Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 606 After Nascent Soul Formation

The private space was pitch black and silent, with only the faint blue light cast by the lighting patterns on the walls.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged in the center of the space, his consciousness sinking into his body.

The three-inch dark golden nascent soul sat upright in the center of the dantian, its eyes closed, its entire body enveloped in a faint halo.

The spiritual energy within the halo flows spontaneously, bypassing the dantian and meridians, and surges directly from the nascent soul, freely circulating within the body.

The way spiritual energy circulates is completely different from that of the Golden Core stage.

The spiritual power of the Golden Core stage radiates throughout the body along the meridians, with the Golden Core as the hub. Acupoints are nodes, and meridians are channels, with each step following a clear path.

The spiritual power of the Nascent Soul stage has no pathway.

After spiritual energy surges out from the nascent soul, it can directly penetrate the body surface and take shape outside the body, or it can condense at any location inside the body.

The meridians still exist and can still be used, but they are no longer the only means of conduction.

It's like the irrigation system has changed from canal irrigation to water immersion.

During the Nascent Soul stage, the way demonic energy circulates becomes the same as spiritual energy: it flows throughout the body and back and forth between the body and the Nascent Soul.

Li Yuan felt his nascent soul, where demonic energy and spiritual power blended and transformed seamlessly, making it far more powerful than an ordinary nascent soul.

Li Yuan focused his attention on the relationship between the nascent soul and the essence, energy, and spirit.

The permanent purple attribute of the Three Elements Unity produced a clear feedback the moment the Nascent Soul was formed.

During the Golden Core stage, the effect of increasing essence, energy, and spirit by 20% is a uniformly distributed gain.

The Nascent Soul stage is different.

The nascent soul itself is a condensation of essence, energy, and spirit, which are fused together in the nascent soul.

The 20% improvement in the "Three Elements Integration" entry triggered a chain reaction during this fusion process. The degree of fusion leaped from a quantitative change in the Golden Core stage to a qualitative change, the barriers between essence, qi, and spirit became blurred, and the efficiency of mutual transformation was much higher than in the Golden Core stage.

In actual operation, the conversion ratio among the three is close to 15% to 10%.

After examining his mental state, an unexpected change caught Li Yuan's attention.

A patch of dark blue scales suddenly appeared on the surface of my forearm skin.

The appearance of the scales was without any warning. It was not the result of Li Yuan actively activating the demon-transformation human form technique, but rather a spontaneous reaction of the technique under the impact of the spiritual power of the newly formed Nascent Soul.

The scales appeared and then quickly disappeared, taking only two or three breaths.

But Li Yuan clearly sensed the changes within the cultivation technique.

The quality and operation of Nascent Soul spiritual power are fundamentally different from those of the Golden Core stage, and this difference creates a new stimulus for the reversal cycle of the demon-humanoid cultivation technique.

If you continue to cultivate, the speed of progress from minor to major mastery will be much faster than before.

Li Yuan withdrew his attention from the demon-transformation human form technique and began testing the performance of his nascent soul spiritual power in various fields.

Spiritual energy surged from the nascent soul, condensing into a dark golden sphere of light in the palm of his right hand.

The ball of light floated above the palm, and the flow of spiritual energy did not pass through the meridians at all.

Emerging from the nascent soul, it penetrated the tissues in the torso and arms, condensing into a form in the palm.

The entire process was several times faster than the Golden Core stage.

The precision of manipulating spiritual energy has also undergone a qualitative change.

The manipulation of spiritual power during the Golden Core stage requires transmission through the meridians, and the accuracy is limited by the width and transmission rate of the meridians.

The spiritual power of the Nascent Soul stage flows directly from the Nascent Soul, and the precision of its control depends on the Nascent Soul's own ability to control the spiritual power.

This is not an improvement out of thin air. Even someone with a top-grade Golden Core could perfectly control spiritual power, but could not achieve such a refined effect.

With the same spiritual energy consumption, the precision of control has increased several times.

Li Yuan then tested the effect of the Nascent Soul directly releasing spells.

The nascent soul raised its right hand in its dantian, and a fireball technique condensed from its palm and shot out.

The fireball penetrated the flesh and took shape outside the body.

Its power is not high. It's only about 30% of the power of a normal spell.

The reason is clear. The nascent soul is the core of essence, energy, and spirit, but not the entire vessel.

A vast amount of essence, energy, and spirit are distributed throughout the physical body; the skin, muscles, bones, and internal organs—these four layers of tissue—store most of the total spiritual power of a Nascent Soul cultivator. The Nascent Soul itself only condenses the purest core portion, and its quantity is limited.

The power of spells cast directly by a Nascent Soul is limited by the Nascent Soul itself, and is not as good as the normal spell casting mode that uses the physical body and meridians in combination.

But it has one advantage.

Extremely fast.

The nascent soul releases magic directly from within the body without going through the meridians.

From the initial thought to the completion of the spell, it was nearly twice as fast as normal spellcasting.

Emergency measures for critical moments.

Li Yuan tested the performance in alchemy, talisman making, array formation, and spatial creation item by item.

The Nascent Soul's spiritual power allows for far greater precision in controlling the alchemical fire than the Golden Core stage. Furthermore, the temperature control capabilities of the Blazing Sun Bright Fire Technique at the minor completion stage can be further enhanced with the support of the Nascent Soul's spiritual power.

In terms of talisman making, the precision of spirit pattern inscription and the uniformity of spirit power infusion have also seen a significant leap.

In terms of formations, it has a stronger ability to synchronously control spiritual energy nodes when setting up formations.

In terms of space, the spiritual energy consumption for creating an independent space is lower compared to the Golden Core stage, and the stability of the space walls is better.

After the test was completed, Li Yuan closed his eyes and sensed the operation of the Dragon Luck Technique in his sea of ​​consciousness.

The resonant frequencies of the twelve nodes in the circular circuit changed significantly after breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. The resonant range expanded, and the frequencies became higher and more uniform.

The intuitive deviations during the mastery stage of the Dragon Luck Technique are much clearer than before the Nascent Soul stage.

The improvement in strength indirectly enhanced the effect of the Dragon Luck Technique; it seemed that as long as one was strong enough, one's luck would be even better.

The stronger one's strength, the greater the deviation in fortune brought by the Dragon Luck Technique.

Li Yuan withdrew his divine sense and opened his eyes.

With a thought, he checked the status of the Condensing Essence and Infant Nourishing Pill in his equipment inventory.

Equipping this pill allows you to break through to the Nascent Soul stage once.

The conditions have been met.

The permanent activation of the "Nourish Infant and Nourish Vitality" entry will be initiated automatically.

The Condensing Essence Pill in the equipment slot dissipated, and a blue light surged into the body, spreading along the meridians and nascent soul.

The screen filled with images.

A rich, milky-white medicinal power seeped into the surface of a miniature humanoid figure, subtly but continuously optimizing its internal structure under its nourishment. Each spiritual energy pathway of the Nascent Soul became more precise under the guidance of the medicinal power, reducing the loss of spiritual energy flow to an extremely low level.

The image simultaneously displayed complete pharmacological information about the Condensing Essence and Nourishing Infant Grass. The spiritual patterns and veins contained within the seed of this unique spiritual plant from the Upper Realm were not naturally formed, but rather a self-circulating structure of spiritual energy that evolved spontaneously within a high-concentration spiritual energy environment. It is this structure that gives the Condensing Essence and Nourishing Infant Pill its continuous nourishing effect on the Nascent Soul.

The image disappeared.

Nourishing the infant and cultivating the vital essence, the process is completed permanently.

Cultivation speed is permanently increased by 80% in the early stages of the Nascent Soul stage. The slight improvement in Nascent Soul quality upon formation is permanently solidified.

An empty slot has been freed up in the equipment inventory.

Immediately afterward, the Condensing Essence Grass stored in the personal miniature world reacted.

The conditions for the permanent formation of the Condensing Essence Grass have been met: its lifespan reaches four hundred years when breaking through to a higher realm.

Breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage is a major realm breakthrough, and one's lifespan far exceeds four hundred years.

Both conditions are met simultaneously.

The Condensing Essence Grass dissipated within the personal miniature world. A stream of blue light penetrated the walls of the miniature world and flowed into the body.

The screen filled with images.

Essence, Qi, and Spirit—three distinct forces—converge within a cultivator's body. The medicinal power of the Condensing Essence Grass forms an extremely thin lubricating film at the interface, allowing the three forces to permeate more smoothly and blurring the boundaries. Under the influence of this lubricating film, the fusion of Essence, Qi, and Spirit within the cultivator's body slowly but steadily increases.

The image disappeared.

The three elements are condensed and permanently completed.

The integration level of essence, energy, and spirit is permanently increased. All aspects of essence, energy, and spirit are permanently increased by 10%.

The two entries were made permanent in a very short period of time.

The purple affix effect of the Three Elements Unity, combined with the newly permanent Three Elements Condensation, resulted in a total increase of 30% in all aspects of Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

The quality of spiritual energy within the nascent soul underwent another perceptible improvement due to the double effect.

Li Yuan then stood up.

Li Yuan ran the airspace anchoring entry and confirmed that the coordinates here were intact.

Second coordinate point.

The first coordinate point is the seclusion room of Wulinfang Market.

After confirming that the coordinates were correct, Li Yuan began to address the breathing issue.

The spiritual energy fluctuations after the initial formation of the Nascent Soul stage are fundamentally different from those of the Golden Core stage.

The way the nascent soul's spiritual power operates, its quality, and its path of emergence are all easily discernible to any Golden Core cultivator.

The "Hidden and Unseen" entry operates, suppressing the leakage of spiritual energy fluctuations.

The Nascent Soul's spiritual power was greatly reduced under the effect of concealment, and the outward fluctuations of spiritual power were compressed downward from the Nascent Soul level.

But simply remaining hidden is not enough.

The ability to conceal and remain hidden suppresses the amplitude and leakage of spiritual energy fluctuations, but it cannot change the inherent quality characteristics of spiritual energy itself.

The purity, density, and circulation of Nascent Soul spiritual power are fundamentally different from those of Golden Core spiritual power. Experienced Golden Core cultivators or Nascent Soul cultivators may still be able to detect this difference when they come into close contact with it.

Li Yuan actively controlled the spiritual energy output mode of his nascent soul.

Instead of letting spiritual energy flow directly from the nascent soul and spread throughout the body, the spiritual energy is first guided into the meridians and then transmitted along the meridians to the whole body.

After the two layers of disguise were superimposed, the spiritual energy fluctuations perceived by the outside world were suppressed back to the level of the mid-to-late stage of the Golden Core realm.

It's not perfect, but it's enough for the short term.

Li Yuan withdrew from the independent space, and the space wall collapsed and closed behind him.

Everything in the rift valley remained as usual. The spiritual energy emanating from the spatial passage continued to silently permeate the entire canyon area.

The sky had darkened. Li Yuan transformed into a beam of light and ascended into the sky. Instead of using the spatial coordinate channel, he flew towards the Misty Forest Market at a normal speed.

As the light swept across the sky above Liangzhou, he began to organize his plans for the next stage in his mind.

With the Nascent Soul stage just beginning, the most urgent task is to solidify one's cultivation. The initial spiritual energy circulation pattern of the Nascent Soul stage requires a period of adaptation and refinement, allowing the new circulation method to transition from deliberate control to instinctive reaction.

The permanent effect of nurturing the infant spirit increases the cultivation speed in the early stages by 80%, and the progress in the stabilization stage will be very fast.

The dragon race's body-refining techniques within the skeletal dragon patterns have been fully deciphered, but their practical application has only just begun. The perfected Jiao Blood Tempering Technique, combined with the dragon race's body-refining techniques, brought about a qualitative change. Further efforts are needed to deepen this connection and further digest and absorb the underlying logic of the dragon race's body-refining techniques.

Regarding the market towns, the merger of Wulin Market Town and Yunyang Market Town needs to be followed up. The population growth brought about by the continuous increase in spiritual energy concentration has placed higher demands on the operation and management of the market towns.

The maintenance of maritime trade routes cannot be stopped. The regular supply of materials from the Demon Toad Palace and the exchange of dragon pattern information from the gathering place of the Flood Dragons are important resource channels for the future.

The beam of light descended towards the direction of the Misty Forest Market.