Buzz!
As the cultivation technique was activated, waves of energy emanated from the room.
Despite having experience advancing to the pseudo-marrow refinement stage, advancing to the true marrow refinement stage was completely different from before.
This time, when advancing to the Marrow Refinement stage, one needs to gather essence, inner energy, and divine energy together, and in a state of unity of essence, energy, and spirit, pour all of it into the bones to connect and temper the bone marrow, spinal cord, and brain marrow together.
To achieve a state where you are in me and I am in you.
At this moment, Lu Tao also discovered that the upper limit of the three marrows, which he had already refined to the extreme, had been infinitely increased when he refined them again.
It seems that the higher one's cultivation level, the higher the upper limit of marrow refinement.
"In that case, marrow refining is, in a sense, a process that matches one's cultivation level."
Lu Tao pondered to himself.
Whether this is true or not, you will naturally understand after practicing.
With a gurgling sound.
Lu Tao directly consumed a Transformation Pill, a pill made from Transformation Grass that could improve aptitude, to temper his three marrows.
Because Lu Tao didn't want to waste too much, he used fewer ingredients in the Transformation Pill when refining the Three Marrows, just to speed up the process.
Once the elixir enters the mouth, its effects are fully absorbed into the three marrows under the guidance of the essence, energy, and spirit; under the circulation of the cultivation technique, it is as if the body is being tempered, continuously refining the three marrows.
As Lu Tao deepened his cultivation in the Marrow Refining Realm, he felt that his control over his essence, energy, and spirit had become more and more proficient than before.
at the same time.
Lu Tao also had a sudden realization that he could transform his essence, energy, and spirit into one another.
but.
He hasn't progressed very far in marrow refinement, so he can't convert much, at least not to the extent that his current late-stage Martial God cultivation level is.
Only then can one reach the level of a grandmaster.
"It seems that marrow refinement is indeed equivalent to cultivation level."
Lu Tao suddenly realized.
Lu Tao continued his cultivation, and as he deepened his cultivation and his marrow refinement surpassed the Martial King realm, reaching the level of the Martial God realm, Lu Tao was astonished to find that his aptitude and comprehension had risen to another level.
"Tsk tsk, as expected of true marrow refinement, this improvement is truly terrifying."
Lu Tao couldn't help but sigh.
His aptitude had already reached the top level of the divine grade, and his comprehension had increased ninefold on the divine platform. He had reached an extremely high level in every aspect, and yet he could still improve during the marrow refining process.
It was a pleasant surprise.
In fact, Lu Tao already knew from Ao Xin's memories that the higher the level of marrow refinement, the greater the leap in aptitude and comprehension that could be improved, but he did not expect that with his current talent, he could still improve.
It was somewhat unexpected, yet it delighted him greatly.
As Lu Tao reached the Martial God realm through marrow refinement, he discovered that he could transform his essence, energy, and spirit into one another in just half a breath, thanks to the power of marrow refinement.
Instant conversion is not yet possible.
It is clear that to achieve a complete transformation instantly, one still needs to cultivate the Marrow Refining technique to the late stage of Martial God, achieving parity with one's cultivation level.
"Let's test the effects of the marrow refinement."
With this in mind, Lu Tao directly transformed his essence and spirit into inner essence within half a breath, and then sank into the Daoist book to nurture his supernatural powers and slay gods.
Lu Tao focused his inner gaze on his dantian, intently observing the changes in the God-Slaying Divine Power.
He discovered that after receiving the transformation and amplification of essence and spirit, the power of the God-Slaying Technique also increased dramatically under the nourishment of inner essence.
Once fully nurtured, the power of the God-Slaying Technique increased by at least three times compared to before.
"This kind of improvement is truly terrifying."
Lu Tao sighed slightly.
It was already comparable to a low-grade Hong-level divine ability, and after being increased threefold, its power has surpassed that of a mid-grade Hong-level divine ability.
This is the terrifying aspect of marrow refinement.
In the following period, Lu Tao stopped cultivating and continued to refine his marrow to transform his essence, energy, and spirit, allowing it to continuously nurture many of his self-created martial arts techniques.
This applies to offensive martial arts techniques, movement skills, as well as shield defense and soul defense.
Improve them all.
Lu Tao only stopped after significantly improving his own strength once again.
Of course, this process was quite taxing, and Lu Tao used pills and divine stones one after another to restore his energy and spirit.
"With my current strength, killing a mere celestial being should be an extremely easy task."
Lu Tao sensed his own immense power and a surge of pride rose within him. But then, he frowned and pondered, "However, against a Divine Lord, or even a Divine Lord who has ascended to the level of a Divine King, my strength..."
Lu Tao couldn't make a judgment.
He didn't know if the True Dragon Clan of the God Realm would send the Third Elder down to the mortal realm, but he needed to prepare for the worst.
That was, after all, a God-King level expert. If he had been careless and taken chances, he would probably have met a terrible end.
Therefore, the improvement in marrow refinement alone is not enough to completely reassure Lu Tao.
But Lu Tao was also somewhat confident about this.
After more than twenty days of seclusion, Lu Tao improved his strength and then went out to find his clone, taking the spatial treasures of the more than fifty gods from his hands.
"Indeed, the gods have many treasures; the harvest is plentiful."
Lu Tao was overjoyed to see the spoils that his clone had already prepared. Among them were all kinds of pills, medicinal herbs, and materials.
Among them were many refining materials that exceeded level one, and even some high-level materials that could be used to refine divine king artifacts, which was a pleasant surprise.
Lu Tao thought to himself, "With these refining materials, my strength can be improved once again."
Holding a large amount of refining materials, Lu Tao plunged into the refining room and began refining weapons.
"Unfortunately, although we have high-grade materials, we do not have the method to forge a divine king weapon."
Lu Tao felt some regret while refining the weapon.
The powerful beings they killed were merely gods; obtaining god-king level materials was already an unexpected bonus, but they lacked the crafting methods for forging god-king artifacts.
Let alone forging divine king artifacts, there are only a few methods for forging divine lord artifacts; they are all rather unorthodox.
While refining various materials, Lu Tao was also deep in thought. "Refining a divine artifact is easy, but the power of a divine artifact refined with high-grade materials is probably not as great as the increase brought by upgrading from a low-grade to a divine artifact."
In view of this.
After some contemplation, Lu Tao still did not choose to use these materials to forge a divine artifact. Instead, he forged it into a low-level item, intending to upgrade it to a divine artifact in order to enhance its power.
Among them, Lu Tao used Ao Xin's Achilles' heel, along with many other materials, to reforge a longsword.
In addition, some defensive items were also crafted.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Tao emerged from seclusion and allowed these items to undergo tribulations in the starry sky beyond the heavens, transforming them into divine artifacts.
After slightly sensing the defensive power of the defensive item, Lu Tao's brows slowly furrowed.
Even though these items have become incredibly powerful once they are upgraded to the level of divine artifacts, they are so strong that even a marrow-refining celestial being like Ao Xin cannot break through them no matter how he attacks.
Even when facing a divine lord, Lu Tao was confident that he could easily withstand him.
However, Lu Tao was not so sure about facing a God-King who had advanced to the God-King realm. The strength of such a powerful figure should not be underestimated.
Thinking of this.
Lu Tao thought of the powerful array that had already been upgraded on the array plate. After being placed on a low-level array plate, its power would increase again as the array plate was upgraded.
"receive!"
With a soft shout from Lu Tao, the intelligence that had arisen in many defensive artifacts, such as armor, soft armor, and shields, was directly recalled into Lu Tao's system space.
Then, Lu Tao took these items back into the weapon-refining room.
Buzz!
Inside the weapon-refining room, the intense flames rose once more.
This time, Lu Tao combined many divine artifacts with other materials to forge another soft armor.
"There's always a feeling that there's a bug in the system."
Lu Tao looked at the newly crafted soft armor and couldn't help but smile slightly.
but.
Despite upgrading so many items, Lu Tao had never upgraded the refining materials before. In this situation, it was similar to upgrading medicinal herbs before refining pills.
Upgrading herbs is relatively simpler.
Lu Tao shook his head, no longer thinking about it, and directly gave the soft armor experience, then let it level up and undergo tribulation.
Boom—
Thunder rumbled in the starry sky beyond the heavens, and the incomparably powerful lightning, carrying the force to destroy the world, struck the soft armor, yet failed to cause it the slightest damage.
The soft armor lay quietly in the starry sky, unmoved by the thunderbolts.
This was true not only when undergoing the tribulation of the Martial King, but also when undergoing the tribulation of the Martial God.
After his tribulation was upgraded to a superior-grade divine artifact, Lu Tao couldn't help but use the God-Slaying Divine Power, combined with the God-Slaying Sword forged from the Reverse Scale, and slashed at the soft armor.
To Lu Tao's delight, such a powerful sword strike was easily withstood by the soft armor.
"Indeed, it seems I need to use this method to craft more items, not only defensive items, but also weapons."
Lu Tao carefully put away the soft armor and returned to refining the weapon.
Along with his clone, Lu Tao became completely absorbed in refining items in the weapon-refining room.
Ten pieces, a hundred pieces, a thousand pieces...
Every time Lu Tao finished crafting an item, he would give it experience and level it up, then send it into the starry sky to undergo tribulation, before taking it back to craft it again, repeating the cycle endlessly.
During this process, Lu Tao tried to use the complete items to create other items without reclaiming their spiritual essence.
The result left Lu Tao with mixed feelings.
Once these spiritual entities are formed, they completely merge with each other to form a new spiritual entity, somewhat similar to how the main soul of the Soul-Absorbing Bead devours other divine souls.
The only difference is that the new intelligence will not exhibit symptoms such as madness or mental instability.
"However, in the darkness, no resentment or evil forces possessed me. It seems that the intelligence of these items has merged with each other and should not be considered obliterated."
After experiencing it for a while, Lu Tao breathed a sigh of relief.
He also discovered that even with the fusion of many spiritual entities, the enhancement of an object's power was very limited.
Lu Tao didn't care much about this.
When refining items next, Lu Tao no longer suppressed their intelligence, allowing them to merge with his own.
Several days passed in the blink of an eye.
"Almost a month has passed, it's time to move on to the next step of the plan."
After refining the various items, Lu Tao gathered all his disciples together.
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