Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 552 Initial Inspection of Boundary Markers

Abandoned ancient road in western Liangzhou.

The inscription on the stone tablet had been completely weathered away, and shrubs and weeds had completely buried the stone pavement. Li Yuan landed beside the ancient road, and the scene was no different from the previous times he had come here.

But this time the purpose of my visit is different.

Take out the spatial coordinate stone tablet from your personal space.

The stone tablet is about four feet high and two feet wide, with densely packed spatial runes carved on its surface. Some areas are blurred, but the overall structure remains intact.

The purple marker effect is automatically activated the moment the stone tablet is taken out, and the ability to perceive cross-dimensional passages increases dramatically.

The previously silent spatial structures in the surrounding void became active in my perception.

Li Yuan erected the stone tablet on the gravel ground beside the ancient road, placing his hands on both sides of the tablet.

The permanent entry effect of the Void Trace Tracing operates synchronously. The historical trajectory of the vanished spatial passage emerges in perception, and the residual marks of the spatial passages that once existed around the ruins unfold slowly in consciousness like a faded old map.

The three entries are running simultaneously.

The boundary marker positioning is responsible for remembering and restoring spatial coordinates, the void trace tracing is responsible for tracking the historical trajectory of the dissipated channels, and the void pattern deconstruction is responsible for disassembling the coordinate codes in the spiritual patterns on the monument surface in real time.

Li Yuan focused his attention on a remnant of a spatial passage on the outer edge of the ruins.

The direction of the remaining historical traces closely matches a pointing line in the coordinates of the monument.

The spatial structure features captured by the trace tracing were relatively clear on this trajectory, and the attenuation was less than that of other trajectories, indicating that this channel was closed later and more residual information was preserved.

The landmark has pinpointed the trajectory, and the reconstruction process has begun.

The spots of light on the monument suddenly became brighter.

The landmark positioning fills the historical trajectory data provided by the air trace tracing into the grid point by point. Each time a node is filled, the completeness of the grid increases by one point.

As each node is lit up, the spatial coordinates are restored.

A panel pops up.

[Boundary Marker Positioning (Purple) Permanentization Progress Update: 1/3]

Li Yuan withdrew his spiritual power and removed his hands from the surface of the monument.

Return the stone tablet to your personal space.

The reconstructed spatial coordinates have been located and stored in the entry's information using landmarks. The coordinates point to a location approximately twenty li northeast of the ancient road.

Transforming into a beam of light, it flew towards the direction indicated by the coordinates.

Landing.

It was a low-lying hilly area. The soil was dry, the vegetation sparse, and a few severely weathered rocks protruded halfway from the loess. There were no visible signs of human intervention.

The spatial exploration technique was operated at the master level, and the spiritual energy detection waves spread in all directions.

The spatial coordinates of the landmark provide precise location guidance in perception. The coordinates indicate a location approximately ten feet deep within the rock strata beneath our feet.

Li Yuan squatted down and channeled his spiritual energy into the ground.

The permanent entries for tracing empty traces are automatically activated, and the perception of the historical trajectory of the dissipated spatial channel unfolds near the coordinate position.

There are traces.

Extremely faint spatial channel remains.

The passage had completely collapsed and disappeared long ago, leaving only faint traces of spatial fluctuations in the rock strata.

Li Yuan stood up and looked around.

There is more than one trace of a spatial node.

Within a radius of several miles around the coordinate location, there are several other extremely faint spatial fluctuations that remain.

The decay of these remnants is more severe than that of the central coordinates; they have almost completely dissipated.

However, their distribution is not random, but rather exhibits a certain regularity.

It looks like part of a set of node arrays.

Li Yuan's intuition told him that a complete spatial teleportation network once existed in this area a long time ago.

The central coordinates represent the master node, while the surrounding remnants are auxiliary nodes. The network once covered a considerable area, but it has now completely collapsed and disappeared, leaving only faint historical traces.

Li Yuan memorized all this information.

Although they are temporarily unusable, these remnants themselves are valuable clues.

The existence of the spatial teleportation network indicates that cultivators in this region carried out large-scale spatial infrastructure construction in ancient times.

Return to the abandoned ancient road along the original route.

After searching the area around the ancient road, no other findings were found.

They transformed into a beam of light and returned to the Misty Forest Market.

After returning to the market, Li Yuan devoted his time to improving his weapon-refining skills.

The art of weapon crafting has remained at a proficient level for some time now.

In the small weapon-refining room behind the secluded training room, a furnace fire was lit.

The effect of increasing the spell's formation speed by 50% after the initial forging of spiritual essence becomes permanent also applies during the weapon crafting process.

The speed and precision of injecting spiritual energy into the refining furnace have improved significantly compared to before.

The green permanent entries for "Insightful Principles" make the interactive reactions of fluctuations in the properties between materials clearly discernible.

The white entry for "Permanentization of Material Properties" adds another layer of microscopic perception of changes in material properties.

Li Yuan took out a batch of mid-grade second-tier refining materials from the spiritual material reserve and began mass refining them.

The goal is not to create finished magical artifacts, but to refine the feel and precision of spiritual power control through a large number of repeated refining processes.

The first item is a standard second-tier mid-grade water spirit sword.

Materials are thrown into the furnace, temperature is controlled by spiritual energy, and after the metal melts, spiritual energy guides it into shape, followed by quenching, engraving, and infusion of spiritual energy. The process is so familiar that it requires no conscious thought; the hands move naturally above the furnace opening.

The finished product is out of the oven and meets the quality standards.

Without pausing, the second item was immediately placed.

Li Yuan continuously crafted more than ten second-tier magical artifacts of different types.

By the twelfth item, a subtle change occurred in the method of injecting spiritual energy into the refining furnace.

Previously, the process of forging artifacts involved two steps: first, spiritual energy was injected to melt the material, and then spiritual energy was used to guide and shape it. There was a brief gap between these two steps. Starting with the twelfth artifact, this gap disappeared.

The injection of spiritual energy and the shaping process begin simultaneously. Melting and drawing are completed in the same stream of spiritual energy, which improves efficiency and makes the internal structure of the finished product more uniform.

Weapon crafting skills, minor mastery.

Li Yuan extinguished the furnace fire, sorted the finished magical artifacts and stored them in his personal space, cleaned the weapon-refining room, and then finished his seclusion.