Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Wulin Market, the headquarters of Mingyuan Chamber of Commerce.

Li Yuan sat on a wooden chair in the side hall and accepted a dark blue jade slip handed to him by Xu Zhang.

"Second-tier low-grade spell, Ice Seal." Xu Zhang picked up his teacup and gave a brief introduction, "A variant of water magic. It uses extreme cold to seal off a target area or imprison living beings, making it excellent for crowd control in actual combat. The shopkeeper needs a water magic spell, and this is the most suitable one. Forty-five mid-grade spirit stones."

"Check out through Yuanmingzhai's account." Li Yuan put away the jade slip.

The purpose of purchasing this spell was to advance the conditions for making the Frost Armor permanent. That mid-grade second-tier defensive magic artifact requires mastering a second-tier water-based spell to its fullest extent before its attributes can be completely solidified.

After returning to the stone house, the concealment formation was activated.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged on the futon, his divine sense probing into the jade slip to quickly read the path of the Ice Sealing Technique.

The underlying logic of this spell is not complicated; its core lies in "condensation." It forcibly compresses and cools gaseous or liquid water-based spiritual energy through specific meridian pathways the instant it leaves the body, transforming it into solid ice.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and slowly mobilized the spiritual energy within his body.

The first-order Cold Stream Technique has been mastered, and the foundation of water-based spiritual power is extremely solid. The spiritual power surges from the dantian, circulates once along the Cold Stream Technique's pathway, and is tinged with a layer of chilling coldness before precisely cutting into the specific meridian nodes of the Ice Sealing Technique.

"Click—"

A very faint freezing sound rang out in my palm.

Li Yuan opened his eyes, his right hand outstretched. Half an inch above his palm, a fist-sized mass of air was instantly de-cooled and condensed into a sharp, azure ice crystal.

too fast.

For a normal Foundation Establishment cultivator starting out with second-tier spells, it would take several days just to figure out the critical point of spiritual energy conversion. However, Li Yuan possesses two permanent attributes: "Water Element Speed ​​Increase" and "Water Vein Overview." The former directly increases the casting speed of water-based spells by 10%, while the latter increases the accuracy of his perception of water-based spiritual energy by 30%.

With this double blessing, the structure of the Ice Seal spell appeared transparent to him.

The panel popped up on time.

[Icebound Spell: Beginner → Beginner]

Li Yuan clenched his fist, and the ice crystals in his palm shattered into blue spiritual light that dissipated. Entering the basics was only the first step; there was still a long way to go before reaching perfection. But as long as he kept up with the progress, perfection was only a matter of time.

Over the next few days, Li Yuan used spirit-detecting talismans to establish an intelligence network in the market, the old road of Ghost Mist Forest, the border hills, and the outskirts of Dry Bone Ridge, while maintaining the supply of goods to Yuanmingzhai.

The number of times spirit detection talismans were collected steadily increased, and cold-attribute magical artifacts and talismans in the market were selling extremely quickly, leading to a continuous increase in spirit stone reserves.

Until that night, he detected an unusual fluctuation in several spirit detection talismans he had retrieved from the outskirts of Dry Bone Ridge.

At night, Li Yuan finished another round of patrols and returned to the stone house.

On the table were more than a dozen spirit detection talismans that had just been retrieved from the outskirts of the Dry Bone Ridge. He probed each one with his divine sense, reading the chaotic fluctuations stored within them.

Most of them are natural disturbances caused by the cold winds of the wilderness blowing across the rock layers, or traces left by a few low-level demonic beasts passing by.

But when he read the third talisman, Li Yuan's divine sense paused for a moment.

This spirit-detecting talisman was affixed to a mountain wall about two miles east of the entrance to the Kugu Ridge Ruins.

Hidden within the extremely noisy background fluctuations of the data recorded by the talisman was a faint pulse.

Li Yuan immersed his divine sense in it, filtering out the surface noise, and stared intently at that signal.

"Buzz...buzz..."

Extremely low frequency spiritual energy vibrations.

The pulsation cycle is very stable, occurring approximately every fifteen minutes, lasting for three breaths before disappearing, and then repeating the cycle.

This was neither a sign of the Demonic Fiend Sect's probing, nor feedback from the Heavenly Peak Sect's monitoring array, nor a continuous wave transmission from the Abyss Sect. This pure, mechanically precise low-frequency pulsation could only originate from the high-grade third-tier restriction itself beneath the Bone Ridge.

The formations of the ruins are breathing.

Li Yuan isolated this set of pulsating data, analyzed it repeatedly, and came to a conclusion.

This is not normal.

When any closed restrictive formation is not triggered, the fluctuation of spiritual energy should be a smooth, straight line. The appearance of periodic pulsations indicates that there is some leakage or obstruction in the internal energy circulation of the formation, forcing it to release excess pressure through these periodic oscillations.

The restrictions on Dry Bone Ridge have flaws.

Li Yuan turned his gaze to the remaining spirit detection talismans on the table.

With the batch just retrieved, the number of successful retrievals of the Spirit Detective Talisman has reached a critical point.

He picked up the last spirit detection talisman recovered from the border hills, probed it with his divine sense, and read it.

The panel suddenly popped up in front of my eyes.

[Detection indicates the required number of uses for the Spirit Detector Talisman has been reached]

[Spiritual Detective Perception (Green) has become a permanent entry]

In the equipment slot, the phantom of the Spirit Detector Talisman shattered silently, turning into specks of eerie green light that merged into Li Yuan's sea of ​​consciousness.

It was an incredibly wonderful experience.

It was an incredibly wonderful experience.

It was as if an invisible hand was pulling his sea of ​​consciousness outwards, and the divine sense barrier that was originally limited by the early stage of the Golden Core realm instantly expanded outwards by a large circle.

The effective range of exploration spells has been increased by 30%.

But that's not the most crucial point. The most crucial point is the second half of the entry's description: some spells can obtain more information.

Li Yuan stood up and, without the slightest hesitation, immediately activated his earth-遁术 (earth-遁术 is a type of magic that allows one to escape from a stone house).

Half an hour later, he arrived at the outer edge of the Dry Bone Ridge again.

The night wind howled through the pale, weathered rock layers. Li Yuan stood in the shadow of a low hill, completely concealing his presence.

An invisible network of perception spread out from him into the underground of the Bone Ridge.

The 30% expansion of the area demonstrated terrifying suppressive power at this moment. The senses that could barely reach the outer edge of the ruins before now spread like mercury, easily covering the entire restricted dome forty feet underground.

The resolution has also seen a qualitative leap.

Previously, from Dark Fiend's perspective, that third-tier superior restriction was an iron plate, with three layers of sealing, and no gaps could be seen.

But now, the extra information-gathering ability granted by the psychic perception has revealed fine textures on this iron plate.

Li Yuan detected the low-frequency pulsation that occurred every fifteen minutes.

The pulsation did not originate from the center of the restriction, but rather spread from a junction of array patterns on the eastern edge of the restriction.

He compressed his divine sense as much as possible, staring intently at the junction.

The trajectory of the array patterns gradually became clear in his mind. The flow of spiritual energy there was slightly slower than in other areas, and it was this slight sluggishness that caused the periodic accumulation and release of energy.

Li Yuan extended his gaze outward from the junction, penetrating the rock layers and comparing it with the surrounding terrain.

Directly above and slightly to the east of the junction is an old mining belt that extends deep underground. The veins have long since dried up, leaving behind a complex and interwoven hollow geological structure.

The two lines instantly overlapped in Li Yuan's mind.

The geological fault in the old mining zone happened to press right on the joint of the forbidden array pattern.

Centuries of minor crustal movements, coupled with rock subsidence after the depletion of the mineral veins, subjected this originally perfect array structure to continuous external physical pressure. Although the third-order array was powerful, it could not withstand the geological changes that had persisted for hundreds of years, and finally, at this point, it began to deform slightly.

Weak points.

A breakthrough that can be achieved through physical destruction or targeted explosion without requiring mastery of a third-order perfected formation.

Li Yuan withdrew his senses, erased the faint traces he had left on the cliff face, and his body merged into the soil behind him, silently leaving the Dry Bone Ridge.