Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

The deployment of the teleportation array in Yunyang Market has finally come to an end.

The core array masters began the final closed-loop debugging. After handing over the outer loops he was in charge of, Li Yuan returned directly to Misty Forest Market.

As soon as I stepped into the stone house, a circle of green light flickered at the edge of my vision.

The conditions for permanent Lingyun Guben (Green) have been met.

Pick it up and equip it.

[The "Spiritual Essence Strengthens the Foundation (Green)" entry has become a permanent term.]

In the equipment slot, the illusory image of the Spirit Jade Marrow ore, which was glowing with a faint light, instantly disappeared, making room for it.

The moment the entry became permanent, the previously weak source of spiritual energy beside the dantian became completely stable. Strands of pure spiritual energy seeped out from it continuously, flowing naturally into the dantian.

This is a self-regenerating mana mechanism that requires no external environmental support.

Feeling the steadily growing spiritual power within his body, Li Yuan felt more confident about his upcoming trip to Mozhou.

He went to the management office to briefly hand over the patrol and defense duties of the market to Chen Yi, and took with him a storage bag full of mid-grade spirit stones that the sect had allocated in advance. He then quietly left the Misty Forest Market that same day.

A few days later, Li Yuan crossed the border between Liangzhou and Mozhou.

The moment you step into Mexico, the surrounding environment changes dramatically.

The spiritual energy that cultivators were accustomed to in the air had vanished completely. In its place was an extreme dryness and desolation. It was as if even the wind carried the astringent smell of life being drained away.

Li Yuan stopped in his tracks, his brows furrowing slightly.

The inspiration was extremely faint, almost nonexistent.

Not only could the outside world not provide any spiritual energy replenishment, but even the spiritual power within his body was instinctively dissipating under the pressure of this environment. The natural law of high-concentration water flowing into the dry depression was vividly demonstrated here.

Li Yuan immediately gathered his breath, circulated his spiritual power to lock down all the meridians and pores in his body, and forcibly cut off the interaction between the spiritual power in his body and the outside world.

In such a barren land, if a cultivator casts a spell carelessly or reveals their aura, their spiritual energy will quickly be drained by this arid world. They can only continuously crush spirit stones and rely on the spiritual energy contained within them to replenish their energy.

Fortunately, he has the [Spiritual Essence Strengthening] skill residing within him, allowing him to generate some spiritual power out of thin air.

In addition, his exquisite control over spiritual energy ensured that Li Yuan's spiritual energy would hardly dissipate.

Li Yuan was confident that even in a truly desolate place, his cultivation would not regress, but would continue to rise.

Li Yuan continued to delve deeper.

He originally thought that no cultivator would be willing to set foot in such a desolate place, but after walking for most of the day, he gradually sensed traces of cultivator activity.

Most of those people were concentrated in the mountainous mining areas on the outskirts of Mexico.

They were dressed in tattered clothes, their cultivation levels were generally low, and they moved with extreme caution, not daring to even speak loudly, as if afraid of wasting even a little energy. Everyone was wielding extremely primitive mining tools, hammering away in the bottomless mine pit.

Although the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in Mozhou has almost completely dissipated, the spiritual energy within many ores buried deep underground has not been completely lost.

These ores, still retaining traces of spiritual energy, became the only hard currency and cultivation resource in this desolate land. Many low-level cultivators who couldn't survive in Liangzhou and Yunzhou were forced to flee here, hiding underground like rats, barely surviving by digging up these remnants.

Without disturbing the scattered cultivators mining, Li Yuan bypassed the mining area and headed straight for the teleportation array marked on the sect's jade slip.

It was a huge rock ruin hidden deep at the bottom of the canyon.

In the center stands a circular stone platform with a diameter of over ten zhang (approximately 33 meters), its surface covered with cracks eroded by the passage of time. Around the platform stand six broken stone pillars, most of the originally intricate third-order spatial array patterns on them now worn away by wind and sand.

This is one of the ancient teleportation arrays left behind by the Xuanyou Sect.

Li Yuan leaped onto the stone platform, swept away the thick layer of sand on the surface, and compared the blueprints issued by the sect with the remaining array on site one by one.

Although severely damaged, the core base remains intact.

He took out the materials from the storage bag and began repairing them immediately.

With swift movements of his hands, the copper plate for securing the array and the spirit-guiding stone were precisely driven into the cracks in the stone platform. Five lines of divine sense instantly spread out: three were used to inscribe array patterns, one was responsible for drawing spiritual power from the spirit stones piled to the side and injecting it into the node, and the last one probed deep into the storage bag.

The dark, demonic energy-sealing box was taken out and placed on the edge of the stone platform.

Deploying the formation and deciphering the code are carried out simultaneously.

While skillfully repairing the outer loop of the teleportation array, Li Yuan also focused his attention on controlling a tiny wisp of demonic energy, exhaustively trying to find the correct code frequency on the complex demonic patterns on the surface of the restriction box.

Probe, cut off. Probe again.

With the aid of [Dark Fiend Insight], the exhaustive search method became extremely efficient. Fall in love with reading, starting with Cola Novels. Every time a surge of demonic energy threatened to explode, he could extinguish it in the blink of an eye.

Time slowly passed in the desolate canyon.

The array patterns of the teleportation array were gradually completed, and the spiritual light on the stone platform began to show a faint tendency to connect into one.

Just as the formation repair was in its final third.

The perception network of [Dark Fiend Insight] suddenly jolted.

Above the canyon, two extremely dense streams of demonic energy were silently spreading down from the northern cliff face.

It was extremely well concealed, without a sound. If it were an ordinary cultivator, even one at the late Foundation Establishment stage of the same level, their divine sense would be limited in this Spirit-Severing Land, and they would have no chance of detecting such a silent approach.

But Li Yuan noticed it.

He didn't even lift his head, nor did he pause his movements for the slightest.

The array patterns remained smoothly drawn, and the trial and error process with the magic box continued.

Normally, he might have stopped setting up the formation to deal with the problem first. But things were different now. The spirit stones provided by the Yuan Yang Sect were piled up like a small mountain, providing ample supplies. He also had a variety of ways to regenerate mana. Most importantly, the deciphering of the magic box had just progressed to the most crucial step.

He didn't want to break this rhythm.

The two demonic energies rapidly approached, pausing for a moment behind a rock less than twenty feet from the stone platform.

Then, two dark figures sprang from the shadows like cheetahs, rushing straight to the center of the stone platform.

Two late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators.

They had clearly discovered that Li Yuan was repairing this crucial teleportation array, and without any further words, they launched a deadly attack.

The demonic cultivator on the left swung his arms, and thick demonic energy transformed into two black scimitars, each over ten feet long, slashing towards Li Yuan's neck with a piercing sound. The demonic cultivator on the right formed hand seals, and the sand and stones on the ground were instantly assimilated by demonic energy, transforming into dozens of sharp earth spikes that pierced through Li Yuan's body from bottom to top.

The deadly trap was formed instantly.

Li Yuan remained seated in the same spot.

He only made one move.

He continued to inscribe array patterns with his left hand, while his right hand suddenly rose up, meeting the two black curved blades that were slashing down, and he grasped at the air.

"Bang."

A layer of dark purple magic-patterned shield surged and rippled across his body.

The magic rune protection activates automatically.

The shield, imbued with the terrifying physical strength of an iron-boned golden body, withstood the full-force attacks of two late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators. The black scimitar struck the shield, only creating a distorted halo before failing to advance an inch further. The ground spikes, hitting the base of the shield beneath their feet, shattered one after another.

A look of horror flashed in the eyes of the two demonic cultivators.

Before they could retreat, Li Yuan's right fist was already engulfed in a blinding crimson flame.

He threw a punch.

The raging fiery energy transformed into a roaring fire dragon, which crashed directly into the chest of the demonic cultivator on the left.

The demonic cultivator didn't even have time to raise a second layer of protective demonic light. His original shield was like a thin layer of ice before the Spirit-Piercing Sharp Blade, instantly pierced through. The fiery aura struck his chest, charring half of his body.

With another slam, the fire dragon pierced through his chest, instantly incinerating his internal organs to ashes.

The body flew out like a tattered sack and crashed into the cliff face.

The demonic cultivator on the right was terrified and, without thinking, burned his demonic energy and retreated wildly.

Li Yuan didn't give chase. A cone of extremely compressed malevolent energy pierced through space, precisely striking the demonic cultivator's shield. The spirit-piercing effect ignored his back shield, hitting his back and creating a bloody hole.

The demonic cultivator's demonic energy circulation stalled, and Li Yuan unleashed his Fire Arrow Technique, which pierced directly through the skull.

With his divine consciousness divided and Li Yuan's left hand arranged the array, he just completed the final node of the teleportation array.

A soft silver light shot into the sky from the stone platform, then quickly disappeared into the array patterns.

The formation has been repaired.

Li Yuan stood up, withdrawing his divine sense at the same time. He also successfully severed the last restriction on the magic box, making a soft "click" sound.

He didn't rush to look at the contents of the box, but instead stepped down from the stone platform and went to the two corpses of demonic cultivators.

He forcibly ripped off the storage bag and wiped away the marks.

Elixirs, magical artifacts, and several pieces of high-grade ore.

Opening the box, Li Yuan took out a palm-sized black token.

The token is made of neither gold nor wood, and it feels cold to the touch. The front is engraved with a twisted dark character, while the back is an extremely complex pattern of demonic energy circulation.

This is not an ordinary identity token.

[Equipable item detected: Dark Magic Token (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Demonic Energy Circulation (Blue)]

[Effect: Increases the speed of demonic energy circulation by 30%. After reaching the Golden Core stage, demonic energy can begin to fuse with spiritual energy.]

[Preview of the conditions for permanentization: Kill a demonic cultivator whose cultivation level has reached the second tier]

Li Yuan held the token, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.