Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 669 Treasure Hunt Amidst the Collapse of Realms

On the morning of the fifth day, the entrance opened.

In the open space in the center of the stronghold, a light curtain two zhang high suddenly split open, its edges rippling with silvery-white spatial waves. Inside the light curtain, everything was chaotic and its end could not be seen.

A late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator from the Tianheng Sect stood beside the light screen, as the light swept across the crowd.

"Pass holders, enter one by one."

"The teleportation point is random; once inside, everyone must rely on their own abilities."

The first Nascent Soul cultivator stepped into the light curtain, his figure instantly swallowed up. The second person followed closely behind, and the Golden Core cultivators hesitated for a moment before following one after another.

Li Yuan was in the middle of the line. When he walked to the light screen, his passive perception of the Void Realm had already reflected the spatial patterns inside into his sea of ​​consciousness. The teleportation array path split into dozens of paths within a very short distance, each leading to a different landing point.

Li Yuan stepped inside.

The spatial compression instantly enveloped the entire body, even more intense than the ascension passage, and the direction was chaotic. Pressure surged from all directions, as if trying to forcefully knead a person into a ball.

The red entry operated on its own, reducing most of the pressure outside Li Yuan's body.

Three breaths later, the pressure suddenly disappeared.

My feet were firmly planted on solid ground.

Li Yuan opened his eyes. There was no sky above him, only a gray-white void. The void was riddled with cracks, some as thin as a hair, others several feet wide. Silvery light seeped out from the cracks, like a shattered mirror hanging above.

The surrounding spiritual energy was extremely chaotic.

A vortex of spiritual energy swept past from the left, its concentration several times higher than that of the upper realm, only to be dispersed by the reverse vortex in the next instant, almost returning to zero.

With the Void Domain Profound Activation fully operational, the spatial structure within hundreds of feet around his mind was clearly displayed in his sea of ​​consciousness. He could see where the cracks were expanding, where the walls were about to break, and where it was temporarily safe.

Beneath Li Yuan's feet was a rock platform thirty feet square, suspended in mid-air, with loose stones constantly peeling off its edges and falling into the gray mist below.

More fragments of land floated in the distance, some as large as a hundred feet in circumference, with withered giant trees remaining on them, their gray-white trunks stuck in the broken soil like skeletons; others were only a few feet in circumference, just a bare rock, slowly rotating in the void.

These fragments are scattered in different distances, some close together, others drifting outwards, making the entire small world resemble a shattered continent, scattered throughout the collapsing space.

Li Yuan did not linger. He leaped up and stepped onto another floating rock platform. The Void Realm guided him to a safe path. Li Yuan moved among the fragments, avoiding spatial rifts with each step.

When the third fragment landed, the three-foot perception detected a fluctuation.

It's not a term, but the spiritual energy emanating from the spirit itself.

Within the rock strata on the surface of this fragment, several crystals are exposed, resembling natural spiritual materials formed by spatial compression.

Li Yuan squatted down and used micro-controlling spirit techniques to take out the crystals one by one.

There are more than ten pieces of Void Crystals, which are dark blue and semi-transparent, with fine spatial patterns inside, and their grades range from third to fourth.

There were dozens of Rift Stones, their gray-black ore bodies covered with spiderweb-like cracks, each crack containing a faint spatial force, mostly of the third order.

There are also several plants of the ethereal grass, with translucent stems and leaves, of good quality.

Li Yuan stored all these spiritual materials into his personal miniature world.

While counting the Void Crystals, the Three-Foot Perception detected another blue-text fluctuation. That Void Crystal was about the size of an egg, a low-grade fourth-order crystal, and its dark blue luster was heavier than the other crystals.

Li Yuan's fingertip touched the crystallized surface.

[Equipable item detected: Void Crystal]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Void Containment (Blue)]

[Effect: Permanently reduces the mana cost of spatial spells by 30%; reduces the mana cost of opening spatial passages and miniature spatial realms by 30%]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Cultivate for thirty days in a spatially chaotic environment]

Both effects are useful, and this collapsing little world is just right for permanentization.

Li Yuan stored the Void Crystal into his personal microcosm. His equipment slots were already full, so it didn't matter if he didn't equip it for the time being. The only requirement was to cultivate in a chaotic spatial environment.

After collecting this batch of spiritual materials, Li Yuan continued forward.

Kongyu Tongxuan quickly projected a huge floating landmass in the distance into his sea of ​​consciousness. The landmass was about several hundred feet in diameter, and although the edges were collapsing, the core area was still relatively intact.

Numerous traces of spiritual runes remain on the land surface.

The spirit patterns were already distorted and deformed, but some patterns could still be discerned from the remaining spiritual energy pathways.

The remnants of the formation.

Li Yuan quickened his pace and landed on the edge of the land after several leaps.

The rock strata beneath their feet were embedded with deformed array patterns. Their original course had been twisted beyond recognition by the collapse of space, with lines bent, broken, and overlapping, and spiritual energy surging erratically in the remaining loops.

The Array Dao Heavenly Pivot activated on its own, beginning a deep analysis.

In his sea of ​​consciousness, the deformed array patterns were peeled away layer by layer, and traces of the original array's structure were still visible. The array system of this small world was not the common layered nesting, but a different kind of system that Li Yuan had seen before.

Spiral progression.

The spiritual energy spreads outward from the center along a spiral path, with the density of spiritual energy increasing with each spiral.

This is based on the same array concept as the loop design on the Tongming array plate.

Li Yuan took out the Tongming Array Plate, a dark blue disc lying in his palm.

Li Yuan needs to put the Tongming Array Plate into his equipment slot.

With all five equipment slots filled, Li Yuan removed the Spirit Gathering Stone and replaced it with the Clarity Array Plate.

The "Array Core Condensation" entry immediately took effect.

At the same time, the deformed array patterns in the rock strata beneath their feet also reacted, with the residual spiritual energy oscillating along the twisted path at a frequency very similar to the spiral spiritual patterns on the array plate.

A resonance has emerged.

The broken spiritual patterns on the array plate were repaired by the remnants of the array beneath his feet through resonance. It was not the object itself that was repaired, but rather the design intent was reflected by the remnant array and gradually became clear in Li Yuan's sea of ​​consciousness.

The array's celestial pivot was operating at full capacity.

One set of information comes from the Tongming Array Plate, recording the complete design concept; the other set comes from the Xiaojie Remnant Array, recording its deformation and collapse under spatial compression. The two sets corroborate each other, and it is easy to see at a glance which nodes break first and which structures are more stable.

Li Yuan walked slowly along the land, stopping every now and then to compare the corresponding points of the array patterns under his feet with the array plate in his palm.

The accumulated knowledge of formations came in handy at this time.

The ruins before him revealed the deep workings of the fourth-order formation under extreme pressure.

The deformation of the spiral-progressive circuit is not random. Each break corresponds to a change in spiritual energy density; each bend points to the node in the circuit that bears the heaviest pressure.

Li Yuan walked around the entire land, and every deformed array pattern in the hundreds of feet in diameter of the remaining array area was analyzed and recorded by the Array Dao Heavenly Pivot.

Li Yuan finally stopped in the middle of the land and sat down cross-legged.

Fourth-order array formation, proficient.

From this moment on, Li Yuan was able to independently design complete fourth-order formations, and his understanding of the core structure of formations truly deepened.

Li Yuan opened his eyes and retrieved the Transparent Array Plate into his personal microcosm.

Another corner of the floating land beneath their feet collapsed, and rubble fell into the gray mist.

Li Yuan got up and headed deeper into the small world.