The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

After the route map was completed, the Guling family contacted the map and left their mark on it.

This indicates that they were not just passing by by chance, but were aware of the map and interested in its contents.

Xue Han glanced at Bai Ye's scan results, then looked at the map, and then looked at the map again.

He walked to the tool cabinet on one side of the hall, took out a stack of early survey notes, stopped on a page about the north side of Aurora Plains, and pointed to a line of text on the margin: "Three days north of the Gray Rift Valley, there is an abandoned pagoda, exactly the same style as the bronze bell of the ancient bell."

He closed his notebook and said, "I didn't notice it when I passed by here before, but now that I think about it, the tower is in the circle at the end of the map."

Xiao Fan compared the text left by Xue Han with the end of the route map and confirmed that the location of the abandoned low tower was the intersection of the extended lines, which was consistent with the migration direction of the Gu Ling lineage.

The abandoned low tower that Xue Han mentioned was located about three days north of the Gray Rift Valley. It was situated on slightly higher ground and surrounded by low shrubs and pebbles, making it stand out conspicuously.

The tower is made of dark gray stone with a rough surface covered with a thin mineral shell, similar to the silver crystals of a grayish-white rift valley.

The tower is not very tall, about three stories, but its base is wide, and the area of ​​the lower level is much larger than that of an ordinary watchtower.

Xiao Fan brought Bai Ye and Xue Han here. The door of the low tower was already open, and inside was a tall man.

The door opens inwards, just wide enough for one person to squeeze through sideways, and it's unlocked.

The three of them went inside one after the other.

The first level is a circular space with a diameter of about two meters. The ground is flat, and in the center is a small round platform with a simple map carved on it.

That was a simplified version of the northern side of the Grey Rift, marked with the entrance to the ancient path, the second barrier, and a circular symbol at the end of the map.

Bai Ye crouched down and scanned the markings on the map with his Silver Frost Sword, confirming that they were created at the same time as the Rift Gate and the stone slabs in the passage behind the secondary barrier.

Moreover, it looks much better than the facilities in the Grey Rift, which means it is used much less frequently than those in the Rift.

Xue Han walked around the bottom edge and found a silver-gray halo on the north wall that resembled the Rift Valley Stone Gate. When Xiao Fan touched the halo with his short staff, a vertical crack appeared on it. The crack grew larger and larger, revealing a small groove in which a sealed stone box was placed.

Upon opening the stone box, a thin layer of dried moss was found inside. In the center of the moss was a dent, shaped exactly like the bronze bell of the Ancient Bell Clan—this tower was indeed used by the Ancient Bell Clan.

There was nothing in the niche, the stone box was well sealed, and there was no residual spiritual energy inside.

After Xiao Fan entered the information about the niche and the stone box into the array room, he did not remove or remove any structure from the low tower.

The day after returning to the Twin Realms Platform, the array room received a series of signals from the Silver Frost Sword. These were spiritual energy data collected by the Silver Frost Sword from the terrain inside the tower, as well as a tracking mark left by the Ancient Bell lineage when they appeared that night. The mark left by the Ancient Bell lineage in the low tower was exactly the same as the mark on the map.

Bai Ye replied, "What they took is very likely the thing in that circle at the end of the map."

When we arrived, that thing wasn't in the tower.

Xiao Fan, Pei the Hunter, and Xue Han discussed their next move.

Pei the Hunter suggested that the Twin Realms Platform would regularly patrol the area between the Gray Rift and the Low Tower, while Xue Han had drawn two suitable locations for them to rest and resupply during the three-day journey north of the Gray Rift.

Ning Yao added the collection and classification of terrain samples from the direction of the low tower to the list of materials to be collected by the anvil this week. The daily patrols are handled by the people of the anvil tribe, and no additional manpower is needed.

The Linju tribe sent border data in the fall, along with a report on plant growth north of the rift valley, confirming that the vegetation around the low tower was normal and that the soil and roots had not been disturbed.

In autumn, representatives from the Star Pattern Sect and the Azure Rock Sect reappeared at the entrance to the Twin Realms Platform.

This time, they were much more formal than ever before, with each person bringing their own documents and tools.

Neither of them spoke; they simply stood at the entrance, as if this were the start of a formal meeting.

Brother Cheng made brief preparations in the main hall and finalized the latest version of the autumn map on the map table.

Xiao Fan didn't exchange many pleasantries, but went straight to asking them why they had come.

The main requirement of the Star Pattern Sect was to establish a Star Pattern Sect observation station behind the secondary barrier on the north side of the rift valley to record the flow of spiritual energy within the passage.

The Qingyan Sect's request was for Shuangjietai to provide them with analysis data on the stone composition of the rift valley walls in order to determine the origin of the stone chamber.

After listening to the requests from both companies, Xiao Fan compared their operational content with that of "Twin Realms Platform".

Beyond the second barrier lies a passage leading to the north of the Gray Rift Valley; the stones in that chamber have been recorded in the Twin Realms' database.

He replied to both sides separately: Star Pattern Sect can set up observation points, but the entry and exit records of the observation points must be synchronized with the patrol battalion of Twin Realms Platform.

Qingyan Sect can obtain copies of stone composition data, but must indicate that they were provided by Shuangjietai and cannot be used for commercial quarrying of stone in the Grey Rift region.

After receiving the reply, both parties confirmed their respective conditions and signed a formal document on the spot in the main hall.

After signing the document, the representative of the Star Pattern Sect said before leaving, "The thing that the Ancient Bell Clan took out from the low tower is exactly the same as what is recorded in the Star Pattern Sect's records. That thing is related to the creator of the Gray Rift."

If the Twin Realms Platform discovers any new clues in this record, the Star Pattern Sect hopes to maintain contact with them.

The Star Pattern Sect representative's words were confirmed this autumn.

In the last report delivered by the messenger from White Camel Ridge before winter, there was a brief observation: North of the Silver Plains, in the remote valley where the Ancient Bell Clan resided, a brief golden light once appeared. The golden light lasted only a moment before disappearing.

Bai Ye checked the spiritual energy records on the Silver Frost Sword and confirmed that the time when the pillar of light appeared was exactly the time when the moss in the niche of the low tower dried up. The things that the Ancient Bell Clan took out of the low tower were very likely to be spiritual. When they were taken out and taken to a certain distance, they would automatically sense the traces on the low tower or the route map.

Bai Ye used the Silver Frost Sword to compare the residual spiritual energy at the location of the pillar of light and found that the wavelength of the residual spiritual energy in the pillar of light was consistent with the wavelength of the residual spiritual energy in the circle at the end of the route map.