Unreliable Sword Immortal.

Chapter 48 Zhao Qunzi came to our village and jumped off a cliff.

Lu Chao waited for a while outside the mountain cave before receiving the system notification.

"Ding! Novice Village No. 523131241 has completed the [Lion Mountain Sword Tournament] storyline. All players in the village have increased their cultivation by 200. The trading system has been unlocked, the player information hiding function has been unlocked, the Fiery Fang Mountain passage has been unlocked, and the Lion Mountain infiltration event has been unlocked. Find NPC Niu Daren to learn more..."

"It's finally over. I wonder how many players in the newbie villages have opened the trading post now!"

Lu Chaoding wasn't in a hurry to check the trading system. Instead, he headed to the mountaintop camp while studying the newly enabled "player information hiding function."

A player's attribute information is initially displayed in a "shown state," allowing other players to see their name, level, class, health, attack, and other attributes at a glance. The "information hiding function" allows players to selectively hide their name, level, class, health, attack, and other attribute information. Once hidden, these attributes cannot be viewed by other players.

Lu Chaoding set his attribute information to "all hidden", so when other players looked at him, they could only see the health bar and white bar above his head.

By this time, he had arrived at the mountaintop camp.

"Haha, time to level up!"

Zhang Defa was shouting when the four-star [Heavenly Journey Breakthrough Talisman] actually fell into his hands. He was overjoyed, but when he saw Lu Chaoding, he shrank his neck, quickly went around him, and ran away without saying a word.

Other players also avoided Lu Chaoding like the plague, running away as fast as they could.

Lu Chao didn't mind. He walked up to Niu Daren and asked, "Senior Brother, where's my reward?"

"So it's Junior Brother Lu Chaoding, haha, you didn't participate in the sword competition, how could you possibly get a reward..."

As he spoke, Niu Daren took out a magical, luminous rune from his pocket and presented it to Lu Chao.

"Senior Brother, you're two-faced!"

Lu Chao smiled and took the rune, immediately checking its attribute information.

[Unreliable Heavenly Journey Breakthrough Talisman: Four-star item, special item, one-time consumable item. Upon use, it breaks the world barrier, allowing the player to travel to other realms. Random effect: Allows the player to travel to the Machine Emperor Universe and stay there for eight days. Note: This breakthrough talisman will expire after eight days.]

"Break the world barrier? Other realms? The Machine Emperor Universe? What kind of place is that?" Lu Chao was stunned. "This unreliable Heavenly Journey Breakthrough Talisman is completely different from the original. It has been tampered with too thoroughly."

Lu Chao narrowed his eyes. He couldn't judge the value of the [Unreliable Heavenly Path Breakthrough Talisman], nor did he dare to use it rashly. After thinking about it, he felt that eight days was still a long time, so he put it away first.

Next, Lu Chaoding began to study the trading house.

The trading platform's operations were very simple, and Lu Chaoding understood them almost immediately.

Simply put, the trading post window can be accessed through the character information panel. In this window, you can browse, list, search, and purchase items. All items are sold anonymously, but you can contact the seller through the item description page for basic communication.

Perhaps because there aren't many players who have opened the trading post yet, there are only 122 items listed for sale in the trading post, including 6 three-star items, 16 two-star items, and the rest are one-star items.

Lu Chao looked through all 122 items and felt that the quality of these items was a bit low. Most of them were food and materials. There were no weapons, no fashion items, and no Tianquan or Dizhi items. There were five skill books, all of which were one-star.

"It's all garbage, not a single item I need! Oh well, let me contribute some high-end goods instead."

Thinking of this, Lu Chaoding opened his storage space and put all the items on the auction house, including the one-star fashion item "Good Student", the two-star fashion item "Sailor Dress", the three-star skill book "Heart-Piercing Sword" and the three-star skill book "Demon-Subduing Sword Formation", as well as the iron sword he had drawn before.

As for product pricing, Lu Chaoding wasn't very knowledgeable about the market and was too lazy to study it, so he simply set it up as an auction with a 24-hour auction period. The starting price for the "Three Good Students" item was 500, the starting price for the "Sailor Dress" item was 800, the starting price for the "Heart-Piercing Sword" skill book was 2000, and the starting price for the "Demon-Subduing Sword Formation" skill book was 2000!

Lu Chaoding would be perfectly willing to sell these items even at the lowest possible price.

For the other items, Lu Chaoding set very low base prices.

Lu Chaoding then spoke with Niu Daren to learn about the "Lion Rock Infiltration" operation.

Similar to what the forum post said, this event only exists during the newbie village storyline. Every day from 2 pm to 6 pm, you can randomly invade other newbie villages by paying Niu Daren 500 gold coins. The invasion time is limited to one hour. Killing players in the other newbie village or Niu Daren in the mountain camp will grant you cultivation points. There are no other rewards. This is just a small game for players to interact with.

After learning about it, Lu Chao was very excited. He went back to his cave to rest for a while, and at 2 p.m., he arrived at Niu Daren's side on time and paid 500 gold coins directly.

"Ding! Matching you with a target newbie village. Match successful. In three minutes, you will be invading newbie village number 533144518. Please prepare to teleport!"

"bring it on!"

Lu Chao rode a tiger and wielded a sword, looking spirited and energetic.

At that very moment, a system notification sounded in the newbie village numbered 533144518.

"Ding, system notification: Warning, an unknown player from number 523131241 is about to infiltrate Lion Mountain. Please protect our senior brother Niu Daren. If Niu Daren is killed, he will need 24 hours to revive, and this will affect the related newbie village storyline."

On the mountaintop of this beginner village, eight players, divided into two teams, were chatting in front of the "Mountaintop Throne" instance.

"What? Someone's breaking in? How dare they! Don't they know this is Wang Zhenfeng's territory?"

"He's just here to give away his cultivation points! Brothers, follow me to the Resurrection Sword Monument at the foot of the mountain to ambush him!"

"Haha, this guy's really messed up. He didn't expect there to be two veteran beta testers here!"

"This starting village's number looks familiar!"

"Isn't this Zhao Qunzi's starting village number? Damn it, could it be Zhao Qunzi who's invaded?"

Who is Zhao Qunzi?

"Brother Wang, you don't know? Zhao Qunzi is the one who tricked people on the forum into jumping off a cliff when it got dark!"

"You can tell from his name he's no decent guy, let's get him!"

"What good can someone who plays hacking games do? Let's team up and kill him!"

The eight players immediately became interested, stopped running the dungeon, and ran down the mountain.

They soon spotted the intruders.

The man was riding a tiger and wielding a sword, and he was also carrying a large black knife.

The eight people were stunned.

"What is this thing? What class is it? I can't see its attributes!"

"Hey, you intruder up ahead, riding such a small tiger? Are you even human?"

"Who goes there? State your name!"

"Are you Zhao Qunzi...?"

Lu Chaoding heard the shouts of the eight people opposite him, but he remained expressionless and did not respond at all. He rode his tiger and wielded his sword, speeding towards Lion Cliff.

The eight people behind him chased after him, cursing as they went. Then they saw the man ride a tiger and wield a sword, plunging headfirst into the cliff below.

"Zhao Qunzi jumped off a cliff!"

"Hmm? Could it be that he's here to steal the magnificent treasure?"

"If the village's treasures are taken, it's indeed possible to retrieve them from other starting villages through intrusion, provided you haven't jumped off cliffs four times! Someone did this during the closed beta!"

"That Zhao girl in the skirt, trying to steal our opportunities!"

"This is intolerable, kill him!"

"Everyone, form a circle around him! Don't let him get away!"

The eight men shouted repeatedly and quickly surrounded Lion Cliff.