The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

Xiao Fan checked Bai Ye's spiritual energy records and found that there was a spiritual energy resonance in the northeast direction of Aurora Plain, which lasted for a whole night with a stable signal and no fluctuations.

The forest dwellers lingered for a long time on the edge of the forest on the east side of Shuangjietai, determining its activity range and patrol patterns. By the evening of the next day, everyone had returned to the depths of the forest.

After the Linju Clan left, the young master of Qinglu Manor sent another message, saying that the patrol team had found a flat clearing at the edge of the forest. There were some treated branches on the clearing, with forked ends and outward-facing tips.

Master Cheng noted down the shape of the tree branch in his notebook—in long-distance recording of wood-type spiritual power, a trident shape usually represents "passage" and "passage".

Xiao Fan maintained the original patrol frequency and did not take any other actions, but added a line to the map: "Forest Dwellers, northeast of Aurora Plains, forest, border observation position confirmed."

During the first week of summer, the second group of Rock Skin people arrived in the arid valley.

Their numbers were about the same as the first group. After arriving, they did not expand the camp, but instead entered the tent area together.

One of the women from the Yanfu tribe was older, with darker skin, and walked somewhat slowly. She carried a thick bone staff at her waist, the head of which was engraved with fine patterns.

The next day, she went to the edge of the mine alone and drew an arc on the ground with her staff.

In her routine report that evening, Ms. Shi mentioned the approximate location of this arc—it starts from the north side of the Rock Skin Man camp, goes around the boundary of the Iron Anvil Mine area, and extends southwest.

At the end of the arc was an empty space, with neither mineral veins nor any recorded spiritual material deposits. It was separated from the Twin Realms Platform's pipeline network by at least a wide valley, so there was no need to go through any of the Twin Realms Platform's facilities.

Xiao Fan compared the arc on the map with the entire bronze disc and determined that the Rock Skin Clan had not chosen to detour or cross over, but instead chose a road leading south, avoiding the facilities of the Twin Realms Platform.

He instructed Brother Cheng to include the direction of this arc in the reference materials for the next season of the Anvil Collection, and confirmed with the woman surnamed Shi the temporary supply arrangements for the Rock Skin people during this migration.

The woman surnamed Shi replied that Tiezhenji has ample supplies for transit, and long-term relations with the Yanfu tribe can be established as needed.

When Bai Ye arrived at the Twin Realms Platform, it was already the second week of summer. As soon as he arrived, he noticed the arc.

"The Rockskin Clan bypassed all the controlled areas of the Twin Realms Platform, which shows that they demonstrated sufficient initiative and discipline in their first contact."

She glanced at the arc and continued, "From southwest to south, that's the settlement of rogue cultivators in the central Aurora Plains. If we continue forward, the Rockskin Clan will enter the uninhabited area on the edge of the Silver Plains."

During the third week of this summer, the patrol team discovered traces of processed bark and some forked branches on the edge of the forest east of Shuangjietai.

However, this time the branches were arranged in a more orderly manner, forming a straight line along the edge of the forest with their tips pointing outwards towards the walls of Shuangjietai.

Grandpa Pei checked it over and confirmed that the direction of the branches was the same as last time, but this time the direction was more formal, more like confirmation from the Linju tribe.

That afternoon, Qinglu Village sent a message, which also came from the outskirts of the forest, confirming the location of the tree branches.

Just like the tree branches that the Forest Dwellers used in the northeast of the Aurora Plains, the Forest Dwellers used these tree branches to define their boundary with the Twin Realms Platform.

In the height of summer, the earth remains dry and the sun shines brightly. After the iron anvil tribe's mines enter the summer stabilization period, they resume normal operation.

The Rock Skin tribe and the Anvil tribe had no contact whatsoever, the number of tents in the camp remained unchanged, and the new immigrants did not arrive as expected.

Bai Ye scanned the edge of the forest with his Silver Frost Sword and confirmed that there were several forest dwellers active in the east. However, they did not continue to move towards the edge of the forest, but maintained a fixed area of ​​activity near the forest edge.

In the fourth week of summer, Xiao Fan and the young master of Qinglu Manor had a face-to-face meeting, and the two confirmed the situation around the forest.

During the summer, the Linju tribe did not cross the forest edge into the patrol area of ​​Shuangjietai and Qingluzhuang, and the Yanfu tribe did not move towards Tiezhenji after drawing the arc.

Therefore, during the middle half of the summer, Guzhai maintained a stable campsite and no events occurred that could have triggered armed conflict.

In early summer, the first group of Rock-Skinned people began to migrate, appearing in the open area at the end of the Rock-Skinned tribe's arc.

Iron Anvil Village observed several Rock-Skinned People leading pack animals along an arc heading southwest. After crossing the end of the arc, they continued onward and eventually disappeared into the outer perimeter of the White Camel Ridge caravan.

In mid-summer, the Shuangjietai Fourth Battalion completed its first full rotation of personnel, and all battalions maintained their full staffing.

Since the beginning of summer, the transportation of materials between Tiezhenji and Tiexiu Rift Valley has been smooth. The production of dark sand and ore has reached half of the previous quarter's level, and mining and processing work is also proceeding in an orderly manner.

This summer, the third batch of information sent by the messenger from White Camel Ridge mentioned that there were shallow cart tracks and animal footprints on the edge of the Silver Plain, which matched the human body shape of Yanfu.

A month ago, the Hunter's Vanguard Camp conducted a reconnaissance mission to the north and confirmed that the Rock-Skinned People had left along an arc, and the remaining people's range of activity in the Dry Valley was getting smaller and smaller, and the size of the entire camp was also shrinking.

Starting from the fifth week of summer, no new signals have appeared from the Linju tribe.

In its last quarterly report, Qinglu Manor confirmed that the woodland had returned to a stable state by the end of summer, with no new traces or lingering spiritual energy found.

At the end of the season, Bai Ye used his spiritual power to scan the edge of the forest and found that the spiritual energy there had returned to normal.

The array flags around the Twin Realms Platform maintained maximum power under the late summer sun, and the red crystal in the array chamber maintained a constant glow, while the Earth Core Golden Mane Beast lay on the wall in a different position.

Before leaving, Bai Ye left the Silver Frost Sword in the magic array laboratory to synchronize Xia Mo's data.

The next morning, she picked up her sword, looked up at the sky outside the window, and her snow-white clothes shimmered with a faint silver light in the morning sunlight.

In the last week of summer, the remaining people in the Rockskin tribe camp in the Dry Valley began packing up their tents and supplies.

Over the next few days, they left the camp in an orderly manner.

After the last group of Rockskin people left, only an open space and a few filled-in fire pits remained in the camp.

The next morning, the woman surnamed Shi reported to her on the situation of the Rock Skin tribe, confirming that all the Rock Skin tribe members had left the dried-up valley and the camp had returned to normal.