Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

A few days after the trade fair ended, Li Yuan first used the high-level evil energy crystal and the bone core he had obtained.

The nurturing array in the mine is now running smoothly enough, with several key nodes interlocking, and the flow of evil energy is much smoother than before.

After the first mid-grade evil stone was formed, several high-quality evil stones followed suit. Now, by infusing the second-tier evil energy crystals and bone cores, the effect is even more direct than before.

When the first crystal broke apart, the malevolent energy inside the cavity felt as if someone had pressed it in.

After the second piece went in, several tributaries deep within the vein, which had previously appeared somewhat unstable, immediately sank a bit.

As the bone core was gradually ground down, the flow of energy along the entire demonic meridian increased slightly. The change wasn't dramatic, but it was more stable than when a single demonic pill was used. It wasn't a sudden surge, but rather a thicker foundation.

Li Yuan stood inside the cavity, closed his eyes, and sensed for a moment.

The vein is growing.

The area of ​​negative energy that the evil veins could draw back had expanded, and the force of the return flow was more even. As a result, the low-energy area south of the market town was pushed outward a little further, and the previously somewhat gloomy areas on the edge were now quiet.

This time, the growth of the evil vein was not just a slight improvement in the quality of the stone, but the entire vein became more like a living thing.

Li Yuan noted this down and then turned and left the mine.

As soon as I returned to the market, the management office delivered a message from the sect.

The ruins have officially begun recruiting people to participate in breaking the formation.

After reading the jade slip, he did not immediately agree, but first asked the disciple who delivered the message.

"Are the two Golden Core cultivators still present?"

"They're gone," the disciple said. "The two seniors returned to the sect a few days ago, leaving only instructions that they should come back and forcibly open the deeper layers once the outer and middle layers are mostly destroyed."

Li Yuan nodded, thought about it, and then went anyway.

The reason is simple.

Breaking through remnants of formations inherently offers rewards, but more importantly, such opportunities are extremely rare. Learning formations outside usually involves slowly grinding through jade slips and fragmented inheritances. There are very few places in the entire Liangzhou where you can truly see various old restrictions, mechanisms, and fragmented formation structures laid out before you, allowing you to dismantle them piece by piece.

Moreover, Li Yuan's current array formation is stuck at the stage of pushing forward from the first-order minor completion.

At a time like this, there's no harm in going.

The next morning, he set off for the perimeter of the ruins.

The outpost has completely changed. What was originally just a temporary stone house and battle line has now been expanded outwards, with additional quiet rooms for cultivators breaking the formation, stone warehouses for storing formation materials, and tables for registering contributions.

As soon as Li Yuan arrived, he went to register.

The person in charge of recording was a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Yuan Yang Sect, and he was quite polite when he saw him.

"Protector Li, Senior Brother Chen has already instructed that you can go directly to the east array room to collect the jade slip upon arrival."

Li Yuan nodded and followed the directions.

Several rows of jade slips were placed in the array room on the east side, most of which were temporarily compiled by the sect for the cultivators participating in breaking the array to refer to.

Each cultivator will be issued a set of jade slips.

Some of the contents are the restricted structures that have already been dismantled from the outer perimeter of the ruins, while others are methods for dismantling common formations used by old sects.

Li Yuan also got a set, and casually picked up a few of them, quickly flipping them over.

They are all practical items.

As Li Yuan walked to the innermost row, his mind suddenly stirred slightly.

He paused, his gaze falling on a grayish-blue jade slip in the corner.

There is an entry for it.

He reached out and picked it up, and the panel immediately popped up.

[Equipable item detected: Array Rune Reference Manual (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Array Rune Interplay (Green)]

[Effect: Mastery of array formations is enhanced by mastery of talismans, and mastery of talismans is enhanced by mastery of array formations]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Both Talisman Dao and Array Dao must reach the first-tier perfection (0/1)]

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

Green entries.

Two-way complementarity.

Li Yuan glanced at it only once before putting the jade slip away, without immediately touching the equipment slots.

The slots are still full, so whether we can change them, and which ones to change them to, will have to be calculated slowly. Besides, the conditions for making this entry permanent are there, and we can't reach them anytime soon, so keeping it for now is the right thing to do.

After receiving the jade slip and several copies of the array diagram, Li Yuan officially began the process of breaking the array.

At first, Li Yuan mainly watched.

Watch how those veteran array masters from the sect approach the problem, see which line they break first and which loop they suppress when they encounter different restrictions, and then compare the contents of the jade slips in your hand with the actual objects in front of you.

With the permanent entry for spirit pattern analysis, he naturally understood these things more easily than others.

Now, with continuous practical experience, many things that were just known before have gradually become things that can be used.

After dismantling an old identification array, he could quickly tell which strokes in the pattern were for preventing deception and which were just for deception.

In another interlocking barrier outside the alchemy room, he even saw the true interlocking point of the mechanism and locking patterns before the Yuan Yang Sect array master next to him.

Time passed day by day.

Li Yuan didn't go to the ruins every day, but he would go every few days. When there was something going on in the market, he would deal with that first, and when he had free time, he would come to the ruins to practice his formations. Switching back and forth like this actually suited his rhythm better.

The effects of this continuous accumulation became apparent very quickly.

One evening, he and two other array cultivators were dismantling the outer door of an old sect's medicine storehouse. The door had three layers of spiritual runes on its outermost layer: the outermost layer was for identification, the middle layer was for deflecting force, and the innermost layer was for using the spiritual energy of the entire wall for a return flow. The first two hesitated towards the end, feeling that the main rune was not positioned correctly.

Li Yuan used his divine sense to follow the faint spiritual streams in the wall, and then suddenly raised his hand.

"Don't touch here, the reflux is fake."

As soon as he finished speaking, he had already pressed his spiritual power into an inconspicuous diagonal strip on the other side.

As the diagonal lines darkened, half of the spiritual energy in the entire door instantly collapsed. The other two cultivators' eyes lit up, and they immediately began to dismantle the door through the opening he had created.

Half an hour later, the outer door of the medicine storehouse slid open silently.

Li Yuan stood still, and many things about the first-order array in his mind seemed to be sorted out at the same moment.

The panel slowly popped up.

[Skill: First-tier Array Dao - Mastery (0/3200)]

The art of array formation has been perfected.

Li Yuan exhaled, stood still, and calmed himself down after that moment.

The biggest difference between mastery and minor mastery is not just whether one knows how to do something, but rather that one's understanding of things has deepened. In the past, when encountering complex restrictions, one had to dissect them layer by layer. Now, as soon as a formation comes into view, one can immediately visualize how it might rotate, where it can be broken, and where it cannot be touched.

Once the array formation is mastered, the other white attribute can also be made permanent.

The conditions for permanent formation retention (white) have been met.

Is it permanent?

Li Yuan confirmed without hesitation.

[Array Pattern Fortification (White) has become a permanent entry]

A very light force swept across the surface of the skin and quickly sank to the bottom.

He raised his hand and clenched his fist, making no unnecessary movements, but he could clearly feel that an extremely thin yet extremely stable layer of resilience had been added to the surface of his skin. Combined with his original body-refining foundation and other defensive attributes, this kind of improvement would be no small matter in actual combat.

In the following days, Li Yuan did not continue to break through the formations, but instead slowed down the pace.

Since the formation has just been broken through, it's more worthwhile to stabilize the situation first than to continue pushing forward relentlessly.

At this time, there were also matters waiting for him to handle at the market.

The Wulin Market has grown larger and larger, but its goods are still not comprehensive enough.

Especially recently, demonic cultivators have started openly entering and leaving the market, creating new demand for items that ordinary rogue cultivators didn't usually need. In addition, the reputation of the frontline supply point is becoming more and more real, so many people come to the Misty Forest Market not because the goods are cheaper, but because it's close to the Ghost Misty Forest and makes traveling back and forth convenient.

If the supply is still insufficient, sooner or later someone will find it inconvenient and go elsewhere to replenish it.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Yuan decided to go to Yunyang Market to replenish the items that his family was short of.

Yunyang Market was still the same as before, large in scale and with a diverse population. However, not long after entering the city, Li Yuan noticed something different from before.

Demonic cultivators have also begun to appear here.

There weren't many of them, and they were much more discreet than those in the Misty Forest Market. Most of them were still in the probing stage, keeping a low profile in their clothing and behavior, blending in with ordinary cultivators, and it might be difficult to distinguish them without careful observation.

Li Yuan glanced at the group of people but didn't linger; the main purpose of this trip was to make purchases.

I bought a lot of Rejuvenation Pills, Healing Powder, low-grade array materials, commonly used talisman paper, old magic weapon parts, several detection tools commonly used by frontline cultivators, and spirit herb seeds that had been out of stock in several shops in the market.

After buying the second half of the items, Li Yuan stopped for a moment in front of a small shop that specialized in selling various magical artifacts.

the reason is simple.

Inside the shop, two people who looked like demonic cultivators were picking out items. However, what they were looking for were not offensive magical artifacts or demonic materials, but equipment for detecting spiritual energy.

A spirit-testing disc, a pulse-detecting needle, and a thin mirror specifically for observing the flow of underground spiritual energy.

Li Yuan stood to the side, his gaze falling almost imperceptibly for a moment before naturally shifting away.

It is unusual for a demonic cultivator to buy equipment for detecting spiritual energy.

Li Yuan didn't step forward or disturb the two men. He simply pretended to be passing by and continued to replenish the remaining goods.

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