[Immortal Sect: 1000 (Upgradeable) (Level 8 sect. All sect disciples, including you, will receive a fourfold bonus when cultivating your self-created techniques and skills.)
The loyalty bonuses for sect members are as follows:
Howling Celestial Dog: Loyalty 90. When it learns your self-created techniques and skills, it gains a six-fold bonus.
Wu Ming: Loyalty 81...
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Friendly reminder: Disciples with a loyalty level below 50 will not receive any bonuses from learning cultivation techniques.
The upgraded sect hasn't changed much; the main difference is that the experience bonus has been increased to four times. Everything else is the same.
"Upgrade again."
Lu Tao continuously upgraded the Immortal Sect, pushing it to its limit.
[Immortal Sect: 1610/100,000 (Level 6 sect. All sect disciples, including you, will receive a 16x experience bonus when cultivating your self-created techniques and skills.)
The loyalty bonuses for sect members are as follows:
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Friendly reminder: Disciples with a loyalty level below 50 will not receive any bonuses from learning cultivation techniques.
Lu Tao discovered that for every level a sect advances, it gains an additional two times the experience bonus.
Now that the sect has been upgraded to level six, it has received a sixteen-fold bonus.
This bonus is quite exaggerated. Take Lu Tao as an example. He is currently at the Refining Organs realm. Every time he cultivates, he can gain 10,000 cultivation experience points. A sixteen-fold bonus would be 160,000, which is more than the boost from a major realm.
If you upgrade it to the next level, that's a 32x boost, which is even more terrifying.
The further you go, the more exaggerated this bonus becomes.
"Not bad, not bad. I hope I can break through to the Innate Realm soon... Wait, when I break through to the Marrow Refining Realm, will my experience gain speed increase tenfold?"
Lu Tao was somewhat uncertain, after all, the Marrow Refining Realm was a hidden realm in the martial arts world.
"Forget it, I won't think about it too much. I'll focus on improving my qualifications first."
Lu Tao stopped thinking about it and began taking the Dust-Clearing Pill.
Meanwhile, in the courtyard, He Zongming, He Yuanshuang, Wu Ming, and others suddenly looked rather strange.
They discovered that their breath-concealing technique, which they had been practicing, suddenly became much smoother, and many insights inexplicably appeared in their minds.
The feeling was like... a sudden surge in comprehension.
At first, they didn't pay attention, but as their qualifications improved, the feeling became more and more obvious.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing everyone's strange expressions, Chen An couldn't help but ask. He even wondered if there was a problem with improving their aptitude, but it was impossible that everyone except him had a problem, right?
He Zongming paused for a moment. Considering that Chen An was already a member of the Immortal Sect, and the sect leader would definitely teach him the Concealing Breath Technique later, he didn't hide anything and said directly, "The sect leader previously taught us a Concealing Breath Technique that he created himself. For some reason, I suddenly feel that my comprehension of the Concealing Breath Technique has increased. Could it be that this Dust Removal Pill, in addition to improving aptitude, can also improve comprehension?"
Chen An shook his head and said, "No, the Dust-Clearing Pill can only improve aptitude."
"So what's going on?"
He Zongming and the others were puzzled and filled with doubt.
Chen An was also puzzled and suggested, "Why don't you try other cultivation methods?"
He Zongming nodded and said, "Our whole family will try out the cultivation techniques we used to practice."
The three members of Wu Ming's family had never cultivated before. The cultivation techniques they practiced were all taught by Lu Tao. Apart from the Breath Concealment Technique, all other techniques were directly taught to the perfection level, but they had no effect after trying them.
Only He Zongming and his family had practiced other cultivation methods and were able to try to see if they were different.
It turned out that they really were different.
When they practice other cultivation methods, their understanding of those methods doesn't change much. At most, their bodies will actively correct some minor mistakes they make during cultivation due to their improved physical aptitude.
There was absolutely no sudden, explosive understanding of the techniques.
The situation where one suddenly gains new insights into a cultivation technique is limited to the Breath Concealment Technique.
When the group shared the results of their experiment, everyone instinctively looked towards Lu Tao's room, guessing that it must be related to Lu Tao.
They simply couldn't fathom the specifics of their relationship.
Chen An found Lu Tao increasingly mysterious.
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Inside the room, Lu Tao quickly completed his qualification upgrade.
He then used the power of water to wash away the filth from his entire body, feeling a sense of comfort wash over him.
Lu Tao didn't go out. Instead, he swallowed a Five Elements Body Refining Pill to see his current cultivation speed and thus deduce his specific aptitude.
After all, he didn't have any other qualified testing methods.
With his superior mortal aptitude and perfected Hunyuan Body Refining Technique, it took him two hours to refine a Five Elements Body Refining Pill.
Now, Lu Tao only needs to use the same technique to refine the same pills and observe the time it takes to calculate his aptitude.
Then, Lu Tao was shocked to discover that he had refined a Five Elements Body Refining Pill in just half an hour.
This speed is 32 times faster than before.
He was previously of superior mortal rank. Based on his experience of taking the Dust-Clearing Pill for the first time, his cultivation speed would double for every small level increase in aptitude.
So his cultivation speed has increased 32 times, which is equivalent to his aptitude being improved 5 times.
In other words, his aptitude skipped over the good grade and went directly to the middle grade of the top grade.
[Dust Removal Pill: 999/1 trillion (Sixth-grade low-level pill, with a 90% chance of raising aptitude to top-grade medium level and a 100% chance of raising it to top-grade low level.)]
Recalling the description of the Dust-Clearing Pill, Lu Tao was very satisfied. "Not bad, not bad, the 90% success rate is still reliable."
"According to the previous estimate, 6 Five Elements Body Refining Pills can break through to the mid-stage of Organ Refining, then 12 pills can break through to the late-stage of Organ Refining, and then 18 pills can reach the Marrow Refining stage. So, I only need to refine 36 Five Elements Body Refining Pills to break through to the Marrow Refining stage. I have refined two pills before, so I still need 34 more."
"By the way, how much is 34 and a half quarters of an hour?"
Lu Tao started to do the conversion, and he was shocked by the result.
The 36 pills were completely refined in just over four hours.
"Holy crap, this cultivation speed is outrageous! It takes less time than it did to break through to the Skin Refining Realm."
He vividly remembered that when he was at the Skin Refining stage, it took him half an hour to refine a bottle of potion. It took him a total of six hours to break through from Skin Refining to Blood Refining.
Now, it's much better; it only takes a little over four hours to break through to the Marrow Cleansing stage.
The more you cultivate, the faster you become; if this got out, absolutely no one would believe it.
With such a fast cultivation speed, Lu Tao felt relaxed all over, and he no longer cared about Red Flower Valley.
Lu Tao smiled with satisfaction, left the room, and came to the crowd. He found the little guy Wu Ming grinning foolishly, and Wu Tianyou and his wife were also all smiles.
He Zongming's family and Chen An, on the other hand, were filled with envy.
Lu Tao asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
"Brother Lu, you have no idea how lucky Xiaoming is. His aptitude has actually improved to the lowest grade of the highest level." He Yuanshuang said exaggeratedly, pulling Lu Tao along, her tone full of envy.
[Dust Removal Pill: 299/1 trillion (Sixth-grade low-level pill, 5% chance to improve aptitude to top-grade medium, 35% chance to top-grade low, 55% chance to improve to good-grade high, 70% chance to improve to good-grade medium, 85% chance to improve to good-grade low, 100% chance to improve to common-grade high.)]
"A 35% chance of winning? That's really lucky."
Lu Tao recalled the descriptions of the Dust-Clearing Pills from the others and couldn't help but feel happy for Wu Ming's good fortune.
Now, their Immortal Sect has two geniuses with top-notch aptitude.
Lu Tao then inquired about the qualifications of the others and found that everyone's qualifications were in the "good" category. Among them, He Yuanshuang and Chen An were in the "superior" category, while the others were in the "medium" category.
Overall, I had good luck.
At the same time, Lu Tao also discovered that the ability to improve one's aptitude by taking pills seemed to be related to the user's previous aptitude. For example, Wu Ming was previously a high-grade ordinary person, but he won a 35% chance.
Chen An and He Yuanshuang should be of average quality, with a 55% chance of winning, while the others have a 70% chance.
They verified qualifications using the same method as Lu Tao, comparing it to his previous cultivation speed.
As for how they knew his aptitude and grade, it was naturally through Chen An.
"Alright, next I will pass on my skills to you and at the same time verify one of my ideas."
Upon hearing Lu Tao's words, everyone was excited, but also very curious about what idea Lu Tao wanted to verify...
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