I Have a Compass for Opportunity

Liou Yuan acquired two premium-grade Star Stones with almost depleted Spiritual Power, along with two sets of Grade B top-grade cultivation techniques and magic Jade Scrolls.

Then he identified the colorless bracelet left behind by the ancient female cultivator using the Fixed Star Compass.

[Name]Star Wave Spirit Network

[Category]Foundation Establishment Magical Artifact

[Quality]First-class Top-grade

[Effect]When a cultivator casts a spell to attack the enemy, the Star Wave Spirit Network can harness the power of the stars to enhance the magic’s potency. For C-level skills, this Spirit Network enhances the spell’s power by fivefold; for Grade B skills, it increases by threefold; even for Grade A skills, the power is increased by twofold. The support this Spirit Network provides to the magical arts is considerable, making it a rare treasure in the world.

"I thought it was a Defense Magical Artifact, but it turns out to be an artifact that amplifies the power of spells."

It’s the first time Liou Yuan has seen such a purely supportive Foundation Establishment Magical Artifact.

Saying it’s inferior to those purely offensive or defensive artifacts isn’t accurate.

Just the fact that it enhances the power of spells makes it, in some ways, even more effective than traditional offensive or defensive artifacts.

While magical artifacts are divided into offense and defense, does that mean spells aren’t?

This Star Wave Spirit Network can directly amplify the power of all spells, including both offensive and defensive ones.

Liou Yuan can’t perform Grade A or B skills, but he does have C-level skills.

The Blood Imperial Spell is a C-level skill.

"With my current strength, the Blood Absorption Skill is already enough to threaten the Ninth Layer of the Qi Cultivation Realm."

"If I can enhance its power by fifty percent with the Star Wave Spirit Network, who in the Qi Cultivation Realm could withstand it?"

Liou Yuan’s eyes gleamed brightly.

"I just don’t know how much it enhances Grade B skills. According to the description from the Fixed Star Compass, this Star Wave Spirit Network’s enhancement of skills seems to decrease as the grade of the skills increases."

"Conversely, the lower the grade of the skill, the greater the enhancement."

Another point that cannot be overlooked is that the consumption of Spiritual Power by Foundation Establishment Magical Artifacts is incredibly high, especially for a top-grade one.

Liou Yuan can’t even guarantee that his entire Spiritual Power reserve is enough to use this Star Wave Spirit Network a few times.

"Maybe just once or twice."

Liou Yuan gives a conservative estimate.

It doesn’t seem much, but in a critical moment, it would certainly serve as a life-saving trump card with remarkable effect.

With this in mind, Liou Yuan took off the Star Wave Spirit Network from his wrist and placed it in his palm.

The Star Wave Spirit Network consists of twenty-four colorless Spiritual Pearls, appearing completely crystal-clear, colorless, and unlit.

Upon closer inspection, each of the twenty-four colorless Spiritual Pearls has a small character inscribed on it.

Together they form a sentence.

’To my beloved daughter Su’e, on your twentieth birthday, I hope your cultivation path is smooth and unimpeded, and you form wide celestial connections.’

Exactly twenty-four characters.

You can feel the deep fatherly love from the person who gifted this Star Wave Spirit Network to his daughter.

"Su’e, the ancient female cultivator’s name was Su’e, wasn’t it." Liou Yuan lightly grazed the colorless Spiritual Pearls with his fingers.

This Star Wave Spirit Network must have been a birthday gift from her father when she turned twenty.

To give a highly praised top-grade Foundation Establishment Magical Artifact as a birthday gift, one can imagine her father’s strength.

"No wonder she had such powerful cultivation techniques and magic, and in a complete set."

"In today’s Cyan Feather Realm, even descendants of Golden Core cultivators don’t enjoy such treatment."

Liou Yuan sighed, realizing that anywhere you go, background matters.

Whether in his original world or this cultivation world, it’s the same.

The items on the female cultivator’s body were almost fully inventoried.

Liou Yuan didn’t forget to also identify that Spirit Rhinoceros Flame Crystal from Qiwen Mountain.

As expected, it turned out to be a Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object, a material for crafting Foundation Establishment Magical Artifacts.

It’s just that its element is fire, which doesn’t match Liou Yuan’s elemental attributes.

"I’ll have to exchange it for Foundation Establishment materials that match my elemental attributes in the future," Liou Yuan muttered.

After the Evil Star Shift, he definitely plans to return to Five Extremes Mountain to focus on breaking through to the Ninth Layer of the Qi Cultivation and then transitioning to Foundation Establishment cultivation techniques.

The next step would certainly be to attempt Foundation Establishment.

Foundation Establishment is right in front of him, and the first thing every Foundation Establishment cultivator does after a breakthrough is to craft a Foundation Establishment Magical Artifact that aligns with their strength.

Though others’ Foundation Establishment Magical Artifacts might be good, they’re ultimately not custom-built for oneself.

Only by obtaining a Foundation Establishment Magical Artifact that matches one’s attributes can one maximize their strength.

This is why Liou Zhen, back in the day, upon just breaking through to Foundation Establishment, didn’t hesitate to incur debt to craft that Cold Moon sword.

Acquiring a Foundation Establishment Magical Artifact that aligns with oneself is truly important.

Thus, Liou Yuan completed the full inventory of his gains from the Cyan Feather Gui Character Crossing trip.

This was arguably the greatest harvest Liou Yuan had since entering this world.

They included a full set of Grade B top-grade Foundation Establishment skills and magic, the top-grade Foundation Establishment Spiritual Artifact Star Wave Spirit Network, two premium-grade Star Stones with depleted Spiritual Power, a Spirit Rhinoceros Flame Crystal, and two Foundation Establishment fragments.

"Indeed, wealth only comes from taking risks," Liou Yuan chuckled wryly.

During this trip to Cyan Feather Gui Character Crossing, he almost lost his life to that female Star Erosion’s Divine Sense Attack, illustrating the danger he faced.

Luckily, he obtained rewards matching the risk.

"And this was just the spoils from one ancient cultivator."

"In the waters near that phantom ship, there must be over ten thousand ancient cultivator corpses; surely there’s another comparable to Su’e’s wealth."

"If I could fish them all out, I wouldn’t need to continually rely on the Fixed Star Compass."

Liou Yuan recalled the shocking scene he witnessed that day, unable to forget it.

However, he understood the lethal nature of greed; his own greed had allowed that female Star Erosion to exploit an opportunity, planting a spell capable of affecting his Divine Sense.

He shook his head vigorously, dismissing the thought of re-entering Cyan Feather Gui Character Crossing from his mind.

"Just looking at that phantom ship gives me the creeps. With my humble strength, even Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators might not be safe there."

"It’s best not to tread on that ground easily."

Then Liou Yuan added, "But the revenge still must be pursued. Once I reach Foundation Establishment, I’ll confront those three bastards and see if there’s any further advantage to gain."

"Didn’t that female Star Erosion say there are still two ancient cultivators inside the Radiant Heaven-breaking Array?"

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