Cultivation: I Can Solidify Equipment Attributes

Chapter 302: Chapter 291: Flawless Spiritual Power

The breakthrough in the Cyan Wood Longevity Skill came quietly.

That night, Li Yuan was meditating near the Spirit Vein Core as usual. When his Cultivation Technique began to circulate according to the path of the Cyan Wood Longevity Skill, the sensation of Wood Spiritual Power spreading through his meridians was suddenly different.

It wasn’t faster or more forceful, but smoother.

The barrier that had been holding him back from advancing from mastery to Minor Achievement, like a stone wall softened after a long soak, was silently penetrated by his Spiritual Power during this cycle.

There was no distinct impact, nor any sign of a surge in Spiritual Power. The Wood Spiritual Power simply pushed a little farther at that moment, covering the fine ends of meridians it couldn’t reach before.

The panel appeared.

[Cultivation Technique: Cyan Wood Longevity Skill—Minor Achievement (0/3200)]

Li Yuan didn’t open his eyes, continuing to complete the current cycle of his Cultivation Technique.

After reaching Minor Achievement, the Cyan Wood Longevity Skill’s Wood Spiritual Power now covered a wider area within his body. At the mastery stage, the Wood Spiritual Power had mainly flowed through a few major meridians and their larger connected pathways, struggling to penetrate the finer, peripheral ones. Now at Minor Achievement, even those delicate meridians could be slowly nourished by the Wood Spiritual Power, raising his body’s self-healing ability to another level.

Combined with the bonus from his permanent "Wood Spirit Nourishment" trait, his recovery speed from everyday injuries was so fast it was almost unnoticeable. Minor cuts began to heal almost the instant they appeared, and even deeper wounds, as long as they weren’t fundamentally damaging, would have their recovery time drastically reduced.

Only after completing the final cycle of his Cultivation Technique did Li Yuan open his eyes.

The underground cavern was silent, the main vein’s Spiritual Radiance clinging to the stone floor as it flowed.

He didn’t get up. Instead, he remained where he was and shifted his cultivation focus back to his primary Cultivation Technique.

Spiritual Power circulated through his meridians, one cycle after another.

The large-scale Spirit Vein was equipped in his special slot, its spirit-gathering effect constantly active. The Spiritual Qi concentration near the main vein’s core far surpassed that of the stone house or the market district. With every cycle he completed, the Spiritual Power entering his Dantian was more abundant and purer than anywhere else.

The progress toward making the Top Grade Spirit Stone a permanent trait was constantly being pushed forward.

Tonight was no exception.

But this time, as Li Yuan completed his thirty-second cycle—

The panel appeared.

[Conditions met for permanent activation of Flawless Spiritual Power (Blue)]

[Permanently activate?]

With a thought, Li Yuan confirmed his choice.

[Flawless Spiritual Power (Blue) is now a permanent trait]

The change was instantaneous.

The Spiritual Power in his Dantian felt as if it had been washed clean, so transparent it lacked a single impurity. The sensation of it flowing through his meridians during circulation was completely different. No matter how pure it had been before, there was always a faint, almost imperceptible sense of resistance, like water flowing through a less-than-smooth pipe.

Now, that resistance was completely gone.

Wherever the Spiritual Power went, it was received without any obstruction. A full cycle now took less time than before. The increase in efficiency was tangible.

And this was just the initial state after it became a permanent trait.

The effect of Flawless Spiritual Power was to significantly filter impurities from Spiritual Qi, automatically purify the Spiritual Power within his body, and double his cultivation speed. From now on, no matter where Li Yuan cultivated, the Spiritual Qi he absorbed would be automatically filtered, resulting in only the purest Spiritual Power.

Li Yuan finished this entire cycle of his Cultivation Technique before returning to the stone house from the underground cavern.

Dawn was breaking when he returned to the stone house. Li Yuan sat at his desk to check on the market district’s situation. Over this period, his business ventures in the market had been steadily recovering.

The production of Purple Evil Stone had stabilized thanks to the continuous channeling of the Meridian Guiding Skill. He collected a batch every three to four days, and once he had accumulated a certain amount, he would sell it in the market district. The price remained between one hundred and one hundred eighty Spirit Stones, and finding buyers was never an issue.

The production of pills and Talismans also continued uninterrupted. After his Tier Two Alchemy skill reached the mastery stage, the success rate for crafting Vessel Continuation Pills and Gathering Essence Pills steadily increased. Selling the surplus pills brought in a considerable income each month. Talismans were his bread and butter; orders for Spirit Water Talismans and other common Talismans never stopped coming in.

In the Spirit Field, the second batch of Spirit Medicine was ready for harvest. Although rebuilding the supply chain for seeds and supplementary materials took some time after his connection with the Li family was severed, it was now sorted out, and production had returned to normal.

With several streams of income recovering simultaneously, Li Yuan’s reserves of Spirit Stones and alchemy materials were rapidly expanding.

Li Yuan hadn’t neglected the lead on the mole from the Dark Abyss Association, either.

Ever since identifying that night patrol Cultivator, Li Yuan had been observing him in secret, careful not to tip his hand.

During this time, two more similar, faint, and abnormal fluctuations had occurred at the third auxiliary node on the west side of the Demon-Exploring Array.

They still happened at night, but the interval was slightly longer than before, occurring roughly every four to five days.

Li Yuan recorded the time, intensity, and corresponding patrol schedule for each fluctuation.

The cultivator’s pattern was now quite clear.

Every time a fluctuation occurred, he was on duty on the western patrol route. The fluctuations themselves were extremely brief and low in intensity. If not for the upgraded Demon-Exploring Array’s continuous comparison system, which could stack and amplify weak signals from multiple nodes, they would be impossible to detect.

Li Yuan also noticed another detail.

This cultivator’s frequency of private trades with outside Loose Cultivators had also been increasing recently. The records of these transactions remained vague, but within a day or two after each trade, an anomaly would appear at the western auxiliary node.

’The timing adds up.’

Li Yuan was in no hurry to pull this weed.

’If I follow this person’s trail, I’ll uncover much more. Who does he report to? Who does that person contact in turn? Just how extensive is the Dark Abyss Association’s infiltration network within the market district? Figuring all that out will take time.’

’If I act now, I’ll only catch a minion.’

’I’ll wait a little longer. Maybe I can reel in a bigger fish.’

After handling market affairs during the day, Li Yuan continued dismantling the Restrictions in the underground passage at night.

He had nearly finished dismantling the 3rd Floor of Restrictions several days ago. The last few locking points connected to the teleportation structure’s core circuit were peeled away one by one. The teleportation structure itself was completely undamaged, its circuits still intact.

After finishing the 3rd Floor, Li Yuan used his Spirit Vein sense to probe forward and discovered two more layers ahead.

The structure of the fourth layer of Restrictions was similar to the third, but the Array Patterns were denser, and they were embedded deeper into the stone. Li Yuan spent three nights just to sort out this layer’s primary and secondary relationships before he began to dismantle it piece by piece.

His dismantling speed was much slower than before. The fourth layer’s locking points were hidden deeper, some even embedded in crevices within the teleportation structure’s inner walls, requiring him to seep his Spiritual Power in little by little just to find them.

Several days later, the fourth layer of Restrictions was also removed.

Along the path of the teleportation structure, only the final layer of Restrictions remained.

Li Yuan stood between the second-to-last and the final layer, looking ahead with his Spirit Vein sense.

The scale of the final layer of Restrictions was clearly larger than any of the previous ones. Its Array Pattern density was extremely high, and its structure was the most complex. This was the core seal of the entire passage, the last barrier set up by the old Sect years ago.

’Open this, and the entire underground passage will be clear.’

Li Yuan observed for a moment, not rushing to act.

’I can’t rush the last layer. I need to see the whole picture before I make a move.’

He turned and went back the way he came, exiting the underground cavern and returning to the stone house.

The night was deep, and the lights of the market district outside the window had grown sparse.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged on his cushion and resumed his cultivation.

This was his first official cultivation session after Flawless Spiritual Power became permanent, and the effects were immediately apparent. The Spiritual Qi he absorbed had its impurities automatically stripped away less than halfway through its journey in his meridians. By the time it settled into his Dantian, the Spiritual Power’s purity was another notch higher than before.

The increase in his cultivation speed was substantial.

Previously, with the two traits "Pure Spiritual Power" and "Spiritual Power Condensation" as his foundation, his cultivation efficiency already far surpassed his peers. Now, with Flawless Spiritual Power stacked on top, the combined effect of the three traits nearly doubled the amount of Spiritual Power he gained in the same amount of time.

Furthermore, the automatic cultivation from the Spirit Vein’s spirit-gathering effect had never ceased, and the bonus from the large-scale Spirit Vein’s Spiritual Qi concentration was always active.

With these stacked effects, Li Yuan’s current cultivation efficiency was likely unmatched by any other Foundation Establishment Cultivator in the entire frontline region.

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