The Person in the Mural Looked Like He Was Forming Hand Seals

Bai Zhu had just stepped onto the stone shore when the prompt at the edge of his vision flickered.

[Hidden achievement completed.]

Then there was nothing else.

No achievement points.

No Reiatsu increase.

Not even a "Congratulations."

Bai Zhu nearly cursed on the spot, but forcibly held it back.

Milluki followed with the box in his arms and glanced at him.

"You froze up again?"

Bai Zhu patted the gold chain on his chest.

"I'm contemplating a serious question."

"What?"

"Is there any way for me to get rich overnight in this place?"

Milluki could not be bothered with him.

Ging had already led List onward.

The Black Tower Outer Ring was larger than it had looked from afar. Below it lay a ring of ancient city ruins. Broken walls, stairways, and stone corridors spread around the tower. Many places had collapsed halfway, and the remaining stones bore slots and dents, as if mechanisms had once been installed there. But no trace of the original architectural style remained.

Satotz could barely walk after landing.

Clutching his document tube, he practically pressed himself against a broken wall. His fingers hovered over the patterns, not daring to touch them.

Piyu followed with her phone raised, filming the wall one moment and Satotz's face the next.

"Satotz, don't block the middle section."

Satotz did not turn around.

"Quiet. There are three layers of carvings here."

Piyu immediately grew excited.

"Three layers? Which three?"

"The outermost layer was added later. Someone likely reinterpreted these ruins. The middle layer is messier, like migration records. The innermost layer..."

Satotz's voice lowered, but his hands did not stop. He took rubbing paper from his document tube and began copying the markings.

Ging crouched by the wall and rubbed some fallen stone dust between his fingertips,