Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 728 Mastery of the Yao Guang Refining Spirit Technique

The deep valley of the abyss, the mouth of the valley.

When Li Yuan came up from the valley floor, Zhou Heng was standing by the stone platform, holding a communication token in his hand.

Zhou Heng's expression was grave: "It's not just this one. Aside from the main rift in the Abyss Valley, we have confirmed at least three other spatial rifts that allow the demons to pass through."

He paused for a moment.

"Nobody knows how many are still undiscovered."

Li Yuan memorized this message.

While the Nascent Soul demons couldn't get through, small groups of Nascent Soul demons were able to infiltrate the lower realm through unknown pathways.

After the exchange, Li Yuan transformed into a beam of light and left.

Li Yuan did not stray too far from the deep valley; he descended along the southeast side of the valley wall, passed through two layers of rock veins, and entered a hidden vein interlayer.

The interlayer is about 600 zhang away from the main fissure, connected to a natural ley line on one side and close to a branch of a dark ley line on the other. By the time the aftershocks of the fissure reach this place, they have weakened by more than half, but still retain subtle spatial vibrations.

The aftershocks of the segmented purification array and the six-point resonance sealing array intertwined among the rock strata, forming a relatively stable buffer zone.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged in the center, closed his eyes, and began to circulate the Yao Guang Refining Spirit Technique.

The divine consciousness drew out threads from the center of the sea of ​​consciousness and extended them towards the boundary.

When finishing a certain round of practice, the resilience of the spiritual threads was nearly double that of the proficient stage.

He is proficient in the Yao Guang Refining Spirit Technique.

Li Yuan withdrew his divine sense threads, opened his eyes, and opened the entrance to his personal miniature world.

The Enlightenment Tree stands in the place with the densest spiritual energy, and the spatial spirit-gathering array continues to operate, keeping the spiritual energy concentration in the small world stable at nearly four times the normal level.

At the top of the tree crown, the petals changed from three to four. The fourth petal was slightly smaller than the first three, lighter in color, and translucent with a hint of pale gold. The self-stabilizing dragon pattern on the surface of the petal was clearer, with four nodes forming a closed loop, within which spiritual fluctuations flowed freely.

The color of the flower stamens has also deepened.

The tender shoots from the second bud have grown to nearly an inch, are golden-green and slender, and are no longer as fragile as they were at the beginning.

Li Yuan looked towards the southeast of Xiaojie.

The fusion of the three adjacent small spiritual veins is still progressing. Last time, the frequency difference shrank to just over 10%, but now it's less than 10%. The walls of the three spiritual veins are almost touching, and spiritual energy is permeating each other at the point of convergence.

With one or two more sessions of guiding the Qi Meridian Cultivation Technique, the first medium-sized Qi Meridian in the small world will take shape.

Li Yuan withdrew his divine sense and closed the entrance to the small world.

The communication token at my waist vibrated.

The mysterious frequency band.

"Li Yuan, I just went out to gather intelligence and discovered traces of human demon cultivators in the northeastern part of Lingzhou. Their aura contains remnants of ancient Yuan Sect spiritual runes, suggesting they are repairing a node in the Seven Star Demon Gathering Array. I've pinpointed their location. Are you coming?"

Li Yuan replied to the message, then transformed into a streak of light and rushed out, heading straight for the northeast of Lingzhou.

Abandoned mountain stronghold in the northeast of Lingzhou.

The stronghold was built halfway up a low mountain, with most of the walls collapsed and the houses in ruins. Behind the stronghold, inside the mountain, was the entrance to a mine tunnel, which had collapsed halfway, leaving only a narrow crack.

Xuanpu and the others were at the foot of the low mountain. When they saw Li Yuan land, they pointed to the mine tunnel.

"Both of them are in the early Nascent Soul stage. Their auras don't resemble those of local demonic cultivators from the lower realms; their spiritual energy frequencies are closer to those of the Netherworld."

Human demon cultivators who infiltrated the lower realms from the Netherworld.

Without saying much, the two sneaked into the mine tunnel one after the other.

The mine tunnel was about three hundred feet deep, its deepest point leading to a natural stone chamber. Li Yuan's perception spanned eighteen hundred feet, and the stone chamber...

The auras of the two cultivators inside were clearly discernible. One was a man, and the other a woman; both were in the early stages of the Nascent Soul realm, and the frequency of their demonic energy circulation was indeed consistent with that of the Netherworld.

On the floor of the stone chamber, an array was being repaired. Nine of the twelve dark red spirit stones had been returned to their positions, and the spirit rune circuit was mostly repaired.

The formation structure is completely identical to the sacrificial nodes of the Seven Stars Demon Gathering Formation.

The two squatted in the center of the formation, embedding the tenth spirit stone into the node.

Li Yuan and Xuan Pu exchanged a glance and attacked simultaneously.

Spatial confinement technique.

The confinement field enveloped the stone chamber, causing the two demonic cultivators to freeze.

The male cultivator reacted extremely quickly, flicking his wrist to throw out three black spirit stones. The spirit stones exploded upon landing, releasing a surge of dense demonic energy that formed three barriers.

Demonic energy trap.

Three barriers sliced ​​the stone chamber into several pieces, causing the concentration of demonic energy to surge dramatically. The edges of the confinement area rippled, and the two demonic cultivators seized the opportunity to break free and retreat rapidly into the depths of the mine tunnel.

The mine tunnel was a dead end, but the male cultivator slammed his palms against the rock wall, channeling demonic energy into the rock strata and forcibly blasting a passage through. Amidst the flying debris, the two separated and disappeared into the rock strata.

One faces northeast, the other faces due north.

Li Yuan chose the one facing northeast.

The Void Escape Technique was activated.

Spiritual energy probing beneath his feet penetrated the spatial walls, sending wave after wave of energy back. The space within the Dark Vein region fluctuated frequently, with a considerable density of wave peaks. Li Yuan stepped over several wave peaks in succession, his figure tracing an arc through the rock strata.

A few breaths later, Li Yuan intercepted the male cultivator who was fleeing northeast.

The male cultivator emerged from the rock strata and bumped head-on into Li Yuan.

The two sides were less than five zhang apart.

The male cultivator's pupils contracted, and he thrust out both palms, forming a shield of dense demonic energy in front of him.

Space cutting technique.

An invisible blade shot out from the fingertip, empowered by the power of primordial chaos. The blade struck the demonic energy shield, first peeling away the outer layer, then dissolving the inner layer with the corrosive force of the demonic energy.

The precision of the blade line at the minor completion stage is already high, but it still requires two strikes to face the full defense of a Nascent Soul stage demonic cultivator.

The first cut opened up 70% of the shield's surface.

The Demonic Binding Technique was activated simultaneously, with twelve binding ropes shooting out from the side, entangling the male cultivator's arms and waist.

The second cut was made.

The blade cut into the crack in the shield, unleashing a surge of primordial power, along with spatial cutting force and the corrosive power of demonic energy.

A single slash pierced through.

The blade sliced ​​through the demonic energy shield, the protective layer of demonic energy, and the robe on the chest, severing the main vein of spiritual energy.

The male cultivator's eyes bulged out, black blood gushed from his mouth, and his body went limp as he was bound by the ropes.

The blade didn't immediately disperse after piercing the defense; instead, it left an extremely fine spatial rift at the wound. The rift persisted for two or three breaths, causing a secondary tear within the male cultivator's body.

Spatial cutting technique, perfected.

The changes after reaching mastery are reflected in this residual crack. After the blade cuts through the target, it leaves a temporary spatial crack in its trajectory, which will be cut again if any spiritual or demonic energy flows through it.

The sounds of spiritual energy clashing on the front lines also ceased.

Li Yuan used spatial detection techniques to pinpoint Xuanpu's location.

About a hundred feet to the north, Xuanpu was fighting another female cultivator. Seeing her companion being intercepted and killed, the female cultivator's expression changed drastically. She did not continue to entangle him, and her demonic energy rapidly expanded, preparing to self-destruct.

Just like the Azure Scale Demon Clan in Yunzhou Mining Valley.

It takes two or three breaths to self-destruct.

Li Yuan stepped onto the crest of the wave, covering the hundred-zhang distance in the blink of an eye. The blade line of his perfected Spatial Severing Technique cut in from the side, piercing through the female cultivator's waist and severing the main meridian of demonic energy. The self-destructing demonic energy lost its transmission path, and after running wildly within her body for a few breaths, it dissipated.

The female cultivator collapsed to the ground, her demonic energy disintegrating out of control.

Both demonic cultivators were killed.

Xuanpu walked over, glanced at the corpse on the ground, and looked somewhat dazed.

Li Yuan didn't speak, but squatted down to search the male cultivator's storage bag.

There weren't many spiritual materials in the storage bag, but there were two jade slips and a folded spiritual pattern drawing.

The first jade slip contained information about the old methods of the Yuan Sect. The spiritual pattern structure was of the same origin as the tracking marks previously discovered in the Youyuan Valley and the Yunzhou Mining Valley, and it contained the secret codes and coordinates of the dark veins used for communication between the Yuan Sect and the Demon Clan.

The second jade slip was a map of the distribution of hidden veins. It was more detailed than the version Li Yuan had previously obtained, and marked numerous tiny branches.

The real important thing is that blueprint.

Li Yuan unfolded the spirit pattern blueprint, and the permanent entry of the Netherworld Knowledge translated the ancient demonic script.

Backup activation path for the Seven Star Demon Gathering Array.

The blueprints clearly state that if the seven sacrificial nodes cannot be activated simultaneously, an alternative route can be taken. As long as sufficient demonic energy is poured into the main convergence point of the earth vein hub, it can be forcibly pushed to each node through the underground dark vein network.

There's no need to open all seven locations at once.

As long as there is enough demonic energy at the convergence point, the formation can still be activated.

The nexus of the earth's veins.

Li Yuan had previously set up two sealing arrays at the Earth Vein Hub, cutting off two branch roads: one in the northeast of Lingzhou and the other in the Dark Swamp of Liangzhou. However, the sealing arrays only blocked the entrances to the branch roads; the hub itself remained intact. If someone were to pour demonic energy into the hub from within, the sealing arrays would not be able to stop it.

The Seven Star Demon Gathering Array poses a greater threat than anticipated. The nodes can be bypassed; as long as the earth vein hub is controlled, the entire array can be forcibly activated.

Li Yuan put the blueprints and two jade slips into his storage bag, stood up and handed the jade slips to Xuan Pu.

After reading it, Xuanpu's face darkened.

The human demon cultivators who infiltrated from the Netherworld have mastered the ancient methods of the Abyss Sect, are familiar with the Dark Vein Network, and are still repairing the nodes of the Seven Star Demon Gathering Array.

The two did not linger in the abandoned mountain stronghold. Li Yuan compiled the intelligence into a jade slip, handed it to Xuanpu to be passed on to the Tianyue Sect, and then transformed into...

The light returned to the depths of the dark vein.

The third sealing array of the Earth Vein Hub must be completed as soon as possible.

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