Unreliable Sword Immortal

Chapter 6: Earth Spirit Lion Dog

The round begins, and Lu Chaoding launches an attack on the Boiling Blood Lion Dog. With a single sword strike, the sword shadows follow, swoosh swoosh swoosh...

"-20"

"-2"

"-2, Break Toughness, -280"

"-4"

"-4"

"-4"

"-4"

"-4"

"-4"

Ten damage numbers float up, overlapping each other, totaling up to 328 damage. The Lion Dog is beaten to a pulp.

"I am the Bombarding Sword Immortal!"

Lu Chaoding shouts excitedly.

Next is the Lion Dog's turn. It runs over as usual, ramming into people and knocking off 40 points of Lu Chaoding's health, while also reducing his toughness.

Lu Chaoding enters the instance with half health, leaving him with only 10 points of health. He remains calm and launches another sword strike, a nine-hit combo, bombarding with sword shadows!

Since the Boiling Blood Lion Dog's toughness has been depleted, Lu Chaoding's total damage this time is 72 points, just enough to deplete the Lion Dog's health bar. It falls on its back, dead.

"Ding, Occasionally Unreliable System activated, Boiling Blood Lion Dog killed, instance cleared, completing the mission rewards, +1 gold yuan, +1 Boiling Blood Lion Dog!"

"Half-health soloing the Lion Dog, I'm really awesome!" Lu Chaoding is proud and quickly looks around, muttering, "Where's my Lion Dog?"

The next moment, he is teleported out of the instance. He opens his storage space and sees the icon of a Boiling Blood Lion Dog's head quietly lying in a storage slot.

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Earth Spirit: Boiling Blood Lion Dog

Star Rating: Two Stars

Class: Universal

Level: LV1

Current Effect: After launching an attack or being hit, there is a 50% chance of entering a Boiling Blood Rage state.

Explanation 1: Boiling Blood Rage is a special state. Once triggered, the body emits a bloody light, grows in size, and gains a 20% increase in attack power and 20% lifesteal for one round.

Explanation 2: For every level the Earth Spirit Boiling Blood Lion Dog advances, the enhancement effect of Boiling Blood Rage doubles.

Explanation 3: Using [Boiling Blood Essence] can increase the level of the Earth Spirit Boiling Blood Lion Dog.

Explanation 4: The Earth Spirit Boiling Blood Lion Dog can be upgraded to a maximum of LV3.

Explanation 5: Binding occurs after the Earth Spirit is upgraded.

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"So the Lion Dog is an Earth Spirit!" Lu Chaoding realizes something.

In the player information interface of [Grand Dust Sword World], there are nine equipment slots: [Secret Technique], [Battle Technique], [Ultimate Technique], [Celestial Authority], [Earth Spirit], [Weapon], [Fashion], [Back Accessory], and [Ornament]. For example, if Lu Chaoding equips the Diffraction Sword Shadow skill book in the Secret Technique slot, he can use that secret technique.

Among these options, Lu Chaoding is least familiar with [Celestial Authority] and [Earth Spirit]. Now he realizes that [Earth Spirit] can be considered a special equipment.

"The power development in Grand Dust Sword World is quite comprehensive. I still lack Battle Techniques, Ultimate Techniques, Celestial Authority, and Ornaments..." Lu Chaoding equips the Earth Spirit Boiling Blood Lion Dog and immediately a blood-red circle with a diameter of about two meters appears under his feet, as if he is stepping in a pool of blood.

This is the visual effect of the Earth Spirit.

After a brief study, Lu Chaoding finds the button to turn off the visual effect in the Earth Spirit panel.

He turns it off and on again, making the blood-red circle disappear and reappear.

"Hmm, how fascinating!"

Lu Chaoding played with the aperture special effects, opening and closing them like a child discovering something new, thoroughly enjoying himself.

"Boss Ding! What are you up to again?"

Xiao Ning's voice rang out, and Lu Chaoding turned to look in her direction. He saw her slowly standing up from behind a rock about half a person tall, as if she had been crouching there just now.

Lu Chaoding was taken aback. When he had entered the instance just now, he hadn't seen anyone around. He thought that Zhao Weike and the others must have entered the instance, but he hadn't noticed that Xiao Ning was hiding behind the rock.

"Why were you hiding there?"

Lu Chaoding asked, but immediately understood.

It seemed that there were no public restrooms in this place, and they, as players who had transmigrated into the game, although they had certain game functions, couldn't avoid the need to eat, drink, and relieve themselves. The Destiny Platform had a high chance of giving out compressed biscuits, probably to prevent players from starving to death.

Xiao Ning didn't answer, but ran over with a happy expression on her face, saying, "Boss Ding, can you take me to do another instance?"

"Girl, this kind of thing depends on opportunity. You wait here, when the opportunity comes, I will take you to do an instance."

Lu Chaoding wanted to train Xiao Ning to be a tool for instances. If he encountered a task that required him to be killed but still required the instance to be cleared, it wouldn't hurt to bring her along.

"Huh?"

You still need to rely on opportunity to do an instance?

What the hell?

Does this guy have some ulterior motive?

Xiao Ning couldn't help but speculate randomly, but Lu Chaoding rushed into the Bloodboil Lion's Den.

"Time is running out. This tutorial instance is only open for one day, and it will change tomorrow. I have to grind as much as possible..."

Lu Chaoding's grinding attribute began to erupt. He silently calculated that in this Lion's Den, even if he exploded his output and killed the lion dogs in two rounds, it would still take two minutes including the time to enter and exit the instance.

Two minutes per run, that's 30 runs in an hour!

And he still had to do tasks. Considering the often unreliable performance of the system, if he could do three or four runs in an hour, that would be good. In a day of twenty-four hours, if he didn't stop for a moment and kept grinding, he didn't know if he could do a hundred runs in a day.

"Time is short, the task is heavy. If you want to become an Apex Level expert, you can't waste a single moment!"

Lu Chaoding had already decided to grind for twenty-four hours first. After checking the tampering task, he immediately ran out with a look of resentment.

Next, Xiao Ning saw Lu Chaoding rushing in and out of the instance entrance, like a never-ending loop of bugs. She was full of question marks in her mind and couldn't help but feel that Lu Chaoding was abnormal.

"Is this guy going in and out, hinting at me?"

Xiao Ning quickly realized what was going on and didn't want to stand foolishly at the entrance. She couldn't handle the instance alone, so she followed a small path and left, thinking of finding some small monsters to fight.

Twenty minutes later, Lu Chaoding finally encountered a satisfactory tampering task. The task required him to kill the Boiling Blood Lion Dog and rewarded him with 10 unreliable lottery tickets.

"I can take on this challenge!"

Lu Chaoding looked at his attribute information. His health had recovered to 72 points. It seemed that when he came out of the instance, his health would automatically be restored to 50% if it was below that. The extra 22 points were the result of automatic recovery during these twenty minutes.

He felt stable and quickly fought the Lion Dog. After a casual sword strike, the Earth Spirit's [Boiling Blood Fury] was triggered. His height suddenly increased to ten feet, his muscles swelled, and his body was surrounded by blood energy.

"Ding, you have entered the Boiling Blood Fury state. Attack power +20%, life-stealing attack +20%, effect lasts for one round!"

After hearing the system prompt, Lu Chaoding quickly checked his attribute panel and found that his attack power had become 42. Obviously, the +20% attack power referred to the base attack power, while the +20% life-stealing attack meant that after attacking the enemy, he would recover 20% of the damage dealt as his own health.

"I've become taller and stronger!"

Lu Chaoding looked down at the small Boiling Blood Lion Dog and felt great.

When it was his turn again, he struck the Lion Dog nine times, not only killing it but also seeing green healing numbers above his head: "+14"!

Unfortunately, after this strike, the Boiling Blood Fury state was lifted, and Lu Chaoding immediately returned to his original form.

Next, Lu Chaoding happily received 10 unreliable lottery tickets, but he didn't rush to draw them. He continued to grind random tasks without stopping for a moment.

Lu Chaoding's perseverance was extraordinary. He could endure and remain enthusiastic without feeling tired. When he was hungry, he ate compressed biscuits, and when he was thirsty, he drank wild water outside the cave. He ignored other players as if he were a madman.

With the effort of a determined person, as the sky began to darken, Lu Chaoding, who had been grinding for more than ten hours in a row, had accumulated 220 unreliable lottery tickets. His cultivation had also reached 500 points, and he had saved up 305 gold coins.

At this moment, a sudden system announcement sounded: "Nightfall is approaching, players of Tianxing Island, for your safety, please return to the Destiny Platform temporary camp. Your senior brother Niu Daren has brought supplies. Go find him and have a chat!"

"Ding, Grand Dust Sword World is about to enter the night. All instances will be closed, all regular monsters will be hidden, and nocturnal creatures will appear randomly. Please arrange your rest time properly. It is recommended that you return to the temporary camp to rest, recover your energy, and wait for tomorrow's battle."

(End of this chapter)