Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 640 Spirit Pattern Valley

Deep in the mountains.

The beam of light slowed down after traveling through the continuous mountain peaks for about half a day.

The terrain ahead suddenly changed. The mountain walls on both sides narrowed inward, forming a long and narrow ravine about twenty zhang wide. A set of array spirit patterns were carved on the rock wall at the entrance of the ravine.

The array's celestial pivot is automatically analyzed.

A composite formation formed by a mid-grade third-tier warning formation and a spirit-gathering formation.

Li Yuan took out his token, passed through the warning array, and stepped into the valley.

The environment of Lingwenjian is completely different from the outside world.

The concentration of spiritual energy inside the valley is several times higher than that outside, so dense that it is almost visible. The spiritual energy is squeezed by the rock walls on both sides in the narrow space of the valley, unable to diffuse freely, and is forced to flow along the valley.

The directional flow of spiritual energy over the years has caused it to condense into natural patterns on the rock walls and the ground.

Spiritual runes.

The surface of the rock face is covered with dense, silvery-white patterns, which run in the same direction as the flow of spiritual energy, extending from the mouth of the ravine into its depths. The density of the patterns increases with depth, with the outermost ring of patterns being sparse and shallow, becoming denser and deeper as one goes in.

The presence of the spirit patterns created a natural suppressive effect on the spiritual energy within Run Valley.

For Nascent Soul cultivators, this suppression has almost no effect.

Li Yuan traveled deeper into the valley, simultaneously scanning the surrounding environment with his passive spatial perception of the Void Realm and the white permanent entry of spiritual vein detection.

The Void Realm Path maps the spatial structure within the valley into the sea of ​​consciousness in real time, making every rock wall depression, the direction of every underground river, and the location of every spiritual energy vortex clearly discernible.

Several abnormal points of spiritual energy fluctuations appeared within the perception range.

The first location is in a crack in the rock wall on the left side of the valley, about 300 zhang from the mouth of the valley.

Li Yuan walked to the crack.

Deep within the crevice, a cluster of translucent leaves peeks out from the rock wall. The leaves unfold in a fan shape, with extremely fine spiritual patterns naturally distributed on their surface. These patterns share the same origin as the natural spiritual patterns on the rock wall, but their frequencies differ slightly.

The leaves are covered with wispy patterns.

The roots of the leaves penetrate deep into the rock face, nourished by the spiritual energy within the spirit patterns. When harvesting, the roots must be peeled off along with the surrounding thin layer of rock; otherwise, the broken roots will cause the leaves to wither rapidly.

Li Yuan used micro-controlling spiritual techniques to condense an extremely thin blade of spiritual energy, and cut a shallow pit in the rock wall along the outer edge of the root system, removing the entire cluster of illusory patterned leaves along with the bedrock.

The first one, acquired through my personal little world.

Go deeper.

The second location is next to a waterlogged depression on the ground in the valley.

Green vein grass.

Harvesting the Jade Vein Grass is simpler than harvesting the Void Pattern Leaf; you can simply use spiritual power to pull the entire plant out of the soil.

The second plant, income from the portable mini-world.

Li Yuan continued his advance along the valley, collecting the two kinds of spiritual herbs one by one. The density of the Void-Patterned Leaf and the Jade Vein Grass in the valley was not low, but the spacing was far, with each pair of plants more than a hundred feet apart.

By the time the seventh plant was collected, the concentration of spiritual energy deep within the valley had reached an extremely high level. The density of spiritual patterns on the rock walls almost covered the entire visible rock surface, with layers upon layers of silvery-white patterns and dense distribution of spiritual energy vortices at the intersections of the patterns.

The permanent entry of the Demon Tracking Mirror detected the fluctuations in the aura ahead at this moment.

Third-tier superior-grade demonic beast.

The distance is about sixty zhang.

Li Yuan kept moving forward without stopping.

The valley narrowed sharply ahead, with the rock walls on both sides almost closing in, leaving only a passage about four zhang wide. In the very center of the passage, a serpentine monster was coiled on the ground.

It was about five zhang long, its entire body covered in grayish-white scales, the surface of which was covered with silvery-white patterns that were highly similar to the spiritual patterns on the rock walls. The snake's head was triangular, with pale silver vertical pupils, and it was half-asleep, its eyelids half-closed.

The serpentine beast sensed the approaching spiritual energy fluctuations.

Its vertical pupils snapped open, revealing Li Yuan's figure reflected in its silver eyes. The snake's body sprang up abruptly, opening its massive mouth filled with fine teeth, and a surge of rich spiritual energy erupted from its mouth, carrying with it the unique spiritual energy resonance waves of the Spirit Pattern Stream, sweeping towards Li Yuan.

Li Yuan raised his hand.

Space cutting technique.

A spatial rift shot out from the fingertip, silently slicing across the neck of the serpentine python. The rift's trajectory precisely avoided the location of the inner core in the snake's head, severing only the neck muscles and bones.

The python's attack was abruptly halted the moment the crack appeared. Its body continued to writhe instinctively, but its head had already separated from its torso and was falling from mid-air.

Immediately following, a golden blade technique pierced through the snake's head, loosening the inner core within its skull.

The entire process should not exceed three breaths.

Li Yuan stepped forward and took out the inner core from the snake's head.

The inner core is about the size of a thumb, grayish-white, with extremely fine silver-white patterns faintly visible on its surface, which are of the same origin as the spiritual patterns on the scales of the ravine-patterned python.

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

Green grade.

Touch the surface of the inner core with your finger.

[Equipable item detected: Refined Inner Core]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Vein Sensing (Green)]

[Effect: Increases sensitivity to spirit patterns by 50%; the more abundant the surrounding spiritual energy, the faster the spiritual energy circulates.]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Accumulate sixty days of cultivation in a place rich in spiritual energy]

The inner core and the corpse of the Stream-Patterned Python were stored in the portable miniature world.

Continue collecting data.

Near the area where the Stream-Patterned Python was entrenched, there were two clumps of Void-Patterned Leaves and a Green Vein Grass. After collecting them, the required quantity for the mission was complete.

Ten plants with variegated leaves and ten plants with green veins.

Li Yuan returned along the original path through the valley, passed through the dormant warning array, and left the Spirit Pattern Valley.

The light rose into the sky and turned northeast.

Next target. The spatial passage base leading to the Tianyuan Realm on the northeastern edge of the Mingyuan Domain.

The flight distance was much greater than that of the Spirit Pattern Gorge. The escape light advanced at full speed above the mountains and plains, passing several small cultivator settlements and two medium-sized markets along the way. The density of cultivator settlements in the Upper Realm was far greater than in the Lower Realm; people could be seen almost every few hundred miles.

About a day later, the terrain ahead changed from a series of mountain ranges to a vast, open wasteland filled with spiritual energy. The wasteland was barren, with exposed rock layers covered in fine cracks. The spiritual energy seeping from these cracks was extremely concentrated but highly unstable, fluctuating like the ebb and flow of the tides.

The passive perception of the Sky Domain Detection System detected anomalies in the spatial structure at the edge of the wasteland.

In the middle of the wilderness, a group of stone buildings stands on exposed rock strata.

The complex is not large; about a dozen stone chambers enclose a square courtyard, in the center of which stands a stone tower about three zhang (approximately 10 meters) high. A dark blue spatial rift floats atop the tower, its edges gleaming faintly, and the spatial structure fluctuates continuously around it.

Spatial passage.

A defensive array was set up around the courtyard. The array was of a grade of about the third rank and of high quality, and the spiritual energy circulation was functioning normally.

Li Yuan used the token to pass through the verification layer of the defensive formation and landed inside the courtyard.

A Mingyuan Sect disciple in the late Golden Core stage emerged from the stone chamber.

"Are you here to perform channel maintenance?"

"Yes." Li Yuan showed his mission token.

The disciple nodded after checking.

"The wear and tear on the passageway walls is concentrated in the middle section and at the exit. The recent increase in traffic frequency has accelerated the wear and tear. The materials are in the warehouse, and you can decide on the repair plan yourself."

The task handover is complete.

Li Yuan walked to the foot of the stone tower and looked up at the suspended spatial cracks.

The passive perception of the spatial domain maps the spatial structure of the passage into the sea of ​​consciousness in real time.

The overall framework of the passage is similar to that of the Tianyue Sect's, but it is larger in scale, has thicker walls, and experiences greater spatial pressure inside. The corresponding spiritual energy concentration in the lower realm is higher than in the realm where Li Yuan is located, resulting in a smaller difference in spiritual energy levels at both ends of the passage, and consequently, lower energy consumption to maintain it.

The distribution of wall damage is clearly presented in the sea of ​​consciousness.

There are three areas of concentrated micro-loss in the middle section, and a relatively deep stress crack at the exit end.

Li Yuan retrieved the repair materials from the base's warehouse and entered the passageway.

The first minor loss occurred. The Stabilizing Domain Talisman was attached in place, spiritual energy was injected, and the spatial structure of the area of ​​loss was re-anchored.

The second place. The third place.

After repairing the three minor damage points, Li Yuan turned his attention to the crack at the outlet.

This crack is far more serious than a micro-loss. The crack has reached the middle layer of the wall structure, and if it continues to propagate, it could cause localized collapse of the channel in that area.

Repairing cracks requires more delicate techniques.

Li Yuan used a spatial forbidden technique to lock the spatial structure around the crack, preventing it from expanding during the repair process. He then used a micro-controlling spiritual technique to fill the crack gaps with spatial attribute spiritual sand layer by layer. The spiritual sand fused with the wall structure upon contact, filling the missing spatial layers.

Finally, spatial cutting techniques are used to refine the crack edges, removing excess stress concentration points and allowing the stress distribution on the wall surface to become more uniform again.

The three spatial spells were used alternately during the repair process.

Repairs complete.

Li Yuan exited the passage and landed back in the courtyard.

The disciples from the outpost came to inspect.

"Fixed? So fast?"

The disciple scanned the passage wall with a spiritual detection tool, and after a moment looked up at Li Yuan with a hint of surprise on his face.

"The condition of the wall is much better than before the maintenance, and the crack at the outlet has been cleaned up very well."

"How much material was used?"

"Half a bag of spatial spirit sand, and four talismans," Li Yuan said.

After the disciple finished recording, he handed over the task confirmation slip.

"Task complete, contribution points will be credited to your account shortly."

Li Yuan carefully kept the receipt.

There were several empty stone chambers in the outpost for mission takers to rest temporarily. Li Yuan chose one of the innermost chambers and sat cross-legged on the stone platform, circulating the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique.

The spiritual energy from the upper realm surged into his body, and the nascent soul's spiritual power circulated rapidly under multiple enhancements.