Lu Yu told him some things he knew, mostly about the players. In fact, there weren’t many things, mainly that half a year ago, Iron Tomb went underground, and player interactions became harmonious and frequent.
"Oh, really? Looks like I was lucky to just avoid that chaotic period."
"Senior brother, do you come to listen to the teacher’s lectures every time?" Lu Yu asked.
"Yes, listening to the teacher’s lectures can increase realm experience points, so I surely won’t miss it."
Increase realm experience points? Lu Yu glanced at his own realm, just one point away from leveling up. He hadn’t noticed this before.
The experience bar for his realm had been full ever since he finished cultivating the Fire Spirit Body, but Lu Yu didn’t choose to upgrade, so he’s been stuck at the peak of the Body Refinement realm.
In other words, in the Heavens of Ice and Fire Sevenfold, cultivating any postnatal Spirit Body would allow a breakthrough in the Body Refinement realm, worthy of its Ninth Grade Cultivation Technique ranking.
"If there’s nothing else, I’ll be heading off. I still have tasks to complete." Zhang Qiling turned to look at Lu Yu and said, "If anything comes up, you can also find me in Heaven-Breaking City."
After speaking, he sped up and left. Watching his departing speed, Lu Yu found it a bit strange.
In half a year, moving bricks in the Divine Weapon Pavilion Secret Realm every day shouldn’t limit one’s strength to just the Qi Cultivation realm, but it could also be that Zhang Qiling wasn’t going at full speed.
It’s not that Lu Yu harbored malicious thoughts about Zhang Qiling; rather, his behavior was full of peculiarities—staying in one place for over half a year, or even a year... moving bricks?
Thinking about the real-life "Ten-mile Sword God", it seemed normal for there to be players like that.
Whatever, it’s none of my business. Back to drawing array diagrams.
Lu Yu returned to the bamboo cottage, took out clean white paper, and began drawing arrays. Infusing Spiritual Qi into the Spirit Pattern Pen, Lu Yu drew lines on the paper. After a few strokes, Lu Yu noticed a problem.
The lines drawn with the Spirit Pattern Pen were invisible to him and could only be sensed through Spiritual Qi, making it impossible to know if they were drawn correctly, unlike using blood, where the blood traces were visible, and the array lines were clear.
Lu Yu stopped his Spirit Pattern Pen, took out a charcoal pencil, and traced the array diagram from the wooden block onto the white paper, first drawing the array diagram with the charcoal pencil, then tracing it with the Spirit Pattern Pen.
As for thickness, it didn’t matter to him; as long as it was drawn correctly, it counted as one completion, increasing the template loading progress by 1%, without needing to activate the array diagram.
After drawing one array diagram, Lu Yu glanced at his attribute panel and, as expected, the progress increased by 1%.
At the same time, 20 points of Spiritual Qi were consumed, and Lu Yu had enough Spiritual Qi to draw 12 times.
Switching to a new piece of paper, he continued drawing, first tracing with the charcoal pencil, then with the Spirit Pattern Pen. After drawing two diagrams, Lu Yu felt it was troublesome to draw two diagrams each time, amounting to 200 drawings for 100 diagrams.
Glancing at the previously drawn array diagrams, Lu Yu attempted to redraw a layer on them. After two strokes, the entire paper ignited, turning to ash.
The two new strokes just drawn disrupted the flow of Spiritual Qi within the array, causing the array to collapse and the paper to be destroyed.
Techniques like stacked arrays and chain arrays could only be arranged by an Array Master, so Lu Yu’s failure was quite normal.
Looking at the remaining sheet of paper, Lu Yu pondered for a while, then took out another piece of white paper and stacked the two together. When he lifted them, light carbon markings were left on the other sheet of paper.
Lu Yu smiled, finding that duplicating was much more convenient.