The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

After completing all this, the two withdrew their spiritual power. The patterns on Bai Ye's Silver Frost Sword gradually became brighter, while Xiao Fan's Crimson Crystal returned to its standby state after the practice was finished.

That evening, the Earth Core Golden Mane Beast maintained its usual posture, its pale golden mane shimmering in the summer night sunlight.

Inside the array room, the crimson short staff had completed the linkage exercise between the two spiritual artifacts, emitting a faint halo. It was also pulsating synchronously with the patterns of the Silver Frost Sword that Bai Ye had placed on the corner of the table in the main hall at an imperceptible frequency.

The halo on the dual-realm platform, flickering with the resonance of the two core spiritual artifacts, rotated around the wall.

In the summer of the first year after the Shuangjietai officially opened, a brand-new notice board was erected outside the main hall.

This bulletin board is much larger than the one in the lobby. It faces the entrance of the wall and has the words "Wanted Notice" written on it. Below, it lists the matters that need to be handled and the corresponding reward amount.

The bounty list was drafted by Master Cheng. Ning Yao checked the process, and then Bai Ye input his spiritual energy before finally starting the execution.

The bounty board is very simple and straightforward to use. Cultivators and settlements near the Twin Realms Platform can submit bounties to the platform if they encounter a relatively weak threat.

Once the application is approved, it will be posted on the bulletin board and collected by the guards of the Twin Realms Platform or registered monks. After completion, the payment will be made according to the agreed reward.

Within a week of the bounty announcement, he received three applications. The first was about a low-level monster's lair in the southeast of the Rust Rift that was threatening the patrol team outside the gathering point. The second was about the supply line between the anvils being harassed by an unknown force. The third was about a geothermal anomaly discovered in a small village two days' journey from the Twin Realms Platform.

Xiao Fan did not personally handle the applications of these three people.

Master Cheng entrusted the task to three disciples who had performed exceptionally well in the guard duties, and instructed them to lead their respective teams on their journeys.

The first squad successfully cleared the monster's lair and confirmed the safety of the area around the gathering point. The second squad patrolled the supply line for two consecutive nights and confirmed that the harassing squad was just a hunting squad that was resting. The third squad reported that this was a normal temperature change after the spring snow melted and had been recorded in detail in the report.

All three bounties were completed within three days, and the bounty amounts were distributed by the Dual Realm Book.

The first three wanted posters hanging on the wall were marked as "closed" after the cases were closed.

Some rogue cultivators passing by the Twin Realms Platform also noticed the changes in the rankings. One of them originally planned to rest here, but after looking around, he found Cultivator Cheng and asked to join.

In the second month of summer, a formal bounty was issued from Iron Anvil Town. The patrol team north of the mine had detected an unknown spiritual energy fluctuation for several days. This fluctuation was different from the known monsters and geothermal activity, and seemed more like a small-scale secret expedition.

After reviewing the information given to him by Master Cheng, Xiao Fan selected two experienced cultivators to carry out this mission.

The two registered cultivators spent two days walking around the perimeter of the mine, and returned to the Twin Realms Platform early on the third day.

According to the report, they have identified the source of the spiritual energy fluctuation: an abandoned magical artifact hidden in a crack in the ground, which is constantly emitting spiritual energy fluctuations. Its manufacturing process is very similar to that of the ancient sects of the Southern Continent, and it should have been left behind by an expedition team when they left.

The two cultivators returned to the Twin Realms Platform with the worn-out magical artifact and handed it over to Ning Yao for safekeeping, confirming that it was harmless to her body.

During this expedition, they encountered a herd of migrating reindeer. They kept this in mind but did not take any action.

The entire inspection process was safe and reliable, fully documented, and resulted in no casualties or material losses.

In his monthly report, Master Cheng gave a comprehensive review of the current bounty and made corresponding adjustments to the next bounty.

In the third month of this summer, the number of people accepting the mission increased to twelve, including people from nearby villages.

On the Dual Realm Platform, a simple registration room was set up to assess the cultivators participating in the assessment and to assign tasks.

Ning Yao was in charge of the registration office, while Cheng Xiushi was responsible for the daily operations.

After two months, the name of the bounty had spread among the two small tribes in the north and south of Aurora Plains.

The rogue cultivators outside Iron Peak Fortress and Green Deer Manor came one after another to claim the bounty. The tasks have also expanded from spirit beast invasions and abnormal routes to rescue personnel and collect low-level spiritual materials.

Among the first batch of registered cultivators was a middle-aged man surnamed Song who frequently took on missions. He was a free hunter with a mid-stage eighth-rank cultivation level and spent most of his time wandering between the Gray Domain and the Aurora Plains.

After confirming this and finding his work attitude to be reliable, Master Cheng assigned him the task of both surveying the terrain and overseeing the clearing operation.

Bai Ye noticed that many people were coming and going every day. He asked Xiao Fan about it and then said, "Your system is already running. As long as the registration and checkout processes go smoothly, the rest will be much easier."

One late summer evening, a woman surnamed Shi from Tiezhenji sent a miner to Shuangjietai overnight with news: that afternoon, the deep exploration site north of Tiezhenji had been attacked by an adult ice giant lizard, and the expedition team had to abandon their work site for the day and return to Jixu.

The giant lizard was entrenched near the ore deposit and refused to leave. All the miners had retreated into the ruins, and no one was injured for the time being.

After receiving the news, Xiao Fan instructed Cheng Xiushi to gather a three-person team, led by a cultivator surnamed Song, to go to Tiezhenji to handle the matter.

This time, he did not personally go out, nor did he send anyone to accompany him.

Before dawn, the cultivator surnamed Song arrived at Tiezhen Village. Based on the information provided by the woman surnamed Shi, he determined the patrol range and patterns of the giant lizard. Early the next morning, the three of them worked together to force the giant lizard out of the cave.

The monitor lizard was unharmed; it was forced to retreat northward without stopping or looking back.

That afternoon, the exploration team resumed work, and there were no casualties. The daily operations of Tiezhenji returned to normal that same afternoon.

Upon returning, the cultivator surnamed Song submitted a standard mission report, which detailed the size of the giant lizard, its range of activity, the process of driving it away, and the spiritual pressure parameters used in the mission, all written in the lower right corner of the report.

After this incident, the deep summer explorations of Iron Anvil Village never encountered attacks from large spirit beasts again, and the miners of the village resumed their normal work.