Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

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Within the rock strata, the spatial fissures are rapidly contracting.

Standing outside the crevice, Li Yuan's twelve divine sense lines clearly detected the aura sweeping in from all directions. The several Golden Core cultivators who had previously been confronting each other from the direction of the Dry Bone Ridge were now approaching this valley at an extremely fast speed.

The spatial fluctuations are quite significant.

Not only the Golden Core cultivators, but also the dozen or so Foundation Establishment cultivators on the periphery seemed to have received the news and were rapidly tightening their encirclement in this direction.

Several powerful divine senses had already swept across the area, firmly locking onto Li Yuan's location.

The aura has been completely locked, and even if it is hidden and elusive, it is highly unlikely to escape.

Then I won't run.

With a thought, Li Yuan activated the illusion disguise instantly.

His face turned old and sinister, his figure grew a little taller, and the spiritual power within his body completely subsided. The demonic and spiritual energy circulated together, and his meridians were filled with extremely pure and profound demonic energy, releasing the pressure of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator without reservation.

He casually took out the Spirit Demon Source Stone.

"equipment."

[Equipped: Spirit Demon Source Stone (Complete)]

[Spirit Demon Void (Purple) is in effect]

A faint purple light flickered within the equipment slot. The fusion and upper limit of spiritual power and demonic energy instantly increased, and the control over spatial spells was further enhanced.

Li Yuan looked at the spatial rift ahead, now only the size of a fingernail, which was about to completely close. He raised both hands, his left hand gathering a pure spiritual energy and his right hand gathering profound demonic energy, and simultaneously poured them into the rift.

The two forces collided violently within the crack.

The panel is unresponsive.

This casual strike, of this magnitude, is far from possessing the power and purity required for a complete dual-element spell clash to achieve permanence. The crack is about to close, unable to withstand any stronger spells.

Li Yuan recalled the Xuan You Sect notes he had just scanned in the ruins. Spatial rifts have their own fixed tidal patterns. According to the deductions in the notes, this rift will next revive and stabilize to a level large enough for people to pass through in two months.

"boom!"

The rock strata above their heads were forcibly torn apart by a tremendous force, and soil and gravel swirled up like a waterfall.

A vast and powerful spiritual pressure crashed down from above, and True Man Xuanpu took the lead, appearing in mid-air above the valley.

His gaze first swept over the remnant of the spatial rift that had just closed, before finally landing on Li Yuan.

When he sensed that pure, almost condensed, late-stage Golden Core demonic energy, a trace of apprehension clearly flashed across Master Xuanpu's eyes.

"Your methods are impressive." Master Xuanpu stared at the rock formations behind Li Yuan, his voice slightly deep. "What's inside?"

Before he could finish speaking, he had already raised his hand and slashed.

A blinding cyan sword beam tore through the air, heading straight for Li Yuan's face.

This sword strike was swift and ruthless; ostensibly a test, it was in reality an interrogation.

Li Yuan stood still, not even lifting his eyelids.

Twelve lines of divine sense spread out simultaneously in his sea of ​​consciousness, and he could see clearly in an instant the changes in Xuanpu Zhenren's sword momentum, the residual spatial ripples above the valley, and the approaching aura from all around.

The next moment, he pointed his right hand like a knife and made a casual slash.

Sky-Splitting Slash.

In mid-air, a smooth, mirror-like gray crack quietly appeared.

The cyan sword light slashed into it, as if it had crashed into a broken void, and was silently swallowed up without even a ripple.

Master Xuanpu's pupils suddenly contracted, and his figure abruptly stopped in mid-air.

Before he could make another move, the sound of air being torn apart rang out one after another.

Zhou Mingyuan and the late-stage Golden Core demonic cultivator from Yuanzong arrived almost simultaneously.

Zhou Mingyuan immediately saw that Xuanpu Zhenren was confronting a strange demonic cultivator. His gaze then swept over the newly closed rock layer, and his expression immediately darkened.

Without any hesitation, the crimson flames around him suddenly surged, and with a wave of his hand, they transformed into a fire python more than ten feet long, pouncing towards Li Yuan from the flank.

At the same time, Master Xuanpu formed hand seals, and dozens of cyan magic swords instantly materialized in mid-air. The swords intersected and pulled each other, and before they fell, they subtly formed a net of swords covering the sky.

Two late-stage Golden Core cultivators simultaneously pressed down from one side.

Li Yuan glanced at it, then lightly shifted his feet, activating the Shadow Step, leaving only a slightly slower afterimage in place.

Zhou Mingyuan felt his consciousness become blurred. At this moment, another Li Yuan appeared about 10 feet away on the left. The illusion and reality were intertwined, and even Zhou Mingyuan could not distinguish which one was the real body.

While a proficient hallucination technique is unlikely to be a killing blow to cultivators of the same level, it seems to already have an effect.

It's not easy to have a chance to fight someone in the late stage of the Golden Core realm, so it's a good opportunity to test our skills.

The real body was silently moved away by half a zhang by the teleportation technique.

Xuanpu Zhenren's cyan sword net descended from above, and Zhou Mingyuan's fire python almost grazed his shoulder and bit him. If it were an ordinary late-stage Golden Core cultivator, they would have been forced into a frantic state by now.

Li Yuan only raised his left hand, his five fingers loosely clenched.

The Tide Returning to Origin and the Cold Vein Sealing were activated simultaneously, but instead of transforming into the thick frontal shield of before, they condensed into a thin layer of icy blue light around his body, flowing close to him like a constantly changing water mirror.

The first cyan magic sword pierced the mysterious light, its momentum momentarily halted.

Next, a fan of fantasy novels? Click to enter your exclusive library! The second and third magic swords fell one after another, the spiritual power on the sword blades seemed to sink into quagmire, slowed down, eroded and frozen inch by inch by that thin layer of mysterious light.

Before the dozens of magic swords could actually reach him, they shattered one after another with a series of small, crackling sounds.

Almost at the same time, the fire python on the side pounced in front of them.

Zhou Mingyuan's attack was timed perfectly, precisely at the instant Li Yuan had dismantled the sword net and shifted his energy.

Li Yuan didn't even turn around; he simply flicked his wrist.

Dark erosion finger.

A wisp of extremely thin black light shot out from the sky, precisely landing at the point where the spiritual energy of the fire python's jaw and abdomen converged.

The fiery python's forward momentum was immediately halted.

In that moment of hesitation, a gray light flashed at the edge of Li Yuan's right palm, and a spatial rift as thin as a hair swept past the fire python's belly, cleanly and neatly severing its core spiritual energy flow.

The next moment, a chill rushed in through the crack.

The entire fire python suddenly froze, and large patches of dark blue ice patterns emerged from the inside out. Then it exploded with a bang, turning into a sky full of fire fragments and ice crystals.

The spiritual tide surged, and its aftershocks spread in all directions.

Li Yuan's clothes were finally shaken and fluttered slightly, and several cracks appeared in the rock beneath his feet without him even realizing it.

But that's about it.

He neither pursued nor retreated, but simply stood still in the same spot, as if the previous encirclement and attack had only made him half-hearted.

The coldness on Master Xuanpu's face gradually faded.

The flames around Zhou Mingyuan were still churning, but his eyes had changed.

On the other side, Yuan Zong, a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, stood with his arms crossed, suspended in mid-air, never intervening.

Zhou Mingyuan remained silent for a moment, then his gaze finally passed over Li Yuan and landed on the rock strata that had returned to calm.

The lingering spatial fluctuations, the broken array patterns, and the faint, mysterious aura quickly reminded him of something.

"Spatial remnants of the Xuanyou Sect..."

Zhou Mingyuan raised an eyebrow, the flames around him quickly subsided, and intelligence appeared in his mind.

"It turns out that the fluctuations were caused by the spatial ruins from our previous research on the fusion of spirit and demon."

At this point, he glanced again at the crack that had completely closed, and immediately made a judgment.

The crack has closed, the ruins are empty, and this thing has nothing to do with the Earthly Spirit Embryo.

Continuing to fight will only result in a deadly feud with a late-stage Golden Core cultivator of unknown origin and unpredictable methods; there will be no other gains.

Zhou Mingyuan immediately stepped back, offering a way out with a laugh:

"Fellow Daoist's cultivation is profound; it was a misunderstanding earlier. Now that this ruin has been sealed, its contents must have already found their owners, so there's no point in continuing the fight."

Master Xuanpu remained silent for a moment, and finally dispersed the magic seal in his hand.

"Fellow Daoist," Master Xuanpu turned to look at the late-stage Golden Core cultivator from Yuan Sect, "is someone from your Yuan Sect?"

Yuan Zong, a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, slowly shook his head: "I don't recognize them. Their cultivation methods don't seem to be those of the Demonic Fiend Sect."

A moment later, several golden core auras arrived one after another.

Looking at the traces of the ruins on the ground, the group began to communicate with each other telepathically.

The Golden Core cultivator from the Demon Fiend Sect spoke first: "Fellow Daoist, could it be that you have received the inheritance of the White Nether Sect?"

As everyone knows, back then, the local sect of Liangzhou, Bai Ming Sect, only had three Golden Core cultivators under the dual suppression of Yuan Yang Sect and Sha Mo Sect. In the end, under the attack of Yuan Yang Sect, all the Golden Core cultivators died in battle, and only some core Foundation Establishment cultivators were able to escape with their inheritance and clues from a few ruins.

In their view, this powerful demonic cultivator of unknown origin was very likely to have captured a remnant of the White Nether Sect who had escaped with the core inheritance, and thus found this abandoned site of the Profound Nether Sect.

Li Yuan neither admitted nor denied it.

The Golden Core cultivator from the Yuan Sect glanced at Li Yuan. He stepped forward, his voice hoarse, "Fellow Daoist's strength is exceptional. If you have nowhere to stay, the gates of my Yuan Sect are always open, and the position of Elder awaits you."

Li Yuan neither confirmed nor denied the claim.

Zhou Mingyuan then spoke up, saying, "Fellow Daoist, you'd better not get involved in the mess at Dry Bone Ridge. If it truly is an Earthly Origin Spirit Embryo under that restriction, it's utterly useless to your demonic cultivators' Golden Core stage."

Li Yuan's heart stirred slightly: "If it's useless, then what do they want with it?"

He looked at the Golden Core cultivators of Yuanzong and Shamozong.

However, the Golden Core cultivators from both sides remained silent, and no one offered an explanation.

Seeing that Li Yuan did not express his opinion, Yuan Zong, a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, suddenly flung out a beam of dark light.

Li Yuan raised his hand and caught it; it was a dark golden circular magic artifact.

"It is fate that we meet. Since you are also a fellow Daoist, let's consider this little trinket as a token of friendship."

[Equipable item detected: Abyss Demon Ring (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Subtle Insight into Demonic Power (Blue)]

[Effect: Increases the effectiveness of demonic energy spells by 30%; when observing an opponent casting a demonic energy spell, there is a chance to deduce the underlying principle of the spell.]

[Permanentization Requirements: Master a third-tier demonic energy spell.]

Blue entries.

Li Yuan put the ring into his storage bag, nodded slightly, and his figure transformed into a dark streak of light, instantly disappearing into the night.