Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 476 Shattered Core of Supreme Grade

After leaving Tianyue Market, Li Yuan used a teleportation array to travel directly to Mozhou.

Beneath the surface of Mozhou lies the location of the spiritual veins.

This spiritual vein was a medium-sized branch of a ley line that Li Yuan had previously explored. It was located a hundred feet underground in a desolate hilly area. There were few people around, and the surface was covered with a thick layer of sand and gravel. Li Yuan had long ago used an array to control this spiritual vein, completely isolating the underground spiritual energy fluctuations.

Li Yuan used the Sky-Splitting Slash to cut through the sand and gravel layer, and followed the temporarily carved passage all the way to the underground rock chamber where the spiritual vein was located.

The cave was small, about three zhang square, with damp groundwater seeping through the walls. In the center of the floor, a spiritual vein trunk as thick as an arm was exposed.

Li Yuan set up three layers of formations around the rock chamber. The outermost layer was a concealment formation, which blocked all leakage of aura. The middle layer was a defensive formation, with the cracked array eye crystal as its core, which was enough to withstand a full-force attack from an early Golden Core cultivator. The innermost layer was a spirit-gathering formation, which drew the spiritual energy in the spiritual vein to the center of the rock chamber.

After the three layers of formations were activated in sequence, the concentration of spiritual energy in the rock chamber suddenly increased.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged directly above the spiritual vein and took out the Breakthrough Yuan Condensation Pearl and the Core Formation Platform from his personal space.

The Breakthrough Yuan Condensation Pearl floated in front of Li Yuan, its milky-white body emitting a soft and steady spiritual light. The Core Formation Platform was placed in front of his knees, and the array patterns on the ancient table surface lit up on their own, a power that aided in controlling spiritual energy enveloped his dantian.

"equipment."

Li Yuan closed his eyes and focused his mind on his dantian.

The mid-grade demonic core was slowly rotating in the center of the dantian. A dark purple light membrane enveloped extremely condensed demonic energy, and the internal crystal structure was neatly arranged with a density far exceeding that of ordinary golden cores.

But it is ultimately only of medium quality.

Shattered pills.

With a thought, Li Yuan channeled an extremely precise stream of spiritual energy from his dantian, following the path indicated by the creation inscription on the demonic pill, and pierced into the core of the mid-grade demonic pill.

Cracks began to appear on the dark purple light film on the surface of the Demon Core. The cracks spread rapidly, like a spider web on ice, spreading from one point in all directions.

Click.

A dull cracking sound rang out from deep within Li Yuan's dantian.

The mid-grade demonic core shattered with a deafening roar, and an immense, almost out-of-control surge of demonic energy erupted from the broken core, violently colliding within the meridians.

Li Yuan's face suddenly turned pale.

The pain of shattering the core far exceeded expectations. It felt as if the dantian was being torn apart from the inside, and rampaging demonic energy rushed into every meridian, causing the meridian walls to hiss in unbearable agony.

The permanent attribute "Meridian as Steel" played a crucial role at this moment. The meridian walls, strengthened by this attribute, withstood the impact of the violent demonic energy without cracking in the slightest. The River of Qi and Blood, the Three Elements Protection, and the Medicine Refining True Body—several permanent attributes related to physical protection—operated simultaneously, minimizing the backlash from the shattered core.

After the demonic energy surged through Li Yuan's body for more than a dozen cycles, it finally subsided slowly under the combined suppression of various supernatural elements.

My dantian is empty.

The mid-grade demonic pill that had originally been entrenched in the center of the dantian had completely disappeared, leaving only countless tiny fragments of demonic energy slowly floating in the dantian.

However, shattering the core doesn't destroy everything. The effects of the core's creation attributes remain, and these fragments retain their original quality memories, providing a higher starting point for re-condensation.

Li Yuan gave himself no time to catch his breath. Before the quality memories in the fragments had dissipated, he immediately began to reform his core.

This time, instead of forming a demonic core, I will form a spiritual core.

Simultaneously, the spiritual energy and cultivation techniques within the body were activated: the Green Wood Longevity Technique, the Cold Stream Spirit Fusion Technique, and the Hundred Meridians Returning to Origin Technique—several techniques at their peak were operating together.

The Spirit Gathering Array continuously draws the spiritual energy from this spiritual vein to the dantian. The spiritual energy reserves of the thirteen personal spiritual veins are also extracted by Li Yuan without reservation, transforming into a surging torrent of spiritual power that pours into the dantian.

The purple entry for "All Spirits Return to the Meridian" was operating at full power, pushing the complementary effect between the spiritual veins to its limit. When spiritual energy of different attributes surged into the dantian, it was automatically harmonized and purified, with its quality rising again and again.

Spiritual energy began to condense in the dantian.

The auxiliary power of the Core Formation Platform precisely enveloped the dantian, controlling the process of spiritual energy condensation with absolute precision. The blue attribute "Flawless Spiritual Energy" ensured that every strand of spiritual energy poured into the dantian reached extremely high purity, resulting in refined spiritual energy, concentrated spiritual essence, and unified essence. Numerous permanent attributes related to the quality of spiritual energy also exerted their effects simultaneously.

The spiritual energy in his dantian was condensing at an increasingly faster rate.

An extremely tiny point of light appeared in the center of the dantian, spinning rapidly and drawing in the surrounding spiritual energy fragments and pure spiritual energy, expanding in size at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this moment, the Breakthrough Yuan Condensation Pearl began to exert its power. The milky white light in the equipment slot suddenly intensified, and the effect of accelerating the breakthrough speed by 100% forcibly compressed the condensation process that originally required several days or even months.

The light spot expanded to the size of a pigeon egg in an extremely short time, and an extremely dense spiritual energy film began to condense on its surface. The spiritual energy lattice structure inside the film was arranging itself with extremely high precision, and each lattice node was free of impurities and gaps.

The threshold for high-quality products is easily crossed.

But the cohesion did not stop.

With the triple effects of the improved quality of the Demonic Pill, the accelerated breakthrough of the Primordial Condensation Pearl, and Li Yuan's own vast foundation, the quality of the Spirit Pill continued to rise. The crystal structure evolved from a neat arrangement to a deeper level of fusion. The originally distinct spiritual energy fibers intertwined and permeated each other, the boundaries gradually dissolving until they finally became a unified whole.

The finest quality.

This elixir is no longer a structure made of stacked spiritual energy fibers, but a complete crystal without any internal boundaries.

boom.

A silent explosion resounded deep within the dantian, and a top-grade spiritual energy golden core was formed.

A golden elixir radiating pure white light floated in the center of Li Yuan's dantian and slowly rotated. The light was gentle and restrained, without any leakage, but the density of spiritual energy contained within it had reached an astonishing level.

At the same moment, the second effect of the Breakthrough Yuan Condensation Pearl was triggered.

After the breakthrough, one gains an improvement in cultivation level and foundation based on their own inherent abilities.

An immense power surged from the depths of his dantian, sweeping through his entire body. His meridians swelled, his dantian expanded, and his sea of ​​consciousness trembled violently.

Li Yuan's cultivation level began to soar.

The ascent, reaching the peak of the early Golden Core stage, abruptly stopped, like a high-speed train crashing into an invisible wall.

But even if you stop at the initial peak, you're only one step away from the mid-stage.

Li Yuan opened his eyes.

The rich spiritual energy that originally filled the cave had been mostly drained, and the spiritual light of the main spiritual vein on the ground had dimmed considerably.

He looked down at his hands, where a subtle, restrained white luster flowed across his skin—a sign of the overflowing spiritual power of a top-grade Golden Core.

The meridians were a full circle wider than before, the flow of spiritual energy increased several times, and the top-grade spiritual pill in the dantian continuously radiated pure spiritual energy throughout the body.

Li Yuan stood up and stretched his limbs, his spiritual energy circulating smoothly through his meridians.