Back at his residence, Li Yuan neatly arranged several items on the table.
The Red Fire Art, the Fire Escape Technique, and the Fireball Talisman he had made not long ago. The lamplight pressed against the edge of the paper, casting a faint yellow hue over the pages.
[Detected equippable item: Fire Escape Technique] [Entry preview: Fire Element Conversion (White)—When casting fire-element spells, reduces the loss from spiritual power attribute conversion and slightly speeds up conversion] [Permanent condition preview: Travel a cumulative fifty li using the Fire Escape Technique] [Current Equipment Slot is full (3/3). Replace currently equipped item?]
Li Yuan's gaze lingered on those lines, but he did not act in haste.
Whatever cultivation art an ordinary cultivator mainly practiced, the spiritual power within their body would tend toward that attribute. Those who cultivated wood-element arts generally possessed wood-aspect spiritual power; those who cultivated metal-element arts wielded sharper spiritual power when circulating it.
It was not impossible to cast spells of another attribute, but one first had to temporarily convert their spiritual power. The faster the conversion, the smaller the loss, and the more smoothly the spell took shape.
The Spirit Guiding Art Li Yuan had practiced these past days did not favor any of the five elements, while the Hundred Meridians Origin Return Art focused on harmonizing the meridians and likewise had no attribute inclination.
Therefore, if he wished to use the Fireball Technique, he needed to convert his spiritual power into fire-aspect spiritual power before casting it.
The conversion was fast, but no matter how fast it was, it still took a little time.
Fire Element Conversion was precisely meant to make up for that.
Li Yuan set the Fire Escape Technique aside, opened the Red Fire Art, and sat down cross-legged.
*First, I'll give