The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

According to the information provided by the Meng clan cultivator of the Bilin tribe, the altar is located on a flat area of ​​black rock, without any protrusions or markings. The surrounding terrain is flat and the view is open, with no place to ambush.

A Star Pattern Sect deacon disciple made a preliminary marking on the surface of the rock and found a very shallow circular mark on this dark black rock surface. The diameter of the mark was the same as the bottom of the silver imitation bell. There were no horizontal cracks or man-made engravings around it.

Bai Ye scanned the area around the mark with the Silver Frost Sword and found that the concentration of spiritual energy around the mark was very uniform, with no changes in structure or density, and no new fluctuations in spiritual energy were detected.

Xue Han circled the altar once, confirming that there were no traces of human activity around it, and that it must have been formed naturally.

After confirming the marks on the altar and making all the necessary records, the group returned to the Rift Valley along the route they had taken.

After recording the coordinates and shape of the altar on the map of the Twin Realms Platform, Master Cheng marked the northernmost point of the map with "Ancient Bell Clan Altar Mark, location confirmed, awaiting exchange confirmation".

In the fourth week of summer, Xiao Fan, carrying his silver bell, went to the altar on the north side of Scale Ridge with the old hunter Pei, while Bai Ye went around to the other side of the altar.

When Xiao Fan arrived at the altar, there was already a person standing at the edge of the altar. He was wearing a gray-green short robe, and like Gu Ling, he had a copper bell hanging at his waist. The copper bell was intact, and upon closer inspection, there were no scratches or wear.

The man glanced at the silver bell in Xiao Fan's hand, then took out a perfectly intact bronze bell from his pocket and placed it in Xiao Fan's hand.

The two short bells resonated slightly between her arms, and the thin layer of silver-gray lightened with the resonance.

Xiao Fan placed the bronze bell on the edge of the altar and took a step back. The members of the Ancient Bell Clan also placed the real bronze bell on the other end of the altar. The two of them took a step back at the same time, and both bells were covered with a layer of silver light. The fake bell remained in place, while the real bronze bell appeared in the center of the altar.

The Gu Ling lineage obtained a fake, while Xiao Fan obtained the genuine bronze short bell.

Bai Ye confirmed from the side that the transaction had been completed, and used the Silver Frost Sword to scan the internal structure of the bronze short bell, confirming that its spiritual energy waveform perfectly matched the Rift Valley Stone Gate and the Stone Foundation Fissure Chamber, and also perfectly matched the wavelength endpoints of the 6 road signs.

Xiao Fan obtained the real bronze bell, put it away, and the two left the altar together.

After the deal was finalized, the Gu Ling clan slowly retreated northward.

After returning to the Twin Realms Platform, Xiao Fan placed the real bronze short bell and six road signs in the array room.

When the short bell approaches the beacon array, its wavelength will correspond to the wavelength of the beacon, and a new pattern will appear on the Silverfrost Sword.

Three days after the True Bronze Bell was returned to its place, spiritual energy fluctuations, unlike those seen before, appeared north of the hazy rift valley.

The source of the fluctuation is a previously unmarked location south of the altar on the north side of the Scale Ridge.

The spiritual energy records on the Silverfrost Sword show that the spiritual energy fluctuations here overlap with those of the real bronze bell, forming a closed passage.

After Bai Ye pinpointed the location of the breach, Xiao Fan grabbed his short staff and bronze bell and rushed over.

The ground was covered with a layer of black rocks, exactly the same as the rocks on the scales, but as it approached the ground, a silver-gray halo appeared on the surface of the rocks, just like the runes on an altar.

The halo continued to light up, and under the illumination of the light, an area several feet wide appeared below the rock strata.

Xue Han tapped the halo with the back of his knife, confirming that the depth of this space was about three meters. The rock structure inside was intact, without any cracks or traces of water.

Bai Ye scanned the surrounding environment with his Silver Frost Sword and found a stone platform with a neatly arranged object on it.

Xiao Fan placed the real bronze bell into a shallow groove in the center of the halo. The halo rose about a foot and then split apart to reveal a stone platform.

On the base, there was a metal spool, the box being made of the same material as the gray metal spool from Rift Valley.

After Xiao Fan took out the metal scroll, the halo automatically closed and returned to its original state.

Once the scroll was completely removed, the spiritual energy wavelengths in the closed loop between the real bronze bell and the six road signs became more consistent, with the wavelengths of all the road signs gradually converging within the time it takes to brew a cup of tea.

Xiao Fan returned to the Twin Realms Platform and opened the metal scroll in the array room.

Inside the box was a scroll, made of the same metal as the Rift Valley, covered with a thin, silver-gray crystal film.

The scroll unfolds to reveal a complete map, marking Anvil Village south of the Gray Rift, extending through the gray rift, scaly ridges, and altars, all the way to an unmarked area north of the Silver Plains.

The map has six road signs, each corresponding to the location of a bronze bell. At the end of the road signs is an ancient inscription: "At the end of the Silent Fire Path, the Fire Core."

Bai Ye used the Silver Frost Sword to read through the contents of the scroll and confirmed that the destination was the location vaguely described in the old files of the Silver Light Sword.

This place is further north than the Scale Ridge Land, and much farther than the area where caravans operate on the Silver Plain.

Pei the Hunter glanced at the contents of the scroll and then said, "The Path of Annihilation has a road between Ash Valley and Scale Ridge, but the end is yet to come."

The next step is to determine the specific coordinates of the destination and how to get there.

In the array room, Xiao Fan copied the entire scroll and compared the complete map of the bronze disc with the markings of the gray rift area, confirming that the spiritual energy wavelength on the blue messenger ring deviated from the endpoint.

The communication records between the genuine short-duration bell and the imitation match the wavelengths of other beacons, and are also consistent with the arrangement of the internal passage of the lamp base inside the Rift Valley Stone Gate.

The tunnel's direction and segment nodes have been marked, but the determination of the distance of the field extension still requires a comprehensive inspection of the entire line.

At the end of summer, Shuangjietai conducted its first systematic full-line segmented verification of the northern region of the Grey Rift Valley.

Master Cheng led the group along the route on the scroll, starting from the entrance of the rift valley, passing through the second barrier, through the tower, through the three places at the end of the map, and finally arriving at the altar.

Finally, the metal rolls are removed, and each section undergoes repeated inspections to ensure the integrity of the ground condition and the consistency of the passage's open state.