Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 215, "The Jade Slip of Demonic Arts," is now available! Read it now!

Li Yuan stood up and calmed down the residual spiritual energy fluctuations after absorbing the inner core.

After the enhanced keyword awareness was unlocked, a new line of text appeared at the bottom of the panel.

[Conditions to unlock the next feature: Permanently acquire one purple-quality affix, or permanently acquire five blue-quality affixes (currently: 3/5)]

[Unlocked upon completion: 1 special attribute equipment slot]

Special terms, but I don't know what makes them special.

Li Yuan then turned his attention to the section on conditions for enabling the function.

Purple quality attribute.

Li Yuan had never seen this grade before. Gray, white, green, blue, and then purple.

It's currently impossible to determine exactly how rare the purple attribute is. However, the probability of its appearance decreases significantly with each level from white to green to blue, and purple is likely even rarer.

The other option is to make the five blue entries permanent.

There are currently three: Returning to Oneness of Evil Essence, Breaking Through the Foundation, and Tempering the Soul Light.

Two more are needed.

The only blue entries left are "All Rivers Flow into the Sea" and "Aura Disappears".

The "All Rivers Flow into the Sea" technique requires two mutually reinforcing cultivation methods to reach perfection or to consume two second-tier mutually reinforcing pills. To eliminate one's aura, one must reduce one's aura to the level of a mortal and live as a mortal for a month without using spiritual energy.

Eliminating the aura is achievable, but it would take a whole month of time.

Make a note of it, and we'll talk about it when we encounter new blue entries.

Li Yuan put away the storage bag and hurried along the official road towards Yunyangfang Market.

It was already evening when we returned to the market.

The number of people at the city gate was less than during the Immortal Sect Gathering, but still more than usual. Several new stalls had opened on the street, selling low-grade spiritual herbs and scrap ore.

Li Yuan did not go directly back to the courtyard, but instead walked north along the main street.

With enhanced affix perception, one can detect whether an item has an affix within a three-foot radius. Previously, browsing the market required relying solely on visual observation; now, one can simply walk over.

Li Yuan walked into a shop and strolled slowly along the shelves.

The divine sense was contained within a three-foot radius, combined with the passive scanning of the word perception.

The items on the shelves flashed past my senses one by one. Most of them showed no reaction, appearing no different from ordinary items.

When I reached the middle of the second row of shelves, I sensed a very faint fluctuation.

White entries.

A dusty, gray jade bottle sat in the corner of the shelf, next to several empty bottles of the same type.

Li Yuan reached out and picked up the jade bottle.

"How much is this?"

The shopkeeper was a middle-aged rogue cultivator at the mid-stage of Qi Refining. He looked up and glanced at the shopkeeper.

"Spirit ink bottles? Those were secondhand items consigned by someone else, two spirit stones each."

Two spirit stones.

"Take it."

Li Yuan placed the spirit stone on the counter and put the jade bottle into his storage bag.

Walking into a religious artifact shop, there were several religious artifacts hanging on the innermost side of the shelf. Their condition was not very good, and most of them were of the lower to middle grade of the first tier.

Li Yuan's senses swept over each magical artifact, but there was no fluctuation in the inscriptions.

Just as I was about to leave, a vibration came from a wooden box at the bottom.

green.

Li Yuan squatted down and opened the wooden box.

Inside was a thumb-sized, dark yellow stone with a rough surface, which looked unremarkable.

Li Yuan picked up the stone, and the fluctuations of the green text became clearer.

"How many spirit stones does this stone cost?"

The shopkeeper glanced at it and nodded. "Spirit Stones, price five spirit stones."

Having acquired the two items, Li Yuan continued north along the main street, entering several more shops. He walked past shops selling elixirs, spiritual herbs, and magical artifacts, one by one.

When they reached a jade slip shop near the northern end of the main street, Li Yuan went inside.

The shop wasn't large; two rows of wooden shelves displayed various jade slips and bamboo slips. Most were copies of low-level cultivation techniques and spells, with a wide variety and prices ranging from tens to hundreds of spirit stones.

Li Yuan walked along the wooden frame, his senses scanning each jade slip one by one.

As I walked to the end of the wooden frame on the left, a clear vibration came from it.

blue.

Li Yuan paused for a moment.

Blue entries.

The ripples came from the bottom corner of the wooden shelf, where a dark gray jade slip was half-buried beneath a pile of messy bamboo slips.

Li Yuan squatted down and pulled the jade slip out from the pile of bamboo slips.

The material of this jade slip was clearly different from the ordinary jade slips around it. It was warm to the touch, with a delicate texture and a very faint luster on the surface. The craftsmanship was exquisite, far superior to any other jade slip in the shop.

The surface of the jade slip was covered with densely packed characters, the characters of which were peculiar and not any of the scripts Li Yuan recognized.

Li Yuan flipped through the jade slip; both sides were covered with the same characters, none of which he recognized.

He stood up and took the jade slip to the counter.

"What's the price of this jade slip?"

The shopkeeper was an elderly cultivator in his fifties, with a cultivation level at the late stage of Qi Refining. He glanced up at the jade slip in Li Yuan's hand, his expression somewhat subtle.

"This...?"

He rubbed his fingers together.

"This jade slip was consigned here by a traveling merchant three years ago. The material of the jade slip is indeed excellent; it's clearly not an ordinary item. But no one can decipher the characters engraved on it."

He pulled out a yellowed booklet from behind the counter and pointed to a line of records on it.

"We invited several people to identify it, some who could read ancient texts and some who studied spirit patterns, but none of them could figure it out. Even when we poured our spiritual sense into it, we couldn't read the contents. It was as if it had been sealed off by some kind of method."

He closed the booklet.

"The jade slip itself is worth some money, but since the contents are unreadable, it can only be sold as an ornament. It's been sitting there for three years, and nobody wants it."

"How many spirit stones?"

The shopkeeper thought for a moment. "The jade slip is worth thirty or forty spirit stones, but since it can't be sold, you can take it for forty spirit stones if you want it."

Forty spirit stones buy one blue attribute.

"make a deal."

Li Yuan placed the spirit stone on the counter and put the jade slip into his storage bag.

The shopkeeper accepted the spirit stones, his gaze lingering on Li Yuan for a moment before he asked no further questions.

Li Yuan left the jade slip shop, walked south along the main street, and returned to his rented courtyard.

Close the courtyard gate.

Li Yuan sat down at the stone table and took out the three items he had bought that day, placing them on the table one by one.

A dusty jade bottle, dark yellow pebbles, and dark gray jade slips.

Let's look at the jade bottle first.

Touch the bottle with your fingers.

[Equipable item detected: Spirit Ink Bottle (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Soul Strike Sense (White) - When the soul is attacked, there is a chance to directly sense the attacker's location]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Continuous cultivation for twelve hours (0/12)]

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

White text. Soul Strike Sensation.

When the soul is attacked, it can sense the attacker's location.

The condition for permanent attainment is twelve consecutive hours of cultivation, which is a full day of uninterrupted practice. With my current spiritual energy reserves and physical strength, it's not difficult; I can just find some time to complete the cultivation in one go.

Li Yuan put the jade bottle aside and picked up the dark yellow pebbles.

[Equipable item detected: Spirit Stone (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Skill Enhancement (Green) - Increases the rate at which all skill proficiency increases by 30%]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Cultivate a new body-refining or cultivation technique to perfection (0/1)]

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

Green entry. Skill advancement.

The condition for permanentization is to cultivate a new body-refining technique or cultivation method to perfection. Cultivating a new technique means that existing techniques are not counted, and one must learn a new one from scratch.

This condition isn't too demanding, but it will take time.

Li Yuan put down the rubble and picked up the last item—a dark gray jade slip.

He placed his finger on the surface of the jade slip.

The panel popped up, containing significantly more information than the previous two items.

[Equipable item detected: Demonic Essence Technique (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Demonic Avatar (Blue)]

[Effect: Reduces the corrosive effect of demonic energy on the user; demonic energy can be completely absorbed without leaving a trace. The user can sense the presence of surrounding demonic energy; the range of this sense increases with the strengthening of their spiritual power. They can also convert spiritual energy into demonic energy.]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Cultivate this demonic art to perfection and accumulate the absorption of twenty second-tier high-grade demonic energies (0/20)]

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

Blue entries.

Demonic incarnation.

Four effects: Reduces the erosion of demonic energy, completely absorbs demonic energy without leaving a trace, senses demonic energy, and transforms spiritual energy into demonic energy.

Li Yuan flipped through the jade slip, looking at the unrecognizable characters on it.

A demonic cultivation technique.

The shopkeeper of the jade slip shop said that even if he poured his divine sense into it, he couldn't read the contents.

However, the entry system can equip this jade slip, and after equipping it, it may be able to directly understand the content of the cultivation technique.

The conditions for permanentization are divided into two parts: cultivating the demonic art to perfection and accumulating the absorption of twenty second-tier high-grade demonic energies.

Neither of the conditions is simple.

Cultivating demonic arts to perfection takes time, and second-tier high-grade demonic energy is not something that can be obtained easily.

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