Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

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Han Qing arrived the next morning.

A boy of sixteen or seventeen stood at the gate of the courtyard, carrying a cloth bag containing his talisman brush and a stack of blue-patterned paper.

He had delicate features but was rather thin, with narrow shoulders. He stood there somewhat reserved, his gaze sweeping over the table and talismans in the courtyard before looking at Li Yuan.

"Master Li... Master Li."

"Come in."

Han Qing walked into the courtyard, placed the cloth bag on the table, took out the talisman pen and talisman paper from it, arranged them neatly, and stood obediently by the table to wait.

Li Yuan sat down across the table and glanced at the talisman brush that Han Qing had brought.

It's an ordinary spirit wood talisman brush, with mediocre workmanship. The bristles at the tip are a bit loose, making the transmission of spiritual energy somewhat uneven.

Use mine.

Li Yuan rummaged through his storage bag and pulled out a spare talisman brush, handing it over. It wasn't a top-quality brush, but it was significantly better than Han Qing's own.

Han Qing took it, holding it in both hands, her fingertips trembling slightly.

Li Yuan ignored his nervousness and started immediately.

"Draw a fireball talisman for me to see."

Han Qing spread out the talisman paper, dipped it in spirit ink, and made the first stroke with the talisman brush.

The spiritual energy seeped from the tip of the pen, but it went crooked after traveling less than half an inch across the paper.

The starting angle of the fire-gathering pattern was nearly ten degrees off, and the spiritual energy could not spread on the paper, piling up at one point to form a blot of ink.

obsolete.

Han Qing picked up the discarded talisman and set it aside, his face slightly flushed, and then laid out a new one.

The second one was slightly better than the first. The starting angle of the fire-gathering pattern was barely correct, but the spiritual energy dissipated again when it reached the middle section.

It's useless now.

After looking at the two pictures, Li Yuan had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

Han Qing's problem lies not in his talent, but in his foundation.

If the pen grip is incorrect, the path of spiritual energy transmission will be blocked, and the control of the starting angle and force will be based entirely on guesswork without systematic training.

I studied with others for half a year before, but I only learned some fragmented techniques. I didn't build a solid foundation, so the further I went, the less I could draw.

"Wait a minute."

Han Qing put down the talisman brush and looked nervously at Li Yuan.

"Hold the pen."

Li Yuan extended his right hand, his five fingers naturally spread, and held the talisman brush in his hand.

"Use your index and middle fingers to control direction, your thumb to hold the pen, and your ring and little fingers to support it. Relax your wrist and don't clench it. When your spiritual energy flows from your dantian through your arm, don't stop at your wrist; send it directly to your fingertips."

He held the pen-holding posture for a few breaths, allowing Han Qing to clearly see the position of each finger and the distribution of force.

"You try it."

Han Qing adjusted her pen grip, mimicking Li Yuan's posture. Her fingers were in the right position, but her wrist was still tense.

"Loosen your wrist."

"When drawing talismans, your wrist is flexible and follows the tip of the brush. If you hold it still, the spiritual energy will be stuck in your wrist and won't be able to pass through."

Han Qing tried to relax his wrist, and the flow of spiritual energy from his fingertips was smoother than before.

"Let's begin."

Li Yuan pointed to the starting point of the fire-gathering pattern on the talisman.

"Use spiritual energy lightly at first, then increase it gradually. Don't exert too much force right away, or you won't be able to spread your spiritual energy properly."

Han Qing began writing as instructed.

This time, the starting angle was right, and the spiritual energy didn't get stuck at my wrist. The first half of the Fire Gathering Pattern flowed much more smoothly than before.

Han Qing himself also sensed the difference, and his eyes lit up.

Li Yuan continued to provide guidance, correcting each stroke meticulously.

The starting angle, the distribution of spiritual energy, the range of wrist rotation, and the connection between each spiritual rune.

Li Yuan himself experienced all of these things in the process of mastering the art of talisman making, and he gained new insights with each improvement in his proficiency.

Teaching Han Qing now is like re-examining the path I've walked.

During the teaching process, Li Yuan noticed something.

When each technique is explained, your understanding of that technique becomes clearer.

It's not that there are new things, but rather that the existing things have been reorganized.

It's like a warehouse full of things. When you use something, you know where it is, but when there are a lot of things, some corners are inevitably blurry.

Now, if you want to explain something to someone, you have to take everything out and put it on the table, explaining what it is, how to use it, and why you should use it this way.

As I flipped through the pages, those blurry corners became clear.

After a morning of teaching, Han Qing's progress wasn't significant, but he was on the right track. The basic skills of pen-writing posture and spiritual energy transmission require repeated practice to form muscle memory; it's not something that can be solved in a day or two.

After Han Qing left, Li Yuan sat at the table, spread out the talisman paper, and continued drawing his own talismans.

When the first fireball talisman was drawn, the proficiency level of talisman crafting on the panel jumped.

It went up.

The increase was greater than when I usually draw talismans myself.

Li Yuan drew a second one.

It's gone up again. The increase is similar to the first one, nearly 30% higher than the increase when simply making talismans.

The experience gained from teaching is faster than making your own talismans.

Li Yuan kept this discovery in mind without delving into the reasons.

In the afternoon, Li Yuan closed the courtyard gate and sat cross-legged on the bed.

Li Yuan activated the Iron Ox Technique, releasing the stored malevolent energy and drawing it into his fascia and bones.

The body tempering technique and the Iron Wall Body Refining Technique operate simultaneously. Under the dual cultivation effect of the Blood Coagulation Pill, the Qi and blood run in sync with the spiritual power, and the three forces alternately cleanse the deep layers of the muscles.

Once, twice, three times.

When Li Yuan finished the third time, he felt the changes in the Iron Wall Body Refining Technique.

The resistance when spiritual energy penetrates deep into the muscles has decreased significantly. The absorption channels opened during the mastery stage continue to widen, and the depth and speed of spiritual energy penetration are steadily increasing.

The proficiency of the Iron Wall Body Refining Technique is approaching minor mastery.

A few more days passed.

Every morning, he taught Han Qing how to make talismans for one to two hours, in the afternoon he made talismans, in the evening he refined elixirs, and at night he cultivated.

Han Qing's progress was faster than expected. After correcting his basic skills, he was able to draw the fire pattern completely, although the quality was not satisfactory, at least it was no longer scattered.

The experience gained from teaching talisman making has consistently been higher than the experience gained from making talismans on one's own.

After teaching Han Qing every day, he would draw his own talismans, and his proficiency improved by nearly 30% faster than before.

That evening, Li Yuan was practicing the Iron Wall Body Refining Technique.

As the spiritual energy flowed into the deep layers of the muscles along the path of the cultivation technique, a subtle change occurred in the latter half of the fourth repetition.

The circulation of spiritual energy deep within the muscles no longer requires continuous activation through cultivation techniques.

It feels similar to the feeling when the Iron Ox Kung Fu is perfected. When the Iron Ox Kung Fu is perfected, the internal organs absorb qi and blood on their own, while the Iron Wall Body Refining Kung Fu now allows the deep muscles to receive spiritual energy on their own.

After the spiritual energy is infused, the muscle fibers actively pull the spiritual energy into deeper layers, seeping in layer by layer from the muscle fibers to the fascia to the periosteum, without the need for external force.

The panel jumped.

[Technique: Iron Wall Body Refining Technique - Minor Success (0/1600)]

Xiao Cheng.

The condition for making the Soul-Gathering Pill permanent is that both a cultivation technique and an immortal body-refining technique must be mastered.

The Spirit Guiding Technique has been perfected. The Iron Wall Body Refining Technique has now reached minor completion, but there is still some distance to go before it reaches major completion.

But the direction is right.

Li Yuan finished his practice and stretched his muscles.

After achieving a minor level of mastery in the Iron Wall Body Refinement Technique, his physical strength reached a new level. The power he felt when clenching his fist was extremely substantial, and the muscle density beneath his skin was significantly higher than when he had mastered it.

Zhou Tie arrived that evening.

"There's a party tomorrow night, are you going?"

The second gathering of the artisan community.

"go."

The following evening, Li Yuan went to a teahouse on East Street with Zhou Tie and Shen Yue.

The private room on the second floor was the same as last time, with a long table covered with coarse cloth and various items for trade displayed. There were a few more people than last time, about twenty-five or twenty-six.

Li Yuan walked slowly along the edge of the table, his gaze sweeping over the items on it.

Most of it is similar to last time, mainly materials and finished products. Spiritual herbs, ores, pills, and magical artifact parts, ranging in quality from low-grade first tier to mid-grade first tier.

When Li Yuan reached the middle of the table, his gaze fell on a scroll of bamboo slips.

The wooden plaque next to the bamboo slip reads: Soul Condensation Technique. A cultivation method for the soul, first-tier, low-grade.

After cultivation, one can continuously strengthen their soul, enhance their perception, and improve their offensive and defensive capabilities.

Divine Soul Cultivation Technique.

Li Yuan had been searching for this for a while. The condition for making the Soul Piercing Technique permanent is to cultivate a soul cultivation technique and reach the entry level.

It's not surprising that spiritual cultivation techniques have emerged in the artisan world. Talisman making, alchemy, and weapon crafting all require spiritual strength, especially talisman making and alchemy. The stronger the spiritual strength, the more refined the perception of spiritual power and medicinal effects, and the better the craftsmanship.

Craftsmen have a much greater need for spiritual cultivation techniques than ordinary independent cultivators.

"How much is this scroll?" Li Yuan gestured with his chin towards a cultivator standing next to the bamboo slips.

The cultivator was an alchemist in his forties with a kind face.

"Soul Condensation Technique, forty spirit stones."

The price isn't too high. Soul cultivation techniques are rarer than ordinary spells on the market, but a low-grade first-tier technique isn't considered high-level, so forty spirit stones is a reasonable price.

Thirty-five.

Thirty-eight.

"OK."

The spirit stone was set aside, and the bamboo slips were put away.

Li Yuan continued walking forward.

As I walked to the end of the table, near the corner, my fingers instinctively touched an item placed on the edge of the table.

A jade plate the size of a palm.

The jade is dark blue-green, with a ring of fine spiritual patterns carved along the edge. The craftsmanship is much more exquisite than that of ordinary magical artifacts. A small dark red bead is embedded in the center of the plate, shimmering slightly.

The moment the fingertip touched the surface of the jade plate, the panel popped out.

[Equipable item detected]

[Item Attribute Level: Green]

[Note: Items not belonging to the user cannot be equipped, and detailed information cannot be viewed.]

green.

Li Yuan's fingers lingered on the jade plate for a moment longer.

He picked up the jade plate and examined it. The back was smooth and unmarked. The spiritual patterns on the front were finely carved, indicating high quality.

There were no wooden signs or prices displayed nearby.

Beside the jade plate stood a cultivator in his fifties, with a thin face and fingers stained with spiritual ink—the hands of a talisman maker. His cultivation level was at the seventh level of Qi Refining.

Li Yuan glanced at him. "Is this for sale?"

The gaunt cultivator looked down at the jade plate in Li Yuan's hand and thought for a moment.

"Oh, that was brought out from a secret realm. I don't know what it is. I poured spiritual energy into it but there was no reaction. It's just taking up space, so I might as well sell it."

"How many?"

"Name your price."

Li Yuan flipped the jade plate over a couple of times, pretending to be unsure.

"thirty?"

The gaunt cultivator tilted his head. "The craftsmanship of the spirit runes isn't bad, thirty is too low. Fifty."

"forty."

"Forty-five, it can't go any lower."

"OK."

Forty-five spirit stones were placed on the table, and the jade plate was put into the storage bag.

Li Yuan did not linger at the party for long; after taking another look around, he said goodbye and left.

Back in the courtyard, I closed the door.

First, take out the bamboo slip containing the Soul Condensation Technique. Read this first; the permanent application of the Soul Piercing Technique requires mastering a basic soul cultivation method.

Then look at the jade plate with the green entry.

Li Yuan unfolded the bamboo slips and laid them on the table, then began to read them from the beginning.

The cultivation method of the Soul Condensation Technique is completely different from ordinary spiritual energy cultivation methods. It does not involve the meridians or the dantian; the object of cultivation is the soul itself.

The core method is to concentrate one's consciousness on the soul node between the eyebrows, and then repeatedly condense and expand the soul power in a specific way, like forging a piece of iron.

Tighten, loosen, tighten again, loosen again; each cycle increases the density of the soul slightly.

Li Yuan tried it out according to the incantation on the bamboo slip.

Focus your awareness on the space between your eyebrows.

The power of the soul surged from the depths of consciousness, gathering at the point between the eyebrows. Then, guided by the incantation, the gathered power of the soul was compressed inward.

The compression process was a bit strenuous, but not particularly difficult.

The long-term strengthening of his soul by the Soul-Illuminating Mirror and his insights into alchemy made his soul strength far exceed that of others of the same level, and the resistance during compression was much less than described in the technique.

After compressing to the limit, slowly release it.

The power of the soul expanded from its compressed state, and its density increased slightly during the rebound.

One loop is complete.

After several more cycles, my touch became more and more stable.

The panel popped up.

【Cultivation Technique: Soul Condensation Technique - Beginner (0/200)】

I've gotten the hang of it.

With the basics of the Divine Soul Technique established, the conditions for making the Soul Piercing Technique permanent are met.

Li Yuan carefully put away the bamboo slip containing the Soul Condensation Technique and took out the dark blue jade plate from his storage bag.

Fingertips touched the surface of the jade plate.

[Equipable item detected: Spirit Jade Plate (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Spiritual Essence Refinement (Green) - Increases the quality of the finished product by 20% when crafting runes.]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Use this item to assist in completing 300 rune crafting attempts (0/300)]

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