Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 685 Ten Stable Skies

Tianheng Domain, outside of Shattered Star Valley.

A streak of light swept in from the northeast and landed on the edge of the plateau, several miles outside the valley entrance.

Li Yuan withdrew his escape light, suppressed his Nascent Soul aura with stealth, disguised himself with an illusionary mask to change his appearance, and suppressed his cultivation to the late Golden Core stage.

The rift ahead still stretched across the earth, several miles wide, extending to the horizon. Countless fragments of space floated within the rift, their edges distorted and overlapping with the light and shadow.

The spatial structure within the valley, spanning several hundred feet, was reflected in the mind's eye. Compared to the last time, the surrounding space was much more active, and several cracks had noticeably lengthened, with two of them extending from the valley into the highland rock strata.

A beam of light descended from a hundred feet to the right of the valley entrance.

Li Yuan recognized the aura.

Liu Qingyang.

A disciple of the Tianheng Sect's inner sect, in the early Nascent Soul stage. Last time, in the middle level of Shattered Star Valley, Liu Qingyang's left arm was stuck in a spatial rift, and it was Li Yuan who saved him with a spatial confinement technique.

Liu Qingyang recognized Li Yuan and quickly stepped forward, cupping his hands in greeting, "Fellow Daoist has arrived again."

"Let's take a look around the vicinity of Shattered Star Valley," Li Yuan said.

Liu Qingyang frowned as he looked at the cracks around the valley entrance.

"Fellow Daoist, you've come at the right time. These cracks around the valley entrance have been expanding rapidly recently, and the sect is looking for a spatial talisman master to stabilize them."

The elders of Sitian Hengchong, who are skilled in talisman making, are all in seclusion and cannot provide assistance for the time being.

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He turned to look at Li Yuan.

"Your spatial confinement technique last time was stronger than many Nascent Soul cultivators. If you are willing to take on this task, the sect will provide compensation."

Li Yuan's gaze fell on the crack.

Every spatial rift on the outskirts of Shattered Star Valley is considered an unstable area. The permanent condition for stabilizing the Rune Domain is to successfully stabilize ten different areas; currently, five are under stabilization.

"Okay," Li Yuan said. "Are there a few areas that need stabilization?"

Liu Qingyang's face lit up with joy.

"There are two areas that need to be addressed, both of which are weak zones that are about to expand into large fissures. There are also several other areas nearby with abnormal fluctuations. If you have the capacity, it would be best to deal with them as well."

"Let's take a look first."

Liu Qingyang led the way, and the two walked along the outer edge of the valley entrance.

The first location is about two hundred zhang to the left of the valley entrance. A crack extends from the valley, penetrating the plateau's rock layers and revealing a fissure about ten zhang long. The space at the edge fluctuates violently and continues to expand in both directions.

Li Yuan crouched down and used his spatial teleportation technique to probe deep into the crack. Twenty feet below, a small opening had been torn in the spatial wall, and the surrounding stress was extremely high. If left untreated, it would expand into a large crack ten feet wide within a few months.

He took out a spatial stabilizing talisman and infused it with spiritual power.

A pale blue, stable field spread from the rune's surface, seeping deep into the cracks and covering the breach in the wall. The fluctuations were suppressed, and the expansion immediately stopped.

Li Yuan then used the spatial sensing array deployment method to carve a set of spirit pattern anchor points at each end of the crack, thus solidifying the stabilizing effect.

The first section is complete.

Progress on the stable airspace of the rune domain: six locations.

The second one is located further to the right of the valley entrance, about four hundred feet away. Here, the crack is shorter, the walls are thinner, and the frequency of spatial fluctuations is higher.

Li Yuan used the spatial stabilization talisman to suppress the fluctuations, and then inscribed the spiritual pattern anchor point to solidify it.

The second part is complete.

The progress of the stable airspace in the symbolic domain is at seven points.

After dealing with the two issues, Liu Qingyang led Li Yuan on a walk around the perimeter, and sure enough, there were still a few abnormalities.

The third location is on the plateau directly in front of the valley entrance. The spatial walls have not yet been broken open, but there is a thin band about a hundred feet in diameter, and the walls are covered with fine ripples.

The spatial stabilization rune was activated, and a stabilizing field covered the central area, causing the ripples to subside rapidly. With the spirit rune anchor point completed, the third one was finished.

Progress: 8 points.

The fourth one is deep to the left of the valley entrance, near a hidden crevice in the valley wall. The crevice is hidden in the rock strata and cannot be seen from the outside; it was the Void Realm's projection that revealed it.

Li Yuan allowed the spatial stabilizing talisman to seep into the dark cracks, and the fluctuations on the wall were quickly suppressed.

The fourth stage is complete.

Progress: Nine points.

The fifth location is on the right edge of the valley entrance, beneath a large rock. There is a thin crack on the wall at the bottom of the rock, only an inch long, but it is expanding rapidly and may tear open in a few more days.

The space stabilization symbol lit up, and the crack was sealed.

The fifth section is complete.

Progress on stable airspace in the rune domain: 10 locations.

The conditions are met.

Within the portable miniature world, the space stabilization talisman reacted.

The space stabilization symbol with the blue text dissipated within the small realm, transforming into a stream of blue light that flowed through the boundary wall into Li Yuan's body and spread along his meridians.

The images flooded into my mind.

A talisman master, holding a spatial stabilizing talisman, stood before the spatial rift and affixed the talisman to its edge. The frequency and angle of the spiritual energy injected were extremely fine, counteracting the fluctuations of the rift itself, resulting in a stabilizing effect far superior to ordinary methods.

The scene changes continuously.

High mountain crevices, deep sea narrow zones, underground fissures, the edge of the void. Wherever the talisman master went, he would adjust the frequency of his spiritual energy according to the local spatial fluctuations, and the angle and proportion would also be different for each place.

A wealth of insights into spatial stabilization spells flooded his mind. He learned how to stabilize rifts with less spiritual energy and how to leverage his understanding of spatial structures to increase his own spiritual power ceiling.

The image fades away.

The symbolic domain is now stable and permanently activated.

When casting spatial stabilization spells, spiritual energy consumption is permanently reduced by 20%. Spatial mastery can increase the maximum spiritual energy by up to 50%.

The next moment, the spiritual energy capacity within Li Yuan's body suddenly expanded.

With a minor mastery of Spatial Exploration, a proficiency in Spatial Cutting, a proficiency in Spatial Forbidden Techniques, and a proficiency in Spatial Searching, coupled with permanent spatial attributes such as Void Domain Profound Understanding, Void Containment, and Void Anchoring, Li Yuan's current spatial proficiency is already quite high among Nascent Soul cultivators.

These accumulated efforts, when converted into spiritual power, can increase the upper limit of spiritual power by about 30% to 40%.

The spiritual energy limit within the nascent soul, which was originally overflowing, suddenly increased significantly, leaving the newly added capacity empty and requiring time to fill it.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and sensed for a moment. When he opened them again, Liu Qingyang was standing several feet away, looking surprised.

"Fellow Daoist handled it extremely quickly," Liu Qingyang said. "All five cracks were stabilized in less than half a day. Your technique is no less than that of a sect elder."

"Just doing it on the spur of the moment," Li Yuan said.

Liu Qingyang didn't ask any further questions and took out a brocade box from his storage bag, handing it over.

"This is the reward from the sect, the standard payment for the two rifts. The other three were for your extra help, fellow Daoist, and I'll add another portion here."

As he spoke, he took out a storage bag from his sleeve.

"I gathered some spiritual materials in Shattered Star Valley, and I'll share half with you, fellow Daoist."

Li Yuan accepted the brocade box and storage bag.

The brocade box contained high-grade spirit stones and several spatial attribute ores, much more than the standard reward. The storage bag Liu Qingyang gave contained spatial spiritual materials, a specialty of Shattered Star Valley, ranging in grade from third to fourth.

"Thank you," Li Yuan said.

"You're too kind, fellow Daoist." Liu Qingyang cupped his hands in greeting. "I haven't repaid the life-saving grace I received from the middle level of Shattered Star Valley last time, so this little bit is nothing. If you need anything, feel free to come to Tianheng Sect to find me anytime."

After Liu Qingyang took his leave, Li Yuan put away his reward and turned his gaze to the mouth of Shattered Star Valley.

Since we're here, why not go inside?

Li Yuan concealed his aura and entered Shattered Star Valley as a rogue cultivator in the late Golden Core stage.

Space fragments drifted slowly to either side, cracks appearing and disappearing among them. This journey was indeed much easier than the last one.

After the Rune Domain Stabilization is made permanent, the spiritual power consumption of space-stabilizing spells is reduced by 20%. The Shattered Star and Condensed Light affix is ​​also active, increasing spatial perception by 20% when Stardust Spirit Wall is equipped.

When Li Yuan occasionally encountered debris and cracks blocking his path, he dealt with them using spatial forbidden techniques or spatial cutting techniques, resulting in significantly less damage than last time.

The space exploration technology was operating at full capacity.

The spatial structure inside Shattered Star Valley is extremely complex; every fragment, every crack, and every fluctuation in the wall is different. Such a high-pressure environment hones spatial perception far more effectively than training on flat ground.

The range of perception keeps expanding outwards.

When I left Shattered Star Valley last time, my Spatial Detection Technique had just reached the minor completion stage, with a range of about four or five hundred feet. Now, as I continue my journey, the range has increased to five hundred feet, five hundred and fifty feet, and finally to six hundred feet.

Six hundred feet away, the spatial structure between the fragments could still be clearly reflected in my mind's eye, and the wall folds and stress distribution were not blurred.

Li Yuan traveled through Shattered Star Valley for about two hours, memorizing the distribution of fragments and the direction of cracks along the way.

His spatial exploration skills have improved considerably, and his perception range has stabilized at over 600 zhang.

We're still some distance from achieving mastery, but the direction is clear. Visiting places like Shattered Star Valley more often will only accelerate our progress.

Li Yuan didn't venture too far. He circled the outer edge of the middle layer, activated the airspace anchor, and disappeared into the debris.

Mingyuan Domain, an independent space within the Rift Valley.

Li Yuan appeared out of thin air at the location.

He carefully collected the spiritual materials and stones, then transformed into a beam of light and flew towards Mingyuan Immortal City.

The cultivation continues.