Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 687 Time Gap Finishing Move

Time Rift Platform, deep within Shattered Star Valley.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged in the center of the rock platform, operating the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique and the Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Technique simultaneously.

After mastering the Spatial Exploration Technique, the spatial structure within an 800-zhang radius will automatically appear in one's sea of ​​consciousness without any deliberate manipulation. The drifting of fragments, the expansion of cracks, and the changes in stress within the walls are all much clearer than when the technique was only partially mastered.

The spiritual energy from the three spatial veins surged into his body from beneath the rock platform. With the flow rate three times faster than the Time Rift Platform, one day outside was equivalent to three days inside.

Li Yuan did not rush to advance other cultivation techniques, but instead focused his attention on the spatial cutting technique and the forbidden spatial technique.

Passive perception is like a mirror attached to the sea of ​​consciousness, clearly reflecting every spatial wall deep within the Shattered Star Valley. Where it is thick, where it is thin, where the stress is taut, nothing can be hidden.

This also reveals the problems with spatial cutting techniques.

Previously, during the mastery stage, most cutting was done by forcefully tearing with spiritual energy. If there was enough spiritual energy, it could naturally tear, but it consumed a lot of energy and the precision was poor.

Now that wall stress is a reality, the approach is different.

Li Yuan activated his spatial cutting technique, creating a silver-white crack three zhang ahead. As the crack passed, his passive senses immediately detected the changes in the wall. In some places, the stress was extremely low, and spiritual energy could cut through it with almost no effort; in other places, the stress was extremely high, and most of the spiritual energy was absorbed by the wall.

Previously, I couldn't see clearly, so I could only cut straight down.

Li Yuan recovered from the cracks and reformed.

This time, the crack no longer runs in a straight line, but bends slightly along the weakest point of the wall, extending along the line with the lowest stress.

The consumption of spiritual energy immediately decreased by more than 20%.

The crack edges are actually smoother, lacking the roughness of a hard cut.

Li Yuan tried dozens of times, changing the direction and wall thickness each time. The passive sensing provided information on stress changes, and the cutting path was adjusted accordingly.

Instead of forcibly cutting it open, cut along the thinner part of the blade.

This method can also be used for forbidden spatial techniques.

The restricted area at the minor completion stage is fifteen zhang, with an outer layer of suppression and an inner layer of solidified walls. However, even under the perception of eight hundred zhang, a considerable amount of spiritual energy still overflows at the junction of the restricted edge and the outside space.

Li Yuan adjusted the flow of spiritual energy, ensuring the edges of the confinement adhered to the wall structure. With less overflow, the energy consumption to maintain the same range also decreased.

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The accumulation of spatial cutting techniques deepened through high-frequency practice. Each cut followed the stress lines, and the foundation for mastering the later stages became increasingly solid.

The spatial forbidden technique will not break through to a higher level in the short term, but the edge precision and spiritual energy consumption are gradually improving.

When the cultivation reached the twentieth day in the outside world, sixty days had passed inside the platform.

On this day, Li Yuan was practicing the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique when he suddenly sensed something unusual.

It is not in the meridians, nor in the nascent soul, but at the edge of the spirit.

It was an extremely fine abrasive sensation, as if something was adhering to the outermost layer of the soul, slowly grinding it.

The last time Li Yuan cultivated on the Time Rift Platform, it took about fifteen days outside and forty-five days inside the platform. He had experienced the same feeling then. That time, Li Yuan quickly finished his cultivation and left the platform.

This time, it held out for five more days, but the erosion still came.

The permanent blue aura of the Divine Soul Iron Wall activated first, forming a protective barrier around the Divine Soul. The Clear Essence Condensation technique followed, ensuring a clear and undisturbed consciousness. The expansion of the Sea of ​​Consciousness and the spatial circulation after the Void Essence Solidification was permanent also provided a buffer for the Divine Soul.

With three layers of protection stacked on top of each other, the abrasion was blocked outside the barrier of the soul.

Li Yuan did not sit down again.

Liu Qingyang had mentioned that his senior brother had once secluded himself at the Time Rift Platform for over forty days, ultimately suffering damage to his soul. That person was also a Nascent Soul cultivator, but he didn't possess these permanent attributes. Even with Li Yuan's protection, there was no need to gamble with his soul.

Li Yuan finished his practice and stood up.

Before leaving the platform, he used the precision of his mastered spatial exploration technique to memorize the fluctuation characteristics of the three spatial spiritual veins beneath the time-slot platform into his sea of ​​consciousness. The frequency, flow rate, direction, and resonance patterns at their convergence were all kept as references for future array formations.

After doing all this, Li Yuan stepped off the edge of the rock platform.

The moment the toes left the gray-white rock surface, the flow of time returned to normal. The drifting of distant fragments suddenly accelerated, and the ripples at the edge of the crack returned to the outside level.

Deep within Shattered Star Valley, amidst clusters of fragments.

Instead of returning the way he came, Li Yuan flew towards the middle-eastern part of the layer.

Once the spatial exploration technique is mastered, the location of the fragments and the direction of the cracks within a range of 800 zhang will automatically appear in the sea of ​​consciousness, eliminating the need to search each place individually.

About an hour later, the spatial fluctuations ahead became more intense.

The area with dense fissures has been reached.

Dozens of cracks crisscrossed the fragments, some emerging from the edges, others suspended in mid-air. The surface was unstable, with new cracks occasionally tearing open and closing again.

Li Yuan slowed down and sensed the dense zone.

Six hundred feet away, a third-tier aura caught his attention.

It is about two zhang in size, lizard-shaped, and its translucent scales are covered with spatial patterns.

Rift lizard.

It belongs to the same category as the fourth-tier Rift Beasts killed previously, only smaller and with lower cultivation levels.

The Rift Lizard seemed to have noticed Li Yuan as well. Its vertical pupils shifted, its body shrank, and it turned and darted into the depths of the rift.

Li Yuan didn't rush to chase after him.

The third-tier Rift Lizard cannot escape the detection range of eight hundred feet. No matter how it turns, its trajectory is crystal clear.

Li Yuan slowed down and followed slowly behind.

The Rift Lizard weaved and twisted among the fragments, deliberately squeezing into the narrowest gaps, trying to conceal itself with the cracks and debris. But these concealments were of little use to Li Yuan's passive perception.

After following for about two hundred feet, an even larger fluctuation of spiritual energy was detected.

Initial stage of fourth order.

It was about five zhang in size, crouching in a depression at the confluence of the rifts. Its entire body was covered in grayish-white scales, the patterns on the scales were much more complex than those of the third-tier creature, and there was a faint spiritual light flowing through them.

The third-tier Rift Lizard was fleeing towards its companions.

Li Yuan stomped his foot, and his speed suddenly increased.

The beam of light passed through the fragments and arrived ten feet behind the third-tier Rift Lizard a few breaths later.

With a clenched right hand, a spatial forbidden technique was unleashed.

A fifteen-zhang (approximately 33 meters) restricted area precisely enveloped the Rift Lizard. The outer layer suppressed its movement, while the inner layer solidified and locked away its spiritual energy. The third-tier Rift Lizard didn't even have time to light up its scales before it was frozen in place.

The spatial cutting technique was then unleashed.

Silver-white cracks traced arcs along the thinnest part of the wall's surface, cutting into the gaps in the lizard's neck scales.

Once the crack entered, the spiritual energy channel was severed.

The third-tier Rift Lizard twitched twice before its life force dissipated.

From the moment the attack was launched to the moment the kill was achieved, it took less than three breaths.

Li Yuan withdrew the binding spell without lingering. Four hundred feet ahead, the early-stage fourth-tier Rift Lizard had already turned its head.

Its companion's breath ceased, and its gray-white vertical pupils fixed on Li Yuan, a low hiss escaping its throat. The spatial patterns on its scales suddenly lit up, drawing several surrounding cracks toward this side.

Li Yuan didn't stop, and rushed straight over.

The early-stage fourth-tier Rift Lizard opened its mouth and spat out three spatial wave blades, its tail whipping out and sweeping across with two fissures.

Li Yuan dodged the wave blade, activating the Dragon Scale Golden Body Technique to fully cover his scales. The blood-qi phantom scales, permanently formed from the reverse scale plates, floated on his body. The crack swept across his left arm, but the spatial cutting force was gradually neutralized by the force dissipation from the two layers of scales and the resonance of scale breath, leaving only a slight tremor.

The forbidden spatial technique descended.

The 150-zhang radius enveloped the Rift Lizard's entire body. Being at the early stage of the fourth rank, it was significantly stronger; the patterns on its scales lit up wildly, and the spatial spiritual energy and the binding force collided, producing a muffled hum.

The barrier wasn't broken, but it could only be slowed down by 70%.

The Demonic Entanglement Technique was immediately activated.

Eighteen dark purple binding ropes shot out from Li Yuan's fingertips, binding the Rift Lizard's limbs and torso, and tightening suddenly. The binding ropes and the restraints overlapped, and the Rift Lizard's movements slowed down completely.

Li Yuan conjured a spatial cutting technique with his right hand.

This time, instead of slashing horizontally, I followed the stress distribution of the scales reflected by my passive perception to pinpoint the weakest point at the junction of the neck and shoulder armor.

Silver-white cracks pierced in along the arc.

The spiritual energy consumption was nearly 30% lower than when dealing with similar fourth-tier rift beasts, and the precision was higher. The crack severed the main spiritual energy channel in the neck, and then cut horizontally by half an inch, severing the two adjacent auxiliary channels as well.

The Rift Lizard stiffened, and the spiritual light emanating from its markings faded.

It struggled for a few breaths, but its life force quickly faded, and it soon became still.

Li Yuan withdrew his spell, and the binding rope and the restriction dissipated together.

The massive body of the Rift Lizard lay fallen at the confluence of the rifts, the patterns that had just lit up still visible on its gray-white scales.

Li Yuan squatted down and began collecting materials from the two Rift Lizards.

The third-tier beast's scales were of average quality, but its spatial patterns were complete, making it suitable as auxiliary material for array formations. Its bones and tendons were also taken.

The materials of this fourth-tier beast are much better. Its scales are hard and dense, with faint traces of spatial spiritual energy within their patterns. Its bones are grayish-white, extremely heavy, and produce a metallic sound when struck. Its tendons are also very resilient, hardly deforming when stretched.

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After collecting the materials, Li Yuan got up to examine the indentation where the fourth-order Rift Lizard was crouching.

The depression, about three zhang in diameter, must be its nest. Scattered at the bottom were fragments of bones and remnants of spiritual materials, left behind after it had eaten.

Li Yuan walked around the edge of the nest.

As he walked to a corner near a gap in the fragments, his three-foot perception detected a very faint fluctuation.

White grade.

The fluctuation originated from deep within the crevice. Li Yuan brushed aside the surface debris and used micro-controlling spiritual techniques to draw out what was inside.

It was a small, translucent, silver-gray crystal about the size of a fingernail, with extremely fine spatial patterns on its surface.

Touch it with your fingertips.

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The shards of crystal scattered in the palm of his hand, and a stream of white light flowed into his body.

A very brief scene flashed through my mind. A cultivator was casting a spatial spell. When spiritual energy passed through the spatial attribute meridians, the original resistance was removed by a very thin lubricating field, making the flow a little faster and smoother.

The subtle insights into the smooth flow of spatial spiritual energy were integrated into my mind.

The image fades away.

The void space is slightly open, and permanent completion is achieved.

The resistance to the flow of spatial spiritual energy has decreased slightly.

The effect is small, but it's permanently accumulated. The same goes for the large number of white space-related attributes that have been accumulated before; they may not seem significant individually, but when stacked together, they become a real improvement.

Li Yuan withdrew his hand, his gaze sweeping over the densely packed area of ​​fissures.

The recent battle has validated the new approach to spatial cutting techniques. Cutting along the weakest points of stress reduced energy consumption by nearly 30% and significantly increased precision. Furthermore, with the spatial elemental flow now permanent, the spatial spiritual energy circulation is smoother, further advancing the mastery of later stages.

This area with its dense fissures is perfect for practicing.

Li Yuan did not leave and continued to travel through the dense zone.

Each time a crack is encountered, a spatial cutting technique is used to make a cut along the area of ​​weakest stress. Power is not the primary concern; precision and energy consumption are paramount. After each cut, passive perception immediately reflects the degree of alignment between the path and the wall's stress, allowing for adjustments to the next cut.

Spatial confinement techniques were also interspersed. Confinement spells were cast in the direction of the expanding crack, suppressing its momentum before being withdrawn, repeatedly grinding the edges of the confinement spells against the wall structure.

One cut after another, one ban after another.

The high-pressure environment in the middle layer of Shattered Star Valley amplified the deviations in each spellcasting. The accumulated mastery of the later stages of Spatial Slicing Technique also gradually increased.

We're one step closer to achieving a basic level of success.

Li Yuan traversed the dense rift zone for about half a day until his spiritual energy was nearly half depleted, at which point he stopped casting spells and instead used the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique to recover.

Deep within Shattered Star Valley, fragments drifted silently.

The cultivation continues.