The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

Xiao Fan said, "The scroll they obtained, the short sword, and the crystal I obtained are very likely the core nodes of the various functional areas of the Silent Fire Path."

In the second week of autumn, inside the array chamber, Xiao Fan had already integrated the spiritual power of the crimson-gold crystal into his body.

Guided by the spirit core, the spiritual energy structure within the crystal stabilized, forming two independent cycles with the crimson crystal at the tip of the short staff, greatly enhancing the staff's spiritual energy output.

The resonance between the Silverfrost Sword and the short staff naturally extended, and during the test, the sensing distance between the two weapons exceeded the extension range of the existing pipeline.

After doing all this, Xiao Fan walked to the edge of the Dual Realm Platform and stood on the edge of the observation platform.

Inside the array chamber, the crimson-gold crystal and the silver patterns on the Silver Frost Sword formed a stable resonance.

The array of lights on the four corners of the wall, changing with the brief autumn sunlight, covered the entire platform at a stable frequency.

In the third week of this month, the conflict between the Qingyan Sect and the Xingwen Sect gradually narrowed. Both sides maintained control of the entrance to the old road. The Shuangjietai continued to be responsible for the daily patrols from the Gray Rift Valley to the entrance of the old road, and the three sects no longer sent people to guard it.

The Gu Ling clan has left their settlement, leaving only traces of transporting supplies.

Xiao Fan reviewed all the records in the array room over and over again, transferred all the contact records for this season to the main filing cabinet of the Twin Realms Platform, and created a separate filing compartment for the new batch of people who arrived this year.

Before leaving, Bai Ye left the Silver Frost Sword in the magic array laboratory to synchronize data. After synchronization was completed, a constant waveform appeared on the Silver Frost Sword, stretching from near to far, all the way to the farthest reaches.

Three weeks after Qingyan Sect confirmed control of the ancient road entrance, a team of five people reappeared in the Gray Rift Valley region.

The two did not inform Shuangjietai in advance, nor did they approach the entrance of the ancient road. Instead, they set up camp on the edge of a ravine north of the Gray Rift, between the ravine and Shuangjietai's daily patrol area. This location provided a good view of the passage between the raft and Shuangjietai.

After noticing the group, the patrol did not approach rashly. Instead, they recorded the location of the camp and the number of people in their patrol log and then sent it back to base.

Pei the hunter checked the records and confirmed that the camp they had chosen was near the Qingyan Sect camp north of the Gray Rift. They had collected rock samples when they were stationed there last time, so the spiritual energy fluctuations on their bodies were consistent with the aura of the Qingyan Sect.

The next day, a disciple of the Qingyan Sect walked to the outer edge of the Twin Realms Platform, stopped at the edge, and fired a signal flare at the tower.

Upon seeing the signal on the tower, Brother Cheng dispatched a patrol member to negotiate with the other side outside the border.

The visitor was a disciple of the Qingyan Sect, mainly responsible for the border between the stone quarrying area near the Qingyan Sect and the Shuangjietai patrol team.

After receiving the message from the main hall, Xiao Fan confirmed that the request was reasonable. The location was chosen to be the edge of the canyon on the north side of the Gray Rift Valley. This was the area where the Twin Realms Platform patrolled daily, but it was not near the entrance of the ancient road.

The meeting was confirmed by Brother Cheng himself.

The disciples of Qingyan Sect marked the areas where stones needed to be collected on the map on the spot. Cultivator Cheng checked the patrol route of Shuangjietai and confirmed that there was enough space between the collection area and the daily patrol route of Shuangjietai. After both parties signed, the area division was completed.

One evening during the second week of autumn, a lone envoy arrived at the Starmarked Sect's camp.

He traversed the gray rift, through the night fog, and walked to the bottom of the pipe between the gray rift and the anvil. Not far from the Twin Platform, he placed something next to the base.

The next morning, the patrol team found the object: a palm-sized silver disc with a circular rune in the center.

Bai Ye took the star chart and glanced at it with his Silver Frost Sword.

There were no offensive or invasive spiritual energy residues on the disc; there was only a brief record of spiritual energy images.

The face of the elder of the Star Pattern Sect appeared in the center of the screen, with the words "The Star Pattern Sect obtained a black scroll from the Silent Fire Path" written on it. After translation, a previously forgotten passage node was discovered, deep within this gray and misty rift valley.

To activate this short staff, the Star Pattern Sect must rely on the spiritual energy frequency of the Dual Realm Platform.

The Star Pattern Sect, on the other hand, will divide up any other things that might exist in this node equally.

Xiao Fan did not answer immediately, but instead put away the star-patterned disc.

He checked the pipe connections inside the gray rift in the magic array laboratory and confirmed that his main rift passage had not expanded, while the place the Star Pattern Sect pointed to was a deeper place.

On the third day, he sent a written confirmation to the Star Pattern Sect camp through the patrol team's contact information.

The specific details are as follows: The Dual Realm Platform can provide spiritual frequency support for the short staff, but the activation method and ownership allocation need to be confirmed on-site and the allocation plan cannot be determined in advance.

After receiving the reply, the Star Pattern Sect did not send anyone else. However, on the afternoon of the same day the reply was received, a wisp of spiritual energy suddenly appeared in the direction of the gray rift valley. The shape of the fluctuation was exactly the same as the spiritual energy fluctuation on the black scroll.

In the third week of autumn, Xiao Fan, Bai Ye, and the old hunter Pei once again stepped onto the main road of the Gray-White Rift.

This time, he walked along the bottom of the rift valley to a place he had never set foot in before. About 500 meters from the stone gate at the bottom of the rift valley, he discovered the new node that the Star Pattern Sect had mentioned.

The entrance to the node is not a stone gate, but rather a narrow crack on the side wall of the rift valley. The edge of the crack is grayish-black, which is completely different from the surrounding silvery-white crystal wall. There are no signs of weathering or wear, so it must have been recently carved out.

When Xiao Fan inserted the short staff into the notch, the crimson-gold crystal resonated steadily with a certain structure within the notch.

He controlled the spiritual energy frequency of the staff, outputting it at a stable frequency and maintaining a resonance with the internal structure of the crevice until the crevice expanded to a size large enough for a person to pass through.

This is a stone chamber similar to the Rift Valley Gate, but smaller in size, with a smooth floor and rows of crystal chandeliers embedded in the walls that have been extinguished for many years.

In the center of the room, there was a jade box that was half open. Most of the contents were gone, with only a thin layer of residue on the bottom, which was left after the spiritual energy sediment evaporated.

The Star Pattern Sect arrived before them.

There was a very short scratch on the edge of the stone platform, exactly the same as the scratch left by the Star Pattern Sect at the entrance of the Silent Fire Path. They took the contents of the jade box, but the contents of the stone chamber were not damaged.

Bai Ye scanned the remaining traces on the bottom of the box with the Silver Frost Sword, confirming its material and shape. It was a rectangular thin piece, similar in material to the Silver Frost Sword, with fine patterns on the edges.