Cultivation: I Can Solidify Equipment Attributes

Chapter 312: Chapter 301: Three-Way Collaboration

On the day after the tripartite agreement was finalized, Li Yuan departed for the Wang family’s mine.

Wang Ting’an had arranged for a Wang family Cultivator to stand guard outside the mine tunnel, leaving everything else to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan entered the mine tunnel and first went to inspect the old Fire Gathering Array that the Li family had previously set up.

The Array was still operational, but it was old and in disrepair. A few nodes had loosened, and the Array Patterns showed signs of weathering. It was a standard Tier One Fire Gathering Array, designed to speed up the condensation of Fire Element Spirit Ore—a very conventional setup.

Dismantling the array didn’t take much effort.

After dismantling the old array, Li Yuan began to set up the new Fire Gathering Array.

The Array Materials and Array Map were both provided by the Wang family.

After about four hours, the Fire Gathering Array was complete.

He selected a medium-quality Fire Sun Stone and embedded it as the Array Hub. With an injection of Spiritual Power, the Array lit up. The main patterns radiated outward from the Array Hub, and Fire Element Spiritual Qi slowly began to gather.

As Li Yuan squatted beside the Array Hub to check on its status, the panel popped up.

[Detected equippable item: Fire Gathering Stone (Complete)]

[Equip Trait Preview: Fire Gathering (White)]

[Effect: Fire Element Spiritual Qi gathering speed increased by 30%]

[Permanence Condition Preview: Master a Fire Element Magic.]

A white-rarity trait. The condition for making it permanent was to master one Fire Element Magic.

He had long since mastered the Fireball Technique.

’The condition is already met.’

[Fire Gathering (White) has become a permanent trait.]

The Fire Gathering Stone vanished from the Array Hub, and once permanent, the trait solidified onto Li Yuan himself.

Li Yuan took another Fire Sun Stone from his storage bag and embedded it in the Array Hub. The Array lit up once more, resuming normal operation.

With the Fire Gathering Array sorted, Li Yuan walked to the deepest part of the cavern. He squatted down and pressed his palm against the boundary where the body of the mine vein met the rock layer.

He pushed his senses downward.

The path of the Wang family’s Fire Attribute mine vein unfurled clearly within his senses. It extended down from the cavern floor, plunging deeper and deeper. At a depth of roughly thirty zhang, the vein began to thin, eventually vanishing into a dense layer of rock.

Li Yuan’s senses continued to pierce downward.

The rock layer was thick but not uniform. South of the Fire Vein’s terminus, there was a natural fissure in the stone. The fissure wasn’t wide—just over a finger’s breadth—but it ran from top to bottom, piercing through most of the rock layer.

’On the other side of that fissure is the territory of my Evil Ore mine.’

The straight-line distance between the two mine veins, separated by this fissure, was less than ten zhang.

Li Yuan retracted his senses and began to cast the skill.

The Spiritual Power for the Meridian Guiding Skill flowed from his fingertips, slowly seeping into the surface of the Fire Vein’s end.

Just as with the technique he had used to guide the Spirit Vein’s branch, he could not be hasty or forceful. The Spiritual Power seeped along the surface of the vein, pushing it toward the target direction, shifting it just a sliver at a time.

The difference this time was that he wasn’t just shifting the vein’s direction; he had to guide the end of the Fire Vein toward that fissure.

The vein slowly began to respond.

The end of the vein began to shift slightly, inching bit by bit toward the fissure.

Li Yuan maintained the skill for nearly two hours before the Fire Vein’s end had shifted by a barely sufficient amount. The tip of the vein had probed the edge of the fissure but had not yet passed through.

Li Yuan stopped and checked the vein’s condition.

The shifted end of the Fire Vein showed no abnormalities, and the vein itself exhibited no signs of rejection. If he continued using the skill, a few more sessions would be enough to guide the vein completely through the fissure and connect it to the Evil Ore mine on the other side.

He wasn’t in a hurry to finish it today, however.

A job like this, using the Meridian Guiding Skill, had to be done in multiple sessions. Doing too much at once could cause the vein to snap back.

Li Yuan stopped the skill, stood up, and wiggled his fingers.

Just then, a notification popped up on the panel.

[Technique: Meridian Guiding Skill — Proficient (0/400)]

His Meridian Guiding Skill had advanced from Entry-level to Proficient.

When Li Yuan emerged from the mine tunnel, the Wang family Cultivator guarding outside approached him.

"Li Dao You, is the work on the array finished?"

"The array is set, and the old one has been completely dismantled," Li Yuan said. "Connecting the mine veins will take a few days. We can check for changes in output once the connection is made."

The Cultivator nodded and asked no further questions.

After returning to Mist Forest Marketplace, Li Yuan first went to the administration office.

Wang Ting’an had already prepared his payment. A storage bag sat on the table, waiting for him.

Li Yuan opened it and took a look.

A batch of rare Array Materials of truly excellent quality. Several types of pattern-stabilizing Spiritual Sand were the kind of thing you couldn’t buy in the marketplace even if you had the money. The grade of the Drainage Stone was also a tier higher than what was commonly available. In addition, there were a few minerals Li Yuan had never seen before, their surfaces shimmering with a faint golden light, and they felt heavy in his hand.

Besides the Array Materials, there was a jade slip at the bottom of the storage bag.

Li Yuan took out the jade slip and probed it with his Divine Sense.

It was a supplementary Cultivation Technique from the Wang family.

The Cultivation Technique was called the Strengthening Essence and Longevity Breathing Skill, and it focused on preserving Qi Blood. It didn’t directly raise one’s Qi Blood ceiling or accelerate its recovery; instead, it reduced the rate of Qi Blood consumption during combat.

When the skill was active, the circulation of Qi Blood within the body was automatically optimized, reducing unnecessary expenditure. In a prolonged battle, one’s Qi Blood endurance would be noticeably better than that of a Cultivator of the same tier who had not learned this skill.

[Detected equippable item: Strengthening Essence and Longevity Breathing Skill (Complete)]

[Equip Trait Preview: Enduring Qi Blood (Green)]

[Effect: Qi Blood consumption during combat is reduced by 20%. Sustained combat capability is enhanced.]

[Permanence Condition Preview: Fight continuously against a same-tier opponent for over two hours without Qi Blood dropping below 80%, OR master a Tier Two Body Refining Technique.]

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

A green-rarity trait.

’Reduces Qi Blood consumption in combat by twenty percent and enhances sustained combat capability.’

’This effect doesn’t overlap with my existing Qi Blood-related traits. River of Qi Blood manages recovery speed, Flourishing Qi Blood manages the upper limit and boosts, and Enduring Qi Blood manages consumption speed. Each one handles a different aspect. Stacked together, my Qi Blood endurance will be incredibly formidable.’

’There are two conditions to make it permanent, and I only need to meet one of them.’

’Comparing the two, the first condition seems easier to achieve.’

Li Yuan put the jade slip away and returned to his stone house.

For the next two days, Li Yuan made a daily trip to the Wang family’s mine, continuing to use the Meridian Guiding Skill to guide the end of the Fire Vein through the fissure in the rock.

Once his Meridian Guiding Skill reached the Proficient level, the degree of shift he could achieve each time was much greater than at the Entry-level. By the end of the second day, the Fire Vein’s end had already passed the midpoint of the fissure. By the evening of the third day, the tip of the vein finally emerged from the other side of the fissure, entering the territory of the Evil Ore mine.

The two mine veins were now officially connected deep underground.

But the effects wouldn’t be immediately apparent.

The mutual permeation of Fire Spiritual Power and Evil Qi was a slow process. With the veins just connected, the flow of energy between them was still very faint. It would take time to gradually establish a stable channel.

Li Yuan estimated it would take at least five to seven days before the junction began to produce Fire Evil Stones.

’No need to rush.’

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