With the bones of a demon beast at the Grandmaster level, Lu Tao hoped to upgrade his equipment to the sixth-tier low-grade as soon as possible.
It matches his early stage of organ refinement.
During this time, he discovered that the equipment of these cultivators in the martial arts world generally seemed to be one level lower than his own cultivation level.
Taking the Han family as an example, the equipment of the Han family members who are at the Refining Organs stage is quite poor, only at the lower or middle grade of the seventh rank. Even Han Chengyun's sword is only at the middle grade of the seventh rank.
Therefore, it is evident that once Lu Tao's equipment is upgraded to the sixth-tier low-grade, his strength will increase significantly.
"Lu Tao, what are you doing?"
He Zongming, Wu Tianyou, and the others were a little confused when Lu Tao asked them to use bones to sharpen knives, arrows, and even axes.
Lu Tao said casually, "This bone is from a Grandmaster-level demon beast. Grind it gently. We'll use this bone powder to stir the chopsticks from now on, and the quality of the chopsticks I make will be even higher."
Upon hearing that it could elevate the quality of chopsticks, no one asked any further questions and began grinding them.
Lu Tao went back to his room to brush his gold-threaded soft nail polish.
[Golden Silk Soft Armor: 100 million / 10 billion (Seventh-tier mid-grade, powerful defense, easily withstands all attacks below the late stage of Bone Forging. When infused with bone energy, it forms a thin shield covering the entire body, capable of withstanding all attacks below the mid-stage of Organ Refining, except attacks from weapons of seventh-tier mid-grade or higher... In this case, it can withstand 70% of attacks from the mid-stage of Organ Refining and 30% from attacks from the late stage of Organ Refining.)]
"Huh? What's going on?"
Lu Tao had just lightly poked the golden silk armor with a bone from a demon beast at the Grandmaster level when he suddenly discovered that his experience points had increased by 100 million.
Lu Tao suddenly had a guess in his mind, and immediately poked it again.
Sure enough, the experience gained increased by another 100 million.
"Holy crap, so much experience gained? Wait, let me calculate."
Lu Tao suppressed his excitement, did the calculations carefully, and instantly understood, "In the four realms of body refinement, the experience gained in each realm increases tenfold. The experience gained in the organ refinement realm is 10,000 per instance, and the later realms are innate and grandmaster. As a result, the experience gained in the grandmaster realm is 100 million per instance..."
"Based on this calculation, the experience gained in the Innate Realm and the Grandmaster Realm increases by 100 times for each realm."
Lu Tao vaguely understood why the first four realms in the martial arts world were considered one realm. He could tell from experience that they were indeed quite different.
Lu Tao didn't think much about the realm. Now that he had the bones of a demon beast at the Grandmaster realm, he could gain 100 million experience points per run, which would save him a lot of time.
In just over half an hour, Lu Tao had already gained enough experience from the Golden Silk Soft Armor.
[Golden Silk Soft Armor: 0/1 trillion (Tier 6, low grade, easily withstands all attacks below the Refining Organs realm. When infused with bone strength, it forms a shield to protect the entire body, resisting all attacks below the late Refining Organs realm, excluding attacks from weapons of the same tier... offsets 40% of attacks from a Perfected Refining Organs realm.)]
"With this golden silk armor, I'm practically invincible at the Internal Organ Refinement realm, right?"
Lu Tao was very satisfied and felt even more grateful to Manager Feng. These bones had truly given him a huge surprise.
Next, Lu Tao organized his findings.
They killed sixteen powerful members of the Han family. These people all had storage bags on their bodies. The smaller ones were only about one cubic meter in size, while the larger ones were the size of a small room. They were all filled with all sorts of things.
Lu Tao was particularly interested in hundreds of cultivation techniques, which shows how many people the Han family had robbed.
The amount of silver was not much, only a little over one million.
Other miscellaneous items such as pills, medicinal herbs, gold, and weapons also amounted to more than a million.
"Am I too rich, or are they too poor?"
Lu Tao shook his head, walked out of the room, and gave several larger storage bags to He Zongming, He Yuanshuang, and others. The bags contained a lot of silver notes and pills.
This made everyone very happy.
Even He Zongming, the former owner of a martial arts shop, was overjoyed, as he had never possessed such a spatial treasure in all these years.
The mayor, who was helping out in the yard, also received a storage bag.
This left the town mayor with mixed feelings.
He could see that He Zongming and the others had made tremendous progress in the short ten days or so they had been following Lu Tao, and he was very envious of them.
However, he was getting old, and he wasn't very familiar with Lu Tao before, so he was too embarrassed to say that he wanted to follow Lu Tao.
"Oh right, the jade slip for transferring skills."
Suddenly, Lu Tao slapped his forehead, realizing he had just remembered something important.
Then Lu Tao took out the jade slip for transferring power and, following the method taught by Chen An, placed it on the big black dog's forehead to begin transferring power.
The transfer of power was very fast, similar to the Heavenly Eye, and was completed in about ten breaths.
"Woof woof woof." (Great! Even Dog Master can cultivate now.)
The big black dog ran around excitedly in the yard, as if it had rabies.
"Cultivate diligently; you're the weakest right now."
Lu Tao casually tossed some pills to the big black dog, glanced at the sky—it was almost noon, just as the auction house was about to begin its auction—gave it a few instructions, retrieved his longsword, and left.
The town mayor stared blankly at the big black dog that was eating the pills like candy, then looked at Lu Tao who was leaving.
...
After leaving Tianyun Inn, Lu Tao first went to the Cultivation Techniques Pavilion, where he made another purchase amidst the envious and jealous gazes of a group of people.
He emptied the second and third floors of the cultivation manuals that he hadn't bought before.
To Lu Tao's regret, the Cultivation Technique Pavilion did not have any cultivation techniques of the Earth Rank.
Lu Tao arrived at the auction house soon.
"Welcome to Xuan Guang Auction House. Would you like to purchase a seat in the main hall or a private room, sir?"
Lu Tao casually said, "Let's have a private room."
"Alright, the price for a single room is ten thousand taels."
After buying his ticket, Lu Tao quickly found his room, number 77, on the third floor.
The auction house has a rather peculiar architecture; it's shaped like a vertical cylinder with a hollow center and an auction table at the bottom.
On the second and third floors, there are private rooms overlooking the auction stage.
There was also a beautiful waitress in the private room, dressed somewhat provocatively in a low-cut, slit skirt that went all the way up to her thighs, revealing glimpses of her inner clothing.
Even when serving tea and water to Lu Tao, she deliberately pulled her clothes down a bit, making her cleavage even more pronounced and fully exposed to Lu Tao's eyes.
Lu Tao glanced at it casually, then began to look at the auction list in his hand.
The woman felt a mix of regret and resentment.
It's rare to see a young man like Lu Tao who is so young, handsome, and resolute, especially one who is both rich and talented. In all these years, she has only seen one like him.
Unfortunately, although Lu Tao glanced at her with admiration, his gaze was clear and without any other intentions.
Unlike some of the boys she had served before, who were clearly restless inside but pretended to be completely unmoved and even wanted her to take the initiative.
That's just wishful thinking.
"Yes, I have what I need."
After scanning the auction list, Lu Tao had a good idea of what was going on. He had both spiritual liquid and earth-rank cultivation techniques, which were exactly what he needed. There was even an unexpected bonus.
Lu Tao put away the list and closed his eyes to rest.
"Young master, shall I give you a massage?"
Seeing that Lu Tao had closed his eyes to rest, the woman took the initiative to walk behind him and began to gently massage his shoulders.
Whether it was his imagination or not, Lu Tao felt as if two soft balloons were constantly squeezing his back. The sensation was very comfortable and made Lu Tao's body more relaxed.
"Welcome to my Xuan Guang Auction House. I won't waste any more words, let's get straight to the point."
The auctioneer was an old man who was quite direct. He didn't say anything and started by auctioning the first item: "This is a seventh-grade low-level Azure Light Sword. The starting price is 100,000, and each bid must be at least 1,000 higher."
"110,000."
"115,000."
"120,000."
...
It has to be said that items at auction houses are indeed expensive; the starting bid for the first item is 100,000.
At the same time, Lu Tao also discovered that the price of weapons is not entirely fixed.
Especially for weapons of higher grade, their value is often higher than the market price.
Even seventh-tier weapons seemed to be in short supply, with many martial artists scrambling to buy them.
Several items in a row were weapons, with knives and swords being the most prominent.
The auction was fierce, but Lu Tao didn't place any bids and just watched silently.
Soon, the first item that Lu Tao had been paying attention to appeared.
"This is a bottle of spiritual liquid that can accelerate the growth of spiritual plants and shorten their growth cycle. The starting price is 500,000 taels, and each bid must be at least 50,000 taels."
Lu Tao raised an eyebrow slightly, somewhat surprised.
He had previously inquired on the street and found out the starting price was 100,000 taels, so it seems he misunderstood that person.
It's not that the starting price for the elixir is 100,000, but rather that the starting price for all items in this auction house is at least 100,000.
"Six hundred thousand taels."
Lu Tao decisively made the first bid, but others quickly followed suit.
"Seven hundred thousand."
"Eight hundred thousand."
One million.
...
In just a few breaths, the price soared to one million taels...
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