Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Over the next few days, Li Yuan maintained a high-intensity pace of talisman-making.

Fireball talismans and Heart-Locking talismans remain the main output, with Qi-Gathering talismans interspersed throughout, and Rejuvenation talismans and Vajra talismans also produced. With the "Skillful Brushstrokes" and "Spiritual Energy Resurgence" attributes displayed, the output efficiency is significantly higher than before.

After drawing these talismans intensively over the past few days, my proficiency in several different types of talismans has been increasing.

The Rejuvenation Talisman is rising the fastest, and the technique for spreading wood-type spirit patterns is already very stable.

[Rejuvenation Charm: Mastery (0/800)]

The Vajra Talisman also arrived.

[Vajra Talisman: Proficient (0/800)]

The progress of the Qi Gathering Talisman is a little slower. The three-layered nested spirit patterns are more complex than ordinary low-grade talismans, but it has reached the middle stage of proficiency.

The prices of detoxification talismans and heart-locking talismans are also rising.

The intensive talisman-making these past few days has pushed my overall proficiency in first-order talisman-making skills forward by another step.

Regarding the talisman-making task, Li Yuan increased the output to one and a half times the usual amount for three consecutive days. The extra fireball talismans were stored with He Shou and not immediately distributed, serving as a buffer inventory for a few days.

On the morning of the fourth day, Li Yuan finished his talisman-making task ahead of schedule, folded the finished products on the corner of the table, and calculated his next steps.

We completed several days' worth of work ahead of schedule, so even if we don't draw any symbols in the next two days, the inventory won't run out.

enough.

Li Yuan put down the talisman brush, got up and left the camp.

Walk along East Street towards the outer perimeter of Dantang.

Passing through the narrow alley between the Talisman Hall and the Pill Hall, the outline of the shed area came into view. Under several makeshift sheds, medicine furnaces emitted smoke, and the air was filled with the bitter smell of herbs.

Old Sun's shed is at the very back.

When Li Yuan walked over, Old Sun was squatting next to the medicine furnace, stirring a batch of medicinal liquid. His yellowish fingertips held an iron rod steadily and slowly stirred it at the furnace opening.

Hearing footsteps, Old Sun looked up.

"They're here."

He leaned the iron rod against the furnace wall, clapped his hands, and stood up.

Li Yuan squatted down by the shed, took out the two herbs wrapped in oil paper from his storage bag, and placed them on the stone platform next to him.

"Those two herbs I mentioned before helped me refine a baleful aura."

Old Sun unwrapped the oil paper, looked at the first plant, picked it up, smelled it closely, put it down, and then looked at the second plant.

He placed the two herbs side by side and rubbed his chin.

"Just the murderous aura?"

"right."

Old Sun tilted his head.

"When these two herbs are combined and refined together, the resulting malevolent energy is at the level of a high-grade first-tier herb, which is fine. However, once the malevolent energy is extracted, the remaining dregs and liquid are of little value. Of the two high-grade first-tier herbs, only one portion of malevolent energy is extracted in the end, and the rest are completely wasted."

He looked at Li Yuan.

"Don't you feel bad?"

"I don't feel bad."

Old Sun scoffed and waved his hand.

"Alright. You can try it. This kind of work is actually simpler. You don't need to control the effects of the medicine or preserve the active ingredients. You just need to push the opposing reactions to their maximum. The success rate is very high; I almost never fail."

He bent down and pulled out a medicine stove from under the shed; it was a size smaller than the one he usually used.

"This little stove is easy to control the temperature with. You wait here."

Old Sun processed the two herbs, cutting and peeling what needed to be cut, and then put them into the small stove one after the other, pouring in spiritual energy to start the fire.

After the fire was lit, the temperature inside the shed rose significantly.

The two herbs began to react in the medicinal liquid in the stove. At first, only the color of the liquid darkened, changing from light brown to dark brown. After about fifteen minutes, fine, grayish-black foam began to rise to the surface of the liquid, releasing a dull odor when the foam burst.

A malevolent aura.

The concentration was many times higher than the malevolent energy in the mine. The malevolent energy, at the first-tier high-grade level, overflowed from the furnace opening, making the air in the shed murky.

The rogue cultivator in the next shed frowned, glanced over, but said nothing.

Old Sun's hands moved steadily. He inserted the iron rod into the furnace opening and stirred it a few times, controlling the speed at which the two herbs reacted, ensuring that the reaction was neither too fast and out of control, nor too slow and causing the evil energy to dissipate.

About half an hour later, the fire in the stove gradually died down.

Old Sun rummaged through a corner of the shed and pulled out a small, palm-sized black box with a few simple sealing runes engraved on its surface. He opened the lid, aimed it at the furnace opening, and channeled his spiritual energy.

The surging, grayish-black malevolent energy within the furnace was drawn in by an invisible force, flowing from the furnace opening into the box. The malevolent energy churned within the box for a few breaths before being suppressed by the sealing runes on its surface, gradually settling down.

Old Sun closed the box lid, the spirit pattern lit up briefly, and then dimmed.

"alright."

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He placed the box on the stone platform and pushed it in front of Li Yuan.

"One portion of top-grade first-level malevolent energy. The concentration is not low, so be careful."

He patted the small black box again.

"This box is for you. I don't need it anyway; it's just collecting dust. The sealed spirit runes will last for about a month. After that, the spirit runes will lose their effectiveness and the evil energy will dissipate. Use it as soon as possible."

Old Sun tucked the spirit stones into his sleeve, squatted back down beside the medicine furnace, and continued working on his batch of medicinal liquid.

"I'm gone."

Old Sun waved his hand without even raising his head.

Li Yuan put the small black box into his storage bag and walked back to his residence along the same route.

Back in the stone house, I closed the door.

He took the small black box out of the storage bag and placed it on the table.

The sealing runes on the box surface still glowed with a very faint light, the malevolent energy was locked inside, and it was not noticeable from the outside.

Li Yuan lifted the lid of the box.

A thick, dark gray aura emanated from the box.

The concentration is on a completely different level from the malevolent energy deep within the mine.

The malevolent energy deep within the mine was like a thin mist, requiring a long period of time to absorb. This malevolent energy was like a thick blob of ink, with the gray-black mist almost visible churning at the opening of the box.

First-grade superior quality.

Li Yuan sat down cross-legged and placed the box in front of him.

The entries for "fierce" and "approachable" will respond automatically.

The dark gray aura surged out of the box, but instead of dissipating in the air, it rushed towards Li Yuan as if drawn by a magnet. The aura seeped into his body through the pores of his skin, spreading along his meridians to his limbs and bones.

The feeling of first-grade superior evil energy seeping into the body is completely different from that of first-grade inferior evil energy.

When low-grade malevolent energy enters the body, it feels like a dull, oppressive sensation, as if someone has pinched you from the outside. When high-grade malevolent energy enters the body, it feels like a penetrating chill that seeps directly from the skin's surface into the bone marrow, reaching a depth more than three times greater than low-grade malevolent energy.

But there was no pain.

The affinity with the malevolent energy significantly reduced its negative effects. Although the chill penetrated deeply, it was not corrosive. The body-tempering technique activated simultaneously, drawing the infiltrated malevolent energy into the fascia and bones, initiating the tempering process.

The difference between the body tempering effect of a first-grade superior-level evil aura and that of a lower-grade one was immediately apparent.

When tempering with low-grade evil energy, the muscles tighten only slightly, requiring many repeated rinses to see noticeable changes. With high-grade evil energy, the fascia tightens after just the first rinse, and a tingling sensation spreads through the bones, as if something is grinding between them.

The malevolent energy circulated within his body for about fifteen minutes, and he absorbed most of the malevolent energy from the box.

The panel appeared.

The conditions for permanent "Aura of Harmony (Green)" have been met.

Is it permanent?

Li Yuan had a sudden thought.

Yes.

[Permanentization successful]

[The phrase "煞气惠和(绿)" has become a permanent keyword.]

[Equipment consumed]

The dark gray-purple evil stone in his palm transformed into a deep purple light and entered his body.

The next instant, the layer of malevolent mist covering his entire body changed.

Previously, the thin mist was maintained by the aura of affinity with malevolent energy; it would slowly dissipate once the aura was removed. Now, the mist has seeped into the depths of the body, becoming part of the body itself, and no longer needs external maintenance.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and sensed for a moment.

The negative impact of the malevolent energy on oneself has been further reduced. The efficiency with which impurities in the body are converted into malevolent energy has increased. The storage capacity of malevolent energy has also increased; previously, the body could store at most the amount of malevolent energy equivalent to one Malevolent Essence Pill, but now it can store the amount of two or three.

All three effects are now fully solidified.

The fourth green permanent entry.

There's an empty slot in the equipment inventory. Currently, there are 4/5 slots occupied by the Soul-Illuminating Mirror, the Hundred Meridians Returning to Origin Technique, the Returning Origin Talisman, and the Azure Spirit Talisman Brush.

Li Yuan took out the Refining Spirit Talisman from his storage bag and equipped it.

The Refining Spirit Talisman transformed into a pale golden light and entered the body.

The change seeped down from above.

It feels different from the Soul-Illuminating Mirror. The Soul-Illuminating Mirror's soul-light tempering makes consciousness clearer, like wiping away a layer of fog. The Divine Refining Talisman's soul-condensation makes the soul itself denser, like compressing a ball of cotton into a felt.

When the two are combined, the clarity and density of the spirit are simultaneously enhanced.

Li Yuan opened his eyes and flexed his fingers.

The precision of his spiritual energy manipulation had improved slightly. Not by much, but it was noticeable.

He glanced at the small black box on the table, which was almost empty, with a thin layer of malevolent energy remaining at the bottom.

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