Unreliable Sword Immortal.

Lu Chao was arrogant and showed no fear even though his opponent was a powerful NPC at level 120.

He stared at the mine, and by this time he could already see its attribute information.

[Nameless Mine: Unclaimed land containing a high-quality jade vein. It can produce up to 1000 jade items daily. After 50 years of mining, it will collapse once 1000 million jade items have been collected. Note: The Nameless Mine is a natural sect stronghold. Occupying it for 24 hours will automatically create a sect, and the sect can name the mine. After naming, the sect gains the right to mine jade items. The mine can be seized; please explore for details.]

"Huh, a natural sect stronghold? So we can only mine jade and other materials after occupying it?"

Lu Chaoding quickly understood the setting of the Shushan Mine. He thought to himself, no wonder there are so many sects in the Shushan Sword Domain. It turns out that you can establish a sect by occupying a mountain.

At this moment, the Azure Mist Sword Immortal looked at Lu Chao with an unfriendly expression.

"Supreme Heavenly Demon!" she frowned. "You have quite the audacity. May I ask who you are?"

Lu Chao casually said, "This place is sacred. You should leave quickly. I have a virtue of cherishing life and do not wish to kill!"

"Haha!" Lou Jialan laughed loudly, and with a clang, she drew a long sword from behind her back. "This Saint has never heard of any Supreme Heavenly Demon. How dare this nobody challenge me? Take this!"

After saying this, the Azure Sky Sword Immortal transformed into a streak of azure light and vanished from Lu Chaoding's sight in an instant.

"What are you doing?"

Lu Chao muttered to himself. He couldn't see Qinglan Sword Immortal's movements clearly. By the time he realized what was happening, he had already been slashed by a sword. His health bar shrank slightly, but then immediately filled up again.

Lu Chaoding's luck value has now reached 250. As the empire grows stronger, his luck value will slowly increase. With luck by his side, he will be immortal.

In addition, Lu Chaoding also possesses the Moral Sword Immortal characteristic, which allows him to be exempt from entering combat 22 times. Therefore, he will not be pulled into the combat space by Lou Jialan's attacks and will be unaffected by her attacks.

"Hmm?" Lou Jialan appeared in the distance, pointing her longsword at Lu Chao's head, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong with you?"

Lu Chao didn't bother to explain. He shouted, "You dare hit me? You're in big trouble! I'll use you to establish my authority. If I chop you up, no one will dare to compete with me for this mine!"

After saying that, Lu Chao didn't stand on ceremony. He was riding a black saber-toothed tiger and had a large saber in his hand. He raised the saber, and a dense array of sword shadows appeared behind him.

"kill!"

Lu Chao shouted again, switching his attack mode to [Universal Illumination]. With a swing of his broadsword, countless sword shadows bombarded Lou Jialan.

Lou Jialan's body transformed into a streak of blue light once more, and in the blink of an eye, he was already far away. Lu Chao's sword shadow attacks all missed their mark.

"That's impressive!"

Lu Chaoding continued to swing his sword, and countless sword shadows kept swirling towards Lou Jialan. However, Lou Jialan lived up to her reputation as a level 120 Azure Sky Sword Saint. Her movements were extremely swift, and she could even transform into a streak of light. Lu Chaoding slashed dozens of times, but he couldn't hurt her in the slightest. Instead, she countered with three sword strikes.

Of course, Lou Jialan's attack could not harm Lu Chaoding.

After a short while, Lu Chaoding decided to use the Black Cloud Formation. He rode a tiger and wielded a sword, charging arrogantly to the top of the mine. With a thought, black clouds condensed in the sky.

By this time, more NPCs had arrived near the mine, including Ling Daozi.

Lu Chao appeared atop a black lotus amidst the dark cloud formation. He surveyed his surroundings, laughed heartily, and declared, "I intend to establish a reliable sword sect here. This mountain will be my sect's headquarters, and outsiders are not permitted to enter!"

After saying this, he continued his attack on Lou Jialan.

Lou Jialan transformed into a streak of light and was quickly forced out of the area covered by the Black Cloud Formation. However, Lu Chaoding was still relentless. When he could no longer attack her, he used his gaze sword technique to continuously repel her.

Ling Daozi and the other NPCs were also quite frightened at this time. Some of them boldly entered the Black Cloud Formation, but they either died tragically or withdrew in horror. As a result, although more NPCs were still gathering towards the Nameless Mine, they all stopped outside the Black Cloud Formation and dared not venture in at will.

Lu Chaoding was slightly annoyed. He wanted to kill Qinglan Sword Saint to establish his authority, but he couldn't kill her. Her movements were too fast, and apart from his swordsmanship, his attacks couldn't hit her at all.

"Fine, I'll just leave it here for 24 hours and collect the mine."

Lu Chao muttered something to himself, then stopped using his gaze sword technique and sat cross-legged in mid-air.

Outside the nameless mine, NPCs kept trying to enter or attack the Black Cloud Formation, but all ended in failure. Gradually, the NPCs showed expressions of disappointment and left one after another.

Suddenly, Lu Chaoding received a system notification: "Ding, holder of Hongchen Dao Box fragment detected."

Lu Chaoding's spirits lifted. He scanned his surroundings and immediately locked onto the holder of the Hongchen Dao Box fragment. To his surprise, it turned out to be a female player.

The female player was standing next to Qinglan Sword Saint. She had short hair, carried two swords on her back, and looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old. When Lu Chao looked at her, she also looked at Lu Chao with surprise.

"Master, this guy possesses a fragment of the Hongchen Dao Box!" the female player suddenly said to Qinglan Sword Saint Lou Jialan. "Kill him, and we can get his fragment of the Hongchen Dao Box."

The Azure Lotus Sword Saint frowned deeply.

Lu Chao glanced at the Azure Lotus Sword Saint, and she immediately retreated dozens of meters, shouting, "Disciple, retreat quickly! This Supreme Heavenly Demon is no ordinary being!"

"Supreme Heavenly Demon!"

The female player was taken aback, but looked at Lu Chaoding seriously and asked, "The Supreme Heavenly Demon of the Heavenly Demon Sword Sect?"

Lu Chao couldn't see the female player's attribute information, and was somewhat curious about her. Hearing her say this, he became even more curious and asked, "Have you heard of my name?"

The female player nodded and said, "Before entering here, I browsed the forums. Some people there revealed that you are the master of the Heavenly Demon, a super expert in the Hunyuan Realm. Others said you are the unreliable sword immortal Lu Chaoding. Are you really Lu Chaoding? How did you get here? Don't you know that once you're in, you can't get out?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Chaoding immediately realized that the female player must have been in the Shushan Sword Domain for a short time. After thinking for a moment, he felt there was no need to waste too much time talking to her. He swung his broadsword, and a torrent of sword shadows swept over, instantly killing her.

Then, a fist-sized object appeared in mid-air. Lu Chao stepped forward and picked it up. Seeing that it was fragment number 66, he nodded and said, "Not bad, not bad, another fragment! It seems that this fragment is most likely the one from the top of Qingfeng Mountain, which the female player brought here?"

At this moment, the Azure Sky Sword Saint reappeared in front of Lu Chaoding. She slashed at Lu Chaoding's head with her sword, but unfortunately, due to her good fortune, Lu Chaoding remained unmoved and unharmed.

The Azure Mist Sword Saint's attack proved ineffective, so he immediately retreated, revealing himself in the distance and shouting, "Supreme Heavenly Demon, hand over the fragments of the Primordial Dust Dao Box, and this mine is yours!"

"Do you need to give way to me?"

Lu Chao countered Qinglan Sword Saint's attack with a swordsmanship of gaze. Blood trickled from Qinglan Sword Saint's head, but this time he did not flee, continuing, "That fragment is useless to you. Obtaining it will only bring trouble upon yourself. Hand it over to me!"

"Dream on!"

Lu Chao turned around, returned to the top of the nameless mine, and sat down leisurely.

With the Black Cloud Formation present, even the Azure Lotus Sword Saint Lou Jialan dared not advance rashly. Her expression was anxious as she shouted, "Supreme Heavenly Demon, do you know that the leaders of the four major sword sects also possess fragments of the Hongchen Dao Box? They will pinpoint your location and come to attack you. Do you think you can defeat those four old monsters?"

"The leaders of the four major sword sects also possess fragments of the Hongchen Dao Box?" Lu Chao was not surprised but delighted. "That's wonderful! Let them come!"

"You're too arrogant!" Green Mist Sword Saint Lou Jialan stomped his foot in anger.

At this moment, the female player revived and returned. She looked at Lu Chaoding and said angrily, "You're so evil! How could you kill someone and steal their treasure? Don't you have any sense of reason?"

"Reason?" Lu Chao retorted, "Didn't you just tell your master to kill me and steal the fragments of the Hongchen Dao Box? Is that what you call being reasonable?"

"Huh, judging from your voice, you don't seem to be an NPC? Could you really be that unreliable swordsman Lu Chaoding? The information online is actually true! That makes things easier!"

The female player looked at Lu Chaoding, then suddenly smiled and said, "Lu Chaoding, hello there! Let me introduce myself. My name is Li Yanlong, and I'm your fan. Shouldn't you be leading the Heavenly Demon Sword Sect in attacking the Pegasus Empire? How come you're here in the Shu Mountain Sword Domain?"

"It's all your fault!" Lu Chao readily admitted his identity. "Your nickname on the Tianxing Forum was 'I Have the Flaming Dragon Cannon,' right?"

How did you know?

"I know a lot more!"

"Don't be so impulsive! Do you want to leave? If you do, then listen to me!"

"What do you mean?"

The female player pointed to the Azure Mist Sword Saint Lou Jialan beside her and said, "My master can take us away, provided you give her the fragments of the Hongchen Dao Box!"

"No way!" Lu Chao waved his hand dismissively.

"Don't rush, listen to me," Li Yanlong said. "My master isn't just any ordinary NPC; she's a peak level 120 expert. Do you know who her master is?"

"Who is it?"

"Her master, my grandmaster, is known as Daoist Hongchen!"

"Is it impressive?" Lu Chao's interest was piqued.

Li Yanlong continued, "Of course! Daojun Hongchen is a powerful expert at the Hunyuan Realm, capable of rivaling even the legendary progenitors! Daojun Hongchen once possessed 36 fragments of the Hongchen Dao Box. My master, Lou Jialan, was his only disciple, and she knows many secrets of the Hongchen Dao Box. The fragments of the Hongchen Dao Box are useless to us, but they have miraculous effects in her hands. Moreover, if she obtains six fragments of the Hongchen Dao Box, she can break through space and allow us to return to the Hongchen Sword Realm. So, let's give her the fragments of the Hongchen Dao Box—my fragment, your fragment, plus one each from the leaders of the four major sword sects—and then we can leave."

At this moment, the Azure Mist Sword Saint Lou Jialan interjected, "What are you talking about?"

Li Yanlong smiled sweetly and said, "It's nothing. I'm just trying to persuade this Supreme Heavenly Demon to surrender. Don't worry, I'll take him down right now and make sure he delivers the fragments of the Hongchen Dao Box."

Lu Chao retorted, "Why are you so smug?"

After saying that, he swung his broadsword, the sword shadows like waves, and instantly killed Li Yanlong.

The Azure Sky Sword Saint Lou Jialan sighed, then suddenly sheathed her sword and said, "Supreme Heavenly Demon, you are powerful enough that I cannot harm you. This mine is yours now. However, the fragments of the Hongchen Dao Box are of great use to me, and only I can unleash their power. Could you give them to me? I promise that once I gather all six fragments, I will send you out of the Shu Mountain Sword Domain immediately!"

"Give it to you? We're not related, and you're not from my sect. Why would I give it to you?" Lu Chao waved his hand and said, "You can leave now. I've just arrived in the Hongchen Sword Domain and want to stay a while longer. I don't have any intention of leaving yet."

Lou Jialan shook his head and said, "You are still unaware of your situation... Never mind, you should establish your sect in this mine first, and I will drive out the competitors for you outside the mountain."

After speaking, the Azure Mine Sword Immortal slung his sword over his shoulder and walked away, but instead of leaving, he patrolled outside the Nameless Mine, acting like a guard and shooing away other NPCs who wanted to occupy the Nameless Mine.

Lu Chao thought to himself that it was good to have someone guarding the mountain for him. He was too lazy to think too much about it and just sat peacefully on the top of the nameless mine.

Thanks to Lou Jialan's protection, Lu Chaoding was no longer bothered by any NPCs. A day later, Lu Chaoding received a system notification: "Ding, you have occupied the nameless mine for 24 hours. The nameless mine has become your sect's base. Please name your sect!"

"A reliable sword sect!"

"Ding, naming successful. Please name the local mine!"

"Reliable Mountain!"

"Ding, naming successful. Congratulations on creating the Reliable Sword Sect in Reliable Mountain. You have the mining rights to the Reliable Mountain jade mine. The mine entrance has been generated. Please send miners to the mine to collect jade resources. The mined jade resources will automatically appear in the treasure chest in the sect hall. As the sect leader of the Reliable Sword Sect, you have the authority to allocate them."

With the system notification sound, a small courtyard that looked very similar to the small Taoist temple on the earthen hill slowly grew out of the top of the hill in front of Lu Chao. There was a plaque on the gate of the courtyard with four big characters: "Reliable Sword Sect"!

"Goodness, this is really rudimentary!"

Lu Chao dispelled the dark cloud formation and walked into the courtyard, then into the main house at the back. There he found a treasure chest, a jade treasure chest, which was now empty.

"We still need miners to mine the ore..."

Lu Chao muttered something under his breath.

At that moment, the Azure Mist Sword Saint Lou Jialan arrived at the courtyard with her player apprentice, Li Yanlong.

"Congratulations, fellow Daoist, on establishing your sect!" Lou Jialan exclaimed.

Li Yanlong added, "Sect Leader Lu, we're here again!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Chaoding walked out of the "Sect Hall." He looked at the two people outside the courtyard and asked, "What are you two doing?"

Lou Jialan said, "My master and I wish to join a reliable sword sect. I wonder if you would be willing to accept us?"

"Join a reliable sword sect?" Lu Chao was taken aback, unsure of Lou Jialan's plans. Without much thought, he quickly nodded and said, "Alright, I'll take you two in. We happen to need miners, so go and mine!" (End of Chapter)