Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

During the day, Li Yuan set up two alchemy furnaces in the stone house to continue testing the limits of running two furnaces in parallel.

The main storyline involves using spiritual power to control fire and refine the Gathering Yuan Pill, while the second storyline uses the Divine Soul Manipulation Technique to control a second furnace and refine the Healing Pill. The Gathering Yuan Pill is more difficult to refine than the Meridian Renewal Pill, and it requires more precise fire control, demanding complete concentration from the main storyline participant.

At the second alchemy furnace, the precision of his Soul Manipulation Technique was still inferior to that of controlling fire with spiritual power. During the refining of the healing pill, Li Yuan's control over the heat was not clean enough at two points, causing slight ripples on the surface of the liquid. The final pill was formed without problems, but its quality was a small grade lower than that refined using spiritual power.

After finishing the alchemy, Li Yuan left the market to inspect the spirit fields.

The spiritual fields were neatly cultivated with clearly defined ridges. The irrigation canal had already been dug, drawing fresh water from a nearby stream. Although the spiritual energy in the water was thin, it was constantly flowing.

Li Yuan walked around the field ridges, roughly surveying the soil quality and spiritual energy distribution of the entire spiritual field, before taking out the jade slip containing the Soil Cultivation Technique.

The divine sense probed in, and the contents of the cultivation technique unfolded.

The Soil Cultivation Technique follows the path of infusing spiritual energy into the soil and stimulating its spirituality. When in operation, spiritual energy is sent out from the palm, slowly seeping through the gaps between soil particles, awakening the dormant spiritual substances deep within the soil, and greatly enhancing the soil's ability to nourish the medicinal seed.

Li Yuan squatted on the edge of the field, his palms pressed against the surface of the soil, and began to guide and circulate his spiritual energy according to the cultivation technique.

After the spiritual energy seeped into the soil, the texture of the soil changed slightly. The dryness and hardness of the surface subsided somewhat, and the soil under the palm of the hand became soft and moist, as if it had been soaked by a light rain.

Li Yuan walked slowly along the ridges of the fields, squatting down every few steps to circulate his internal energy. By the time he had walked through the entire spiritual field, it was already dark.

【Soil Cultivation Techniques: Beginner (0/200)】

getting Started.

Li Yuan put away his cultivation technique and returned to the market.

That night, Li Yuan sat cross-legged on a futon to cultivate. With all four lines of divine sense operating simultaneously, the resonance channel established by the Spiritual Vein Affinity Technique allowed spiritual energy to continuously flow into his dantian, maintaining extremely high cultivation efficiency.

Just after midnight, a sharp warning signal suddenly rang out.

The sensing array outside the market was triggered.

Almost at the same instant, the spiritual vein monitoring line also received abnormal feedback.

Li Yuan opened his eyes, and his four divine sense lines immediately switched to combat readiness.

The signal from the sensing array came from the north of the market, towards the outpost. A large number of auras were rapidly approaching, ranging in strength from late-stage Qi Refining to late-stage Foundation Establishment, and each aura was enveloped in dense demonic energy.

Li Yuan got up and left the stone house, heading towards the north gate of the market.

Before even reaching the North Gate, the early warning array in the direction of the outpost was triggered. The linked defense array automatically rose, and a faint light appeared on the restrictions on the market walls.

The signals for the three-point joint defense were transmitted simultaneously, and the outpost, the market, and the ruins all entered a state of alert at the same time.

Li Yuan stood on the wall near the North Gate, not leaving the market, but instead maximizing the sensing range of the spiritual vein monitoring line.

Outpost direction.

At least seven or eight cultivator auras gathered about a hundred feet outside the outpost, each carrying demonic energy. One aura was particularly heavy, its intensity at the late Foundation Establishment stage, surpassing the others.

But these demonic cultivators did not make a move.

They stopped there on the outpost's perimeter, facing off against the garrison cultivators a hundred feet away.

Neither attack nor retreat.

Li Yuan's senses lingered for a moment on those demonic cultivators' auras.

Something's not right.

The way these demonic cultivators' aura fluctuated was different from the demonic cultivators encountered before. Normally, a demonic cultivator's demonic energy naturally overflows from their internal meridians, with a uniform concentration and stable fluctuations. However, several of these auras showed fluctuating strength.

weird.

Li Yuan did not linger in the direction of the outpost. He switched the perception of the second line of divine sense towards the center of the spiritual vein.

Remains of the Alchemy Platform.

In the southern part of the middle section of the spiritual vein, a large amount of demonic energy is rapidly approaching.

Li Yuan carefully counted all his senses.

At least a dozen sources of demonic energy are scattered in a fan-shaped area to the north and east of the ruins, and they are converging on the ruins from different directions.

Then, in one place, he suppressed his breathing and stopped.

Feint to the east while attacking in the west.

The standoff at the outpost was a pretext; the real target was the ruins.

Li Yuan immediately jumped down from the wall and moved towards the outpost.

Simultaneously suppressing both the concealment of breath and the hidden pulse, the aura was reduced to an extremely low level.

After approaching the outpost, Li Yuan stopped on a high ground and turned the precision of the spiritual vein monitoring line to the highest level.

The locations of more than ten sources of demonic energy were marked one by one in the perception.

The closest one was about 150 zhang to the north of the outer perimeter of the ruins, and it was moving slowly. Li Yuan focused his senses on that point.

Something's wrong with his breathing.

The way that demonic energy fluctuated was unlike that of a cultivator, but more like that of a demonic beast. The rhythm of its spiritual energy circulation was rough and primitive, lacking the finesse of meridian guidance; it was purely the natural flow of demonic energy within the body.

Monster.

A demonic beast covered in heavy demonic energy.

Li Yuan scanned several other sources of demonic energy and found that more than half of them followed the same pattern.

Of the dozen or so sources of demonic energy, only four or five were genuine demonic cultivators; the rest were demonic beasts controlled by demonic cultivators, their bodies imbued with demonic energy to serve as vanguards and cover.

Li Yuan made a move to test the waters.

Inside the outpost, several Foundation Establishment cultivators, including Chen Yi, were on high alert.

A fire arrow, with extremely low spiritual power output, was fired at the nearest source of demonic energy.

The fiery arrow pierced through the gaps in the tree canopy and struck the side of a gray-furred monster. The monster howled in pain and darted to the side, offering no resistance.

It really is a demonic beast.

The instant the fire arrow struck, Li Yuan's keen senses clearly perceived the fluctuations of spiritual energy within the demonic beast. A mid-tier second-order demonic beast, its body was covered in a thick layer of demonic energy, and its movements were stiff, as if controlled by an external force.

Simultaneously, spiritual energy fluctuations from behind appeared, indicating the arrival of reinforcements.

Auras and demonic energy flickered and intertwined above the outpost. The intensity of the battle wasn't too high, but the commotion was significant.

Meanwhile, within Li Yuan's perception range, the cultivators stationed at the ruins were rushing towards the outpost.

Just then, the group of demonic cultivators who were near the ruins made their move.

The outer array of the ruins instantly triggered an alarm, and a burst of spiritual light shone brightly.

The signal from the coordinated defense array was simultaneously transmitted to the market and the outpost.

From the market, Chen Yi's voice came through the communication jade slip, his tone urgent.

"Legacy warning triggered; demonic cultivators have infiltrated."

Li Yuan did not reply. Within the range of the spiritual vein's perception, the group of cultivators stationed there had left the ruins and were still rushing this way, seemingly unaware of the news.

The information transmitted through the spiritual vein monitoring line is clearer than any other message.

The outer layer of the formation on the ruins is being rapidly broken.

The demonic cultivators' methods of breaking the formation were extremely sophisticated. They didn't rely on brute force, but rather on precisely dismantling the formation's nodes. The order and speed at which each node was dismantled were meticulously calculated, as if the formation's structure had been studied beforehand.

The nodes of the outer array failed one after another at an extremely rapid pace.

The fighting suddenly intensified towards the outpost. The late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator went all out, suppressing the outpost's defenders and drawing more attention and manpower to the outpost.

Li Yuan was positioned slightly west of the outpost battlefield when a powerful aura suddenly broke away from the outpost and rushed towards him.

Late stage of foundation building.

The demonic energy was dense, and the speed was extremely fast.

The late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator appeared a hundred feet away, his gaze fixed on the high ground where Li Yuan was.

Li Yuan did not confront them head-on.

He turned and ran, retreating rapidly towards the market. He activated his Fire Release technique, pushing his speed to the limit.

The demonic cultivators caught up with them.

The two moved rapidly along the path on the outskirts of the Ghost Mist Forest, one after the other. The distance between them decreased from one hundred zhang to seventy zhang, and then from seventy zhang to fifty zhang.

After Li Yuan had run for about three hundred feet, the pursuit behind him suddenly stopped.

The late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator stopped fifty feet away, stood for two breaths, and then turned and flew towards the ruins.

I'm not going to pursue it anymore.

The goal is not yourself.

Li Yuan stood there watching the demonic cultivator's aura rapidly recede into the night, disappearing into the direction of the ruins.

The warning signals from the array at the ruins continued, and spiritual light flickered incessantly in the night sky.

Information from the spiritual vein monitoring line indicates that the outer layer of the ruins' array has been largely destroyed.