Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

The breakthrough in the Green Wood Longevity Technique came very quietly.

That night, Li Yuan meditated near the core of the spiritual vein as usual. When he circulated his cultivation technique to the Azure Wood Longevity Technique, the feeling of the wood-type spiritual energy spreading along his meridians was suddenly different from before.

It's not faster, nor more powerful, but smoother.

The barrier that had been holding him back from mastery to proficiency, like a stone wall softened by prolonged soaking, was silently breached by spiritual energy during this round of practice.

There was no obvious impact, nor any sign of a surge in spiritual energy. The wood-type spiritual energy simply moved forward a little further at that moment, covering the section of the meridian that it couldn't reach before.

The panel pops up.

[Technique: Green Wood Longevity Technique - Minor Success (0/3200)]

Li Yuan did not open his eyes and continued to complete this round of cultivation.

After achieving minor success, the wood-elemental spiritual energy of the Azure Wood Longevity Technique covers a wider area within the body. Previously, when the skill was fully mastered, the wood-elemental spiritual energy mainly flowed through several main meridians and the large arteries connected to them, making it difficult to penetrate the subtle meridians at the extremities. Now, with minor success, even those subtle meridians can be slowly permeated by the wood-elemental spiritual energy, further enhancing the body's self-repairing ability.

With the permanent bonus from the Wood Spirit Nourishment stat, the recovery speed of everyday injuries has become so fast that it is almost imperceptible. Small wounds begin to heal almost as soon as they appear, and even deeper wounds, as long as they do not damage the root cause, will have their recovery time greatly reduced.

Li Yuan opened his eyes only after completing the last round of the cultivation technique.

The underground karst layer was quiet, with the main vein of spiritual energy flowing along the stone ground.

He did not get up, but remained in place, shifting his focus back to his main cultivation technique.

The spiritual energy circulates in the meridians, one cycle after another.

Large spiritual veins are listed in the special equipment slots, and their spiritual energy-nurturing effects are always active. The concentration of spiritual energy near the core of the main vein far exceeds that of the stone houses and markets. With each cycle of energy circulation, more and purer spiritual energy enters the dantian than elsewhere.

The process of making high-grade spirit stones permanent has been continuously pushed forward.

Tonight is no exception.

But this time, when Li Yuan completed his thirty-second cycle...

The panel pops up.

The conditions for making Flawless Spiritual Power (Blue) permanent have been met.

Is it permanent?

Li Yuan's mind stirred, and he clicked to confirm.

Flawless Spiritual Power (Blue) has become a permanent attribute.

Change is instantaneous.

The spiritual energy within my dantian felt as if it had been washed clean, becoming clear and free of any impurities. The sensation of the spiritual energy flowing through my meridians during circulation was completely different from before. No matter how pure it was before, there was always a slight, almost imperceptible resistance when circulating it, like water flowing through a not-so-smooth pipe.

Now that barrier has completely disappeared.

Wherever the spiritual energy goes, it is received without any hindrance. After one cycle, the time it takes for the spiritual energy to complete a full circuit through the meridians is significantly shorter than before, and the improvement in efficiency is real.

Moreover, this is only the initial state after permanentization.

The effect of flawless spiritual energy is to significantly filter out impurities in spiritual energy, automatically purifying the spiritual energy within the body and doubling the cultivation speed. From now on, no matter where Li Yuan cultivates, the spiritual energy he inhales will be automatically filtered, leaving only pure spiritual energy.

Li Yuan returned to the stone house from the underground melting layer only after he had completely completed this round of cultivation.

When Li Yuan returned to the stone house, it was just beginning to get light. He sat at the table and checked on the market situation. The market's business had been steadily recovering during this period.

The production of Purple Fiend Stones has remained stable after the continuous channeling of energy through the meridian method. A batch is collected every three or four days, and once a certain quantity is accumulated, it is sold in the market. The price remains between one hundred and one hundred and eighty spirit stones, and there is no worry about sales.

The production of pills and talismans never stopped. After mastering the second-tier alchemy technique, the success rate of producing Meridian-Replenishing Pills and Yuan-Gathering Pills steadily increased. Surplus pills were sold, generating a considerable monthly income. Talismans were still his forte, and orders for Spirit Water Talismans and other commonly used talismans never ceased.

On the spirit field side, the second batch of spirit herbs has entered the harvest season. Although it took some time to rebuild the supply chain for seeds and auxiliary materials after the Li family's channels were cut off, it has now been sorted out and production has returned to normal.

With several lines of healing occurring simultaneously, Li Yuan's spirit stone reserves and pill material inventory are rapidly expanding.

Li Yuan hasn't let go of the thread about the mole within the Dark Abyss Society.

Since identifying the night patrolling cultivator last time, Li Yuan had been observing him secretly, without alerting him.

During this period, the third auxiliary node on the west side of the Demon Detection Array experienced two more similar slight abnormal fluctuations.

The time is still nighttime, but the interval is slightly longer than before, occurring approximately every four to five days.

Li Yuan recorded the time, intensity, and corresponding patrol schedule for each fluctuation.

The cultivator's pattern is already very clear.

Each time a fluctuation occurred, he was on duty on the western patrol route. The fluctuations themselves were extremely short in duration and extremely weak in intensity; if it weren't for the upgraded continuous comparison structure of the Demon Detection Array, which could amplify the weak signals from multiple nodes, they would have been completely undetectable.

Li Yuan also noticed another detail.

The frequency of this cultivator's private transactions with visiting rogue cultivators has also increased recently. The details of the transactions are still poorly recorded, but an anomaly occurs on the western auxiliary node within one or two days after each transaction.

The timing is right.

Li Yuan did not rush to disconnect the line.

Following this person's lead, we'll see even more. Who he contacts, who those contacts contact, and just how extensive Dark Abyss's infiltration network is within the market—all of this will require time to uncover.

If we act now, we can only capture a small fry.

Let's wait a little longer; maybe we can find a thicker line.

After handling the affairs of the market during the day, Li Yuan continued to dismantle the barriers around the underground passage at night.

The third layer of restrictions had been almost completely dismantled a few days ago, and the last few fasteners that engaged with the core loop of the teleportation structure had also been removed one by one. The teleportation structure itself was undamaged, and the loop remained intact.

After dismantling the third layer, Li Yuan used his spiritual vein perception to probe forward and discovered that there were two more layers behind it.

The fourth layer of restrictions was similar in structure to the third, but the array patterns were denser and penetrated deeper into the stone layer. It took Li Yuan three nights to figure out the primary and secondary relationships of this layer before he began to dismantle it one by one.

The dismantling process was much slower than before. The key points on the fourth layer were hidden deeper, some even embedded in the cracks in the inner wall of the teleportation structure, requiring spiritual energy to seep in little by little to find them.

Several days later, the fourth layer of restrictions was also removed.

Along the teleportation structure, only the last layer of restrictions remains.

Li Yuan stood between the second-to-last and last floors, using his spiritual vein perception to look ahead.

The final layer of restrictions is significantly larger than any of the previous layers, with an extremely high density of array patterns and the most complex structure. This is the core blockade of the entire passage, the last barrier set up by the old sect back then.

Open it, and the underground passage will be fully connected.

Li Yuan observed for a moment but did not rush to make a move.

The last layer can't be rushed; you have to see the whole picture before you start.

He turned around and went back the way he came, exiting the underground karst layer and returning to the stone house.

Night had fallen, and the lights of the market outside the window had thinned out.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged on the futon and continued his cultivation.

The effects of the first formal cultivation session after the flawless spiritual energy became permanent were immediately apparent. The spiritual energy inhaled was automatically cleansed of impurities before traveling even halfway through the meridians. When it entered the dantian, the purity of the spiritual energy was even higher than before.

The increase in cultivation speed is significant.

Previously, relying on the two attributes of Pure Spiritual Power and Spiritual Power Condensation as a foundation, the cultivation efficiency had already far surpassed that of others at the same level. Now, with the addition of Flawless Spiritual Power, the combined effect of the three attributes means that the amount of spiritual power gained in the same hour of cultivation has almost doubled.

In addition, the automatic cultivation of spiritual veins has never been interrupted, and the concentration of spiritual energy in large spiritual veins has always been increased.

With these multiple effects combined, Li Yuan's current cultivation efficiency is probably unmatched among all Foundation Establishment cultivators in the entire frontline region.