Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

The refining of Qi-replenishing pills is gradually on track, and the quality of the finished products has stabilized.

The dark blue round pills had a smooth surface and a pure medicinal aroma. After examining them, Old Sun said that their efficacy was more than 90% of that of a normal Qi-tonifying pill.

Li Yuan placed the three Qi-replenishing pills he had refined in his palm and touched the surface of the pills with his fingers.

The panel popped up.

[Equipable item detected: Qi-Replenishing Pill (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Vitality Nourishment (Gray)]

[Effect: Increases Qi and Blood recovery speed by 20%. When Qi and Blood are at their peak, Spiritual Energy recovery speed increases by 10%.]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: One Immortal Cultivation Technique Reaches Perfection (0/1)]

Grayed-out affixes. The effect isn't particularly strong, but it's easy to obtain, and both the spirit power recovery and health regeneration are continuous buffs, adding another layer on top of existing affixes.

The condition for permanentization is that a cultivation technique of immortality has reached perfection, and the Spirit Guiding Technique has been perfected.

Li Yuan removed the Soul Nourishing Pill, and the next item popped up on his equipment panel.

The conditions for permanent Qi and Blood Nourishment (Gray) have been met.

Is it permanent?

Yes.

[Permanentization successful]

[Qi and Blood Nourishment (Gray) has become a permanent entry]

[Equipment consumed]

After the Qi-replenishing pill became permanent, Li Yuan felt very slight changes, almost imperceptible, but the speed of Qi and blood circulation in his body was indeed slightly faster than before.

Li Yuan put the remaining Qi-replenishing pills into a porcelain bottle and continued refining the next batch.

He made talismans by day, refined elixirs in the evening, and cultivated at night. He did these three things in rotation, maintaining a tight but orderly rhythm.

The shop's business is better than expected.

The demand for consumables among independent cultivators entering the secret realm is huge. Fireball talismans and Vajra talismans are sold out almost immediately after being produced, and people are also starting to ask about Qi-replenishing pills.

The Rejuvenation Pills and Detoxification Pills that Old Sun refines sell out quickly, and the output of the two of them can barely keep up with the demand.

Li Yuan also receives a share of the spirit stones from the talismans and pills he makes, as well as contributions from the Talisman Hall, making it a lucrative job.

Even in the intervals between making talismans, he did not neglect his practice of micro-controlling spiritual techniques.

The potential of this spell is much higher than what you see when you first learn it.

Once you've mastered it, the precision with which you can break down spiritual energy at your fingertips is no longer limited to ten thin streams; you can break it down into many more finer spiritual threads, and the direction and density of each thread can be controlled independently.

The most noticeable improvement is in efficiency during talisman creation. Drawing spirit runes is faster, with almost no gaps between multiple runes, allowing for a seamless process. The temperature gradient within the furnace is also more stable during alchemy, resulting in more precise control over the state of the medicinal liquid.

The panel jumped.

[Spell: Micro-management - Mastery (0/800)]

proficient.

Li Yuan put away the talisman brush and stretched his fingers.

Spiritual energy emanated from his fingertips, and extremely fine spiritual threads silently diffused in the air. He retracted the spiritual threads into his body and then tried a new technique.

It's not about releasing it outwards, it's about recycling it back in.

The spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the body surface are wrapped layer by layer with spiritual threads and pressed into the body.

The two permanent attributes, Aura Concealment and Aura Hiding, are always active, which can significantly reduce the outward appearance of one's aura.

However, suppressing it does not mean eliminating it. Even if the spiritual energy fluctuations of the eighth level of Qi Refining are suppressed to the level of the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining, they are still the aura of a cultivator, completely different from those of ordinary people.

Now that I've mastered micro-controlling spiritual techniques, the precision of my spiritual power manipulation has reached a new level.

Li Yuan wove the spiritual silk into an extremely fine net, attaching it to the inside of his body to intercept all leaking spiritual energy fluctuations within it. The spiritual energy fluctuations were absorbed, dispersed, and reintegrated into his meridians by the spiritual silk net, no longer dissipating outwards.

The spiritual energy fluctuations on the body surface are decreasing rapidly.

Falling down from the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining, to the fourth level, the third level, and the second level.

Continue to pressurize.

The density of the spirit silk net tightened again. The fluctuations in spiritual energy dropped to below the first level of Qi Refining, becoming almost imperceptible.

But there is still one thing.

Li Yuan left the shop and walked along the dirt road towards the outer stall area.

The stall area wasn't large, with a dozen or so stalls crammed onto both sides of the dirt road. They mainly sold consumables for entering the secret realm: pills, talismans, dried rations, and bandages. A few stalls also sold miscellaneous goods, including ores, spiritual herbs, and old magical artifacts.

Li Yuan stopped in front of a medicine stall.

Do you have any Breath Concealing Pills?

The stall owner was a rogue cultivator in his forties. He rummaged through the wooden box behind him and pulled out a small porcelain bottle.

"Yes, there are only three left. Each one costs seven spirit stones."

It was a bit more expensive than Yunyang Market. Li Yuan didn't haggle and counted out fourteen spirit stones to buy two.

Back in the shop, Li Yuan went into the inner room and closed the door.

He took out the Breath Concealing Pill and the Breath Concealing Elixir he had prepared earlier from his storage bag.

He first took a Breath Concealing Pill.

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The medicinal effects spread from the abdomen, and a cool power spread along the meridians to the whole body, further suppressing the fluctuations of energy on the body surface.

With the combined effects of aura concealment and aura hiding, the fluctuations in spiritual energy have been suppressed to an extremely low level.

Li Yuan took another Breath-Concealing Pill, and the effects of the two medicines worked simultaneously.

The second Concealing Breath Pill no longer provides much of an improvement.

Li Yuan once again activated his micro-controlling spirit technique, weaving the spirit silk net onto the inside of his body.

Spiritual energy fluctuation: almost zero.

Li Yuan tightened the density of the spirit silk net even further, with the spirit silk extending outward from the inside of the body to form a second, finer net on the skin surface.

Now I am no different from an ordinary person.

Li Yuan maintained this state, reached into his storage bag, touched the sensing plate, and equipped it.

The panel popped up.

[The conditions for permanentization have been met. Do you wish to make it permanent?]

Yes.

[Permanentization successful]

[The phrase "breath imprint (white)" has become a permanent entry.]

[Equipment consumed]

The Qi-sensing disc in the palm transformed into a beam of white light and entered the body.

Breath memorization. The effect is to enhance the range and precision of breath perception.

At the same time, it can remember the characteristics of the auras it has encountered, and can perceive the memorized auras within a certain range.

Li Yuan removed the spiritual silk net and returned to normal. The fluctuations of spiritual energy on his body surface reappeared, and the vitality of his blood and qi returned.

Just as I stood up, the words I had memorized suddenly reacted.

An unfamiliar aura emanated from the north of the outer settlement. It was not close, about a hundred feet away.

Nine layers of Qi refinement.

Li Yuan pushed open the door and walked under the shed.

My gaze passed over the dirt road and several rows of stone houses, and looked to the north.

A hundred paces away on the dirt road, a middle-aged monk dressed in a gray-brown short shirt was walking westward. He was of medium build, with slightly forward-leaning shoulders, and his pace was neither fast nor slow. His face was ordinary; he would not attract any attention in a crowd.

But Li Yuan had seen that face before.

Qu Bo had given him several sheets of paper with drawings of the common faces of the leaders of the Tribulation Cultivators. The middle-aged cultivator's face matched one of the portraits.

Li Yuan did not move.

The man walked along the dirt road to its western end, turned into a narrow alley, and disappeared among the stone houses. His aura weakened, but didn't completely vanish; Li Yuan had already firmly memorized the characteristics of that aura.

Li Yuan turned and went back into the shop. When he came out of the inner room, he ran into Uncle Qu coming back from outside.

"What's up?"

Qu Bo glanced at him.

"A person just passed by from the north. He was at the ninth level of Qi Refining, and his appearance matched one of the portraits."

Qu Bo's eyes narrowed slightly.

Which one?

"The third one. Middle-aged, shoulders hunched forward, wearing a gray-brown short-sleeved shirt. He walked west and turned into a narrow alley."

Qu Bo didn't ask any more questions and turned to walk west. His steps were neither hurried nor slow, but each step he took covered almost twice the distance of a normal stride.

Li Yuan did not follow.

Qu Bo can handle this himself; if he goes over there, he'll only make things worse.

Back at the shop, continue making talismans.

In the days that followed, Li Yuan maintained his routine of making and selling talismans during the day, refining pills in the evening, and cultivating at night.

The refining of Qi-replenishing pills became increasingly skillful, and the efficacy of the finished products had stabilized at a normal level. Occasionally, a batch of pills of particularly good quality would be produced, and after Old Sun looked at it, he would mutter that it felt good, which was taken as his approval.

In terms of talisman making, the success rate of spirit-gathering array talismans is also steadily improving. The handling of the closing point is no longer a problem, and the spiral precision of the second auxiliary spirit rune has also been improved, with six or seven out of ten talismans successfully formed.

Two Refining Spirit Talismans were made without fail every day, once in the morning and once in the evening. Under the dual tempering of the Refining Spirit Talismans and the Soul-Illuminating Mirror, the soul continued to strengthen, and the clarity and range of perception were slowly expanding.

The practice of the Micro-Element Meridian Guiding Technique is interspersed throughout daily cultivation time. Under the repeated friction of the spiritual threads, the tiny meridians throughout the body are gradually opened up, and the coverage of spiritual energy as it circulates throughout the body becomes wider and wider.

In the latter half of the night, Li Yuan sat cross-legged on the bed and practiced the Micro-Element Guiding Meridian Technique.

The spiritual threads branched off from the dantian and traveled along the meridians to the most subtle micro-channels. Under the repeated cleansing of the spiritual threads, an extremely fine micro-channel was finally opened, and spiritual energy flowed back to the dantian from the end of this micro-channel, completing the final stretch of the blind path.

The panel jumped.

【Technique: Subtle Yuan Meridian Guiding Technique - Great Success (0/3200)】

Great success.

The meridian network throughout the body has become extremely clear under the refinement of the Micro-Element Guiding Meridian Technique. Spiritual energy can travel from the dantian to every meridian in the body, including the finest and deepest terminal micro-meridians, without any obstruction.

Li Yuan circulated his spiritual energy for one cycle. The energy traveled through all the meridians in his body, faster than before, and flowed freely to every part of his body.