Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 701 Permanentization of the Minor World's Origin

The outer perimeter of Tianheng Domain.

Li Yuan's escape light swept in from the direction of Shattered Star Valley, heading east along the wasteland.

Last time I came out of Shattered Star Valley, I sold some of the materials from the Rift Lizard and Rift Python in Mingyuan Immortal City and Xuanyang City, exchanging them for a lot of spirit stones. However, the two immortal cities have limited supplies of fourth-tier talisman paper, spatial attribute mineral powder, and stabilizing array materials, so I still have to go to Tianheng Immortal City.

Tianheng Immortal City is the largest trading place in the Tianheng Domain, mainly containing a large amount of spatial materials.

The light descended outside the city. Li Yuan concealed his aura with the Hidden Trace technique and changed his appearance with the Illusion Mask, transforming into a gray-robed rogue cultivator as he entered the city gate.

The shops selling medicinal materials are all located in the south of the city, occupying the entire street.

Li Yuan entered a large shop and selected two batches of fourth-tier talisman paper: one batch specifically for spatial attributes and the other general-purpose. Spatial attribute mineral powder was harder to find; he had to ask at three shops before he could gather enough. The materials for stabilizing the boundary array were even more varied; he visited six shops before he could buy everything.

After replenishing another batch of cultivation aids and alchemy herbs, the storage bag became quite heavy.

When they left Tianheng Immortal City, they had lost a lot of spirit stones, but they had all their belongings.

The escape light turned around and headed straight for Shattered Star Valley.

At the entrance to Shattered Star Valley, spatial fluctuations continued.

Li Yuan didn't go to the densely fractured zone in the middle layer; he went straight in.

With the Spatial Exploration Technique perfected, the perception spanned eight hundred feet, capturing the direction of every deep rift and the drifting trajectory of every fragment in the sea of ​​consciousness. The three permanent attributes—Rifle Battle Edge, Void Abyss Array Core, and Void Essence Solidification—operated simultaneously, pushing the power and stability of spatial magic to new heights.

Last time, through combat training, Li Yuan achieved a minor breakthrough in his spatial cutting technique and his accumulation of fourth-order array techniques also increased significantly. This time, Li Yuan's goal is clearer: to continue refining his spatial magic in a high-pressure environment.

Deep in the western part of Shattered Star Valley lies a densely populated area of ​​debris.

The walls of this space are exceptionally fragile, with cracks crisscrossing like a spider web. The stress on the walls of each crack is different, requiring extremely high precision in spatial magic.

Li Yuan moved among the fragments, practicing as he went.

After mastering the basics of spatial cutting, the blade can automatically find the thinnest point on the wall. However, the stress on deeper walls is more chaotic and changes rapidly. In some places, it shifts every few breaths, and the blade must adjust accordingly, otherwise the energy consumption will immediately increase.

He cut and cut, pushing the precision he had achieved to its limit.

The spatial confinement technique was also being refined. Deeper spaces experienced stronger fluctuations, causing greater impact on the confinement area; maintaining the same range consumed nearly 40% more energy than in the middle layers. Li Yuan continuously adjusted the fit between the edges of the confinement area and the wall, gradually reducing the energy consumption.

The spatial search technique has been repurposed. Last time at the abandoned observatory, Li Yuan used it to reconstruct the coordinates of a crack that had disappeared hundreds of years ago.

This time, it's used to track the drifting trajectory of deep debris and deduce its origin from its current location. Debris from different regions carries different frequencies of spatial spiritual energy, which is perfect for refining the positioning accuracy.

Although the spatial perception technique has not yet reached a clear breakthrough threshold, its accuracy and response speed are slowly improving through repeated deep-seated practice. Subtle stress changes within the walls and residual spiritual energy within the fragments are also becoming clearer than before.

The Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Method and the Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Technique operate on two parallel tracks, with spiritual energy and demonic energy each following their own pathways. During breaks in cultivation, the Spiritual Origin Bone Tempering Pill and the Nascent Soul Condensing Origin Pill are taken alternately, with the Nascent Soul Nourishing Spirit attribute doubling the efficacy of the medicines, resulting in extremely rapid condensation of spiritual power.

Several spatial spells were advanced under high-pressure conditions. The Spatial Slicing Technique accumulated the fastest growth in the later stages of its minor mastery, while the edge precision and spiritual energy consumption of the forbidden spatial spells also stabilized.

Ten days later.

Li Yuan stopped his escape light deep in the southern part of Shattered Star Valley.

Within his eight-hundred-foot spatial perception range, a very weak spatial fluctuation caught his attention.

The fluctuation originated from inside a giant fragment six hundred feet away; its frequency was very low, almost stagnant, as if something was about to go out.

Spatial cutting technique aids in positioning, while spatial searching technique pinpoints the source. Li Yuan combines the three spatial spells in one place, focusing his investigation.

The giant fragment was about a hundred feet in diameter, its surface covered with cracks. Inside the fragment was a hollow area, in the center of which hung a dim sphere of light, less than three feet in diameter, its surface flickering like a dying flame.

The core of the secret realm.

Moreover, it is the core of a secret realm after a natural collapse. There are no traces of human intervention on the outer perimeter, and the spatial spiritual energy within the sphere of light is slowly dissipating; it will disappear in a few months at most.

Li Yuan paused slightly in his breathing.

The core of the collapsed minor world, indicated by a red entry. Its permanent status requires devouring the cores of three naturally collapsed secret realms. The first is the core of the collapsed minor world, and the second is the core of the Sea Eye Maze.

This is the third one.

Li Yuan suppressed his emotions and transformed into a streak of light as he rushed forward.

The giant fragment was riddled with cracks. He cut into it from the widest crack, widening the passage with spatial cutting techniques, and entered the fragment from the side.

The hollow area was about ten zhang in diameter, with rough walls and scorching marks from the collapse of the secret realm. The core sphere of light hung in the center, its dim light flickering on and off.

Li Yuan stopped three feet in front of the ball of light and extended his right hand.

The moment the light sphere was touched, the second item in the special equipment slot vibrated violently.

The Collapse Core of the Small Realm broke free from the equipment slot, and a heavy suction force emanated from its center, swallowing the Collapsed Secret Realm Core in front of it.

The dim sphere of light dissipated silently, and the remaining spatial spiritual energy was completely absorbed by the collapsing core of the small world.

The next moment, the second slot in the special equipment section lit up.

A crimson light erupted from the equipment slot, stronger than any previous permanent enhancement. The light spread throughout the body along the meridians, then flowed into the sea of ​​consciousness, before surging back into the physical body. Spiritual power, demonic energy, divine soul, and physical body were all simultaneously permeated by the crimson light.

In his mind, images flooded in from all directions.

The birth and demise of the three boundary cores are intertwined. The smaller realm took shape from chaos, its spatial walls condensed, and its spiritual energy structure expanded. Hundreds of years later, the walls cracked, the spiritual energy decayed, and it eventually collapsed into a wisp of light at the core.

How the spatial walls coalesce, how the structure is maintained, how the spatial spiritual energy operates and decays are all revealed in these three collapses.

The image fades away.

The crimson light gradually subsided, sinking into the bone marrow, meridians, and the depths of consciousness, completely merging with the physical body and soul.

Changes followed.

At the physical level, extremely fine spatial patterns appeared on the walls of each meridian. These patterns expanded from the meridians to the blood vessels, muscles, and bones, eventually spreading throughout the entire body. Spatial spiritual energy was no longer just an attribute flowing through the meridians, but had permeated the physical body.

At the level of the soul, the boundaries of the sea of ​​consciousness became blurred. The nascent soul hovered above the sea of ​​consciousness, with a very faint silver ripple added to its dark golden luster.

Spatial fluctuations are no longer just an external perception, but more like a bodily instinct.

Li Yuan raised his hand and activated the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique, completing one cycle. Spiritual energy surged from his dantian, each strand naturally carrying spatial attributes as it flowed through his meridians. Without any additional additions or activation from the purple inscription of the Netherworld Spiritual Essence, the spiritual energy itself became spatial spiritual energy.

He then activated the Dark Abyss Demonic Essence Technique. The demonic energy circulated along the pathway, also acquiring spatial attributes.

Any magical technique automatically comes with spatial attributes.

Li Yuan withdrew his spiritual power and closed his eyes to look inward.

The dragon's blood energy within the bones also changed. Wherever the blood energy flowed, subtle spatial fluctuations pulsated. When the Dragon Scale Golden Body Technique was activated, a thin film of spatial spiritual energy appeared on the surface of the scales.

The physical body and the soul possess the characteristics of spatial beings.

He reached out and touched a tiny crack on the surface of the fragment. His spiritual energy probed into the crack, and the feedback from the wall stress and spatial structure was clearer than when he had mastered spatial perception. It wasn't that the range had increased, but rather that the method of perception had changed. Previously, he relied on magic to probe; now, his body could sense it directly.

A crimson system notification appeared in my mind.

[Red entry - Minor Boundary Collapse Core - Permanentization Completed]

[Permanent Effect: Allows free movement through spatial rifts/passages/voids without damage; enables the creation of independent spaces.]

[Additional Permanent Effect: The body and soul possess spatial creature characteristics, and any spells or techniques automatically acquire spatial attributes.]

The system panel disappeared for a moment, then a new notification appeared.

[First time a red keyword has been permanently added; system function update required.]

[New feature enabled: Remote preview of entries.]

[Effect: When an affix fluctuation is detected, the affix name and effect can be determined without touching the item. Note: The item must still be obtained to equip it and accumulate permanentization progress.]

The system interface will be displayed in this format.

After observing for a moment, Li Yuan had a plan in mind.

The system message indicates that the process is not yet complete.

[Note: A new system feature will be unlocked upon encountering a gold-level affix.]

Gold entry.

It's one level higher than red. So far, the highest grade Li Yuan has ever seen is red. The system didn't say anything more, only leaving this one sentence.

Li Yuan noted down the information and stopped thinking about it.

He stood up and looked around.

After the core of the secret realm dissipated, only empty rock walls remained in the hollow area.

Li Yuan returned the way he came and emerged from the crack through the fragments.

Suspended once again in the deep void of Shattered Star Valley, the feeling was different from before.

Spatial rifts tore and twisted in all directions, and fragments drifted and spun. Before, these things had to be avoided, but now it felt more like being in a current of water, where the direction and force of every ripple could be clearly felt.

After the core of the collapsing minor world became permanent, spatial rifts and the void no longer posed a threat. Li Yuan passed through a rift, and the cutting force at the edge touched his flesh, but was dissolved by the thin film of spatial spiritual energy on his body, without even tearing his robes.

He circled around in the depths again to confirm the boundaries of his new ability before transforming into a beam of light and flying towards the valley entrance.

Outside of Shattered Star Valley, on the edge of the wasteland.

After landing, Li Yuan paused briefly on the rock strata.

There are still quite a few materials from the monsters of Shattered Star Valley stored in my portable world. The fourth-tier Rift Lizard scale armor and Rift Python bones are the most valuable, but selling them all at once would attract attention, so it's better to exchange them for the items I need in batches.

Li Yuan transformed into a beam of light and rushed to the market within the Tianheng Domain.

Our first stop was a medium-sized market town on the edge of Tianheng Domain.

Li Yuan changed his appearance and entered the spirit materials shop, taking out some fourth-tier Rift Lizard Scale Armor and placing it on the counter. The shopkeeper was an old cultivator in the late Golden Core stage, and his expression changed as soon as he touched it.

"A fourth-tier spatial attribute scale armor, in excellent condition." The shopkeeper examined it several times and quoted a price.

It's not low, but it hasn't reached its peak either.

"Let's trade some things," Li Yuan said. "Fourth-tier talisman paper and spatial attribute mineral powder."

"The talisman paper is in stock, but there are only two portions of mineral powder."

"I want both. I'll make up the difference in spirit stones."

The scales were exchanged for a batch of fourth-tier talisman paper and two portions of space-attribute mineral powder, and some spirit stones were also recovered.

The second stop was a slightly larger city. Li Yuan took out half of the Rift Python's skeleton and exchanged it for materials for the Realm Stabilizing Array. The python bone was of extremely high quality, and the shopkeeper was very generous with his payment.

After visiting both locations, I obtained all the fourth-tier talisman paper, spatial attribute mineral powder, and boundary-stabilizing array materials. I also carefully collected the remaining monster materials and extra spirit stones.

Li Yuan returned to the anchor point in the independent space of the Rift Valley, closed the entrance, and sat down cross-legged.

The Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Method is operating at full capacity.

After the core of the collapsing small realm becomes permanent, the spiritual power automatically acquires spatial attributes, and the condensation efficiency increases with each cycle.

Within the dark golden luster on the surface of the nascent soul, the silver ripples deepened slightly after each cycle. The purity, refinement, and total amount of spiritual energy were all steadily increasing.

They are not far from reaching the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

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