enough for now! Next, help Jiang Youxian level up to 30 quickly, and then head to Tianyun Prefecture. Before we set off, let's get some wild monsters for our players to fight."

Lu Chao muttered to himself for a while.

A moment later, he arrived at the second level of Hongchen Seven Realms Mountain, used the pirate's extraction certificate in the register, and released the 20 million apprentice pirates he had bought for "one dollar".

Immediately, the second level of the Seven Realms Mountain of the Primordial Dust became extremely crowded. Many apprentice pirates were covered in the rubble, and they were all gathered together, making it impossible for them to move around freely.

"This is a pretty good wilderness area, it should be enough for the sect disciples to kill for a while."

Lu Chao nodded. In the next level, he released 2 million elite pirates on the third level of the Seven Realms Mountain, 200,000 elite pirates on the fourth level, 10,000 hall masters on the fifth level, and 2,000 helmsmen on the sixth level.

At that very moment, a post quickly went viral on the Tianxing Forum.

The post was titled: "Only I can unseal the Qianyuan Island Wholesale Center, but I've been imprisoned by Old Demon Lu!"

The poster was none other than "Sword Saint Song Shu".

This guy was trapped inside the purple-gold gourd, like being in a dark room. He tried everything to get out, but couldn't. All he could do was browse forums and watch live streams.

"Qianyuan Island is the world's economic center, with numerous NPC vendors offering a dazzling array of goods. In the future, all players will need to come here to obtain a Qianyuan Token. However, the inner island of Qianyuan Island is currently closed, and only I can open it… But Lu Chaoding, the old devil from the Reliable Sword Sect, has imprisoned me without any reason. Is he imprisoning me? He's hindering the world's development and harming the interests of all players! Heroes, warriors, swordsmen, let's unite and defeat Lu Chaoding…"

Song Shu's post, which was several thousand words long, detailed the setting of Qian Yuan Island and described Lu Chaoding as utterly wicked, saying that he bullied men and women, harassed NPCs, robbed others of their property, and so on. In short, it was a deliberate smear campaign, portraying him as as evil as possible, which attracted many replies from players.

(End of this chapter)