Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

When Li Yuan returned to Wulin Market from Nanyuan Ward, he noticed something unusual on the outskirts of the market.

The earth's veins are trembling.

It wasn't the brief, continuous tremor of the last time, but a deep, persistent low-frequency vibration. The permanent term "earth vein resonance" clearly transmitted every tremor of the ground beneath his feet to his consciousness.

The epicenter was in the northwest. (Kugu Ridge)

Li Yuan quickened his pace and entered the market.

The atmosphere on the street was noticeably more tense. All patrol teams were on duty, pedestrians were scarce on the cobblestone streets, and several shops had closed early. From the distant horizon, occasional muffled rumbling sounds could be heard from dozens of miles away.

Ji Wenchuan was waiting for him at the entrance of the market.

"Master, something terrible has happened at Dry Bone Ridge."

"When did it start?"

Three days ago.

Ji Wenchuan's face turned pale.

"An earthquake struck suddenly in the middle of the night, much stronger than the last one. Several stone houses north of the market town cracked, and a small section of the spirit field collapsed. The patrol team reported that the fog concentration outside the Ghost Mist Forest had increased sharply, and several old roads were blocked by newly emerging miasma."

The third-tier superior restriction has been substantially loosened for the second time.

The last time was a backlash caused by the failure of the Yuan Sect's array master to break an array with an array, which only resulted in a localized loosening of the barrier's edge. This time, the intensity of the tremor far exceeded the first time, indicating that a larger-scale structural change had occurred in the core area of ​​the barrier.

After inspecting the defense arrangements of the market town and reinforcing several weak points in the outer defense formation, Li Yuan climbed to the highest observation platform on the north side of the market town.

The atmosphere above the Dry Bone Ridge underwent a dramatic change.

The oppressive aura of the late-stage Golden Core cultivator, Xuanpu Zhenren, was no longer the stable and restrained suppression it had been before, but rather a full-blown eruption. Extremely pure and righteous spiritual energy hung like a blazing sun above the eastern side of the Dry Bone Ridge, its light intense and unreserved.

He was no longer facing off against three early and mid-stage Golden Core cultivators.

A dense, almost condensed demonic energy signal stood on the west side of the Bone Ridge. The continuous waves had an extremely low frequency and a huge amplitude, and each pulse carried an information density far exceeding that of the previous mid-stage Golden Core cultivator.

Late stage of Golden Core.

The Yuan Sect sent someone at the late stage of the Golden Core realm.

The aftershocks of the direct confrontation between two late-stage Golden Core cultivators were terrifying. Even from thirty miles away, Li Yuan could still feel the spiritual energy in the air being violently churned by the two forces, like two giant vortexes devouring each other.

To the northeast of Kugu Ridge, the aura of the early-stage Golden Core cultivator from the Bitan Sect also shifted.

He advanced about five miles from his previous observation post, entering the central area of ​​Kugu Ridge. His position was perfectly positioned, landing directly behind Xuanpu.

The Bitan Sect chose the Tianyue Sect's side.

To the south, three Golden Core cultivators from the Yuan Yang Sect appeared. There was one more than before. The Yuan Yang Sect Master, Zhou Mingyuan, had arrived. The three Golden Core cultivators formed a triangular formation, blocking the passage south of Kugu Ridge.

Amidst all these golden core auras, Li Yuan's Dark Insight detected two extremely concealed segmented pulses of demonic energy.

The Demon Sect.

Two pulses are moving rapidly from the southwest of Kugu Ridge, attempting to break into the inner perimeter of Kugu Ridge amidst the chaos of the battle between Xuanpu Zhenren and Yuanzong Jindan late-stage cultivators.

But they had only moved less than half a mile when a Golden Core level spiritual energy barrier suddenly blocked their path.

The Golden Core cultivator from the Yuanyang Sect intercepted them.

The two segmented pulses suddenly paused, then retreated rapidly, disappearing into the miasma zone deep within the Ghost Mist Forest.

The Demon Sect's attempt to probe them was repelled.

Li Yuan recorded all the aura movements in his sea of ​​consciousness and then came down from the observation platform.

The situation at Dry Bone Ridge has escalated from a stalemate to a direct confrontation. The various Golden Core cultivators are no longer content with a standoff from afar, but have begun to actively vie for position and control.

The scale and intensity of this struggle will only increase.

Li Yuan shook his head, returned to the stone house, closed the door and bolted it, and activated the concealment formation.

Seclusion.

The Teleportation Technique is only one step away from perfection. The Sky-Splitting Slash is already perfected. With the spatial perception amplified after the Void Spirit is permanently attached to him, the assistance of the Nascent Soul perspective from the Mysterious Nether Pearl, and the spiritual strength of the late Golden Core stage, all conditions are in place.

Li Yuan sat down cross-legged and began to use his teleportation technique.

Although the teleportation technique at the advanced stage is extremely fast to cast, it still has a very brief initiation process. Spiritual energy is drawn from the dantian, injected into the tear point of the spatial channel, the channel forms, the body enters, and the channel closes. The entire process takes less than a breath, but this breath is the pre-cast animation.

Perfection means the complete disappearance of pre-existing tension. With a thought, one is already there.

To achieve this, the formation of the spatial passage and the body's entry must be completed simultaneously. It's not about tearing open the passage first and then stepping in; rather, the process of tearing open is itself the process of stepping in. The body and the spatial passage become one, and the displacement ends the instant the passage is formed.

The concept is clear, but execution is extremely difficult.

The concept is clear, but execution is extremely difficult.

Li Yuan repeatedly cast the teleportation spell inside the stone house. All twelve lines of divine consciousness were focused on the moment the spatial passage was formed, and the Nascent Soul's perspective presented the spatial structure inside the passage in minute detail to his consciousness.

Twelve days later, Li Yuan sat on the futon in the center of the stone house and had a thought.

There was no process.

The next instant, he was already standing at the other end of the stone house, facing the stone door. The lingering shadow of the robes on the futon behind him had not yet completely dissipated.

Twenty zhang (approximately 33 meters).

There were no fluctuations in spiritual energy, no spatial rifts, and no precursors that could be detected by external senses during the entire displacement process.

[Teleportation Technique: Mastery → Perfection]

The teleportation technique is now complete. The teleportation distance is twenty zhang, completed instantly without any pre-attack animation.

Both spatial spells were fully perfected.

The conditions for making the teleportation stone permanent have been met.

Li Yuan retrieved the teleportation stone from his equipment inventory.

"Permanentization".

The teleportation stone (purple) has become a permanent entry.

The phantom of the teleportation stone shattered in the equipment slot, turning into purple light spots that merged into the body. The slot became free.

The effects of spatial teleportation were reduced by 50%. Spatial perception was doubled. The power of spatial spells was increased by 30%. These three effects became an integral part of his body.

The changes came drastically.

The doubled spatial perception, superimposed on the perspective of the Void Spirit Companion and the Mysterious Nether Pearl Nascent Soul, caused Li Yuan to experience a qualitative leap in the clarity of his perception of the surrounding spatial structure the moment he closed his eyes.

The texture, thickness, and stability of every inch of the stone house's walls, floors, and ceilings are all revealed with exquisite detail, as if magnified by a high-powered magnifying glass.

The power of the Sky-Splitting Slash has increased by 30%. The displacement distance of the Teleportation Technique has been extended from twenty zhang to over twenty-five zhang.

The message on the panel did not disappear.

New information is emerging.

[Acquire 5 purple affixes to unlock new features]

New features have been unlocked.

[New Feature: Items with white affixes obtained later can be made permanent without fulfilling the permanentization requirements.]

While individual white entries may have limited effects, their sheer number and wide coverage make them valuable.

The panel continues to scroll down.

[Next feature unlock condition: Contact a red keyword, no permanent activation required]

red.

Li Yuan had never seen a red entry before. Gray, white, green, blue, and purple—these were the only entry levels he had encountered so far. Red was above purple.

[Unlock Effect Preview:]

This item is not required when completing the permanentization conditions and the permanentization process.

[Hidden information about the item will be revealed after the process is complete.]

Both effects are extremely practical.

The first point means that it will no longer require an equipment slot for permanentization. Currently, there are only five regular equipment slots, each of which is extremely valuable. If permanentization does not require equipment, it is equivalent to a significant relaxation of the equipment slot limitations.

The second item is more Hidden information. Each item may contain additional information not displayed on the panel; this will be automatically revealed after permanentization.

But the prerequisite is finding an item with a red tag.

Li Yuan absorbed this information into his mind without dwelling on it. When the red entry would appear was beyond his control; his immediate priority was to utilize his current strength to improve.

With the two spatial spells perfected and his spatial perception doubled after the teleportation stone was made permanent, his control over spatial power has reached an unprecedented level.

He won't go to the Bone Ridge. A direct confrontation at the late Golden Core stage is not a battlefield he should be involved in right now.

But the valley described by Sun Shiyi is now accessible.

That spatial rift.

That night, Li Yuan used earth-遁术 (earth-遁术 is a type of magic that allows one to escape from the market) to leave the market and stealthily head northwest.

Bypassing the battle zone of Kugu Ridge, they detoured from the south to the valley described by Sun Shiyi.

The valley's terrain remained unchanged from my last visit: gravel, withered branches, and thick fog. A few crooked old trees groaned low in the night wind.

Li Yuan did not enter from the ground, but directly used the Earth Escape Technique to dive seven zhang underground.

The spatial rift is located just ahead.

The permanent teleportation stone's enhanced spatial perception drastically altered the clarity of his perception of the crack. Previously, he could only vaguely sense a slight spatial fluctuation, but now the complete form of the crack was clearly visible to him.

The crack had shrunk slightly since the last one, less than half the width of his thumb. But the spatial structure on both sides of the crack was as clearly discernible to him as slices of dissected tissue.

There is indeed a closed space on the other side of the crack.

Stone chamber.

With the perfect precision of the Sky-Splitting Slash, Li Yuan carefully applied a micro-space cut along the edge of the crack.

Instead of forcibly widening the crack, a slight gap is created along the original texture of the crack. The spatial cross-section after the complete Sky-Splitting Slash is as smooth as a mirror, without causing additional damage to the spatial structure on both sides of the crack.

The gap expanded from half the width of a thumb to about the width of two fists.

enough.

Li Yuan used teleportation techniques to instantly pass through the gap.

Both feet landed on the hard stone surface.

Remains of the Xuanyou Sect.

The stone chamber was small, about three zhang square. The four stone walls were polished extremely smooth, and the surface was engraved with dense spiritual patterns. The style of the spiritual patterns was exactly the same as those he had seen in the core area of ​​the Mo Zhou spiritual vein, which was the standard style of the Xuan You Sect.

There were many items scattered in the stone chamber.

On a stone shelf against the wall, a dozen jade slips and several spirit-sealing wooden boxes were neatly arranged. In a corner of the floor, several magical artifacts and two bundles of animal hides were piled up. On a low stone table in the center of the stone chamber sat a jet-black iron box, its surface covered with three spirit-patterned seals.

Li Yuan didn't rush to look through these things, but first used Dark Insight to scan the entire area of ​​the ruins.

This stone chamber is only part of the ruins.

Behind the north wall of the stone chamber, there is another passageway that connects to several other stone chambers. The floor and walls of the passageway are also covered with spirit patterns, but the density of the spirit patterns is higher and the structure is more complex.

The deepest stone chambers are covered with second-order restrictions.

The spiritual energy fluctuations within the restriction contained an energy characteristic that Li Yuan was extremely familiar with.

The power of space.

The stone chambers were filled with a dense spatial energy, far exceeding the level he had ever felt anywhere else before.

Li Yuan stood in the first stone chamber, his gaze sweeping around before finally settling on the entrance to the passageway.