Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

The orca nodded its enormous head and repeatedly transmitted its voice to Li Yuan.

"I know, I know, there are two miniature water veins deep in this trench."

The orca ahead immediately swung its massive tail, preparing to lead the way. Li Yuan remained noncommittal, about to follow.

The orca had only swum a few meters when it suddenly stopped.

Its massive body spun halfway around in the dark sea.

A glint of light flashed in his scarlet eyes.

"senior……"

The orca's telepathic communication carried a hint of ingratiation.

"Should we pass this down?"

Li Yuan's figure paused in the water.

"What kind of inheritance?"

"A legacy of human cultivators."

Seeing that Li Yuan seemed interested, the orca quickly reported to its guide.

"It's an ancient cave dwelling, containing jade slips and treasures left behind by human cultivators. I've seen it with my own eyes."

Li Yuan asked in a calm tone.

"What are the conditions?"

"Senior, you only need to help me hunt down another third-tier great demon."

The orca's telepathic message betrayed its greed.

"Kill it, and all the cultivators' inheritance in the cave will go to the senior. I only want the flesh and blood of that monster."

Li Yuan looked at it.

"Where does this tradition reside?"

The orca's eyes darted away for a moment, then it answered with a forced smile.

"It's right there... right there in the lair of that third-tier great demon."

This beast has a clever plan; the so-called inheritance is actually something from that great demon's lair.

Not daring to rob it itself, it used the pretext of leading the way to use itself as a free henchman to eliminate its competitors and, incidentally, feast on the flesh and blood of a third-tier demon beast.

"Since it's also a third-tier sea monster from this sea area, why kill it?"

"We're not even from the same clan."

The orca transmitted its voice with righteous indignation.

"That dead octopus not only occupies the best spiritual energy vortex, but it also frequently crosses the boundary to prey on my prey. It deserves to die."

The inner core and materials of a third-tier sea monster are not cheap, plus an unknown cultivator's inheritance, this deal is a sure thing. As for the killer whale's little schemes, they are nothing to worry about.

"lead the way."

After receiving the reply, the orca suddenly leaped out of the trench and swam deeper into the ocean.

Li Yuan followed behind it at a leisurely pace.

As the diving depth increased, the surrounding seawater turned a deathly black, and the water temperature was extremely cold.

After a stick of incense had burned, the orca stopped in front of a seabed fault. Below the fault was a huge, bottomless cave, from which murky water was constantly spewing out.

"Senior, this is the place."

The orca stopped a few dozen feet away from the cave entrance.

Li Yuan's gaze fell on the outer perimeter of the cave ahead.

Scattered on the rock walls around the cave entrance were a dozen or so spirit stones of different shapes and tattered array flags. These things were haphazardly stuck in the mud, barely forming a spirit-gathering array and a warning array.

This formation is very crude. Li Yuan made a gesture with his right hand.

The perfected Void Slash within his body was activated, and several tiny spatial rifts spread through the seawater, severing the spiritual energy circulation paths of the core array plates.

Without even a ripple of the array, the rudimentary warning array was completely paralyzed, and Li Yuan flashed into the cave.

As soon as you step into the cave, a strong stench mixed with demonic energy hits you.

The once tranquil bottom of the cave was now churning with silt, and eight enormous tentacles covered in dark red suckers emerged from the darkness, sealing off all of Li Yuan's escape routes.

This is a third-tier octopus demon.

The tentacles ripped out streams of water and slammed them into Li Yuan, who was in mid-air.

Li Yuan instantly activated the Shadow Step technique within his body.

His figure left more than a dozen afterimages in the seawater, while his real body moved three zhang to the side and passed through the gap between the two tentacles.

The thick tentacles slammed into the rock wall, causing the entire seabed fault to tremble violently and large sections of rock to collapse and fall.

The octopus monster was enraged after its attack missed.

Two enormous yellow pupils lit up in the darkness, followed by a torrent of venom gushing out from the depths of the cave, turning most of the seawater inside the cave black.

Li Yuan's body activated a mid-grade demonic core, and demonic energy instantly replaced spiritual power. He raised his hand and tapped three times in succession.

The Dark Erosion Finger was activated, and three dark finger beams pierced through the poisonous ink, striking the roots of three tentacles that were about to wrap around it.

The flesh and blood of the third-tier superior-grade demon beast rotted under the erosion of the demonic energy of the Dark Erosion Finger. The octopus demon let out a hiss, and its three tentacles drooped limply.

Just as Li Yuan was preparing to press his advantage, his divine sense detected the situation.

A massive aura, originally lingering outside the cave, had somehow crept up behind Li Yuan, and a gaping maw, brimming with violent demonic energy, lunged down at his back.

Li Yuan didn't even turn his head. The twelve divine sense lines had already sealed off the space within hundreds of feet around him, and every move of the orca was under his control.

He immediately activated the teleportation technique at its peak, and his figure vanished from the spot.

The orca bit through nothing.

Li Yuan appeared above the orca, his left hand making a grasping motion. The water-based spiritual power of the Cold Stream Fusion Technique erupted from his body, and the Ice Sealing Technique was instantly cast.

The surrounding seawater stopped flowing for a moment, and the deep cold water poured directly into the orca's wide-open mouth.

A series of teeth-grinding freezing sounds rang out as the orca's massive body was frozen into a huge ice sculpture.

After dealing with the orca, Li Yuan made a sudden turn in the water, and with his right hand outstretched like a knife, he slashed down at the octopus monster below that was spewing poisonous ink.

The Sky-Splitting Slash was unleashed once more, slicing through the poisonous ink with a spatial rift several meters long, cutting off the remaining five tentacles, and finally cleaving through the center of the octopus monster's enormous head.

The octopus monster's hissing stopped.

Its enormous body split in two, and its thick demonic blood completely stained the surrounding sea red.

From the octopus monster's attack to the orca's backstab and then Li Yuan's counterattack, the whole process happened extremely quickly, taking only a few breaths.

The two third-tier demons didn't even have a chance to escape before becoming cold corpses.

Li Yuan raised his hand and waved it, causing the demonic energy within his body to surge and disperse the dense stench of blood and poisonous ink around him.

His gaze fell on the two enormous monster corpses. Materials from third-tier monsters were highly sought after in the outside world, especially the inner core of this octopus monster, which was worth as much as a top-grade magic weapon.

Li Yuan stepped forward, a gray light flashing in his hand, and skillfully sliced ​​open the monster's corpse.

He dug out two demon beast inner cores that were emitting spiritual energy fluctuations.

One of them is an orca, and it is dark red.

The other one belonged to the octopus demon, and was entirely dark blue with strange patterns resembling array formations naturally formed on its surface.

As soon as Li Yuan grasped the two inner cores in his hand, his senses within a three-foot radius of his mind were instantly triggered, and two beams of blue light lit up on the seabed.

All of them are items with equipable affixes.