Unreliable Sword Immortal.

Chapter 192 The Seed of the Secret Realm in Growth

After working hard for most of the day, Lu Chaoding, carrying a load of valuable treasures, arrived at his level-five cave dwelling with great satisfaction.

"A level-five cave dwelling, a place of outstanding people and abundant resources! Let's break through our bottleneck here and advance to level 61!"

As Lu Chaoding spoke, he ate the [Baolong Pill].

One [Precious Dragon Pill] can provide 50,000 cultivation points, and has already replaced the [Nine Revolutions Pill], becoming Lu Chaoding's main pill for obtaining cultivation points.

He arrived at the herb garden in the courtyard.

[Spirit Fruit] At this moment, riding his LV2 Boiling Blood Lion Dog, he was talking to the plant spirits. Upon seeing Lu Chaoding, he jumped off the back of the Boiling Blood Lion Dog, performed more than ten backflips on the spot, and then showed an excited expression on his face, saying to Lu Chaoding, "Sect Leader, you're back. Do you see any changes in me?"

"What changes have occurred?"

Lu Chao looked at the Spirit Fruit with curiosity.

The fifth-level cave dwelling is a place of outstanding people and abundant resources. Lu Chaoding knew that it would be of great benefit for NPCs to settle here. Previously, Niu Daren had awakened his culinary skills and obtained the title of Spiritual Chef, and could cook spiritual dishes. Now, seeing the performance of the [Spiritual Fruit], Lu Chaoding wondered if he had also awakened some ability.

Lingqi Guo laughed heartily and said, "I've been studying alchemy and weapon crafting lately, and I've made great progress. I'm now a master alchemist. I can deduce, create, and improve pill formulas. I've even improved the pill formulas recorded in this small Bagua furnace in the medicine garden, making the pills even more effective!"

"Really? You're incredibly strong... From now on, I'll address you as Master Ling!"

Lu Chaoding saw the attribute information of the [Spiritual Qi Fruit]. Sure enough, he had the title of [Alchemy Master], and not only that, he also had the title of [Weapon Refining Apprentice].

"The effect of the blessed land and talented people is truly remarkable. The Spirit Fruit also shows some talent; it seems it has the potential to become a master of both alchemy and weapon crafting!"

Lu Chaoding sighed silently, then looked at the two Heavenly Eight Trigrams Furnaces in the courtyard.

The smaller one is what the [Spiritual Fruit] calls the Small Eight Trigrams Furnace, only at LV3, which Lu Chao obtained from the Universe Secret Realm.

The largest one is the LV7 Heavenly Eight Trigrams Furnace, which Lu Chao obtained from an ancient sword cultivator's cave. It contains 36 pill formulas and 48 weapon-refining schemes, representing the foundation of a first-class power.

However, Lu Chaoding only knew the names of the pills and treasures corresponding to these 36 pill formulas and 48 weapon refining schemes, but not their specific effects. He would only be able to see their specific attributes after the finished products were refined.

He felt that among these 36 kinds of elixirs and 48 kinds of magical artifacts, there should be some of the finest or top-quality ones.

After chatting with the Spirit Fruit for a while, Lu Chaoding went to the kitchen and found the Spirit Chef Niu Daren.

"Daren..."

Lu Chaoding immediately took out a large pile of [Precious Dragon Pills] and said, "This is my rations, but unfortunately it has no flavor, like chewing wax. Could you process it for me and add some flavor, but don't affect its efficacy?"

"Let me see!"

Niu Daren actually examined the [Precious Dragon Pill] carefully, then nodded and said, "No problem, Sect Leader. I can make them into various flavored snacks—strawberry, lemon, cream, and so on. It's very simple!"

Lu Chaoding's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and he exclaimed, "Really? Chef Niu is that amazing!"

"What's this?"

Niu Daren tossed his hair without any modesty and said, "I also have many other ways to prepare it, such as steaming, braising, and cold salad. I guarantee it won't affect the efficacy of the pill. It's up to you how you want to enjoy it."

"Ding! The Occasionally Unreliable System has activated and issued a task: Enjoy a bowl of braised Baolong Dan! Reward for completing the task: +100 Unreliable Lottery Tickets!"

"Good heavens, even the unreliable system is joining in the fun!" Lu Chao received the system notification and thought it was strange, but he quickly said to Niu Daren, "Would you mind making me a braised Treasure Dragon Pill, Chef Niu? This sect leader is looking forward to enjoying it!"

"Alright! Please wait a moment, Sect Leader!"

After speaking, Niu Daren magically produced various materials, as well as knives, ingredients, and tableware.

He quickly got into character and started operating skillfully. In less than five minutes, a large bowl of [Braised Treasure Dragon Pill] appeared in front of Lu Chao.

This bowl of Braised Pork Belly contains 40 Pork Belly balls, each one glistening with oil and resembling a meatball, making it very appetizing.

"Excellent craftsmanship!"

Lu Chao took a bite and found it delicious, even tasting like braised pork. He couldn't help but give Niu Daren a thumbs up.

After finishing the bowl of [Braised Treasure Dragon Pill], the "unreliable" mission was completed, and Lu Chao was delighted to receive one hundred unreliable lottery tickets.

"Not bad, not bad. Taking pills won't be so painful anymore. But why hasn't the [Treasure Dragon Technique] appeared yet? Is the trigger rate really that low?"

Lu Chaoding was in a very good mood.

A moment later, he found a spacious area within the cave dwelling and released the sword spirit Super Pestle and the Mighty Bull Demon Ape there.

These two showed curiosity about Lu Chaoding's cave dwelling, but strangely, they could not become residents here. There was no option to install anything there. Although they could stay here and enjoy the privilege of breaking through bottlenecks ten times easier, provided by a level five cave dwelling, they were different from [Niu Daren] and [Spiritual Fruit] installed here. It was highly likely that they would not be able to automatically awaken their abilities here.

"You two help me dig the hole, let's plant the seeds of the secret realm!"

Lu Chao waved to Super Ruffian and Mighty Bull Demon Ape, while taking out a large pile of [Secret Realm Seeds].

The [Secret Realm Seed] is the most precious item on the second level of the Ancient Sword Cultivator's Cave. When planted in the secret realm, it can randomly grow into a plant, a spiritual vein, a special building, etc.

This item is rare and precious; it's considered lucky for an ordinary player to obtain even one. But in Lu Chaoding's place, it's practically available in any quantity one asks for.

Soon, the three of them worked together to plant thirty [Secret Realm Seeds].

The [Secret Realm Seed] takes root as soon as it lands and then grows at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In less than five minutes, the first [Secret Realm Seed] had grown into a small tree as tall as a palm.

Lu Chao ordered Super Man and Mighty Bull Demon Ape to continue sowing, while he himself squatted on the ground curiously to watch.

The first sapling grown from the [Secret Realm Seed] has already revealed its name: [The Growing Five-Star Earthly God Nine Yang Divine Flower]!

"A five-star Earth Deity? Not bad!"

Lu Chao couldn't see any more information about this plant spirit, nor did he know how long it would take for it to grow. He looked to the side and saw that the second [Secret Realm Seed] had grown into a small black octagonal tower. After a few breaths, the tower also had a name: [Growing Five-Star Pendant Spirit Cage Pagoda].

"The Spirit Cage Pagoda? Interesting!"

Lu Chaoding roughly understood the effects of the [Secret Realm Seeds]. In the future, more [Secret Realm Seeds] that grew into plants were given names, such as: [Growing Five-Star Earthly Deity Bronze Immortal Tree], [Growing Five-Star Earthly Deity Fire Spirit Sunflower], [Growing Five-Star Earthly Deity Ten-Thousand-Year Lingzhi], [Growing Five-Star Earthly Deity Nine-Leaf Golden Lotus], and so on.

In the end, Super Ruffian and Mighty Bull Demon Ape planted more than 300 [Secret Realm Seeds] before they finished.

Once all three hundred plants had been named, Lu Chaoding inspected them one by one. Among them, the Five-Star Earthly Deities were the most numerous, with many duplicates, such as the Nine Yang Divine Flower, which had more than twenty plants.

The [Growing Five-Star Pendant Spirit Cage Pagoda] is quite special among them; out of three hundred [Secret Realm Seeds], only this one pendant was produced.

In addition, a special building and a spiritual vein have appeared, named "The Special Building in Development: Azure Star" and "The Special Spiritual Vein in Development: Purple Flame Mine" respectively.

"A Purple Flame ore vein! An ore vein? This is different from what I imagined. Could it be that once this vein matures, Purple Flame ore can be produced in the cave?"

Lu Chaoding pondered silently for a moment.

He still has quite a few [Secret Realm Seeds] here, but he's not in a hurry to plant them. He's discovered that the more [Secret Realm Seeds] he plants, the slower they grow to have names. At first, they have names in just a few minutes, but later it takes tens of minutes, or even more than an hour.

This made Lu Chaoding suspect that the more [Secret Realm Seeds] there were, the slower they grew. Perhaps he should wait until all the Secret Realm Seeds in this batch matured before planting new ones.

The following day, after finishing another bottle of Chef Niu's Baolong Milk Tea, Lu Chaoding's level returned to 60.

"Potentially advancing to level 61 today!"

Lu Chaoding was filled with anticipation. This kind of level hurdle required a massive amount of cultivation to level up, but with the dual benefits of 35 mysterious enlightenments and the spiritual energy of a level-five cave dwelling, breaking through this level hurdle was actually easier than normal leveling up.

"Also, let's resurrect some evil gods for fun today!"

Lu Chaoding arrived at another spacious area within the cave dwelling space, where he took out a large number of [mysterious bodies] and [resurrection crystals of evil gods].

Soon, Lu Chaoding used the [Resurrection Crystal of the Evil God]. He selected a [mysterious body], which quickly lit up and then, as if a robot had been activated, some colored lights shone on it.

Two minutes later, the robot stood up, bowed to Lu Chao, and as it stood up, four large characters appeared above its head: "Evil God Dom".

"The evil god Dom? Has he really been resurrected?"

Lu Chao looked at the resurrected evil god Dom again, and his attribute information was revealed. His level was 62, his durability was 100 million, his defense was 300, his speed was 0, and he had three abilities: [Particle Flash], [Peace Covenant], and [Fel Gaze].

Among them, [Particle Flash] is an active skill with a two-minute cooldown. After use, it allows you to quickly flash to the surrounding area.

The Peace Agreement is a passive skill with a powerful effect, but it prevents you from being pulled into the combat space.

【Fel Gaze】is the signature skill of the evil god Dom, which means that by staring at the target, you can permanently reduce their health.

Lu Chao then resurrected the second [mysterious body]. To his surprise, after being resurrected, it was still [the evil god Dom]. Its name, attributes, and even behavior were exactly the same as the evil god Dom that had been resurrected before.

"No way, one evil god Dom died, but thousands upon thousands of others have been resurrected?"

Lu Chaoding felt it was a bit outrageous.

An hour later, he resurrected a full one hundred [Evil God Dom].

These one hundred [Evil God Dom] were dull-witted, like robots with low intelligence. After being resurrected, they stood in neat rows, like loyal guards. They could not speak or move around randomly. They could not be installed in their own cave dwellings.

"One hundred, that'll do for now. I need to take them back to the sect's headquarters; they'll be good as gatekeepers."

With this in mind, Lu Chaoding led these [Evil God Dom] to the Nut Platform in the Nut Secret Realm.

Here, Lu Chaoding used the Great Universe Sky-Breaking Divine Sword, setting its effect to reverse teleportation, thus teleporting the person on the nut platform to the designated location.

The designated location was none other than the gate hall plaza on the first level of Hongchen Seven Realms Mountain.

The appearance of 100 [Evil God Dom] surprised many players in the gate square, who then stopped to watch and discuss it.

But the 100 [Evil God Dom] stood quietly, without saying a word, meticulous in their presence.

Lu Chaoding wasn't in a hurry to return to the sect's headquarters. He looked at the No. 3 Martial Arts Tower in the Nut Secret Realm.

The Nut Secret Realm only has three martial arts towers. The first two are already equipped with the five-star ultimate skills [Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon] and [Great Universe Sky-Piercing Divine Sword].

"This last cannon..."

Lu Chao muttered to himself, and with some hesitation, took out the skill book for the five-star ultimate skill, [Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation].

This skill book is bound and cannot be traded, but it can be equipped to the No. 3 Martial Arts Cannon.

"The Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation is extremely powerful, but unfortunately it is a special move that can only be used after entering the battle space by consuming battle intent. It seems that equipping it with the No. 3 Martial Arts Cannon would be quite good."

The Martial Arts Cannon has a durability of 100 million and a base attack power of 10. If it is equipped with the [Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation], based on its characteristics, the [Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation] can be directly upgraded to the maximum level, which is LV12. Then the number of rounds of sword qi trapping can reach 12 rounds. Each round of trapping can deal 40 damage, and the total damage will be 480 million!

This [Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation] is undoubtedly suitable for group battles.

"480 million total damage should be enough to instantly kill most players. Instead of wasting time and effort upgrading this skill with materials, it's better to max it out directly, since there aren't many occasions where this skill will be used..."

After some hesitation, Lu Chaoding finally equipped the [Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation] to the No. 3 Martial Arts Cannon.

Two hours later, after enjoying a serving of [Cold Mixed Baolong Dan], Lu Chaoding's level finally reached 61.

"Ding! Congratulations! Your character level has increased to LV61, HP +1200, Attack Power +120, Battle Spirit Limit +6, Available Cultivation Limit +16000!"

"Ding! Your character level has increased to LV61. The characteristics of your Daluo, Taiji, and Duobao classes have been enhanced!"

After these two system notifications sounded, Lu Chao's body shone with golden light, truly becoming an extraordinary sword immortal.

Immediately afterwards, he received a system notification: "Ding! By consuming the Treasure Dragon Pill, you have obtained a special opportunity. Congratulations on acquiring the special divine ability [Treasure Dragon Technique]!"

(End of this chapter)