Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 469 The Passage

After his demonic energy recovered to 70%, Li Yuan opened his eyes.

Instead of leaving the cave, he focused his attention on the collapsing core in his equipment inventory, which was burning with a scarlet light.

The effects of the Red Core are clearly described: it allows free movement in extreme environments such as spatial rifts, spatial passages, and the void, unaffected by any spatial damage or erosion, and the ability to freely create independent spaces.

Li Yuan raised his right hand and lightly traced a line with his index finger.

This time, he did not use the Sky-Splitting Slash, but simply mobilized the spiritual power in his body and, following the spatial control granted by the red core, tore open a tiny crack in the void in front of him.

The crack was about a foot long, and its edges shimmered with an unstable gray light.

Li Yuan took a deep breath, stepped forward, and entered.

My vision vanished instantly; there was no light, no sound, no temperature.

I was enveloped by a vast emptiness, with no solid support beneath my feet, yet my body did not fall, as if I were suspended in a boundless gray mist.

This is not a space that already exists, but a void interlayer that he temporarily created in the cracks of the real world by using the power of the red core.

Li Yuan steadied himself and began to examine his condition. The flow of spiritual energy in his meridians was still normal, but the speed was about 30% slower than in the outside world. He raised his palm and urged a wisp of spiritual energy to gather at his fingertips. There was no problem with the condensation, but he noticed a subtle change.

The total amount of spiritual energy in the dantian is slowly decreasing.

The decline is very slow, almost imperceptible, but it is definitely happening.

This void interlayer is completely devoid of spiritual energy; there is no spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and no external energy to absorb. Spiritual power only flows out and never in.

The consumption of demonic energy is even more obvious. Maintaining this temporary space itself requires a continuous supply of energy. Although the consumption is not exaggerated, if one stays here for a long time, the demonic energy reserves will eventually be completely exhausted.

Li Yuan closed his eyes, sensing the operation of the words within his body.

The passive recovery of the spiritual veins is still in operation. Although the nine personal spiritual veins cannot draw spiritual energy from the outside world, the spiritual energy contained in the spiritual veins themselves is still slowly replenishing the consumption of the dantian. The intake is insufficient to cover the output, but the difference is very small.

However, spiritual power is not the most crucial factor. He is now a Golden Core of Demonic Energy, and he relies on demonic energy to maintain this space.

Li Yuan estimated that the current reserves of demonic energy could safely remain in this void interlayer for at least several days.

If you really encounter a desperate situation, this is a hidden escape route to save your life.

Looking at the permanent conditions on the panel, specifically the option to maintain a space for a thousand years, Li Yuan's lips twitched involuntarily.

With a thought, the gray mist in the void trembled slightly, and his perception penetrated the boundary of the void, reaching the outside world.

The outline of the underground cave emerged in my perception; the texture of the rock walls, the humidity of the air, and even the few low-level spirit insects lurking in the soil above my head were all clearly discernible.

Li Yuan continued to extend the range of his perception outwards.

Dozens of miles away, two enormous auras were moving away.

Blood Fiend True Man and Yuanzong Golden Core.

Instead of moving towards the cave where Li Yuan was hiding, the two retreated rapidly in the opposite direction of the ruins of the Spirit Ruins Secret Realm.

Li Yuan's figure flickered, and he stepped out from the void interlayer.

The gray crack closed silently behind him, leaving no trace.

The air in the cave flowed back into my lungs, and the feeling of being filled with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth returned to my meridians. The absorption efficiency of my spiritual meridians immediately returned to normal, and the spiritual energy gap in my dantian began to be filled rapidly.

Li Yuan didn't linger. He transformed into a dark streak of light and sped towards the ruins of the Spirit Ruins Secret Realm.

Half an hour later.

The canyon is still the same canyon, but it has been completely transformed.

The rock walls that originally stood on both sides of the canyon were mostly blasted down, and the rubble piled up into small hills. Cracks were everywhere on the ground, and a few strands of residual spatial turbulence occasionally emerged from the cracks, but their power was far less than before.

The entrance to the secret realm has completely disappeared. After Li Yuan equipped the Collapse Core, all that remains is a large pit with its edges still slowly collapsing, and ruins scattered within a radius of several hundred feet.

Fragments of the array, remnants of spirit stones, broken array flagpoles, and shattered jade pillars were everywhere.

Li Yuan landed at the edge of the pit, his gaze sweeping over the ruins.

The array network operated automatically, and a vast spiritual energy network map took shape in Li Yuan's mind. The seemingly chaotic wreckage in the ruins was quickly categorized and labeled in his perception.

Dozens of broken array patterns emerged from beneath the rubble and soil. These array patterns were mostly basic infrastructure left over from the Xuan You Sect era, and were of high quality. Even after the collapse of the secret realm, a considerable number of them remained usable.

Li Yuan squatted down and placed his right hand on the ground.

Spiritual energy surged underground along the routes marked by the array network, reactivating the broken old array patterns and emitting a faint glow. The array network's requisition ability activated, forcibly bringing these ownerless array patterns under Li Yuan's control.

More than a dozen array patterns were requisitioned at the same time, forming a temporary exploration network underground.

The distribution of spiritual energy remaining in the ruins, the location of supplies, and the direction of the earth's veins were all clearly presented in my perception.

Li Yuan began to quickly loot the place.

Extremely efficient, the high-value nodes marked by the array network were cleared one by one, and the high-level spirit stones embedded in the core of the array, the array eye materials, and the mineral fragments shaken out from the earth veins when the secret realm collapsed were all put into the personal space.

Unfortunately, most of them were destroyed when the secret realm collapsed.

When they reached the deepest part of the canyon, Li Yuan stopped.

A very faint pulsation came from the ground beneath my feet.

It's not spatial turbulence, nor is it a remnant of an array; it's a spiritual vein.

When the secret realm collapsed, the spiritual vein structure that was originally buried deep underground was violently impacted, and some of the veins were forcibly torn off, exposing their cross-sections.

Li Yuan crouched down and used the Sky-Splitting Slash to cut a neat cross-section in the rock strata beneath his feet.

A fire-elemental spiritual vein radiating dark red heat, and an earth-elemental spiritual vein, yellowish-brown in color, were embedded at the ends of branches of the earth's veins. After the collapse of the secret realm, these two spiritual veins broke off from the main vein and became rootless trees.

A moment later, the entire fire-elemental miniature spiritual vein was completely extracted from the ground and rolled into the personal space.

Next came the earth-elemental spiritual veins, following the same process in one go.

Two spiritual veins of different attributes entered the body, merging with the original nine spiritual veins into the circulation network, and the flow of spiritual energy within the body was strengthened once again.

A prompt appears on the system panel.

[Spirit Transformation (Blue) Progress: 1/5 → 3/5]

With one fire-type spiritual vein added and one earth-type spiritual vein added, along with the previously separated water-type spiritual vein, the three types of spiritual veins with different attributes have now been completed.

Two more attributes are missing.

Li Yuan put away the Soul-Stripping Shuttle, cleaned up the last few valuable nodes in the ruins, and then sat down on a boulder at the edge of the canyon.

Finger gestures.

Tianyan Divination Technique.

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.

He silently pondered in his heart: What does the Demonic Sect truly want?

The sensory pulse merges into the void.

A moment later, the feedback returned.

No clear image appeared in his mind; only a chaotic gray mist was churning. Something was faintly flashing in the mist, like words or symbols, so blurry that it was almost impossible to recognize.

Li Yuan concentrated his divine sense to the extreme, staring intently at the flickering light.

Two words emerged from the depths of the mist, then vanished.

aisle.

That was the end of the feedback; no further information was available.

Li Yuan put away the incantation, his gaze slightly narrowed.

The divination did not provide a specific answer.

Li Yuan stood up and quickly inventoried all the supplies he had gathered from the ruins. High-grade spirit stones, array materials, mineral fragments—the total value was considerable. Coupled with the progress of the two new spirit veins and the advancement in spirit vein extraction, the gains from this trip to the Spirit Ruins far exceeded his expectations.

Li Yuan concealed his aura to the extreme, transformed into a streak of light, and disappeared into the night.