I can gather experience beads

With the addition of a Red Leaf Sword Master, daily life on the Deep Blue Spirit Ship remained as peaceful as usual, without too many notable changes.

Without Tianjihai's appearance, the Deep Blue Organization had almost no presence in the West Corner area.

What happens here every day is nothing more than scenes of various other organizations and numerous monks searching for scattered secrets of heaven.

What kind of fierce conflicts these people had caused with each other, how many thieves were willing to kill in order to seize the secrets of heaven, and so on, all of these things have nothing to do with the Deep Blue Organization.

Time passed quickly, the deep blue spirit ship was anchored in the void, and in a blink of an eye, a whole year had passed.

During this year, the Sea of ​​Heavenly Secrets never condensed in the western corner.

At the same time, Cao Rui has been staying at home and practicing in seclusion.

During this period, he consumed as much as 30,000 high-grade heavenly secrets!

On this day, after unremitting efforts, Cao Rui finally succeeded in completely filling up the experience beads needed to advance to the seventh level of Chaos Spiritual Energy.

Ever since he flew into the spiritual world, Cao Rui has never been so eager to break through the small realm he is in now.

The reason is that in that red cloud vortex, the strength of one's own combat power is extremely critical.

Even if one only improves a small realm level, the increase in combat power that can be brought about is enough to cause earth-shaking changes in many situations.

Facing the already full purple experience bead in front of him, Cao Rui clicked it without hesitation...

The purple torrent within it immediately poured into Cao Rui's limbs, primordial infant, and soul.

"Promotion has begun..." Cao Rui felt a little happy in his heart, and he could clearly feel that the Nascent Soul in his body was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, his soul seemed to be nourished by some mysterious power and became stronger and stronger, while the range covered by his spiritual consciousness was significantly improved.

At this moment, the originally calm energy of heaven and earth around it seemed to be stirred up by an invisible giant hand, and rushed towards where Cao Rui was.

These extremely rich vital energies of heaven and earth continuously poured into his body like a tide, and every strand and every bit was madly strengthening his body.

On the deck of the spirit ship, the Red Leaf Sword Master, who had been keeping his eyes closed, suddenly opened them with a gleam of light in his eyes. "Huh? How could someone break through at this moment? And judging from the fluctuations, it should be a breakthrough to the peak of the Refining Void realm!"

"How could someone who can come to the central area and join Deep Blue be someone who hasn't even reached the peak of the Void Refining Realm?"

He muttered to himself, his eyes quickly scanning the surroundings, trying to find the person who was breaking through.

"Wait, that direction..." The Red Leaf Sword Master's sight finally stopped on a training room. All the vitality of heaven and earth was gathering there, and a look of astonishment immediately appeared on his face.

"It turned out to be this fellow Cloak Ancestor! I didn't expect that he was still at the late stage of Refining Void before?"

After finding out who was being promoted, Red Leaf Sword Master's face was filled with disbelief.

You know, when Cao Ruidu was in power before, the combat power he displayed was far beyond what an ordinary cultivator in the late stage of the Refinement Void could possess.

According to common sense, a small realm breakthrough such as advancing from the late stage of refining emptiness to the peak of refining emptiness can increase the combat power of an average cultivator by at least 20 to 30 percent.

This means that the Cloak Patriarch's strength will be greatly improved after this promotion.

Thinking of this, Red Leaf Sword Master couldn't help but frown secretly.

Now, the rumor that the Cloaked Patriarch is as powerful as Ji Zhan may be confirmed.

After a brief thought, the Red Leaf Sword Master passed the news to the leader of the Blue Robe Pirates, Ji Zhan...

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In the training room, time seemed to stand still.

Cao Rui was surrounded by light and a powerful energy wave suddenly erupted.

After a moment, the light gradually faded and everything returned to calm.

At this time, Cao Rui had successfully broken through to the eighth level of Chaos Spiritual Yuan Gong and successfully advanced to the peak level of Refining Void!

However, Cao Rui had already gotten used to the lessons he had to learn when he broke through a realm.

He was well aware of the importance of consolidating his cultivation, so he was not in a hurry to check the changes after his promotion.

On the contrary, he quickly calmed down and started practicing the mantra of the eighth level of Chaos Spiritual Energy.

As the technique was practiced, the surging Nascent Soul magic power brought about by the recent promotion began to slowly stabilize and gradually merged into his meridians.

In this way, half a day passed quickly, and Cao Rui became more and more proficient in the application of the eighth level of skills.

At this moment, he felt that the time was ripe, so he took out a top-grade secret from the blue ring jade bottle.

This divine power exudes a faint spiritual light, and at this moment it is sealed and extremely peaceful.

When Cao Rui injected his own magic power into the Supreme Heavenly Secret, the originally quiet Heavenly Secret instantly became agitated.

However, it was quickly refined and suppressed by Cao Rui's magic power.

Since his magic power was greatly enhanced after his promotion, the speed of refining the heavenly secrets was more than twice as fast as before.

And with the help of experience beads, the efficiency of absorbing energy is higher.

However, in order to advance from the peak of the Refining Void Stage to the Fusion Stage, the amount of Heavenly Secrets required is still enormous.

In the following days, Cao Rui devoted himself to refining the heavenly secrets.

One day, two days, three days... Three full days passed, and the experience beads in the soul were still pitch black, and it was almost impossible to see how much purple was revealed. But Cao Rui was not discouraged. He gritted his teeth and continued to output mana continuously.

Finally, after countless efforts, he could barely see a faint purple.

Finally, we can make an estimate based on this.

After careful calculations and deductions, Cao Rui came to a conclusion.

If one wants to completely fill up the experience beads of the eighth level of Chaos Spiritual Yuan Gong, one must continuously refine high-grade or top-grade Heavenly Secrets for a full thirty years!

According to his previous estimates, if an average of 200 high-grade heavenly secrets were consumed every day, then a total of 2,190,000 high-grade heavenly secrets would be needed to meet the demand.

It is worth mentioning that the energy contained in a top-grade secret is approximately equivalent to four to five times that of a high-grade secret.

Therefore, if all these superior heavenly secrets were converted into supreme heavenly secrets, it would take about 450,000.

Recalling his last adventure to Tianji Sea, Cao Rui made a rough estimate.

That operation brought him great rewards, and he earned a total of 70,000 high-grade heavenly secrets and 20,000 top-grade heavenly secrets.

With this calculation, if his luck can be as good as last time, then Cao Rui only needs to continue plundering the Tianji Sea a dozen more times to accumulate enough Tianji and successfully advance to the fusion stage.

However, reality is not always as good as people wish.

After all, it is not always possible for the West Corner area to be lucky enough to have a medium or large-sized Tianji Sea appear.

There are also many times when they may only encounter some small or even mini Tianji Sea.

But we are not so optimistic about this situation.

If you are unlucky enough to encounter a mini-Sea of ​​Heavenly Secrets, you may not even be able to raise enough money to pay tribute to the Blue Robe Pirates. You may even end up paying a lot of Heavenly Secrets yourself.

Taking all these unstable factors into consideration, after careful calculation, Cao Rui estimated that he would have to go through at least twenty plundering operations in the Sea of ​​Heavenly Secrets before he could successfully collect the Heavenly Secrets necessary to support his advancement to the Fusion Stage.

Such a fast progress is simply shocking!

You know, for those other ordinary cultivators, even if they are leaders who dominate a region, it will take at least a hundred years to gather all the secrets needed for their own promotion.

During this hundred years, whether the organization will break up and whether the leader's position will be challenged are uncertain factors.

If an accident occurs, it will take longer.

The reason why Cao Rui was so fast was that he had the Hongmeng treasure - the experience beads, which could greatly enhance the effectiveness of Tianji.

The number of high-grade Heavenly Secrets required for an ordinary cultivator to advance to the Fusion Stage is by no means as simple as two million.

At this moment, Cao Rui clearly felt that the magic power in his body was like a surging torrent, which had increased by more than half compared to before, and at the same time, its texture became increasingly mellow and dense.

This means that the power of all the magical powers, spells and sword-wielding skills he possesses will increase accordingly and be significantly enhanced.

Not only that, his spiritual awareness also grew, by an astonishing one third.

With Cao Rui's current spiritual awareness base, an increase of one third is already extremely terrifying.

There is no doubt that as his spiritual power increases significantly, the power that can be exerted by the various spiritual powers he displays will inevitably become correspondingly stronger.

On the physical level, due to the continuous tempering brought about by the continuous improvement of mana, its strength and toughness have also been slightly improved.

As far as this stage is concerned, it is no exaggeration to say that Cao Rui is at the peak of his strength in the Void Refinement Stage.

If he wanted to achieve a further leap forward in combat power, then in terms of martial arts, he had no choice but to practice the Lingyuan Guanshen Jue to the third level, allowing his spiritual consciousness to continue to grow and develop substantially.

After a little thought, Cao Rui decided to call Guan Yichen over to see to what level his combat power had improved.

As soon as he had a thought, an invisible wave of divine thought was transmitted instantly, passing through many spaces and accurately reaching Guan Yichen who was practicing with great concentration.

After receiving Cao Rui's message, Guan Yichen did not dare to delay at all. He immediately stopped the practice at hand and rushed towards the practice room where Cao Rui was.

Not long after, he landed steadily in front of the door of the training room and walked in quickly.

After entering the training room, Guan Yichen first bowed respectfully to Cao Rui, then cupped his hands and said, "Chief, I wonder why you summoned me this time?"

Cao Rui looked at Guan Yichen calmly and said slowly, "Come and help me check carefully to see what my current combat power is."

Having a subordinate like Guan Yichen who can be regarded as a humanoid combat power detector is quite convenient in daily life.

You can check your own combat power at any time and get a rough idea of ​​whether there are any hidden BOSSes at a glance.

Hearing Cao Rui's request, Guan Yichen did not hesitate and immediately activated the extremely precious spiritual treasure in his body - the Destiny Pearl.

As his magic power continued to be injected into it, the Destiny Pearl began to emit a faint light.

After just a moment, Guan Yichen showed a trace of surprise on his face, but he quickly calmed down and said in a deep voice: "Leader, according to the results of my subordinates' detection, your current combat power value is as high as 3200! This value is even points higher than Sun Daoyi, who ranks first on the combat power list!"

After saying that, Guan Yichen couldn't help but take a deep breath, his eyes full of admiration.

However, faced with such shocking results, Cao Rui just nodded slightly to indicate that he understood.

Over the years, he has cultivated so many magical skills with the help of the Hongmeng supreme treasure Experience Pearl, and also created his own fusion of magical powers, the Spirit Eyes to break delusions, and refined the Netherworld Spirit Eyes.

Therefore, it is not surprising that he has such terrifying combat power today.

After a moment of thought, Cao Rui asked, "You have seen the leader of the Blue Robe Pirates, Ji Zhan, in person, right?"

Guan Yichen nodded, "I was watching the fight between Ji Zhan and Sun Daoyi!"

"What is Ji Zhan's combat power?" Cao Rui asked curiously.

After defeating Sun Daoyi, Ji Zhan is the undisputed number one in Red Cloud Vortex.

Guan Yichen smiled and said, "Chief, your combat power is higher than Ji Zhan's! Ji Zhan's combat power is 50 points lower than yours, only 3150!"

"Now, this season's battle is just as the rumors said. We are really no match for you, Chief!"

"So..." Cao Rui stroked his chin and shook his head gently.

"It's good that your spiritual treasure can observe combat power, but you can't completely believe it and regard it as the truth."

"Especially when the fighting power is so close."

"The leader of Blizzard, Song Ye, was 50 points stronger than me in combat power, but he still lost to me in the end."

Guan Yichen heard this and nodded seriously: "What the leader said is very true. I will remember it."

Cao Rui was just making a suggestion. As for whether Guan Yichen took it seriously or not, he had no way of following up.

"Okay, go and practice." Cao Rui asked Guan Yichen to leave.

Cao Rui had no intention of coming out and continued to take out the secrets of heaven for refining.

He still has 50,000 high-grade Heavenly Secrets and 20,000 ultra-grade Heavenly Secrets in his hands, which are enough for his daily practice.

"It's been almost a year. If Tianjihai doesn't show up again, I won't be able to pay the salary."

"Come on, Tianji Hai, have a wave." Cao Rui urged in his heart while refining Tianji.

Unexpectedly, Tianji Hai did not arrive, but instead an uninvited guest came.

On this day, Sun Daoyi came on his sword and stopped in front of the Deep Blue Spirit Ship.