Chapter 3627

"So this is the Saint's Cliff."

Standing at the edge of the cliff looking at the sea of clouds after the snow stopped, Xia De admitted that the scenery in front of him was quite good, but compared to the name "Saint's Cliff," he didn't feel anything special.

He looked down at the bottom of the cliff, hesitated for a moment, then jumped down directly, and flew back after three seconds.

During the free fall, he saw that there was a white fog barrier below, just like the starting point of the "Luo De of Atonement." If he continued to fall, he would leave this area directly as expected.

But it had only been less than half an hour since he entered here:

"When I want to leave in a while, jump down from here again."

There were no areas worth exploring on the mountaintop high platform, so Xia De returned to the ruins below, looked at the broken walls and ruins everywhere, and began his own exploration.

Searching for traces under the snow, checking broken walls and pillars, and then Xia De confirmed that except for the temple, there were really no complete buildings here, and there were no relatively complete ones either.

So if the location for the final ceremony was an open-air sacrificial ground covered by snow, things wouldn't be troublesome; but if the ceremony location was really the so-called "Ring Hall," then the candidates might have to prepare stone materials in advance to repair the house before doing the next things.

It was just that Xia De had never been able to find the "Upper Spring." Even if the ruins were covered by snow, he couldn't have failed to notice the frozen water area in such a limited area, but the fact was that he really didn't find that area.

However, Xia De was not without gains during the search process. He dug out a snake skin from under the snow surface—this thing was really everywhere, and then when checking a stone pillar, he accidentally found a document-level relic 【Lucky Coin】 near the bottom of the stone pillar buried by snow.

This was a coin that gained great luck within 30 seconds of throwing a non-numeric side, and luck within 24 hours of throwing a numeric side. Xia De had bought the same relic in the black market of Time Wheel City.

And at the northern edge of the ruins, he discovered traces suspected to be a cemetery. Tombstones were lying here and there under the snow surface, and the text on the tombstones had basically been worn away. Out of respect, he did not excavate here.

At the edge of the cemetery, that is, the northern edge of the entire ruin, Xia De saw an intact stone tablet. The stone tablet looked very new, and it was only after approaching that he saw it was actually text from the Fifth Era.

"A message from the witches?"

He didn't guess wrong, but this was not a stone tablet left by any witch Xia De knew. The other party left her name and the era she was in—about eight hundred years after Miss Feilian founded Saint Byron.

The stone tablet stood under the blue sky and white clouds. Xia De seemed to be able to see the strange but graceful witch standing here with her back to the ruins behind her, looking at the scenery outside the cliff, and then raising her hand to hook the hair hanging by her ear.

The content on the stone tablet was not much. Besides the witch emperor sighing that she had really found this place, she also said that she was the Great Witch of the Fate seat of the council, and believed that although this place was dilapidated, it still shouldered other missions.

As evidence to prove to later comers that she had really been here, she also said that she would leave a gift for the first person to discover this place under the stone tablet.

"Counting this way, since then, has no one come here again?"

Xia De muttered to himself. He originally thought he could see fragments of the poem, but the era the witch emperor lived in was still far from the end of the Fifth Era, and obviously the "Whispering Poem" had not yet appeared in that era.

However, since the other party said she left a gift, Xia De tried to excavate without hesitation.

He guessed that maybe it was a ring or a curved arc again, after all, he had already come into contact with two rings since coming here; but if it was a powerful relic or an alchemical item with special functions, he wouldn't mind either. Ancient witches usually had good things in their hands.

But after really digging up a small box the size of a palm, he found that there was only a note inside, and it was a note written in Karsenrik language—

【I took the Myriad Phenomena Impermanence Card left by the Witch Emperor. I left other things under the box for later comers. The ruins here are of great importance, do not inform anyone of the secrets here.

——Chaneum Luo De】

Xia De showed an astonished expression, and "She" smiled gently in Xia De's ear. Xia De stared at the empty box for a while, and then closed the box again:

"So 【Founding · Knowledge】 was found here."

The other party came earlier than himself, and Xia De couldn't complain about taking things away. Moreover, 【Founding · Knowledge】 went around and around, and in the current era, it was in his pocket. After all, the card finally fell into the hands of the outsider:

"I thought I was the first person to find this place in this era, it seems I was still too arrogant."

However, the legendary President Luo De had actually been here, which surprised Xia De a little. It seemed that the other party should have left no information for the Diviner Association as written in the note. The other party obviously discovered something here, but the era was too long ago, and things from that year were already difficult to verify.

"However, this counts as answering one of my questions, which is the source of 【Founding · Knowledge】."

Among the nine Myriad Phenomena Impermanence Cards in hand, only Silver Moon, Earth, and Light had unknown sources.

"Balance" came from Gina Angela Sewell, a saint of the Old God 【Innocent Creator】 in the underground ruins of Tobesk; "Darkness" ascended the snow mountain with Chloe in the Fifth Era, and was obtained by the Ice Mining Legion in the extreme northern glacier in the Sixth Era; "Death" was obtained by Joey Barton in the winter of 1849 in the Sixth Era from the bronze skeleton in the ancient ruins outside Umur Town, a settlement in the south of the New Continent; "Knowledge" was left here by the witch of the Fifth Era, later brought back to the Diviner Association for safekeeping, and arrived in Xia De's hands in the winter of 1853; "Space" once appeared in the hands of the witch Alela Andreana of the Fifth Era, and after the story of the Lost Forest ended, it was re-obtained by Xia De from a mimic in the Green Lake area in the Sixth Era...

"During the story of the Lost Forest, it seems it was the unicorn incarnated by Miss Andreana who borrowed the power of 【Myriad Phenomena Impermanence · Space】 to lead us in the story to find Mr. Ring's temple located at the top of the snow mountain (Chapter 1709)... Coincidence?"

"Time" was passed down in the hands of the Bennetts, the station masters of the "Time Transfer Station," but its true source was Professor Wood, the wreckage of the World Tree.

Besides these six cards, "Silver Moon" was left to Xia De by the late Detective Sparrow, "Earth" was snatched by Xia De after completing a series of commissions for Stone Osenfort, and although "Light" was gifted by Coroner Mr. Albert, that card was actually one of the three legendary cards scattered in the Moon Bay area, and Mr. Albert did not know the specific source.

"If there is time, I can go to Death to ask Stone Osenfort where he got the Earth card. It couldn't have been given to him by the Stone Mirror Demon - Gothe... or go ask Mrs. Hela Osenfort."

As for the "Myriad Phenomena Impermanence · Fate" that Xia De had not yet obtained, the luckiest mortal Mr. Riddle once held it and kept the card in the Diviner Association. The inheritance of this card was very clear.

【Aren't you curious about the specific origin of that Silver Moon?】

"She" asked gently.

"I promised not to disturb Detective Sparrow easily again."

Xia De answered in his heart, actually still thinking about whether he could deduce the way other cards might appear from the origins of the cards already obtained.

Since the Witch Emperor's gift had already been "obtained," Xia De put down the box and continued to excavate, and soon dug out a new box. The new metal box was a circle smaller than the one containing the cards. After opening it, inside was a golden button with an Ouroboros symbol on it.

This was an ordinary item, looking very similar to the badge symbolizing identity worn by the diviners of the Diviner Association, but in fact, this was a credential rarely given by the association:

"Luweiya mentioned this to me—this is a button gifted only to those who have helped the association or made significant contributions to the association. Showing it allows for free divination in the association for life."

The association hadn't given out this kind of thing in the last few hundred years, and most of those who had obtained such "credentials" in history were powerful ring warlocks.

This might be a valuable item for others, but it was of little value to Xia De.

Although he had to pay the Tobesk branch when he went to find Luweiya for divination, his status as the champion of "Big City Player" allowed him to enjoy a large discount in the association, and 80% of the money after the discount would eventually enter Luweiya's pocket as performance.

And besides Luweiya, Xia De had no need to find other diviners in the association for divination. Luweiya didn't charge Xia De extra for divination outside the association, of course—unless it was a small request occasionally during night activities.

Of course, the most critical thing was that this kind of "credential" only allowed for free divination and could not obtain Luo De cards for free; the association's divination and Luo De card businesses were separate.

"The items left by President Luo De are heavy enough, but he obviously didn't expect who the next person to come here would be."

Xia De sighed in his heart, but still accepted the button as a souvenir.

Then he thought about whether he should follow the example of the witch and President Luo De and leave something here. But he touched his pocket and didn't find any item of sufficient value, so he finally had to leave a "Star Dewdrop."

The entity condensed from starlight could be stored for a long time, but the final mission of this ruin was to welcome the Chosen One ceremony and wait for the mortal who could inherit the Ancient God's power to appear. Now that the ceremony was about to begin, after the ruin's mission ended, he thought there would be no next generation of people coming here again.