Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

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That night, when I was in the latter half of my cultivation, the panel popped up.

The conditions for permanent activation of the "Distracted Mind (Blue)" ability have been met.

[Simultaneously maintain the continuous operation of three or more independent spiritual lines for one hundred hours (this requirement has been met)]

Is it permanent?

Li Yuan opened his eyes.

From the moment I acquired the Ancient Divine Sense Secret Technique, the three lines of divine sense have been almost uninterrupted. They are maintained during the day when I am refining pills, setting up formations, and handling market affairs; they are also maintained at night when I am cultivating and monitoring the spiritual veins; and the spiritual vein monitoring line and the daily perception line are also operating in the background while I am sleeping.

One hundred hours have passed.

Li Yuan confirmed.

[Distracted use of blue has become a permanent keyword]

After the process was made permanent, Li Yuan got up and sat at the table, flipping through the market documents while sensing the feedback from the direction of the spiritual veins. The two things followed completely different information channels and did not interfere with each other.

When the user turned to the third page of the transaction history, a message came from the spiritual vein monitoring line. The concentration of malevolent energy in the direction of the ore vein had increased slightly, which was a normal fluctuation in the daily operation of the malevolent energy cultivation array.

Li Yuan's gaze never left the document, but he had already made a judgment about the information in his mind. Normal fluctuations, no action needed.

Previously, doing this required either stopping what you were doing to check the spiritual veins, or forcibly diverting a sliver of your attention to glance at them before pulling back. Now, with multiple tasks running in parallel, there's no need to switch at all. Information automatically flows through its respective channels, and the results are directly aggregated into the main line after processing.

The next morning, Li Yuan went to the market.

After the fall of the Qishui Sect stronghold, a large number of Yunzhou cultivators have settled in the market. The congestion on the main street has eased slightly compared to the previous days, but the flow of people is still far greater than before.

Li Yuan noticed that there were many new faces in the freelance trade area on the east side of the market.

Several cultivators dressed in the official robes of the Qishui Sect set up a stall in a corner of the trading area. Instead of pills and materials, the stall displayed rows of jade slips.

Practice manuals.

Li Yuan went over to take a look.

There were quite a few jade slips, more than twenty in total, covering a wide variety of categories. They included cultivation techniques, combat spells, auxiliary spells, alchemy recipes, and talisman-making techniques—you name it. Most were first-tier, but a few were marked second-tier.

The stall owner was a young cultivator in the early stages of Foundation Establishment. He looked tired, but he perked up and greeted Li Yuan as he approached.

"Fellow Daoist, take a look. These are internal texts of the Qishui Sect, quality guaranteed."

Li Yuan squatted down and scanned the labels on the jade slips one by one.

His gaze lingered on a jade slip labeled "Pulse Strengthening Pill".

Gu Mai Dan (a traditional Chinese medicine formula).

Li Yuan recognized the name. It was a second-tier pill, its main function being to strengthen the resilience and upper limit of the meridian walls. After consumption, the meridian walls would be reinforced layer by layer by the medicinal power of the pill, enabling them to withstand higher-intensity spiritual energy impacts without damage.

For cultivators in the late Foundation Establishment stage, this kind of pill is very useful. When breaking through to the Golden Core stage, the spiritual energy impacts the meridians extremely fiercely, and the toughness of the meridian walls directly determines whether the meridians will be broken during the breakthrough process. Taking the Meridian Strengthening Pill in advance to strengthen the meridians is like adding an extra layer of insurance for the breakthrough.

"How many spirit stones is this?" Li Yuan pointed to the jade slip containing the Meridian Strengthening Pill.

The stall owner quoted a price.

It was 30% cheaper than similar pill formulas on the market. The disciples of the Qishui Sect fled from disaster, and the scriptures they had were the easiest things to convert into cash, so the price was naturally lower.

Li Yuan paid with spirit stones and put away the jade slip.

After returning to the stone house, Li Yuan first read through the formula for the Meridian Strengthening Pill.

The main ingredients consist of two parts: one is a medicinal herb called "Lock Vein Grass," and the other is a mineral powder related to meridians. Three auxiliary ingredients are needed; Li Yuan already has two of them, but the third needs to be purchased from a shop in the market.

The approach of this formula is somewhat similar to that of the Meridian-Replenishing Pill, both acting on the meridians. However, the Meridian-Replenishing Pill focuses on repair, while the Meridian-Strengthening Pill focuses on reinforcement; their medicinal properties complement each other perfectly.

Li Yuan went to the market to buy the missing auxiliary ingredient, and then started the furnace after returning.

Multiple lines of consciousness operate simultaneously.

The main line controls the alchemical fire, the first branch monitors the temperature and medicinal properties inside the liquid, the second branch is attached to the spiritual vein, and the third branch covers the surrounding perception.

The medicinal liquid slowly solidified in the furnace. The contraction force did not compress it into a solid block, but rather dispersed evenly throughout the entire mass of liquid, pressing the medicinal power layer by layer into the interior of the pill.

With a muffled thud from the furnace, the elixir was complete.

Three grayish-white pills fell into the jade plate. Their surfaces were smooth and dense. When held between the fingers, one could feel the compacted force inside the pills, making them feel heavy.

The Meridian-Strengthening Pill is complete.

A panel pops up.

[Equipable item detected: Strengthening Pulse Pill (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Meridians as Hard as Steel (White)]

[Effect: The toughness of the meridian walls is greatly enhanced, allowing them to withstand higher-intensity spiritual energy impacts without damage.]

[Preview of conditions for permanentization: The meridians remain intact after withstanding an excessive amount of spiritual energy impact, accumulated thirty times]

An overload of spiritual energy impact means pushing the intensity of spiritual energy circulation beyond the limits that the meridians can withstand. This is something that is not deliberately done in daily cultivation, but it can be triggered when casting spells at full power in battle or when spiritual energy surges during a breakthrough. Right now, there is no need to deliberately make it permanent, as the effect of this attribute is not very useful.

Li Yuan restored the intensity of his spiritual energy circulation to a normal level and then continued refining pills.

There are still some materials left for the Strengthening Meridian Pill, just enough to refine another batch.

The second batch also produced two pills successfully.

Then he refined another batch of Qi-Continuing Pills and another batch of Qi-Gathering Pills.

Four batches of pills were refined consecutively without a break. After the ability to use the Divine Soul Multitasking skill became permanent, the consumption of spiritual energy during pill refining was greatly reduced, mainly because the utilization rate of spiritual energy was higher.

After finishing the four batches, Li Yuan sorted and put away the pills. Just as he was about to get up, the panel popped up again.

[Skill: Second-Tier Alchemy - Minor Success (0/1600)]

Li Yuan looked at the two words on the panel and sat back down on the futon.

From mastery to partial mastery.

This leap is more pronounced than when going from proficient to expert.

When one reaches mastery, many judgments made during the alchemy process begin to become instinctive, requiring no conscious thought. After achieving some level of proficiency, this instinctive quality deepens further.

The properties of the medicine, the changes in heat, and the rhythm of blending the main and auxiliary ingredients—these are no longer steps that need to be handled sequentially, but rather they appear as a whole in one's perception the moment the alchemy begins. It's like a complete picture; the entire process from starting the furnace to forming the pill is clearly anticipated in one's mind.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and sensed for a moment, memorizing the state after achieving a minor success.

A minor mastery of the second-tier alchemy technique means greater ease in refining more complex second-tier pills later on. The success rate and quality of pills will both improve further, and the refining speed will be faster.

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