Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 683 The Fourth Trip to the Cangxuan Realm

After completing his cultivation, Li Yuan traveled to the Upper Realm through a spatial passage.

As soon as I arrived in the upper realm, a message came through the communication token.

Fang Zhi's voice came through: "Fellow Daoist Li, the schedule for the fourth Cangxuan Realm transport is almost up. Do you have time? We have a few more people on the purchasing team, and the new list has been compiled."

"I have time." Li Yuan withdrew his spiritual power. "Send me the list, and I'll prepare the goods in advance."

"Okay, it will be delivered shortly."

Half a day later, Fang Zhi sent someone to deliver a jade slip.

Li Yuan probed with his divine sense, and the purchasing list unfolded in his sea of ​​consciousness. The usual items from the original six Cangxuan Realm cultivators were all there, and the requests from the three new clients were listed at the end, including several spiritual materials that he hadn't encountered before.

Nine clients, and the number of spiritual materials expanded from seven categories to twelve.

Li Yuan checked the list. There were only three types of materials that really required effort from the Upper Realm's spiritual material shop. These were ores that were rare in the Cangxuan Realm but mass-produced in the Upper Realm. The rest were mostly common spiritual materials that could be found in both realms.

Over the next two days, Li Yuan prepared all the supplies for the purchase and also took out a batch of low-priced spiritual materials from his personal miniature world, intending to take them to the Cangxuan Realm to sell.

Day 3, Shattered Void Wasteland Outpost.

Fang Zhi was already waiting in the courtyard, handing over the storage bag and a list of supplies as usual. Li Yuan checked them and, finding them correct, turned and stepped into the spatial passage.

A deep blue light surged up, and spatial pressure squeezed in from all directions. The red text activated on its own, reducing the pressure by more than half, so that it almost didn't fall on Li Yuan.

After traveling for about half an hour, Li Yuan took out a space stabilizing talisman from his personal miniature world.

As spiritual energy was injected, the talisman lit up. A pale blue stabilizing field covered the walls of the passage, suppressing the spatial fluctuations within a three-zhang radius, and the tremors of the walls quickly subsided.

Half an hour later, the talisman's spiritual power was exhausted, and the reinforcing layer dissipated.

The Cangxuan Realm spatial passage belongs to an unstable spatial region.

Progress on the "Stable Void in Symbol Domain" entry: five places.

About two hours later, Li Yuan emerged from the passage and arrived at the Cangxuan Realm. The guard in the underground stone chamber verified his token and allowed him to leave.

Li Yuan first went to the Lingyuan Chamber of Commerce branch to deliver the supplies, and the spirit stone payment was settled on the spot. Afterwards, he rushed to the Xuanshi Market.

The main street of the market was bustling with people, with demon cultivators in human form mingling together. Occasionally, one could see those who had only partially transformed, with scales behind their ears and horns on their heads.

Zhou Yuanlang waited at the usual spot, with two unfamiliar faces standing beside him, both of whom were at the Golden Core stage.

"Fellow Daoist Li," Zhou Yuanlang cupped his hands, "these two are newly commissioned clients, independent cultivators from Xuan Shi Fang City, who wish to establish a long-term partnership with you."

The two rogue cultivators also exchanged greetings.

Li Yuan nodded, took out the supplies he had purchased from his personal miniature world, and handed them over to each of the nine people according to their lists. The spirit stones were still paid at two to three times the agreed market price in the upper realm. After the nine people finished paying, the amount was significantly higher than the previous three trips.

Zhou Yuanlang then handed over a new bamboo booklet.

"Additional list: five more spiritual materials, not overlapping with the previous list."

Li Yuan glanced at it and put it into his storage bag. Three other customers also added new items, further expanding the scale of the purchasing agency.

After the transaction was completed, Li Yuan took a stroll around the main street of Xuan Shi Fang City.

Li Yuan stopped in front of the cultivation technique shop. The jade slip for the Awakening Spirit Transformation Technique was displayed prominently, still priced at thirty low-grade spirit stones. The two shops next door also had similar techniques at similar prices.

Almost every demon in the Cangxuan Realm knows this technique, and it's everywhere, so the price naturally won't go up.

The method that was given to the short, stout palace master was indeed just a general technique.

Li Yuan didn't linger and headed to Cuiwei Market.

The Cuiwei Market has a more complete selection of spiritual herbs. Li Yuan strolled along the main street of the market, browsing through each shop. He bought thousands of third-tier spiritual herbs, carried away boxes of second-tier ores, and only selected the best quality demon beast materials. In particular, several kinds of spiritual herbs that were special to the Cangxuan Realm were always out of stock in the spiritual material shops of the Upper Realm, with price differences reaching more than ten times.

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

After buying the two markets, the spiritual materials in my personal space were piled up in a thick layer.

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

Li Yuan sat cross-legged on the stone platform, circulating the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique and the Dark Abyss Demonic Essence Technique. During breaks in cultivation, the Dragon Blood Condensing Soul Technique also circulated.

With the permanent blessing of the Dragon Vein Essence Condensation attribute, the cultivation efficiency of Dragon Clan bloodline techniques increased by 50%, and the purity of Dragon Clan spiritual energy within the bloodline increased by 20%. When applied to the Dragon Blood Soul Condensation Technique, progress was significantly faster than ordinary cultivation.

Since reaching the mastery stage, the Dragon Blood Condensation Technique has switched to a passive self-purification cycle. The dragon blood energy in the bloodline is sieved round after round, and with each cycle, tiny impurities are removed.

The fewer impurities, the harder it is to remove. The 50% efficiency boost from the Jiao Mai Condensation Essence makes up for this gap.

During the several days he stayed in the Cangxuan Realm, he never stopped practicing the Dragon Blood Condensing Soul Technique.

On the third day, during a cultivation session, after completing one cycle of self-purification, Li Yuan noticed a change deep within his bloodline.

Impurities no longer flake off in strands, but rather peel off like a very thin gray film from the blood vessel wall and are washed away by the blood flow. After the gray film dissipates, the blood and qi flow more smoothly.

The self-purification cycle is no longer just about removing impurities; the empty spaces left behind are quickly filled with purer dragon blood energy, which in turn drives the next round of self-purification.

Dragon Blood Soul Condensation Technique, Minor Success.

The self-purification and feedback cycle in the minor stage is running at full capacity, and the dragon's spiritual power after the Dragon Transformation Technique is mastered permeates from the bone marrow to the whole body.

The Dragon Transformation Technique outputs the dragon race's spiritual power, while the Dragon Blood Condensation Technique purifies the blood energy; the two techniques are linked together to form a closed loop.

The purity of the dragon blood energy within his body continued to rise.

Several more days passed.

One morning, as Li Yuan finished his practice, he felt a slight tremor within his body.

It is not the meridians, nor the physical body, but deep within the blood vessels.

The dragon's blood energy in the blood vessels throughout the body emitted a dark blue light, which seeped out from the blood vessel walls, spread along the muscle fibers, and finally gathered into a light blue mist on the skin surface.

The thin mist lasted only a few breaths before dissipating.

Li Yuan, however, clearly sensed the change in that instant.

Dragon bloodline concentration: 40%.

Almost simultaneously, a commotion arose within the personal miniature world.

Reverse scales.

Permanentization condition: Dragon bloodline concentration reaches 40%.

The conditions are met.

The reverse scales dissipated within his personal microcosm, and a stream of blue light passed through the boundary wall, surging into Li Yuan's body and spreading along his blood vessels to the scale structure throughout his body.

The images flooded into my mind.

A dragon coiled at the bottom of a deep pool, its massive body covered in dark blue scales. It was molting, old scales falling off one by one, dark blue blood beads seeping from the veins at the base, and new scales pushing out from the tender flesh, thin as paper at first, but quickly becoming thick and hard as they were soaked in blood.

Between the old and the new, the scales and the blood vibrate in unison.

A huge boulder fell from the cave ceiling and struck the dragon's back. At the moment of impact, its scales automatically drew in the surrounding blood energy, condensing into a thin yet resilient buffer layer on the outside, dissipating the force layer by layer. The boulder bounced away, leaving not even a mark on the scales.

A wealth of insights into the defensive capabilities of dragon scales and the synergy between blood and qi flooded his mind. He learned how to mobilize blood and qi as a buffer when attacked, how to make blood and qi flow across the scales to form a protective layer, and how to make new scales harden more quickly after shedding.

The image fades away.

Reverse scales, permanent transformation complete.

Physical defense is permanently increased by 30%. When the dragon's blood energy is released, it can form illusory scales.

A semi-transparent, dark blue-green scale-like phantom then appeared on its body surface.

The illusory image was extremely thin, clinging to the skin and covering the entire body. Its patterns were exactly the same as the physical scales of a fully mastered Dragon Scale Golden Body Technique, but it was formed from the blood and qi of a dragon.

The physical scales block physical impacts and spiritual attacks, while the phantom scales use blood energy to buffer and deflect the force. With the two layers stacked together, plus the enhanced demon disguise effect from the previous permanent "Reverse Scale Transformation" attribute, the defense becomes even thicker.

Li Yuan withdrew his blood energy, and the illusory image disappeared. It doesn't affect his appearance under normal circumstances, but only becomes visible when he actively releases it.

After closing his eyes and sensing for a moment, Li Yuan clenched his fist and then relaxed it.

His physical defenses are now significantly stronger than before he became permanent. With solid scales, blood-qi phantom scales, the aura of scale resonance dissipating force, the hardening of his iron-forged skin, and the negative resistance of his mineral-armored body, his physical body is now quite robust.

Li Yuan got up and put away his cultivation items.

The procurement and purchasing on behalf of others in Cangxuan Realm have been completed, the Dragon Blood Condensation Technique has achieved minor success, and the Reverse Scale Armor has been permanently made permanent.

It's time to go back.

Li Yuan left his temporary residence and flew towards the entrance of the Cangxuan Realm spatial passage.