Cultivation: I Can Solidify Equipment Attributes

Chapter 277: Chapter 267: Tier 1 Array Dao Perfection

Wood Spirit Pills are Tier One pills. For the current Li Yuan, the improvement they offered could be described as better than nothing. After he consumed ten in a row, the panel popped up.

[Permanence conditions for Medicinal Property Identification (White) have been met.]

[Make Permanent?]

Li Yuan raised his hand to confirm.

[Medicinal Property Identification (White) has become a permanent trait.]

A very light, cool sensation spread from between his eyebrows, then settled into his perception.

Li Yuan casually picked up a pack of medicinal herbs from the table, ones that hadn’t yet been placed in the furnace. The moment he tried to identify them, he immediately felt a difference.

Before, identifying herbs was mostly about recognizing their shape, color, and the traits described in texts. Now, simply holding them in his hand made many subtle details—ones that previously would have required several glances to discern—much clearer.

This trait was certainly useful for the Alchemy Dao.

Li Yuan put the herbs away and didn’t force himself to continue refining. He’d had his fill of Wood Spirit Pills and obtained the trait; any further practice would require something new.

Meanwhile, the approach to handling the ruins had also changed.

The deep-level entrance remained closed.

A while ago, the Sect and several Array Masters would occasionally go over to see if they could dismantle the main Restrictions on the entrance’s outer layer any faster. But now, that approach had been completely abandoned.

Li Yuan continued to split his time between the marketplace and the ruins.

If he had business, he’d stay in the Mist Forest Marketplace.

When he was free, he would go to the ruins every two or three days to assist in breaking the arrays.

The next day, Li Yuan worked with two other array cultivators to clear the Array Patterns of a Flow Diversion Array.

The spot was to the left of the deep-level entrance. Three old circuits were buried underground, covered by a half-ruined concealment pattern. The other cultivators had spent half an hour trying to dismantle it, but they couldn’t find where the main pattern was anchored.

When Li Yuan went over, he first applied his Spirit Pattern Analysis ability, then traced the flow of Spiritual Power along the ground, feeling it out bit by bit.

A moment later, Li Yuan leaned over and pressed down on an unremarkable section of the side pattern.

"Don’t touch the center."

"Sever it here first."

The nearby array cultivator froze for a moment. When he looked down again, his expression immediately changed.

"This is a Backfolding Pattern!"

"The one in the middle is a fake," Li Yuan said. "Dismantle the Backfolding Pattern first, and the main pattern inside will be revealed."

The group followed his lead and, sure enough, quickly cleared the entire section of the Flow Diversion Array Pattern.

Simultaneously, the mental block in Li Yuan’s mind, the one keeping him just half a step from the Tier One Array Dao, seemed to give way.

The panel popped up accordingly.

[Technique: Tier One Array Dao — Perfection (0/5000)]

Tier One Array Dao. Perfection.

Li Yuan stood still, solidifying the sensation of that moment.

The greatest difference between Perfection and Great Success wasn’t knowing more, but being able to see the structure of things at a single glance.

Before, he needed to deconstruct Spirit Patterns section by section, first judging primary and secondary parts, then finding the key nodes.

Now, as soon as many Array Patterns entered his perception, he would know where to break them, where not to touch, and where to redirect the Spiritual Flow if it needed to be rerouted.

Several more days passed, and Li Yuan went to the ruins as usual.

This time, his task wasn’t to handle complex Restrictions, but to inspect several newly arrived Vein-Probing Magical Artifacts. The artifacts had been borrowed from another location for several array cultivators to measure changes in the Spiritual Flow between the ruins’ periphery and the deep-level entrance. They needed to be inspected upon arrival.

Several magical artifacts were already laid out on a table when Li Yuan arrived.

One of the men saw Li Yuan arrive and casually handed him a magical artifact.

"Li Dao You, help take a look. Are the nodes on this thing misaligned?"

It was a Vein-Probing Magical Artifact, shaped like a short staff. A grayish-white Spirit Crystal was embedded in its tip, and its shaft was engraved on both sides with extremely fine flow-discerning patterns.

’A White-grade trait,’ Li Yuan perceived.

As soon as Li Yuan took it, the panel popped up.

[Equippable item detected]

[Item Trait Grade: White]

[Note: This is not your item. Cannot equip. Cannot view details.]

"The nodes aren’t misaligned," Li Yuan said. "It’s this section of the flow-discerning pattern that’s a bit weak. Just add a stabilizing pattern to it later."

"Will you trade this magical artifact?"

The man nodded.

"I don’t have a good feel for it. If you find it useful, feel free to trade me something for it."

Li Yuan glanced at him and nodded.

"I’ll trade."

Since they both worked at the ruins and saw each other often, a single Vein-Probing Magical Artifact wasn’t considered too valuable.

Li Yuan traded a common magical artifact he’d acquired earlier, plus a few talismans, for the Vein-Probing Magical Artifact.

Now that the magical artifact was his, the complete panel immediately appeared the moment he touched it.

[Equippable Item Detected: Vein-Probing Short Staff (Intact)]

[Equippable Trait Preview: Vein-Guarding Pattern-Recognition (White)]

[Effect: Increases efficiency when identifying Restrictions. Enables precise identification of nodes within external Spiritual Flows.]

[Permanence Condition Preview: Completely survey a Spirit Vein (0/1)]

[Equipment Slots Full (5/5). Replace a currently equipped item?]

’A White-grade trait.’

’The effect wasn’t anything flashy, but it was exactly what he needed.’

The opportunity to completely survey a Spirit Vein was something Li Yuan had in abundance.

He had already mapped out the general structure of that large Spirit Vein and was familiar with the route. All he had to do was equip this item and trace the path one more time.

Li Yuan didn’t delay. After returning to the marketplace, he set out immediately.

That night, Li Yuan once again entered the underground route leading to the main vein.

After he had completely traversed the key areas of the entire Spirit Vein, the panel finally popped up.

[Permanence conditions for Vein-Guarding Pattern-Recognition (White) have been met.]

[Make Permanent?]

Li Yuan immediately confirmed.

[Vein-Guarding Pattern-Recognition (White) has become a permanent trait.]

A faint, cool sensation flashed past his eyes and through his sea of consciousness, then subsided.

Li Yuan stood at the edge of the main vein. When he looked at the surrounding layers of Restrictions again, his perception felt even more precise than before. It wasn’t that he saw more, but that many Spiritual Power nodes were locked in more firmly. Even with a single glance, he could more quickly determine what they connected to.

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