Where do I go after West and East bell towers?

[Turn Kids LGBT]

I went inside the golden door and found the note, a guide says I have to go into the Forest Fortress and follow the purple trail and pray before the silver block, but the trail isn't lit purple. What did I miss? Where do I go?

[603bill]

You must have missed one or more monoliths on the way there. Follow the trails away from where you need to go to find them. Also keep in mind the monoliths need to be activated in sequence.

[iamnid]

I had the same problem -- when you get to the forest where the save point is "Dead" you walk a bit to the SE and there's a monolith. Get close to it and hold the dodge button "A" on a controller -- for a few seconds. You won't get a prompt and you'll hold it for what seems like too long and, eventually, some colored rays will come out of your character. Once you do this long enough, the monolith powers up and the save point works. You can now proceed.

[WonderSparks]

Originally posted by iamnid:

... some colored rays will come out of your character...

It's not necessarily important to note this, but I'd like to note it for completion of information:
Last I checked, that visual effect is only present if your magic bar is also present; every time I've performed that action -before- the magic bar appears, the visual effect has been absent, though the effect of the action still occurs as normal. (That is, you don't need to have a visible magic bar to activate monoliths and whatnot)