Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

The stone house was brightly lit.

Li Yuan stood before the table, the specially made blood-red spiritual ink emitting a pungent odor in the jade dish. Five threads of divine sense firmly controlled every fluctuation of spiritual energy around him, one of which was wrapped around the talisman brush.

The spirit patterns of a mid-grade second-tier spirit-breaking talisman are extremely complex, but Li Yuan's own talisman-making skills have reached the minor completion stage of the second tier, so drawing it is relatively simple.

The brush tip, fully dipped in spiritual ink, landed on the second-tier talisman paper. Li Yuan suppressed the output of spiritual power within his body to an extremely stable state, and precisely guided the spiritual ink with his divine sense to drag out the inner layer of the spiritual ink on the paper, followed by the middle layer acceleration structure, and finally cut into the outer layer.

This time, he deliberately slowed down by 30% and injected a trace of wood-elemental spiritual power into the nodes of the spiked structure as a buffer.

The final stroke concludes the piece.

A sharp, crimson light suddenly burst forth from the surface of the talisman. The light was extremely dazzling, but it only flashed for a moment before quickly receding and locking firmly within the intricate spiritual runes.

It became.

Li Yuan put away the talisman brush and picked up the spirit-breaking talisman.

The panel popped up at the edge of my field of vision.

[Equipable item detected: Spirit Breaking Talisman (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Spirit Breaker (Green)]

[Effect: Attack spells have a built-in spirit-piercing effect; there is a chance to penetrate spiritual defenses such as protective auras; the penetration effect depends on the strength of the opponent's spiritual defense; it also increases damage to the spiritual defense itself.]

[Preview of conditions for permanentization: Cultivation level reaches the late stage of Foundation Establishment]

Green entries.

Li Yuan's gaze settled on the effect description. The attack spell inherently possessed a spirit-piercing effect and had a chance to directly penetrate spiritual energy defenses. In actual combat, cultivators relied most on their protective spiritual light and magical shields. Once these two lines of defense were ignored or easily torn apart, ordinary cultivators with fragile physical bodies were essentially defenseless targets.

He glanced at the permanentization conditions.

His cultivation level has reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

He had not only reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment, but was also in the state of perfect Foundation Establishment, completely overflowing.

Li Yuan brought up the equipment menu.

"equipment."

[Equipped: Spirit Breaking Talisman (Complete)]

[Spirit Breaker (Green) is in effect]

Immediately afterwards, the panel popped up again.

The conditions for making the Spirit Breaker (Green) permanent have been met.

[Cultivation level has reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment (met)]

[The "Breaking Spirit Sharp Edge (Green)" has become a permanent entry.]

The phantom of the Spirit-Breaking Talisman solidified in the equipment slot for a moment before dissipating. The empty slot became available again.

The moment the entry became permanent, Li Yuan felt an extremely subtle qualitative change occur in the spiritual energy within his body. The quantity of spiritual energy itself did not increase, but it gained an extremely sharp attribute as it flowed. It was as if invisible spikes had sprouted from the edges of every strand of spiritual energy.

The next morning, Li Yuan went to the management office.

He picked up the recent deployment documents on the table, casually added and modified a few instructions, and then handed them to the deacon beside him.

"Pass it on. Tonight, the defensive formation on the north wall will undergo a spiritual energy circulation rotation, and there will be a brief defensive gap at three-quarters past midnight." Li Yuan said calmly.

The steward nodded in agreement and was about to turn around when Li Yuan added a few more words.

"Also, the shift change for the southern escort will be delayed by two hours today, and some of our personnel will be transferred to the western district to help out. I will be clearing out monsters in the northern forest these next few days, so keep a close eye on the patrols inside the market."

"Understood." The deacon took the document and quickly left.

These instructions will soon be distributed to every resident monk through regular patrol schedules and deployment reports.

On the surface, these are all routine scheduling details that naturally flowed out as resources were integrated after the expansion of the market. Short-term defensive gaps, delayed escorts, and the market keeper going out to clear beasts—everything was reasonable and without any trace of deliberate arrangement.

But as long as the mole leaks this information, the Dark Abyss Society will definitely take action.

During the day, Li Yuan indeed took two cultivators to the outer perimeter of the north wall.

I walked around the edge of the forest line, pretending to check several suspicious traces of monsters, and cleared out two blind first-tier monsters, putting on a show of the sect leader clearing out monsters in the northern forest.

Night fell.

Li Yuan left the stone house alone, his triple concealment fully open, his figure disappearing into the night like a ghost.

Instead of going through the city gate, he climbed over a hidden corner of the north wall.

Ahead lay a grove of mixed trees outside the north wall, less than a hundred paces from it, right at the edge of the defensive array's detection range. If anyone wanted to sneak into the market during a gap in the defenses, this grove would be the perfect hiding place.

Hidden by the dense foliage, he sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes to rest.

While waiting for his prey to fall into the trap, Li Yuan repeatedly replayed the frequency of the intercepted demonic energy in his mind.

One long, two short. Three short, one long.

Dark Fiend's high-precision identification ability allowed him to clearly distinguish the subtle differences in the intensity of each demonic energy pulse. After repeated deduction and analysis, he determined that this was definitely not some random signal turbulence, but a reproducible communication system.

It has a fixed beginning, paragraph pauses, and ending.

Although the specific content cannot be translated at present, the code itself is a key. As long as he comes into contact with more demonic cultivator communications or Dark Abyss Society strongholds in the future, this code can help him decipher the deadly information at any time.

At 3:45 AM (丑时三刻).

The night breeze suddenly stopped.

Li Yuan opened his eyes in the tree canopy.

Within the Dark Fiend's perception network, three extremely subtle fluctuations of demonic energy were rapidly approaching from the depths of the Ghost Mist Forest, skimming along the ground.

They were moving at an extremely high speed and made no attempt to conceal their route straight towards the north wall.

Clearly, the other side was extremely certain that the north wall was now an undefended open space.

Three dark figures stopped at the edge of the mixed woods, about a hundred feet from the north wall.

By the faint moonlight, Li Yuan could see who it was.

Three demonic cultivators clad in black cloaks stood out. The leader exuded an extremely heavy aura, the surrounding air seemingly distorted under the pressure of his demonic energy. The other two lagged slightly behind, warily scanning their surroundings.

One is in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and two are in the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

After confirming that the surrounding area was safe, the three quickly moved forward.

One step, two steps.

The leading late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator was the first to step into the designated landing point.

Two early-stage demonic cultivators followed closely behind.

A cold glint flashed in Li Yuan's eyes, and he suddenly drew down a stream of spiritual energy with his fingertips.

"Buzz".

"There's an ambush."

The leading late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator reacted extremely quickly. He roared, and his entire body exploded with black demonic energy. A layer of extremely thick, dark purple protective spiritual light instantly expanded, firmly protecting him in the center.

But the moment he shouted, Li Yuan had already arrived.

He leaped from the treetop, like a meteorite crashing to the ground.

The Iron Bones and Golden Body, along with the Medicine-Refined True Body, erupted in full force. A surge of violent blood energy and the Fire Python Technique coiled around his right fist, compressing wildly.

Moreover, the fist was covered with an extremely sharp green aura.

The Flaming Spirit enhances fire-type spells, and the Spirit-Piercing Sharpness is attached to them.

Li Yuan held nothing back, throwing a punch at the protective aura of the late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator.

"Click."

A crisp cracking sound pierced the night sky.

The moment Li Yuan's fist touched the dark purple shield, the effect of the Spirit-Piercing Sharp Edge was fully unleashed. That seemingly indestructible spiritual energy defense was pierced through as easily as if it were made of paper.

The raging flames and immense force surged straight in through the breach.

The demonic cultivator's eyes finally revealed a look of utter horror, but it was too late.

The fist slammed heavily into his chest, shattering his sternum instantly, and scorching fiery energy flooded his internal organs. Before he could even scream, his body flew backward, crashing into two large trees and falling to the ground lifeless.

One-hit kill of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

The remaining two early-stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators didn't even have time to see what happened. They only saw a flash of fire before their eyes, and two fireballs with spirit-breaking effects were already smashing down on them.

Their hastily erected spiritual energy shield was useless against the Spirit-Breaking Sharp Edge, and was instantly pierced through.

Two muffled thuds followed.

Two charred corpses lay in the mud.

The entire battle, from the activation of the formation to the annihilation of all three, took only a few breaths.

Li Yuan stood in the center of the three corpses and shook the ashes off his fist.

The penetrating power of the Spirit-Piercing Sharp Edge was extremely domineering, completely exceeding the prediction of the late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator. This was the overwhelming advantage brought by the trump card.

He didn't rush to touch the corpse.

Instead, he drew a first-grade high-level flying sword and made several cuts on his left arm and chest.

It may not have been cut open.

Li Yuan had no choice but to control his muscles and create a deep wound that exposed bone. Blood gushed out, staining half of his Taoist robe red.

Next, he disguised his aura, making it appear extremely weak and feeble.

If you're going to put on a show, you have to go all the way.

Three Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators died outside the market, and the intelligence provided by the traitor was correct. If he returned unharmed, Dark Abyss would definitely suspect the traitor had been exposed. Only by being severely injured could Dark Abyss believe that they had simply encountered a formidable foe during the assassination attempt, rather than that the intelligence had been flawed.

After feigning serious injury, Li Yuan squatted down and took the three people's storage bags.

He forcefully broke through the mark with his divine sense and quickly scanned it.

There were no items in the three storage bags that could directly trigger equipable attributes.

But deep inside the storage bag of that late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator, Li Yuan discovered a completely black restricted box.

The box has no keyholes on its surface, only extremely intricate patterns of demonic energy.

The moment Li Yuan reached out to touch it, the Dark Fiend Insight immediately relayed an extremely dangerous signal. The box was protected by a self-destruct seal; it could only be opened correctly by inputting demonic energy of a specific frequency, otherwise the contents would instantly turn to dust.

More importantly, his perception penetrated the surface of the box, clearly capturing the halo of light emanating from within, belonging to the blue words.

Blue-labeled items.

Li Yuan narrowed his eyes, and the set of demonic energy encoding frequencies that he had intercepted earlier immediately came to mind.

There seems to be some kind of inevitable connection between the two.

He wasn't in a hurry to untangle it, and carefully put the box deep into his storage bag.

Continue searching.

Among a pile of messy magical pills, a jade bottle with three spirit-sealing talismans attached to it caught his attention.

Upon opening the bottle, a unique medicinal fragrance wafted out, and just one sniff made me feel as if a clear spring had been injected into my body.

Three longevity pills, unfortunately I've used the same ones before.

After confirming that nothing had been missed, Li Yuan dragged his heavily injured body and staggered toward the north gate of the market.

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