The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

Three days later, the group discovered their first teleportation point on a crystal hill at the northern end of the Silver Plains. It was a stone door embedded in a silver crystal.

When Xiao Fan affixed the talisman to the door frame, the patterns on the talisman automatically lit up, forming a portal of light, exactly the same as the portal from the Gray Domain to the Aurora Plains.

As the five people stepped through the portal, the scene before them immediately changed. They arrived at a gray wasteland, where the concentration of spiritual energy was much lower than that of the silvery-white plains, but it was also much more complex, and it contained several different kinds of spiritual energy.

On this desolate land, there are dark gray rock fragments everywhere, each with a different shape, as if they were evenly separated by some force.

Xiao Fan squatted down, picked up a stone and squeezed it. He could feel that the stone was very hard and solid, and there was still a trace of spiritual energy inside. It seemed to have been tempered at high temperature and then quickly cooled and solidified.

"This place might have been a battlefield once," Ning Yao said, looking around. "These stones are very uniform in shape; they couldn't have been formed naturally." She picked one up, examined it, and handed it to Xiao Fan. "Sense the residual spiritual energy inside. Can you find any trace of ancient fire-based martial arts techniques?"

Xiao Fan held the stone, closed his eyes, and felt it for a moment.

The spiritual energy remaining in the rubble was indeed a mixture of multiple attributes.

This situation, where multiple spiritual energies of different attributes coexist within a single stone, has never occurred before in either the Daqing Empire or the Tianhuo Plain. This suggests that a large-scale battle once took place here, involving cultivators of multiple attributes.

The group continued northward.

After traveling for more than a day, a low-lying basin appeared ahead, surrounded by dark brown mountains. In the center of the basin stood a black stone tablet about three zhang high, covered with runes identical to the White Bone Star Map.

Xiao Fan walked to the stone tablet and placed his hand on its surface. The spiritual power of the transformed spiritual core automatically connected with the spiritual power structure in the stone tablet, and the base of the stone tablet sank into the ground, forming a spiraling passage.

The passage was short, and soon we arrived at a circular stone chamber. The walls of the chamber were inlaid with gems that emitted a blue light, making the entire chamber look like the deep sea.

In the center of the stone chamber was a transparent crystal bottle containing a drop of golden liquid, which floated in the bottle.

Xiao Fan picked up the glass bottle, and as soon as the golden liquid touched the bottle, the resonance between his spiritual core and Xingluoyuan became even stronger.

The key to the second teleportation point is the guidance of Starfall Plain, which can make the connection between the soul core and Starfall Plain clear and distinct, just like amplifying a distant signal.

He carefully put the bottle into his spatial ring, then turned to the others and said, "We don't need to look for the third node anymore; this drop of liquid is the key to opening the passage."

After leaving the second node, Xiao Fan traveled north for four days. Suddenly, he noticed a spiritual energy fluctuation several miles behind him, which had been following them closely, maintaining a distance that was neither too close nor too far.

Master Cheng noticed this as well. He hid in a low spot, looked around, and then whispered, "There's someone who's very well hidden. He doesn't seem like he's going to make a move; he looks like he's going to take a statement."

Xiao Fan did not stop or look back. He changed direction, led the team in a large circle, and passed through a vast expanse of white rock walls.

The dark figure was forced to slow down, revealing a slight opening. Only then could Cheng Xiushi see the general outline of the dark figure. It was a tall, thin figure shrouded in a gray cloak, with clean and neat movements, clearly an experienced person.

Half a day later, the aura finally appeared just before the group entered a continuous pile of rocks.

He pulled back his hood, revealing a handsome face with striking features. He looked to be in his thirties, with an old scar on his chin.

He cupped his hands in greeting to Xiao Fan and said loudly, "I am Xie Changfeng, from the Watcher Camp on the outskirts of Starfall Plains. The golden liquid in your hand activated our alarm array, which is why I came to verify your identity and guide you."

Xiao Fan looked him up and down and found that although this person only had the cultivation of the middle stage of the eighth rank, his spiritual power resonated with the bone fragments and the golden liquid.

The spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from Xie Changfeng were extremely similar to the array formations in the Aurora Plains architectural complex.

"What is the Watchers' Camp?" Xiao Fan asked.

Xie Changfeng lowered his hand, glanced at the token at Xiao Fan's waist, and then at Xiao Fan's spatial magic treasure. He said, "In the core area of ​​Xingluoyuan, there is a spiritual energy purification belt. If a spiritual body's cultivation level has not been adjusted, passing through it directly will put a great burden on the body."

Our Watchers' Camp exists to guide the right people into safe zones. You've collected the runes and the golden droplets, and your spiritual energy resonates with Starfall Plains at a very high frequency, meeting the requirements for passage.

Xiao Fan thought for a moment, then instructed Cheng Xiushi and Ning Yao to stay here and keep watch, while he followed Xie Changfeng forward to see if the "safe passage" was real.

Led by Xie Changfeng, he passed through an extremely hidden crevice. At the end of the crevice was a transparent barrier that shimmered with starlight.

Ripples spread across the surface of the barrier. When Xiao Fan brought the talisman close to the barrier, a gap appeared on the barrier that was only wide enough for one person to pass through. The spiritual energy flowing into the gap was several times more concentrated than that on the wasteland, and its texture was also completely different.

"This is the true entrance to Starfall Plains." Xie Changfeng stood beside the crack, beckoned everyone inside, and said, "Please, the Watchers' Camp is on a small hill not far ahead. You can go there first to get used to the spiritual energy. Once you've fully adapted to the environment here, you can enter the central area."

As Xiao Fan stepped out of the crack and into the Starfall Plain, a surge of rich spiritual energy rushed towards him, causing him to gasp involuntarily.

The spiritual energy here is not the pure fire attribute like that of the Heavenly Fire Plains and the Aurora Plains, but rather a fusion of seven different attributes of spiritual energy in precise proportions, forming a completely new composite spiritual energy structure.

He stood at the entrance to Starfall Plains, looked at his teammates on the other side of the rift, confirmed his location, and then turned to leave.

The Watchers' Camp is located on a slope about a kilometer away, with some simple but sturdy stone houses scattered on the hillside, the roof tiles gleaming with a faint silver light.

The Watchers' camp is much better than it looks from the outside.

Xie Changfeng showed Xiao Fan around the camp, introducing some of the important facilities and the people stationed there.