Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 653 Xuan Yang's Pursuit

Xuanyang City, city gate.

Li Yuan walked along the main street toward the city gate, his pace neither hurried nor slow.

The tracking markers on the back of the clothing adhered quietly, continuously releasing location signals.

The verification array at the city gate activates automatically as cultivators enter and exit. Entry verification checks identity and spirit stones, while exit verification focuses on different aspects, primarily checking for prohibited items and any unusual spiritual energy attached to the person.

Li Yuan entered the detection area of ​​the city gate formation.

The array's spiritual energy swept over his entire body.

About two breaths after the scan was completed, a pale yellow light shone on the stone pillars on both sides of the city gate.

Two guardians of the immortal city walked out from the inside of the city gate.

All of them were at the late Golden Core stage, wearing short armor in the standard uniform of the Xuan Yang City guards, and their expressions were calm.

"Fellow Daoist, please wait." The guard on the left stepped forward.

"The city gate formation detected abnormal spiritual energy attached to you, fellow Daoist, suspected to be a tracking marker."

"Do you need our assistance with the cleanup?" the guard on the right asked.

Li Yuan stopped and feigned surprise.

"Tracking markers? I didn't notice them. Could you two please help me clear them?"

The guard on the left nodded, raised his hand, and released a purifying spiritual energy that swept across the surface of Li Yuan's clothes on his back.

As the spiritual energy swept across the area where the mark was attached, the outer structure of the mark disintegrated under the effect of the purifying spiritual energy. Most of the aura anchor points attached deep within the fibers were peeled off, and the positioning signal suddenly weakened.

"Cleanup complete." The guard withdrew his spiritual energy. "Fellow Daoist, please be careful. If you notice anything unusual after leaving the city, please return immediately."

Thank you.

Li Yuan cupped his hands in greeting and walked out of the city gate.

After leaving the city, Li Yuan did not rush to take off. Instead, he walked along the stone path outside the city for about a hundred feet before using his keen spiritual senses to scan his back more thoroughly.

A very faint trace of breath remained at the marked location.

The guardian's purifying spiritual power cleared away the main structure of the mark, but there was an extremely subtle thread of energy embedded in the deepest layer of the clothing fibers beneath the mark applied by the late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

Although the positioning signal is extremely weak, it still exists.

The other party can still track me down.

Li Yuan did not linger; he transformed into a beam of light and left the stone path, flying southeast.

The flight path deliberately deviated from the route back to Mingyuan Immortal City.

After flying for about half an hour in the area where the hills and plains met, Li Yuan's senses detected the pursuers in the distance behind him.

It is about ten miles away.

The spiritual energy fluctuations of the late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator were suppressed as much as possible, but they were still clearly discernible under Li Yuan's keen spiritual perception and passive awareness of spiritual veins. The opponent's escape speed was not fast, and he always maintained a fixed distance from Li Yuan, as if waiting for the right opportunity.

Li Yuan chose a wide-open wasteland to stop.

The light of escape landed, and the figure stood motionless in the center of the wasteland.

Ten miles behind, the pursuer's speed of escape noticeably increased.

The other party seemed to realize that its prey had noticed something and decided not to wait any longer.

A few breaths later, a gray streak of light approached from behind, suddenly slowing down about thirty feet behind Li Yuan.

The light dissipated, revealing the figure of a middle-aged male cultivator.

Late Nascent Soul stage. His face was cold and stern, he wore a dark gray short robe, and two storage bags hung at his waist. The fluctuations of spiritual energy ceased to be concealed the moment he appeared; the aura of a late Nascent Soul stage cultivator pressed down on Li Yuan like a small mountain.

The other party didn't waste any words.

He raised his right hand, and a gray spiritual energy condensed into a chain-like shape, shooting towards Li Yuan. It was a grappling spell, aimed at restricting Li Yuan's movements.

The chains' spiritual energy moves extremely fast, covering an area of ​​about five zhang (approximately 10 meters), leaving very little room for the prey to dodge.

This attack was more than enough to deal with a rogue cultivator in the late stage of the Golden Core realm.

Li Yuan raised his hand.

Golden Blade Technique.

Golden light shot out from his fingertips, its surface wrapped in a layer of dark blue spatial ripples.

The blades met the gray chains in mid-air.

The spiritual energy of the chains was pierced the moment it came into contact with the spatial ripples. The added spatial attribute allowed the Golden Blade Technique to ignore the spiritual energy density of the chains, and the blade light pierced through the chain structure without any hindrance, continuing to shoot towards the middle-aged male cultivator.

The middle-aged male cultivator's pupils suddenly contracted.

He retreated rapidly, unleashing all his spiritual power as a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and condensed a spiritual energy shield in front of his chest with his right hand.

The Golden Blade Technique struck the surface of the spiritual energy shield.

The spatial ripples tore apart the shield's surface spiritual energy the moment they made contact, and the blade light pierced through the shield's interior. Although slowed down by the shield's deeper structure, it still penetrated most of the shield.

The middle-aged man retreated several feet, his expression changing drastically.

Without hesitation, he transformed into a gray streak of light, attempting to create distance.

Li Yuan took a step forward.

Forbidden spatial techniques.

A forbidden zone, approximately ten zhang in diameter, solidified around the middle-aged male cultivator. The purple passive enhancement from the Void Domain Profound made the solidification effect of the forbidden technique extremely stable, preventing even a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator from breaking free in a short time.

The middle-aged male cultivator's escape speed dropped by 80% in the forbidden area.

Li Yuan unleashed his second Golden Blade Technique.

Additional spatial attributes.

The blade pierced through the middle-aged male cultivator's spiritual energy shield, creating a spatial tear within his body.

The middle-aged male cultivator's figure fell out of the gray light, his aura rapidly weakening.

The third Golden Blade Technique.

It pierces through the throat.

The middle-aged male cultivator fell from mid-air and crashed into the rocky strata of the wasteland, his spiritual energy fluctuations completely dissipating.

The entire process should not exceed ten breaths.

Li Yuan stepped forward and took two storage bags from the corpse.

At the same time, several spiritual energy fluctuations were sensed approaching in this direction from afar. They were not moving fast, and their auras were similar to those of the Xuan Yang City guards.

Li Yuan did not linger.

He put the corpse and the two storage bags into his personal miniature world, then transformed into a beam of light and quickly left the scene, flying at full speed towards Mingyuan Immortal City.

About a day later, the light descended upon Mingyuan Immortal City.

The stone gate was closed.

Li Yuan took out the middle-aged male cultivator's storage bag from his personal miniature world.

The first storage bag contained spirit stones and daily necessities. There were approximately three hundred high-grade spirit stones, a small amount of third-tier spirit materials, and a communication token. The token did not bear any sect insignia, making it impossible to determine the person's affiliation.

He could be a rogue cultivator or an outsider to some powerful organization. Judging from his actions of secretly marking and stalking others within the Immortal City, he is most likely a repeat offender.

The second storage bag contained fewer items, but they were all exquisite magical artifacts.

A magical artifact caught Li Yuan's attention.

A dark gray round bead, about the size of a longan. The surface is smooth, with extremely fine, naturally distributed spiritual patterns, and spiritual energy slowly flows within it. It is a high-grade, third-tier magical artifact, its function being concealment.

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

Blue grade.

Touch the surface of the bead with your finger.

[Equipable item detected: Concealment Bead]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Anonymity (Blue)]

[Effect: Reduces spiritual energy fluctuations by 50% while in stealth mode; allows the user to actively leave tracking marks on others, with the mark's strength and concealment being positively correlated with the user's spiritual awareness.]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Successfully detected and removed tracking markers from five different sources]

While in stealth mode, spiritual energy fluctuations are reduced by 50%. When combined with the stealth effect of the blue fusion attribute "Vanity and Invisibility," stealth capabilities are significantly enhanced.

It can actively create tracking tags, which are extremely effective for tracking others.

The Concealed Origin Pearl is stored in a personal miniature world.

The other items in the storage bag showed no change in their attributes, and all the spirit stones and spirit materials were added to his reserves.

The communication token was not activated by Li Yuan and was directly destroyed.

Li Yuan used his micro-controlling spirit technique to completely remove the extremely fine threads of energy remaining on the back of his clothes.

Processing complete.

He sat cross-legged on the stone platform and began practicing the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Method.

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

The residence returned to quiet.