The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

Inside the main tent, besides the scarred giant, there was also a thin, stern-faced old man who had locked Xiao Fan inside from the moment he entered, and his aura gradually began to emanate.

Xiao Fan stood there, without deliberately resisting or dodging. The probing pressure naturally slid over him and disappeared into the air.

A glint of shrewdness flashed in the thin old man's eyes. He suppressed his imposing aura, picked up his teacup, and drank it all in one gulp. "Young Master Xiao, you are so young yet you have achieved so much. I have been impolite."

Scarface explained that at the northernmost point of Aurora Plains, there is a valley covered with a thick layer of ice. Deep within the valley, there is a spiritual energy fluctuation, which is the same as the resonance when the White Tower was activated.

The scouts from Westwind Fortress could not go any further than the edge of the valley, because there was a spiritual energy barrier at the entrance of the valley, which obviously required a special magical artifact to break through.

The "right to explore" that the scarred man mentioned revolves around the entrance to the valley.

Xiao Fan did not immediately express his opinion. "I should be able to break through the barrier at the entrance of the valley, but there are three conditions. First, once we enter the valley, we must leave each other alone."

Second, in the event of a crisis, no party can stop it; all parties must provide unconditional support. Third, the spiritual materials produced in the valley are obtained through individual ability, and there is no fixed ratio.

The two exchanged a glance, and the old man nodded first, saying, "On behalf of Westwind Fortress, I agree to these three conditions." Each party kept a copy of the agreement.

Xiao Fan put away the talisman and axe, preparing to leave.

As he reached the tent entrance, he turned back to the group and said, "I will meet you at the valley entrance in three days."

The scarred man cupped his hands in greeting, and Xiao Fan and the cultivator Cheng left the West Wind Fortress's encampment together.

Three days later, Xiao Fan, Cheng Xiushi, and Ning Yao appeared at the entrance to the canyon at the northernmost end of Aurora Plains.

The gaunt old man and the scarred man were waiting there with a group of people.

Just as Scarface said, the spiritual energy barrier at the entrance of the valley resonated with the white tower, and a layer of silver patterns appeared on its surface. If you touched it, you would be repelled by a gentle force.

Xiao Fan placed the runes on the barrier. As he approached, the patterns on the barrier began to light up, and the entire barrier receded from the middle to both sides, revealing a passage leading to the canyon.

The ice walls on both sides of the canyon are transparent deep blue, with a layer of fine water droplets condensed on the surface, shimmering with a faint blue light under the pale golden sunlight.

Xiao Fan took the lead, the talisman in his hand constantly releasing stable spiritual energy fluctuations, guiding everyone forward.

The valley was much deeper than it appeared from the outside; it took a full hour to reach the bottom of the valley.

The bottom of the valley suddenly became empty, turning into a circular cavity about a hundred feet in diameter.

In the center of the cave is a square platform made of dark stone. The platform is about one person's height above the ground and its surface is as flat as a mirror.

At the center of the platform is a map more detailed and complete than the entire White Tower area. Its area is much larger than the Gray Zone and the Aurora Plain, extending into the depths of the Silver Plain, where there is a row of ancient symbols.

The gaunt old man from Westwind Fortress walked to the high platform, glanced down at the map, and his expression changed slightly.

He looked up at Xiao Fan and said in a rare serious tone, "The place marked on the map is an unexplored area outside the edge of the Silver Plains, and there is an area there that has not been explored."

When I was young, I saw this name in a tattered ancient book. It was said that the place was once a gathering place for ancient fire cultivators, but overnight, everyone vanished.

Xiao Fan glanced at the unmarked edge of the area on the map and spoke. The three words "Starfall Plain" resonated slightly in his spiritual core, like a blurry annotation on a metal page.

He crouched down and touched the map on the arena with his Creation Fire. The ancient characters and symbols lit up one by one under the flames, as if responding to his spiritual power.

As spiritual energy was injected, a hidden door appeared on the platform. Behind the door was a short staircase, at the end of which was a sealed bronze box.

Inside the box was a palm-sized white bone fragment with a star map drawn on it. The star map showed a route from the Silver Plains to the core of "Starfall Plains," and it was unknown which unknown region this route would pass through.

At the end of this passage is a rune, and below the rune is a line of small characters written by the Grandmaster of the Void in his later years: "When the seven runes are in place, use them as a guide to reach the destination."

Xiao Fan stored the bone fragments into his spatial artifact. He stood up and said to everyone, "The road to the end of the Silver Plains is still ahead, but we can't reach it today. Let's first memorize all the data about this canyon, and then we'll draw up a complete route map."

Everyone began to investigate and record.

Standing in front of the platform, Xiao Fan looked at the location marked "Starfall Plain" on the map. He felt the resonance in his soul becoming more and more stable and clearer, as if an invisible thread was slowly extending from a distance and connecting with the spiritual core in the center of his dantian.

The road is not yet finished. Ahead lies Xingluoyuan, waiting.

After exploring the canyon, Xiao Fan carefully compared the map of the entire White Tower Domain.

According to the markings on the bone fragments, the route begins at the northern end of the Silver Plains, then passes through a narrow, unnamed area before reaching Starfall Plains.

This road was much longer than any he had ever traveled before.

However, there is another sentence on the bone fragment: there are three ancient teleportation points on this road, which, once activated, can greatly shorten the journey.

He returned to the third floor of the White Tower and compared the coordinates of the three nodes on the White Tower's projection. He determined that the first node was located at the junction of the Silver Plain and the Aurora Plain, which he had not discovered before.

The second and third locations are both within the narrow area marked on the bone slip, but their exact locations will only be determined when they arrive.

On this day, the line dwindled even further.

Cheng Xiushi, Ning Yao, and the two most experienced members of the Silver Hammer Society, a total of five people.

After receiving the news, the people from Westwind Fort sent someone to ask if they wanted to go together, but Xiao Fan politely declined, saying, "This new area is very dangerous. We'll let everyone know after we've figured it out."

The scarred giant stopped insisting, but the gaunt old man had the messenger deliver a message: "If there are indeed remnants of the Fire Path in Starfall Plain, my Westwind Fortress is willing to share them with you." Xiao Fan had the messenger reply with "Okay."