Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

After nightfall, Li Yuan put away his alchemy furnace and talisman brush, focusing all his energy on the Turbid Fiend Technique.

With the support of complete immunity to evil energy through the Unification of Evil Origin and the mastery of the Evil Spirit Transformation Technique, the evil energy flows through the meridians without any hindrance.

As midnight approached, at the moment when the thirty-second major cycle was completed, the speed of the evil energy in the meridians suddenly crossed a critical point.

The flow of malevolent energy, which originally required deliberate guidance to maintain, became a spontaneous cycle at this moment. Like a river finding its smoothest channel, the malevolent energy flowed along the path of the Turbid Malevolent Energy Technique without needing any external force to propel it.

A panel pops up.

[Turbidity and Evil Technique: Perfection]

Li Yuan exhaled a breath of dark gray air.

First-tier cultivation technique, perfected.

He is proficient in the Demonic Spirit Transformation Technique and has perfected the Turbid Demonic Technique. Of the two demonic arts techniques he possesses, one has already reached perfection.

His gaze fell on another part of the panel.

The conditions for the permanent formation of the "Evil Source Condensation (Green)" have been met.

[Achieving perfection in the cultivation of evil-type techniques]

[The phrase "煞源凝合（绿）" has become a permanent entry.]

The phantom of the evil crystal disappeared from the equipment slot.

Li Yuan did not close the panel, but instead took out the Fire Fiend Stone.

Both the Crimson Fire Technique and the Turbid Evil Technique have been perfected, and the conditions for permanentization have been naturally met.

[Equipped: Fire Fiend Stone (Complete)]

The phrase "Fire and Green in Harmony" has become a permanent entry.

The phantom of the Fire Fiend Stone appeared briefly in the equipment slot before disintegrating into a wisp of dark red light that disappeared into the body, and the slot it had occupied was emptied again.

The moment the entry was solidified, Li Yuan noticed a trace of cold and fierce malevolent energy deep within his fire-attribute spiritual power. From now on, when he used fireballs, fire pythons, or even Fiery Flames, the fire would naturally be mixed with the corrosive effect of malevolent energy. It would no longer be just a simple burning, but would also be able to defile the protective spiritual power and erode the flesh and meridians.

After the permanent transformation was completed, Li Yuan got up, took out a few items from his storage bag, and placed them on the table.

Three diversion stones. Dozens of copper plates for securing the array. Half a bottle of spirit-suppressing sand.

These were all array materials retrieved from the storage bags after the demonic cultivators were killed. The same items were also found on the demonic cultivator guarding the underground demon-gathering array.

Li Yuan divided the materials into three portions.

What he needs to do is very simple.

Three miniature demonic energy monitoring nodes were deployed.

The array has only one function: to passively absorb and record any demonic energy fluctuations that have occurred in the vicinity. It does not actively release any spiritual energy, nor does it generate any spiritual energy signals that can be detected by the outside world; it is purely a passive receiving device.

The array's structure is extremely streamlined. A single guiding stone serves as the array's core, a dozen or so copper plates form a minimal spiritual energy circulation path, and spirit-suppressing sand fills the gaps between the nodes to isolate spiritual energy interference. Once the entire array is set up, it is only the size of a palm, buried three feet underground, leaving absolutely no trace on the surface.

Essentially, this is a node array related to demonic energy.

Li Yuan packed up the materials, extinguished the lights in the stone house, and pushed open the door to walk into the night.

Concealing presence, hiding pulse, and concealing spiritual energy—three layers of concealment are activated simultaneously.

Instead of going through the main entrance, he turned sideways and climbed over a section of old wall in the south area, moving north along the underground drainage channel of the market.

The first node is located below the patrol and guard post on the inner ring of the market.

The mole always passed through this area late at night. Burying surveillance cameras here would record whether he carried demonic energy with him, as well as the concentration and direction of that energy.

Li Yuan crouched in a dark corner of the drainage ditch, spiritual energy overflowing from his fingertips. The diversion stone was embedded in the cracks in the ditch wall, and the copper plates for securing the array were arranged along the cracks, with spiritual energy precisely carving extremely fine loop lines. Spirit-suppressing sand was filled into the gaps between the nodes, and finally, a thin layer of mud was used to cover the surface.

In less than 15 minutes, the first node array was deployed.

There was no light, no spiritual energy fluctuation. The formation was silently embedded in the stone wall, just like an ordinary stone.

Li Yuan got up and moved along the underground channel to the second location.

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The second node is located at the end of the narrow alley between the outpost and the market.

Following the same steps and at the same speed, the second node array was deployed within a dozen breaths.

The third node is located deep within the foundation of the western wall of the market.

A moment later, all three node arrays were deployed.

Li Yuan got up from the dark corner under the west wall, brushed the dirt off his hands, and returned to the stone house along the way he came.

Then he took out the dark purple magic-gathering array eye crystal from his storage bag.

The crystal felt cool to the touch, and the black mist inside was still slowly swirling.

"equipment."

[Equipped: Demon Gathering Array Eye (Complete)]

[Jumo Traffic Generation (Green) is in effect]

The next item pops up on the panel.

The conditions for making the "Gathering Magic Traffic (Green)" permanent have been met.

[The "Jumo Traffic Generation (Green)" keyword has become a permanent entry.]

The illusory image of the crystal solidified in the equipment slot for a moment before vanishing. Another empty slot became available.

[A permanent term matching the criteria for homologous fusion has been detected]

[Integration Direction: Comprehensively enhance the ability to perceive, gather, control, and identify malevolent/demonic energy]

Should we proceed with the fusion?

Four terms. Two green and two white.

The source of evil energy is gathered and settled by the concentrating pipe; the demonic energy is drawn and guided by the guiding pipe; the evil energy perception provides the ability to detect evil energy; and the demonic sense amplification provides the ability to detect demonic energy.

The four terms share a common function, all pointing to the manipulation and perception of malevolent and demonic energy.

"Integration".

The two green lights and two white lights on the panel shattered simultaneously, swallowed by the azure light, intertwined and swirled, and finally condensed into new characters.

[Dark Insight (Blue)]

[Effects: Can actively attract, gather, compress, and guide surrounding malevolent and demonic energy; the precision and range of control increase with the spiritual power; has extremely high identification ability for malevolent/demonic energy nodes, array circuits, and underground seepage directions; passively senses malevolent and demonic energy fluctuations over a large area, with the sensing range increasing with the spiritual power]

The moment the fusion was complete.

Li Yuan's senses suddenly exploded.

It's not the kind of spiritual awareness that comes with spiritual insight, but rather a completely independent dimension of perception.

Malevolent energy and demonic energy.

Within three feet of the market's underground, every remaining trace of malevolent energy seemed to be illuminated. The three node arrays he had just laid out in the drainage ditch now appeared as three extremely clear dark purple dots in his perception, with faint pulses of demonic energy rising and falling like a heartbeat.

Perception continues to spread outward.

Outside the city walls, in the underground rock strata towards the Ghost Mist Forest, several extremely thin lines of malevolent energy seeping through were clearly visible. This malevolent energy seeped from deeper ley lines, slowly flowing towards the city along the cracks in the rocks, its concentration so low that it would be impossible to detect by conventional means.

Further away, in the direction of the confluence of mineral veins, the Qi-cultivating array, though lacking the additional support of Qi-source condensation, was still functioning. The convergence path of the Qi appeared in perception as strands of gray-black threads, flowing into the array's core from all directions, like a giant spider web.

The situation is even more complex in the depths of the Ghost Mist Forest.

Large clumps of malevolent energy were deposited in the low-lying areas of the forest. Occasionally, a few wisps of demonic energy would pass through these clumps, heading in different directions, some to the north and some to the southeast.

Li Yuan withdrew his senses.

Dark Insight, blue entry.

The fusion of the four elements has elevated his control and perception of malevolent and demonic energy to a whole new level. The faint fluctuations that he previously needed to consciously activate his malevolent energy perception or demonic sense amplification to detect have now become a passive, permanent perception, as if he has gained a pair of eyes specifically for seeing malevolent and demonic energy.

This entry has extremely high practical value for investigating the hidden agents planted by the Dark Abyss Society around the market, tracking the movements of demonic cultivators, and even monitoring the every move of the traitor.