Cultivation: I Can Solidify Equipment Attributes

Chapter 304: Chapter 293: Late-stage Foundation Establishment

The next morning, Li Yuan checked the prices in the marketplace and realized it was time to sell his stockpiled goods.

The prices of the items he had previously bought low—Life-extending Grass, Life Nourishing Spiritual Sand, Cyan Yang Root, and several auxiliary materials related to the Life Nourishing Vein—had now more than doubled.

The Dark Abyss Association continued to snap up goods. Combined with news leaking from within the Sects about an unorthodox Life Nourishing Vein method from the ruins, demand for these specific medicines skyrocketed, and supply couldn’t keep up. Two shops in the marketplace had already posted out-of-stock notices, and prices for private trades among Loose Cultivators were twenty percent higher than the shops’ listed prices.

Li Yuan didn’t sell everything in one go.

He first sold twenty stalks of Life-extending Grass, keeping a dozen or so for his own use. He sold half of the Life Nourishing Spiritual Sand, as the remainder would be useful for his future array formations and Alchemy. He only sold a third of the Cyan Yang Root; it would be more profitable to hold onto it if the price continued to rise.

After completing a few transactions, the Spirit Stones he earned had already far exceeded his initial investment.

Li Yuan immediately used his net profit to buy several types of Tier Two alchemy ingredients and a rare auxiliary material for arrays, not letting the Spirit Stones sit idle.

In between sales, Li Yuan stumbled upon an unexpected transaction in the marketplace.

A Loose Cultivator from Yunzhou approached him.

The man had a sallow complexion and was at the Early-stage Foundation Establishment.

When he found Li Yuan, he was cradling a tattered scroll of beast hide, his voice urgent.

"Pavilion Master Li, take a look at this. Are you interested in buying it?"

Li Yuan took it and first examined its appearance.

The scroll of beast hide was in poor condition; its corners were badly damaged, and the script was blurred and illegible in several places. However, the material itself was high-quality. Extremely faint patterns of Spiritual Power still lingered on the hide. It was clearly made from Spirit Beast Hide and was quite old.

Li Yuan flipped through a few pages.

It was a Divine Sense Secret Technique.

It didn’t strengthen the Divine Soul or expand the range of one’s Divine Sense; it was specifically about splitting the Divine Sense and controlling multiple lines simultaneously.

An ordinary cultivator would have little use for it.

For Li Yuan, however, it was a completely different story. In his daily Alchemy, array formations, and combat, he often needed to control multiple streams of Spiritual Power and Divine Sense at once. This was especially true after he reached Tier Two mastery in Alchemy; although he could already spare some focus to observe the fine details, his efficiency would reach a whole new level if he could split his Divine Sense.

"How many Spirit Stones?" Li Yuan asked.

The Loose Cultivator quoted a price. It wasn’t cheap, but it wasn’t exorbitant either.

Li Yuan didn’t haggle and paid the Spirit Stones outright.

As soon as the scroll of beast hide entered his possession, the panel popped up.

[Equippable Item Detected: Ancient Divine Sense Secret Technique (Complete)]

[Equipment Affix Preview: Divine Split Multitasking (Blue)]

[Effect: Allows perfect distinction between primary and secondary tasks after splitting the Divine Sense, preventing Divine Soul confusion.]

[Permanence Condition Preview: Maintain three or more independent Divine Sense Lines operating continuously for two hundred hours.]

’A blue affix.’

Li Yuan placed the scroll into his storage bag, not equipping it right away.

After returning to his stone house, Li Yuan took stock of the recent earnings from all his revenue streams.

The output from his Spirit Field had stabilized, yielding a regular monthly harvest of Spirit Medicines and auxiliary materials—some for his own use, some for sale.

Returns from the Evil Ore mine continued to grow. The regular output of Mid-grade Evil Stones was uninterrupted, and thanks to the flow guided by the Meridian Guiding Skill, Purple Evil Stones condensed at a stable rate. Each batch he took to the marketplace fetched anywhere from one to two hundred Spirit Stones.

Sales of Talismans and medicinal pills were his bread and butter. Now that his Tier Two Alchemy had reached the mastery level, the quality of his Vessel Continuation Pills and Gathering Essence Pills was constantly improving, and they were in high demand. Orders for Spirit Water Talismans never ceased, and his regular deliveries to the Purple Abyss Trading Company and the Wang family continued unabated.

Adding the profits from selling his hoarded goods, all four of his revenue streams were paying out simultaneously. His stockpile of Spirit Stones and alchemy ingredients swelled to a level Li Yuan had never reached before.

The various resources, neatly categorized inside his storage bag, amounted to a very respectable fortune.

Li Yuan committed the results of his inventory to memory and, without further thought, began to cultivate.

For the next few days, Li Yuan put all his energy into cultivation.

He had been at the Mid-stage Foundation Establishment for a long time.

Spiritual Power had been accumulating in his Dantian for a long time. With the combined effects of three affixes—Flawless Spiritual Power, Pure Spiritual Power, and Condensed Spiritual Power—the purity and density of the Spiritual Power in his Dantian had been pushed to the absolute limit for the Mid-stage Foundation Establishment. Any further compression would only increase the pressure on his Dantian’s walls, and the sense of fullness when circulating his Spiritual Power was growing more and more pronounced.

The opportunity for a breakthrough was already brewing.

Li Yuan didn’t rush the breakthrough. Instead, he first spent two days meticulously checking the status of every Cultivation Technique and affix within his body, confirming there were no conflicts or hidden dangers.

Hundred Rivers Returning to the Sea operated steadily within him; there were no issues coordinating his multiple Cultivation Techniques. His stable Spirit Platform suppressed the risk of cultivation deviation, and the breakthrough probability bonus from his Primordial Ruin Foundation Establishment was still active.

Everything was ready.

On the night of the third day, Li Yuan didn’t go to the Spirit Vein Core. Instead, he entered the mine tunnel.

He chose to attempt his breakthrough in a natural cavern within the Evil Ore mine.

The reason was simple. The permanence condition for his Evil Spirit Resonance affix was to complete one full breakthrough in an environment where both Evil Qi and Spiritual Power were present. The Cultivating Evil Array was still running in the mine tunnel, making the Evil Qi concentration sufficient. At the same time, a branch of the large Spirit Vein, guided by his Meridian Guiding Skill, continuously fed Spiritual Power into this very area.

Both Evil Qi and Spiritual Power were present.

Li Yuan first took out the Purple Evil Stone from his storage bag and equipped it.

[Equipped: Purple Evil Stone (Complete)]

[Evil Spirit Resonance (Green) is now active.]

He then sat cross-legged in the center of the cavern, closed his eyes, and began to regulate his breathing.

The surrounding Evil Qi was dense but calm. Beneath him, the main circuit of the Cultivating Evil Array pulsed slowly. Deeper in the rock, the Spiritual Power from the Spirit Vein branch also flowed gently, creating a stable state of coexistence with the Evil Qi in the air.

Li Yuan began to circulate his technique.

After his Spiritual Power completed one full cycle through his meridians, he began to slowly increase its speed.

The Spiritual Power in his Dantian was mobilized, cycle after cycle, pushing outward along his meridians. The pressure on his meridian walls increased wherever it passed. His Hundred Veins Returning to Origin Skill and Red Fire Skill operated in unison, harmonizing the different attributes of Spiritual Power into a single current. At the core of it all, Hundred Rivers Returning to the Sea directed the flow, ensuring the multiple streams of Spiritual Power didn’t interfere with each other during the push.

When the tenth cycle was completed, the walls of his Dantian began to vibrate.

Without hesitation, Li Yuan kicked the speed of his Spiritual Power circulation up another notch.

Then a fissure was forced open in the wall of his Dantian.

It wasn’t a true fissure, but a forceful expansion of his Dantian’s capacity in that instant. Like a flood that had found a breach, Spiritual Power gushed from his Dantian into his meridians. His meridian walls withstood a tremendous impact, but thankfully, his stable Spirit Platform kept the risk of cultivation deviation firmly suppressed.

Li Yuan continued to circulate his technique, and the fissure on his Dantian wall rapidly expanded.

In that moment, his level of Spiritual Power crossed the threshold.

His Dantian’s capacity abruptly expanded. A massive amount of Spiritual Power surged in and restabilized. The quality of his Spiritual Power was also refined by another degree in the instant of the breakthrough. The liquid Spiritual Power within his Dantian was more condensed than before, and the speed and efficiency of its flow were noticeably different.

The panel popped up.

[Permanence Condition for Evil Spirit Resonance (Green) has been met.]

[Complete one full breakthrough in an environment where both Evil Qi and Spiritual Power are present. (Met)]

[Make permanent?]

Li Yuan confirmed his choice. ’Yes.’

[Evil Spirit Resonance (Green) has become a permanent affix.]

The two changes occurred almost simultaneously.

The enhancement to his Spiritual Power from the breakthrough was still spreading through his body when the effects of the now-permanent Evil Spirit Resonance settled in. The barrier between Evil Qi and Spiritual Power was further broken down. Li Yuan could clearly feel that the Evil Qi permeating the mine tunnels could now be more than just gathered and converted by his Evil Essence Unification; he could draw upon it directly in battle, as if he had gained an extra reserve of Spiritual Power from the environment itself.

Li Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

The air in the mine tunnel was heavy and still. Beneath his feet, the main circuit of the Cultivating Evil Array continued to hum quietly.

He looked down at his hands.

The sensation of Spiritual Power flowing through his meridians was completely different from when he was in the Mid-stage Foundation Establishment. It was faster and denser, and the sense of fullness as it circulated was far more powerful. His Dantian’s Spiritual Power reserves were nearly thirty percent greater than before, and its quality had risen to a new level.

’Late-stage Foundation Establishment.’

Li Yuan stood up and stretched his limbs. He circulated the Spiritual Power through his body for one full cycle to confirm that all his Cultivation Techniques and affixes were functioning normally, then left the mine tunnel.

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