Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

The Lingtai Palace Inn area was shrouded in deep night.

At this point, there were still half a month until the Kunpeng Island Lord's auction would begin.

The spirit-gathering array inside the room was operating at full capacity, and the pure spiritual energy transformed into a thin mist that was visible to the naked eye, swirling around the room.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged on the stone bed, not deliberately trying to break through his cultivation level, but simply breathing in and out this spiritual energy that was far more pure than the outside world.

At dawn, Li Yuan opened his eyes and walked to the jade window in his room that offered a one-way view.

After circulating the spiritual energy within his body overnight, his meridians were greatly nourished, and the spiritual energy within his body became increasingly condensed.

Through the jade window, Li Yuan could look down at half of the inn area below.

Li Yuan's eyes narrowed slightly as he activated both Dark Insight and Array Core Sensing simultaneously.

In the field of vision, the air around the inn area was slightly distorted, and three layers of spiritual energy light screens of different colors overlapped to form an extremely tight defensive net.

This is a standard procedure used by the Kunpeng Alliance to protect its guests.

With his keen perception of the terms, Li Yuan quickly deciphered the underlying logic of these three formations.

The outer array is mainly used to detect spiritual energy fluctuations, but the threshold is set high, and an alarm will only be triggered when a large fluctuation at the level of a battle is detected.

The control hub of the innermost array extends into the interior of each guest room.

Li Yuan returned to the table and gently flicked a spirit stone-inlaid array plate.

The intensity of the innermost layer of the sensory array outside the window, belonging to the room itself, instantly weakened, becoming almost imperceptible. Guests could fine-tune or even turn this layer of the array on and off from inside the room; the Kunpeng Alliance had indeed gone to great lengths to protect privacy.

Just as he turned around, his senses within a three-foot radius were instantly triggered, and a white light lit up on the table.

The light source comes from a set of celadon tea utensils placed on the table to welcome guests.

Li Yuan reached for the teacup, walked out of the guest room, and went down to the lobby.

"This tea set is exquisitely crafted. I wonder if I can buy it?" Li Yuan placed the tea set on the counter and looked at the shop assistant.

The shop assistant glanced at it and smiled, "Senior is too kind. This is just a regular welcome tea set from the guest rooms. If you like it, please take it. It's not worth a few spirit stones."

"Thank you." Li Yuan nodded and set out the tea set.

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Tea Seed (White)]

[Effect: The absorption rate of medicinal power is slightly increased when drinking spiritual tea or beverages]

[Permanentization condition: The condition has been met.]

White entries.

[Tea Introduction (White) has become a permanent entry]

The phantom image of the tea set flashed across the equipment panel before turning into a white dot of light and merging into the body.

After leaving Lingtai Palace, Li Yuan found an inconspicuous corner on the street, formed hand seals, and began to perform divination.

A wisp of lifespan was extracted from Li Yuan's body, and the Heavenly Evolution Residual Number entry was activated, instantly replenishing the consumed lifespan.

Li Yuan performed several divinations in a row, all pointing to trivial matters; he was simply mechanically grinding away at improving his proficiency.

[Progress of Permanentizing Celestial Residual (Green): 12/30]

After performing several divinations, Li Yuan began to stroll around the market streets of the trade fair.

After passing several stalls and shops, Li Yuan learned from the conversations between shopkeepers and passing cultivators that not all the people on the island had arrived yet; the real big customers and some of the invited high-level cultivators were still on their way.

After exploring the island, Li Yuan decided to visit another affiliated island.

There are six attached floating islands around Kunpeng, and the Lingtai Palace, where it is currently located, is the largest and has the most concentrated resources.

However, the other floating islands each have their own unique characteristics, specializing in niche or black market items.

Half an hour later, Li Yuan took the short-distance teleportation array between the islands and arrived at Liupin Island.

Liupin Island is one of the six attached floating islands surrounding Kunpeng, and the market on the island is called Liupin Market.

The streets of Liupin City are noticeably narrower than those of the main island, and the buildings appear chaotic, yet the flow of people remains undiminished.

The sounds of hawking and arguing mingled together, and the air was filled with a mixture of medicinal herbs and the smell of the sea.

Li Yuan walked slowly along the streets of the market.

Li Yuan stopped in front of a stall that specialized in selling secondhand and broken Buddhist artifacts.

Looking at the stall, there was a pile of broken magical artifacts on it.

One of them was a black dagger that was broken in half, with several extremely obscure array patterns engraved on it.

Li Yuan could clearly sense that deep within the engravings on the dagger, there remained a trace of extremely subtle demonic energy.

Li Yuan continued walking forward and found similar magical artifacts with black engravings at two different stalls.

This does not seem to be a coincidence.

Li Yuan observed the reactions of the surrounding cultivators.

Some people picked up those magical artifacts that contained faint demonic energy and played with them, even haggling over the price, with no one caring about the residual demonic energy on them.

In this market of independent cultivators on the open sea, as long as something is usable, whether it bears traces of righteous cultivation techniques or is a defective product made by demonic cultivators, it can circulate normally without anyone bothering to investigate its origin.

Li Yuan did not buy those broken magical artifacts and was about to turn around and leave when he saw several cultivators dressed in familiar clothes walking towards him.

Li Yuan did not buy those broken magical artifacts and was about to turn around and leave when he saw several cultivators dressed in familiar clothes walking towards him.

Disciple of Yuanyang Sect.

The leader was a middle-aged man in the late Foundation Establishment stage, who was leading several junior brothers in a large-scale purchase in front of a shop specializing in high-grade spiritual materials.

"Mysterious Void Stones and Void Crystals, I'll take as many as you have, the price is negotiable." The middle-aged man spoke urgently, slapping a handful of mid-grade spirit stones onto the counter.

Li Yuan stepped forward, pretending to casually select the materials nearby, and casually asked, "Fellow Daoists, are you buying so many spatial materials to set up some large teleportation array within your sect?"

The middle-aged man glanced at Li Yuan warily. Seeing that he exuded the aura of a late Foundation Establishment cultivator and had an unfamiliar face, he replied perfunctorily, "I have nothing to say about sect matters."

Li Yuan wasn't annoyed. He casually picked up a piece of ore and said, "I'm an array master, and I have some knowledge of spatial arrays. The materials you just reported seem to be for filling spatial rifts."

The middle-aged man paused, his expression changing slightly.

He sized up Li Yuan for a moment, perhaps feeling that there was no point in hiding it here in the open sea, and sighed softly: "Since you've figured it out, I won't hide it from you. A few days ago, those madmen from the Demon Fiend Sect suddenly attacked the Spirit Ruins Secret Realm."

"The Spirit Ruins Secret Realm?" Li Yuan raised an eyebrow.

Li Yuan clearly remembered that this was a secret realm left behind by the Xuanyou Sect, which was now under the control of the Yuanyang Sect.

"That's an important resource area controlled by our sect," the middle-aged man said through gritted teeth.

"Those demonic cultivators have gone mad for some reason and forcibly bombarded the spatial node of the secret realm using some kind of method."

"The interior space of the secret realm is extremely unstable and is in danger of collapsing at any moment. The sect leader has ordered us to collect spatial materials at all costs in an attempt to fill the cracks and stabilize the secret realm."

Li Yuan suddenly realized.

No wonder the Yuanyang Sect came to the outer sea to make large-scale purchases; the spatial materials in Liangzhou have probably been completely plundered long ago.

After exchanging words with him, Li Yuan left the shop and continued to stroll around the market.

The entry perception was triggered in front of a secluded stall specializing in various array plates and carving knives.

Green light.

Li Yuan squatted down, his gaze falling on an ordinary-looking old array plate in the corner of the stall.

"How much is this array plate?" Li Yuan picked up the array plate.

The stall owner was an elderly man in the late stage of Qi Refining. Seeing a customer coming in, he quickly smiled and said:

"Senior has excellent taste. This array plate is a rare treasure left over from ancient times, and it only costs three hundred spirit stones."

Li Yuan was too lazy to haggle, so he simply threw out three hundred spirit stones and picked up the array plate.

[Equipable item detected: Old-style Chain Array Disc (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Nested Residual Runes (Green)]

[Effect: When setting up a new array, it can automatically call upon/nestify existing old array patterns within the field as child nodes, saving array materials and expanding array capacity. The effect is positively correlated with array cultivation level.]

[Permanentization condition: Deploy a chain formation.]

Li Yuan's consciousness stirred.

"equipment."

[Equipped: Old-style linked array plate (complete)]

[Relative Pattern Nesting (Green) Effective]

A green light appeared in the equipment slot, and Li Yuan felt that his knowledge about the connection of array nodes had instantly expanded to a new dimension.

The isolated array patterns that were originally in his mind now seemed to have transformed into small jigsaw puzzle pieces that could be pieced together at will.

As long as there are any remaining traces, they can be easily integrated into the new system.