Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 733 Embers of the Battlefield

In the northeastern sky above Lingzhou, the ashes of the Crimson Demon Clan had not yet cooled completely.

Li Yuan withdrew his senses and transformed into a beam of light, heading southwest. Along the way, he encountered many scattered demon soldiers, mostly below the Golden Core stage. He didn't stop, heading straight for the deep abyss valley.

The closer you get to the deep valley, the denser the spatial fluctuations become.

Three hundred miles away, the aftershocks of the Nascent Soul level spiritual power still lingered among the rock strata. The permanent aura resonance entry revealed the status of the six-point resonance sealing array, its pressure fluctuating around 90%, and two of the six spatial folding chains had widened their cracks slightly.

When they reached the valley entrance, Li Yuan lowered his breath.

With the full power of the Concealment Technique activated, his Nascent Soul cultivation was suppressed to an extremely low level. Dark Insight concealed the fluctuations of spiritual power and demonic energy, and the spiritual energy membrane around his body also contracted.

At the valley entrance, two Nascent Soul cultivators from the Tianyue Sect were dragging a wounded Golden Core demon out. Seeing Li Yuan land, one of them pointed into the valley.

"They fought very fiercely from the front."

Li Yuan nodded and sank down the valley wall.

The crack at the bottom of the valley had been stretched to nearly ten zhang wide, and the walls of the space at the edge were cracked and peeling away, but the dark purple pillar of light remained. Occasionally, one or two Nascent Soul demons would rush out from the pillar of light, but they were stopped by the formation as soon as they showed their heads.

A three-layered spiritual energy barrier stood eighty feet in front of the crack. The first layer had several cracks, while the second and third layers were relatively intact. The Nascent Soul demon crashed into the barrier and bounced back, immediately being covered by the Demon-Slaying Array.

The twelve nodes lit up in turn, and dark red erosion waves shot out from all directions. Two Nascent Soul cultivators from the Kunpeng Alliance guarded behind the barrier, while the short, stout demon from the Demon Toad Palace guarded the left flank. Xuanpu and several other Nascent Soul cultivators were scattered around to fill in the gaps.

The battlefield for transforming into a god lies deeper within.

The sect leader of Yuanzong and the dark gray armored demons had fought their way from the bottom of the valley to the edge of the rift. Xuan Ying provided support from the flank, her silvery-white spiritual energy occasionally binding the dark gray demons' hands and feet.

Li Yuan landed behind the defensive formation, level with the seventh node of the Demon-Slaying Formation.

The three-headed Nascent Soul stage demons surged out from the left side of the crack, bypassing the edge of the barrier, attempting to break through from the side.

These Nascent Soul demons seemed to have very weak aura fluctuations, much weaker than normal Nascent Soul demon cultivators.

Li Yuan went to greet him.

The spatial confinement spell unfolded along the valley wall, covering only the ten-zhang passage on the side. The three-headed demon froze.

The first one had dark gray scales and a short, stocky build. Its demonic energy suddenly erupted, trying to break free from its confinement.

The spatial slicing technique then descended.

An invisible blade cut through the gaps in the scales on the neck, the primordial power flashing and then disappearing. The dark gray demon's neck split open, and it collapsed to the ground.

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The second dark green-scaled demon clawed fiercely at the edge of the confinement field. The late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator from the Kunpeng Alliance unleashed a golden sword aura from the side, slicing through the protective demonic energy, and Li Yuan's blade followed, piercing through his chest.

The second one fell.

The third one turned and fled into the crevice.

Li Yuan used his Void Escape Technique to step forward more than forty feet and intercepted it. He affixed the Dark Demon Erosion Talisman to its face, and the erosion wave disintegrated the protective demonic energy. A blade pierced its neck.

The three-headed nascent soul was in its early stages, lasting less than ten breaths.

The force field on the body surface fluctuated briefly, and the essence of demonic energy after the three-headed demon clan collapsed was intercepted by the True Demon Core and circulated once along the spiritual energy pathway.

Li Yuan retreated to the seventh node.

Another group of demons emerged from the rift, and the Nascent Soul cultivators from various sects seized the opportunity to attack.

A late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator from the Kunpeng Alliance cleaved open the breastplate of a demon with a single sword strike. A powerful demon from the Demon Toad Palace spewed poisonous mist, enveloping the two weakened demons. Xuanpu descended from above, his gauntlets brimming with spiritual power, and slammed a Nascent Soul demon into the barrier with a single punch.

Li Yuan provided cover from the flank. When a demon broke through the gap, he blocked the passage with a confinement field and finished it off with a blade line. When a demon tried to sneak into the dark vein branch, he used a void escape technique to intercept its path.

Half an hour later, more than ten Nascent Soul demons had emerged from the crack.

The Demon-Slaying Formation and the Mysterious Wall Formation, in conjunction with the Nascent Soul cultivators from various sects, annihilated them within the defensive line. Li Yuan moved back and forth along the edge of the battlefield, assisting in the killing of four early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, consistently using only Spatial Imprisonment and Spatial Cutting Techniques, without using Dragon Might Technique or transforming into his dragon form.

After sheathing his sword once more, Li Yuan suddenly sensed a green fluctuation in his perception.

The source was about four zhang ahead. A Nascent Soul stage demon was locked in combat with Xuanpu. Its abdominal scales were thicker than the rest of its body, and were grayish-white in color, glowing faintly in the demonic energy.

The entry surfaced in my mind.

Thick, protective armor, green in color. It restores magical energy when subjected to physical attacks and can be actively used to heal injuries.

Li Yuan noted it down but didn't make a fuss.

Xuanpu punched the demon's chest three times in a row, but the scales only cracked with two shallow lines, which were quickly filled by demonic energy.

Li Yuan approached from the side, using a spatial confinement technique to block their escape route.

Xuanpu's fist struck again, and the demon raised his arm to block, leaving his abdomen exposed.

Space cutting technique.

The blade cut into the edge of the abdominal scales, passed through the body cavity, and severed the demonic energy pathway along the spine. The demon's body stiffened, and it collapsed at the base of the valley wall.

When it disintegrated, most of its scales turned to ash, except for the grayish-white scale on its abdomen, which fell to the ground.

Li Yuan walked over and picked up the scales.

[Equipable item detected: Demon Armor Scales]

[Equipment Attribute Preview: Heavy Armor - Green]

[Effect: Restores magic energy when taking physical attacks; can be actively used to heal injuries.]

[Preview of Permanentization Conditions: Withstand three or more frontal impacts from Nascent Soul level or higher during the equipment period (0/3)]

Li Yuan scanned the panel, putting the scales into his storage bag, not equipping them for the time being.

Deep in the valley, the aftershocks of the collision between the Nascent Soul level beings suddenly changed.

The sect leader of Yuanzong suddenly pushed his spiritual power forward. Xuan Ying cooperated from the side, and silver chains wrapped around the left arm of the dark gray demon.

Taking advantage of the situation, the sect leader of Yuanzong struck the chest armor of the Dark Gray Demon with a palm strike.

The dark gray, heavily armored demon was attacked from both sides, and the crack in its breastplate suddenly widened. It grunted and retreated several steps to the edge of the crack.

The dark gray demon's vertical pupils swept across the surroundings. The crimson demon's aura had vanished, and the surging Nascent Soul demons were being systematically crushed within the defensive line.

kill.

It didn't persist.

The demonic energy within his body receded, and a layer of dark gold shield shone on the surface of his thick, dark gray armor, blocking Xuan Ying's final attack. As the shield shattered, the dark gray demon turned and crashed into the crack, his massive body squeezing into the dark purple pillar of light and disappearing at the other end.

The sect leader of Yuanzong stopped in front of the crack and did not pursue.

The six-point resonance sealing array tightened immediately. The load on the six array eye spirit stones dropped from 95% to about 80%, the spatial folding chains straightened again, and the two cracks stopped expanding.

The crack was stretched to nearly twelve zhang wide. As soon as the Nascent Soul stage attack stopped, the sealing array pressed down on the wall, and the crack stopped expanding, but it did not close either.

The Dark Gray Demons retreated, and the Crimson Demons are dead.

However, Nascent Soul demons were still surging out from the dark purple pillar of light, but without the leadership of the Divine Transformation cultivators, their charge became much more scattered.

The Demon-Slaying Formation continued to erupt.

The late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators of the Kunpeng Alliance pressed forward, unleashing a rain of sword energy. The powerful demon from the Demon Toad Palace guarded the left flank, shrouding the passageway in poisonous mist. Xuanpu, leading two cultivators from the Tianyue Sect, advanced from the right flank, sealing off the entrance to the Dark Vein branch.

Li Yuan was in charge of plugging the leak.

A dark green-scaled demon slipped out of the gap in the defense line and darted into the narrow crevice to the southeast.

Using the momentum from the three waves, Li Yuan traversed over sixty zhang in the blink of an eye, stopping at the narrow entrance. The demon collided head-on with the confinement field, its form halting.

The blade cuts in from the top of the head, runs down the spine, and pierces through the entire body.

The demon collapsed, its demonic energy dissipating. Before the spatial rift behind it had even dissipated, another dark gray demon crashed into it, its abdomen ripped open, and it screamed as it fell to the ground.

Li Yuan finished the job, eliminating both sides at once.

The operation lasted for more than half an hour.

The last few demons attempted to retreat through the rift, but were engulfed by the erosion wave of the Demon-Slaying Array. Their protective layers shattered, their speed plummeted, and they were subsequently caught up and killed by cultivators from various sects.

The last Nascent Soul demon fell at the edge of the crack.

The valley floor finally quieted down.

The dark purple pillar of light remained, though its brightness was much weaker than during the fierce battle. The crack slowly receded from twelve zhang, suppressed by the six-point resonance sealing array and the outer space sealing array, stabilizing at about eleven zhang.

The sect leader of Yuanzong stood before the rift, his robe torn in several places, a hole burned into the cuff of his right sleeve by demonic energy. Xuan Ying flew in from the side, his face paler.

The two Nascent Soul cultivators did not speak, but each found a spot on the valley wall to sit down and recover.

Li Yuan walked to the vicinity of the Demon-Slaying Formation.

The resonance of the abyss revealed the array's status. Nearly half of the spiritual energy reserves at the twelve nodes were depleted, but the circuits remained intact. The first layer of the Xuanbi Array's barrier had developed over ten cracks, while the second and third layers remained undamaged.

In this battle, the number of Nascent Soul demons killed within the coverage area of ​​the Demon-Slaying Formation had already exceeded ten. The Mysterious Wall Formation had also withstood far more than ten impacts from Nascent Soul level and above.

The conditions for the permanentization of both array eye stones are simultaneously met.

Demon Slayer and Array Split, 10/10.

The formation guards the Xuanbi, 10/10.

Li Yuan took out spirit stones from his storage bag and replenished the spiritual power of the two formations. He injected them into each of the twelve nodes one by one, and the erosion wave was fully charged again. The cracks in the barrier were also temporarily repaired with spatial stabilization spirit runes, and the strength of the first layer was restored to most of its original value.

After doing all this, Li Yuan retreated to the side of the valley wall and sat down.

The True Demon Core is still operating, and the essence of demonic energy intercepted throughout the battle is slowly being digested along the spiritual energy pathway.

The sound of the space cracking at the edge of the crevice at the bottom of the valley echoed intermittently.

The brightness of the dark purple beam is still decreasing. The opposing side seems to have stopped attacking, and the supply from the Ghostly Blood Sacrifice Array is weakening.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and activated the Nascent Soul Returning to Origin Technique.

The perfect cycle flowed through his body, and the spiritual energy completed a full cycle. The resonance wave of the Enlightenment Tree came from his personal microcosm and landed at the edge of his sea of ​​consciousness.