Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 689 Settling Accounts on the Way Home

The outer edge of Shattered Star Valley, on the edge of the plateau.

Li Yuan leaped out from the debris and landed on the rock strata several miles outside the crack.

Behind them, the rift in Shattered Star Valley still stretched across the earth, with countless fragments slowly drifting through the valley.

With the airspace anchor activated, and the power of space flashed, Li Yuan's figure disappeared from the plateau.

Mingyuan Domain, an independent space within the Rift Valley.

Li Yuan appeared out of thin air at the location. The stone walls on both sides isolated the outside spiritual energy fluctuations, and the rift valley remained quiet as usual.

He didn't rush to leave. He first sat cross-legged in the valley, opened his personal miniature world, and took out and counted what he had obtained from Shattered Star Valley.

The scales, bones, and tendons of a Tier 4 Rift Beast were obtained from the first kill. Similar materials were found in early Tier 4 Rift Lizards.

This was the second harvest. Adding the scales and bones of the third-tier Rift Lizard, the materials from the three spatial attribute monsters piled together were quite substantial.

There were also fragments of spatial minerals collected along the way, ranging from third to fourth order, most of which were incomplete.

Li Yuan sorted the materials, put them back into his personal microcosm, left the rift valley, and transformed into a beam of light to head towards Mingyuan Immortal City.

Mingyuan Immortal City, Southern District Spiritual Materials Shop.

Li Yuan concealed his aura with the Hidden and Unseen technique, then disguised himself with the Illusion Mask to change his appearance, and entered the shop wearing a gray robe of a rogue cultivator.

Behind the counter was an old cultivator in the late Golden Core stage. Li Yuan took out the scales and bones of a fourth-tier Rift Beast and placed them on the counter.

The shopkeeper took the scale armor, flipped it over, and his expression immediately changed.

"Fourth-order spatial attributes?"

"Um.

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The shopkeeper put down the scales and then picked up a bone to examine it closely. The grayish-white bone was extremely heavy, and it made a metallic sound when struck; the surface had complete spatial patterns.

"The quality is excellent." The shopkeeper's tone became much more serious. "Fourth-tier spatial attribute demonic beast materials—you might not see a batch like this in the market for half a year. What price are you asking for, fellow Daoist?"

"market price."

The shopkeeper quoted a price, which was 20% higher than Li Yuan had expected. Space attribute materials were already scarce, and fourth-tier materials were even more scarce and expensive.

The payment was settled on the spot with the spirit stones.

Li Yuan only provided half of the Rift Beast materials, keeping the rest for himself.

After leaving Mingyuan Immortal City, he changed his appearance and clothes and headed to Xuanyang City.

The spirit material shop in Xuan Yang City was larger, and the shopkeeper offered a higher price. All the scales and tendons of the fourth-tier Rift Lizard were bought, and even the materials of the third-tier Rift Lizard were taken.

After visiting the two immortal cities, the spirit stones in his storage bag had increased significantly.

Back at his residence in Mingyuan Immortal City, Li Yuan closed the stone door and sat cross-legged on the stone platform.

He didn't start practicing immediately; his attention was focused on the first item in the equipment menu.

Kaleidoscope

Since it was equipped, this bronze mirror has remained quietly in the equipment slot. Its effects include a 50% boost to spiritual energy, a qualitative leap in perception and information processing abilities, and the ability to automatically analyze spiritual energy fluctuations in the environment and record and replay them to aid in analysis.

The condition for permanentization is to analyze three battles at the Nascent Soul level or above.

Previously, Li Yuan hadn't intentionally triggered the analysis function. After the trip to Shattered Star Valley, he suddenly thought of something.

The All-Seeing Mirror has been passively recording everything.

The effects of items in the equipment slot remain active from the moment they are equipped. The Mirror of All Things' recording function also mostly captures spiritual energy fluctuations within its perception range during each battle.

Li Yuan probed the location of the Myriad Mirror in the equipment slot with his divine sense.

Sure enough, there was something in the mirror.

A large number of spiritual energy fluctuations were compressed and sealed within the mirror. Li Yuan triggered the analysis with his divine sense, and the records within the mirror unfolded.

The first record appears.

Middle level of Shattered Star Valley, fourth-tier Rift Beast.

The Myriad Mirror meticulously analyzed frame by frame the spiritual energy fluctuations caused by the Rift Beast manipulating spatial rifts during the battle. When the patterns on the Rift Beast's body lit up, spiritual energy flowed from its inner core into its meridians, then into the patterns on its scales, and was released from the ends of the patterns, resonating with the surrounding rifts. The frequency was relatively low when manipulating the rifts, but suddenly increased when releasing the wave blades.

The attack and defense nodes, changes in spiritual energy circuits, and the timing of frequency switching are all presented.

Analysis complete for battles at the Nascent Soul level and above. Progress 1.

The second record then surfaced.

Inside Shattered Star Valley, a fourth-tier early-stage Rift Lizard.

The Rift Lizard's spiritual energy circulation is of the same origin as the Rift Beast, but it is smaller in scale and switches frequencies more rapidly. It spews out spatial wave blades, pulls rifts to sweep across, and activates its scale armor defense; the three spiritual energy fluctuations are clearly dissected.

Analysis complete. Progress two.

The third record comes from an earlier period.

That was a record of a fight with a Nascent Soul cultivator. After the opponent's tracking mark was detected, he made his move. The frequency of his spell release, the flow of his spiritual energy, and the gaps in his attacks were all captured by the Myriad Manifestations Mirror.

Analysis complete. Progress three.

Progress of the "Retrospective of All Things" campaign: 3/3.

The conditions are met.

The first item in the equipment slot, the Mirror of All Things, has disappeared.

A stream of purple light surged forth from where it had dissipated, several times more intense than the stream of blue light, and flowed straight into the sea of ​​consciousness along the meridians.

The screen filled with images.

Countless fluctuations of spiritual energy converged into a torrent, weaving themselves into a multi-layered analytical network within the sea of ​​consciousness. The first layer captured frequency, the second categorized trends, the third measured intensity, and the fourth correlated and compared. Every wisp of spiritual energy fluctuation that fell into this network was dissected and analyzed.

Archive and label.

A cultivator stood in the center of the battlefield, surrounded by flying spells. He didn't need to deliberately stare in any direction; the spiritual energy frequency, source, and power level of each spell appeared in his mind in real time.

A wealth of insights into capturing, analyzing, recording, and replaying spiritual energy fluctuations flooded into my mind.

The image fades away.

The myriad phenomena have been traced back to their origins and permanently completed.

The divine soul is permanently enhanced by 50%. Perception and information processing abilities undergo a qualitative change. Divine sense automatically analyzes all spiritual energy fluctuations in the environment.

It can record and replay spiritual energy fluctuations to assist in formation analysis and battle review.

The next moment, his sea of ​​consciousness suddenly expanded.

The sea of ​​consciousness expanded outwards, its boundaries pushed ever higher, until the new capacity stabilized. The already ample sea of ​​consciousness reached a new level.

The maximum number of parallel lines of consciousness has also increased from twenty-four to thirty-six.

With all thirty-six spiritual lines operating simultaneously, the information processing capacity is 50% higher than before.

Li Yuan opened his eyes.

Every fluctuation of spiritual energy within the dwelling was reflected in the sea of ​​consciousness. The spiritual energy frequency in the spiritual patterns on the walls, the residual cultivation waves on the stone platform, and the trace spiritual energy drifting in the air all transformed into a stream of information and presented themselves.

Li Yuan uses the Na Ying Gui Yuan Method.

As soon as the spiritual energy circulation begins, the Myriad Manifestations Retrospection captures all the changes along the path. It provides real-time feedback on which meridian is moving slightly faster, which node experiences minor losses at a turn, and which section of the loop has uneven spiritual energy density.

Things that could only be roughly perceived through internal vision before are now clearly visible.

Cultivation efficiency will naturally increase.

Li Yuan finished his practice and took out a fourth-order pill furnace from his personal miniature world.

The alchemy furnace was placed next to the stone platform. Spiritual materials were put in, and the alchemical fire rose.

After the Fire Technique's spiritual essence is permanently imbued, the elixir fire becomes stable and precise, with no temperature fluctuations. The spiritual materials for the Returning Origin Nourishing Infant Pill melt evenly upon entering the furnace, resulting in smooth purification of the medicinal power and a seamless completion of the pill's extraction and finishing process.

The first batch yielded three exquisite pieces.

The second batch of Nurturing Infant and Condensing Essence Pills yielded two fine pills and one superior pill.

The third batch of Ningyuan Powder, all four pieces are of the finest quality.

The rate of high-quality products has remained stable at over 50%.

The Myriad Manifestations Retrospection technique is equally useful in alchemy. The changes in the medicinal power frequency after the spiritual materials are put into the furnace, the conflicts of spiritual power within the molten liquid, and the condensation points when the pill core is formed are all displayed in the sea of ​​consciousness in real time. Even the slight deviations that occasionally occur in the minor mastery stage of fourth-order alchemy can be immediately detected and adjusted.

For the next few days, the alchemy furnace burned day and night.

He refined Guiyuan Yangying Dan, Peiying Ningyuan Dan, and Ningyuan San in turn, occasionally interspersing a batch of Kongyuan Gushen Dan to change the feel of the process. After each batch of pills was produced, Li Yuan would use Wanxiang Huilan to replay the process, compare the changes in medicinal power of the previous batches, and find the points that could be adjusted.

The accumulation of knowledge at the minor mastery stage of fourth-order alchemy progressed rapidly under this feedback.

Several days later, the alchemy session came to an end.

Li Yuan put away the pill fire, sorted the pills and stored them in his personal microcosm, and then took out the storage stone.

The fifth slot in the equipment inventory has been empty since the Void Essence Strengthening Pill became permanent. The Spirit Array Returning to Origin attribute on the Nascent Soul Stone has a blue caption, which increases the efficiency of spiritual energy condensation and guidance by 50% and the cultivation speed by an additional 50%. The condition for permanentization is to cultivate a fourth-tier cultivation technique to the Great Perfection level. The Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique is currently at the Minor Perfection level, which has not yet been met.

Li Yuan placed the Na Yuan Stone into the fifth slot of his equipment inventory.

The entry is now in effect.

The efficiency of spiritual energy condensation and guidance is increased by 50%. Cultivation speed is increased by an additional 50%.

With the two bonuses stacked together—an additional 90% increase in cultivation speed from the Array Pivot Condensation skill, automatic cultivation and spiritual energy recovery from the Spirit Vein Nourishment skill, accelerated spiritual energy circulation from the Meridian Warming skill, and the effects of equipped but not yet permanent attributes such as Spirit Ore Nourishment, Infant Nourishment, and Infant Essence Condensation—daily cultivation speed increases once again.

Li Yuan tried the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Method once.

The speed at which spiritual energy flowed into the body increased significantly, and the degree of condensation in each cycle of spiritual energy also increased accordingly. The effect of the spiritual array drawing in external spiritual energy was very obvious.

After confirming, Li Yuan took out a high-grade spirit stone from his personal miniature world.

The extra cultivation speed of the blue permanent attribute of the array core has not yet reached its limit. It was about 90% complete before, having absorbed about 900 high-grade spirit stones.

Li Yuan infused the newly acquired high-grade spirit stones into his body in batches.

The spiritual energy within the spirit stones is drawn and channeled by the array's core, absorbed and transformed along the meridians. Each batch contains about ten stones, spaced a quarter of an hour apart.

After more than half a day, the spirit stones were completely absorbed.

The array core has absorbed approximately 960 high-grade spirit stones, increasing its cultivation speed by about 96%.

It is only about forty pieces away from the maximum of 100%.

Li Yuan carefully put away the remaining spirit stones and sat cross-legged back on the stone platform.

With the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique in operation and the spiritual array enhancing its power, spiritual energy continuously surged in. His cultivation speed had increased to a new level compared to before his trip to Shattered Star Valley.

Deep within the sea of ​​consciousness, the crimson light core continues to slowly release its primordial energy, nourishing the nascent soul and meridians.

The Myriad Manifestations Regression continues to operate, reflecting back every subtle change in the spiritual energy cycle.

The cultivation continues.