Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

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Inside the stone house, the array was fully activated.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged on the futon, closing his eyes and concentrating. In his sea of ​​consciousness, five lines of divine sense, like nimble carving knives, peeled away and dismantled the intercepted segment of encrypted demonic energy harmonics, one by one.

The spiritual power of the Demonic Yuan Technique flows in the meridians along a specific reverse trajectory, cooperating with the lines of divine consciousness to restore this chaotic fluctuation into the most primitive information.

Half an hour later, the deciphering was completed.

The message was very brief, containing only a location coordinate and an instruction: "Retrieve the hidden treasure from the Mysterious Netherworld immediately to aid in the formation of the Golden Core."

The direction points towards Melbourne.

Li Yuan opened his eyes, his brows furrowing almost imperceptibly.

The Dark Abyss Society needs to arrange for an important figure to achieve Core Formation in the Ghost Mist Forest, which requires auxiliary treasures. These treasures are old possessions left behind by the Xuan You Sect, which makes logical sense. However, the location is illogical.

Since Core Formation cultivators are demonic cultivators, their treasures naturally possess demonic attributes. However, the Xuan You Sect clearly defined its boundaries: Liangzhou was demonic territory, and Mozhou was Xuan territory. How could a demonic treasure be hidden in the Xuan stronghold?

Li Yuan stood up and carefully put away the jade slip. Now that the Dark Abyss Society had issued the order, someone would soon be heading to Mo Zhou to retrieve the treasure. Although he didn't know if they possessed a shortcut like a teleportation array, seizing the initiative was essential.

After a stick of incense had burned, he disappeared into an underground cavity in the limestone plateau.

Instead of immediately teleporting to Mozhou, Li Yuan walked to the central stone platform and squatted down.

After studying the theory of third-order formations for some time, and with the experience of optimizing the directional loop last time, his mastery of formations had reached its peak at the second-order perfection level. He planned to try the node calibration in the direction of Yunzhou one more time before heading to Mozhou.

Five lines of divine sense probed into the stone platform, precisely cutting into the second positioning layer.

Li Yuan further narrowed the previously set directional fan shape, compressing it almost into the form of a needle. He injected spiritual energy, which then pierced deep into the space along this extremely thin path.

A few breaths later, the spatial fluctuations fed back an extremely clear signal.

The precise spatial coordinates of the peer node have finally been locked—deep underground in the Southern Xinjiang Mountains, south of Yunzhou.

But just as the connection was about to be secured, the spatial crystal at the center of the array emitted an extremely subtle cracking sound. The internal spatial folds flickered erratically, unable to withstand such high-intensity, precise penetration.

The tunnel was shaking violently and could collapse at any moment.

Li Yuan immediately cut off the output of spiritual energy. The buzzing sound of the crystal subsided.

The current quality of the spatial crystals is more than sufficient to support teleportation within the Mo Zhou Stone Wasteland, but their purity is still insufficient to connect to the more distant and complex Yun Zhou nodes. Forcing teleportation would most likely result in being swept into spatial turbulence.

The Yunzhou node can only be temporarily shelved.

He readjusted the positioning layer's loop back towards Mexico.

He took out twenty mid-grade spirit stones from his storage bag and embedded them into the energy slots around the stone platform. A white light shone, and space distorted.

Upon landing, the familiar dry, cold wind, mixed with grayish-white gravel, rushed towards me.

Mozhou, a barren stone wasteland.

Li Yuan rose from the underground stone chamber to the surface. His stealth and invisibility abilities were fully activated, allowing him to completely blend into the desolate wasteland.

The coordinates given in the intelligence report are nearly a hundred miles away from the Stone Wasteland node.

He didn't use conventional flight spells. The spiritual energy here was extremely thin; long-term flight would greatly deplete his spiritual power, and it would also leave a noticeable trail in the gloomy sky.

Teleportation technique.

His figure vanished from the spot, only to reappear ten feet away in the next instant. Then he vanished and reappeared again.

The experience of the Golden Core perspective brought by the Mysterious Pearl seemed to have etched a topological map of the spatial network into his mind. Every time he used the teleportation technique, he no longer needed to consciously perceive the weak points of space, but rather, as if by instinct, he would glide along the texture of space.

After more than a hundred consecutive teleportations, the consumption of spiritual energy was reduced by a full 30% compared to before, and the landing points were accurate.

After more than half an hour, Li Yuan stopped in front of a low stone hill.

The mountain was grayish-brown in color, with a severely weathered surface, indistinguishable from the surrounding landscape. However, the perception of the Earth Vein Spirit Pivot penetrated the outer shell of the mountain, clearly indicating the existence of a man-made stone cave inside.

Li Yuan walked to a flat stone wall at the foot of the mountain and placed his palm on it.

Not using the Sky-Splitting Slash to break through the wall directly would be an amateurish approach, easily triggering the internal self-destruct restriction.

The divine sense penetrated into the stone wall and touched the first layer of restrictions.

A typical spatial lock structure of the Xuan You Sect. Moreover, it is not a simple single layer, but three nested layers, with the array patterns of each layer hidden in the folded spatial interlayers.

Li Yuan did not back down; instead, a focused glint flashed in his eyes.

Breaking this multi-dimensional nested restriction is the best opportunity to test the results of his study of formation theory during this period.

The first layer was the spiritual energy conduction layer. He used extremely subtle reverse spiritual energy to precisely block the three key nodes of the array's flow. Ripples spread across the stone wall's surface, and the outermost layer of defense collapsed.

The second layer is a spatial folding layer. Here, the array patterns constantly shift in three-dimensional space. Li Yuan mobilized his understanding of spatial magic, and his five divine sense lines, like a locksmith's tools, moved synchronously through the folds, instantly finding the constantly shifting "keyhole" and piercing it with a single strike.

The third layer is the Destruction Counterattack layer. If an error is triggered, the entire cave will collapse inward.

Li Yuan controlled his spiritual power to the extreme, following the veins of the array patterns, peeling it away from the inside of the stone wall bit by bit.

"Click."

An extremely faint cracking sound echoed from inside the stone wall.

A gap, just wide enough for one person to pass through, silently slid open on the seamless stone wall.

Li Yuan dodged to the side and entered.

The cave was not large, only about two zhang (approximately 6.6 meters) square. There was no musty smell in the air, indicating that the seal was extremely tight.

In the center of the cave is a stone platform, on which sits a small black square box that is neither gold nor wood.

There was nothing else besides this box.

Li Yuan stepped forward, checked the box to confirm that it was not fitted with any traps, and then opened it.

Inside the box lay a black bead, about the size of a thumb. Its surface was completely devoid of luster, seemingly capable of absorbing all surrounding light. Even a mere glance revealed an extremely pure and domineering stream of demonic energy flowing within it.

The moment your fingertip touches the magic orb, a panel pops up.

[Equipable item detected: Demonic Energy Altar Core (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Magic Core Creation (Purple)]

[Effect: When forming a core from demonic energy, the success rate is increased by 50%; after successful core formation, one chance to break the core and try again is granted; if the core is broken and the attempt is repeated, the quality of the resulting core is increased by 20%]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Condensation of a Demonic Golden Core]

Purple light shimmered in the field of vision.

Li Yuan stared at the words on the panel, his breath catching in his throat for a moment.

Purple entry.

The success rate is increased by 50%, plus a guaranteed minimum of one chance to start over after the pill is broken, and the quality can even be improved by 20% after starting over!

What made his heart race even faster was the name of this entry—"Creation of the Demon Pill."

There is also a "Creation of the Altar" entry on him.

The effect of the Dantai Creation is: you can choose to increase the difficulty of forming the elixir and reduce the quality, but if you succeed, you can form the elixir again.

Before this, he had always planned to take a safe route, using pure spiritual energy to form his core, relying on the foundation provided by the alchemy platform to make steady progress.

But now, the emergence of the Demon Core Creation has completely overturned the entire Core Formation strategy.

If we combine these two terms together...

Li Yuan quickly deduced the scenario in his mind.

The first time I formed my core, I abandoned spiritual power and directly used demonic energy to form it!

Activating the Alchemy Platform increases the difficulty of Core Formation. At this point, the difficulty penalty will reduce the success rate by 30%.

However, the Demon Core Creation will provide a 50% bonus to the success rate of Demon Qi Core Formation! In one fell swoop, not only did the penalty offset, but the success rate actually increased by 20%.

Once this demonic golden core is formed, he will have met the conditions for the alchemy platform to create a new core, and will have the opportunity to form a core again.

At that time, with a demonic energy golden core already within his body, he could try to use that method to form a spiritual energy golden core again, thus combining the two cores into one.

The Dantai Creation only states that you can form a core once after success; it does not specify that the first time must be through spiritual energy.

Moreover, it doesn't matter if the two cores cannot be combined or the demon core is not of a high enough grade.

You can break the demonic core again and start forming the core once more. Without the suppression of the alchemy platform, you might be able to directly form a top-grade golden core, and then form the demonic core again.

This is equivalent to each of the two entries giving you one chance to form your core, giving you a total of 30% chance of forming your core.

As for the risk of revealing one's scent?

It simply doesn't exist. Its elusive nature can perfectly conceal even the demonic energy of a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, let alone a completely concealed Golden Core cultivator. Whether it's spiritual energy or demonic energy, as long as it doesn't want to be exposed, outsiders can't detect anything.

The only bottleneck is the environment.

Just as spiritual energy requires spiritual veins to form a core, demonic energy also requires a place that can provide a massive amount of demonic energy.

Although there is a large, sealed spiritual vein beneath Mozhou, it is pure spiritual energy, not demonic energy. Forcibly absorbing spiritual energy to condense a demonic golden core is tantamount to suicide.

Where can you find a place so full of demonic energy?

Li Yuan closed the box containing the core of the Demonic Qi Pill Platform and solemnly put it into the deepest part of his storage bag.

Environmental problems can be addressed gradually; if all else fails, we can seize the Dark Abyss Society's stronghold. But with this treasure in hand, the upper limit for Core Formation has been drastically raised.

Just as he put the box away, two waves of energy surged in his mind.

Panels popped up one after another.

Teleportation: Mastery (0/800)

After more than a hundred extreme teleportations along the way from the Stone Wasteland, combined with the remaining perspective of the Golden Core space in his mind, he finally mastered this spatial spell through this final trial of breaking the restriction.

But it's not over yet.

The process of cracking this three-dimensional nested space lock was not only a practical exercise, but also a perfect verification of his recent study of the theory of third-order formations.

Repairing the teleportation array's conduction and positioning layers, rebuilding the folded space, and meticulously dismantling the restrictions... all the accumulated efforts reached a critical point at this moment.

The panel refreshed again.

[Formation Mastery: Level 3 Beginner]

Li Yuan stood in the dimly lit stone cave and clenched his fist.

Third order.

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