Cultivation: I Can Solidify Equipment Attributes

Chapter 257: Chapter 248: Ruins (Part 2)

The Fire Serpent shot through the room’s doorway and slammed into the back of the Demon Cultivator nearest the entrance.

BOOM.

The force of the impact sent the Demon Cultivator flying into the wall on the opposite side of the room. A large, charred patch burned through the clothes on his chest. He let out a muffled groan, but before he could even get up, Li Ze’an’s Fire Element magic arrived.

A fist-sized Fireball smashed into his abdomen, pinning him against the wall again.

The second Demon Cultivator reacted instantly, his figure flashing to dodge the Fire Serpent’s aftershock. He conjured a dark purple Demon Qi Spirit Ball in his right hand and shot it down the corridor.

A Primordial Yang Sect disciple’s Spirit Shield blocked the way. The Demon Qi Spirit Ball slammed into the shield and exploded, spreading a layer of dark purple corrosion across its surface before being dispersed by Spiritual Power.

Li Yuan had already unleashed his second Fire Python Skill.

The Fire Serpent swerved around the side of the Spirit Shield and struck the second Demon Cultivator square in the chest. Empowered by the Origin Condensation Skill, the Fire Serpent’s Spiritual Power was incredibly dense; upon impact, it instantly pierced through the Demon Cultivator’s protective Spiritual Power.

The Demon Cultivator’s body flew backward and crashed heavily onto the ground, his chest caved in. His life force faded rapidly.

The first Demon Cultivator struggled to get up, but Li Ze’an pinned him to the wall with two more Fireball Techniques.

The Primordial Yang Sect disciple unleashed a Golden Blade Skill, ending the Demon Cultivator’s final struggle.

From encounter to kill, the two Demon Cultivators were dealt with in less than ten breaths.

The three of them entered the room and searched the two Demon Cultivators’ storage bags.

There weren’t many Spirit Stones—only a few hundred in total. There were also a few ordinary-quality Demon Cultivator Magical Artifacts, some demon cultivation pills, and several jade slips inscribed with Demon Patterns. The slips contained demon cultivation skills and some scattered pieces of intelligence.

The spoils weren’t great, but the intelligence on the jade slips could be valuable.

Li Yuan quickly divided the loot. He gave the intelligence-related jade slips to Chen Yi to handle, and the Magical Artifacts and Spirit Stones were split evenly among the three of them.

The trio continued their exploration deeper into the eastern corridor.

Most of the rooms had been picked clean, just like the others. Occasionally, they found some forgotten odds and ends—damaged Magical Artifacts, expired pills, or incomplete jade slips—but they were of limited value.

As they reached a side chamber at the very end of the corridor, Li Yuan paused.

His Entry Perception picked up a fluctuation.

Purple.

An extremely strong purple fluctuation, coming from a corner of the side chamber.

Li Yuan’s heart skipped a beat.

’A purple entry. This is a quality grade I’ve never encountered before. The highest I’ve seen until now was blue. Purple is a whole tier higher.’

He walked into the side chamber, following the fluctuation to a corner.

The corner was filled with a pile of rubble and the wreckage of a broken wooden rack, looking like the ruins left after a storage shelf had collapsed.

The pile of rubble was unremarkable. When he swept it with his Divine Sense, it just seemed like a few pieces of dusty scrap.

Li Yuan crouched down and pushed the rubble aside with his hands.

Beneath the rubble lay a thumb-sized bead.

The entire bead was a dark gold color, with a smooth, round surface. Inside, one could faintly see intricate Spirit Patterns flowing. The style of the Spirit Patterns was consistent with the grayish-white ones on the ruin’s walls, marking it as an item from the Profound Nether Sect.

However, the bead’s surface was shrouded in a faint Restriction. The Restriction suppressed the Spiritual Power fluctuations within, making it look no different from an ordinary stone bead on the outside.

If not for his Entry Perception, he would never have noticed it.

Li Yuan picked up the bead.

A panel popped up.

[Equippable Item Detected]

[Item Entry Grade: Purple]

[Note: Item does not belong to you. Cannot be equipped. Detailed information cannot be viewed.]

’Item does not belong to me.’

Li Yuan subconsciously expanded his Divine Sense to perceive it, only to discover the Restriction on it.

The Restriction on the bead hadn’t been broken yet. He had to break it first to make the bead his own, allowing him to equip it and view its entry details.

Li Yuan placed the bead into the deepest compartment of his storage bag, his expression unchanging.

"Nothing else here," he said to Li Ze’an. "Let’s go regroup."

The three returned to the main hall along the corridor.

The other two groups returned one after another and reported their findings. The ruins had been thoroughly cleaned out, with few items of value left. The other group had discovered a warehouse in the western corridor that hadn’t been completely cleared, finding some Demon Cultivator supplies and a few damaged Magical Artifacts.

After Chen Yi compiled all the intelligence and materials, he led the team out of the ruins.

They didn’t encounter any other Demon Cultivators on the way back.

It was evening by the time the team returned to Mist Forest Marketplace.

Chen Yi gave a brief summary at the marketplace’s administration office.

"The ruins have been confirmed as a former site of the Profound Nether Sect, which was converted into an underground treasury by a Demon Sect. The Dark Abyss Association already went in ahead of us and moved most of the supplies. I will report the specifics to the Sect, and a larger-scale investigation may be organized later."

He glanced at the people present.

"The Contribution Point rewards and material distribution for this operation will be sent out as soon as possible after I file my report. For now, go get some rest."

Everyone dispersed.

Li Yuan returned to his stone house in the marketplace and shut the stone door.

He took the dark gold bead from his storage bag and placed it in the palm of his hand.

The Restriction’s Spiritual Power fluctuation pulsed faintly in his palm; it wasn’t too strong.

’With my current Cultivation and Divine Sense strength, it shouldn’t be hard to break this Restriction. The Restriction is ancient, so its Spiritual Power has weakened significantly. Only the outermost seal is still holding.’

Li Yuan channeled Spiritual Power onto the bead’s surface, slowly seeping it into the cracks of the Restriction’s Spirit Patterns.

Under the continuous erosion of his Spiritual Power, the Restriction gradually loosened. The Spirit Patterns of the outer seal dimmed one by one, and the Restriction’s structure peeled away layer by layer like ice.

About a quarter of an hour later, the final sealing Spirit Pattern shattered.

The Restriction was completely removed.

The dark gold luster on the bead’s surface suddenly brightened, and the flow of the Spirit Patterns within became clearly visible. A gentle yet profound wave of Spiritual Power was released from the bead, spreading from his palm throughout his entire body.

The panel popped up.

[Equippable Item Detected: Three-in-One Bead (Intact)]

[Equip Entry Preview: Three Essences Union (Purple) — Enhances Essence, Qi, and Spirit by 20% each; Essence, Qi, and Spirit are highly unified and coordinated, mutually convertible at a two-to-one ratio.]

[Permanence Condition Preview: Condense a Top Grade Golden Core, OR reach Tier Three in both Physical Body and Divine Soul cultivation individually (0/1)]

[Current equipment slots are full (5/5). Replace a currently equipped item?]

’A purple entry. Three Essences Union.’

’Enhances Essence, Qi, and Spirit by 20% each. Essence, Qi, and Spirit become highly unified, coordinated, and mutually convertible.’

A twenty-percent comprehensive enhancement was already terrifying. Essence was the physical body’s Qi Blood, Qi was the Dantian’s Spiritual Power, and Spirit was the Divine Soul’s will. Enhancing all three by 20% meant a direct, massive boost to his overall strength.

The more crucial part was the second half: Essence, Qi, and Spirit were mutually convertible.

If his Spiritual Power ran low, he could consume Qi Blood or Divine Soul power to replenish it. If his Divine Soul was damaged, he could consume Spiritual Power or Qi Blood to repair it. If his Qi Blood was depleted, he could consume Spiritual Power or Divine Soul power to supplement it.

Being able to freely convert between the three types of energy was like merging three independent energy pools into one large reservoir. His combat endurance, cultivation efficiency, and risk resilience would all experience a qualitative leap. Even though there were losses in conversion, the overall effect was still extremely powerful.

The permanence conditions were extremely demanding: condense a Top Grade Golden Core, or individually reach Tier Three in both physical body and Divine Soul cultivation. Both conditions were far beyond his current level of cultivation and impossible to achieve in the short term.

But the equipped effect alone was more than worthy of an equipment slot.

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