Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

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That afternoon, after teaching Han Qing, Li Yuan went out to the gathering area of ​​independent cultivators to replenish a batch of cinnabar.

The number of people in the stall area was even greater than a few days ago. The news of the Yuan Yang Sect recruiting disciples continued to spread, and the independent cultivators who came from all over the country crowded the stall area to the brim, and even the open space outside the stone railing was covered with coarse cloth stalls.

Li Yuan walked slowly along the stall area and stopped in front of a stall selling cinnabar and mineral powder. He picked out two pieces of cinnabar of good quality and paid with spirit stones.

As I continued walking, I passed a stall that I had never noticed before.

The stall owner was an old cultivator in his sixties, with a gaunt face and completely white temples, and his cultivation level was at the sixth level of Qi Refining. On the coarse cloth in front of him were only three things: two bottles of unlabeled pills and a scroll of animal hide carefully wrapped in oiled paper.

The oiled paper cover of the animal hide book had the words "Gathering Evil Formation" written on it.

Li Yuan slowed his pace.

Gathering Evil Formation. A formation that gathers evil energy.

He squatted down, picked up the rolled-up animal skin book, and flipped through a couple of pages.

The content is not complicated.

The Gathering Qi Array is a low-grade, first-tier functional array. Once deployed, it continuously gathers the malevolent energy from the surrounding environment, concentrating it at the array's core. It has a large coverage area, slowly drawing in malevolent energy within a radius of a hundred feet.

For most cultivators, malevolent energy is something to be avoided. A malevolent energy gathering array concentrates malevolent energy in one place, which is equivalent to creating a dangerous area with an extremely high concentration of malevolent energy.

Not many people would buy this kind of formation.

But Li Yuan is different.

The affinity with malevolent energy meant it had almost no negative impact on him. The body tempering technique transformed malevolent energy into nourishment for refining the physical body. The Iron Wall Body Tempering Technique required a large amount of malevolent energy for its cultivation.

Previously, when I went to the Ghost Mist Forest to collect malevolent energy, it took most of the day to travel back and forth, and the amount of malevolent energy I could bring back each time was limited.

If you can set up a gathering array for evil energy in a place with abundant evil energy, you can gather all the evil energy in the surrounding area, which is equivalent to creating a training ground that continuously supplies evil energy there.

No need to run back and forth anymore, you can just cultivate directly inside the formation.

"How much is this?" Li Yuanchao asked the stall owner, waving the booklet in his hand.

The old monk raised his cloudy eyes and glanced at it.

"Gathering Evil Array, 25 spirit stones, no bargaining."

"OK."

He put the spirit stone down and put the booklet into his storage bag.

Li Yuan stood up and walked around the stall area again.

Setting up the Gathering Evil Array requires materials. The booklet lists the following: eight base stones, a certain amount of conductive spirit sand, and one evil-gathering stone for the array's core.

Array foundation stones are the most common materials for setting up arrays. They can be bought at ore stalls in areas where independent cultivators gather, one spirit stone per stone. Conductive spirit sand is also inexpensive, three spirit stones for a bag.

The evil-repelling stone is a bit more troublesome, as it inherently carries evil energy and is not commonly found at ordinary ore stalls.

Li Yuan wandered around the stall area and finally found it at a stall that specialized in Yin-attribute materials. It cost fifteen spirit stones each, and he bought three in total.

After returning to the courtyard, Li Yuan unfolded the animal skin booklet of the Gathering Evil Array on the table and carefully read it twice from beginning to end.

The array diagram is not complex. Eight foundation stones are placed in specific positions and at specific intervals, and connecting lines are laid on the ground using conductive spiritual sand to link the eight nodes into a network. The evil-gathering stone is placed at the array's eye, serving as the core of the entire array.

The key to setting up the array lies in the direction of the transmission lines and the order of spiritual energy infusion. The transmission of spiritual energy between the eight nodes must form a stable closed loop, somewhat similar to the nine-pattern closed structure of the Spirit Gathering Array.

The permanent attribute of "Basic Array Formation" remained active, increasing Li Yuan's proficiency in array formation by 50%. Coupled with the increased precision in spiritual power control brought by mastering talisman-making, the technical difficulty of setting up arrays was not too high for Li Yuan.

The problem lies in the location.

The area covered by the Gathering Evil Array is quite large. Moreover, once the array is activated, it will continuously gather evil energy, and the concentration of evil energy near the array's core will become increasingly higher.

Setting up formations privately is prohibited within Yunyangfang City; one must apply to the Yuanyang Sect to do so.

Let alone a Gathering Fiend Array, which creates dangerous areas, even a regular Gathering Spirit Array is illegal to set up privately within the market area.

Li Yuan needs a place outside the market.

The area is filled with malevolent energy, is unmanaged, and cannot be too far from the market town.

Ghost Mist Forest.

That forest, perpetually shrouded in thick fog and malevolent energy, boasts the highest concentration of such energy in the entire region. Setting up an array there would enhance its effectiveness in gathering malevolent energy. Furthermore, the Ghost Mist Forest is not under the jurisdiction of any power, so no one will interfere with you setting up an array there.

It's a half-day journey from Yunyang Market, not exactly close, but not unacceptable either. After setting up the array, I won't need to search the entire forest for places with high concentrations of malevolent energy whenever I go to cultivate; I can simply sit down near the array's core.

Li Yuan carefully put away the booklet and materials, without rushing to leave.

First, finish the talisman-making tasks you have on hand.

Spread out the talisman paper and pick up the talisman brush.

One, two, three.

Each one is in extremely good condition.

When I finished drawing the fifth piece, the feeling of finishing the stroke was different from the first four.

It's not that things have gotten better, it's that I no longer need to care. The six spiritual patterns of the Heart-Locking Talisman, from the beginning to the end, were completed like an instinctive action of the body, without any thought.

【Talisman: Heart-Locking Talisman - Mastery (0/800)】

Li Yuan put down the talisman brush and replaced it with a concealing talisman.

The concealment runes of the Breath-Concealing Talisman differ from those of the Heart-Locking Talisman, but the precision required for controlling spiritual energy is the same. After drawing a few, the same feeling arose.

[Talisman: Concealing Breath Talisman - Mastery (0/800)]

Both types of talismans were mastered simultaneously.

The most effective way to boost your overall proficiency in talisman making is to alternate between crafting different types of talismans. Each additional talisman you master will significantly increase your overall proficiency.

Li Yuan folded the finished product neatly and put away his pen.

At night, sit cross-legged on the bed and practice the "Hundred Meridians Returning to Origin Technique".

Spiritual energy surges into the body, pure spiritual power eliminates impurities, and the spiritual power condenses and sinks into the dantian. The spiritual essence of the Gathering Spirit Pill increases the cultivation speed by 50%, while the spiritual power of the Breakthrough Pill further increases by 20%.

The Blood Coagulation Pill's dual cultivation of spirit and blood allows qi and blood to circulate in sync with spiritual power. The permanent attribute of "Qi and Blood Stabilization" ensures that the circulation of qi and blood is as stable as a rock.

One cycle, two cycles, three cycles.

The Hundred Meridians Returning to Origin Technique has been progressing slowly since its mastery. The core of this technique is to harmonize the coexistence of different elemental spiritual energies in the meridians, allowing fire, water, earth, metal, and wood elements to coexist peacefully in the same meridian without conflict.

At the advanced stage, there is no conflict. There is no rejection when switching between different attributes of spiritual energy in the meridians, and the speed of conversion and loss are at a very low level.

However, no conflict does not equate to integration.

When spiritual energy circulates in the meridians, although different attributes no longer repel each other, they still go their separate ways. Fire energy follows the fire path, water energy follows the water path, and they keep to themselves.

The process of moving from great achievement to perfection is the process of moving from non-conflict to coexistence.

It's not about merging them into one, but about allowing spiritual energies of different attributes to coexist in the same meridian, like cold and hot water in the same river, flowing together without mixing.

After the fourth cycle of energy circulation was completed, Li Yuan slowly opened his eyes. Perfection.

【Technique: Hundred Meridians Return to Origin Technique - Perfected (3200/3200)】

Li Yuan opened his eyes, circulated his energy for a full cycle, and then felt it.

After mastering the Hundred Meridians Returning to Origin Technique, the most noticeable change is the speed of spiritual energy attribute conversion. Previously, switching from fire to water required a very short transition process, but now this transition has almost disappeared. Spiritual energy can instantly switch attributes within the meridians without any transition time.

This greatly benefits talisman making. When drawing talismans with different attributes, the loss from frequently switching spiritual energy attributes is reduced to zero after reaching perfection, further increasing efficiency.

It also has advantages in combat. When casting spells of different attributes in succession, there is no need to wait for the spiritual energy conversion to complete in between, allowing for seamless transitions.