Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 627 Thunder Sect's Former Stronghold

The hinterland of the southwestern mountains of Baihe Prefecture.

The streaking light moved slowly through the valley. Li Yuan suppressed the fluctuations of his spiritual power and simultaneously scanned the surrounding environment using multiple sensory methods.

The permanent blue affix to Earth Vein Pivot passively senses the direction of deep underground spiritual veins and the distribution of mineral veins. Spatial Detection scans for anomalies in the spatial structure beneath the surface with proficient precision. The permanent blue affix to Dark Insight remains sensitive to traces of surrounding malevolent energy and demonic energy.

The triple sensing system covers an area that extends from the ground to dozens of meters underground.

The residual traces of lightning-attribute spiritual power became increasingly dense, concentrated in a gray-black rock wall area.

The surface of the rock face shows very fine lines, which are different from the texture of ordinary natural rocks and show a regularity of human carving.

Raimon pattern.

Li Yuan took out the Four Symbols Thunder Sect disciple token from his personal miniature world.

The token resonated faintly when it was brought close to the rock wall. The frequency of the resonance matched the residual spiritual energy frequency of the lightning patterns on the rock wall.

The entrance to the outpost is located below this rock wall.

The Earth Vein Spirit Pivot's perception revealed that there was an underground fault about forty feet below the rock wall, and the spatial structure inside the fault was significantly different from the surrounding rock strata.

Li Yuan carefully put away the token and used earth-遁术 (earth-遁术 is a type of magic that allows one to escape underground).

After passing through a rock layer about thirty feet thick, a closed crevice appeared ahead.

The fissure was about two feet wide, its surface covered by a layer of damaged restrictions. The spiritual energy circuits of the restrictions were mostly ineffective, but the remaining structure was still releasing weak lightning pulses and spatial locking effects.

The damage is extensive, but the core structure remains intact. Forcibly breaking through may trigger the remaining defense mechanisms.

I'm not afraid of any defense mechanisms, I'm just afraid that the items inside will be destroyed by the formation.

He raised his hand, and the Demonic Domain Erosion Technique was activated.

Dark purple demonic energy seeped from his fingertips, spreading along the spatial locking loop on the surface of the barrier. The demonic energy's effect of eroding the spatial structure around the target and weakening its defenses precisely targeted the three weak points of the locking loop.

The strength of the spatial lock rapidly weakened under the erosion of demonic energy.

After a few breaths, the lock effect dropped to a level that could be broken.

Li Yuan then used a forbidden spatial technique.

A small restricted area locked the spatial structure at the edge of the fissure, completely fixing the decaying spatial locking remnants and preventing them from rebounding during the breakthrough process.

The fissure is open.

The Demonic Domain Erosion Technique was executed extremely smoothly in this actual battle. The enhancement from the Void Realm Profound Fusion attribute made the precision of the demonic energy's erosion of the spatial structure more than one level higher than when it first started. The erosion range could be precisely controlled to within millimeters of the weakest point, without affecting unrelated areas.

Demonic Domain Erosion Technique, Proficient.

Li Yuan passed through the rift and entered the stronghold.

The space within the underground fault was smaller than expected.

The stone chamber, approximately five zhang square, had dense remnants of thunder arrays carved on its walls, most of which were no longer functional. In the center of the chamber stood a low stone platform, upon which several items were scattered.

In the corner of the stone chamber were two small storage compartments, most of the items inside of which had decayed.

Li Yuan first inspected the items on the stone platform.

Three fist-sized pieces of lightning-attribute ore, of approximately high-grade second-tier quality, in reasonably good condition. Their spiritual energy has diminished somewhat, but they are still usable.

Two jade slip fragments. The fragments have clean cuts, indicating they were not damaged naturally but were remnants of something that had been deliberately split open. Divine sense probed into the fragments, but the contents were incomplete and fragmented; only scattered pieces of pill formulas could be discerned.

The items in the storage compartment were even more severely decayed. The wooden containers had turned to dust, and the metal utensils were heavily corroded. Only a fragment of a pill formula, sealed with special spiritual materials, had survived.

The fragment is sealed with lightning-attribute spiritual power; the seal must be broken carefully when taking it out.

Li Yuan used micro-controlling spiritual techniques to slowly peel away the seal layer and retrieve the complete fragment of the pill formula.

The text on the fragment is clearly legible, recording a partial recipe for a lightning-based body-refining elixir. Its style is consistent with the elixir recipe fragments in the jade slip, suggesting it may belong to a different part of the same complete recipe.

Within the three-foot perception range, there was no fluctuation in the word's status.

The gains weren't huge, but everything that aligned with the Thunder Magic Body Refinement route was collected into my personal miniature world.

The outpost has been scouted.

Li Yuan returned to the ground along the original route, transformed into a beam of light, left the mountains, and headed towards the Lu family's residence in Baihe Prefecture.

The Lu family's residence.

On the first floor of the stone building, Lu Yang was looking at a map showing the distribution of mineral veins.

"Fellow Daoist Li." Lu Yang put down the blueprints and stood up.

"The dragon pattern has been finalized."

Li Yuan sat down opposite him and took out a jade slip from his personal miniature world, handing it over.

The jade slip contains all the information exchanged between the dragons, including the complete interpretation of the dragon pattern map on the wall and the last batch of newly deciphered dragon pattern symbols.

Lu Yang took the jade slip and probed it with his divine sense.

He looked up after a moment, his face showing a hint of surprise.

"Is it all deciphered?"

"All the map-related files are complete," Li Yuan said.

"The jade slip you gave me is still missing the last 20%, but the new symbols you brought this time should be able to fill in the gap."

Lu Yang took out the dragon-patterned jade slip from the Lu family and a decryption note compiled by the Lu family themselves from his storage bag.

"We've also made some progress on our end."

Lu Yang handed over the notebook.

"After you provided the information last time, the elders in the family conducted further research on the jade slip. They deduced the meaning of the three high-frequency symbols from the perspective of bloodline inheritance, which can be verified with the comparison table you gave before."

Li Yuan took the notes and scanned them.

The sequence suddenly became clear.

The last two-thirds of the jade slip were fully interpreted with the help of complementary information from both sides.

Li Yuan read through the entire deciphered text from beginning to end.

This is a bloodline inscription technique.

The core ability of this technique is to inscribe specific information into the bloodline. It's not simply about storing information in the blood, but rather encoding the information as frequency characteristics of the bloodline's spiritual power in the form of dragon-pattern symbols, embedding it into the underlying structure of the bloodline.

The inscription can be information or a rune structure. After inscribing a rune, it will continue to take effect as it circulates through the bloodline, essentially embedding a buff permanently into the bloodline.

The inscribed content can be passed down through generations. Descendants are born carrying all the information inscribed by their predecessors and can enjoy the rune's benefits without additional training.

Bloodline inheritance itself is not unusual.

Most demon beasts with bloodline inheritance can do similar things on an instinctive level, passing on their cultivation experience and physical characteristics to their offspring through bloodline.

However, the bloodline inheritance of demonic beasts is passive, vague, and uncontrollable. What is inherited, how much is inherited, and the precision of the inheritance all depend on the bloodline concentration, talent, and luck.

The unique feature of this technique is its active control.

It allows for precise selection of the inscription content, precise control of the inscription's structure and location, and precise determination of the amount and type of information to be passed down to future generations.

However, the medium for this technique is the dragon pattern.

Dragon runes operate based on the energy frequency of the dragon bloodline, making them suitable for the dragon physique. The bloodline structure of human cultivators differs fundamentally from that of dragons, preventing the direct embedding of dragon rune symbols into human bloodlines.

To use this technique, one must first transform the dragon pattern into a form compatible with human bloodlines.

Further translational research requires a deeper understanding of dragon patterns and a precise understanding of human bloodline structure.

Li Yuan compiled the complete decryption results into two copies, one of which was given to Lu Yang.

After Lu Yang finished reading it, his face showed undisguised satisfaction.

"Bloodline Inscription Technique," Lu Yang repeated softly.

The Lu family itself possesses dragon blood. This technique is far more valuable to the Lu family than to Li Yuan; they can use it directly without needing to convert it.

"Fellow Daoist Li, the results of this collaboration have far exceeded expectations."

Lu Yang got up and went to the inner room. A moment later, he took out a jade slip.

"This is an extra reward I've decided to give to you, fellow Daoist."

Li Yuan took the jade slip and probed it with his divine sense.

The Secret to Nourishing the Pulse.

A special technique for cultivating spiritual veins. Its core mechanism is to continuously infuse the target spiritual vein with spiritual energy at a specific frequency, guiding the spiritual energy circulation within the vein to accelerate its evolution, thereby gradually improving the quality of the spiritual vein.

The effect lasts for an extremely long time. It takes decades of continuous spellcasting to elevate a miniature spiritual vein from its lowest grade to the next level.

Fortunately, he was a Nascent Soul cultivator, which greatly reduced the time required.

Within a three-foot perception range, the words rippled.

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Touch the surface of the jade slip with your finger.

[Equipable item detected: Qi Nian Ling Jue (Spell Jade Slip)]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Pulse Source Cultivation (Green)]

[Effect: Permanently expands the perception range of spiritual veins by 50%; increases the absorption and conversion efficiency of spiritual vein resources by 20%]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Successfully upgrade the grade of a spiritual vein by one level using this spell]

"Thank you." Li Yuan put the jade slip into his personal microcosm.

After bidding farewell and leaving the Lu family's residence, the escape light flew over Baihe Prefecture.

A thought surfaced in his mind.

The portable miniature world contains spiritual fields and water bodies, with a slightly higher concentration of spiritual energy than the outside world. If spiritual veins are established within the miniature world and continuously nurtured using the Vein Nurturing Technique, the process of upgrading the quality of the spiritual veins can take place within the portable environment, unaffected by external interference, and without needing to be fixed in one place.

There are currently no spiritual veins within this small realm.

However, it is possible to obtain and transfer miniature spiritual veins from the outside.

The Loose Cultivator Alliance's contribution exchange point sells small spiritual veins; the price isn't cheap, but it's within an affordable range.

This plan is feasible.

The beam of light turned towards Liangzhou and flew towards Wulin Market.