Cultivation: I Can Solidify Equipment Attributes

Chapter 289: Chapter 279: Vessel Continuation Pill

The next morning, Li Yuan sat at his desk with several items laid out before him.

An alchemy tome, a bottle of Lifespan Extension Pills seized from the marketplace massacre, a text on an unorthodox blood essence alchemy method, several pages of medicinal ingredient ratios and Tier Two Alchemy notes that Li Yuan had put together himself, and a formula for a Tier Two pill.

The formula for the Vessel Continuation Pill. He had previously spent a large amount of contribution points to acquire it from the Primordial Yang Sect.

Sounds from the marketplace could still be heard outside, but inside the room, it was very quiet.

Li Yuan sat at the desk. He didn’t rush to light the furnace. Instead, he first organized these items one more time before beginning to concoct the Vessel Continuation Pill.

This wasn’t his first time concocting a Tier Two pill, but it was the second type he had attempted, one requiring a completely different methodology.

Body Refining Pills focused on Qi Blood and the physical body. Their medicinal properties were denser and relied on a slow simmering with the Pill Fire.

The Vessel Continuation Pill, however, was different. It was meant to repair meridians and gently mend injuries, so its ingredients were richer in wood and water attributes. If the Pill Fire wasn’t controlled precisely, the medicinal potency would either be scorched away or the primary ingredients would separate prematurely.

Li Yuan proceeded steadily with the first furnaceful.

The initial stage went without a hitch; the ingredients dissolved smoothly. However, upon reaching the middle stage, as the Pill Liquid was about to condense, the main ingredients in the furnace failed to merge into a single mass as the formula described. Instead, they separated at the edges into two distinct layers of color.

One green, one gray.

The moment Li Yuan saw it, he knew exactly what had gone wrong.

The initial sequence of catalyst herbs was correct. The error lay with the auxiliary ingredient used to draw out the wood attribute; he had added it a breath too soon. It activated the medicinal properties prematurely, causing it to clash with the primary meridian-fusing herb before the latter had fully dissolved in the Pill Furnace.

Li Yuan cleared the ruined dregs from the first attempt and started on the second furnace.

It wasn’t until the third furnace that Li Yuan finally succeeded.

When he opened the furnace, the fragrance wasn’t rich. Instead, it carried a faint, astringent scent of plants and wood.

Li Yuan reached in, retrieved the two pills, and glanced at them.

The quality was barely acceptable.

The pills weren’t perfectly round, and their color was rather dull. This meant that while the batch was a success, the balance of heat and the fusion of medicinal properties lacked finesse. He was still a long way from true mastery.

Still, a success was a success.

This was the Vessel Continuation Pill.

It was also the second type of Tier Two pill that Li Yuan had successfully concocted.

A panel promptly appeared.

[Equippable Item Detected: Vessel Continuation Pill (Complete)]

[Equip Trait Preview: Vessel Healing (Green)]

[Effect: Increases injury recovery speed by 50%. The vast majority of injuries can heal on their own.]

[Permanence Condition Preview: Attain Great Success proficiency in a Tier Two Wood Element Cultivation Technique.]

[Current equipment slots are full (5/5). Do you wish to replace a currently equipped item?]

Li Yuan glanced at it, then dismissed the panel for now.

The trait’s effect was highly practical. Especially for someone like him, who often ventured deep into ruins, the Ghost Mist Forest, mining veins, and Spirit Veins, the value of sustained healing was significant.

However, the condition for making it permanent was also crystal clear.

Attain Great Success in a Tier Two Wood Element Cultivation Technique.

His only current Wood Element Cultivation Technique was the Cyan Wood Longevity Skill, and his proficiency with it was still only at the Expert stage. This meant he wouldn’t be able to make the green trait permanent anytime soon and would have to set the idea aside for now.

Li Yuan stored the two Vessel Continuation Pills away and took another look at the progress bar for his Tier Two Alchemy on the panel.

Although he hadn’t achieved a breakthrough, it had undeniably advanced a fair bit.

These past few batches were not a waste.

Meanwhile, with the Evil Vein now in continuous production of Mid-grade Evil Stones, the resources at Li Yuan’s disposal were completely different from before.

The southern vein was now steadily yielding Mid-grade Evil Stones, which meant he no longer had to rely solely on Spirit Stones for external trade.

And items like these were in high demand among the Cultivators at the Mist Forest Marketplace and on the front lines.

This was especially true for certain Demon Cultivators.

A single Mid-grade Evil Stone could be traded for several High Tier alchemy ingredients that were normally difficult to acquire, an old artifact, or even a tome of obscure knowledge from someone’s private collection.

Li Yuan could finally start using what he produced himself to trade for what he truly needed.

This was a completely different matter from his previous reliance on Spirit Stones for all purchases.

After busying himself with the marketplace and his alchemy during the day, Li Yuan would head to the Spirit Vein Core as soon as he was free at night.

With the large Spirit Vein permanently equipped in his special slot, its nurturing effect was always active. Even when he wasn’t actively cultivating, his Spiritual Power would slowly circulate along familiar pathways, gradually replenishing the energy in his Dantian that he had spent on combat, alchemy, array formations, and managing the marketplace’s daily affairs.

But meditating near the actual Spirit Vein Core was a completely different story.

Deep within the subterranean cavern, the Spiritual Radiance leaking from the edge of the main vein still looked like an extremely faint mist, flowing slowly across the stone floor.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged in his familiar spot. The moment he activated his cultivation technique, the surrounding Spiritual Qi immediately converged on him.

It wasn’t a violent infusion. Rather, the already dense Spiritual Qi near the main vein was guided by his cultivation technique, flowing smoothly into his body through his meridians.

The Hundred Veins Returning to Origin Skill, Spirit-Introducing Skill, Red Fire Skill, and Cyan Wood Longevity Skill circulated in tandem within his body. Then, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, the Hundred Veins skill forcibly merged these separate streams of Spiritual Power into a single, smoother current.

The Spirit Vein’s nurturing effect played a continuous role in this process.

As a result, the moment the Spiritual Qi entered his meridians, well before it reached his Dantian, the impurities that would have inevitably been present were already cleansed away.

By the time it finally settled into his Dantian, the liquid Spiritual Power was finer and more condensed than it normally was.

A single two-hour session here was often more beneficial for Li Yuan than cultivating for an entire night in his stone house.

This difference couldn’t be summed up by simply saying "cultivation was faster here."

Instead, for every full circulatory cycle, he absorbed more Spiritual Qi, lost fewer impurities en route, and the portion that ultimately settled into his Dantian was far purer. Furthermore, the automatic cultivation granted by the Spirit Vein’s nurturing effect was incessant. Even after Li Yuan left, that purified Spiritual Power would continue to circulate slowly along its familiar pathways within his body.

Deep in the night, the cavern was always silent.

Sometimes, after finishing his cultivation, Li Yuan would open his eyes and gaze at the stone ceiling above. He could clearly sense that the connection between the Restriction above the main vein and the deeper ruins was still there. It simply wasn’t the right time to meddle with it.

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