Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Night falls in the misty forest market.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged inside the stone house. The Dark Fiend Insight's perception network was like an invisible net, constantly covering the areas that had been marked as suspicious locations.

Just after midnight, a very faint tremor emanated from one of the coordinate points.

The demonic energy transmission was extremely well-hidden. The frequency was exactly the same as the one intercepted last time, compressed by a high-intensity array. If it weren't for Dark Fiend's exceptionally keen perception, it would be completely undetectable.

Five lines of divine sense instantly extended, precisely cutting into that wisp of demonic energy harmonic wave.

The decoding process was carried out with ease. After a stick of incense had burned, the garbled fluctuations were restored into clear information in the sea of ​​consciousness.

This wasn't a strategic deployment, but rather a brief notification regarding the allocation of supplies. To support the search operation deep within the Ghost Mist Forest, the Dark Abyss Society had urgently established a hidden temporary supply point on the outskirts.

The supplies have just arrived, and the personnel responsible for guarding them are extremely limited, consisting of only two early-stage Foundation Establishment demon cultivators.

The coordinates are less than 100 li away from the market town.

Li Yuan opened his eyes and stood up from the futon.

His stealth ability was fully activated. His figure blended into the night without making a sound. He vanished from the stone house, his teleportation spell drawing invisible lines in the air as he sped towards the coordinates at full speed.

In stealth mode, movement speed is not affected in any way, and Li Yuan arrived at the target area in less than half an hour.

This is a natural cave hidden by dense shrubs.

A simple warning array was set up around the cave. Li Yuan didn't even pause. Relying on the fact that his Shadowless Formation was immune to detection spells of the same or lower rank, he passed directly through the warning light of the array.

The array plate did not react at all.

The cave interior was not large. Two early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators sat beside a pile of supply boxes covered with moisture-proof cloths, one of them idly wiping a magical artifact in his hand.

Li Yuan stopped less than three zhang in front of the two.

Raise your right hand.

Two gray spatial rifts silently unfolded before his fingertips. With the support of his third-order array mastery and the spatial perception from the Golden Core perspective, the formation speed of the Sky-Splitting Slash had reached its limit.

The two demonic cultivators didn't even raise their heads.

A gray crack silently slid across their necks. Their heads rolled off; the protective magical light was utterly useless against the spatial cleavage, failing to utter a single sound.

Li Yuan waved his hand to collect the corpse on the ground, then turned and walked towards the pile of supply boxes.

The box contained a variety of items. Most were low-level pills for restoring demonic energy and healing injuries, along with some common materials for repairing magical artifacts. But in a specially made lead box at the very bottom, Li Yuan found a jade slip covered in intricate engravings and a set of array eye tools.

He probed the jade slip with his divine sense.

Spirit-Demon Conversion Array.

A highly unorthodox second-tier formation. The formation's sole purpose is to forcibly twist and transform spiritual energy into demonic energy.

The jade slip clearly indicated the formation's major flaw: the losses during the conversion process were extremely high. Approximately ten parts of pure spiritual energy injected into the formation could only be converted into one part of demonic energy. For the vast majority of demonic cultivators, this conversion rate was simply insufficient, and it could only be used as an emergency measure in dire situations where demonic energy was extremely scarce.

Li Yuan withdrew his divine sense and his gaze fell on the array core device.

The core of the array is a dark purple crystal with a multifaceted surface. A strange energy flows within it, seemingly possessing the innate ability to harmonize different spiritual energies.

The panel pops up the moment your finger touches the crystal.

[Equipable item detected: Conversion Array Core (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Spirit and Demon Fusion (Green)]

[Effect: Spiritual power and demonic energy can be initially fused]

[Preview of Permanentization Requirements: A second-tier magical skill must reach perfection (met)]

Li Yuan put the crystal into the empty equipment slot.

"equipment."

[Equipped: Conversion Array Core (Complete)]

[Spirit and Demon Fusion (Green) in effect]

The conditions for permanent "Spirit-Demon Fusion (Green)" have been met.

The phrase "Spirit and Demon Fusion (Green)" has become a permanent entry.

The phantom of the array eye crystal flashed briefly in the equipment slot, freeing up the space again.

At the moment of permanent transformation, an extremely subtle change occurred within the dantian.

The originally distinct and uninterrupted spiritual and demonic energies began to subtly dissipate their invisible repulsive force at the point of contact. A very slight fusion began to occur between the two completely different energies. Although it was only a very superficial mixing, it had already broken the ironclad rule that spirits and demons were incompatible.

Li Yuan put the lead box into his storage bag, turned around and left the cave, burning the place to the ground.

On his way back to the market, his thoughts became completely clear.

The biggest bottleneck in the formation of demonic cores—the availability of a place to supply massive amounts of demonic energy—has finally been solved.

The Spirit-Demon Conversion Array can convert spiritual energy into demonic energy. The conversion rate is extremely low and the losses are enormous, an obstacle that ordinary people cannot overcome. But for him, this obstacle simply does not exist.

One hundred and sixty feet underground in Mozhou, there is a large, well-preserved spiritual vein that has been sealed by the Xuanyou Sect.

In the special equipment slot, this large spiritual vein is currently equipped, allowing him to perfectly control the spiritual energy output of the vein.

A vast, inexhaustible supply of spiritual energy that never needs to be depleted.

As long as the Spirit-Demon Conversion Array is placed above the Mo Zhou Spirit Vein, and the spiritual energy is guided into the array with perfect control, this enormous loss can be completely offset by the terrifying size of the Spirit Vein.

After returning to the market, Li Yuan did not go back to the stone house.

Under the cover of night, he knocked on the doors of several familiar shops, buying up large quantities of auxiliary materials needed to set up the array. Guiding copper sheets, spirit-gathering array stones, boundary stones to stabilize space—he spared no expense in using spirit stones to buy any usable materials and stuffed them all into his storage bag.

An hour later, all the materials were ready.

Li Yuan left the city and disappeared into an underground cavity in the limestone plateau.

The teleportation array activated, and twenty mid-grade spirit stones were embedded into the energy slot. Space distorted, and the figure was instantly swallowed up by the teleportation channel.

Mozhou, underground stone chamber in the Stone Wasteland.

Without pausing, Li Yuan immediately used the Earth Escape Technique to rapidly descend into the depths of the earth.

One hundred zhang, one hundred and thirty zhang, one hundred and sixty zhang.

The surrounding rock strata became extremely dense. Behind that solid rock wall, a massive spiritual vein lay dormant. Its surface was covered by ancient restrictions left over from the Xuan You Sect era, like a heavy shackle, tightly sealing the power of the spiritual vein within.

Li Yuan stopped in front of the barrier.

He has now reached the beginner level of the third-order array formation. Faced with this ancient sealing restriction, he no longer needs to just watch helplessly as before.

The divine sense probed out, seeping into the texture of the restriction little by little.

He did not attempt to forcibly break the entire restriction, as doing so would most likely trigger a violent backlash from the spiritual veins. Instead, he carefully cut an extremely tiny pore of spiritual energy at a node on the outermost edge of the restriction, using the spatial folding principle of a third-order formation.

The moment the vent opened, an extremely pure spiritual energy gushed out.

Li Yuan immediately activated the control permissions of the special equipment slot, and like an invisible hand, he firmly held down the surging spiritual energy, preventing it from dissipating even a fraction.

He then began to carve out space in the strata surrounding the vents and set up formations.

On the outermost edge, a concealment array covering an area of ​​ten zhang in radius was formed first. This array would completely isolate all fluctuations of energy within, so even if someone were to probe along the ground, they would be absolutely unable to detect any anomalies underground.

The interior, however, is the main attraction.

Li Yuan took out the core of the newly captured Spirit-Demon Conversion Array and began to set up the conversion array using it as the core.

The conversion efficiency of a single array was too low. Relying on his third-tier entry-level array skills, he managed to set up nine spirit-demon conversion arrays within this ten-zhang square space.

The nine arrays are not laid out flat, but rather use spatial folding techniques, with one ring nested within another, creating a complex, nested structure. The demonic energy generated by the outer arrays is directly purified and compressed by the inner arrays, ultimately converging at the central array eye.

Setting up the formation took a full two hours.

When the last piece of guiding copper was embedded in the rock layer, the entire complex array system was completely closed.

Li Yuan walked to the very center of the nine great formations and sat down cross-legged.

In the special equipment section, he pushed the control over the large spiritual veins to the limit.

"open."

Through the cut-open barrier, he forcibly extracted the tsunami-like spiritual energy from the spiritual vein, transforming it into a tangible torrent of spiritual energy that was directly poured into the outermost spiritual-demonic conversion array.

The great formation roared into action.

A blinding white light shone within the array patterns, then swiftly transformed into a deep, dark black. The immense spiritual energy was forcibly altered in nature through intense friction and distortion. Of the ten parts of spiritual energy poured in, nine parts were violently consumed and dissipated during the transformation, while the remaining ten parts turned into a wisp of pure, pitch-black demonic energy.

But this is only the first layer.

The demonic energy continued to advance inward, passing through the second and third layers...

With the nine transformation arrays nested and relentlessly exploiting each other, the sheer size of the spiritual vein became the most solid support. No matter how much spiritual energy the arrays consumed, Li Yuan could use his authority to extract ten or even a hundred times more from the spiritual vein to replenish it.

In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

At the very center of the array, the concentration of demonic energy had reached an appalling level.

The pitch-black demonic energy almost condensed into solid droplets, slowly floating around Li Yuan. The air was filled with a violent, chilling, and extremely aggressive power.

This concentration of demonic energy far surpasses that of ordinary demonic cultivator settlements like the Valley of Dry Bones. Even the core stronghold that the Dark Abyss Society spent a fortune to build cannot compare to the demonic energy environment around him, which was forcibly transformed from a large spiritual vein.

The cradle for Core Formation is ready.

Li Yuan took a deep breath, and the icy demonic energy flowed into his meridians through his nasal cavity.

He took out the black square box containing the core of the Demonic Qi Pill Platform from his storage bag.

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