Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Li Yuan spread the two first-grade high-quality crafting manuals given to him by Qin Ruoshuang on the table and spent an afternoon reading them from beginning to end.

The core runes of the Gathering Spirit Talisman are a combination of Gathering Spirit Runes and Amplification Runes, which greatly enhance the absorption efficiency of spiritual energy around the user for a short period of time. The runes are mainly converging in direction, somewhat similar to the Gathering Spirit Array Talisman.

The core runes of the Demon-Slaying Talisman are a combination of the Evil-Dispelling Rune and the Purification Rune, specifically designed to counter evil spirits. The runes are arranged in a straight, piercing pattern, similar to the piercing runes of the Forbidden-Breaking Talisman, but with an additional layer of purification effect.

The precision requirement for a first-tier high-grade spirit rune is significantly higher than that for a first-tier mid-grade spirit rune, but much lower than that for a second-tier low-grade spirit water talisman. With a foundation of perfected first-tier talisman-making skills, it's easy to get started.

The first finished product was obtained after drawing three Gathering Yuan Talismans. Five Demon-Slaying Talismans were drawn.

【Talisman: Gathering Yuan Talisman - Beginner (0/200)】

【Talisman: Exorcising Talisman - Beginner (0/200)】

I have mastered both new talismans.

Li Yuan placed the two finished products on the table and placed his fingers on them one after the other.

Juyuan Talisman.

[Equipable item detected: Gathering Yuan Talisman (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Spiritual Energy Gathering (White) - Increases the range of spiritual energy absorption and the speed of spiritual energy inflow during cultivation]

[Preview of conditions for permanentization: Cultivate two martial arts techniques and achieve mastery]

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

White text. Spiritual energy gathering.

The condition for permanent attainment is achieving mastery of two cultivation methods.

The conditions have long been met.

Move your finger to the exorcism talisman.

[Equipable item detected: Demon-Slaying Talisman (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Demon Slayer (White) - Spells inflict additional damage from Divine Soul and Yin Soul effects]

[Preview of conditions for permanentization: Reach the Foundation Establishment stage of cultivation, or defeat a cultivator who is one minor realm higher than yourself (0/1)]

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

White text. Demon Slayer.

Conditions for permanentization: Reaching the Foundation Establishment stage of cultivation, or defeating a cultivator who is one level higher than oneself.

His cultivation level was already at the Foundation Establishment stage, so the conditions were met directly.

Li Yuan equipped and permanently made the two talismans permanent.

[Permanentization successful]

[Aura Gathering (White) has become a permanent entry]

[Permanentization successful]

[The "Demon Slayer (White)" skill has become a permanent entry.]

Two white entries were added to the account.

The gathering of spiritual energy increases the absorption range and the influx speed of spiritual energy during cultivation. When combined with existing cultivation acceleration attributes such as pure spiritual power, refined spiritual power, and accelerated circulation, cultivation efficiency is further improved.

The "Demon Breaker" skill adds an extra layer of damage to the soul, and when combined with the soul attack system of "Soul Piercing Technique" and "Soul Condensation Technique," the effect is estimated to be quite good.

Li Yuan reorganized his equipment inventory and noticed a trend.

As cultivation level continues to rise, the conditions for making these attributes permanent become increasingly easier to meet.

Reaching the late stage of Qi Refining or mastering a cultivation technique are not barriers for Foundation Establishment cultivators.

In the future, if you encounter a new white-label entry, you'll most likely be able to make it permanent as soon as you get it.

After tidying up his desk, Li Yuan went out and headed towards the south gate of Yunyangfang Market.

Ghost Mist Forest.

The purpose this time is not only to absorb evil energy, but also to mine evil stones deep in the mine. The permanent transformation of evil spirits requires one hundred evil stones.

Leaving the city through the south gate, I headed southwest along the official road. Activating my Swift Steps, I reached the outskirts of the Ghost Mist Forest in less than two hours.

Upon entering the dense fog, the symbiotic relationship between malevolent energy and physical energy automatically activated. Malevolent energy within a radius of several dozen feet was slowly drawn in, seeping into the fascia and bones.

Li Yuan did not linger on the perimeter but walked directly into the depths.

The divine sense expands outward, taking in the surrounding environment. The range of divine sense after Foundation Establishment far exceeds the amplification of spiritual perception during the Qi Refining stage; even under the interference of ghostly mist, it can perceive the fluctuations of aura hundreds of feet away.

After walking for about half an hour, the terrain ahead began to sink.

An opening appeared on the mountainside ahead. The opening was small, barely enough for two people to pass side by side, and there were traces of artificial carving along the edges.

Mine shaft.

Li Yuan had been to the shallower parts before, but this time he was going to go deeper.

The air inside the cave was colder than outside, and the concentration of malevolent energy suddenly increased. There were lights inlaid with spirit stones on the cave walls, but the deeper one went, the sparser the spirit stones became, and the dimmer the light grew.

Li Yuan walked into the mine tunnel.

After walking about two hundred feet, the mine tunnel split into two forks.

The left-hand side passage was wider, with numerous fresh excavation marks on the cave walls and scattered rubble and slag on the ground. This was the area where independent cultivators routinely mined spirit iron ore.

The fork in the path on the right was much narrower. There were no signs of excavation on the cave walls, and the ground was covered with a layer of grayish-white dust. The entrance was partially blocked by several large stones, leaving a narrow gap that was barely wide enough for someone to squeeze through sideways.

On the other side of the depths.

Li Yuan squeezed through the gap and continued walking along the right-hand side path.

The concentration of malevolent energy is rising rapidly.

The concentration of malevolent energy in the outer perimeter was just a gentle breeze to Li Yuan, but the deeper he went, the denser the malevolent energy became. After a certain point, the concentration was so high that ordinary Qi Refining stage cultivators could not withstand it at all.

The symbiotic relationship between malevolent energy and spiritual energy suppresses all negative effects to an extremely low level. The dense malevolent energy is automatically gathered, with some seeping into the fascia to temper the body, some stored in the body, and some converted into spiritual energy.

In such an environment of intense malevolent energy, simply walking is equivalent to cultivating oneself.

After walking about a hundred feet, dark red mineral vein patterns began to appear on the cave walls on both sides of the fork in the road.

Shashi mineral vein.

Dark red ore, varying in size from fist-sized to egg-sized, was embedded in the gray-black rock wall. Its surface gleamed with a dull red light, and a malevolent aura emanated from within.

The taste is more than one level higher than the superficial level.

Li Yuan took out an iron pickaxe from his storage bag—a mining tool he had found in the storage bags of the three cultivators who had been robbed, and hadn't thrown it away.

The pickaxe chiseled into the rock wall, and a piece of evil rock was pried off.

It's about the size of a fist, heavy in the hand, and its dark red luster is much richer than that of the shallower layers of evil stone.

Li Yuan put the evil stone into his storage bag and continued digging.

The ore vein has a large reserve and extends a long distance along the tunnel walls on both sides of the branch tunnel.

After digging for about an hour, Li Yuan stopped and counted.

One hundred and thirteen yuan.

enough.

Li Yuan put away his pickaxe and found a flat spot deep in the mine where he sat down cross-legged.

First, absorb the evil energy and cultivate for a while.

The concentration of malevolent energy deep within the mine was extremely high, and the passive gathering effect of the malevolent energy symbiosis was maximized here. Malevolent energy within a radius of several dozen feet surged in like a tide, several times higher than the concentration on the ground of the Ghost Mist Forest.

The Green Wood Longevity Technique was activated, and the Evil Spirit Transformation Method operated simultaneously. The evil energy flowed along a specific path, part of which was transformed into spiritual power and integrated into the dantian, part of which passed through the soul nodes to cleanse and temper the soul, and part of which seeped into the muscles and bones to temper the body.

After cultivating for two hours, Li Yuan stopped and stood up.

He took out the evil stones from the storage bag and began to absorb them one by one.

The conditions for making the Sha Ling Conversion Technique permanent are: use one hundred Sha stones and absorb all the Sha energy in them.

Li Yuan held the first evil stone in his palm.

The symbiotic relationship between the evil spirits and the evil energy automatically draws the evil energy from inside the evil stone out, flowing into the body along the meridians. The concentration of evil energy in the evil stone is many times higher than in the environment; the amount of evil energy in one evil stone is equivalent to the total amount absorbed in the outer perimeter of the Ghost Mist Forest in half a day.

The malevolent energy was rapidly absorbed, diverted, and utilized. Part of it was transformed into spiritual energy, part was used to temper the body, and part was stored.

After the evil energy of the first evil stone was completely absorbed, the dark red ore turned into a grayish-white waste stone, and the spiritual energy fluctuations completely disappeared.

[Soul Tempering (Green) Permanentization Progress: 1/100]

The second piece. The third piece. The fourth piece.

Li Yuan absorbed the evil energy one stone after another at a rapid pace. The symbiotic relationship between evil energy and evil spirits was extremely efficient at processing evil energy; the absorption time for each evil stone was no more than a dozen breaths.

Fifty yuan. Seventy yuan. Ninety yuan.

The malevolent energy of the hundredth stone was completely absorbed.

The conditions for making the Soul Tempering (Green) skill permanent have been met.

Is it permanent?

Yes.

[Permanentization successful]

The "Soul Tempering (Green)" skill has become a permanent entry.

[Equipment consumed]

The animal hide booklet of the Demon Spirit Transformation Technique transformed into a green light in the storage bag and entered the body.

The changes will be noticeable very quickly.

The flow path of the malevolent energy within the body has been expanded—the operational path of the Malevolent Spirit Transformation Technique has been permanently etched into the meridian memory. From now on, there will be no need to consciously circulate the technique; the malevolent energy will automatically be tempered when passing through the soul nodes and will automatically promote cultivation growth when passing through the meridians.

A second notification then popped up on the panel.

[A combination of terms that can be merged was detected]

【Symbiotic Evil Essence (Blue) + Soul Tempering (Green)】

[Estimated grade after fusion: Blue]

[Should we merge?]

It can coexist and merge with the evil element again.

It remains blue after fusion, and its grade has not improved.

Li Yuan chose to merge.

The icons for the two terms lit up on the panel, overlapping. The light changed from a mixture of blue and green to a deeper blue, stabilizing after a few breaths.

[Integration Complete]

[Obtain permanent entry: Sha Yuan Gui Yi (Blue)]

【Evil Returns to One (Blue)】

[Effects: Complete immunity to the negative effects of malevolent energy; can convert and store impurities in the body into malevolent energy; automatically gathers surrounding malevolent energy during cultivation; malevolent energy has a powerful body-tempering effect; malevolent energy can be converted into spiritual power, promoting cultivation growth; malevolent energy can temper the soul.]

On the panel, the two entries "Symbiosis of Evil Essence" and "Soul Tempering of Evil Spirit" disappeared, and were replaced by "Symbiosis Return to Oneness".

It also has the effect of tempering the soul.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and sensed the changes within.

The presence of the malevolent energy within the body became more natural. It was no longer a foreign energy to be contained, but rather became a part of the body like spiritual power. The malevolent energy flowed automatically through the meridians, being tempered when passing through the soul, tempered when passing through the muscles, and transformed into spiritual power when passing through the dantian.

Fully automatic, lossless, and without negative impact.