The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

At the bottom of the Iron Anvil Mine, there is an undiscovered fissure, which is exactly in the same direction as the ruins Bai Ye mentioned. The fissure is so narrow that the miners of Iron Anvil have not been able to go in and explore it.

After Xiao Fan and the woman surnamed Shi determined the location of the crack, they added a dotted line to the copper plate, connecting the narrow corridor and the seepage crack to the ancient ancestral site. The word "To be investigated" was written at the end of the dotted line.

In his briefing at the end of summer, Brother Cheng confirmed that the troops had neither regrouped nor returned to the rift area after separating.

Throughout the summer, the four battalions of Shuangjietai operated smoothly, and the movement of supplies and personnel between various strongholds proceeded according to plan.

At the end of the briefing, he also attached a progress report on land consolidation and pointed out that the area north of Tiezhenji and around the collection points in the Rust Rift Valley had been included in Shuangjietai's daily patrol area.

After a summer, Shuangjietai had taken control of large areas in the northern and central parts of Aurora Plain.

A fixed return route has been established for resupply between the anvil collection point and the rust rift collection point.

After a final adjustment at the end of summer, the patrol route of the North Tower formed a solid flank connection with Tiefeng Fortress and Qinglu Village, and gradually transitioned to the patrol routes of Tiefeng Fortress and Qinglu Village.

The summer training of the Hunter's Camp has ended. The six people led by Hunter Pei conducted four field exercises, for a total of four exercises.

In late summer, the patrol routes of the patrol battalion covered two main roads, as well as a backup road from Shuangjietai to Tiezhenji, with three supply stations set up along the way.

By the end of summer, the garrison had completed adaptive training for the dual-level platform defense system, enabling it to quickly deploy active defense light shields under various interference conditions. In unplanned environments, the time from signal triggering to light shield deployment was reduced by nearly 40%.

At the end of summer, Bai Ye conducted a spiritual energy scan of the Twin Realms Platform, confirming that the entire network maintained a stable spiritual energy distribution throughout the summer.

After the scan was completed, in the newly added spiritual power record on the Silverfrost Sword, she marked the area north of the Anvil Settlement as "structurally stable, with no recent disturbances".

Xiao Fan stood at the entrance of the main building, basking in the summer sun, watching the training and daily work of the Fourth Battalion.

The mission on the wanted poster continued until the end of summer. People came and went at the registration office, and the banners on the wall shone steadily in the late summer sun.

At the end of summer, the Iron Anvil Collection delivered the last batch of ore for the season, and mining operations deep within the vein entered a normal autumn season. The seal on that narrow alley remained unchanged.

In the first week after the start of autumn, the Hunter Battalion received a special autumn training mission: to conduct a three-day long-distance raid exercise in the open area between the central Aurora Plain and the Silver Plain, a route that was a complete loop with no supply points in between.

Before the cultivator surnamed Song led his team away, Xiao Fan showed the old hunter Pei the distribution of spiritual energy on the short staff.

After glancing at the map, the old hunter Pei marked two places where they could rest temporarily, and the six members of the Hunter's Vanguard Camp immediately set off.

On the evening of the third day, when the Hunter's Vanguard returned to Shuangjietai, they unexpectedly discovered a dilapidated flagpole stuck in the center of an open space.

The wood of the flagpole has turned white, and the remaining strips of cloth on it have been weathered beyond recognition. However, there are several metal wires wrapped around the flagpole stuck in the ground.

The residual spiritual energy fluctuations on it were exactly the same as those used in the short-range communication equipment in the Southern Continent Ancient Sect base.

Grandpa Pei turned the flagpole upside down to confirm that it had been buried that summer.

This means that Gu Zong once left a temporary coordinate there to determine the next course of action.

In the summer, the team that crossed the crack must have used the position of this flagpole to determine their route.

Brother Cheng marked the location of the flagpole on the latest map of Shuangjietai and added the possible marking methods to the patrol battalion's patrol data.

The training report of the Hunter Battalion was also recorded by General Pei, which is proof that the Hunter Battalion officially possesses long-range reconnaissance capabilities.

At this point, the Hunter's Vanguard Battalion, one of the four major battalions of the Twin Realms Platform, began to operate at full capacity, and their mission expanded from outer defense to the middle section of the Aurora Plain and the edge of the Silver Plain.

In the second week of autumn, the mining team at Tiezhenji dug a new transverse tunnel several meters long in the southern extension of the mining area.

At the end of the side passage is an underground river that has been dry for a very long time, and its riverbed is covered with black sand.

The woman surnamed Shi collected some sand and sent it to the Twin Realms Platform for identification. Xiao Fan conducted a spiritual power test on the red crystal on the short staff in the array room.

It was confirmed that the black sand's spiritual power, like the short staff, was a crimson-gold aura, and it also contained some stable metallic elements. This black sand is a natural high-density conductive material, which is very suitable for laying out a spiritual power guiding layer.

After receiving the test results, the woman surnamed Shi said, "This underground river remnant is much longer than the section that is currently exposed. If the entire riverbed were filled with this kind of sand, the extracted ore would be enough to fill the guide layers of all the pipes in Shuangjietai."

Xiao Fan immediately began discussing with the woman surnamed Shi the matter of excavating the underground river ruins.

The Iron Anvil Yard is responsible for sand mining and initial screening, while the Second Boundary Platform assigns personnel to supervise sand grading and subsequent processing. Production is settled quarterly.

Three days after the contract was signed, the first batch of sand was transported into the Shuangjietai warehouse.

After Ning Yao finished registering, she added a line of text next to the annotation on the anvil stone: "Black gold sand, which has a high conductivity."

During the autumn operations, Tiezhenji officially added a special sand selection process, expanding the overall output of the entire vein from a single ore to a pattern where a mineral and a conductive medium coexist.

In the third week of autumn, while patrolling the central part of the Aurora Plains, the Hunter's Vanguard Camp discovered a previously undocumented hidden rift valley.

The fissure is located southeast of where the old flagpole was discovered, about a hundred miles deep, and the entrance is covered by dense shrubs and rocks.

While clearing the entrance, the Hunter's Vanguard Camp members discovered several broken spiritual artifacts at the bottom of the crevice, with markings identical to the three pointed corners of the Southern Continent Ancient Sect.

In her report, the cultivator surnamed Song briefly described the shapes of the fragments. Two of them were consistent with the circuit structure of the ancient sect detector she had previously encountered, while the other was consistent with the shape of the indentation on the items in the narrow corridor jade box of the Iron Anvil Collection.

He immediately took stock of the possible items he might be carrying, determined the correspondence between their quantity and the shape of the indentations, and noted the relevant observation results in the report. After returning to the Twin Realms Platform, he handed the report over to the Array Master's Room for analysis.