Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 699 Minor Success in Slicing, Spiritual Vein Resonance

After the Rift Edge became permanent, the flow of spiritual energy was much smoother each time the Space Cutting Technique was cast.

Li Yuan remained in the densely fissured zone of the middle layer of Shattered Star Valley to continue polishing.

With a single slash, spiritual energy materialized into an invisible blade, cutting into the thinnest part of the wall's surface. The crack extended along the predetermined path, its cross-section smooth and its energy consumption stable. The blade was sheathed, the position shifted, a new crack was created, and the attempt repeated.

With mastery of the later stages of accumulation, progress was rapid under high pressure and the support of permanent attributes. The precision of each cut increased, and the time to find weak points became shorter and shorter. Initially, spatial detection techniques were needed to assist in positioning, but later, one could feel the stress distribution simply by relying on spiritual touch.

I don't know how many times I've handed over the knife.

Li Yuan aimed his cutting technique at the wall of a new crack, and the moment the spiritual energy blade touched the wall, he didn't deliberately look for a weak point.

The blade's edge curved slightly, extending along the path of least stress on the wall. It wasn't Li Yuan guiding it; rather, the spiritual energy itself chose the most effortless direction, like water flowing downhill.

The cracks spread out, and the cross-section was smoother than any previous cut, with less material consumption.

【breakthrough】

[Spatial Cutting Technique, Minor Success]

This breakthrough didn't have the dramatic impact of a sudden enlightenment; it was more like accumulating enough power to naturally overcome that hurdle. When mastering a skill, one must actively seek out weaknesses and guide the direction of the blade's trajectory. After achieving a minor level of mastery, this step has already penetrated into the very essence of spiritual power itself.

Li Yuan sheathed his sword and then slashed at the cracked wall in front of him.

With this strike, he deliberately chose the area with the strongest stress. After the spiritual energy blade touched the wall, it did not cut directly, but bypassed the hardest part, found a weak path from the side, and cut in from a roundabout way, eventually separating the entire wall.

Besides cutting it open, it has other uses as well.

Li Yuan looked at a fist-sized piece of spatial ore on the ground. The surface of the ore was covered with a thin layer of spatial spiritual energy membrane, which had been soaked in the fissure environment for many years.

The spatial cutting technique descended.

The blade glided along the surface of the ore, completely peeling away the spiritual energy membrane, leaving the ore itself unharmed.

Once mastered, the Spatial Severing Technique can not only cut, but also peel away the thin layer of protective spiritual energy on the target's outer layer without harming the main body. In actual combat, this allows one to first weaken the opponent's protective spiritual energy before delivering the fatal blow.

Li Yuan put away the ore and turned towards the deeper, northerly part of Shattered Star Valley.

Abandoned observation station.

When Li Yuan came last time, he used the Spatial Exploration Technique and the Array Dao Heavenly Pivot to study the incomplete array spirit patterns and recorded a lot of things. However, due to the limitations of the Spatial Cutting Technique's precision, he was unable to see through some details.

This time, we'll use a smaller, more precise scanner.

The spiritual energy blades of the spatial cutting technique transformed into extremely fine probes, slowly tracing the grooves of the remaining array's spiritual patterns. At each node of the spiritual pattern, the feedback of stress changes was several times clearer than before. The arc-shaped connections within the remaining array gradually revealed their secrets: the spiritual patterns did not connect the nodes with straight lines or broken lines, but rather transitioned with a specific curvature, the curvature matching the stress difference between the nodes.

The greater the stress difference, the greater the curvature, and the smoother the spiritual energy flows within the arc.

The Array Dao Heavenly Pivot compared this design with the key points of achieving minor mastery of the Space Cutting Technique. The arc-shaped connection and going with the flow are inherently similar; one falls between array nodes, and the other falls on the spatial wall.

With the two pathways combined, the accumulation of the fourth-order array formation mastery increased further.

Li Yuan stored the scan results into his sea of ​​consciousness, left the abandoned observation station, and headed to the time slot station.

The spatial fluctuations at the entrance to the time-slot platform remained stable. Stepping inside, the three-fold time flow rate immediately took effect.

In Taichung, Li Yuan sat cross-legged, simultaneously operating the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique and the Great Perfection of the Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Technique. Spiritual energy and demonic energy each followed their own pathways, forming two parallel cycles within his body.

After mastering the Spatial Cutting Technique, its coordination with the other three spatial spells also changed.

The Lesser Mastery of Spatial Forbidden Techniques is responsible for locking on, while the Lesser Mastery of Spatial Cutting Techniques is responsible for cutting. While the forbidden field locks on the target, the cutting technique's blade can directly utilize the stress changes within the forbidden field to find the optimal entry point, reducing many transitions from locking on to inflicting damage.

The positioning accuracy of a minor mastery of Spatial Searching, combined with the perception range of a major mastery of Spatial Detection, allows for faster target locking. The four spatial spells no longer operate independently, but rather subtly converge into a unified system.

The spiritual energy continued to condense under the blessing of terms such as Spiritual Array Return to Origin, Array Core Condensation and Cultivation, Infant Nurturing and Spiritual Essence, and Infant Essence Condensation and Nourishment. At three times the flow rate, each cycle progressed steadily.

The dark golden luster on the surface of the nascent soul grew stronger day by day.

On the fifth day of his cultivation, Li Yuan opened his eyes during a break in his practice.

The retrospective analysis of all phenomena captured a set of anomalies.

Below the time-slot platform, at the confluence of three spatial spiritual veins, a periodic resonance is occurring. The resonance is not constant; it occurs approximately every two hours, lasting for a few breaths before dissipating, with a very stable frequency and amplitude.

Li Yuan activated the Myriad Phenomena Retrospection, recorded the complete waveform, and then compared it with the residual array data of the abandoned observation station in his sea of ​​consciousness.

Highly similar.

Among the ruins of the abandoned observatory, there was a record of a spatial resonance phenomenon. When multiple spatial spiritual veins converge at a specific angle, the spiritual energy will generate periodic resonance, the frequency of which is related to the angle between the spiritual veins and the density of spiritual energy. Unfortunately, that part is incomplete, leaving only the theoretical framework, without any actual measurement data.

This resonance in front of us fills the gap perfectly.

Li Yuan stored the waveform, frequency, amplitude, and angle of the spiritual vein into his sea of ​​consciousness. This resonance pattern involves the underlying operation of the spatial spiritual veins and will be useful for deducing array formations or advancing spatial spells in the future.

He walked to the edge of the time slit platform. On the rock surface near the resonance point, some debris was scattered. Due to the long-term influence of the spatial spiritual vein resonance, the spiritual energy structure in the debris had changed.

Li Yuan picked up a piece of rock fragment the size of a fingernail. Within a three-foot sensing range, he sensed a very weak fluctuation of a word.

White entries.

Directly make it permanent.

[Permanentization complete]

【Spiritual Vein Microcosm - White】

[Effect: Slightly enhances perception of spatial spiritual vein resonance.]

The improvement isn't significant, but for a cultivator like Li Yuan who needs to study the patterns of spatial spiritual veins over a long period, even a slight increase in perception accuracy is a benefit.

Li Yuan collected the debris, returned to the center of the platform, sat cross-legged, and continued operating the dual-line system.