Cultivation: I Can Solidify Equipment Attributes

Chapter 347: Chapter 336: Yunyang’s Requisition and the Earth Vein Array

After finishing his cultivation, Li Yuan walked out of the stone house to inspect the Spirit Fields.

In the core area of the three-thousand-mu Spirit Fields, a sea of light green stretched to the horizon.

Li Yuan stood on the highest ridge, looking down at the busy Spirit Farmers below.

A dozen or so Spirit Farmers were bent over, holding small, jade-like scissors, moving quickly through the fields. Vascular Grass, Soul Condensing Grass, and Spirit-Gathering Flowers—the three main types of Spirit Medicine—were planted in separate sections and had all now reached maturity, ready for harvest.

Li Yuan walked a lap around the fields. After spot-checking the quality of a few baskets of Vascular Grass and Soul Condensing Grass, he returned to the market.

In the warehouse, the medicinal herbs were already piled up like a small mountain.

Li Yuan didn’t store all of them. Instead, he directly selected the highest-quality batch of Vascular Grass and supplementary herbs and took them back to the stone house.

Two Pill Furnaces ignited at the same time.

He tossed the self-grown Vascular Grass into the dark red Pill Furnace on the left, and the Spiritual Power-fueled Pill Fire rapidly melted the herbs. The supplementary herbs were also self-grown, sent directly from the Spirit Fields to the Pill Furnace, bypassing any need for outside purchases.

After refining a batch of Vessel Continuation Pills, Li Yuan did some mental calculations.

Previously, Vessel Continuation Pills of the same quality were refined using purchased herbs.

Now, factoring in the costs of cultivating the herbs in his Spirit Fields, the Spirit Farmers’ labor, and the maintenance of the Spirit-Introducing Canals, the total cost had dropped by nearly thirty to forty percent.

That night, inside the stone house.

Li Yuan spread an account book open on the table, consolidating the data from his three economic streams: market operations, Spirit Field cultivation, and mine output.

The market operations stream. Retail sales from his storefronts, wholesale of medicinal pills, and a cut from management fees had stabilized his monthly Spirit Stone income at a very respectable figure. After deducting labor, Array maintenance, and daily expenses, the net profit was still substantial.

The Spirit Field cultivation stream had not earned many Spirit Stones since its establishment. However, his self-sufficiency in medicinal herbs had increased dramatically.

The mine output stream. Monthly production of Fire Evil Stones had doubled, and their quality had noticeably improved. A second mining site was about to be activated, which would further increase production capacity.

Some of the ore was sold directly for Spirit Stones, some was supplied to Ji Huaiyuan’s Artifact Refining shop in exchange for finished artifacts and materials, and the rest was used for bartering to acquire supplementary alchemy ingredients and Array materials.

The Spirit Fields produced herbs, which lowered the cost of his pills. The pills were sold for Spirit Stones, which were reinvested into expanding the Spirit Fields and developing the mines. The mines produced ore, which was exchanged for materials, and these materials in turn supported his Alchemy and Array maintenance. The three streams interlocked, forming a stable and self-accelerating positive feedback loop.

The growth curve of his Spirit Stone reserves was no longer linear, but was instead accelerating upward.

Li Yuan closed the account book.

His own land, his own herbs, his own pills, his own storefronts. From raw materials to finished products to sales, he controlled every single link in the chain. The impact of external factors like wars, price fluctuations, and disrupted trade routes on this closed-loop system had been minimized.

The next morning, a requisition notice from Yunyang Market was delivered to the management office.

It was an assignment to lay out the second batch of Arrays for the expansion.

Li Yuan gathered his materials and set off for Yunyang Market that same day.

Upon his arrival, the management steward handed him a new set of Array blueprints.

"This is a new Array the Sect just issued. It’s called an Earth Vein Array. It needs to be embedded underground and connected to the Earth Veins to stabilize the foundation of the expansion area." The steward pointed to several key nodes on the blueprint. "The layout method is different from a normal Defense Array. The Array Hubs need to be buried very deep—at least three zhang down."

Li Yuan accepted the blueprint and extended his Divine Sense into it.

The structure of the Earth Vein Array was considerably more complex than a basic Defense Array. The core concept was to connect artificially inscribed Spiritual Power circuits with the natural Earth Veins, using the slowly flowing Spiritual Power within the veins to sustain the Array’s long-term operation, thus eliminating the need for a daily supply of Spirit Stones.

The Array Hubs required a special type of Earth Vein Stone, which was essentially an ore that, once permeated with Spiritual Power, could resonate with the Earth Veins. The steward’s material box contained a dozen or so of them, all uniformly distributed by the Sect.

Li Yuan picked up an Earth Vein Stone and turned it over. Its texture was coarse, and its Spiritual Power content was mediocre.

"The construction area is in the southern expansion zone. The ground has already been cleared," the steward added. "There are a few Cultivators on-site using earth and civil engineering magic to assist. You can direct them as needed."

Li Yuan nodded, taking the blueprints and material box to the construction area.

The southern expansion zone was a recently leveled open area, the soil on the ground still fresh. Several Loose Cultivators using earth and civil engineering magic were off to the side, reinforcing the foundation by compacting the loose topsoil.

Li Yuan didn’t greet them and immediately began surveying the terrain.

His Divine Sense probed downward, passing through a three-zhang-thick layer of earth to touch the bedrock below. Within the bedrock, an extremely thin tributary of an Earth Vein was flowing slowly. Its Spiritual Power content wasn’t high, but it was enough to sustain the daily operation of an Earth Vein Array.

He selected the location for the first Array Hub and activated his Earth Transporting Skill to dig a deep, vertical hole in the ground. Under the control of his Spiritual Power, the earth and stones parted to the sides, revealing the grayish-brown surface of the bedrock three zhang below.

Li Yuan jumped into the deep hole and squatted on the rock face to begin inscribing the Array Patterns.

Once the Array Patterns were drawn, he injected his Spiritual Power.

The Earth Vein Stone began to resonate faintly with the Earth Vein tributary below. An extremely slow trickle of Spiritual Power seeped from the Earth Vein into the Array Pattern circuits, spreading outward along the channels of copper sheets and Spirit-Guiding Stones.

The Array activated.

With his fingertip still pressed against the Earth Vein Stone, a panel popped up.

[Detected Equippable Item: Earth Vein Stone (Intact)]

[Equip Affix Preview: Earth Vein Resonance (Green)]

[Effect: Slowly recover Spiritual Power while standing on the ground; perceive all vibrations within ten zhang underground.]

[Perma-Bind Condition Preview: Personally set one hundred Array Hubs.]

’A green affix.’

Li Yuan glanced at the effect. ’Slowly recovering Spiritual Power while standing on the ground is like having an extra passive recovery channel. And perceiving all vibrations within ten zhang underground is an extremely practical detection ability. Paired with Dark Evil Insight’s ability to sense underground Demonic Qi, my surveillance of subterranean activity will be flawless.’

’The perma-bind condition is to personally set one hundred Array Hubs.’

’Yunyang Market’s large-scale expansion is still ongoing, and the number of Arrays that need to be laid in the future is immense. Every Defense Array, Earth Vein Array, and linkage array will require setting Array Hubs. Reaching a hundred is just a matter of time.’

Li Yuan took out a new Earth Vein Stone and placed it on the Array Hub. Then, he called up his equipment menu, unequipped Pulse-Hiding Aura-Concealment, and equipped the Earth Vein Stone.

[Equipped: Earth Vein Stone]

[Earth Vein Resonance (Green) is now in effect.]

The instant the affix took effect, an extremely faint stream of Spiritual Power flowed in from the soles of his feet, slowly moving through his meridians toward his Dantian. The amount was small, far slower than the absorption rate during active cultivation, but its advantage was that it was completely passive, continuing constantly without any effort on his part.

At the same time, every subtle vibration in the bedrock three zhang beneath his feet became clearly discernible. The shockwaves from the Cultivators using earth magic to tamp down the foundation in the distance, the pulse of Spiritual Power in the Earth Vein tributary, even the faint friction of a Spirit Insect digging through the soil—all of it flooded his senses.

Li Yuan withdrew his perception, leaped out of the deep hole, and began to set up the next Array Hub.

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