Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

The next morning, Wang Lu knocked on the door.

He stood in the corridor, took out two cloth bags from his sleeve, and handed one of them to Li Yuan.

"You don't need to stay at the inn anymore. Find a place to stay in the market, and the cost will be covered by this fund."

There were thirty spirit stones in the cloth bag.

Wang Lu didn't explain much. He placed another cloth bag at Old Sun's door and knocked twice. After Old Sun came out, he handed the other cloth bag to him and then turned and left.

After exchanging a few words with Old Sun, Li Yuan put the spirit stones into his storage bag, went back to his room to pack his things, and left the room.

Finding accommodation in Yunyangfang Market is not difficult.

There are many courtyards and rooms for rent in the side alleys south of the main street, with prices ranging from one spirit stone per day to half a spirit stone per week, depending on the size and location.

Li Yuan walked along the alley for a while and chose a small, independent courtyard at the end of the alley.

The courtyard wall is not high, made of gray bricks, and surrounds a main house and a side house.

Inside the main room there is a stone table and a wooden bed, while the side room is empty and can be used as a storage room. In the middle of the courtyard there is a small open space, big enough to set up a simple stove.

Li Yuan carried the talisman-making materials into the main room and spread them out on the table. The talisman brush was placed on the brush holder, and the spirit ink and cinnabar were placed within easy reach.

The courtyard was much more spacious than the inn's rooms, and the table was also much larger, enough to spread out three or four talismans at the same time.

Once the door was closed, the noise from the alley outside was silenced by a layer of separation.

After settling in, Li Yuan set about another matter.

Herbal talismans.

Captain Wang gave me a recipe when we were in the herb garden. I've already read the process, but I haven't actually tried it yet.

The herb garden was attacked after only a few days of testing, and one thing after another happened after that, leaving no time to spare.

The price of spirit herbs in Yunyang Market is about 10% lower than that in Qinghe Market. The first-grade low-quality Qingling Grass is even cheaper, and you can buy a large bundle for just three spirit stones.

After leaving the courtyard, Li Yuan bought two bundles of Qingling Grass at a nearby herb shop, and also bought herbs needed to prepare the shaping solution from a random cultivator's stall.

After returning, I started operating the equipment in the open space of the yard.

Chop the Qingling grass, soak it in water for half an hour, then take it out and put it back into the medicinal liquid to soak. After two hours, take it out, mash it into a paste, pour it onto a flat stone slab and press it flat.

After drying the next day, Li Yuan peeled the pressed sheet off the stone slab.

The texture is different from that of the blue-patterned paper. The herbal talisman paper is softer, with coarser fibers and a very faint green hue on the surface.

It is not as good as regular blue-textured paper, but it is much cheaper.

The herbal talismans made from two bundles of Qingling grass were nearly three times more numerous than the Qingwen paper that could be bought at the same price.

In the days that followed, Li Yuan's pace stabilized completely.

He makes talismans during the day and cultivates at night.

The focus of talisman making has expanded from refining divine talismans to all types of talismans that have been mastered.

Fireball talismans, Heart-Locking talismans, and Qi-Gathering talismans remain the main outputs, as these three are the combat talismans most needed by the guard team. However, Li Yuan would spend two or three hours each day practicing other talismans in rotation.

The Meridian Opening Talisman uses a combination of Meridian Expanding Patterns and Guiding Patterns, requiring the spiritual energy to flow evenly and smoothly. I had only made a few of these talismans in the market before, and my proficiency in them had always remained at the beginner level.

Now, my talisman-making skills have reached a minor level of mastery. The precision of my spiritual energy manipulation is several levels higher than before, and I can draw meridian-opening talismans with ease. The foundation I built in the introductory stage has been quickly solidified, and the success rate of meridian-opening talismans has risen from less than 30% to over 60%.

【Pulse Opening Talisman: Proficient (0/400)】

The Golden Armor Talisman and the Returning Origin Talisman are also being developed simultaneously.

The Golden Armor Talisman's armor-forming and solidifying patterns follow an earth-metal element, somewhat similar to the Vajra Talisman. The experience gained from mastering the Vajra Talisman can be directly applied to the Golden Armor Talisman, making it much faster to learn than when initially learning the Vajra Talisman.

[Golden Armor Talisman: Proficient (0/400)]

The Returning Origin Talisman follows the water-based and wood-based principles, and its spirit pattern arrangement shares similarities with the Gathering Qi Talisman.

[Return to Origin Talisman: Proficient (0/400)]

The progress of the detoxification talisman and the breath-gathering talisman has also increased significantly. Although I haven't reached the mastery level yet, I draw a few every day to accumulate them, and I'm getting closer and closer to the next threshold.

Switching between different types of spellcasting greatly increases the overall proficiency of first-tier spellcasting skills compared to specializing in just one.

That morning, Li Yuan finished making his daily quota of talismans ahead of schedule, put down his talisman brush, and left the courtyard.

Walk along the side alley onto the main street and turn towards the area of ​​repair stalls.

The layout of the stall area was not much different from a few days ago. Thirty or forty stalls were crammed into the open space enclosed by stone railings. The stall owners squatted behind their cloths, some shouting and some dozing off.

Li Yuan walked slowly along the stall area, his eyes scanning the items on each stall.

When Li Yuan walked to the north side of the stall area, he noticed a stall he had never seen before.

The stall owner was a female cultivator in her thirties, with delicate features, slender fingers, and faint traces of cinnabar on the tips. On the coarse cloth in front of her were not pills or ores, but several thin scrolls.

He squatted down and scanned the scroll, his gaze lingering on the last bamboo scroll.

Golden Blade Talisman Recipe. Thirty spirit stones.

The wooden sign had a few lines of small print.

Golden Blade Talisman, a low-grade Tier 1 combat talisman. Upon use, it releases a sharp, golden-elemental spirit blade that inflicts cutting damage on the target. The blade's sharpness increases with the user's spiritual power.

Li Yuan picked up the bamboo scroll and flipped through it.

The inner pages, cut from animal parchment, are decorated with diagrams of spirit runes, accompanied by detailed instructions on how to make them. They utilize a combination of golden blade and sharpening runes, with the spirit energy first gathering and then releasing, condensing into an extremely fine metallic line of spirit energy on the talisman paper, which transforms into a spirit blade upon release.

Metal-based talismans.

Li Yuan currently possesses no metal-type talismans. The Fireball Talisman is fire-type, the Rejuvenation Talisman is wood-type, the Vajra Talisman and Heart-Locking Talisman lean towards earth and metal, but are primarily earth-type, and the Poison Removal Talisman is water-type with a wood-type influence. He has no pure metal-type combat talismans whatsoever.

"Did you write this recipe yourself?" Li Yuanchao glanced at the stall owner.

The female cultivator raised her head and her gaze fell on the bamboo slip in Li Yuan's hand.

"I copied it from my master. He's getting old and no longer makes talismans, but he allowed me to sell the recipe."

"Thirty yuan?"

"Thirty yuan." The female cultivator wiped the cinnabar off her fingers.

"The crafting methods for metal-type talismans are inherently more expensive than those for other attributes. The direction of metal-type spirit patterns differs greatly from that of common fire and wood-type runes, so fewer people learn them, and there are fewer crafting methods circulating in the market."

Li Yuan turned to the pages of the bamboo slips containing the diagrams of the spirit patterns and examined them carefully.

The direction of the Golden Blade Pattern is indeed quite different from that of the Fire-type Spirit Pattern. The Fireball Talisman's Fire Gathering Pattern follows an arc-shaped compression route, while the Golden Blade Pattern follows a straight cutting route. The spiritual energy starts from the starting point and rushes along a straight path to the end point, without turning or branching in the middle.

The Gathering Sharpness Pattern adds a converging line at the end of the Golden Blade Pattern, compressing the cross-section of the spiritual energy line from a circle into a flat blade shape, thus increasing its sharpness.

Li Yuan closed the bamboo slip.

"I'll take it."

Thirty spirit stones were placed on the cloth.

The female cultivator gathered the spirit stones into her sleeve and nodded to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan put the bamboo slips into his storage bag and got up to leave the stall area.

Walk back to the courtyard along the same route and close the gate.

Several sheets of herbal talisman paper left over from today's drawing were still on the table in the main room. Li Yuan moved them aside and laid a new sheet of blue-patterned paper on top.

Metal-type talismans are not suitable for using herbal talisman paper, as herbal talisman paper contains residual wood-type spiritual energy, which slightly conflicts with metal-type spiritual energy.

Li Yuan unfolded the bamboo slips containing the method for making the Golden Blade Talisman and laid them out beside him. Referring to the diagram of the spirit pattern arrangement, he dipped his brush in spirit ink and began to write.

Spiritual energy flowed from the tip of the pen, drawing a straight line on the talisman paper.

It feels completely different from fire-type spirit patterns. Fire-type spirit patterns follow arcs, with spiritual energy spreading along the curved surface, like water flowing along an arc-shaped river. Metal-type spirit patterns follow straight lines, with spiritual energy being forced through an extremely narrow channel, like a blade cutting into wood.

When the first stroke was halfway through, the spiritual energy shifted slightly in the middle of the straight line.

It's not a problem with the wrist; it's that the spiritual energy itself isn't stable enough when transmitted in a straight line. Fire-type spiritual energy has inertia to assist it when traveling in an arc, but metal-type spiritual energy has no inertia when traveling in a straight line, relying entirely on manipulation to maintain its momentum.

obsolete.

Li Yuan picked up the discarded talisman and set it aside, then laid out the second one.

By the fourth time, both the Golden Blade Pattern and the Gathering Sharp Pattern had been successfully completed. The spiritual energy deformation at the end of the Gathering Sharp Pattern was completed at the last moment, and the cross-section of the spiritual energy line was compressed into an extremely thin blade shape.

A layer of cold, silvery-white luster rose from the surface of the talisman, completely different from the crimson of the fireball talisman and the earthy yellow of the vajra talisman. This luster was extremely thin and sharp, like a frozen blade.

It became.

Li Yuan placed the golden blade talisman on the table and touched it with his fingertips.

The panel popped up.

[Equipable item detected: Golden Blade Rune (Complete)]

[Entry Preview: Golden Edge Amplification (White) - Increases the power of gold-type spells by 20%]

[Preview of Permanentization Requirements: Three metal-based spells reach beginner level (0/3)]

[Current equipment slots are full (5/5). Replace current equipment?]

White entry. Jin Feng's boost.

The power of metal-type spells increases by 20%, similar to the way the Flame Marrow Body enhances fire-type spells.

The condition for permanentization is that you have reached the entry level in three metal-based spells.

Li Yuan currently only possesses one metal-based spell, the Golden Blade Technique, which he has already mastered. He still needs to learn two more.

Metal-based spells aren't particularly rare on the market, but there are fewer types than fire and water-based spells. You should be able to find them in the shops of Yunyang Market, the only problem is the price.

Li Yuan carefully put away the Golden Blade Talisman, without equipping it. All five equipment slots were full, with no suitable empty space at the moment.

With the Golden Edge Amplification and the Flame Marrow Body Condensation combined, the power of both fire and metal-based spells will be greatly enhanced. Once all metal-based spells are mastered and permanently acquired, another dimension of combat options will be added.

But that's for the future. Right now, my main focus is still on fire magic, so I don't really need to use Golden Blade Technique much.

After using another Refining Spirit Talisman, Li Yuan continued making talismans.

Recently, Li Yuan's soul strength has been continuously improving. He can feel that the Soul Tempering and Condensation attribute is also gradually strengthening his soul.

It is estimated that it will rise from over 10% to 20%.

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