Unreliable Sword Immortal.

Chapter 52 Tengu Secret Realm

Fire Fang Mountain, campsite at the foot of the mountain.

Zhao Weike rubbed his eyes and climbed out of the tent.

"I can't sleep anymore. I must act as soon as possible. By this time, the Right Protector of the Golden Sword Sect should have already appeared. Whether we can turn the tide depends entirely on today!"

Zhao Weike looked up at the Fiery Fang Mountain, a smile appearing on his face.

As a beta tester, he was very familiar with the storyline of Fiery Fang Mountain. If he were to proceed normally, he would first have to complete two time-consuming, laborious, and exhausting public collection tasks, and then follow Niu Daren to the Heavenly Dog Secret Realm.

After experiencing a short storyline in the Heavenly Dog Secret Realm, Niu Daren will collect the four-star Fiery Sword on the second level of the Heavenly Dog Secret Realm and release the Fiery Heavenly Dog. After the Great Sword Sect's reinforcements arrive and destroy the Fiery Heavenly Dog, the storyline of Fiery Dog Tooth Mountain will be completely over.

It would take at least seven or eight days to complete this entire storyline.

However, there is another method that can skip the collection mission and prevent Niu Daren from releasing the Fiery Tengu. If all goes well, the storyline of Dog Tooth Mountain can be completed in as little as one day.

This method requires going directly to the second level of the Tengu Secret Realm via a secret passage.

The secret passage was dug out by an NPC named Qin Jiashan.

This NPC has been lurking in Fiery Fang Mountain for a long time. His true identity is the Right Protector of the Golden Sword Sect. He has been lurking in Fiery Fang Mountain in order to release the Fiery Heavenly Dog and create chaos for the Great Sword Sect.

In the normal storyline, Niu Daren will encounter the Right Protector of the Golden Sword Sect in the second level of the Heavenly Dog Secret Realm. After exchanging the secret code, he will receive the one-time treasures Golden Thread Robe and Yang God Pill from him, which will allow him to take the Four-Star Fiery Sword and release the Fiery Heavenly Dog.

In fact, even if a player wears the Golden Robe, they can still take the four-star Fiery Sword and use it to unleash the Fiery Heavenly Dog in place of Niu Daren.

All you need to do is meet the Right Protector of the Golden Sword Sect beforehand and give him the secret code.

Those beta testers who experienced the Tengu Secret Realm storyline all know that code.

In short, as long as you release the Fiery Tengu, find a place to hide, and wait for the main force of NPCs from the Great Sword Sect to defeat the Fiery Tengu, you can go directly to the Great Sword Breaking Void Mountain and start the Great Sword Breaking Void Mountain storyline.

However, if this were done, Elder Mo would most likely die, Niu Daren would definitely be seriously injured, and he would not be able to obtain the Four-Star Fiery Sword and the Yang God Pill. In that case, this senior brother would be much weaker in the [Great Calamity of Poxu Mountain] storyline.

Players from the same village could also be killed by the Fiery Tengu.

Overall, this is a selfish act that harms others.

Zhao Weike then decided to harm others for his own benefit.

He believed that many beta testers who knew the strategy would do the same, since doing so would not only greatly shorten the time spent on the beginner village storyline, but also allow them to obtain a four-star Fiery Sword, which would be a huge gain.

Just as Zhao Weike was preparing to head to the secret passage, he suddenly received a regional announcement that the "Forging Swords at Dog Tooth Mountain" storyline had officially begun.

"Holy crap, no way! Who handed in 5000 Firestones? That's 5000! How could they have collected that many so quickly?"

Zhao Weike was immediately filled with question marks.

"Could it be Ding Ge? He got a Firestone from farming Night Stalkers? That doesn't make sense, isn't the Firestone only obtainable from Fire Caves?"

Zhao Weike scratched the back of his head hard, and after thinking for a moment, he still ran quickly towards the back mountain.

The secret passage leading to the second level of the Heavenly Dog Realm is located in the back mountain.

"Even if Top Brother is awesome and handed over 5000 Fiery Stones, so what? He still has to go to the Fiery Cave and the Fang Cave to farm materials, right? I can get that four-star Fiery Sword today!"

As Zhao Weike was pondering this, he suddenly received another system notification: "Ding, main storyline progressed, the [Sword Forging at Dog Tooth Mountain] storyline is complete, the Tengu Secret Realm is open. Please go to the front of the Dog Tooth Cave dungeon at the top of the mountain to find Niu Daren, and enter the Tengu Secret Realm under his guidance!"

"Um?"

Zhao Weike slipped and nearly fell headfirst to the ground.

"The sword-forging storyline at Dogtooth Mountain is complete? How did it finish? This doesn't make sense! What happened?"

Zhao Weike felt his brain was completely overwhelmed, but he ran as fast as he could.

If Niu Daren were to exchange the secret signal with Qin Jiashan first, then it would be all over, and he wouldn't be able to intercept the prize.

At this very moment, at the Sword Pavilion halfway up the mountain, the master swordsmith Elder Mo was frantically stacking bundles of Fiery Swords near Lu Chao's summit.

One bundle contains a hundred bundles!

Lu Chao smiled. He had spent the whole night grinding Nightwalker Beasts and had accumulated 649 gold coins, so he immediately gave Master Mo 400 gold coins.

Zhang Defa stood there dumbfounded, slapping his own mouth with his hand, muttering, "This must be fake, this must be a hallucination! Brother Ding, Brother Ding, say something, what exactly happened?"

Lu Chao retorted, "I'm just buying goods, what's the big deal?"

After saying that, he began storing the Fiery Sword in his storage space.

Lu Chaoding had already seen the attribute information of this Fiery Sword. It can add fire damage that ignores defense and damage reduction, and it can be refined with Fiery Stones. It can be said that its quality is very good, much stronger than the two-star Commoner Sword.

Five minutes later, all 40,000 Fiery Swords were collected.

Elder Mo finally stopped, a smile spreading across his face. He said, "You disciples this year are truly remarkable. You've helped me complete the forging of four hundred Fiery Swords so quickly. Now you can head to the mountaintop to find your senior brother and have him lead you into the Heavenly Dog Secret Realm. After you've passed through the secret realm, come back to me. These four hundred Fiery Swords I forged will need to be delivered to the Fiery Hall of Broken Void Mountain!"

Zhang Defa shouted, "Brother Ding, this silly old man says he wants to bring out another four hundred Fiery Swords!"

"Um."

Lu Chao nodded, and then he brought up the trading panel and started operating it happily.

The four good items he put up for auction yesterday have all been bought.

The two-star [Sailor Dress] sold for 1100 gold coins, while the one-star [Good Student] sold for an even higher price of 1300 gold coins. The [Heart-Piercing Sword] skill book sold for 3200 gold coins, while the [Demon-Subduing Sword Formation] sold for only 2200 gold coins.

"The returns are not bad!"

Lu Chaoding happily withdrew 8900 gold coins from the trading platform, and then listed a [Heart-Piercing Sword] skill book, a [Moon-Severing Wave] skill book, and a [Rising Dragon Sword] skill book, all in auction mode, with a starting price of 2000 gold coins.

"Scarcity drives up value, so let's sell these skill books one by one! As for the two-star Fiery Swords, we won't auction them; we'll just list them all for 300 each. That shouldn't be too high. I'm not a profiteer; I aim for small profits but quick turnover, benefiting all players!"

Lu Chao quickly listed 40,000 Fiery Swords on the trading house after a large-scale operation. He then browsed the trading house, hoping to buy some good items.

Unfortunately, although the total number of items traded is less than 60,000, Lu Chaoding alone accounts for more than two-thirds of them. Moreover, the high-quality items are only those he lists for sale, while most of the other items are one-star junk.

A moment later, Lu Chaoding closed the trading window in disappointment, having not bought a single item.

"Time waits for no one, we need to keep working hard. Let's go check out the Heavenly Dog Secret Realm on the mountaintop first. If I don't go, Zhang Defa and the others will benefit."

Thinking of this, Lu Chao released the Great Xuan Sword, mounted it, and flew straight to the mountaintop.