Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 524 Mastery of the Tide Formation Heart Sutra

Upon returning to Wulin Market, Li Yuan did not rush to handle market affairs but went directly into his seclusion room.

Of the three scriptures obtained in the secret realm, I've already mastered the basics of Soul Condensation and Consciousness Control Technique and Void Fixation Technique. I haven't had time to study the remaining Nascent Soul basic cultivation techniques in detail yet.

This technique is called the Nascent Soul Strengthening Technique.

The information stream contains a vast and systematic body of content. The cultivation method itself is the foundational cultivation technique for the Nascent Soul realm, encompassing the core mode of spiritual energy circulation during the Nascent Soul stage, the symbiotic structure of the soul and the Nascent Soul, and the release methods of various spells at the Nascent Soul realm.

Li Yuan was not concerned with how to cultivate the technique itself, but rather with the prerequisite information for Nascent Soul Formation hidden within the framework of the technique.

The spiritual energy circulation pattern in the Nascent Soul stage is completely different from that in the Golden Core stage. In the Golden Core stage, spiritual energy is centered on the Golden Core in the dantian, with the meridians as pathways. Spiritual energy flows out of the Golden Core and returns to it, forming a closed loop. In the Nascent Soul stage, however, the essence, energy, and spirit contained within the Golden Core are condensed into an independent miniature existence. Once the Nascent Soul is formed, it replaces the Golden Core as the new core, and the Golden Core itself is completely consumed during the formation process.

Several basic conditions for achieving Nascent Soul formation can be deduced from the description of the practice.

The quality of the Golden Core must be high enough. The essence of Nascent Soul Formation is to compress and condense all the accumulation within the Golden Core into a Nascent Soul. The higher the quality, the more stable the Nascent Soul will be. Supreme-grade Golden Cores have a significant advantage in this respect.

The strength of the soul must reach a certain threshold. The nascent soul is not a pure crystallization of spiritual energy, but a fusion of essence, energy, and spirit, with the soul occupying the core position. If the soul is not strong enough, the consciousness cannot withstand the impact during the formation of the nascent soul, resulting in failure at best and complete annihilation of the soul at worst.

There's plenty of information, but it's far from providing a true understanding of the complete Nascent Soul formation process. The cultivation methods provided offer a framework for Nascent Soul stage cultivation, not a guide to Nascent Soul formation. The Nascent Soul formation manual promised by Longyuan Pavilion offers systematic guidance.

But at least we know the direction now.

The focus now is clear: continue to improve cultivation, strengthen the soul, and accumulate resources. Reaching Nascent Soul is a long-term goal; it can't be rushed.

Li Yuan finished his training and left the seclusion.

Ji Wenyuan was already waiting in the main hall.

"Master, the Tianyue Sect has been urging us several times. True Master Xuanpu said that the material support for the new market should be implemented as soon as possible, and the first batch of sites has already been selected."

Li Yuan sat down and took the documents handed to him by Ji Wenyuan.

The document outlines the Tianyue Sect's plans for building new markets in Liangzhou. Three sites have been selected: one in the north, one in the west, and one in the south-central part of Liangzhou. Each site is located near a major transportation route or a node of a spiritual vein. The choice of locations is excellent, clearly demonstrating the Tianyue Sect's determination to establish itself in Liangzhou.

As a respected elder of the Tianyue Sect, it was Li Yuan's duty to cooperate with these arrangements. The conditions were simple: material support and array deployment. In terms of materials, the inventory of Wulin Market and Qinghe Market was sufficient to support the first batch of deployments. As for the arrays, the defensive arrays of the newly built markets did not need to be of a high grade; second-tier upper grade to third-tier lower grade would suffice, and he was fully capable of handling it with his own skills.

"The first batch of supplies will be transferred from Qinghefang Market. The types and quantities should be according to this list." Li Yuan marked a few places on the document and handed it back.

"Understood." Ji Wenyuan put away the document and then said, "In addition, Tianyue Sect has released a new batch of Tier 3 missions, which offer a lot of contribution points."

Li Yuan nodded.

Being a worshipper makes accepting tasks much more convenient, eliminating the need to go through the process of becoming a lone cultivator. Furthermore, worshippers receive an extra bonus to contribution points for completing tasks, accumulating them significantly faster than before.

In the days that followed, Li Yuan cooperated with the Tianyue Sect's expansion in Liangzhou while completing several low- to medium-risk tasks.

The tasks vary. Some involve clearing out the remaining demonic cultivators from an abandoned stronghold, others involve surveying the geological veins for the construction of a new market for the Tianyue Sect, and still others involve scouting the remaining outposts of the Shamo Sect in northern Liangzhou.

One of the tasks yielded particularly noteworthy results.

While clearing out a demonic cultivator's outpost in northwestern Liangzhou, Li Yuan discovered a dark gray metal fragment on an abandoned storage shelf in the outpost's basement. The fragment was about two fingers long, with jagged edges and extremely fine restriction patterns on its surface.

Green light.

[Equipable item detected: Fragment of the Mystic Lock (Complete)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Locked Micro-awareness (Green)]

[Effect: Improves the accuracy of structural perception of lock-type (closed) restrictions by 50%: Allows intuitive location of key unlocking nodes when breaking lock-type restrictions]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Independently break three different second-tier or higher level blocking restrictions]

Li Yuan put it into his personal space.

After all the tasks were completed, Li Yuan turned his attention back to the construction of the market itself.

Behind the secluded area of ​​Wulinfang City, there is a large, empty stone chamber, which was originally reserved as storage space and is quite spacious.

Li Yuan took out the three array core materials he had obtained at the Yaoguang Island trade fair and began to set up his own alchemy array system.

The structure of the formation is exactly the same as the one previously set up for Meng Yangzi: the three parts, namely the Danhuo temperature control formation, the spiritual energy purification formation, and the Danyuan stabilization formation, operate independently, share the spiritual energy supply loop, and are uniformly controlled by the formation eye.

With the experience gained from the previous deployment, the speed was much faster this time. The instinctive perception of the array's subtle light, combined with the intuitive judgment of its rhythm, allowed the key nodes to be positioned in one go, without the need for repeated adjustments.

The deployment was completed in two days.

Spiritual energy was poured into the array's core, activating all three parts of the array simultaneously.

The environment inside the stone chamber changed immediately. The Danhuo temperature control array created a stable temperature field in the center of the stone chamber, the spiritual energy purification array improved the quality of the spiritual energy in the chamber by a level, and the Danyuan stabilization array constructed a spherical spiritual energy field at the preset location.

Li Yuan tested a batch of Heavenly Origin Pills in the newly built alchemy array, and the results were even better than expected. The stability of the temperature control array saved a lot of effort in manually adjusting the alchemical fire, allowing him to focus more on the crucial steps of fusion of the medicinal liquid and condensation of the pills.

From then on, Li Yuan's daily cultivation included a new fixed element.

Every day, he refines pills within his own formation while simultaneously circulating the Tide Formation Heart Sutra.

The Tide Array Heart Sutra is a third-tier array technique, and its cultivation method differs from ordinary techniques. The cultivation of array techniques requires being within the array, using the array's spiritual energy circulation to resonate with one's own meridians, and refining one's understanding of the array's principles through resonance, transforming that understanding into growth in cultivation.

Cultivating within one's own array results in far greater resonance efficiency than practicing within someone else's array. This is because every spiritual energy path and every node in the array is personally designed, ensuring that the flow of spiritual energy naturally aligns with one's own energy circulation pattern.

The equipment attribute effect of "Symbiotic Array" is also continuously active. When practicing array techniques, array mastery and skill cultivation increase simultaneously, and the spiritual energy recovery speed is increased by an additional 30% when within an array.

day to day.

The resonance between the spiritual energy circulation within the alchemy formation and the meridians within his body deepened. The cultivation of the Tide Formation Heart Sutra gradually transitioned from passively perceiving the flow of spiritual energy within the formation to actively adjusting its overall structure. While within the formation, Li Yuan could optimize its operational efficiency through extremely subtle adjustments to spiritual energy, and the formation's spiritual energy depletion continued to decrease through daily adjustments.

This ability to proactively adjust formations is the hallmark of mastering formations from proficiency to expertise.

As evening fell, after completing the refining of a batch of Heavenly Origin Pills, Li Yuan sat cross-legged at the center of the alchemy array, circulating the Tide Array Heart Sutra. The resonance between his internal spiritual energy and the array's circulation reached a new level. The rhythm of the spiritual energy flow changed from following the array to guiding it, and the array's operating mode under subtle guidance spontaneously optimized and adjusted itself.

[The Art of Tide Formation: From Proficiency to Mastery]