Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 716 Shattered Stars Condensed with Light

The deep core area of ​​Shattered Star Valley.

Li Yuan was suspended in the void where cracks intersected, his perception spreading out over a distance of 1,200 feet.

The spatial fluctuations here are far more chaotic than those outside. Cracks tear open and close like living things, fragments tumble in the turbulent flow, and the stress on the walls shifts every few breaths.

After mastering the spatial perception technique, the passive perception range increased from 800 zhang to 1200 zhang, and the accuracy and reaction speed were also honed in Shattered Star Valley. However, the distance to perfection is not just about the range.

Da Cheng can only see what's right in front of him. He can sense where the cracks are, where the fragments are drifting, and what state the stress on the wall is in.

The key to success lies in the next step.

Before the inflection point, the wall stress undergoes a very subtle change. The stress value hasn't reached the critical point, and the direction hasn't deviated, but the rate of change has already accelerated. If this early warning sign can be detected, Li Yuan can avoid the crack before it propagates.

Li Yuan stopped his escape and focused his mind on his senses.

Within a range of 1200 zhang, the wall stresses of dozens of fissures surged into the sea of ​​consciousness. The Myriad Phenomena Retrospection automatically recorded the change curve of each fissure, capturing the fluctuations in rate from within.

someday.

Li Yuan was suspended in the middle of the core area, his senses fully activated at a distance of 1,200 zhang.

Seven hundred feet to the south, the wall stress of a wide fissure was increasing. Li Yuan didn't deliberately focus on it; his senses still filled the surroundings, yet he caught a very faint acceleration from that fissure.

It is not a retrospective replay of events.

It is real-time sensing.

The turning point is approaching.

Seven hundred feet away, the stress on the crack wall exceeded the critical point and suddenly expanded.

Spatial exploration technique, perfected.

The change after perfection is not a sudden increase in scope, but rather a shift in perception from seeing the present to anticipating what will happen next. The passive perception range does indeed expand considerably, but more importantly, the trends of cracks, fragments, and wall changes will automatically emerge.

You don't need to look for it; your body already knows what will happen next.

When combined with the characteristics of spatial beings, walking in the void becomes more like an instinct. The surging fissures and fragments in the deep core area are no longer just obstacles, but can also be utilized.

At the same moment, a tremor came from the portable miniature world.

Stardust Lingbi.

The blue entry "Shattered Starlight" requires the following condition for permanentization: a third-order spatial spell must be perfected.

Spatial Detection is a third-order spatial spell.

The conditions are met.

The Stardust Spirit Wall shattered within his personal miniature world, and a stream of blue light passed through the boundary wall, flowing into Li Yuan's body.

The scene unfolded in his mind's eye. A cultivator hovered at the edge of the void, surrounded by stardust-like spatial fragments that floated and swirled around him. The cultivator closed his eyes and concentrated, the positions, trajectories, and wall stresses of the fragments all transforming into a network of light points. When he opened his eyes, spiritual energy surged from his palms, condensing into an extremely pure spatial spell.

The image fades away.

[Permanentization complete]

【Shattered Starlight - Blue】

[Effect: Permanently increases the efficiency of spatial spell energy gathering by 30%; permanently expands the passive perception range of spatial spells by 50%.]

The blue light flowed into the depths of the meridians.

The range of passive perception has increased once again. The Perfected Spatial Exploration Technique already expanded the range, and the Shattered Star Condensation Light technique added another 50% to that, pushing the range from 1,200 zhang to nearly 1,800 zhang.

The efficiency of spiritual energy gathering in spatial spells has increased by 30%, and the energy consumption of spells such as spatial cutting, spatial forbidden techniques, and void escape has decreased accordingly, while their power and accuracy have also benefited.

Li Yuan opened his eyes and looked around.

The perception ranged for 1,800 zhang, covering the core area. The state and trend of every crack were clearly visible, the trajectory of drifting fragments extended on its own within the perception, and the inflection point signal of wall stress appeared and disappeared intermittently.

Li Yuan did not linger in Shattered Star Valley. He transformed into a beam of light and left the valley entrance, heading towards Mingyuan Sect.

Mingyuan Sect.

Li Yuan entered the Sutra Repository as a disciple and exchanged his contribution points for three books related to the Enlightenment Tree.

Back at his lodgings, he looked through them one by one.

The first booklet was a basic maintenance manual for the Enlightenment Tree, explaining the supply of spiritual energy and soil conditions. The environment in his portable world already exceeded the requirements, so Li Yuan put it down after flipping through it.

The second part records the growth cycle and resonance key points of the Enlightenment Tree. The strength of the Enlightenment Tree's resonance waves is related to its own vitality. The stronger the vitality, the stronger the resonance waves.

There's a strange sentence in the classic text.

The Enlightenment Tree feeds on enlightenment.

Cultivators who study techniques and refine spells near the Enlightenment Tree will find their insights nourishing the tree. The more insights a cultivator gains, the faster the Enlightenment Tree grows.

The third part is a fragment of an ancient text, mentioning that when ancient sects cultivated the Enlightenment Tree, they planted it within the cultivator's personal microcosm. All the cultivator's cultivation, learning, and comprehension would resonate and feed back to the Enlightenment Tree through the microcosm, with even better effects than the sect's spiritual grounds.

Li Yuan's Enlightenment Tree is located in his personal miniature world.

After the collapse of the small world's core became permanent, the connection between his personal small world and himself deepened. The resonance waves of the Enlightenment Tree could pass through the boundary wall and land on the sea of ​​consciousness, and Li Yuan's cultivation gains could, in turn, nourish the tree.

This makes it a round trip.

The more you learn, the faster the Enlightenment Tree grows. The stronger the Enlightenment Tree, the stronger the resonance wave. The stronger the resonance wave, the smoother your cultivation and comprehension.

Li Yuan closed the book and opened his personal miniature world.

At the tip of the Enlightenment Tree branch, the tiny flower bud was slightly larger than before. The leaves were now completely green, the roots had thickened, and the Enlightenment Resonance Wave was stronger than before.

He returned to the Scripture Pavilion and used his contribution points to exchange for a batch of cultivation manuals and theories on array formations. Not for cultivation, but for learning. He took a copy of everything he could get his hands on: array formations, alchemy, talisman making, weapon crafting, spiritual plants, mineral veins, and spatial theories.

During his study, the resonance of enlightenment was constant. Whenever Li Yuan gained a new understanding from the classics, that resonance would slightly increase, though the amplitude was small, it never stopped.

a few days later.

An internal announcement from the Mingyuan Sect has been released: a Refinement Void Lecture will be held at the end of the month, with a Supreme Elder at the mid-stage of Refinement Void personally giving the lecture, and all disciples are welcome to attend.

There are still some days until the end of the month.

Without waiting, Li Yuan took out the Jade Slip of the Yao Guang Refining God Technique from his storage bag.

The fourth-tier low-grade soul cultivation technique was obtained from the depths of the Yao Guang Secret Realm. It focuses on cultivating the soul's condensation and the resilience of the sea of ​​consciousness, with an emphasis on defense and pressure resistance, which perfectly complements the Soul Condensation and Consciousness Control Technique.

He probed the jade slip with his divine sense, and the cultivation technique unfolded in his sea of ​​consciousness.

The method of the Yao Guang Refining Spirit Technique involves transforming divine consciousness into extremely fine threads, extending from the center of the sea of ​​consciousness towards its boundaries, seeping into the walls and repeatedly tempering it. As the resilience of the sea of ​​consciousness's boundaries increases, its ability to withstand pressure also improves, making it less prone to shattering when attacked by the divine soul.

The Soul Condensation and Consciousness Control Technique cultivates the solidification of the soul, while the Yao Guang Refining Spirit Technique cultivates the outer shell of the sea of ​​consciousness. One cultivates core hardness, and the other cultivates boundary resilience; they are indeed complementary.

Li Yuan activated his divine sense and drew out an extremely fine thread from the center of his sea of ​​consciousness.

The foundation laid by the perfected Soul Condensation and Consciousness Control Technique makes this step very stable. While tracking back all phenomena, keep an eye on the threads of divine consciousness to avoid overstretching them.

The threads of divine consciousness slowly extended towards the boundary of the sea of ​​consciousness.

With the permanent entry of "Ten Thousand Laws of True Learning," the "Enlightenment Tea," and the resonance waves of the Enlightenment Tree, several layers of assistance combined, allowing him to master the Yao Guang Refining Divine Technique faster than expected.

The silk thread touched the boundary wall of the sea of ​​consciousness.

The wall trembled slightly as threads of divine sense seeped into it, beginning the first round of tempering. Spiritual energy flowed along the threads, stretching and rebounding the wall repeatedly, gradually increasing its resilience.

The first round of tempering was completed, and the boundary of the sea of ​​consciousness became noticeably more resilient.

Yao Guang Refining Spirit Technique, Beginner Level.

Just as Li Yuan was about to retract his spiritual thread, the end of the thread suddenly touched something.

Not on the boundary of the sea of ​​consciousness, but deeper, at the junction of meridians and blood vessels. When the threads of divine consciousness were hammering through the wall, they probed a little deeper and encountered a wisp of extremely ancient aura within the blood vessels.

Fragments of ancient dragon marks within the blood and energy of the dragon.

Since cultivating the Dragon Blood Condensation Technique, the dragon traces in Li Yuan's bloodline have become increasingly clear, mostly hidden in his bone marrow and meridians. This fragment of the dragon trace deep within the boundary of his sea of ​​consciousness is being touched for the first time.

The moment the thread of divine sense touched the fragment, a faint trace of dragon spiritual energy resonated with it. The resonance lasted only a moment, but it gave Li Yuan a clue.

The hammering frequency of the Yao Guang Refining Divine Technique naturally matches the spiritual fluctuations in the dragon's bloodline.

There is likely a hidden compatibility between this technique and the dragon bloodline.

Li Yuan recorded this discovery into his mind.

The Yao Guang Refining Divine Technique originates from the Yao Guang Secret Realm, the origin of which is difficult to verify. The connection between the dragon bloodline and the secret realm's cultivation method may indicate that the builders of the Yao Guang Secret Realm were related to the dragon race.

This is just a guess; we'll verify it later.

Li Yuan withdrew his divine sense threads, sat cross-legged on the stone platform in his residence, and began to circulate the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique.

The resonance wave of enlightenment came from my personal microcosm and landed at the edge of my sea of ​​consciousness. It was weak, but it kept coming.

The cultivation continues.