Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 496 Offshore Outpost

When the beam of light landed on the rocky beach on the west side of the island, the entire battlefield was already in full view.

The island was small, only five or six miles in circumference, with a low and flat terrain and a stone hill a hundred feet high rising in the center. The shallow sea around the island was teeming with the figures of demonic beasts, a dark mass stretching from the sea surface all the way to the mudflats on the shore.

They were all second-tier demonic beasts.

A diverse array of species, including crustaceans like crabs, mollusks like tentacle jellyfish, and scaly sea snakes, advanced towards the island together. Their numbers are roughly estimated at two to three hundred, encircling most of the island.

The island's defenses have been compressed to the foot of the rocky hill.

More than twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators divided into three groups, forming a defensive array with their backs against the stone hill. They unleashed spells in turn—ice spikes, fireballs, and water arrows exploded among the monster horde—but the rate of destruction was far outpaced by the monsters' advance. The outer perimeter of the defensive line was already piled high with the remains and blood of monsters, and even more monsters continued to crawl forward, stepping over the corpses of their comrades.

At the top of the hill, an old man dressed in a gray-white robe was locked in battle with a third-tier demon beast.

It was a black-scaled sea python, four zhang long, its entire body covered in thick black scales, its tail sweeping like a steel whip. The old man's cultivation was at the early stage of the Golden Core realm, and his spells could only leave shallow white marks on the black-scaled sea python, clearly unable to suppress it.

The old man's breathing fluctuated violently, and a tear appeared in his robe on his left shoulder, revealing a scabbed wound underneath.

We've been playing for quite a while now.

Li Yuan did not linger on the rocky beach.

With a leap, he plunged into the horde of demonic beasts.

The first spell is Ice Spike.

Spiritual energy surged from his dantian, condensing into six ice spikes in his palm. Each spike was about the length of an arm, with sharp, translucent tips. The six ice spikes shot out simultaneously, precisely embedding themselves into the crevices of the shells of the six second-tier sea crabs.

The Ice Spike Technique had already been mastered to perfection, its power and precision exceeding the level of a third-tier spell. After the ice spike pierced through the shell of the six-headed crab, the flow of spiritual energy within its body was instantly frozen, and it struggled a few times before ceasing to move.

Next up is the Fire Python Technique.

A fiery python, over ten feet long, shot out from Li Yuan's palm and plunged into the densest horde of demonic beasts. The fiery python rolled and crushed over a patch of tentacle jellyfish, the intense heat directly evaporating the jellyfish's soft tissues, sending a plume of foul-smelling white smoke billowing high into the air.

As the fire python lashed out with its tail, it swept away three sea snakes that were climbing the rock face. The snakes were scalded with large, blackened wounds and tumbled down the rock face with screams of pain.

Golden Blade Technique.

Three golden blades shot from his fingertips, silently slicing through the air and cleaving the largest Tier 2 sea crab in two. The crab's shell was smooth as a mirror, and its internal organs and bodily fluids gushed out simultaneously.

All three spells had reached perfection, and they were cast in turn at an extremely fast speed, with only a few breaths between them.

The Foundation Establishment cultivators on the island were taken aback at first, and then burst into a long-suppressed shout.

"Support has arrived!"

The pressure on the defensive line eased abruptly. The gap that Li Yuan had torn open on the flank alone was greater than the combined frontal output of three groups of Foundation Establishment cultivators. The advance of the demonic beast horde was halted, and the front-line demonic beasts began to hesitate and retreat.

Li Yuan stopped using the spell he was casting and switched to another one.

Chaoyin Jue.

The spiritual energy shifted direction in the dantian, switching from the fire and metal pathways to the water pathway. Then, the spiritual energy surged into specific meridians and acupoints in the throat and chest cavity, forming a high-frequency oscillating spiritual energy loop near the vocal cords.

Li Yuan opened his mouth.

A deep hum emanated from his mouth, not a frequency that a human voice could produce, but a special sound wave generated by the resonance of spiritual energy and sound waves. The sound wave spread out in a fan shape forward from Li Yuan's center, not fast, but with a very wide coverage.

Within the area swept by the sound waves, more than a dozen second-tier demonic beasts froze in place.

The crab's eight legs trembled violently, and fine cracks appeared on its shell. The jellyfish's soft body began to contract uncontrollably, its internal spiritual energy circulation disrupted by the sound waves. The sea serpent collapsed to the ground, blood seeping from its seven orifices.

The Tide Sound Technique uses the frequency of sound waves to directly interfere with the circulation of spiritual energy within a demon beast's body, thus dismantling its defenses from the inside.

It is especially effective against crustacean monsters with hard shells.

Li Yuan continuously unleashed the Tide Sound Technique, sending wave after wave of sound waves sweeping across the horde of demonic beasts.

With each use, the control over the sound wave frequency became more precise. The resonance point between spiritual power and sound waves was gradually calibrated through repeated practice, and the penetrating power and coverage of the sound waves were visibly improved.

The catalytic effect of actual combat on spell training far exceeds that of secluded intensive practice.

His proficiency in the Tide Sound Technique was rapidly increasing.

When the seventeenth sound wave was released, an extremely subtle change occurred within Li Yuan's body.

The path of spiritual energy flowing through the meridians in the throat suddenly adjusted its angle, and the resonance frequency of the sound waves and spiritual energy changed from an approximate match to a complete match.

【Trendy Sound Techniques: Beginner to Advanced】

Unfortunately, the permanent permeation of the sound of the tide requires the deep sea area, and I am currently on an island, not in the deep sea.

The power of the Tide Sound Technique has reached a new level.

Li Yuan looked up at the top of the hill.

The old man in the grey-white robe was still entangled with the black-scaled sea serpent, but he was clearly losing strength. His spells could only briefly pause the serpent, and each counterattack forced the old man to retreat several feet.

Li Yuan pushed off with his feet, his body rising straight up to the top of the rocky hill.

The black-scaled sea python sensed a new threat, its vertical pupils turned towards Li Yuan, and its tail swept out sharply.

Li Yuan dodged the python's tail to the side and raised his right hand.

Chaoyin Jue.

The sea serpent's body suddenly stiffened.

The sound waves entered the body through the mouth and spread throughout the sea python's body along its spiritual energy meridians. Fine cracks began to appear on the surface of its black scales, and the cracks quickly spread from its head to its tail.

The sea serpent let out a deep roar, its body twisting violently as it tried to dissipate the sound waves within its body.

Li Yuan did not give it a chance.

Sky-Splitting Slash.

A gray rift shot out from the palm, silently slicing into the already cracked scales on the sea serpent's neck. The spatial cutting attribute, combined with the internal injuries inflicted beforehand by the sonic waves, rendered the scales' defenses virtually useless.

A gray fissure ran through the anaconda's neck, and a huge snake head separated from its body, rolling onto the rocky surface of the hill.

The headless python convulsed a few times before crashing heavily to the ground, sending up a spray of gravel.

The top of the hill was quiet for a moment.

The old man in the grey robe stared blankly at the sea python's corpse on the ground, then looked up at Li Yuan with a complicated expression.

"Thank you for your help, fellow Daoist." The old man bowed and said with obvious relief in his voice, "My surname is Ge, and I am an elder of the Ge family."

"A support mission for the Loose Cultivator Alliance," Li Yuan replied briefly.

The battle below the hill was also nearing its end. With the third-tier demonic beast dead, the remaining second-tier demonic beasts were leaderless, and their offensive immediately collapsed. The Foundation Establishment cultivators seized the opportunity to counterattack, driving the remaining demonic beasts back into the sea.

After the demon tide receded, the island was left in ruins. The mudflats were littered with the remains of demonic beasts and blood, several makeshift houses were destroyed, and most of the defensive formation at the foot of the stone hill was shattered.

Elder Ge descended the stone hill and instructed his clan disciples to clean up the battlefield and collect materials related to the demon beasts.

He then turned back to Li Yuan's side and bowed again.

"If it weren't for your timely arrival, the Ge family would likely have perished here. Please feel free to ask if you need anything."

"Materials," Li Yuan said, then listed a few requirements.

Old Ge nodded and rummaged through his storage bag for a while.

"I don't have many spiritual materials, but there is one thing that might be useful to you, fellow Daoist."

Elder Ge took out a fist-sized piece of dark gold ore with extremely fine patterns on its surface, and its spiritual energy fluctuations were calm and profound.

"Mysterious Magnetic Refined Gold." Elder Ge handed over the ore. "It was mined from an underwater vein many years ago. The quality is quite good, but I have no use for it. If you need it, please take it."

Li Yuan took the ore, feeling a heavy weight in his palm.

Mystic Magnetic Refined Gold. It can be used as a base for supporting the patterns on natal magical artifacts, and has extremely high affinity for patterns with multiple attributes.

It's exactly what I've been looking for.

Thank you.

Old Ge waved his hand, then took out a few mid-grade spirit stones from his storage bag and stuffed them over.

"It's too little, fellow Daoist, please don't mind."

Li Yuan accepted the spirit stones and ores, without keeping any more.

As they left the island, the Ge family disciples behind them were busy repairing the defensive formations and clearing away the remains of the demonic beasts. Elder Ge stood on the rocky hill, watching Li Yuan's escape light disappear into the distance until it vanished at the horizon.