He Yichao, upon seeing the real Celestial Map, left the Huang residence in a hurry without even greeting Huang Hongguang, who was immersed in it, as he must have seen something extraordinary.

Huang Hongguang was still immersed in the Celestial Map, oblivious to what he saw and why he was engrossed for so long.

After receiving insights from the Celestial Map, Lu Yu hastily exchanged a few words with Huang Ying and returned to his room, using the Identity Token to teleport back to the Divine Weapon Pavilion Secret Realm.

As the Celestial Map's remark suggests: What the heart desires, the immortal directs.

Everyone sees different things depending on what's in their heart.

Currently, what Lu Yu cares most about is engraving the Golden Armor Spirit Array onto his physique, which is what the immortals pointed out as the solution.

He Yichao must have seen something important, possibly detrimental to the Huang family, which made him leave the Huang residence in a panic, fearing that Huang Hongguang might discover it.

Huang Hongguang saw the future of the Huang family; however, his thoughts were so numerous that he remained entranced by the power of the Celestial Map, unable to clear his mind.

After leaving the Huang residence, He Yichao remembered that he hadn't taken the opportunity to seize the Celestial Map from Lu Yu, a misstep that led him to desire monopolizing the Celestial Map.

"Such a miraculous treasure should be in my hands." A cold gleam flashed in his eyes as he saw the path to overthrowing the "sky" above him in the Celestial Map.

After being opened once, the Celestial Map can't be opened again for another month.

Lu Yu felt amused and exasperated, having just fled Beifeng City after attracting the attention of unstoppable experts for his wealth, only to reveal an unrivaled, extraordinary painting in Yunhai City again.

He wondered if this would attract the Huang family's attention.

"It's safer to stay within the Divine Weapon Pavilion Secret Realm," Lu Yu sighed.

No wonder so many Divine Weapon Pavilion disciples prefer to remain in the secret realm, as the outside world is too dangerous.

Lu Yu decided to first break through to the Qi Control Realm within the secret realm, then observe the situation. If the Huang family showed no interest in the painting, he would return to Yunhai City to take a look.

It wasn't absolutely necessary to go to Yunhai City.

Upon reaching the Southern Heaven Hall's cultivation hall, Lu Yu spent 1,000 Contribution Points to rent a Mystic Level seclusion room for two days.

Last time, he slaughtered over seven thousand demons on the tenth floor of the Heaven-reaching Tower, earning over seven thousand Contribution Points, in addition to the 1,000-point reward for reaching the tenth floor, which was enough for numerous uses of the seclusion room.

Throwing 100 Spirit Stones into the Spirit Fusion Pool, Lu Yu consumed a Spirit-Containing Pill and began his cultivation.

After his physique advanced to the Iron Bone Realm, cultivating under a tenfold Spiritual Qi concentration pressure became much easier for Lu Yu.

In two days, Lu Yu slept for only 6 hours, spending nearly 42 hours on cultivation, consuming 4,200 Spirit Stones to enhance the seclusion room's Spiritual Qi concentration, and ingesting 13 Spirit-Containing Pills.

Roughly every three hours, he consumed a Spirit-Containing Pill, maximizing the pill's efficacy.

Finally, as the seclusion room's usage time was about to end, he elevated his Ice Fire Spiritual Power to 999.

Glancing at the second realm's complete Ice Fire Sevenfold Heavens cultivation technique, Lu Yu invested the specially reserved one million experience points to upgrade the Ice Fire Sevenfold Heavens.

[After diligent cultivation, the Ice Fire Sevenfold Heavens advanced to the third realm, Qi Blood +300, Spiritual Power +500]

[Insight gained from cultivating the Ice Fire Sevenfold Heavens, realm advanced to Qi Control Realm, first layer, Qi Blood +28, Spiritual Power +100]

[Breakthrough in cultivating the Ice Fire Sevenfold Heavens, Fire Demon Eyes activated at 60%]

Lu Yu's current attributes.

[Name: Lu Yu]

[Realm: Qi Control Realm, first layer (0/2 million)]

[Physique: Iron Bone Realm]

[Qi Blood: 1400]

[Spiritual Qi: 2598 (Ice 1299, Fire 1299)]

[Cultivation Techniques: Ice Fire Sevenfold Heavens (Third Realm), Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique (Eighth Layer), Battle God Technique (Sixth Layer, 0/100,000)]

[Skills: Ice Spiritual Qi∗Yin Nether Cold Qi (Ice-type martial arts power +50%), Fire Spiritual Qi∗Celestial Falling Bright Flame (Fire-type martial arts power +40%)

Fire Demon Eyes (partially mastered, activated at 60%)

Infinite Fist (Spirit Level 4th Grade, upgradable) (Peerless and Unmatched)

Iaijutsu - Celestial Collapse (Spirit Level 4th Grade, upgradable) (As if a divine skill, 456/300,000)

Heaven's Edge Ruler Step (Novice) (2570/100,000)

Blood Burning Secret Technique (consumes 40% Qi Blood, doubles combat power) (Journeyman) (782/200,000)

Earth Escape (Masterful) (156/300,000)

Golden Armor Spirit Array (Masterful) (0/800,000)

Primary Artifact Refining Technique (Novice) — Spirit Pattern Pen Refining (Masterful)]

[Experience Points: 175623]

[Life Source Count: 1]

Breaking through to become a Martial Cultivator at the Spiritual Qi Manipulation Realm, Lu Yu could project his Spiritual Power outward. A strand of Spiritual Power appeared in Lu Yu's palm, stretching into a chopstick-thick line, weaving through his fingers under his control.

With powerful Spiritual Power, Lu Yu could effortlessly control the externalized Spiritual Power. The Spiritual Power released outside his body continuously changed form under his mental focus, transforming into spheres, cubes, cones, cups...

The objects formed by the Spiritual Power became increasingly complex, and the difficulty for Lu Yu to control them steadily increased. Moreover, as he projected Spiritual Power outward, it continuously consumed the Spiritual Power within his body.

Fortunately, after breaking through to the Spiritual Qi Manipulation Realm, the recovery rate of his Spiritual Power increased. As long as he wasn't in combat, merely releasing Spiritual Power to form various shapes outside his body meant the recovery rate could keep up with the consumption rate.

The closed cultivation room was too narrow to test the limits of his externalized Spiritual Power, so Lu Yu left the room and returned to his bamboo grove cabin.

Externally releasing a strand of Spiritual Power, forming a rope of Spiritual Power that extended into the distance, 10 meters, 20 meters, 30 meters... it reached Lu Yu's limit at 50 meters.

When projecting Spiritual Power to 50 meters, Lu Yu could no longer control the outward Spiritual Power. Within 20 meters, controlling Spiritual Power was effortless, nearly the same as controlling it by his side, without any pressure.

Beyond 20 meters, especially upon reaching 30 meters, the difficulty of controlling Spiritual Power soared dramatically. Lu Yu could only direct the flight path of the Spiritual Power and could no longer change its shape.

Beyond 50 meters, Lu Yu could not control the direction of the Spiritual Power, allowing it to fly freely.

Lu Yu released the strand of Spiritual Power beyond 30 meters. After sensing his Spiritual Power detach from the strand, he found that it still remained in its original position, detectable but uncontrollable, and it could be used to mark objects and targets.

He stood upright, opened his mind, and released his Spiritual Power with all his strength.

A gust of wind swept across the fallen leaves in front of the bamboo cabin, pushing countless leaves outward, forming a circle with Lu Yu at the center, with a diameter of ten meters.

By fully releasing Spiritual Power to cover the surroundings, Lu Yu could only control the Spiritual Power within ten meters; beyond ten meters, he couldn't control it.

Within this range, Lu Yu could compress targets with the surrounding Spiritual Power, or directly transform Fire Spirit Qi into Celestial Falling Bright Flame to burn opponents, or change Ice Spirit Qi into Ghostly Cold Qi to freeze opponents.

In a single direction, Lu Yu's effective attack distance reached 50 meters. When fighting strong enemies, it was best to stay within 20 meters, as only attacks within this range could exert maximum power.

For range attacks, Lu Yu's effective attack diameter was 10 meters.

Be it 50 meters or 20 meters, they were distances covered in the blink of an eye for Lu Yu.

Even without using Heaven's Edge Ruler Step, Lu Yu could traverse them instantly due to his speed.

Breaking through to the Spiritual Qi Manipulation Realm did not significantly enhance Lu Yu's strength.

It only provided him with more methods to clean up small fry. Previously, dealing with weaker opponents required punching or cutting, resulting in low attack efficiency for Lu Yu.

Now, he had group attack methods to clean up small fry.

However, it seemed not very useful. Even before advancing to the Spiritual Qi Manipulation Realm, Lu Yu could use the Demon-Breaking Saber to slash and clear small fry with Qi Blades.

The greatest enhancement from his breakthrough to the Spiritual Qi Manipulation Realm was in the externalization of his Spiritual Power, greatly facilitating Lu Yu's construction of the Golden Armor Spirit Array.

Lu Yu retracted his externalized Spiritual Power, opened his eyes, and focused on his palm as a stream of Spiritual Power formed an array diagram rapidly above it.

In less than ten seconds, a diagram of the Golden Armor Spirit Array appeared in Lu Yu's palm. This was only achievable when his proficiency with the array had reached mastery.

After a glance around, Lu Yu embedded the successfully condensed Golden Armor Spirit Array into a stone.

The Golden Armor Spirit Array, formed with Fire Spirit Qi, was laid upon a head-sized smooth cobblestone under Lu Yu's control. With a flash of the array's light, it completely vanished from the stone's surface.

No blood was used as a medium. Instead, he directly controlled the Spiritual Power to form an array, leaving no trace of the array's runes on the stone's surface.

Unless one's perception was extremely strong, few Martial Cultivators could discover that an array was inscribed on the stone.

Lu Yu stomped hard, pressing the cobblestone into the soil, yet the stone remained unharmed.

The effect of the Golden Armor Spirit Array was to greatly enhance the object's defensive capability. The only downside was that, when subjected to an unstoppable force, the Golden Armor Spirit Array would collapse, turning the object into powder.

Lu Yu dug out the cobblestone, pulled out the Demon-Breaking Saber to test the strength of the Golden Armor Spirit Array. On the third full-strength strike from Lu Yu, the cobblestone suddenly turned into a cloud of dust, scattering in the wind.

Looking at the stone completely reduced to dust, Lu Yu was silently pondering. He had to find a way to change this trait of the Golden Armor Spirit Array, or else, when inscribed on his body, if he endured an irresistible strike, he himself could be reduced to dust.

Irresistible strikes wouldn't necessarily grind Lu Yu into dust.

For instance, a razor-sharp slash hitting Lu Yu's arm might only sever the arm.

But if the Golden Armor Spirit Array was on his body, such a slash breaking through it would cause the array to collapse completely.

A strike that originally only severed Lu Yu's arm would thus lead to his bodily collapse, reducing him to dust due to the array's breakdown.

At the moment when the Immortal's Guidance Map was revealed, Lu Yu saw a solution.

Descending the mountain, heading to the forest outside Heaven-Breaking City to capture live animals, Lu Yu needed to experiment to find a solution.

The Immortal's Guidance Map merely provided Lu Yu with a direction, without offering detailed methods to solve the problem, but working in the direction indicated by the map bore a high chance of success.

Half an hour later, Lu Yu returned to the bamboo grove cabin, dragging a pile of small animals buoyed by Spiritual Power behind him.

He discovered another wonder of externalizing Spiritual Power—it could replace his hands to grab and hold things, freeing his hands.

After half a day, all the animals Lu Yu brought back vanished, leaving a field of white powder blowing across the bamboo cabin's front as a gust swept by, the animals turned to dust.

Lu Yu's experiment failed, identifying a problem with the experiment's subjects; the animals had dense fur, differing greatly from human skin, and results from them were likely not what Lu Yu needed.

Thus, Lu Yu headed to the Southern Heaven Hall to post tasks for capturing turtle-like animals and monsters.

The primary reason was that turtles lacked fur, more closely resembling the experimental target.

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