Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 481 Second Mid-Stage Golden Core

After completing the membership procedures, Li Yuan did not rush to leave the main island.

The first floor of the Alliance Council Hall has a dedicated exchange area. Several jade walls are covered with a dense list of exchangeable items and spells, categorized by grade, purpose, and contribution value consumption.

Li Yuan slowly scanned the wall.

The selection of elixirs is the smallest and of the lowest quality, mostly consisting of second-tier recovery and antidote pills. The selection of weapon crafting items is similarly lackluster, offering only a few low-tier crafting blueprints and some common crafting materials.

The development of alchemy and weapon crafting in the maritime cultivation world is indeed lagging behind that on land. Lacking abundant mineral veins and medicinal fields, the accumulation of knowledge and skills in these two areas by maritime cultivators is far less than that of the sects in Liangzhou that have hundreds of years of history.

However, the talismans and formations are completely different.

The list of talismans and formations occupied two entire walls. From first to third tier, from attack talismans to auxiliary formations, the variety far exceeded what Li Yuan had seen in the land market.

Cultivators in the sea region spend most of their time in complex underwater environments, placing extremely high demands on the portability of talismans and the environmental adaptability of formations. This has led to the development of numerous unique talisman and formation systems specifically designed for aquatic environments.

From the list of talismans, Li Yuan selected a mid-grade third-tier talisman-making technique called the Tide Pattern Talisman. This technique is specifically designed for the condensation and release of water-based spiritual energy, and the resulting talismans are more powerful than weaker in underwater environments.

Among the list of spells, Li Yuan's gaze fell upon a sonic spell.

Tidal Sound Technique. A third-tier, low-grade sonic spell that uses spiritual power to propagate sound waves of a special frequency for a wide-range attack. It is extremely effective in propagating through high-density media such as underwater.

The two items combined total 450 points, leaving very little of the initial contribution value.

After completing the exchange, Li Yuan officially registered for the deep-sea cleanup mission at the mission posting area on the main island.

The late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator in charge of registration, upon seeing Li Yuan's Golden Core aura, became extremely respectful: "Senior Li, the extermination mission will depart in half a month. We will meet at the main island's dock at that time. Golden Core cultivators will be responsible for killing third-tier sea monsters, while Foundation Establishment cultivators will be responsible for clearing out low-tier demonic beasts. Specific group assignments will be arranged before departure."

Li Yuan nodded and put the mission token away.

After leaving the main island, Li Yuan did not return directly to Nanyuanfang.

Instead, he dived into the sea alone.

The power of the water-controlling technique caused the seawater to automatically disperse around him, and driven by the spiritual power of the top-grade elixir, he descended at an extremely fast speed.

Li Yuan chose a remote sea area about forty miles from the main island, far from the shipping route.

He had thoroughly studied the structure of the two formations he had previously obtained from the underwater ruins, the Sea Spirit Formation and the Water Absorption Formation, during his seclusion.

Li Yuan first set up the Sea Spirit Formation.

With a mastery of the third-tier array formations, combined with the passive perception of the array network and the precise control of spiritual energy flow through the Myriad Spirits Returning to the Meridian, the array setup process went extremely smoothly. The array flags were inserted into the seabed sand and gravel, the array base materials were embedded one by one along the preset nodes, and after spiritual energy was infused into the array patterns, the entire array was activated simultaneously within a range of several tens of feet.

The moment the Sea Spirit Array took shape, the surrounding seawater spiritual energy began to change. The originally violent and turbid water-based spiritual energy was filtered by the array, impurities were stripped away, and a warm and pure spiritual energy slowly spread out from the center of the array.

Next up is the water-gathering formation.

A moment later, the spiritual energy circulation of the two formations seamlessly connected at the intersection, forming a nested double-layer structure.

The water array is formed.

With both formations operating simultaneously, the seawater above the seabed sand became unusually calm, like an isolated body of water.

Li Yuan's gaze fell on the key points of each of the two formations.

Within a three-foot radius, the entry perception is triggered.

He picked up the two array points one after the other.

[Equipable item detected: Sea Spirit Stone (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Spiritual Sea Resonance (White)]

[Effect: Slightly expands the range of perception for spiritual energy fluctuations in water]

[Permanentization condition: The condition has been met.]

[Equipable item detected: Water Stone (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Tidal Restoration (White)]

[Effect: Slightly reduces spiritual energy consumption in aquatic environments]

[Permanentization condition: The condition has been met.]

The two white entries don't significantly improve current strength, but their lasting effects in the aquatic environment add up over time.

Li Yuan picked up the two array nodes one after the other.

"Equipment. Permanentize."

The phrase "Tidal Return (White)" has become a permanent entry.

[Spiritual Resonance (White) has become a permanent entry]

Two beams of white light merged into his body one after the other.

The hidden information triggered by the permanent formation was extremely brief, consisting of a replay of the flow of spiritual energy during the formation's setup, with no valuable information whatsoever.

After the array's core disappeared, both arrays quickly lost their power to operate due to the loss of their core. The spiritual light of the array patterns dimmed, and the array flags and base materials remained in place, but had become ordinary decorations.

After collecting these materials, Li Yuan turned and headed to Nanyuanfang.

After returning to Nanyuanfang, Li Yuan used the token given to him by Zhou He to find an empty secret room for seclusion.

Li Yuan sat down cross-legged and took out the Demon Spirit Fusion Technique, which he had obtained from the ruins of the Xuan You Sect, from his personal space.

This is not a ready-made cultivation method, but a preliminary framework for cultivation, the core of which is to achieve the fusion of demonic energy and spiritual power by combining the two cores.

However, the sect leader of Xuanyou Sect at that time may have already reached the Nascent Soul stage and was unable to complete the task, so he could only focus on other aspects.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and began to circulate the spiritual power and demonic energy within his body.

The purple inscription indicating the shared origin of spirit and demonic energy already made the conversion between spiritual power and demonic energy extremely smooth, and the integration of spirit and demonic energy further enhanced the fusion. Under the support of these two purple inscriptions, the coexistence of spiritual power and demonic energy in the dantian has become very stable.

But coexistence is not the same as integration.

Spiritual power is spiritual power, and demonic energy is demonic energy. The two are no longer mutually exclusive, but they have not truly merged into one.

Following the fusion technique, Li Yuan simultaneously channeled a wisp of spiritual energy and a wisp of demonic energy into a tiny area at the center of his dantian. The spatial control ability granted by the red core played a crucial role at this moment, as he used spatial power to create a miniature high-pressure field in that area.

The two strands of energy were forcibly compressed together in a high-pressure field.

A sense of rejection immediately arose.

The spiritual energy and demonic energy vibrated violently at the contact surface, like the like poles of two magnets being forcibly pressed together.

The color is between white-blue and dark purple, exhibiting a grayish-silver luster.

[Demon Spirit Fusion Technique: Beginner]

Li Yuan didn't stop. This demonic spirit fusion technique was not perfect, and he had to continue to figure it out and research it himself.

Two days later.

Inside the secret room, a ball of grayish-silver light, the size of a pigeon egg, floated in Li Yuan's palm.

The ball of light slowly rotated in his palm. The boundary between spiritual power and demonic energy had completely dissolved, and the two energies became one, exuding an extremely profound aura.

Li Yuan introduced the light sphere into his meridians, and the gray-silver mixed energy circulated through the meridians for a complete cycle without dissipating or separating.

[Demon Spirit Fusion Technique: Beginner → Minor Success]

The training process, skipping directly from beginner to intermediate mastery, with the intermediate stages of proficiency and mastery appearing almost instantaneous, is further enhanced by the fusion bonuses provided by the purple attributes "Spiritual and Demonic Origin" and "Spiritual and Demonic Emptiness," along with the increased learning speed from "Mastering All Laws," compressing what should have been a years-long cultivation process to its extreme.

Li Yuan finished his practice and exhaled a long breath.

Completing the minor stage of demonic fusion means he can now use mixed energy on a small scale in battle. The gray-silver fused spiritual power combines the purity of spiritual power with the corrosive power of demonic energy, surpassing the power and characteristics of single-attribute spiritual power.

However, the efficiency of fusion at the minor level is still not high, and the consumption for large-scale use is extremely high. To use it as a primary means in actual combat, at least the major level is required.

The supreme-grade elixir has been circulating in the dantian for nearly a month, with the accumulation of spiritual energy steadily progressing. The perfect control of the alchemy platform ensures that each breath is extremely efficient, the combined essence, qi, and spirit of the three elements provides a continuous source of power, and the efficiency enhancement of the myriad spirits returning to the meridians further makes the absorption speed of spiritual energy far exceed that of other dantians of the same level.

The cultivation level of the early stage of Golden Core is already close to the critical point of the middle stage, only one step away.

Li Yuan concentrated all the spiritual power in his body into his dantian, and the pure white light on the surface of the top-grade spiritual pill suddenly intensified.

The spiritual energy penetrated deeper into the elixir's crystalline structure, increasing its density with each penetration. The crystalline lattice arrangement slowly expanded under the infusion of spiritual energy, evolving from its initial size to its intermediate scale.

The process was extremely smooth.

There is no bottleneck in the quality of the supreme-grade elixir. In the early to mid-stages, it is only about the accumulation of total spiritual power and the expansion of the scale of elixir production, without involving a leap in quality.

One hour later.

A deep, muffled hum came from his dantian.

The supreme-grade elixir expanded in size in that instant, its pure white light becoming more profound and restrained. Simultaneously, the density and total amount of spiritual energy surged to a new level.

Mid-stage Golden Core.

Breakthrough achieved.

The speed of spiritual energy circulation in the meridians accelerated again, and the capacity of the dantian increased by nearly 30%.

Li Yuan opened his eyes, flexed his fingers, and pushed open the door to the secret room.

It was already dark outside.

There are about ten days left before the deep-sea cleanup mission departs.

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