Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 648 Chamber of Commerce Access

After completing the cultivation practice, the communication token lit up.

Fang Zhi.

"Fellow Daoist Li, the first transport mission has been scheduled. It will depart in three days, taking the route through the Merchant Guild's own channels, with the destination being the Cangxuan Realm. I've had the supplies list and route instructions delivered to your residence; please take a look."

"Okay," Li Yuan replied.

Half an hour later, a Golden Core stage employee from the Lingyuan Chamber of Commerce delivered a storage bag to the door of the residence.

There were two items in the storage bag: a jade slip with a route map of the spiritual energy seal and a bamboo book listing supplies.

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

The roadmap unfolded within my consciousness.

The entrance to the Chamber of Commerce's private spatial passage is located in the southern part of the Mingyuan Domain, in an area called the Shattered Void Wasteland. The marked distance is approximately one and a half days' journey southwest of Mingyuan Immortal City.

The lower realm that the passage connects to is called the Azure Profound Realm.

The jade slip contained basic information about the Cangxuan Realm: its spiritual energy concentration was about 60% of that of the Tianyuan Realm, and it was renowned for its underground mineral resources. The continent's overall terrain was low-lying, with few mountains, but its underground mineral deposits were extremely developed, yielding a rich variety of minerals. The Chamber of Commerce had a branch in the Cangxuan Realm, located in the largest market town.

The bamboo inventory list contains the names and quantities of more than thirty kinds of spiritual materials and ores. Each item is accompanied by a purchase budget price and a buyback price from the upper realm.

Li Yuan glanced at the price difference.

The downstream purchase price is approximately 20% to 30% of the upstream buyback price. The Chamber of Commerce purchases the goods transported back at 60% of the upstream market price.

The profit margin is enormous with each transaction.

However, there is a line at the end of the list: The Chamber of Commerce will bear the costs of each use of the channel, and transporters must prioritize filling the supply list. The Chamber of Commerce will not interfere with any additional purchases not listed, and transporters may handle them at their own discretion.

Each passage through the spatial passage incurs a cost. Frequent passage will cause the spatial passage to disappear prematurely, thus incurring corresponding costs.

The Chamber of Commerce bears the channel operation costs, and the transporter is responsible for transporting the designated materials on the lower boundary's procurement list back to the upper boundary.

The inventory list and route map are portable.

Li Yuan then went to the contribution exchange area.

Activate the wall list with the token and scan through the fourth-tier pill formula catalog one by one.

Li Yuan's gaze lingered on one of them.

Guiyuan Nourishing Infant Pill. Fourth-tier, low-grade. Efficacy: Nourishes the nascent soul, slowly improving the quality of its spiritual energy and eliminating impurities accumulated during cultivation. Suitable for daily use by cultivators in the early to mid-stages of the nascent soul realm.

I've accumulated quite a few contribution points. I've already purchased the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique with spirit stones, so I don't need to exchange contribution points for another technique. I currently have a sufficient number of contribution points.

exchange.

Contribution points deducted, elixir recipe jade slip obtained.

He probed with his divine sense and fully digested the formula of the Guiyuan Nourishing Infant Pill.

With the current level of alchemy, the core difficulty lies not in understanding the compatibility of ingredients, but in the precise control of fourth-order spiritual power in practice.

Li Yuan carefully put away the jade slip containing the elixir formula, then transformed into a beam of light and returned to his residence.

Three days later.

The message token lit up again.

"Fellow Daoist Li, departure time confirmed. Meet at the Shattered Void Wasteland stronghold tomorrow at noon."

The following day at noon.

The beam of light advanced at full speed from Mingyuan Immortal City in a southwest direction.

The terrain along the way transitions from mountains to hills, and then from hills to plains. About a day and a half later, numerous cracks and exposed grayish-white rock layers began to appear on the ground, and the vegetation disappeared completely.

Shattered Wasteland.

Deep in the wilderness, a group of stone buildings stands on exposed rock strata.

The defensive formations surrounding the stronghold are also of a higher grade, approximately fourth-tier low-grade.

Li Yuan landed in the stronghold's courtyard.

Fang Zhi was among them, with two Mingyuan Sect disciples standing beside him.

"The passage is ready; fellow Daoist, you may enter directly."

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Li Yuan walked to the bottom of the stone pagoda.

A deep blue spatial rift floated overhead, and the spatial fluctuations at its edges were clearly visible in the passive perception of the Void Realm.

The spatial structure of the passage is more refined and stable than that of the one in the northeast of Mingyuan Sect, and the thickness of the walls is more uniform. It is a commercial passage specially maintained by the Chamber of Commerce.

Li Yuan stepped into the passage.

About two hours later, a light curtain appeared at the end of the passage.

Passing through the light curtain.

Cangxuan Realm.

The concentration of spiritual energy plummeted from its abundance in the upper realm.

It is much thinner than the upper limit, but still considerable.

The exit of the passage is located in an underground stone chamber. The chamber is about ten zhang square, with stable arrays set up on its four walls, ensuring smooth circulation of spiritual energy. Above the chamber, a sloping passage leads to the ground.

Upon seeing Li Yuan appear, the cultivators nearby hurriedly inquired.

Li Yuan handed the token to the cultivator, who glanced at it twice and then returned it.

Li Yuan then walked out along the passage.

The Lingyuan Chamber of Commerce's branch in the Cangxuan Realm was located in a market town not far from the spatial passage. The market town was roughly the same size as the Misty Forest Market Town, with buildings mainly made of stone and a rugged, practical style.

Li Yuan entered the market.

The Chamber of Commerce branch is located in the middle of the main street of Fangshi, and has a wide storefront.

The necessary items from the upper realm, contained in the storage bag, were handed over to the branch manager, who then verified and signed for receipt.

The deacon nodded and handed over a map showing the distribution of mineral supplies in the local market.

"The Cangxuan Realm has a wide variety of minerals. The three ore shops and two spirit material shops in the market are all partners of the Chamber of Commerce, and their prices are 10% to 20% lower than those of individual vendors."

Li Yuan took the distribution map, left the branch, and walked along the main street of the market towards the ore shop.

The cultivators in the Cangxuan Realm Market are mainly Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Golden Core cultivators are extremely rare.

The first ore shop.

The shelves were filled with various mineral samples, far exceeding the variety found in Tianyuan Realm and Mingyuan Immortal City.

Li Yuan walked slowly along the shelves, passively scanning the area within a three-foot sensing range.

When I walked to the display area of ​​a row of third-tier ores deep inside the shelf, I detected a fluctuation within my perception range.

Blue grade.

The fluctuation originated from a dark gray ore located in the middle of the third row of shelves.

Condensed Gang Profound Iron, a mid-grade third-tier mineral, is produced from deep mineral veins in the western part of the Cangxuan Realm.

"What's the price of this piece of Condensed Qi Profound Iron?"

The shopkeeper was a burly male cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage, with dark skin.

"Condensed Qi Profound Iron, 300 low-grade spirit stones. If you buy more, I can give you a discount."

"I want this one first."

Spirit Stone Payment. Touch the surface of the ore with your finger.

[Equipable item detected: Condensed罡玄铁]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Iron Body (Blue)]

[Effect: Increases the efficiency of body tempering techniques by 50%; skin automatically hardens when subjected to physical attacks]

[Preview of conditions for permanentization: 100 days of high-intensity, continuous physical tempering using body-refining techniques]

The body-refining techniques have increased their tempering efficiency by 50%. The Thunderous Bone Refining Technique, Dragon Scale Golden Body Technique, and Dragon Transformation Technique are being practiced simultaneously, and the 100-day tempering period is not considered long given the current intensity of cultivation.

Mineral income is a small world you can follow.

He continued purchasing the minerals on his supply list from the shop. The area containing the Condensed Abyssal Iron also had a large quantity of similar ores, of uniform quality and low price. Li Yuan purchased them in bulk according to the quantities on the list and added them to his portable world.

Leave the first ore shop and head to the other shops.

More than 30 kinds of minerals on the Chamber of Commerce's material list were purchased one by one.

Afterwards, Li Yuan took out the list of spiritual materials for the Guiyuan Nourishing Infant Pill that he had prepared in advance and checked them item by item at the spiritual material shops in the market.

The Cangxuan Realm is not known for its elixirs and spiritual herbs, but its mineral veins are rich in spiritual energy. Some of the spiritual herbs that grow on the edge of the mineral veins are of a strong nature, which can replace some of the auxiliary ingredients in the Guiyuan Nourishing Infant Pill.

One of the three main ingredients was extremely cheap in the market, costing less than 30% of the price in the Upper Realm. Since suitable quality of the other two main ingredients couldn't be found, Li Yuan didn't insist. He simply purchased several batches of auxiliary ingredients and a batch of substitute spiritual materials at market prices.

In addition to the list, he used his remaining spirit stones to purchase a large quantity of third-tier ores and spiritual materials for his own use. The price of minerals in the Cangxuan Realm is extremely low; the same amount of spirit stones could only buy one-third of the quantity in the Upper Realm.

Most of the spirit stones have been used up.

Purchase completed.

During this time, Li Yuan also obtained an entry. He took out a palm-sized, dark brown rock and placed it separately in the small realm, along with other items that had entries.

[Equipable item detected: Basalt Armor]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Mineral Armor Condensed Body (Green)]

[Effect: Permanently increases physical defense by 20% and resistance to negative effects by 30%]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Accumulate twenty days of training in the mineral vein environment]

Li Yuan did not linger in the Cangxuan Realm.

Return to the underground stone chamber along the passage and step into the spatial passage.

Space pressure surged again.

The red entries operate passively and are unnoticed.

Two hours later, they emerged from the passage and returned to their stronghold in the Shattered Void Wasteland.