Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Inside the stone house, the flames of the two alchemy furnaces burned all night long.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged in the center of the two furnaces, his eyes slightly closed. Five lines of divine consciousness spread steadily in his mind, each performing its own function.

Cultivation and alchemy were carried out simultaneously.

This mode had become Li Yuan's daily routine after he mastered the Concentration and Soul Guiding Technique and merged with the Return to True Soul Essence. Each of the five divine sense lines processed completely different information flows, and the mental consumption was reduced to a negligible level by the Return to True Soul Essence.

An hour later, the bronze furnace on the right side made a muffled sound, and six healing pills flew out and landed in the jade bottle.

The power of the soul was immediately poured into a new batch of materials, and the second batch of healing pills was produced seamlessly.

Half an hour later, the dark red alchemy furnace on the left suddenly trembled. Li Yuan used a wisp of spiritual energy to open the furnace lid, and three Gathering Yuan Pills, carrying a warm medicinal fragrance, fell into his palm. The pills had a restrained aura, indicating superior quality.

Without pausing, new medicinal herbs were put into the furnace.

In a wooden box in the corner of the stone house, various jade bottles were piled higher and higher.

In the afternoon, a series of urgent knocks on the door interrupted the rhythm of alchemy.

Li Yuan extinguished the spiritual flames beneath the alchemy furnace, got up, and opened the door.

Standing outside the door was a spirit farmer covered in sweat. He was a veteran from the core area of ​​the spirit field and rarely came to see him.

"Master Li, there's a problem in the newly reclaimed area." Ling Nong wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"The newly planted seedlings of the 'Continuum Vein Grass' on the east side have been largely eaten away by insects."

"What kind of bug?"

"A kind of spirit insect called the Spirit Silkworm." The spirit farmer gestured, "It's about the size of a fingernail, completely transparent, and it feeds exclusively on the spiritual energy in the soil. The roots and stems of the seedlings are being eaten away until they turn white. If it's not dealt with soon, the whole area will be ruined."

Li Yuan frowned.

Spirit insects feed on spiritual energy and are not aggressive, but they reproduce extremely quickly. If left unattended, they can drain the spiritual energy of an entire spiritual field within a few days, and the spiritual herbs will naturally die.

"lead the way."

The two left the market town and walked briskly along the field ridges to the eastern edge of the newly reclaimed area.

This area had only recently been renovated, and the Spirit-Drawing Canal had only been connected recently, so the spiritual energy in the soil was still unstable. Li Yuan squatted down, parted the leaves of a Vein-Continuing Grass, and sure enough, saw several translucent insects crawling at the base of the plant. A faint flow of spiritual light could be seen within the insects, a clear indication that they had absorbed plenty of spiritual energy.

There are even more buried in the surrounding soil.

Li Yuan did not use magic to kill them one by one, as that would be time-consuming and could easily harm the seedlings.

He pressed his palms to the ground and activated the Earth-Building Technique.

The mastery of the Soil Cultivation Technique allows for extremely precise control over the density of spiritual energy in the soil. Spiritual energy seeps three feet into the ground, beginning to disperse the spiritual energy within the soil in this area.

It's not about removing it, but about reducing its density.

The concentration of spiritual energy in the soil dropped by 70% within a few breaths.

The spirit insects that fed on spiritual energy immediately sensed the change. Deprived of their spiritual energy environment, they wriggled frantically in the soil, instinctively fleeing to the outer areas where the spiritual energy concentration was higher.

A large swarm of tiny, transparent insects emerged from the soil and surged outwards from the field ridges.

Li Yuan pulled several insect-repelling talismans from his sleeve with his right hand. With a surge of spiritual power, the talismans transformed into several pale green light screens, enveloping all the fleeing spirit insects. Wherever the light screens passed, the spirit insects curled up as if being burned, and after a moment, they turned into wisps of green smoke and dissipated.

In less than 15 minutes, the pests in the area were completely cleared away.

Li Yuan stood up, withdrew the spiritual power of the Soil Cultivation Technique, and allowed the concentration of spiritual energy in the soil to slowly return to normal levels.

He looked at the newly reclaimed area in front of him.

Pests themselves are not difficult to deal with, but the problem is that these kinds of things will only increase in the future.

With 3,000 mu of spiritual fields, the larger the planting area, the more trivial problems arise. Pests, blocked irrigation canals, uneven distribution of spiritual energy, and mutual influences between different varieties of spiritual herbs—each one requires someone to keep an eye on it.

It's unrealistic for him to do it alone. (Follow the book without getting lost, bookmark it, and read "Cultivation: I Can Solidify Equipment Attributes" anytime.) His main focus must be on cultivation and core industries; he can't spend all his time catching bugs in the fields.

Spirit farmers can handle daily planting and harvesting, but they are helpless when faced with spirit insects that require magical intervention.

This issue can only be noted down for now, and we'll discuss it again when a suitable candidate comes along.

Li Yuan instructed Ling Nong to observe whether there were similar situations in other areas, and then turned back to the market.

It was already evening when we returned to the stone house.

Li Yuan closed the doors and windows again and sat cross-legged on the prayer mat.

As night deepened, Li Yuan shifted his focus from the Xuan Tie Forging Bone Technique to the Turbid Fiend Technique.

He progressed extremely quickly in mastering this first-tier evil energy technique. The complete immunity to evil energy from the Unification of Evil Essence, the profound control over evil energy brought by the mastery of the Evil Spirit Transformation Technique, and the deep understanding of yin-attribute spiritual power accumulated from the mastery of the Demonic Essence Technique made every step of the Turbid Evil Technique effortless.

The spiritual energy reversed in the meridians, transforming into malevolent energy that flowed along the path of the cultivation technique.

With each complete cycle of the Qigong, the efficiency of the technique in condensing and guiding evil Qi increases by one point.

After midnight, the Turbid Qi Technique, which had been circulating for over a hundred cycles, completed a crucial breakthrough in its flow through the meridians. The malevolent energy condensed into an extremely compressed black vortex deep within the dantian, then suddenly released, spreading throughout the body's meridians, making each channel of malevolent energy wider and smoother.

The panel pops up at the edge of your field of vision.

[Turbid Sha Technique: Great Success (0/400)]

Li Yuan exhaled a breath of dark gray air.

First-tier cultivation technique, mastered.

We are just one step away from perfection.

He put away his cultivation technique and switched the main focus back to the cultivation of the Xuan Tie Forging Bone Technique, maintaining the state of parallel development of the five techniques until dawn.

For several days in a row, Li Yuan maintained this high-pressure rhythm, squeezing every last drop of time. During the day, he refined his body and used two furnaces to refine pills; at night, he cultivated the Turbid Fiend Technique and his main cultivation method, handling market affairs in between.

But the affairs of the market are becoming more and more numerous.

Another batch of Yunzhou cultivators poured into Wulin Market.

This time, the number of people who came was larger than the previous times, totaling over three hundred. Most of them were low-level rogue cultivators in the Qi Refining stage and their families, with a few family cultivators in the early Foundation Establishment stage as well. They had been forced into a corner by the Dark Abyss Society, and had run all the way from the southwest of Yunzhou to the border of Liangzhou, eventually finding the Misty Forest Market along the trade route.

The rooms and vacant shops in the market area are already fully occupied, and there is almost no room left for expansion.

The management office desk was piled high with registration lists and allocation applications. Chen Yi was so busy he barely had time to breathe, and he had to urge Li Yuan several times.

Li Yuan sat in the management office for half an hour, quickly reviewed the backlog of tasks, and then made a decision.

He found Ji Mingyuan.

"You've already taken over the daily management of the South District; now we'll add another task."

Li Yuan handed over a stack of registration lists for newly recruited cultivators.

"New cultivators, those assigned to the South and Southwest districts, are entirely your responsibility for registration, room allocation, and maintaining order. Report any changes to the roster to the management office every ten days."

"Management personnel will be paid their monthly salary according to the average level."

Ji Mingyuan took the roster, flipped through a few pages, and nodded, saying, "No problem. However, we might not have enough manpower. I'd like to transfer a few more people from the clan."

Li Yuan nodded and then turned to leave.

Of the more than eighty members of the Ji family, quite a few are capable. Ji Mingyuan has experience in management and has people under him to rely on. Delegating grassroots management work is much more efficient than Li Yuan handling everything himself.

In fact, since the Ji family moved into the southern district, the operational efficiency of the southern half of the market has improved significantly.

Li Yuan was happy to hand over these trivial matters.

After leaving the management office, Li Yuan went straight back to the stone house.

The doors and windows were sealed off, and the alchemy furnace was reignited.

The five lines of divine consciousness spread out again, each returning to its proper place.