Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Li Yuan did not rush to leave Baijingfang City.

The method for making the spirit talisman has been obtained, and the materials are readily available.

Li Yuan decided to make talismans in the weapon-refining room. With his current skills, he didn't need any external conditions.

Li Yuan took out the jade slip containing the Spirit Detective Talisman and quickly browsed through the production process.

The Spirit Detection Talisman is a second-tier detection talisman. Its body is inscribed with twelve sensing patterns using spirit ink, and its core array is a miniature spirit-gathering stone. Once activated, the talisman adheres to the target area, passively collecting spiritual energy fluctuations within a thirty-foot radius, storing them in the spirit-gathering stone, and then retrieving them using divine sense.

The difficulty of its production is considered to be below average among second-tier talismans. The twelve sensing patterns have fixed directions, with no variables requiring on-the-spot adjustments. The main requirements for the talisman maker are the precision of the spiritual ink and the stability of the array eye inlay.

With his second-tier minor completion talisman-making technique, plus the added permanent attributes such as spiritual ink enhancement and talisman-making insights, this kind of talisman has no technical obstacles.

Dip the talisman brush in ink.

The first sensing line landed on the talisman paper, and the spiritual ink spread out a very faint halo on the surface. Li Yuan used his divine sense to precisely control the penetration depth of the spiritual ink, ensuring that each stroke of ink stopped precisely at the interface between the surface and middle layers of the talisman paper.

The twelve lines were completed in one go, in less than a quarter of an hour.

The array's core is inlaid. Miniature spirit-gathering stones are fixed to the center of the talisman by threads of spiritual energy, aligning one by one with the ends of the twelve sensing patterns. After the spiritual energy is infused, the surface of the spirit-gathering stones emits a soft glow, creating a stable resonance with the sensing patterns.

The spirit detective talisman takes shape.

Touch the talisman with your finger.

A panel pops up.

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

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Spirit Detective Perception (Green)]

[Effect: Increases the effective range of detection spells by 30%, and some spells can obtain more information.]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Successfully probe 50 times using exploration runes (0/50)]

Green entries.

The condition for permanent use is accumulating fifty uses. This condition is not difficult, but it takes time to accumulate.

Li Yuan put the spirit detection talisman into his storage bag, but did not equip it for the time being.

After tidying up the talisman-making tools, I left the quiet room.

The sun was shining brightly on the main street of Baijing Market, and the teahouses and taverns were full of resting cultivators. Li Yuan walked along the street towards the city gate, slowing down as he passed a two-story teahouse.

Four or five monks were sitting by the window on the second floor, their voices drifting down from the window.

"What exactly is going on in Liangzhou? Tianyue Sect lost something and caused such a commotion, leaving Yuanyang Sect looking utterly humiliated."

"What can Yuan Yang Sect do? They are a Nascent Soul sect, and you, a Golden Core sect, don't even dare to breathe loudly in front of them."

A hoarse voice broke in.

"I'm curious, why haven't the three sects of Jingzhou reacted at all?"

"What's the reaction?" another voice scoffed. "The combined strength of the Bi Tan Sect, Qing Yan Sect, and Yun Xiao Sect wouldn't be enough for the Tian Yue Sect to handle with one hand. And the distance is too great. What can a few Foundation Establishment disciples do there? Deliver them to the enemy?"

His hoarse voice was unwilling to give up.

"But we can't just do nothing, can we?"

"Doing nothing is the best course of action. The Tianyue Sect is watching closely. If the three sects of Jingzhou dare to extend their reach into Liangzhou, a single word from their Nascent Soul Ancestor will force them to retreat obediently. Do you think the three sects don't want to? They just don't dare."

After a moment of silence upstairs, someone sighed.

"Ultimately, it comes down to insufficient strength. The gap between Nascent Soul sects and Golden Core sects cannot be bridged by sheer numbers."

Li Yuan had already walked past the teahouse and gone over the conversation.

The three sects of Jingzhou did not intervene in Liangzhou for a simple reason: they lacked both the strength and the courage. As a Nascent Soul sect, Tianyue Sect exerted comprehensive pressure on the surrounding Golden Core sects. Even if the three sects of Jingzhou harbored resentment towards Tianyue Sect's actions, they could only grumble within their own territory.

Before leaving the city, Li Yuan purchased a large quantity of second-tier talisman-making materials and weapon-refining auxiliary materials from a materials shop in the East Market. Spirit ink, talisman paper, spirit-gathering stones, spirit pattern fixing liquid, and mineral powders of various attributes filled a storage bag to the brim.

The city gates of Baijingfang closed behind them.

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Li Yuan retraced his steps towards Liangzhou.

With the speed of a Golden Core cultivator and the use of Earth Escape Technique, he could normally reach the market in less than half a day. However, he chose a route further south than the one he had come from, taking a detour through a rolling hilly area.

The hills have a very low concentration of spiritual energy, and few rogue cultivators or demonic beasts venture out there; they belong to the gray area at the border of the two states.

When they reached the middle of the hills, Dark Fiend's passive perception network detected the anomaly.

About two hundred feet to the right front, four clusters of aura signals were rapidly approaching from behind a mountain hollow.

One is in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and three are in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.

Demonic energy.

The four made no attempt to conceal their presence. They moved at full speed, their auras activated, and they spread out in a fan shape to encircle his path, clearly targeting him.

Li Yuan paused in his steps.

His current disguise was that of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. He had no sect insignia, and his storage bag was bulging with recently purchased materials. In the eyes of demonic cultivators, this was a piece of easy prey.

The other party was probably a bandit gang lying in wait on the outskirts of Baijing Market. They had their eyes on a rogue cultivator returning with a full load of loot, and followed him all the way to this hilly area where no other cultivators were around before making their move.

Four figures emerged from behind the mountain hollow and landed fifty feet in front of him.

Leading the group was a tall, dark-skinned demonic cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage, carrying a curved blade with several streaks of blood still visible on its blade. Behind him stood three mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators in a semi-circle, blocking the left, right, and rear directions respectively.

"Fellow Daoist." The dark-faced demonic cultivator grinned, revealing a row of yellow teeth, "Hand over your storage bag, and I'll leave you with a whole corpse."

Li Yuan glanced at him.

Sky-Splitting Slash.

A gray rift shot out from his fingertips, its speed far exceeding the reaction limits of a Foundation Establishment cultivator. The rift sliced ​​across the black-faced demonic cultivator's chest and abdomen, passing right through his body before he could even raise his scimitar.

The dark-faced demonic cultivator looked down at the horizontal gash across his chest, opened his mouth but said nothing, and his body fell to the sides, splitting in two.

The faces of the three Foundation Establishment mid-stage demonic cultivators turned deathly pale instantly.

The leader didn't even last one move.

The one on the far left reacted the fastest, turning and running. Li Yuan flicked his right index finger, and a condensed spiritual force shot out, traversing a distance of thirty feet, striking the back of his head.

The one on the right was still in a daze when the second Sky-Splitting Slash arrived.

The last one collapsed to his knees, his lips trembling as he tried to say something. The third burst of spiritual energy ended it all.

The entire process should take no more than three breaths.

Four corpses lay scattered haphazardly on the rocky slope of the hill.

Li Yuan squatted down and cleaned the storage bags one by one.

The four of them had a combined net worth of less than eighty mid-grade spirit stones, and their magical artifacts were all first-tier items, of little value. The only noteworthy thing was that the leader, a dark-faced demonic cultivator, had a palm-sized token sewn into his inner pocket.

The token was dark red, made of some kind of bone he didn't recognize. A twisted rune was engraved on its surface, while the back was smooth.

Li Yuan held the token in his hand and used his divine sense to perceive the frequency of the demonic energy on it.

The waveform of the demonic energy was not much different from the standard pattern of the Demonic Sect, but there were slight deviations in the underlying harmonic characteristics. He had seen this kind of deviation before.

The dark-skinned, thin demonic cultivator at the third transit station mentioned the special communication method used by the outer forces of the Yuan Sect: continuous waves with a constant frequency and no segmentation.

The demonic harmonic waves on the token are characteristic of continuous waves.

This is not the standard format of the Demon Sect.

It seems more like something held by the peripheral forces of the Yuan Sect, or by lower-level personnel who had contact with it.

At least one thing is certain: Yuanzong's secret network has moved beyond intelligence gathering and probing; its reach is likely extending to the border region between Liangzhou and Jingzhou.

This bandit-like demonic cultivator squad may not be directly affiliated with the Yuan Sect, but rather likely a group of stragglers released by a peripheral affiliated family of the Yuan Sect. The fact that they carried Yuan Sect-style tokens while engaging in ambushes and robberies indicates that the Yuan Sect's reach has extended to the border region between Jingzhou and Liangzhou, but their infiltration methods are still crude, following the lowest-level route.

Li Yuan put the blood token into his storage bag.

After burning the body to destroy all evidence, they continued their journey using earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic that allows one to

They returned to the market half a day later.