Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 668 - 358: Enhance Strength_2

Lu Yu flew over the frozen demon spirit's head, leaving behind a flurry of ice crystals.

The burning ground, the ice crystals scattered in the air, led all the way from the edge of the five hundredth and tenth floor of the Tongtian Tower to the central light beam.

The disciples from the Divine Weapon Pavilion, drawn by the commotion, could only see the traces left by Lu Yu, filled with admiration, not knowing who he was.

The demon spirits, newly entering the half-step Core Formation Realm, could hardly pose any obstacle to Lu Yu, as he slaughtered his way up to the five hundred and tenth floor.

Each half-step Core Formation Realm demon spirit provided Lu Yu with about a million experience points, and by the time he reached the five hundred and tenth floor, he had slain over a hundred demon spirits, accumulating enough of the 50 million experience points required to unlock divine techniques.

However, even after unlocking the divine techniques, they still needed further upgrades for normal use, requiring a significant amount of additional experience points.

Additionally, the Fighting God Technique also required a vast amount of experience points to upgrade.

With his current soul power reserve, he could barely perform a single use of the Heaven's Edge Ruler Step. To enhance this divine technique to a level usable frequently, upgrading the Fighting God Technique was essential.

To upgrade the Heaven's Edge Ruler Step divine technique from Novice level to Slight Achievements would require 200 million experience points.

Lu Yu continued upward to the five hundred and eleventh floor, still encountering half-step Core Formation Realm demon spirits, but they were significantly more powerful compared to those on the five hundred and first floor.

The demon spirits on the five hundred and first floor had combat strength approximately equivalent to Martial Cultivators with 200,000 units of Spiritual Power.

Those on the five hundred and eleventh floor had increased their strength to 500,000.

The gap was enormous, and for most Martial Cultivators at the peak of the Qi Sea Realm, this was already their limit of explosive power.

Their maximum output was only the normal state of the demon spirits on the five hundred and eleventh floor.

In terms of absolute explosive power, half-step Core Formation Realm Martial Cultivators were not significantly different from peak Qi Sea Realm Martial Cultivators.

The difference lay in endurance; peak Qi Sea Realm cultivators might only unleash their limits once or twice before exhausting their Spiritual Power and needing time to recover.

However, half-step Core Formation Realm cultivators, having begun condensing Golden Cores, had compressed Spiritual Power into a solid state, greatly increasing their Spiritual Qi reserves, allowing them to explode ten, twenty, or even more times before depleting their Spiritual Power.

This reveals the significant strength gap between half-step Core Formation and peak Qi Sea Realm cultivators. If not limited by their peak, half-step Core Formation could be considered an independent realm.

Yet for Lu Yu, whether it's 200,000 or 500,000 combat power, it made no difference.

His full-force strike wielded 300,000 base Spiritual Power × Core Formation Realm 2x base power amplification × (10x from the Sun Star + 12x from the Moon Star) = 13.2 million Spiritual Power.

Even using just a tenth of that power, he could easily crush half-step Core Formation Realm demon spirits.

Lu Yu's extraordinary strength came from his high base Spiritual Power.

If he were like ordinary Qi Sea Realm cultivators with just over 100,000 base Spiritual Power, even with two 2-star Divine Soldiers augmenting him, his combat power would be under 5 million.

That's why it's said that the higher the base Spiritual Power at the Core Formation breakthrough, the greater the future advantage.

As Divine Weapons continue to increase in power, the differences in base Spiritual Power will widen.

By the ninth level of the Core Formation Realm, even a 10,000 difference in base Spiritual Power could mean a 10 million disparity in maximum combat strength while exploding.

In the Tongtian Tower, Lu Yu fought upward endlessly, with more and more monsters appearing after the five hundredth floor.

Initially, there might not even be a single monster over a hundred floors, but after the five hundredth, almost every ten floors had one or two with monsters.

However, Lu Yu wasn't eager to encounter these monsters, as the Tongtian Tower usually had only one monster per floor.

After charging to the five hundred and thirtieth floor, Lu Yu faced demon spirits and monsters of the Core Formation Realm level.

Yet for Lu Yu, there was no difference; his current strength equated to that of an average Core Formation Realm fifth-order Martial Cultivator.

Slaying these demon spirits and monsters equivalent to the Core Formation Realm first-order was effortless.

After upgrading the Heaven's Edge Ruler Step divine technique to Slight Achievements, Lu Yu could use it tentatively.

The experience points required for further upgrade were too immense, prompting Lu Yu to forgo enhancement to Mastery level, questioning if his meager soul power could even activate it.

The Fighting God Technique expended 30 million experience points to reach forty-three levels, leaving Lu Yu with a swollen feeling in his head, unable to continue upgrading and needing to digest the new soul power boost.

The current attributes of Lu Yu.

[Name: Lu Yu]

[Realm: Core Formation Realm second order (0/200 million)]

[Physique: Jade Skin Realm]

[Qi Blood: 10643]

[Spiritual Qi: 300,000]

[Lifebound Divine Soldiers: Sun Star 2-star (10x, Scorching Sunfall), Moon Star 2-star (12x, Eternal Silence of the Stars), Immortal Star 1-star (100x self-healing ability, Immortal Body)]

[Cultivation Techniques: Ice Fire Seventh Heaven (Seventh Heaven), Fighting God Technique (forty-three levels, 0/10 million), Nine Transformation Vajra Body (Ninth Transformation), Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique (twelve levels), Bladeless Blade Technique (six levels)]

[Skills: Ice Spirit Qi ∗ Underworld Ice Qi (Ice attribute martial arts power +100%), Fire Spirit Qi ∗ Purple Flame Demon Fire (Fire attribute martial arts power +100%)

Flame Demon Eye (Insight, Energy Vision, Fire Control)

Ice Jade Eye (Dynamic Vision, Long-range Vision, Ice Control)

Eye of the Sea (Ocean's Child, Water Flow Control, Sea of Spiritual Qi)

Infinite Fist (Spirit-level fourth grade, upgradeable) (Peerless)

Asura Slash (Spirit-level seventh grade, upgradeable) (Peerless) 10x damage, infinite charging.

Great Annihilation Technique (divine technique) (Branch: Great Annihilation Finger (Mastery) 0/16 million)

Heaven's Edge Ruler Step (Peerless)

Heaven's Edge Ruler Step (divine technique) (Slight Achievements) (0/500 million)

Blood Burning Secret Technique (Peerless)

Earth Escape (Peerless)

Fighting God Technique - Shocking God Stab - Spiritual Mark - Soul Splitting Slash - Soul Control Technique (Unupgradeable)

Flying Dragon Battle Array (Cultivation Perfection) (0/4.8 million)

Golden Armor Spirit Array (Peerless)

Basic Artifact Refining Technique (Novice) — Spirit Pattern Pen Refinement (Mastery)]

[Experience Points: 54.6 million]

[Celestial Dao Experience Points: 0]

[Fate Source: 0]

[Prestige Points: 9899↑ (Renowned)]

After reaching the safety zone leading to the next floor on the five hundred and thirtieth floor, Lu Yu opted to exit the Tongtian Tower.

Upon leaving the Tongtian Tower, he went straight to the Southern Heaven Hall's cultivation room, using the privilege as a Saint Heir to freely access the celestial-level cultivation room, which provided a foundational enhancement of ten times Spiritual Qi concentration, significantly accelerating Lu Yu's cultivation speed.

He trained within the cultivation room until the next day, and half an hour before his scheduled meeting with Quidefa, he returned to the bamboo forest hut to rest and adjust his mindset from a night of intensive cultivation.

After a short wait, Quidefa arrived. This time, he didn't appear disheveled, styling a handsome slicked-back hairstyle that complemented his mature, masculine aura, giving him a unique charm.

Quidefa glanced at Lu Yu and asked, "Why are you wearing these clothes?"

Lu Yu was puzzled and asked, "Is there a problem?"

He was wearing the ordinary disciple attire of the Divine Weapon Pavilion. His backpack contained many backup sets of disciple attire ranging from third to fifth grade, and he would change to a new set once one was worn out.

Up until now, he had lost track of how many sets of disciple attire he had worn out.

Quidefa sighed and said, "You're now a Saint Heir, a special status. Especially when you go to places like the imperial city, many people observe your every move. You now represent the face of the Divine Weapon Pavilion, so you can't dress so ordinarily."

"Didn't the elder give you a special outfit for Saint Heirs?" Quidefa asked.

Lu Yu shook his head, then remembering something, he flipped through his Identity Token and found that a lavish set of attire was indeed stored in the token's storage space.

"Give me a moment," Lu Yu said, entering the room to fetch the exclusive Saint Heir outfit.

When he brought out the outfit, Lu Yu couldn't help twitching his eye. The attire was so extravagant that wearing it would blind passersby with its effects.

He wasn't fond of such ostentatious attire.

Once he donned it, a golden dragon circled around him, looking incredibly cool.

After searching for a while, Lu Yu found the array that controlled the light effects and turned it off, causing the golden dragon to disappear, resulting in a simpler look.

"Alright, let's go," Lu Yu said as he stepped out.