The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

This map is much more detailed than the one the leader surnamed Lu gave him. It shows the location of each mining site in detail, as well as their preliminary evaluation levels.

Leng Tiefeng pointed to a mark on the west side of the map and said, "Iron Peak Fortress is already very familiar with this area, and the miners are all ready. Twin Boundary Station has the ability to maintain the pipeline network and also has experience in cooperating with multiple teams. We will each perform our duties, and the output from the north and west of Aurora Plains will be distributed according to the investment ratio."

The hall was silent.

Xiao Fan glanced down at the markings on the map and found that these mining sites largely overlapped with the western part of the northern Aurora Plains. This indicated that this area was indeed part of Iron Peak Fortress's territory, and not just an empty map.

"What conditions would Ironforge have to give up its independent mining rights?" Xiao Fan asked, looking up.

Leng Tiefeng pushed the map in front of Xiao Fan: "But the premise is that the Twin Realms Platform must maintain contact with Iron Peak Fortress in order to conduct any exploration in the northern part of the Aurora Plains. If any new mineral veins or relics are discovered, Iron Peak Fortress has priority."

Upon hearing this, Master Cheng frowned slightly but said nothing.

Xiao Fan carefully examined the map before putting it away. However, the data on the old mining area north of Aurora Plains in Ironforge needed to be synchronized with the Twin Realms Platform, not just unilaterally.

Leng Tiefeng stood up and stretched out a hand.

Their hands were clasped together, yet there was no weight to them.

After Leng Tiefeng left, Cheng Xiushi looked at the map and said, "Iron Peak Fortress's voluntary retreat indicates that it has reassessed the value of the Twin Realms Platform. It's very likely that the records of the Joint Management Committee played a role."

Xiao Fan was recording the coordinates of the mining site in the database of the Twin Realms Platform, writing down new information quickly and fluently.

After the Dual Realm Platform had been operating for half a year, Xiao Fan had had more than half a year to stabilize his Moon Rank cultivation.

He sat in meditation in the array room for seven days, repeatedly following the spiritual power circulation rules of the Moon-Rank Spirit Core. Finally, on the morning of the seventh day, he felt a thin layer of spiritual substance change appear on the surface of his spirit core.

This layer of spiritual energy maintains the same frequency as the networks of the three major regions: Starfall Plain, Aurora Plain, and Gray Domain. It's as if the spiritual core is automatically adapting to the flow of spiritual energy in this region, preparing for a breakthrough.

When he told Bai Ye about his discovery, the two of them were standing on a platform at the edge of the Rust Rift, observing the operation of the purification furnace.

Bai Ye didn't answer immediately, but remained silent for a few seconds before saying, "It's recorded on the Silver Frost Sword that after reaching the Great Perfection of the Moon Rank, the Spirit Core will naturally sense the rhythm of spiritual energy within a certain range. This is the sign of the Sun Rank. You should start preparing some auxiliary materials now to break through to the Sun Rank."

Xiao Fan took out the golden page and read it carefully. He discovered that the auxiliary conditions required for advancing to the Sun Rank were different from those for the Star Rank and Moon Rank.

He needs a composite entity that integrates the three core spiritual energies of Starfall Origin, Aurora Origin, and Gray Domain. Without it, he will be unable to formally break through to the Sun Rank.

Bai Ye took out the spiritual energy parameters of the three places recorded on the Silver Frost Sword and compared them. He confirmed that the core structure matched the structure of the short staff. The next step was to find a special spiritual energy node in the underground of the main city of Starfall Plain and fuse it together to form a complete aggregate.

"That spiritual energy node is located on the third underground level of the main city of Xingluoyuan, and it is connected to the sewers of the main city. The Frost Shadow Sect has detailed route records." Bai Ye projected the route on the Silver Frost Sword to Xiao Fan.

A thin silver line stretches from the edge of the city deep underground, and at the end of this line are the coordinates of the gathering point.

Xiao Fan memorized the map and went to Starfall Plain alone early the next morning.

The entrance to the third underground level was located at the bottom of an abandoned pump house in the southern part of the main city. Wang Lu used a red crystal to inject spiritual power into it, passed through three layers of seals, and entered a basement that was about three zhang square.

In the center of the stone chamber, a vortex of spiritual energy, interwoven with silver, gold, and crimson, perfectly matched the spiritual energy frequency of the short staff and the accompanying crystal.

The whole process was very simple. After he injected the last bit of guiding spiritual power into the vortex, the vortex automatically condensed into a three-color vortex the size of a pigeon egg.

When he held the core in his hand, his spiritual core had already established a connection with the core.

He has met all the conditions for breaking through to the Sun Rank.

Xiao Fan chose the array room of the Twin Realms Platform.

The spiritual energy environment in the array room is synchronized with the White Tower, which can isolate external interference.

Before going into seclusion, Bai Ye came once and planted the Silver Frost Sword on the ground at the entrance of the array room, leaving a soft, silvery-white spiritual energy mark to stabilize the surrounding spiritual energy environment.

The Golden-Maned Lion from the Earth's Core lay on the steps leading to the magic room, its mane shimmering with a faint golden light, like a silent seal.

The process of breaking through to the Sun Rank is different from that of the Star Rank and the Moon Rank.

The Star Rank represents expansion, the Moon Rank represents refinement, and the Sun Rank represents fusion. All the channels between the three Crimson Wilderness Crystals, the three Silver Crystals, the Short Staff, and the Spirit Core have completed their final fusion within the Spirit Core.

The Gathering Heart acts as a central hub, integrating the rhythms of the three spiritual energies into the operating system of the Spirit Core, allowing the output of the Spirit Core to resonate with the entire underground network of pipes, rather than being limited to a single spiritual energy.

This seclusion lasted for twenty-one days.

Early in the morning of the twenty-second day, Xiao Fan pushed open the door and stepped out. The spiritual energy outside the spiritual core in his dantian had been fully formed and integrated into the circulation within his body. The structure of the spiritual energy had also changed, becoming a unified whole.

The Earth Core Golden Mane Beast stood up, shook its scales, and a halo of light shone on its golden mane before returning to normal.

Just then, Master Cheng came out of the main room and saw Xiao Fan standing at the entrance of the array room. He paused, walked quickly to Xiao Fan, looked around, and said calmly, "Things are different now."

At this point, he glanced at the mostly dissipated silver spiritual energy traces on the ground and asked, "You've broken through to the Sun Rank?"

Xiao Fan nodded, took a cup of hot water and walked into the main building. He stood by the window and looked out at the snowfield, where the morning sun shone on the snow.

The next afternoon, Bai Ye arrived at the Twin Realms Platform.

She glanced at the lingering silver light at the entrance of the array room, then at Xiao Fan, who had stabilized, and said nothing more.

She walked to the spirit materials area, squatted down, flipped through the materials, looked at them, wrote a few sentences in her notebook, and then walked to the main house door.

She glanced at Xiao Fan, then at him, making sure his breathing was steady before withdrawing her hand and not looking at him again.

Three days after he broke through to the Great Sun level, the crimson crystal on the short staff resonated strongly with his spiritual core.