Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 718: The Spiritual Patterns Sing

Myogen-zong's residence.

The stone gate closed, and the restriction fell.

Li Yuan took out his talisman brush. The purple abbreviation of the Profound Talisman Enlightenment remained effective, increasing his talisman cultivation speed by about 50%.

Fourth-order talisman paper was laid out on the stone platform, and spirit ink was also prepared. The spirit ink mixed with spatial attribute mineral powder was placed on the left, and the spirit ink mixed with light attribute spirit liquid was placed on the right.

Pre-defined space stabilizer.

The spirit brush dipped in spatial spirit ink, and the tip fell. Three nested, stable pathways flowed from the brush, the spirit patterns following their own course. The brushwork, mastered by the fourth-tier talisman-making technique, had become instinctive. With the added 30% success rate and 20% effect bonus from the permanent application of the Yao Guang talisman, the connection between the spirit patterns was so stable that no further repairs were needed.

The first one was successful; the silvery-white light on the talisman was restrained, and the fluctuations were calm and steady.

The second one, the third one, the fourth one.

Li Yuan's hands moved swiftly, each stroke, pattern, and finishing touch completed in one breath. He finished twelve spatial stabilization talismans, one failing and eleven succeeding. The failed one was the ninth; during the finishing touch, the spiritual energy was slightly off-center, causing the talisman's spiritual patterns to crack.

Change the spirit shield charm.

The spatial and defensive spirit patterns intertwine. After the core of the collapsing minor world became permanent, the spiritual power within Li Yuan's body inherently possessed spatial attributes. When laying out defensive spirit patterns, the background color transitioned naturally, without the need for deliberate bridging.

Half an hour later, Li Yuan put away the spirit brush and talisman, and cleaned the spirit ink residue off the stone platform.

With the talisman-making phase complete, the next step is weapon crafting.

After arriving in the Upper Realm, I didn't use weapon crafting techniques much. After mastering the fourth-order array formation, array formations and spatial spells took up the majority of my cultivation, and weapon crafting was put aside for a long time.

Li Yuan went to the Mingyuan Sect's Contribution Hall and exchanged his disciple contribution points for several magical artifact crafting methods.

They are all fourth-order basic paths.

They also replenished the ore and auxiliary materials at the market's material supply store.

After returning to his residence, Li Yuan first took out his natal magic weapon.

Some of the materials used were of lower quality because of limitations in materials when they were being refined in the lower realm. Now that there are plenty of spiritual materials in the upper realm, they can be replaced.

Li Yuan used micro-controlling spiritual techniques to probe into the interior of the magical artifact. The permanent inscription of the artifact's spiritual energy loop was activated, making every node of the artifact's spiritual energy circulation clearly visible.

He disassembled the three materials one by one and replaced them with high-grade ores of the same attribute that he had purchased from the upper realm. After the ores were embedded, the spiritual energy circulation needed to be recalibrated. After the source assimilation was made permanent, the magical artifact was deeply bound to his own spiritual energy. As soon as Li Yuan drew upon his spiritual energy, the several nodes automatically aligned.

All three replacements have been completed.

Li Yuan circulated his spiritual energy for one full cycle. When the spiritual energy flowed through his natal magic weapon, the conduction loss almost disappeared. The basic performance of the magic weapon improved, and the feedback to his own spiritual energy circulation also became smoother.

Put away your natal magic weapon and begin crafting a new one.

The first item is a hollow-patterned boundary plate.

The main materials are spatial attribute mineral powder and stabilizing array materials. After the mineral powder is ground into a fine powder, it is laid into a mold, with the stabilizing array materials as the framework, and spiritual power is injected for smelting. The understanding of the Great Perfection of the Array Dao also comes in handy in the refining process. The spiritual power circulation inside the array plate follows the array method, and the node layout and spiritual pattern laying are all consistent with the fourth-order array method.

Once completed, the array plate is about the size of a palm, with a dark silver surface covered with dense spiritual patterns. When spiritual energy is injected, the surface glows slightly, and spatial spiritual energy diffuses outward from the center of the plate, making it suitable as the core of a sealing array.

Within a three-foot perception range, blue text rippled.

Li Yuan took the array plate in his hand.

[Equipable item detected: Void Pattern Suppressing Disc]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Airspace Seal - Blue]

[Effect: Increases the power of spatial spells by 30%, and can solidify space. The ability to solidify space is related to the user's mastery of spatial spells.]

[Preview of Permanentization Requirements: A third-tier spatial cultivation technique reaches perfection]

Li Yuan put the hollow-patterned boundary plate into his storage bag for later use.

The second item is the Spirit-Transforming Demon Orb.

The method of fusion and transformation between spirit and demon, which the sect leader of the Xuanyou Sect in the lower realm could not grasp even after much effort, was merely a magical artifact in the upper realm.

The main material is a high-quality spatial attribute spirit bead, supplemented by demonic energy crystals and spirit-demon conversion array runes. Demonic energy is injected from one end, reversed through a loop, and released as spiritual energy from the other end.

After being refined, the spirit pearl is about the size of a walnut, with a surface that is half black and half white, and extremely fine spiritual patterns flowing along the dividing line.

Within a three-foot perception range, the green text fluctuated.

[Equipable item detected: Spirit Conversion Magic Orb]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Spirit Reversal - Green]

[Effect: Permanently increases the efficiency of converting and purifying spiritual energy and demonic energy by 20%; permanently reduces spiritual energy consumption by 20% when purifying demonic energy.]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Successfully purify the demonic energy environment with this artifact a total of 100 times (0/100)]

It is highly practical. The demonic energy in the deep valleys and underground veins is dense, and this spirit pearl can purify the demonic energy into spiritual energy, and can also replenish the spiritual energy of the formation in the demonic energy environment.

The condition for permanentization is to purify the demonic energy environment one hundred times, which will be completed on the next trip to the Abyss Valley.

Li Yuan put the Spirit Transformation Magic Bead into his storage bag.

After completing the two new magical artifacts, I regained my feel for the crafting techniques.

The next day.

Mingyuan Zongyanfa Peak.

Yanfa Peak is a dedicated lecture hall for the Mingyuan Sect. The peak is not high, and the summit is a spacious stone platform. The platform is covered with spiritual patterns. When the lecture hall is activated, these patterns gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, creating a unique Daoist environment.

Today's speaker is a Supreme Elder at the mid-stage of the Void Refinement realm.

The stone platform was already filled with cultivators. Nascent Soul cultivators were in the front row, Golden Core cultivators in the middle, and Foundation Establishment cultivators on the outermost edge. Li Yuan didn't push his way forward, but found a seat in the ordinary disciple area.

Hidden and concealing his aura, his cultivation level at the late Nascent Soul stage was suppressed to an extremely low level, making him inconspicuous among a group of Golden Core cultivators.

The Supreme Elder appeared in the center of the stone platform.

He was an elderly man with white hair and beard, a thin face, and a calm gaze. His spiritual energy fluctuations were unfathomable; his cultivation at the mid-stage of the Void Refinement realm was like a bottomless abyss.

He started speaking as soon as he opened his mouth.

The first section: Nascent Soul cultivation.

Li Yuan already knew this. The Supreme Elder explained it in more detail, but the overall framework was the same.

The second stage is the breakthrough to the Divine Transformation stage.

When a Nascent Soul transforms into a Divine Core, Essence, Qi, and Spirit must advance simultaneously. Any lag in any of these three will lower the core's grade. The transformation is irreversible; once it begins, it cannot be stopped. Forcing a breakthrough without adequate preparation will only result in a low-grade core.

The Supreme Elder added, "The core grade of the Nascent Soul stage depends 70% on the refinement during the later stages of the Nascent Soul stage and 30% on the state of mind at the moment of breakthrough. The former is the foundation, the latter is the performance. If the foundation is insufficient, even the best performance cannot save you."

The process of recalling all phenomena involves recording every single word into one's sea of ​​consciousness.

The third stage is the cultivation of the divine spirit.

After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, the physical body becomes secondary, and the core becomes the primary entity. The focus of cultivation shifts from refining spiritual energy to the resonance of spiritual energy with the universe. Nascent Soul cultivators absorb and expel spiritual energy from the universe far more efficiently than Nascent Soul cultivators. The higher the core grade, the deeper the resonance, and the faster the cultivation.

The fourth section describes the resonance between spiritual power and the universe.

This section is the longest and the deepest.

The Supreme Elder demonstrated using his own spiritual power. The spiritual power surged from his palm, not released outwards, but rather merged into the surrounding space. Upon contact with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, resonance occurred, and the resonance waves spread in all directions from the point of contact, drawing in even more spiritual energy.

The essence of resonance is to make one's own spiritual power a part of the flow of spiritual energy in the world, rather than forcibly absorbing it.

Li Yuan looked at the spiritual energy fluctuations in the Supreme Elder's palm and used the Myriad Manifestations Retrospection technique to record the frequency, amplitude, and diffusion pattern of the resonance waves frame by frame.

That state of spiritual power merging with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is somewhat similar to the predictive ability gained after perfecting the Spatial Detection Technique. After perfecting the Spatial Detection Technique, Li Yuan was able to perceive the trends of changes in the spatial walls, which was essentially a resonance between his own spiritual power and the spatial structure.

The difference lies only in the depth of their resonance. The Supreme Elder demonstrated a comprehensive resonance at the Nascent Soul stage, while Li Yuan has only achieved partial resonance in terms of spatial attributes.

The Daoist atmosphere of the lecture hall continued to operate, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was gathered by the spiritual patterns on the stone platform, with a concentration several times higher than that of the outside world. The Daoist aura released when the Supreme Elder spoke about the resonance between spiritual power and heaven and earth filled the entire Yanfa Peak.

Within the personal miniature world, the resonance waves of the Enlightenment Tree suddenly intensified.

The increase was much greater than when studying classical texts.

The Daoist environment is layered with the resonance of enlightenment, and then layered with the two permanent terms "Practicing the Truth of All Methods" and "Enlightenment and Pure Tea," resulting in four layers of enhancement falling together on the sea of ​​consciousness.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and circulated the Yao Guang Refining Spirit Technique.

The lecture lasted for most of the day.

The Supreme Elder withdrew his spiritual power, and the Daoist aura slowly dissipated. The cultivators rose and left one after another.

Li Yuan opened his eyes and looked inward into his sea of ​​consciousness.

The boundaries of the sea of ​​consciousness are different from when it first appeared. The thickness of the wall has increased by nearly 20%, and its toughness has more than doubled. The threads of divine consciousness can no longer only extend to the shallow layer of the wall, but can penetrate deep into the middle of the wall for forging.

He was proficient in the Yao Guang Refining Spirit Technique.

The changes after mastering the skill are very direct. The sea of ​​consciousness's ability to withstand pressure is greatly enhanced, and the walls are less likely to shatter when subjected to attacks from the divine soul.

The Soul Condensation and Consciousness Control Technique cultivates core hardness, while the Yao Guang Refining Spirit Technique cultivates boundary resilience. When the two are combined, the sea of ​​consciousness defense is no longer easily breached by Nascent Soul cultivators of the same level.

Li Yuan got up and followed the crowd down Yanfa Peak.

After returning to his residence, he did not immediately begin cultivating. Instead, he took out a fourth-tier talisman and spread it on the stone platform.

The image of the Supreme Elder demonstrating the resonance between spiritual power and heaven and earth on the platform remains in my sea of ​​consciousness. The Myriad Phenomena Retrospection has completely recorded the resonance waves, with the frequency, amplitude, and diffusion method all clearly visible.

Spiritual energy merges with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, becoming part of the flow.

When this concept is applied to talisman making, it means that when the spiritual patterns are placed on the paper, the spiritual power is not only carried by the talisman paper, but can also resonate with the surrounding spatial structure.

Li Yuan dipped his brush in the spiritual ink of the space and began to write.

The first spiritual rune was laid into the talisman paper. Spiritual energy flowed from the tip of the pen, moving towards its own direction.

Unlike before, Li Yuan deliberately slowed down the injection speed the moment the spiritual energy touched the talisman. The spiritual energy was not immediately absorbed by the talisman, but lingered on the surface for half a breath, briefly coming into contact with the spiritual energy in the surrounding space.

A faint resonance was generated.

The resonance lasted only a moment before dissipating, and the spiritual energy sank into the talisman paper. But in that instant, the density of spiritual energy inside the runes was about 10% higher than when the strokes were made normally.

Li Yuan put down his pen and looked at the spiritual pattern on the talisman paper.

The shine was slightly brighter than usual.

If the resonance between the spirit runes and the spatial structure can be stably reproduced, the quality of the talisman crafting can be further improved. However, I've only just begun to grasp the basics and still need a lot of practice.

There are still quite a few talismans left on the stone platform.

Li Yuan dipped his brush in ink again and continued writing.