Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 723 Fourth-Order Array Dao Perfection

In the south of Lingzhou, there is a deep valley.

Five streaks of light landed at the mouth of the valley.

The demonic energy in the valley was even stronger than before. Dark purple mist rose from the valley floor, carrying a pungent, corrosive odor.

Li Yuan's passive perception spread out over a distance of 1,800 feet, and the scene at the other end of the crevice at the bottom of the valley immediately entered his sea of ​​consciousness.

Two streams of demonic energy at the Nascent Soul stage.

Last time there was only one force, but now there's another. The original force was heavy and oppressive, but the newly appeared force is even more violent, with extremely rapid fluctuations in spiritual energy, continuously impacting the seal against the crack.

The Six-Point Resonance Sealing Array trembled inside the valley wall. All six spatial attribute spirit stones lit up, the spatial folding chains taut, and the Abyss Resonance Permanent entry sent the array's operational status into the sea of ​​consciousness.

The main team can still hold on.

The outer auxiliary seals had already shattered. The first layer of spatial sealing array that Li Yuan had previously added had been shattered into fragments of spiritual patterns, scattered on the valley walls. Several places on the Star Lock Demon Seal had loosened, and demonic energy seeped out along the gaps. The chains of the Demon Suppressing Locking Yuan Array had also cracked and would break after a few more rounds.

Li Yuan sank down the valley wall and stopped inside the six-point resonance sealing array.

Waves of Nascent Soul level demonic energy crashed in, every few dozen breaths. The impacts pierced through the cracks, struck the seal, and caused tremors within the valley walls.

Spatial forbidden techniques activated.

The restricted area unfolded right in front of the crack. The shockwave struck, deforming the edges of the arena, but it did not shatter.

Li Yuan had a plan in mind.

This intensity doesn't seem high; a minor mastery of the Space Imprisonment Technique can withstand it.

Li Yuan maintained the confinement field in front of the crack, enduring the continuous impacts. The edge of the field repeatedly deformed and rebounded, each time consuming a significant amount of spiritual energy. With the permanent "Stabilize the Void" attribute of the remnant array and the "Stabilize the Void" attribute of the rune domain stacked together, sustaining the energy wasn't an issue.

After blocking several rounds, Li Yuan began to change his technique.

In the early stages of development, the confinement field simply adheres to the wall; however the wall changes, the confinement field changes accordingly. When a shockwave strikes, the edge of the field is first pushed away, then pulled back by spiritual power.

Too passive.

Instead of waiting to be hit, Li Yuan pushed the edge of the field forward slightly before the impact arrived, aligning it with the stress of the valley wall.

When the next impact hit, the field edge did not recede. The field pushed forward, and the wave pushed back, the two forces canceling each other out at the contact surface.

The consumption of spiritual energy plummeted, leaving only about 30% of its original level.

Li Yuan extended this technique to the entire restricted area. The front, sides, bottom, and top were all transformed into active confrontations.

Another wave of impact hit, and the restricted area completed alignment half a breath ahead of schedule.

At the moment of impact, space remained completely still.

Spatial forbidden technique, mastered.

After reaching the highest level, the forbidden area gained an additional ability: the ability to selectively allow spiritual energy of specific frequencies to pass through.

The shockwave contained a mixture of Nascent Soul demonic energy and spatial fluctuations from the rift itself. Previously, the confinement field had blocked everything, but now Li Yuan only locked the demonic energy, allowing the spatial fluctuations to pass. These spatial fluctuations were harmless to the seal; on the contrary, they could be absorbed and transformed by the six-point resonance sealing array.

Li Yuan maintained the ban and took out the Empty Pattern Town Barrier Plate from his storage bag.

Li Yuan embedded the array plate into the valley wall, using it as the array's core, and then redeployed the spatial sealing array around the six-point resonance sealing array.

Spiritual energy surged from the array plate, and spiritual patterns spread along the wall. The fourth-order array master's technique was very steady, and the nodes were precisely placed at the stress inflection points on the wall.

Ten breaths later, the new spatial sealing array took shape.

The seal has been temporarily stabilized.

The frequency of the Nascent Soul level attacks also decreased, from once every few dozen breaths to once every hundred breaths. The violent demonic energy on the other side of the rift began to weaken, as if it was gathering strength.

Not long after, a very deep spiritual energy fluctuation came from the other end of the crack.

It wasn't an attack, it was a message.

The voice of the Nascent Soul Demon Clan pierced through the crack, carried by fluctuations of demonic energy, echoing within the valley walls. The voice was low and hoarse, not in human language. The permanent entry of the Netherworld Knowledge system activated automatically, translating the ancient demonic language into a readable form.

"The Seven Stars Demon Gathering Array is just the simplest solution. The real passage does not require sacrificial nodes."

The sound faded away.

The two streams of demonic energy at the Nascent Soul level on the other side of the rift simultaneously receded, and the impact completely stopped.

Li Yuan stored the message in his mind, closed the forbidden area, and transformed into a beam of light to rush out of the valley.

Tianyue Sect, Council Hall.

An emergency meeting has been held.

The Golden Core Master of the Intelligence Hall from the Upper Realm spoke first.

"We intercepted a fragment of a demonic energy message, which matches the content Fellow Daoist Li received at the bottom of the valley. After investigation, we believe the true passage mentioned by the Nascent Soul Demon Clan is the Nether Demon Blood Sacrifice Array."

He took out a jade slip, infused it with spiritual power, and the array structure was projected onto the center of the hall.

"The Demon Blood Sacrifice Array is a large-scale descent array of the ancient demonic path. It does not require a lower realm sacrificial node; it only needs to use a large amount of demon blood sacrifice as fuel on the other side of the rift to forcibly open it. At that time, the Nascent Soul demons can pass through in their full strength and will no longer have most of their power reduced by the narrow rift."

Zhou Heng asked, "How long does the blood sacrifice take?"

"About a month or so," the head of the intelligence department said. "Starting from today, it will take at least a month, and at the latest forty days."

The hall fell silent for a moment.

Zhou Heng spoke up: "I have already contacted the Mingyuan Sect and requested that they send Nascent Soul cultivators down to the mortal realm to provide support."

Li Yuan did not participate in the subsequent discussions. After the meeting, he returned to the secluded valley alone.

At the bottom of the valley, in front of the crevice.

The spatial exploration technique has fully expanded its omnidirectional perception capabilities.

Li Yuan didn't look at the crack, but instead peered down into the valley floor.

One hundred zhang, one hundred and fifty zhang, two hundred zhang.

Two hundred feet deep, a dark vein appeared in the sea of ​​consciousness. It was about three feet wide, and ancient demonic runes remained on its inner walls. Demonic energy flowed within it, with an extremely high concentration, and it shared the same origin as the demonic energy in the cracks of the abyss valley.

This is the backbone of the underground network of hidden veins.

All the branch roads that followed originated from this main road. The Yunzhou Mining Valley, the Lingzhou Mining Tunnel, the Liangzhou Dark Swamp, and the underground channels of the sea trench all eventually converge here and connect to the rift.

Cutting off the main trunk will cut off the supply of demonic energy from the underground dark veins. Even if someone tries to activate the Seven Star Demon Gathering Array, they will fail due to insufficient demonic energy.

The Demon Blood Sacrifice Array also requires a large amount of demonic energy to maintain. If this main channel is severed, the supply from the other side of the rift will be weakened, and the preparation time for the Blood Sacrifice Array will likely be prolonged.

Li Yuan found the section of the main trunk of the dark vein closest to the surface on the valley wall, and used spatial cutting techniques to carve out a passage along the rock strata, probing down to a depth of two hundred feet.

The main trunk of the dark vein was exposed before our eyes.

Demonic energy surged within the three-foot-wide passage, and dark red spirit patterns flickered faintly on the inner walls.

Li Yuan didn't forcefully block it. This place contained too much demonic energy; forcibly sealing it off would only cause the demonic energy to accumulate at the blockage point and eventually explode.

He changed the layout.

Segmented nested purification array.

First, spatial folding is used to intercept the main dark vein in the ten-zhang passage, severing it from the upstream and downstream, creating an independent space. Then, demon-sealing seals are embedded at both ends to lock in the remaining demonic energy. Finally, using the Spirit-Converting Demon Orb as the core, the demonic energy is reversed into spiritual energy and channeled into the earth's veins.

Cut off one section, purify the other.

Li Yuan took out the Spirit Transformation Magic Pearl and materials, and began to set up the formation.

The space folded down, severing the main ten-zhang section of the dark vein. The walls at both ends of the space closed, separating the demonic energy upstream and downstream.

The Demon-Sealing Seal was embedded at both ends, the spiritual patterns lit up, and the remaining demonic energy was locked away.

Multiple formations operated simultaneously, and the purple inscription of the Formation Dao Heavenly Pivot was fully activated, sending the closed-loop state of the spiritual power of each formation into the sea of ​​consciousness.

The accumulation of knowledge in the later stages of the fourth-order array formation was rapidly increasing under this high pressure.

All the spiritual energy loops of the formation unfolded simultaneously in the sea of ​​consciousness.

Li Yuan can now directly use spiritual power to draw closed loops of formations in the void. He doesn't need spirit stones as nodes or spirit patterns as markers; the spiritual power itself can form a loop.

When he reached the Great Completion stage, he had already grasped the key to this, but after the closed loop left the node and the spiritual pattern, it would dissipate within a few breaths.

At this moment, under the pressure of multiple overlapping formations, the time for maintaining the closed loop of spiritual energy was extended from a few breaths to tens of breaths, and then from tens of breaths to hundreds of breaths.

At a certain moment, Li Yuan, at the second cutoff point of the segmented purification array, neither placed spirit stones nor inscribed spirit patterns, but simply used his spiritual power to draw a closed loop in the void.

Once the closed loop is formed, there is no leakage.

The spiritual energy circulates on its own within the ring, and its frequency resonates naturally with the stress on the dark vein walls, no longer requiring external force to maintain it.

Carrier-free closed loop.

The essence of an array lies not in its nodes and spirit patterns, but in the closed loop formed by the flow of spiritual energy. Nodes are anchors, spirit patterns are markers, and the closed loop is the foundation.

Fourth-order array formation, perfected.