The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

In the fourth week of spring, Xiao Fan, along with Bai Ye, Xue Han, and the three Earth Core Golden Mane Beasts, arrived at the west side of the northern passage of the Gray Rift, where the archway was located.

Once you reach the archway, the seven road signs are placed into the grooves on the archway, and once they are in place, the halo becomes smaller.

Once the seventh marker was in place, a halo of light completely enveloped the archway, causing it to split open and reveal a passage large enough for three people to walk side by side.

As the archway opened, the lamps in the passageway lit up one by one, forming a constant light source.

Xiao Fan passed through the archway and entered the passage. The remote frequency between the crimson-gold crystal at the top of the short staff and the dome crystal ball also changed, adjusting to a frequency that matched the spiritual energy environment inside the passage.

The passage extends northwest, and the wall material is the same as that of the gray rift passage.

After walking along the passage for about two hours, a circular stone chamber appeared before us, similar to the domed stone chamber, but smaller in size. Oil lamps adorned the walls, and a slightly smaller reddish-gold crystal ball was inlaid in the center of the dome.

The crimson-gold crystal at the tip of the short staff resonated with the small crystal sphere after entering the stone chamber.

As the connection was established, the small crystal ball began to emit layer upon layer of golden light, which grew brighter and brighter until it matched the reddish-gold crystal on the short staff.

Once the light was fully illuminated, a map showing the distribution of spiritual energy was projected, centered on the western part of the area north of the Scale Ridge.

On this map, there is an unexplored road, and at the end of this road lies the northwest corner of a silvery-white plain.

Xiao Fan superimposed the distribution of spiritual energy in this area onto the crystal ball on the dome, and added a mark to the ground projection below the crystal ball in the archway chamber, extending the passage north of the Gray Rift to the northwest.

In late spring, another signal source appeared in the Twin Realms Array Chamber, with the same frequency as the dome crystal ball.

Once activated, the small crystal spheres inside the archway can continuously transmit signals bidirectionally with the dome crystal sphere, forming a stable synchronous link.

A new pattern appeared on the Silverfrost Sword, identical to the one on the crystal ball on the archway, and arranged parallel to the pattern on the dome crystal ball.

Bai Ye has confirmed that the small crystal ball inside the portal has been recorded without any interference.

Xue Han had inspected this passage in the spring. From the stone gate of the gray rift to the stone chamber of the archway, all the lamp holders were constant because the two spheres were synchronized.

At the end of spring, the Linju tribe leaves a thin branch with its tip cut into a double fork on the dividing line, which serves as the source of two new spheres for the Shuangjietai.

The observer from the Bilin tribe, surnamed Meng, also confirmed in his last routine report of spring that the rock strata in the western part of the Linji Land were stable in spring and had not undergone any structural changes.

Brother Cheng has included the operational status of the dual-sphere source in the supplementary volume of the spring archive. After completing the archiving work, it was confirmed that the Dual Boundary Platform has formed a continuous signal framework of a dual-core sphere and an archway chamber crystal sphere in the gray area north of the Gray Rift.

The Golden-Maned Lion from the Earth's Core lay at the entrance of the magic laboratory, its mane shimmering with a faint golden light. The dual-sphere synchronous link had stabilized, establishing a continuous connection between the two signal sources.

Inside the archway chamber, seven days after the small crystal sphere was activated, a stable, two-way spiritual energy channel had formed between the two spheres.

Inside the dual-realm magic circle chamber, the short staff and two crystal balls resonated continuously, emitting a soft light.

Bai Ye placed the Silver Frost Sword on the table in the array room and recorded it. Among the light patterns on the Silver Frost Sword, an intersecting pattern appeared between two parallel lines, connecting the dome crystal ball and the crystal ball in the arched stone chamber.

Xiao Fan sat cross-legged in the array room, using his mental power to sense the connection between the two crystal balls. About half an hour later, he noticed the end of the passage, which was the northwest corner of the Silver Plain. As he continued to extend northwest, he heard an unprecedented psionic echo.

The texture of the echo is the same as that of the seven road signs, but it is denser and heavier, as if it has been through deeper soil and a longer period of time.

Bai Ye copied down the waveform of that spiritual energy resonance and then compared it with an annotation on the Silver Frost Sword.

It reads beside it: "There is not one fire core, but three. When the three cores are combined, the entire Path of Silent Fire can be opened. We already know two cores; the third core is in the northwest."

Xiao Fan connected the location of the third core with the passage north of the archway, confirming that the end of the passage was the place where spiritual energy resonated.

He officially included it as the "third core" in the Shuangjietai survey plan.

In the last week of spring, Xiao Fan, Bai Ye, Xue Han, and the Golden Mane Beast from the Earth's Core emerged from the archway and headed northwest, following the instructions on the crystal ball.

The passage is narrower than the main passage of the Grey Rift Valley, and the wall material is also arched.

As the procession moved forward, one lamp stand after another lit up, the silvery-gray halo maintaining a constant brightness.

After traveling for two and a half days, a fork in the road appeared ahead.

The fork in the road is T-shaped, with lights on both sides of the corridor and a complete halo on the walls. However, the light on the left is brighter than that on the right, and there are traces of spiritual energy flowing on the ground.

Xiao Fan inserted the short staff into the two passages on either side and made a synchronous comparison. He confirmed that the flow of spiritual energy in the left passage was at the same frequency as that in the dome crystal ball and the arch crystal ball, while the right passage was not.

The Earth Core Golden Mane Beast sniffed the fork in the road, then walked straight to the left. A golden light shone from the tip of its mane, a light that was even brighter than the one on the left.

The group continued walking to the left.

Half a day later, the passage began to narrow, the distance between the lights became shorter and shorter, and the brightness of the halo increased until the passage became only wide enough for one person to pass through. Finally, the passage widened, and a circular underground space with a diameter of several meters appeared in front of everyone.

There was no light source in the room, but the walls emitted a soft glow. A crystal ball the same size as the dome and arch crystal balls was embedded in the ceiling, with bright light flowing across it.

Then comes the third core.

Xiao Fan placed the short staff on the surface of the crystal ball. After the crystal ball and the short staff resonated, they lit up layer by layer, the light becoming brighter and brighter, until they lit up like the other two crystal balls.

The three crystal balls connected together to form a perfect triangle, and the crimson-gold crystal at the top of the staff immediately lit up, enveloping the entire staff.