Li Hao had long experienced this reduction in experience gains through the Chess Dao. At his current level, playing against someone at the second or third dan would earn him only a scattering of experience.
When the gap between their ranks was too great, the experience shrank. After all, he gained nothing from such matches.
Sometimes, he received only a token "1" experience point.
Fortunately, although the experience gains varied, the Lands of the Saints had no shortage of powerful cultivators. His Painting Dao experience still accumulated quickly. Advancing from the ninth dan to the tenth required five million experience, and a single Sage could give him three or four hundred thousand. Ten Sages would be enough to bring him to completion.
A Half-Saint could give him forty or fifty thousand experience.
Painting the Azure Sea Great Emperor just now had earned Li Hao over forty thousand experience.
When Li Hao first painted Ancestor Yao, he had received fifty thousand experience. He did not know whether the Azure Sea Great Emperor was weaker than Ancestor Yao, or whether reaching the ninth dan in the Painting Dao had slightly reduced his experience gains compared with the eighth dan.
Either way, the emperor had said the Azure Sea Divine Dynasty had ten Half-Saint Attendants. If he could paint them one by one, he could accumulate four or five hundred thousand experience.
If he painted them repeatedly and sheared every last scrap of wool from them, he could accumulate over a million.
As he painted, Li Hao could also discern the differences in their strength. He simply wondered how much Painting Dao experience he would receive for painting himself.
Li Hao had tried self-portraits in the alchemy courtyard, but no experience notification had appeared.
It seemed to be just like playing chess against