After updating the panel, Zhao Feng and Su Qingwan continued exploring deeper into the mountains.
On their forty-fifth day in the Kentra Mountains, they reached the final location marked on the map Ba Tu had given them.
The two stood halfway up the mountain. At first glance, the place looked entirely unremarkable. Without the marker on the map, they would have passed straight through without giving it a second thought.
Stones of all sizes lay scattered across the slope, some like millstones, others like reclining oxen, seemingly strewn about at random.
Tall ancient trees grew among the stones, their trunks so thick that it would take two or three people to encircle them. Their crowns blotted out the sky, cutting the sunlight into countless tiny flecks.
Su Qingwan had spent three full days studying this stretch of scattered rocks and ancient trees.
Watching her slender figure as she worked with such concentration, Zhao Feng did not disturb her.
She walked around the slope again and again, measuring each stone's position with her steps and tracing each tree's orientation with her gaze, gradually engraving the terrain into her mind.
That night, Su Qingwan sat cross-legged on a boulder, looking up at the stars and comparing them one by one with the terrain she had memorized during the day. Suddenly, she sprang to her feet.
"The Big Dipper. This is a Star Map Formation."
"Oh?"
Zhao Feng stood beside her, following her gaze toward the sky before looking back at the seemingly random arrangement of stones and ancient trees on the slope.
Before long, he saw it too. The positions of those stones and ancient trees echoed the Big Dipper overhead, secretly matching its celestial pattern. Four scattered rocks and three ancient trees were arranged with astonishing precision.
The formation had been