"What is this place? Have we already arrived?"
Li Chen opened his eyes and regained his senses. The air around him felt pure and ethereal. Looking up, he saw pristine white snow covering the upper half of the mountain, like a conical heap of grain adorned with festive fireworks.
Li Chen gathered magic power into his eyes and looked again. This time, he saw banks of clouds stretching around the mountainside like ocean waves, their gentle ripples swirling like windblown snow. Currents shaped like dragons and serpents seemed to be living creatures of spiritual essence flying among them.
Farther away, clouds laden with moisture drifted through the distant sky like immortal islands beyond the mortal world. The Sun's boundless rays were broken down here into shafts of gentle spiritual light, complementing the dense, pure spiritual aura.
He took a mechanical contrivance shaped like a pocket watch from his pouch and glanced at it. Three blue points of light flashed continuously on its dial, with a symbol consisting of a circle enclosing a solid equilateral triangle positioned between them.
Li Chen pressed a button on the watch's rim. Immediately, the three blue points became four, forming a three-dimensional structure resembling a pyramid. This revealed that the fourth point lay deep underground, like the mountain's reflection in water.
A larger blue sphere of light rested quietly at the center of the pyramid structure.
"So that's it. This is indeed Broad Cloud Peak."
This was a Spirit Wave Detector, a mechanism device capable of detecting a specified aura and sensing its direction and energy level. The blue points displayed on its dial were special instruments the Golden Sun Gate had buried over a hundred years ago, when it discovered this lower-grade spirit peak.
These were waymarkers used for positioning. Together, they enclosed the