All-out Tower Defense: My Card-Drawing Talent is a Bit Strange

The Angels' Game (Game Rules): After entering the secret realm, the six criminals will be randomly assigned a demon scythe. The demon scythe will be "blessed" by the angels watching the game, giving them completely different levels of sharpness, ranging from a minimum of 1 point to a maximum of 6 points.

These sharpnesses, blessed by the angels, can slay demons; demons cannot be killed by any other means!

Each criminal must take turns wielding their sword in the order specified by the angels, with each person having one chance to wield their sword in each round.

Before drawing their blades, the criminals are unaware of the remaining sharpness of their scythes. They can point them at themselves, and if they are killed, it is considered a demon's repentance, granting them immunity to damage from other demon scythes for the remainder of the round. This rule does not apply if the blade is pointed at someone else, until only one person remains on the field.

Note that no matter who wins or loses in this game, there will be no real death. Being killed means exiting the secret realm. However, it takes a certain amount of courage and perseverance to try. Death is not a rule in this secret realm, but an experience. Being killed by the demon's scythe is not a pleasant experience and may cause irreparable consequences to yourself.

Angel's Game (Secret Realm Reward): The top two players can choose to take away their own pledged items and also choose items from other players. The first place player can freely choose two pledged items, including the items pledged by the second place player.

After the first person has made their choice, the second person can choose one of the remaining items from the next four people. If their own item is chosen, they can also use this opportunity to offset it, thus only taking back the original collateral.

Angel's Game (Upgradeable): If you win 99 consecutive times while the collateral is of green quality, the quality of the dungeon will be upgraded. At the same time, the quality of the collateral required to enter the dungeon will also be forcibly upgraded, and the next time you enter, you will need items of the corresponding quality.

This secret realm differs slightly from normal secret realms in its exploration method. Citizens and soldiers cannot enter; it is exclusively for lords. Furthermore, each lord has their own independent victory progress. If they perform well, the "angels" will grant the winners some special rewards.

Yang Fei carefully read through the introduction to the secret realm, took a deep breath, and looked somewhat complicated. The entrance ticket was easy to obtain; even without the merchant token, he still had 12 tea trees at the beginning, which were green-quality items.

Those 12 Qi-gathering tea trees require Qi Refining Realm to use. Currently, apart from selling them at a low price to the soon-to-be-unlocked Heavenly Dao Shop, I can't use them because I don't have the corresponding tea-picking and tea-frying skills.

If you try picking and processing tea leaves, you probably won't be able to produce green quality tea. This is similar to alchemy, which requires a specific formula. Alternatively, you could try multiple times and experiment. However, Yang Fei certainly doesn't have that ability right now. But if you can't use the finished product, you can use the tea tree itself.

Moreover, according to the description, there is no factor of strength in clearing this secret realm, only luck. Therefore, there is no possibility of not being able to clear it. I can enter now and have a chance to clear it.

However, these rules feel malicious to the players. Putting aside what it would be like to be killed by the demon scythe, the reward mechanism alone is problematic. With 6 people, ideally, everyone can only get 5 rewards in total.

Moreover, the rewards are all based on the players' own tickets, and there is no guarantee that the rewards will meet their expectations. As for the special rewards given by the angels, Yang Fei did not believe it at all. If he was not mistaken, the angels watching here were not the same kind of beings he had imagined.

"Actually, I can give it a try. I won't die anyway. As for the death experience of being killed by the demon scythe, it's not real death, so what's there to be afraid of!" Looking at the introduction to the secret realm in front of him, Yang Fei weighed the options many times and finally decided to go and take a look.

Once a secret realm is built, it cannot be recycled. Since the rewards are not determined by strength, this secret realm must be checked out; otherwise, leaving it here is a pure waste of space.

Moreover, Yang Fei was well aware that now was the most profitable time for the entire Sky Island to enter this secret realm, because the entrance fee for each person was not fixed and its specific value and function could not be measured. This meant that what others might not value could be very useful to him.

If we can reliably and consistently obtain items of the corresponding quality, then who would bother clearing levels with no fixed rewards? Even if we get a few useless items, they're still green quality. Once we clear the highest difficulty and unlock the Heavenly Path Shop, we can sell them at a low price, which is a good deal.

The only thing to worry about is not surviving to the last two spots, which would mean losing everything. According to the reward rules, the first place winner gets their principal plus two, and the second place winner gets their principal plus one, so at least they can break even. The other four people will lose everything.

"For me right now, the only purpose of selling tea trees is to make money by selling them to the Heavenly Path Shop. However, the Heavenly Path Shop can only be unlocked by clearing the Extreme difficulty level. Keeping them is completely useless for me now, as I want to snowball my success."

"Why not give it a try? The first place winner can choose a reward, and maybe they can find something useful! Even losing a tea tree is acceptable. Right now, we don't need to think about how to accumulate resources, but how to snowball faster!" After repeating this to himself several times, Yang Fei finally convinced himself.

However, before entering, Yang Fei had a few things to deal with. First, he needed to go to the tentacle nest to recruit today's tentacle monsters. Second, he needed to temporarily pick the tea leaves that could be harvested from the tea trees.

Tea trees are inherently of green quality. Although you can't make green tea yourself, there's no need to waste these fresh tea leaves. It's good to use them for practice. With more attempts, you can learn even without a skill book.

Yang Fei arrived near the tentacle nest and used today's free recruitment. There were no surprises; he recruited another tentacle jellyfish. It seems that at low levels, these kinds of creatures are his main force.

After completing the recruitment, Yang Fei returned to reality and carefully studied a tea-picking tutorial on his phone several times. Then he returned to his sky island and carefully picked the tea leaves from the 12 tea trees, obtaining a total of 11 units of ordinary white tea leaves that could only increase the true qi of low-level martial artists.

These tea leaves should have been of green quality (12 units), but because Yang Fei's technique was too clumsy and he hadn't developed a skill, or perhaps because Yang Fei wasn't yet a skilled plant grower, the quality and grade of the tea leaves were reduced.

However, Yang Fei did not force it. At this stage, he could only hone these skills slowly. There was no other way. Perhaps killing monsters could drop skill books, but he was currently in the novice assessment state. Not to mention ferocious beast-level lord monsters, he might not be able to withstand even two ferocious beast-level elites.