Cultivation: I Can Solidify Equipment Attributes

Chapter 350: Chapter 339: Body Refining Breakthrough

Deep in the underground mine tunnel, Li Yuan squatted before an exposed rock wall beside the Fire Vein.

On the rock wall, a dark red tributary of the Fire Vein pulsed slowly within the stone layer, its Spiritual Power content abundant. He was going to set up a Cultivating Evil Array on this Fire Vein.

Following the plan Lu Pingyuan had provided, he would suppress the initial power to thirty percent of its normal level.

Li Yuan took the materials from his storage pouch and began the work.

An hour later, the Cultivating Evil Array on the Fire Vein’s side was complete.

Li Yuan pressed a small, low-quality Evil Crystal into the Array Hub and injected Spiritual Power to activate it.

The array patterns lit up with a faint, dark purple glow and began to operate at an extremely low power. A wisp of incredibly fine Evil Qi seeped out from the Array Hub, slowly infiltrating the edge of the Fire Vein tributary along the copper-plate circuit.

Upon contact with the Evil Qi, the Fire Spiritual Power within the Fire Vein wavered slightly before stabilizing again. The two different types of Spiritual Power formed an extremely thin mixed layer at their contact surface, with no repulsion and no conflict.

Li Yuan observed for a moment. After confirming that everything was normal, he stood up and walked to the other side of the mine tunnel.

He set up the Fire Cultivation Array on the side of the Evil Vein using the same method, also suppressing it to thirty percent power.

After both cross-attribute cultivation arrays were activated, the Spiritual Power environment deep within the convergence zone began to undergo a subtle change. The originally distinct Fire Spiritual Power and Evil Qi, under the slow guidance of the cultivation arrays, found their boundary blurring.

It wasn’t a violent fusion, but an extremely slow infiltration.

Li Yuan made a mark on a nearby rock wall in the convergence zone, recording the current boundary between the Fire Vein and the Evil Vein for future comparison.

After returning to the surface from the mine tunnel, Li Yuan didn’t go back to his stone house. Instead, he first went to the management office.

Chen Yi wasn’t there. Only a Loose Cultivator on duty was organizing a roster.

Li Yuan picked up the patrol schedule on the desk, looked it over, then took a pen and made a few adjustments.

He slightly altered the nighttime patrol routes for the western and southern sections of the market’s surrounding walls, while also changing the usage times for several supply transport routes. The adjustments were minor, common changes in daily management that wouldn’t attract anyone’s attention.

But of these changes, half were real, and half were fake.

The real adjustments involved patrol deployments on the eastern and northern sides of the market, where the routes genuinely needed optimization.

The fake adjustments were concentrated on the western and southern sides. He deliberately marked the patrol gap near the western wall incorrectly and moved the transport time for a secondary supply route on the southern side forward by four hours.

This incorrect information was written on the schedule, visible to any garrison Cultivator with permission to enter the management office.

Including the mole.

After doing all this, Li Yuan stood up and left the management office, his expression unchanged.

The passive perception of his Dark Evil Insight was always active. The Demonic Qi monitoring array node, buried beneath the inner-ring guard post of the market, would faithfully record any Demonic Qi fluctuations passing through that area.

If the mole passed this false information to the Dark Abyss Association, their subsequent actions would correspond to it. At that point, he would only need to compare the Dark Abyss Association’s actual response with the false information to confirm if the communication chain had passed through this mole.

Li Yuan returned to his stone house, closing and bolting the door.

Five Divine Sense Lines spread out. The main one switched to cultivating the Iron Wall Body Refining Skill.

Spiritual Power was broken down into dozens of extremely fine threads, which drilled into the surface of his bones through the gaps beneath his skin. Each thread carried a precise amount of Spiritual Power pressure—not so great as to damage his meridians, nor so small that it would fail to produce a tempering effect.

That night, as his Spiritual Power completed its fortieth cycle, a subtle feeling of resistance that had persisted for several days suddenly vanished.

The Spiritual Power found a brand-new path connecting his skin and bones. The surface of his bones, which had previously required repeated pushing to penetrate, now opened a channel for the Spiritual Power. It surged in like a tide, forming an extremely dense film of Spiritual Power at the junction between bone and skin.

The panel popped up.

[Tier Two Iron Wall Body Refining Skill: Great Success (0/1600)]

Li Yuan exhaled a breath of turbid air.

The increase in his physical strength was becoming smaller and smaller. The physical changes brought by each increase in proficiency level weren’t as obvious as in the early stages. However, the effect of the "Iron Bones Golden Body" entry, which raised the strengthening limit of his Body Refining Technique by thirty percent, was still stacking. His foundation was continuously being built up.

The next morning, an unfamiliar Cultivator arrived at Li Yuan’s shop.

The visitor was a middle-aged Loose Cultivator with a square face and a calm aura, at the Early-stage of Foundation Establishment. He stood before the counter for a moment, his gaze lingering for a long time on the stone slate hanging on the wall that announced the Upper Element Pill, before he spoke.

"Pavilion Master Li, my name is He Zongming. I’d like to speak with you in person about the Upper Element Pill."

Li Yuan invited him into the back room of the shop.

He Zongming took out several jade boxes affixed with Sealing Spirit Talismans from his storage pouch, opened them one by one, and placed them on the table.

Three stalks of Tier Two High Grade Foggy Grass. They were in perfect condition, their Spiritual Qi full and contained within.

Two Tier Two High Grade Earth Spirit Fruits. Their skins glowed with a faint golden luster, and their medicinal fragrance was rich.

There were also over a dozen mid- and low-tier supplementary herbs, neatly arranged in a wooden box.

"I’ve gathered all the main ingredients except for the Jade Marrow Mushroom," He Zongming said, his tone extremely serious. "I’ve also prepared a set of the supplementary herbs. Please inspect their quality."

Li Yuan inspected each medicinal ingredient one by one.

The quality of the Foggy Grass and Earth Spirit Fruit was top-tier, and the variety and quantity of supplementary herbs perfectly matched the pill recipe’s requirements.

He put down the last jade box and looked at He Zongming.

"I have the Jade Marrow Mushroom," Li Yuan said.

"You can choose the terms for the alchemy."

He Zongming clearly spoke without the slightest hesitation.

"I will provide a refining fee of five hundred Spirit Stones. No matter how many pills you end up refining, Pavilion Master Li, I will only take one."

"No problem."

He immediately took five hundred Spirit Stones from his storage pouch and pushed them across the table.

"When will you start the furnace?"

"There’s no hurry." Li Yuan put away the Spirit Stones and medicinal herbs. "The Upper Element Pill is from a Tier Two High Grade recipe with an extremely low margin for error. I need to make some preparations."

He Zongming nodded, asked no more questions, and rose to leave.

After seeing He Zongming off, Li Yuan returned to his stone house and sat at his desk.

He had already simulated the refinement process for the Upper Element Pill in his mind no less than a hundred times.

Every step of the pill recipe—the fire control, the timing for adding each medicinal herb, and the fusion sequence—was already etched into his memory. With the foundation of his Great Success Tier Two Alchemy, plus the stacking effects of entries like "Pill Perfection," "Pill Theory Comprehension," and "Alchemy Insight," he was completely confident from a technical standpoint.

But the Upper Element Pill was, after all, from a Tier Two High Grade pill recipe, and it had extremely high requirements for the furnace.

The final stage of fusing the medicinal liquid required exceptionally fine temperature control; the temperature difference could not exceed half a degree. Although his current Dark Red Pill Furnace was of decent quality, it was still lacking when it came to extreme precision in fire control. The heat conduction uniformity of the furnace walls and its Spiritual Power-bearing stability were both a bit lacking.

Li Yuan needed a better Pill Furnace.

He got up, left, and headed straight for Ji Huaiyuan’s artifact refining shop.

"Fellow Daoist Ji, I need a high-quality Pill Furnace," Li Yuan said, getting straight to the point. "The heat conduction of the walls must be absolutely uniform, and its Spiritual Power capacity must at least meet the standard for a Tier Two High Grade pill recipe. Do you have one on hand, or could you rush the production of one?"

Ji Huaiyuan thought for a moment, then took a Pill Furnace down from a shelf behind the counter and placed it on the table.

The Pill Furnace was deep cyan in color. It was a size smaller than the Dark Red Pill Furnace, but its walls were clearly thicker. A circle of extremely fine heat-dissipating patterns was carved onto its surface, the workmanship exquisite.

"I brought this from home. It was originally custom-made for a fellow Daoist, but unfortunately, he met a tragic end at the hands of a Demon Cultivator." Ji Huaiyuan patted the furnace. "It’s a Tier Two High Grade furnace. No problems with heat conduction uniformity or Spiritual Power capacity. If you want it, you can just pay me the market price."

Li Yuan placed his hand on the furnace wall and sent his Spiritual Power inside to sweep through it. Every part of the wall was of perfectly uniform thickness, and the Spiritual Power conduction had no dead spots.

"How much?"

"One thousand eight hundred Spirit Stones."

Li Yuan counted out the Spirit Stones and put the Pill Furnace into his storage pouch.

After returning to his stone house, he took out the new Pill Furnace and placed it in the best spot in the center of the stone chamber. Then, he took out all the medicinal herbs required for the Upper Element Pill from his storage pouch one by one, arranging them on the table in the order they would be added according to the pill recipe.

Afterward, Li Yuan continued his cultivation. He closed his eyes to regulate his breath, and his five Divine Sense Lines spread out as usual. The main line guided his Spiritual Power along the route of his primary cultivation technique, while the resonance channel of his Spirit Vein Affinity technique drew dense Spiritual Qi from deep underground, pouring it into his Dantian.

His Spiritual Power saturation was drawing ever closer to the capacity limit of the Late-stage Foundation Establishment.

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