Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

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Outside Nanyuanfang, the sea breeze, carrying a salty, pungent smell, rushed towards us.

Li Yuan left the seaside stone chamber, his figure blending into the night, skimming along the undulating waves towards the open sea. The permanent attribute of Water Escape Swiftness allowed him to move on the sea surface with almost no splash, as silent as a ghost.

Thirty miles away, in the safe waters, lies the island complex, a network of ships linked together by iron chains.

After traveling about ten miles, Li Yuan's figure suddenly stopped on the sea.

The Shadowless One suppressed his aura to the level of the late Foundation Establishment stage, but a very faint sense of abnormality could be felt on his body.

When purchasing the miniature spiritual vein at the bottom of the sea, the rogue cultivator secretly placed an aura mark on him during the exchange of spirit stones. This mark was extremely insidious, deeply lurking, and usually lay dormant like an inanimate object.

At this moment, the mark began to activate.

The spiritual energy frequency deep within the mark trembled slightly, continuously sending signals in a certain direction.

Li Yuan hovered in mid-air, and the Dark Fiend Insight's perception network instantly spread outward.

Three breaths later, he sensed an extremely powerful yet slightly chaotic aura rapidly approaching from the depths of the sea to the southeast.

Early stage of Golden Elixir.

The frequency of this Golden Core aura was of the same origin as the mark on his body, but it was much larger and more violent. Beside that Golden Core aura, there was another fluctuation of late Foundation Establishment stage, which belonged to the rogue cultivator who had sold him the spiritual vein earlier.

Li Yuan did not continue forward, nor did he attempt to erase the marks on his body.

He lightly touched the water's surface with his toes, and slowly landed on a dark reef protruding from the sea. He stood with his hands behind his back, waiting quietly.

Moments later, the seawater to the southeast began to surge violently.

A column of water shot into the sky, and two figures came riding the waves, stopping ten feet away from the reef.

The man on the left was the rogue cultivator dressed in a dark blue sharkskin tunic. He was respectfully half a step behind, pointing at Li Yuan in front of him and whispering something.

The person on the right is a middle-aged cultivator wearing a dark red robe.

Early stage of Golden Elixir.

The Golden Core cultivator's face was an unnaturally pale white, with a large dark bloodstain on the left side of his robe. At the edge of the bloodstain, the seawater was steaming with wisps of white mist from the demonic energy. His breathing was erratic, and his spiritual energy circulation hinted at a weakening sense of exhaustion.

Li Yuan's gaze swept over the two of them.

The previous marking techniques were somewhat similar to those of the Demon Sect, but these two acted without any sect rules, more like rogue cultivators who were affiliated with the Demon Sect system and engaged in murder and robbery in lawless areas.

The Golden Core cultivator sized up Li Yuan. After sensing the late Foundation Establishment stage aura emanating from Li Yuan, he remained silent for a moment, then continuously scanned him with his divine sense to confirm that his aura was safe.

"A fat sheep from the land, quite bold indeed." The Golden Core cultivator's voice sounded unusually harsh in the sea breeze.

"Even Golden Core cultivators are resorting to robbery and plunder?" Li Yuan asked calmly, looking at the two people ten feet away.

"I recently fought a third-tier sea monster in the deep sea and was slightly injured. I urgently need a large number of high-grade pills to recover. My subordinate told me that you are very generous and can easily spend hundreds of mid-grade spirit stones to buy those useless micro-spiritual veins."

The Golden Core cultivator took a step forward, unleashing a violent pressure that swept towards the reef.

Ten zhang is a distance that can be covered in an instant in the eyes of a Golden Core cultivator. He didn't take a late Foundation Establishment cultivator seriously at all, even though he was injured.

Li Yuan looked at him without saying a word.

A thought arose.

The perfect teleportation technique is activated.

There were no hand seals, no prelude to the gathering of spiritual energy, and not even the slightest ripple in the surrounding space.

Li Yuan's figure disappeared directly on the reef.

The Golden Core cultivator's pupils constricted sharply, and the hairs on the back of his head stood on end.

Almost instinctively, he activated his protective true essence, and a dark green shield mixed with rich water-based spiritual power suddenly expanded on his body, forming an indestructible barrier.

But it was too late.

Li Yuan appeared out of thin air behind the Golden Core cultivator, the distance between them less than a foot.

The immense, pure, and suffocating spiritual pressure of the late-stage Golden Core cultivator was released without reservation at this moment. The deep, dark purple mid-grade Golden Core circulated wildly in the dantian, and its terrifying aura, like a towering mountain, instantly crushed the opponent's will to resist.

The Golden Core cultivator's expression froze completely. His heart seemed to skip a beat under the pressure. He wanted to turn around, but his neck was too stiff to move.

Li Yuan's right hand, fingers held together like a knife, swung forward horizontally.

The Sky-Splitting Slash at its perfect state.

There was no grand spectacle, only a thin, hair-like gray crack with smooth, mirror-like edges, silently cutting through the space.

A gray fissure sliced ​​through the neck of the Golden Core cultivator.

A thin line of blood appeared, and the Golden Core cultivator's eyes were filled with disbelief and extreme fear. The next instant, his head shot into the sky along with gushing blood, and the headless corpse, out of control, plummeted towards the sea.

The whole process happened too fast; from the moment Li Yuan disappeared to the moment the Golden Core cultivator was decapitated, less than half a breath had passed.

The late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator standing to the side hadn't even realized what was happening.

When he saw the once aloof Golden Core Ancestor instantly turn into a headless corpse, a chill ran down his spine, his legs went weak, and an extreme coldness shot from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.

"Senior... Senior..." The rogue cultivator squeezed out broken syllables from his throat, then turned around and was about to burn his essence blood to escape frantically.

Li Yuan didn't even glance at him, and casually flicked his left hand.

A wisp of demonic energy burst forth from the sky.

The wind struck the rogue cultivator in the back, causing his body to stiffen abruptly in mid-air. The life force within him was instantly extinguished by the combined erosion of demonic energy.

Li Yuan reached out and grabbed two storage bags. Then, a crimson flame flicked from his fingertip, instantly burning the remains and bloodstains on the sea surface to ashes, leaving no trace.

The wind and waves remained unchanged, as if the one-sided massacre had never happened.

Li Yuan landed back on the reef, sat cross-legged, erased the divine sense imprint on the storage bag, and began to take inventory.

The Foundation Establishment cultivator's bag didn't contain anything of value: a few hundred low-grade spirit stones and some scattered marine spiritual materials.

The storage bags of Golden Core cultivators are much more abundant.

There were over two thousand mid-grade spirit stones, several bottles of second-grade top-quality pills to suppress the injuries, and a large amount of materials collected from sea monsters. Judging from the quality, there were indeed the inner cores and bones of third-grade sea monsters.

Li Yuan stored the spirit stones and materials into his personal space.

While rummaging through the bottom of the storage bag, his fingers touched a cold metal object.

Within a three-foot radius, the perception of the term is triggered instantly.

Blue light illuminated the field of vision.

Li Yuan took out the object and placed it in his palm.

This is a spindle-shaped magical artifact about half a foot long, made entirely of some kind of unknown deep-sea cold iron. Its surface is engraved with intricate and fine spiritual patterns. It is sharp at both ends and hollow in the middle, with a wisp of pure spiritual energy circulating inside.

[Equipable item detected: Vein-Stripping Shuttle (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Spirit Transformation (Blue)]

[Effect: Can quickly and actively detach a spiritual vein and remove it intact without damaging its structure; after detachment, it can be nurtured with one's own spiritual power to slowly increase the grade of the spiritual vein.]

[Permanentization Condition: Successfully use this magical artifact to completely separate five spiritual veins of different attributes (0/5)]

Blue entries.

Li Yuan's eyes flickered slightly. This was precisely the kind of auxiliary magical artifact he desperately needed.

With this Spiritual Vein Extraction Shuttle, he can extract the spiritual veins from the seabed perfectly, like peeling silk from a cocoon, and directly incorporate them into his personal space or internal circulation.

More importantly, it has a second effect: it consumes spiritual energy to upgrade the grade of the spiritual vein.

This means that the micro and small spiritual veins in his body are not static, but can gradually grow into medium or even large spiritual veins through future nurturing.

"The condition for permanentization is to strip away five spiritual veins with different attributes," Li Yuan thought to himself.

The conditions are demanding, and Shuizhou has no shortage of unclaimed miniature spiritual veins. However, almost all of them are water-based spiritual veins.

Li Yuan stood up and thoroughly cleaned up the traces on the reef.

In the distance, thirty miles away on the sea, the faint glow of lights flickered in the mist. That was the Union Ship Island, where many merchant ships gathered, and the location of this small trade fair.

Li Yuan concealed his aura, suppressing it back to the late Foundation Establishment stage. He subtly adjusted his facial features using the Illusionary Mask technique to make himself appear more ordinary.

With a light touch of his toes on the reef, he transformed into a streak of azure light, skimming the sea surface as he sped toward the brightly lit island.