Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Li Yuan sat cross-legged on the futon in the center of the stone chamber and slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

A faint bluish-white spiritual light emanated from the turbid air, which dissipated after floating for two inches in the air.

In the center of the dantian, the pale blue liquid spiritual energy core rotated quietly. The liquid spiritual energy flowed through the meridians and returned to the dantian, several times faster than during the Qi Refining stage.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and felt the changes within his body.

The most obvious difference is the total amount of spiritual energy. When one reaches the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, the spiritual energy in the dantian has reached its limit in a gaseous state, but compared to now, that amount is simply insignificant.

The density of liquid spiritual energy is several times that of gaseous spiritual energy, and the amount of spiritual energy that a dantian of the same size can hold is several times greater.

The capacity of the meridians has also increased significantly. The pressure of liquid spiritual energy flowing through the meridians is far greater than that of gaseous energy, but there is no discomfort whatsoever.

The changes in the soul are most noticeable.

The moment the foundation was successfully established, an extremely subtle force surged from the dantian and rushed straight to the center of the eyebrows along a special path.

The soul was cleansed by this force, and the outer layer thickened. But the more crucial change was not in the thickness, but in its nature.

The way the soul perceives things has changed.

The spiritual perception during the Qi Refining stage is like touching with your hand; you can only perceive things within the reach of your hand. It is vague, limited, and requires conscious concentration.

It's different now.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, the strength of one's divine soul increases dramatically, naturally awakening one's divine consciousness.

Without needing to consciously activate it, the divine sense automatically spreads outward, taking in everything within a radius of several dozen feet.

The four walls of the stone chamber, the array base stones embedded in the walls, the flow of spiritual energy of the spirit-gathering array, and the structure of the restrictive spiritual patterns behind the stone door are all clearly visible.

It's much clearer than the combined effects of heightened spiritual awareness and keen perception.

The amplification of spiritual sense and the ability to detect hidden auras are still functioning, but their effects have been further amplified based on divine sense. The ability that could originally only sense fluctuations in aura and malice can now, with the addition of divine sense, distinguish even the subtle textures of aura fluctuations.

Then there's lifespan.

Li Yuan could sense where his remaining lifespan was.

The lifespan limit for those in the Qi Refining stage is approximately 120 years. Li Yuan is in his early twenties this year, so he can still live to be over 100.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, the maximum lifespan reaches 270 years.

I can live for at least another 250 years.

The permanent attribute of "Qi and Blood Stabilization" ensures that the state of Qi and Blood does not decline with the decrease of lifespan. The significant increase in lifespan after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage means that one's body will remain in peak condition in the future.

Li Yuan opened his eyes, raised his hand to clench his fist, and then relaxed it.

The sense of power was significantly stronger than when he reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. It wasn't just the increase in spiritual power; the liquid spiritual power during the Foundation Establishment process also strengthened his physical body to a certain extent. With the foundation of the Great Perfection of Iron Wall Body Refinement Technique combined with the spiritual power cleansing during Foundation Establishment, his physical strength reached a new level.

Li Yuan turned his attention to the system panel.

A new line of text appeared on the panel.

[New feature unlocked: Entry fusion]

With a thought, a large amount of information appeared in Li Yuan's mind.

After a moment, Li Yuan came to his senses and processed the information he had received.

Only permalinked terms can participate in the fusion. The fused term includes the effects of all the original terms that participated in the fusion, and is enhanced or has new features added on top of that.

In addition, the merged entry is permanent, its grade may be improved, and the merged entry can be merged with other entries again.

Several sets of mergeable terms then popped up on the panel, highlighted.

Affinity with malevolent energy (green), tempering the body with malevolent energy (white), gathering and attracting malevolent energy (white).

Three terms related to malevolent energy.

Qi and blood are generated naturally (white), blood and qi surge back (white), spinal cord regeneration (white).

Three terms related to the restoration of Qi and blood.

Aura concealed (white), aura hidden (green).

Two entries related to concealing one's presence.

Without hesitation, Li Yuan started with the first group of three entries related to malevolent energy.

"Affinity to Malevolent Energy," "Body Tempering with Malevolent Energy," and "Gathering and Attracting Malevolent Energy"—these three terms are a crucial part of my cultivation system. The collection, storage, and utilization of malevolent energy all depend on these three terms.

Fusion.

The panel flashed.

[Integration Complete]

[Gain permanent entry: Symbiotic Evil (Blue)]

【Symbiotic Evil (Blue)】

[Effects: Significantly reduces the negative effects of malevolent energy; can convert and store impurities within the body into malevolent energy; automatically gathers surrounding malevolent energy during cultivation; can actively absorb malevolent energy to temper the physical body and greatly strengthen the physique; malevolent energy can be temporarily converted into spiritual power for use.]

The changes are immediately noticeable.

The small amount of malevolent energy stored within the body became more docile, and the barrier between it and spiritual power largely disappeared. Malevolent energy was no longer merely nourishment for tempering the physical body, but had transformed into an energy reserve that could be mutually converted with spiritual power.

Li Yuan attempted to transform a trace of malevolent energy into spiritual power.

Extremely smooth. The malevolent energy circulated within the body, naturally transforming into a wisp of liquid spiritual energy as it passed through the dantian, merging into the core of spiritual energy.

The conversion efficiency isn't particularly high; about 30% of the malevolent energy can be converted into 10% spiritual energy. However, its advantage lies in the wide range of sources of malevolent energy.

The second group is fusion.

[Integration Complete]

[Obtain permanent entry: Blood River (Green)]

[Qi and Blood River (Green)]

[Effects: Significantly increases the speed of Qi and blood recovery; greatly accelerates the rate of Qi and blood enhancement; significantly accelerates the healing speed of external and internal injuries; when Qi and blood are abundant, the automatically overflowing Qi and blood can nourish the surrounding meridians and internal organs, slowly strengthening the physical body.]

The third group is fusion.

[Integration Complete]

[Gain permanent entry: Vanishing Without a Trace (Green)]

[Hidden and Unseen (Green)]

[Effect: Significantly reduces and conceals one's aura; the degree is adjustable. It has a very strong concealing effect on perception of those of the same or lower level. While concealed, one's presence is reduced, making them less noticeable.]

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The list of terms on the panel has been streamlined considerably. The eight scattered terms before the fusion have been reduced to three, and each term is significantly more powerful than before.

Li Yuan scanned the entire list of entries on the panel to make sure nothing was missed.

Then attention turned to something else.

After the Foundation Establishment breakthrough, the conditions for the permanentization of several entries should have been met.

The first one. Breaking through the Foundation Establishment stage, also known as Breaking through the Yuan Pill.

The conditions for permanent establishment of the Foundation Establishment (Blue) stage have been met.

Is it permanent?

[Permanentization successful]

The "Breaking Through to Foundation Establishment (Blue)" skill has become a permanent entry.

[Equipment consumed]

Blue entries are made permanent.

The triple effect is permanently locked. The first effect, increasing the probability of Foundation Establishment breakthrough by 30%, is no longer useful.

However, the latter two effects are still effective.

A failed breakthrough will have a 30% lower backlash and will not affect the foundation, thus providing a guarantee for future breakthroughs.

The most direct benefit is that spiritual energy becomes more refined and its flow speed increases by 50%.

The second is the expansion of spiritual awareness.

Li Yuan took out the spirit-detecting disc from his storage bag.

The condition for making this entry permanent is possessing divine consciousness. After Foundation Establishment, divine consciousness naturally awakens, thus fulfilling the condition.

[Permanentization successful]

[Spiritual Awareness Expansion (Green) has become a permanent entry]

The range of his divine sense suddenly expanded. The original range of several dozen feet was pushed outward by nearly 30 to 40%, and he could clearly sense the auras of the two Yuan Yang Sect disciples on duty in the alley outside the stone chamber.

The third. Improvement in spiritual power.

The condition for permanent attainment is attempting to break through to a higher realm. Foundation Building is the breakthrough to a higher realm, and the condition is met.

Equipment, permanent.

[Spiritual Power Enhancement (Green) has become a permanent entry]

The effect of this entry is to increase the speed of spiritual energy circulation, recovery, and enhancement by 20%. The flow rate of liquid spiritual energy in the meridians has also increased significantly.

Fourth. Aura amplification.

The condition for permanent spiritual pressure is possessing spiritual pressure. Foundation Establishment cultivators naturally possess spiritual pressure, thus fulfilling the condition.

[Aura Boost (White) has become a permanent attribute]

The effect of this skill is that it allows you to actively increase the intensity of your aura, up to a maximum of 50%. Combined with the concealment effect of "Concealment," the control over the release and release of your aura reaches a new level.

All four entries have been permanently created.

Li Yuan turned his attention back to the control panel.

The previous content was: Permanently acquire two blue-grade or higher affixes, reach the Foundation Establishment stage in cultivation, and unlock the affix fusion function.

Things have changed now.

[Conditions met: Permanently acquire two blue-grade or higher affixes (1/2)]

[Note: Upgrading entries to blue through fusion does not count towards the progress.]

[Feature unlocked upon completion: Expanded keyword awareness function]

The cultivation requirement has disappeared, and the unlocked function is no longer the sixth equipment slot, but rather an expanded attribute perception function.

One more thing is missing: the blue entry.

The conditions for making Soul Light Tempering permanent are consuming a second-tier Divine Soul-type Demon Beast Inner Core or accumulating one hundred years of experience.

The conditions for all rivers to flow into the sea are that two mutually exclusive cultivation techniques reach perfection or that two second-tier mutually exclusive pills are consumed simultaneously.

The condition for eliminating the aura is to reduce the aura to the level of a mortal and live as a mortal for a month without using spiritual power.

The conditions for making the three blue entries permanent are not simple and are difficult to achieve in the short term.

"Don't worry about it for now," Li Yuan put away the panel, stood up, and stretched his limbs.

The spirit-gathering array inside the stone chamber was still operating, and the concentration of spiritual energy was slowly recovering. Too much spiritual energy had been consumed during the Foundation Establishment process, and the array needed time to replenish its concentration.

The protective barrier outside the stone gate was still in operation, and the soundproofing effect was intact.

Li Yuan sat down on the futon again and began to circulate the Green Wood Longevity Technique.

Spiritual energy surged from his dantian, following the path marked by the Green Wood Longevity Technique.

The path and the spirit-guiding technique are completely different.

The spiritual energy circulation path of the Spirit Guiding Technique is a convergence type. Spiritual energy flows in from the outside, gathers along the meridians to the dantian, and is compressed, condensed, and settled. The whole process is like filling a container with water, pursuing quantity and density.

The path of the Green Wood Longevity Technique is cyclical. Spiritual energy originates from the dantian, flows along the meridians to the extremities, absorbs external spiritual energy at the extremities, and then returns to the dantian, completing a full cycle. During this cycle, the spiritual energy is continuously permeated by the characteristics of wood-type spiritual energy, and its texture slowly changes.

The first time was quite awkward, but fortunately, my meridians were opened up, and with the help of various entries, the second time went much more smoothly.

During the circulation of the Green Wood Longevity Technique, an extremely gentle wood-elemental spiritual energy seeped into the meridians and internal organs. It wasn't a cleansing, but a nourishing one. The walls of the meridians became more flexible under the influence of the wood-elemental spiritual energy.

The deeper change lies in vitality.

After cultivating for several cycles, Li Yuan could feel the vitality within his body increasing. This wasn't an increase in qi and blood; it was something else entirely, something more fundamental and underlying.

It's as if the body's aging process has slowed down a little.

The Foundation Establishment technique has already more than doubled one's lifespan, and the Azure Wood Longevity Technique further slows down aging on this basis. The "longevity" in the name of the technique is not just for show; the core of this technique is to nourish life force with wood-type spiritual energy, prolong life, and enhance recovery ability.

The permanent attribute of "Qi and Blood Preservation" prevents the state of Qi and Blood from declining with the decrease in lifespan. Combined with the continuous nourishment of vitality provided by the "Green Wood Longevity Mantra," the two work in the same direction: one locks in Qi and Blood to prevent their decline, and the other extends lifespan itself.

The "Dual Cultivation of Spirit and Blood" attribute was also activated. When the Azure Wood Longevity Technique was activated, Qi and blood automatically synchronized with spiritual power, and the enhancements in spiritual power refinement and Foundation Establishment increased the efficiency of the circulation. The "Accelerated Circulation" attribute made the circulation speed gradually increase with the duration of cultivation.

The pure spiritual energy automatically removes impurities from the spiritual energy, and the convergence of spiritual energy expands the absorption range. With multiple attributes stacked together, although the Azure Wood Longevity Technique is only just being mastered, its operating efficiency is already far superior to that of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators of the same level.

Li Yuan continued his cultivation, completing one cycle after another.