The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

He did not conduct any deeper tests during the competition, but instead temporarily stored the results in a storage artifact, intending to analyze them after the competition.

The fifth day will be the final round of the spiritual power competition.

Xiao Fan's opponent was the middle-aged man from the Star Pattern Sect dressed in black robes.

The man stood on the arena and his first words were: "The short staff of the Twin Realms Platform has the same spiritual energy frequency as a branch of the Star Pattern Sect's scriptures. Regardless of the outcome of this battle, the Star Pattern Sect is willing to establish an independent spiritual energy exchange channel with the Twin Realms Platform."

After confirming the other party's attitude, Xiao Fan held the short staff horizontally in front of him, waiting for the other party to attack.

As soon as the match began, the cultivators of the Star Pattern Sect launched a steady and methodical attack. Their attack speed was similar to that of the previous three rounds, but the interval between each attack was the same.

In this round, Xiao Fan used the spiritual power on his short staff to circle around the middle of his opponent's attack, incorporating the rhythm of his opponent's attack into the spiritual power field of the short staff, and successfully leading the Star Pattern Sect cultivator to the edge of the arena.

The referee confirmed that the opponent had crossed the boundary line and ruled that Xiao Fan had won.

White Night won in all three finals thanks to the short time difference.

That afternoon, the results of the spiritual power competition were announced: Xiao Fan came in first, Bai Ye came in second, Xingwen Sect came in third, and Qingyan Sect came in fourth.

The Chamber of Commerce's recorder completed the final rankings in front of the bulletin board.

At the award ceremony, the head of the Chamber of Commerce presented Xiao Fan with a certificate of safekeeping for an ancient spiritual object. The certificate stated the location of the object and how to retrieve it, and indicated that he needed to take the certificate to the Chamber of Commerce's main vault to verify his identity before he could claim it.

Grandpa Pei won first place in the weapon-forging competition, and the structure of the longbow has been verified, making it ready for mass production.

The evaluations of alchemy and formation have also been completed. Among them, the low-temperature performance degradation rate of the Gale Vine fiber is lower than that of similar materials, and it has been included in the Chamber of Commerce's annual spiritual material technology bulletin.

After the Seven Sects War ended, all the flags were taken away. When the dark gold Twin Realms Platform flag and other flags passed through the passage, no one stopped to talk, and no one deliberately quickened their pace.

Cheng Xiushi checked the materials and spirit stones, sealed the stone tablet, preserved the voucher, and then checked everything with the merchants. After confirming that everything was correct, he put the storage artifact into his equipment.

Bai Ye glanced at the bulletin board, which still displayed the final rankings. The teams from all the major sects had already left, and the staff in the hall were all doing their own things. When the dark gold flag was put into the storage room, everyone put it in the storage room as well.

On the third day of the Seven Sects Grand Competition, Xiao Fan took his credentials to the Chamber of Commerce's main warehouse to collect the spiritual items.

The Chamber of Commerce's main storehouse is located in a detached courtyard to the north of the venue. The courtyard walls are made of thick, dark gray stone. Above the gate hangs a bronze plaque that reads "Silver Plain Central Chamber of Commerce Spiritual Object Storehouse." Two guards, both with cultivation levels of rank eight or higher, stand guard at the gate.

After Xiao Fan produced the credentials, the gatekeeper checked the seal and number and then made way for him.

A steward led him through the front yard and into the warehouse.

Inside the warehouse were rows of sturdy wooden shelves, each shelf holding items of varying sizes and materials.

The steward walked to the innermost wall and pressed a few times on a groove in the wall. A hidden compartment appeared in the wall, containing a silver metal box.

The butler took out a silver-gray metal box, placed it on the table, and opened it to find a piece of black velvet inside, with a black ring set in the center.

The ring, about the size of a palm, had no patterns or words on it, but it emitted a faint silver light under the illumination of the metal box.

The staff handed Xiao Fan a silver-gray metal box and a ring, confirmed that the ring's condition matched the record, and told him that he needed to sign the record after retrieving the spiritual item.

The ring felt cool to the touch, with a dense texture, yet it was much lighter than the metal box. There was a shallow groove on the edge, the width of which was exactly the same as the thickness of the red gold crystal at the top of the short staff.

After signing the document, Xiao Fan put the ring away.

Back at the Twin Realms Platform base, Xiao Fan took out the ring and placed it on the dark gray stone slab he had won at the auction.

As the ring approached, the silver halo around it began to tremble slightly, and the faint silver light became even brighter.

About half an hour later, a line appeared in a very shallow groove at the edge of the ring. The line was somewhat similar to the line on the stone slab. The line first appeared at the bottom of the groove, then spread to the surface of the ring, and finally settled down.

After confirming the correspondence between the ring and the stone slab, Xiao Fan put both items into the same storage artifact and marked them accordingly.

The next day, Baiye arrived at the camp and checked the placement of the rings and stone slabs.

As the light patterns on the Silverfrost Sword approached the ring, their speed increased. When the Silverfrost Sword got close, the patterns on the ring lit up, and then returned to normal.

Bai Ye scanned the inside of the ring with the Silver Frost Sword and discovered a complete spiritual energy channel inside. The shape of this channel was exactly the same as the channel inside the lamp base embedded in the wall of the Rift Valley Stone Gate.

Xiao Fan brought the edge of the crimson crystal at the tip of the short staff close to the edge of the ring.

The spiritual energy on the short staff connected instantly upon contact with the ring, and the ring returned to its original state.

There was no repulsion or new resonance between the staff and the ring; it was like a balance, neither attracting nor separating from each other.

Bai Ye connected the spiritual energy trajectory of the ring to the internal passage of the Gray Rift and marked it on the Silverfrost Sword's recording layer to determine that the ring was the terminal connecting to a special structure in the Gray Rift.

Xiao Fan stored the ring and the stone slab in a separate space within his storage artifact, intending to verify them after returning to the Gray Rift.

Four days later, while Xiao Fan was organizing supplies in the camp, he suddenly noticed a figure in a gray robe pacing back and forth outside the camp.

The person moved seemingly casually, but in reality, he had a perfect view of the camp entrance from a particular angle.

Xue Han did not show himself, but simply told Cheng Xiushi about his observations.

After confirming that the gray-robed man had appeared around the camp three times, Master Cheng had his men mark the area around the camp and make corresponding records: each time the gray-robed man passed through the camp, he would slow down and stop every once in a while, neither making contact with the people in the camp nor leaving anything behind.