The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

The next morning, the woman surnamed Shi sent someone to deliver a bag of high-density ore to Shuangjietai as a reward for her mission.

By autumn, the number of people who had signed up had exceeded twenty.

Brother Cheng divided the operation of the registration room into three nodes, each with a designated person in charge.

Since this summer, the bounty area has been expanded to the central part of Aurora Plains. In addition to those who accept the missions, maps, intelligence and specific mission requests have also begun to be sent to Twin Realms Platform from more distant places.

In the second week of this fall, something happened that further boosted the prestige of the bounty list in the surrounding countries.

A caravan traveling north from the Silver Plains encountered a mudslide while passing through a pass between Tower Fort and Iron Anvil, and the entire caravan was trapped on the south side of the pass.

The caravan leader sent someone to Iron Anvil Village for help, and Iron Anvil Village immediately relayed the message to Twin Realms Platform.

Master Cheng dispatched two of his most experienced teams, equipped with tools, to the landslide site within twelve hours. They cleared a passable path, and by the next morning, they had cleared a road that was passable.

After escaping, the caravan leader deliberately took a detour and arrived at the Twin Realms Platform.

"I've been in the north for six years and I've never seen a base like this before. If anything happens, I'll come find you."

After the caravan leader left, Bai Ye glanced at Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan took the autumn goods list from Ning Yao, glanced at it, and said, "News from the north is much faster than news from the south, because there's not much place in the north to handle this kind of thing."

He closed the list, raised the bounty cap, and included a larger area north of Tiezhenji and Chenglou.

That evening, Master Cheng revised the content of the announcement and the task process on the bulletin board, making it concise and leaving enough room for what would happen later.

In the third week of this autumn, the guards on the watchtower discovered an abandoned spirit device.

The machine has a logo with three overlapping horns on its outer shell. Although its internal structure is damaged, some detectable spiritual energy lines can still be seen on its main body.

The captain of the guard returned to the tower with the probe and immediately sent someone to deliver the probe to the Dual Realm Platform.

Xiao Fan extracted the residual spiritual energy traces from the detector in the array room and analyzed them, confirming that the detector had been active in the northern part of Black Stone Pass, including the northern end of the backup network of the Twin Realms Platform.

Bai Ye used the Silver Frost Sword to scan the remaining structure of the detector and determined that its main detection frequency was similar to that of the drilling instruments of the Southern Continent Ancient Sect, but its detection depth was greater, and its target was a deep node near the geothermal channel.

This indicates that after two consecutive failures, the Southern Continent Ancient Sect has changed its strategy from direct confrontation to secretly gathering intelligence and waiting for an opportunity to act.

After the meeting, the cultivator surnamed Tong never appeared again. However, after Xiao Fan and Bai Ye checked the records of the Silver Frost Sword, they confirmed that the geothermal channel, the tower, and the mineral vein all had traces of abandoned equipment.

After confirming the analysis results, Master Cheng doubled the patrol frequency around the tower, moved up the patrol time of the Anvil Settlement by half a day, and selected two guards registered in the tower from the bounty list for a period of one month.

Xiao Fan placed the abandoned instrument into the research data cabinet in the array room, along with the three badges engraved with sharp corners.

Two-thirds of the notices on the main hall's bulletin board came from the north: bounties, caravan itineraries, topographical data delivered quarterly by messengers from White Camel Ridge, and routine letters from the Ice Wolf tribe's outposts. Each letter was signed with a different style of seal.

The hidden line that originally extended to the edge of the dual-boundary platform node could not find a gap during several adjustments in the autumn and was eventually restrained by the ever-expanding reconnaissance and coordination network.

The winter sun shines on the walls of Shuangjietai, and the warm sunlight shines on the wooden planks.

Xiao Fan looked at the report Ning Yao handed him. There were a total of twenty-seven people responsible for a large area from the middle of Aurora Plain to the North Tower.

By autumn, Tiezhen Village, Qinglu Village, Tiefeng Fortress, Binglang Tribe, and Baituo Ridge had completed a total of forty-seven missions, each of which was completed on schedule.

Just as he was looking at the report, the Earth Core Golden Mane Beast suddenly moved. It moved from the doorway to the doorway, its back to the hot air vent on the wall of the magic room. The light on its mane resonated with the crimson crystal on its short staff.

By autumn, it had completely merged with the spiritual energy cycle of the Twin Realms Platform. It can automatically adjust its perception according to the flow of spiritual energy and is also very sensitive to interference from external spiritual energy.

Bai Ye arrived at Twin Realms Platform the day before winter. After reading the autumn report, he suddenly looked up and said, "Next spring, this mechanism will attract more missions. The messengers from White Camel Ridge have already added the traffic situation of the area surrounding the Silver Plains to the last batch of data. The operation and reputation of Twin Realms Platform are spread in this way."

Xiao Fan walked out of the array room and to the entrance of the main building. He glanced at the last mission on the bounty board, which was still clearly visible in the dim light.

The winter wind blew across the courtyard wall, making the mane of the Earth Core Golden Mane flutter.

Seven days before the end of winter, the messenger from Baituo Ridge arrived at Shuangjietai two days ahead of schedule.

The messenger brought not topographical data, but an urgent bounty for a medium-sized settlement located on the edge of the Silver Plains.

The application describes an adult iceback wolf that frequently appears on the outskirts of the village. It is more than twice the size of any known species in the area, and multiple attempts to drive it away have failed, resulting in injuries to several people.

This task is far more difficult than any of the tasks in autumn and winter.

Xiao Fan read through the description on the application form and then handed it to Cheng Xiushi, asking him to confirm the difficulty of the task.

Following the standard procedures of the Twin Realms Platform, Master Cheng divided this mission into two steps. The first step was to send a team to the outskirts of the settlement to conduct on-site investigations and collect relevant data. The second step was to issue a formal bounty based on the assessment results after the mission was completed, and to begin the second phase of the cleanup work.

Master Cheng assigned the task of this field investigation to a cultivator surnamed Song and a young cultivator who had joined this autumn.

The two set off on the day the mission was issued, recording the terrain and changes in the surrounding environment of the Iceback Wolf's activity area along the way, determining the activity trajectory of the target Iceback Wolf, and recording the specific data of this mission.

On the fourth night, the assessment report was delivered to Shuangjietai.