Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 675 Transformation Techniques and Fire Technique Breakthrough

Cangxuan Realm, Xuanshi Market.

After cultivating for several days, Li Yuan left his temporary residence.

On the main street of the market, human cultivators and demon cultivators mingled together. The demon cultivators who had transformed into human form walked side by side, and occasionally one could see a demon cultivator who had only partially transformed, with scales showing behind his ears and a distinctive horn on his head. The surrounding cultivators did not react much when they saw him.

Li Yuan stopped in front of a martial arts shop.

The shop was small, with dozens of jade slips on the shelves, ranging in grade from first to third. The shopkeeper was a female cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage, with vertical pupils, slightly pointed ears, and demon blood.

"Is there a way to make demonic beasts take human form and gain intelligence in advance?" Li Yuan asked.

The shopkeeper looked up at Li Yuan, his expression unchanged.

"The Spirit Awakening and Transformation Technique? Yes."

She took out a jade slip from under the counter and a small cloth bag, placing them on the counter.

"The jade slip contains the complete cultivation technique, and the cloth bag contains the recipes for spiritual herbs and insights for auxiliary guidance. The whole set costs thirty low-grade spirit stones."

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Thirty low-grade spirit stones.

In the Cangxuan Realm, this price is practically a freebie.

"So cheap?"

The shopkeeper smiled.

"Almost every demon in the Cangxuan Realm knows how to do it; it's not some secret technique. It was expensive for a while, but as more demons learned it and it became ubiquitous, the price naturally dropped."

Li Yuan paid with spirit stones, took the jade slip and cloth bag, and probed into them with his divine sense.

The cultivation method of the Spirit Awakening and Transformation Technique unfolded in the sea of ​​consciousness.

This is a cultivation technique exclusive to demonic beasts. Its core principle is to stimulate the demonic beast's intelligence core with spiritual energy at a specific frequency, catalyzing its early awakening of intelligence. After awakening, the demonic beast can actively cultivate the transformation technique, without having to wait until the third stage to naturally awaken its intelligence.

The usage restrictions are also very clear.

A fully-developed, intelligent demon is needed to guide the process, using its own spiritual energy fluctuations as a template to help the target demon's core of intelligence achieve its first resonance. Once successful, the target demon can then cultivate on its own.

Once a second-tier demon beast gains intelligence, it can guide other demon beasts. First-tier demon beasts cannot do this; their intelligence core is not yet fully developed, and they can only passively accept guidance.

At the same time, not all first-tier demon beasts can successfully gain intelligence; in fact, only a minority can.

The elixir recipes and insights in the bag are merely for increasing the success rate of guidance; they are not particularly complex.

Li Yuan put the jade slip and cloth bag into his personal miniature world.

The short, stout palace mistress has received what she requested.

After leaving the martial arts shop, Li Yuan transformed into a beam of light and flew southeast.

About a day later, the shore of Biyuan Lake appeared in front of them.

The lake water remained a deep blue, with spiritual energy surging upwards from the lakebed. Several dragon cultivators moved about in the stone buildings on the shore, their auras carrying the familiar dragon bloodline.

Li Yuan landed on the outer edge of the lake shore, releasing a wisp of dragon blood energy.

A moment later, Liu Yuan emerged from the building. The old man's vertical pupils held a hint of surprise.

"Fellow Daoist Li has arrived."

"There are some things I'd like to discuss," Li Yuan said.

Liu Yuan nodded and led him into the main hall on the lake shore.

The two sat down at the stone table inside the hall.

Yuan got straight to the point, "The self-purification circulation of the bloodline in the Dragon Blood Condensation Technique is complete. I would like to ask the senior to take a look and see if there are any areas that can be adjusted during the mastery stage."

Liu Yuan did not ask any questions, but extended his right hand.

"Stretch out your hand."

Li Yuan extended his left arm. Liu Yuan pressed his fingertips against Li Yuan's wrist, and a wisp of divine sense probed into his veins.

About a quarter of an hour later, Liu Yuan withdrew his divine sense and remained silent for a few breaths.

"The self-purification cycle has indeed formed, and it's operating even more steadily than I expected." Liu Yuan looked at Li Yuan with a more scrutinizing gaze. "The concentration of the dragon bloodline in your body is already close to 35%."

He paused for a moment.

"We're just one step away from 40%."

Li Yuan's heart stirred.

Reverse Scale Armor. The condition for making the blue attribute permanent is that the concentration of dragon blood reaches 40%.

After the exchange, Li Yuan bid farewell and left Biyuan Lake, transforming into a beam of light and returning to the Eastern Region.

Cuiwei Market.

This is a newly opened market in the eastern region of the Cangxuan Realm. Although it is not as large as the Xuan Shi Market, it has an extremely complete range of spiritual herbs. The market is built in a valley densely populated with spiritual plants, and the surrounding hillsides are covered with all kinds of spiritual herbs. It is the largest distribution center for spiritual herbs in the eastern region.

Li Yuan scanned the shops along the main street of the market, making large-scale purchases.

Tier 3 spiritual herbs, Tier 2 ores, and several rare demon beast materials from the Upper Realm—each was purchased in dozens of portions. Prices in the Cangxuan Realm were only a fraction of those in the Upper Realm, a significant difference.

After finishing his shopping at Cuiwei Market, Li Yuan returned to Xuanshi Market to replenish the remaining varieties.

After buying the two markets, the spiritual materials in his personal space were piled up to the brim.

Back at their temporary lodgings, the stone gate was closed.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged and began circulating the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique and the Dark Abyss Demonic Essence Technique. During breaks in his cultivation, he also began circulating the Blazing Sun Bright Fire Technique.

Since its initial mastery, this third-tier fire-type spell has been slowly accumulating power. With the array core being refined, the spiritual veins being nourished, the bloodline spiritual patterns being networked, and the profound talismans being comprehended, several enhancements have been stacked together, making the condensation of fire-type spiritual power several times faster than cultivating it individually.

During the several days spent in the Cangxuan Realm, the Blazing Sun Bright Fire Technique was circulated for several hours each day.

The fire elemental energy condensation at the minor completion stage is extremely skillful, and the temperature, density, and release precision of the fireball are all approaching their limits.

One day during cultivation, after a cycle of spiritual energy, the condensation of fire-type spiritual energy finally crossed the critical threshold.

The way the condensation occurs changes accordingly.

Previously, fire-type spiritual power at the minor completion stage needed to be actively compressed when released. After the breakthrough, condensation almost became an inherent attribute of the spiritual power itself, and the fire-type spiritual power was already in a high-density state when flowing through the meridians.

The Blazing Sun and Bright Fire Technique has been mastered.

The moment it reached its peak, a commotion arose within the personal microcosm.

The jade slip containing the Blazing Sun and Bright Fire Technique trembled slightly.

The condition for making the Fire Technique Spirit Essence entry permanent is: mastering the third-tier Fire Technique.

The conditions are met.

The jade slip dissipated in the small world, and the blue light flowed through the boundary wall and into Li Yuan's body, spreading along the meridians to the fire-attribute spiritual energy channels throughout his body.

An image then flooded into his mind.

A cultivator stood on the edge of the volcano, his body surging with fire-elemental spiritual energy. He clasped his hands together, and a fist-sized, crimson-gold fireball condensed between them, its surface intricately interwoven with spiritual energy patterns.

A wealth of insights into the efficient condensation of fire-type spiritual energy and cross-attribute fusion flooded into my mind.

The Fire Technique's spiritual essence has been permanently completed.

The efficiency of fire-type spell energy gathering is permanently increased by 50%. The efficiency of fusing fire-type energy with other elemental energy types is permanently increased by 30%.

Li Yuan raised his hand and conjured a fireball.

The fireball formed at his fingertips nearly 50% faster than before he reached the Great Perfection stage, with higher spiritual energy density and more concentrated temperature.

Li Yuan then tried releasing fire-type and lightning-type spiritual power in parallel. The repulsion between the two spiritual powers at the point of intersection was significantly reduced, the fusion speed was faster, and the loss was much lower.

The control of the alchemical fire during alchemy also benefits. The better the temperature and stability of the alchemical fire, the more consistent the quality of the resulting pills.

Li Yuan withdrew his spiritual power and continued cultivating.