The battle inside the stone gate had ended, and the treasures within the treasure room were left in disarray. Many valuable heavenly materials and earthly treasures were destroyed during the fight, and a considerable number of spiritual weapons, armors, and treasures were also damaged.

The losses definitely exceeded a million gold.

This was unavoidable; in such an intense battle, no one had the leisure to protect the treasures.

Hiss~ The stone gate was opened, and the lingering high-pressure Spiritual Qi within the treasure room was released.

Lu Yu looked at the elder of the Liang family who had forcibly opened the stone gate. Noticing the damaged robe on his body, he glanced at the leveled back mountain behind him and asked, "Are those two individuals dead?"

The elder of the Liang family responded expressionlessly, "Master, no."

"A Martial Cultivator at the Qi Control stage escaped, and another at the Qi Sea stage suddenly disappeared during the chase. I couldn't find his trace, so I had to return here."

Suddenly disappeared? Lu Yu quickly said, "Take me to the place where the Qi Sea stage cultivator vanished."

The elder of the Liang family used Spiritual Power to lift Lu Yu and flew towards the area where Lu Hongwei disappeared. When they were in the air, Lu Yu was able to see the scene of the back mountain.

The strawberry field on the back mountain had completely disappeared, leaving several nearly ten-meter wide pits on the mountain body. The ground looked like it had been plowed by artillery, exposing the soil beneath the plants.

"This is the place. He suddenly disappeared when he was escaping."

The elder brought Lu Yu to the edge of Meishan Town. Looking at the firelight within the town, Lu Yu helplessly asked, "Did he disappear in mid-air, or...?"

"In mid-air, he suddenly vanished while flying," the elder quickly replied.

Lu Yu knew a Qi Sea stage expert escaping would surely fly rather than use his legs.

He understood that Lu Hongwei had disappeared through forced logout.

After logging out, a player becomes part of the background, indistinguishable to anyone, with no difference noticeable between an offline player and the background.

Perception is forcibly altered; even if the body is right in front, it will be perceived as the most reasonable background existence.

If the player logged out in the wilderness, Lu Yu would still have a way to deal with him by having the elder bombard every surrounding area, completely destroying everything.

In this way, even if the opponent has logged out, the body left in the game would be destroyed by indiscriminate attacks, leading to their death.

Lu Yu had done this before, seizing the opportunity when Mad Lion logged out, striking during the brief interval before his body completely disappeared, killing Mad Lion even though he had logged out.

This shows that even if a player logs out, as long as the body left in the game is destroyed, the player can be killed.

This is why there are safe zones and danger zones.

Logging out in the city significantly reduces the likelihood of encountering indiscriminate attacks, and after logging out, a player's body as a background character has a risk-avoiding ability, reducing its presence.

With various system protections, players are generally safe when logging out in safe zones.

Unless a super disaster occurs, causing instant death to everyone in the city, players would have no choice but to accept it; even if they were in the game during such a disaster, survival is not guaranteed.

But now Lu Hongwei forcibly logged out near the small town, and moreover, logged out mid-air. Who knows where his body would land, making it impossible to carry out a covering indiscriminate attack.

Lu Yu could only give up the pursuit of Lu Hongwei. As for the escaping Qi Control realm, he suspected Lu Hongwei had bought the time for the opponent; otherwise, Lu Hongwei should have been the one to escape, not the weaker Qi Control realm.

A collaboration between a Qi Control and a five-layer Qi Sea realm capable of contending against the seven-layer elder of the Liang family was already quite astonishing.

Returning to the treasure room, Lu Yu had the elder of the Liang family keep an eye on where Lu Hongwei disappeared, in case he might catch him log back in. However, the likelihood was low as the opponent would likely wait a few days in reality before logging back in.

Or he might let a companion ascertain safety after the elder leaves Meishan Town before logging back in.

Lu Yu packed the items from the treasure room into his backpack. The Storage Ring couldn't hold so many items; even after excluding the damaged spiritual treasures, weapons, and armors, the treasure room still housed many spiritual weapons and other items.

Scatter the Celestial Falling Bright Flame to reduce the bodies to ashes, Lu Yu walked out of the treasure room, his steps somewhat heavy.

The total weight of the items in the treasure room might exceed seventy thousand jin, especially the heavenly materials and earthly treasures, including the metal ores bought by the Divine Weapon Pavilion to craft spiritual weapons and armors.

These ores were not damaged in the battle, so Lu Yu took them all as well.

A weight of seventy thousand jin in the backpack exerted a pressure that slowed Lu Yu's movements slightly, but compared to a Mount Carrier, it was still too light.

Seventy thousand jin of pressure on Lu Yu only slowed his steps slightly, far from achieving the effect of body refinement through heavy pressure as with the Mount Carrier.

To achieve the effect of body refinement through heavy pressure, one truly needs to learn from the Mount Carrier and pack a small mountain into the backpack.

Furthermore, the body refinement method of the Mount Carrier requires a lot of time, necessitating prolonged exposure to the increasing pressure in a heavy pressure environment to stimulate the body to adapt and achieve refinement.

It would take at least several months to see the body refinement result, as it relies on the human body naturally adapting to changes in pressure, which cannot happen quickly.

Lu Yu walked towards Meishan Town, leaving a pit with each step, realizing that the Mount Carrier's method of body refinement was not suited for him.

Unless his Qi Blood growth stagnates, and he has ample time to adapt to the pressure, loading dirt and stones into his backpack would achieve no refinement effect, only hinder him.

Considering his current rate of Qi Blood growth, there was no need to use the Mount Carrying Heavy Pressure method to increase it, and the rapid growth of Qi Blood was also unsuitable for using this method to refine the body.

Only players with slow or non-growing Qi Blood are suited for the Mount Carrying Heavy Pressure method, using it to passively boost their physique and push their Qi Blood to exceed its limits.

In short, the Mount Carrying Heavy Pressure is a relatively low-level method of body refinement, akin to running with a weighted vest, but with the weight distributed across the entire body by the backpack, making it more effective than a weighted vest.

But it ultimately only passively increases Qi Blood and physique, while Lu Yu cultivates Ice and Fire Seven Heavens, proactively absorbing flames and ice for Body Tempering, which actively increases Qi Blood and physique at a faster rate.

No need to pack a mountain in the backpack, and even if he did, it wouldn't help.

The rapid growth of Qi Blood would render him incapable of feeling the pressure before the body strengthens passively from it.

As for continuously adding weight to the backpack, the same saying holds true: Mount Carrying Heavy Pressure requires prolonged stimulus.

With this time, Lu Yu would be more efficient cultivating Ice and Fire Seven Heavens, exponentially more so than carrying a mountain.

Thus, Lu Yu resolved to abandon using the Mount Carrying Heavy Pressure method for body refinement.

After understanding the Mount Carrying Heavy Pressure body refinement process, Lu Yu realized that the Mount Carrier probably never reduced the weight of the stones in the backpack from the first day of using this method, raising questions about how the Carrier managed daily life.

For example, sitting is a significant challenge for the Mount Carrier, as finding a chair capable of handling such weight is difficult, and even sitting on the ground would leave two prints.

Even walking poses a problem.

Back in the day, the floor of Fist Valley was so solid, yet the Mount Carrier still left faint footprints, and on ordinary dirt, each step would likely leave a hole. Entering a city would be impossible, potentially damaging a tile with each step, becoming a human steamroller.

Lu Yu recalled the image of the Mount Carrier, dressed in a loose hempen short coat... Undoubtedly, Mount Carrying Heavy Pressure is a path of arduous cultivation, only suitable for staying in the wild, especially where the ground is sufficiently hard.

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The mountain-carrying body refinement technique you repeatedly chant each day, Zhou Tiandi, has arrived.

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