In that instant.
Lu Tao "saw" everything in the entire courtyard.
Whether it was He Zongming, He Wenjing, Wu Tianyou, and others who were cultivating, or Wu Ming who was gaining experience points.
Lu Tao could "see" even the big black dog lying on the ground, seemingly resting but actually cultivating silently.
Even Lu Tao had a feeling.
He can "see through" everyone's body if he wants to.
He could see through everything, from their clothes to their blood, bones, and internal organs.
However, if the difference in skill level is not significant, it will give people the feeling of "forced intrusion" and will be easily detected.
"Is this divine consciousness?"
Lu Tao felt it was amazing; this ability was similar to the feeling of his clairvoyance and enhanced vision.
Unlike the Heavenly Eye, which requires face-to-face interaction to see or understand a person or object, the Divine Sense does not.
It's like radar, scanning from all directions.
Everything from humans, animals, and various objects to tiny insects and dust particles can be seen clearly.
However, when using divine sense to probe, it is easily detected by people of the same realm, while the Heavenly Eye is more concealed.
Like the Heavenly Eye, divine sense also has a distance limit; currently, it can only scan a radius of ten meters, or about three zhang (approximately 30 meters).
Lu Tao gathered his divine sense, looked inward at his body, and comprehended the abilities of the Marrow Refining Realm. With a thought, he directly adjusted the power of blood and qi, bone strength, and the power of the five elements in his body, and then made them unified.
A new force has been formed – essence.
Martial arts training mainly involves three aspects: essence, energy, and spirit.
Essence refers to the physical body and physique. The first four realms of a martial artist, plus the marrow refining realm, are all about cultivating the essence within the body.
Qi refers to the primordial energy within the body, primarily cultivated by opening up the dantian and nurturing primordial energy within it. The Innate Realm and the Grandmaster Realm are dedicated to cultivating primordial energy.
"Shen" refers to the primordial spirit, the divine soul, or the soul. Divine consciousness is an extension of it, and the Divine Platform realm is the main cultivation of the divine soul.
These three powers, when cultivated to a high level, are equally matched.
Lu Tao has not yet come into contact with the latter two powers, but he has initially mastered the power of essence. With this power, he has strength comparable to the innate realm.
Divine sense and essence are two abilities that appear after breaking through to the Marrow Refining Realm. However, this realm also has a third ability, the same as the Innate Realm.
That is flight.
Lu Tao, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, suddenly levitated as he used this ability.
At this moment, he was freed from the constraints of heaven and earth, and the feeling was even more exhilarating than flying with the divine feathers. He could fly through the air without relying on any external objects.
It only consumes the body's vital essence.
"With the amount of vital energy I have, I should be able to fly for two or three hours without any problem."
Lu Tao estimated the power consumption; it wasn't too high, and the battery life was decent.
"Now that I have the strength of the Innate Realm, it's time to make a trip to Red Flower Valley."
Lu Tao felt his own power and thought he could take the initiative. But after thinking for a moment, he murmured, "However, I should upgrade my equipment first. I'm actually looking forward to spiritual weapons."
After consolidating his cultivation, Lu Tao began to grind experience points for his equipment.
"Only 100 million experience points per run? That's way too slow."
After only a couple of swipes, Lu Tao was already somewhat dissatisfied, mainly because his sword and golden silk soft armor had both reached the level of sixth-grade low quality.
To advance to the mid-grade sixth rank, one trillion experience points are required.
Even if we assume that it takes one second to hit with a master-level demon beast bone and gain 100 million experience points, it would still take about three hours. And if we upgrade it to the sixth-tier superior grade, that would take 33 hours.
It takes too much time.
"Since it costs 100 million for each time a bone is broken, wouldn't it be faster to farm by breaking the bones into more pieces?"
Lu Tao let his thoughts wander, and then thought, "Why not try using the lime-sprinkling technique to gain experience points? Maybe that will work."
After all, in the Lime Martial Saint's move, every grain of lime is considered lethal and causes damage.
Lu Tao thought of this and decided to give it a try.
He quickly ground up some bone powder with a knife and then sprinkled it onto the golden silk armor. Immediately, the veins in the golden silk armor began to throb wildly.
In just one go, I instantly gained a trillion experience points.
"Indeed, you need to use your brain to do anything."
Lu Tao sighed, realizing that his thinking had been too rigid before.
Lu Tao then enveloped the bone powder with his divine sense, took it into his hand, and scattered it again, repeating this process.
Until it is upgraded to a low-grade fifth tier, becoming a spiritual weapon.
"upgrade."
[Golden Silk Soft Armor: 0/10 (Tier 5, Low-grade, Innate Spiritual Artifact, has developed a trace of intelligence and can undergo blood recognition. Attacks below the level of any other spiritual artifact cannot harm it in the slightest; it also possesses the function of actively protecting its master, provided that it stores essence or vital energy within its body; furthermore, the spiritual artifact has the ability to change size, and after recognizing its master, it can enter the master's body without hindrance. When not worn, it can be nurtured within the body in places rich in essence or vital energy, allowing its intelligence to grow.)]
"This level of protection has been greatly improved."
Upon seeing the description of the Golden Silk Armor, Lu Tao's eyes lit up, and he immediately performed a blood oath to bind the Golden Silk Armor to himself.
"Owner."
Almost immediately after the blood oath was completed, a weak voice rang in Lu Tao's mind.
His voice was very childish, like that of a three-year-old child, and I felt a strong sense of dependence on him.
"Not bad, not bad, hahaha."
Lu Tao was very excited. Who would have thought that the golden silk soft armor, which was originally made of ordinary iron wire, could actually develop intelligence?
Lu Tao calmed the seemingly frightened golden silk armor down and then tried to change its size.
When it grows larger, it can reach the ground and the ceiling. According to its vague description, it can grow dozens of times larger as long as it has enough essence. When it shrinks, it can shrink to the size of a fingernail.
"From now on, I'll call you Xiao Jin." Lu Tao was very satisfied.
"Thank you, Master."
Although Xiao Jin had only recently developed sentience and was unfamiliar with everything, it quickly calmed down after working together with Lu Tao and behaved very obediently.
"You can rest and thrive in my left kidney all the time."
Lu Tao absorbed Xiao Jin into his body, and then began to give experience to the knife, arrow, bow, and other items.
Having learned from his previous experience, Lu Tao had a new idea for leveling up the knife this time. He placed a handful of bone powder on the stool and then repeatedly patted it with the back of the knife. Just as he had guessed, the experience level skyrocketed.
Arrows and knives are similar in that you can gain experience by either sticking them vertically into the bone powder or rubbing them horizontally.
As for the bow, Lu Tao simply swung the bowstring back and forth in the bone powder, quickly gaining experience points as well.
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In this short period of time, Lu Tao upgraded his golden silk armor, sword, arrow, bow, and even iron armor to the level of fifth-tier spiritual weapons.
However, the experience gained changed after upgrading to a spirit weapon.
Unlike before, the experience points didn't increase tenfold; instead, they were reset.
After resetting, Lu Tao tried it out and found that if he wanted to continue giving Xiao Jin experience, hitting it with the bones of a demon beast at the Refining Organs realm would not increase its experience at all.
Using a bone from a Grandmaster-level expert to strike it will grant ten experience points at once.
He would gain experience by punching Xiao Jin, but only by a little bit. Clearly, the Marrow Refining Realm was almost equivalent to the Innate Realm.
This applies to both ability and strength.
Even the system considers the two realms to be the same... at least from experience.
"After resetting, it's so much easier to gain experience points. It's so great!"
Lu Tao stretched and felt refreshed.
In just two or three hours, he not only broke through his cultivation level, but also made his equipment come to life, greatly increasing his strength. How could he not be happy?
That's not all.
When Lu Tao focused his consciousness on the system, he immediately discovered that his experience with the sect and the Heavenly Eye Technique had increased significantly.
[Immortal Sect: 100,000 (Level 6 sect. All sect disciples, including you, will receive a 16x experience bonus when cultivating your self-created techniques and skills.)
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Friendly reminder: Disciples with a loyalty level below 50 will not receive any cultivation bonuses.
Looking at the sect's experience, Lu Tao understood after a moment's thought.
After he broke through to the Marrow Refining Realm, his sect experience increased by 90,000, while another 2,700 were gained by three people who broke through from the Blood Refining Realm to the Bone Forging Realm.
This means that when each person in the sect improves their cultivation, they do not receive additional experience points corresponding to the corresponding realm (10 points for skin refining, 100 points for blood refining, ... 100,000 points for marrow refining), but rather the experience points that have already been added to the sect are counted as a whole.
For example, Lu Tao.
He previously provided the Immortal Sect with 10,000 experience points when he reached the Organ Refining stage, and now that he has broken through to the Marrow Refining stage, he will provide another 90,000 experience points, bringing the total to 100,000.
It corresponds perfectly to his current realm, rather than directly providing 100,000 experience points after breaking through to the Marrow Refinement Realm.
"If just one more person breaks through to the Refining Organs Realm, the sect can be upgraded again."
Looking at the experience bar of the Immortal Sect, Lu Tao was quite satisfied.
As for the Heavenly Eye Technique, its experience has increased by more than 600 million, and it's not far from reaching 10 billion.
Lu Tao did the math and realized that with his current experience of earning 1.6 million per second, he could reach the maximum amount in just over an hour.
Lu Tao didn't waste any time and started playing immediately.
More than an hour later, with enough experience, the Heavenly Eye successfully upgraded to the middle grade of the Profound Rank, and could now impart low-grade Profound Rank techniques to perfection.
Lu Tao gathered everyone together and taught them cultivation techniques, hoping that someone could advance to the Refining Organs Realm as soon as possible, so that the sect could upgrade and the experience gain would be increased to 32 times.
Next, Lu Tao spent time improving his movement techniques and swordsmanship to the mid-level of the Xuan rank.
After quickly packing up, they quietly left the inn and flew towards Red Flower Valley.
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