Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Li Yuan sat cross-legged on the futon, his bones emitting a dense, subtle crackling sound.

The spiritual energy followed the pathway of the Xuan Tie Bone Forging Technique, completing another major cycle through the bone marrow channels throughout the body. Unlike the previous days, this time, after completing the entire cycle, the spiritual energy did not return to the dantian as usual, but instead encountered an invisible barrier deep within the spine.

The spiritual energy was stuck against the barrier, unable to move.

Li Yuan did not force his way through, but instead maintained the pressure of his spiritual energy at the edge of the barrier, allowing it to penetrate little by little.

This process lasted for about half an incense stick's time.

Suddenly, a crack appeared in the barrier. Spiritual energy, like water finding a dam, surged into the deepest layer of the spinal cord, flowing simultaneously upwards and downwards along the central nervous system.

Skull, ribs, scapula, long bones of the limbs, phalanges and toe bones.

At that moment, the bone marrow channels of all bones were simultaneously flushed out by spiritual energy.

An extremely intense soreness erupted from deep within his bones, followed by the heavy feeling of his bones being crushed and solidified again by spiritual energy. It was as if an invisible hand had crushed every bone in his body and then kneaded it back into an even denser form.

The soreness and swelling came on suddenly and went away quickly.

When the spiritual energy completed this deep circulation and flowed back into the dantian, an extremely faint buzzing sound emanated from Li Yuan's bones.

It's not pain, it's not tremor, but resonance caused by a qualitative change in bone density.

A panel pops up.

[Mysterious Iron Bone Forging Technique: Proficient (0/400)]

Li Yuan opened his eyes.

Three-stage, second-level body-refining techniques.

All have reached proficiency or above.

Without pausing, he took out the skull of the Rock-Cracked Bear directly from his storage bag.

The massive, grayish-white skull lay on the stone chamber floor, its natural dark brown veins appearing particularly rugged under the lamplight. Li Yuan pressed his palm against it.

"equipment."

[Equipped: Tier 2 Monster Skull (Complete)]

[Bone condensation (green) is in effect]

With a thought, it becomes permanent.

[Bone density (green) has become a permanent term]

The phantom of the Rockcrack Bear skull solidified briefly in the equipment slot before vanishing. The slot became empty.

Before I could put the Hidden Vein Concealment back in, a circle of azure light suddenly flashed around the edge of the panel.

[Permanent terms matching the fusion criteria have been detected]

[Solid Bone Structure (Green) + Firm Bone Structure (Green)]

Should we proceed with the fusion?

Two entries related to bone structure.

One comes from the skull of a Rock-Splittered Bear, and the other from the spine of a second-tier beast, the Black-Spine Leopard. Both are purely body-refining and defensive attributes, with highly similar effects.

"Integration".

The two green lights on the panel were swallowed by the blue light, intertwined and swirled, and finally condensed into new text.

【Iron Bones and Golden Body (Blue)】

[Effects: Significantly increases physical and skeletal strength; increases resistance to blows by 50%; increases bone healing speed after injury by 30%; increases the upper limit of body enhancement provided by body-refining techniques by 30%]

The moment the fusion was complete.

A deep, muffled hum resounded from all of Li Yuan's bones, as if someone were striking a cast-iron bell inside his body.

The buzzing sound spread from his spine to his limbs, making his fingertips slightly numb. Immediately afterward, an extremely powerful force surged from deep within his bones, penetrating along the periosteum into the muscle layer. Remember this name: Cola Novels. Remember this domain name: . Good books don't get lost. His entire body felt as if it had been encased in an invisible iron shell, steady and solid.

Li Yuan raised his right hand and clenched his fist.

When the finger bones and metacarpal bones are pressed together, the sound produced is no longer the previous harsh sound, but a dull hum similar to the collision of metal.

Two blue body-refining attributes were simultaneously attached to his body. Combined with the green and white defensive attributes such as Three Elements Body Protection, Simultaneous Cultivation of Bone Membrane, Iron-Tough Bones, and Golden Armor Protection, his physical body hardness had reached an extremely exaggerated level.

The final effect of the Iron Body is even more crucial.

The body-refining technique increases the upper limit of physical enhancement by 30%.

This means that the physical enhancement he receives for each level of proficiency improvement in the three second-tier body-refining techniques he is currently cultivating is 30% greater than normal. This is a continuous, long-term boost; the longer he cultivates, the greater the gap between him and ordinary body-refining cultivators will become.

The previous accumulation of cultivation also increased by 30% at this moment.

After just two rounds of exercise, the communication jade slip on the corner of the table lit up.

Li Yuan picked up the jade slip and probed it with his divine sense.

It was a sect transfer order forwarded by Chen Yi.

The expansion project of Yunyang Market officially started, and Yuanyang Sect summoned array masters from various markets to set up the outer defensive array. He was the only array master in Wulin Market, so naturally he was the one to go.

The document indicates the date as tomorrow.

Li Yuan put down the jade slip and, without delay, packed up the tools and materials needed for setting up the formation that very night. He set off for Yunyang Market early the next morning.

Yunyang Market was even more crowded than at the last trade fair.

The influx of cultivators pushed the market to its limit, and several sections of the outer city wall began to be demolished and rebuilt. Dust filled the construction site as dozens of cultivators used earth and wood magic to move huge stones from the quarry and stack them one by one on the new wall foundation.

After receiving his assignment documents from the market management office, Li Yuan went directly to the expansion area on the south side.

This time, we need to set up the most basic outer defensive formation. First, we'll set up a first-tier sensing array and a linked early warning array.

Although it's simple, it involves a lot of work.

After surveying the terrain, Li Yuan led several unaffiliated repairmen to begin construction.

He excavated the array base, embedded the guiding stones, inscribed the array patterns, and filled it with stabilizing spirit sand. He performed each step extremely quickly, simultaneously deploying four lines of divine sense to precisely inject spiritual power into each node.

On several sections of the foundation wall next to him, other cultivators were using earth-moving and stone-moving techniques to compact the rubble and soil. Occasionally, someone would glance back at Li Yuan's progress, and a hint of surprise would appear on their face.

He could set up the formation faster by himself than the other two formation masters combined.

The added bonus of the "Array Mechanism Linkage" attribute makes the nesting and arrangement of multi-layered arrays extremely smooth, while the mutual reflection of array symbols further enhances the precision of the array patterns. In addition, with the foundation of minor mastery of second-order array techniques and the solid foundation of perfect first-order array Dao, these basic defensive arrays present almost no technical obstacles in his hands.

By evening, the outer defensive formation that Li Yuan was in charge of had been fully set up.

Li Yuan walked around the array patterns, and after confirming that each node was functioning correctly, he put the tools back into his storage bag.

The management officer of Yunyang Market inspected the formation, stamped the mission document, and handed over a new notification jade slip.

"There will be several more expansion projects in the future, and we will notify you in advance."

Li Yuan nodded and accepted the gift, then set off back to Wulinfang City that same day.

As night fell, the stone house returned to silence.

Five lines of divine sense spread out, the alchemy furnace ignited, and the talisman brush hovered in the air.

The spiritual energy flowed slowly within his body, continuously increasing in strength.