Li Hao had experienced this kind of experience compression in Go a long time ago. With his current level in Go, if he were to compete with someone at the 2nd or 3rd dan level, he would basically only get a small amount of sporadic experience.
If the difference in dan rank is too large, the experience will shrink, after all, you won't get any gains at all.
Sometimes you only get a symbolic "1" experience point.
Fortunately, although the experience has changed, this Land of Sages is not short of strong people. The accumulation of painting dao experience is still very fast. From the ninth to the tenth level, five million experience points, a sage would give three or four hundred thousand, and ten sages would be enough to accumulate to completion.
If it's a half-sage, you can get forty to fifty thousand experience points.
At this moment, painting the Canghai (Vast Sea) Great Emperor allowed Li Hao to reap over 40,000 experience points.
When Li Hao painted Yaozu (Yao Ancestor) before, he initially got 50,000 experience points. It's unknown if the Canghai Great Emperor is inferior to Yaozu, or if the painting dao, after being promoted to the ninth level, slightly compressed the experience gain compared to the previous eighth level.
In any case, they said that Canghai Divine Dynasty has ten half-sage offerings. If he can paint them one by one, he can accumulate four to five hundred thousand experience points.
If he paints them multiple times, taking all the wool he can, he can accumulate more than a million.
With painting, Li Hao can also see the difference in strength between these people. He just doesn't know how much painting dao experience he would get if he painted himself.
Li Hao tried self-portraits in the alchemy courtyard, but there were no experience prompts.
It seems that like playing Go against himself, he doesn't get any experience, so he can't exploit the panel's loopholes.
Otherwise, every time his strength improves a bit, he can paint some portraits of himself, which can be considered self-sufficient.
The painting dao experience from Chiguang (Red Light) is less than 15,000 points away from a half-sage, equivalent to the difference between Chiguang and the Yunshang (Cloud Garment) woman. This made Li Hao a little surprised. The fire-type supernatural powers he showed earlier apparently aren't his true abilities.
The other party is hiding deep, obviously not willing to expose his abilities in advance for this bit of incense.
After all, the upcoming Supreme Pride Battle is the main event. If too much is exposed in advance, and the news leaks out, it would be penny wise, pound foolish.
"Offering Qingfeng (Clear Wind) actually understands painting dao?"
The Canghai Great Emperor was a little surprised when he saw Li Hao's paintings. He has wide experience and saw at a glance that Li Hao's paintings can be called masterpieces, worthy of being passed down as classics. This is by no means something that a martial artist can do by using his powerful physique to copy blindly. The main thing lies in the artistic charm.
Without putting in hard work to study, it's difficult to do it, unless Li Hao is a born painting dao genius.
Chiguang and the Yunshang woman also looked at Li Hao's paintings. When Li Hao said he was going to paint earlier, they thought he was just clowning around, but he actually painted several masterpieces.
"This painting has dao rhythm!"
The Yunshang woman's eyes narrowed, seeing that this painting wasn't simple.
Chiguang glanced at it, raised his eyebrows slightly, and a hint of contempt appeared in his eyes.
The painting is indeed good, but it makes it laughable. Having talent but not working hard in cultivation, instead wasting time on this kind of miscellaneous art, destroying his future.
The imperial court's chief painter next to him was startled when he saw Li Hao's painting, and his eyes showed shock.
He studied painting dao and understood Li Hao's paintings more deeply than others. It's unreachable for mortals to reach this level in their entire lives. Even he hasn't been able to touch it, but this young martial artist has stepped into this realm.
Drawing meaning into dao, this is the highest realm in his heart.
He looked at Li Hao with a lot more heartfelt respect.
Li Hao painted casually, not pouring power into the paintings. After the painting dao was promoted to the ninth level, his paintings already possessed terrifying lethality, rather than simple ornamental paintings.
After the craftsman masters finished measuring Li Hao and the others, Li Hao mentioned his previous other request, cultivation methods (gongfa).
Seeing that Li Hao was so eager, the Canghai Great Emperor smiled, and summoned the Crown Prince next to him: "My son, take Offering Qingfeng to Hanhai (Vast Sea) Tower for a look."
This Crown Prince was tall and handsome, but now had a kind smile, making people feel like they were bathing in the spring breeze. He said to Li Hao: "Offering Qingfeng, please follow me."
At this time, Chiguang and the others learned that Li Hao had another request besides the land of ten cities.
Chiguang raised his eyebrows slightly, he didn't expect that the other party also had requirements, and for this royal family, the importance of top-notch cultivation methods is even more valuable than a princess.
He sneered in his heart, the Canghai Divine Dynasty is short-sighted!
He didn't show his full strength at all, fire-type supernatural powers? It was just the appearance of his methods. He didn't plan to expose his true abilities here, or even before the battle in the Canglan Realm, otherwise how would he compete with the heavens later.
Before leaving the Canglan Realm, using his true abilities would be a failure for him.
His goal was never the battle quota in the Canglan Realm, but the number one in the Thirty-Three Realms!
At that time, the Canghai Divine Dynasty will treat me as a distinguished guest with the incense of a country, and I'm just a minority among my believers... Chiguang sneered in his heart, but he didn't dislike it. The more incense the better for a sage. Wars between sages are often caused by competing for incense.
People fight for a breath, Buddhas fight for a stick of incense.
Some sages are not supreme sages, but their incense is long and numerous, and their status is extremely high.
After the matter in the imperial palace was over, Li Hao followed the Crown Prince to the Canghai Divine Dynasty's cultivation method treasure house, Hanhai Tower.
This Hanhai Tower is towering and tall, guarded by two dragon demons in the Dao realm. Li Hao couldn't help but think of Song Qiumo in the human world, and wondered if she was doing well now that she had become the national beast of the Dayu Divine Dynasty.
"Offering, just go in and choose, I'll wait outside."
The Crown Prince said with a smile, treating Li Hao extremely politely.
Li Hao nodded. When he was painting earlier, he also painted a portrait for this Crown Prince. The painting dao experience he brought was surprisingly 18,000!
This experience is close to the Yunshang woman, which shows that he is also a very powerful monster, but the aura he showed was just an ordinary Dao realm.
Li Hao wasn't interested in the palace infighting of these royals. After cupping his hands, he entered Hanhai Tower.
Inside the building, cultivation methods were piled up like mountains. Li Hao scanned with his divine sense, and after flipping through them casually, he saw that the cultivation methods here were the same as in the Sword Tower, with law restrictions.
But this has no effect on him. This kind of law restriction mainly restricts viewing the contents behind, being remembered and copied.
After all, even a martial artist in the Three Imperishable Realms has outstanding memory, close to photographic memory.
Li Hao, like in the Sword Tower, began to collect these cultivation methods one by one.
As more and more cultivation methods were added to the panel, a lot of information poured into his mind, but this time Li Hao didn't directly cultivate in Hanhai Tower.
With the experience of exposure in the Sword Tower, Li Hao was worried that this building was also a weapon of the Canghai Great Emperor.
A day passed, and Li Hao completed the collection of all the cultivation methods in Hanhai Tower.
The number of cultivation methods here isn't inferior to the Sword Tower, but the quality is much worse, especially the top Dao-level cultivation methods and supernatural powers, which are less than one-fifth of the Sword Tower's.
Despite this, Li Hao still gained a lot.
Tomorrow is the top 100 battle, Li Hao doesn't care. He picked three cultivation methods from Hanhai Tower, pretending to bring them out, broke the laws on them for the Crown Prince to take away, and then embarked on the road back to Jidao Mountain.
Chiguang and the Yunshang woman had already returned in advance. Li Hao returned to Jidao Mountain. Now that he is an offering of the Canghai Divine Dynasty, he also has a small courtyard for seclusion here.
Outside the small courtyard, there are royal guards guarding it, allowing Li Hao to cultivate in seclusion during the preparation period without being disturbed.
Li Hao set up a barrier in the small courtyard, and then sat in the room to cultivate.
He practiced the numerous cultivation methods he had collected one by one. Many of these cultivation methods were saber techniques, spear techniques, etc. Li Hao couldn't practice them. Collecting them into the panel was just the entry stage. He didn't plan to add points to practice them. Although he had plenty of Art Points now, but not too plenty.
Moreover, one attack method is enough.
In a duel between masters, the real killing move only needs one move, and the rest are foreshadowing.
As the body refinement cultivation method and sword dao cultivation method were practiced, Li Hao's Dao Domain was also gradually increasing, quickly reaching 180 layers!
However, Li Hao still failed to touch the limit of the Dao Domain. His previous guess was wrong.
"Could it be 360 layers?"
Li Hao's eyes flickered. If so, it seems to be equivalent to the number of soul condensation in Soul Succession.
Soul Succession Heaven and Earth can condense the soul 360 times, which is the limit.
Thinking of this, Li Hao suddenly felt his motivation double, and felt an urgent need to know what state he would be in when he cultivated the Dao Domain to the limit.
After all, Dao Domain is the strongest method in the Four Establishment Realm. The difference between having a Dao Domain and not having one is like cloud and mud. Although a few monsters, such as Jiang Lichen, can rely on sword dao to break through the Dao Domain, but these monsters are only a few. In the Four Establishment Realm, cultivating sword dao to the seventh or even eighth level is quite a terrifying madness.
You must know that the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters of the Sword Ancestor Holy Land are only at the eighth level of sword dao in the Dao Realm, and the sword intent is different, with strong and weak points.
Even at the same eighth level, the gap is huge, just like the sword dao of Hao Yue (Bright Moon) Holy Son, which has a huge gap with other sword daos.
Li Hao didn't stop and continued to cultivate.
The Dao Domain also grew steadily, and by sunset, it had broken through to 200 layers!
Li Hao estimated that the remaining cultivation methods could be practiced for another twenty layers, that is, 220 layers. This is the foundation of the Canghai Divine Dynasty's cultivation methods.
Of course, some unpassed secret cultivation methods in the Canghai Divine Dynasty are definitely not in the Hanhai Tower, but that kind of cultivation method is a minority, at most less than ten books.
Next day.
The top 100 battle was held on Jidao Mountain.
Before the battle started, Li Hao was still cultivating in the small courtyard.
The Dao Domain increased to 210 layers, and the remaining cultivation methods can be practiced for another ten layers.
"If it's a 360-layer Dao Domain, I'm still far away. The remaining 140 layers of Dao Domain cultivation methods must rely on these major first-class sects..."
Li Hao's eyes flickered. If he peeks at all the cultivation methods of the many first-class sects in the Canglan Realm, his Dao Domain limit will be achieved!
Li Hao knew that he was different from other contestants. His enemy wasn't just the first on the Supreme Pride List, but a Void Sage!
Before winning the first place, he must have the battle power to confront a sage before he is qualified to take that first place, otherwise he may be assassinated by a Void Sage in the top ten battle.
Compared to others who only need to consider competing with their peers, he has to guard against a sage.
"If I can cultivate to the limit, with my strength, I should be able to rival a Half-Sage..."
Li Hao's eyes flickered. He hadn't tried it, so he didn't know. After all, he hadn't used his full strength for a long time.
Since the Dao Domain was more than fifty layers, he had practiced in the Sword Tower to the present, reaching 210 layers. He didn't know what terrible things would happen when all the Dao Domains were superimposed.
But when the Dao Domain was 97 layers before, Li Hao felt that he could already affect space. Just the Dao Domain could easily shatter laws and solidify the great dao!
Now it will only become more terrifying.
Moreover, if he waits for the Dao Domain to be cultivated to the limit, he will master the Eight Extremes Realm!
"Are you daydreaming?"
On the battle stage, Li Hao's opponent in the draw saw that Li Hao's eyes were a little empty, as if he was in a daze. He couldn't help but be stunned, and then his face became cold.
Li Hao came back to his senses, saw that his opponent was dressed luxuriously and had an extraordinary temperament. He was a little apologetic: "Sorry, I was just thinking about things and forgot myself."
"Humph."
The young man snorted coldly, too lazy to nag. As soon as the formation was condensed, he directly held a spear and killed Li Hao.
Li Hao raised his hand and twisted out a gust of autumn wind and slashed out.
Bang!
The sword qi, like awn grass, quickly tore out, the long spear in the young man's hand trembled, and the momentum he gathered was suddenly defeated, and a very deep sword mark appeared on his chest.
He got up from the ground and looked at Li Hao in horror. What kind of sword qi is this?
He just smelled the danger of inevitable death, but in the end that energy disappeared, the other party spared his life.
The young man's face turned green and white for a while, and he immediately knew that he had encountered a monstrous guy.
"Just treat it as an apology."
Li Hao cupped his hands slightly towards the other party, waited for the referee to announce the result, and then turned and stepped off the stage, and then continued to ponder the matter of the Dao Domain outside the venue.
The victory or defeat here ended in a blink of an eye, but the audience below was in an uproar and shocked.
"Prince Luo Jia lost, and was actually defeated in seconds!"
"He has the existence of two major limits, and he didn't even have time to show them just now."
"What is this? You didn't see the previous ten thousand people battle. This Young Master Qingfeng defeated that monster with more than twenty layers of Dao Domain in the ten thousand people battle, and in the end the other party's Dao Heart was directly broken and retired, and he didn't even compete for the top 100."
The audience talked, causing more people to be shocked.
In the crowd, several elegant figures sat among them. The young man with the folding fan looked at the cold-faced junior sister next to him, and said with a wry smile:
"Qingyi, don't take the words of these fools to heart."
Li Qingyi snorted coldly, but didn't speak.
This time, the top 100 battle will decide the top ten all the way, so she specially came to watch the game again, wanting to see if anyone can force Li Hao to show other methods.
With Li Hao's strength, she has already regarded him as an opponent she will encounter in the battle in the Canglan Realm later, and investigating in advance is also considered to be observing opponent information, not just playing around.
"It's still so straightforward, is the other party planning to pass all the way with swordsmanship alone?"
Another elegant young man sighed.
"His swordsmanship is indeed qualified to enter the top ten, and even win the first place." Another young man nodded, very approving of Li Hao's swordsmanship.
The young man shaking the folding fan shook his head and said: "The top ten is okay, the top three is hopeful, but the first is impossible, at least he has to be forced to come up with something else, if there is nothing else, he may not be able to get the first place."
"Hmm?"
Li Qingyi looked at him in confusion.
The young man shaking the folding fan smiled and said: "There was news before that a peerless monster appeared in the Huaguang Cave of the Nanrong Kingdom this time, named Chiguang, and the other party can be regarded as one of our strong enemies, only slightly inferior to the Buddha's twins."
"So strong?"
Several people were surprised. Being compared with the Buddha's twins is a terrible thing in itself.