Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

The development of the heritage site is still ongoing.

This time, a new alchemy room and medicinal herb storage area were opened.

When the news reached the outpost, Li Yuan happened to be there as well.

Chen Yi saw him and waved.

"Would you like to go over to that newly opened area on the east side?"

"Are there enough people?" Li Yuan asked.

"That's enough," Chen Yi said.

Li Yuan nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

When he arrived at the destination, he took a look around.

The newly opened area is more complete than the outer layer of the previous batch of alchemical pills.

The ground was still paved with old stone bricks, with several darkened fire-patterned streaks along the edges.

The medicinal herb storage area is on the left. Several rows of stone shelves have collapsed, but it's still clear that things were once neatly arranged. The real problem is the row of fire-patterned stone cabinets in the alchemy room.

These stone cabinets are dark red all over, with fine fire patterns inlaid along the edges of the doors. Many of the fire patterns are damaged, but some are still barely functioning, which is why the surface of the cabinets always retains a slight warmth.

After Li Yuan approached, he first used his divine sense to press the spiritual pattern onto it, and then casually pressed the spiritual pattern analysis onto it.

They quickly figured out the approach.

"First break the outer layer of fire-stabilizing patterns, then remove the locking patterns."

Li Yuan raised his hand and tapped the side of the cabinet door. Although his mastery of array formations wasn't particularly strong, the added attributes made his ability to break arrays far surpass that of others.

In addition, Li Yuan had previously equipped himself with the Array Talisman Inter-reference Manual, and the Array Talisman Inter-reference entries allowed his array Dao to be enhanced by the Talisman Dao, almost reaching the first-order perfection level.

Breaking this formation is a piece of cake.

The most direct change was that when Li Yuan looked at these fire-patterned stone cabinets again, the words "array pattern" no longer came to mind. Many loops fell into his perception and were instinctively broken down into similar patterns of origin, development, transition, and conclusion.

Previously, one had to feel along the cabinet door inch by inch to find the nodes, but now, a quick glance is often enough to tell which is a stable fire pattern and which is just a deceptive flashing fire pattern.

This feeling is not like simply improving one's array skills, but rather like directly applying the pattern-based method of talisman creation to breaking arrays.

A Yuan Yang Sect array cultivator standing nearby looked in the direction he was pointing, his expression shifting slightly.

"It really does have tempering marks."

Without delay, the group immediately began dismantling the equipment.

After half a day, all twelve fire-patterned stone cabinets had been opened.

By the time the area was completely cleared, it was nearly evening.

Then came the allocation.

The majority of what is unearthed from the ruins naturally goes to the sect for overall management, while the remainder is converted into contributions or directly distributed as supplies based on effort and merit.

However, almost all the medicinal herbs and pills had been ruined and were no longer worth distributing.

However, he was assigned an old fire talisman.

The object was small, resembling an old, worn-out fire plate, with several worn-down fire patterns engraved on its surface.

But Li Yuan could sense the entries.

He reached out and picked up the fire plate, and the control panel immediately popped up.

[Equipable item detected: Old Fire Rune (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Alchemy Refinement (Green)]

[Effect: Increases the power of fire spells by 20%, improves the purity of fire elemental energy, and slightly enhances the stability of fire elemental energy]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Master three fire-based spells and cultivate them to perfection (0/1)]

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

Green entries.

Li Yuan's gaze lingered on the panel for a moment before he put the item away.

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Whether it's the power of fire spells or the purity and stability of fire spiritual energy, it will be useful to me. Especially since I'm currently specializing in fire magic, these attributes will have an immediate effect.

As for the conditions for permanentization, they are not entirely unattainable.

He has mastered the Fire Serpent Technique and the Fire Release Technique.

The Fire Arrow Technique has also reached its peak. The Fireball Technique is even more perfected. Once either the Fire Serpent Technique or the Fire Release Technique is mastered, the requirement will be met.

After a while, the other team also cleared out a pill-making room.

A rubbing of a cultivation method was discovered there. After the news reached the outpost, the sect took it and examined it first. Soon after, they announced that it would be permissible to exchange contribution points for a copy.

When Chen Yi saw Li Yuan return, he casually mentioned it.

"You might be interested in that method."

"What approach?" Li Yuan asked.

Chen Yi said, "It's not simply about body refinement; it's more like using alchemy to nourish the physical body."

Upon hearing this, Li Yuan immediately went to see it.

The rubbing is not thick, and the cover does not have a name written on it, but the contents inside are quite special.

The core method, simply put, is to first extract one's own essence and blood, then supplement it with medicinal herbs to refine pills, and finally use the refined product to replenish oneself.

It's not about forcibly feeding external substances, but rather about first extracting a portion of oneself, then using medicinal herbs and alchemical methods to re-cook it into something more easily absorbed, ultimately nourishing the physical body.

This approach is quite different from the alchemy methods commonly used by ordinary cultivators.

It was precisely because of its uniqueness that Li Yuan immediately understood why Chen Yi said it complemented the Nameless Body Refining Technique after seeing it.

The Nameless Body Refining Technique focuses on refining bones and membranes, taking a path of continuous physical strengthening. If combined with this method of refining essence and blood into pills and then nourishing oneself, it's as if the portion consumed during body refining can be recovered.

Without hesitation, Li Yuan directly exchanged the rubbing for the original.

With only 300 contribution points, the items obtained from this exploration will be discounted.

After finishing his business, Li Yuan left the outpost and returned to Wulinfang City.

Li Yuan could clearly sense that several more mid-grade evil stones had appeared in the vein.

Back in the stone house, he took out the rubbings of the Dharma he had obtained that day and began to turn the pages one by one.

The more he looked, the deeper his brows furrowed.

This method can indeed be connected with the Nameless Body Refining Technique, but it is indeed difficult.

The difficulty lies not in its principles, but in the extremely high requirements it demands on one's foundation in alchemy. It requires one's own essence and blood as a guide, and then refining the medicinal herbs and essence and blood together into an elixir. If there is even the slightest mistake in the process, the elixir will be ruined at best, and at worst, the essence and blood will be wasted.

Li Yuan first went through the entire process, then laid out the supporting materials on the table and went through them against the instructions.

The final conclusion was straightforward.

This is a second-tier pill.

Moreover, it is an extremely difficult-to-refine second-tier pill.

Although I currently have a foundation in first-level alchemy, if I want to truly get started, I must at least perfect first-level alchemy and thoroughly understand the details of heat control, medicinal properties, and pill-collecting before I am qualified to try.

Otherwise, it's not alchemy, it's just burning materials for nothing.

Li Yuan closed the rubbing and put it back on the table, without trying to be brave.

It's not the right time yet.

The right path is to continue to improve the foundation of alchemy you already have.

The room quieted down, and on the table were the newly acquired cultivation pills, body-refining herbs, and that special pill-making technique.

Li Yuan sat for a while, then raised his hand to put away his things, and then closed his eyes to circulate the Green Wood Longevity Technique.

The spiritual energy flowed slowly, and the spiritual energy in the dantian, which had been continuously purified by the large spiritual vein, remained clear and stable.

Outside the stone house, the lights of the market town lit up one after another.