The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

During this period, there were no abnormalities in the activity patterns of people near Shuangjietai. Routine material transportation between the tower and Benju continued as usual.

In late autumn, the exchange of plant fibers and seedlings among the Linju people was completed, and the two sides conducted their first exchange at the border.

Elan personally brought two newly developed wooden conductive modules. These modules are long and narrow, with moderate hardness and excellent toughness, much better than Windvine, and very suitable for the continuous use of the longbow.

One of the modules has a shallow mark several inches long. This is a natural mark left by the Linju clan when they tested the spiritual energy channel. They did not deliberately hide it or give any explanation.

After obtaining the wooden board, Xiao Fan immediately tested its spiritual power with his short staff, confirming that the board's conductivity was better than he had expected.

Bai Ye walked out of the magic array laboratory and looked at the map. The three marks on the north, east and pipe were stable and had not changed at all.

She paused for a moment, then said, "The fact that the enemy has been putting pressure on us shows that they haven't found a way to suppress the Twin Realms Platform yet."

In the last week of autumn, the northern troops withdrew. There was no conflict, no trace.

The patrol team visited the camp the day before and found that there was only a flat area with several filled-in pits, just like the Rockskin people, only not as sturdy.

Through White Night's verification, they determined the enemy's retreat rhythm and timing, and compared them with records from the spring disc burial, finding at least a two-quarter time difference between them, rather than the same operation.

By late autumn, the spiritual energy transported through the pipeline had stabilized, with no further abnormal fluctuations or interruptions. Resupply from Iron Anvil to Rust Rift was completed on schedule until several heavy snowfalls arrived in late autumn.

According to actual measurement data inside the array, the pipeline can still operate stably after events such as water outages and relocation, and there is no spiritual energy decay or structural hidden dangers.

In his "Autumn Briefing," Master Cheng confirmed that the seasonal maintenance work had been completed on schedule, and no accumulated wear and tear had been found that required cross-seasonal maintenance. All data had been archived.

During the final training session at the end of autumn, Elder Pei confirmed that the new round of rotations in the Hunter's Vanguard Camp had ended.

Even after autumn arrived, training for the longbow series continued. Before winter, all six members of the Hunter's Vanguard Battalion had completed long-range shooting training.

When the first snow of winter arrived, all anomalies around Shuangjietai had subsided. No new signs or indications were found to the north, east, or along the pipeline during this prolonged heavy snowfall.

The array flags on the four walls of the Twin Realms Platform flickered continuously in the wind and snow, and the signal of the life-sensing array did not weaken due to the drop in temperature. After winter, the red crystal in the array room had completed its spiritual energy test on all the pipes.

After the blizzard, Bai Ye arrived at the Twin Realms Platform, brushed the snow off his shoulders, and sat down at the table. Xiao Fan was looking at the latest monthly payment records, and the two sat facing each other.

The sunlight filtering through the cracks in the main hall windows merged with the spiritual energy emanating from the cracks in the array room, creating a constantly trembling ripple on the tabletop.

On the morning of the day after the blizzard ended, news came from Iron Anvil Village: deep in the northern snowfields, a person was walking alone toward Twin Realms Platform.

The snow was knee-deep, but the person walked steadily without hesitation, as if they already knew the direction.

The woman surnamed Shi stood at the edge of the mine tunnel. When he approached, she realized that he was a middle-aged stranger dressed in a gray-white robe. He had no magical artifacts at his waist, only an old-fashioned cloth bag. Judging from the material of the bag, it was probably something he would use for a long journey.

The woman surnamed Shi got straight to the point and asked him why he had come.

The man stopped and introduced himself: "I am Xue Han. I heard that the Twin Realms Platform has issued a wanted notice, so I came to take a look."

That afternoon, the woman surnamed Shi reported his situation to the main hall.

Master Cheng welcomed Xue Han into the main hall.

Xue Han sat down and, without any formalities, said directly, "I'm used to being alone in the wild. If there are any missions on the bounty board suitable for solo operations, I can take them. I won't join any squads or participate in the daily patrols."

After checking the other party's cultivation level, Cheng Xiushi determined that the other party was a lone traveler with great strength who often ventured out alone and was very familiar with both the north and south regions.

Hearing their conversation, Old Master Pei came out and exchanged a glance with Xue Han. Neither of them spoke, but their eyes already conveyed a preliminary judgment.

When Xiao Fan returned to the main hall in the evening, Master Cheng had already completed the registration procedures for Xue Han.

The next day, a new name appeared on the bounty board. The first task was a relatively long one with complex terrain.

In the third week of winter, two more people arrived from the direction of Rust Rift.

Their routes differed, and they arrived at different times, but they all came along the trade route to the Silver Plains.

The first person was a tall, slender man carrying a long wooden box. He introduced himself as Shang, from the edge of the Silver Plains, and said he had come specifically to inspect the quality of the Wind Vine and Rock Skin Clan components.

The second person was a burly old man with white hair and beard. "My surname is Meng. I used to run a spiritual materials shop north of Iron Peak Fortress. I'm no longer in business. If Shuangjie Platform needs someone to appraise and authenticate spiritual materials, I can help you."

Ning Yao took the notebook and read it carefully. She found that the notebook recorded the classification of various spiritual materials. Each type of spiritual material had its own unique classification method, which perfectly matched the description of the black gold sand and spiritual material powder in the Iron Anvil Collection.

In the third month after the onset of winter, Master Cheng arranged for the blacksmiths to inspect the forging and output at the anvil workshop, while Elder Meng was in charge of the grade of spiritual materials in the warehouse and registration room.

In the fourth week of winter, Xue Han completed his first bounty mission, submitting a detailed map and filling in all the unmarked areas.

Master Cheng immediately recorded the information that the mission was completed in his notebook.

At the anvil collection, the forging workers have already used rock skin parts and dark sand to make a batch of small forging blanks, and the performance parameters have been sent back to the array room for archiving.

Over the past two weeks, Elder Meng has labeled all the spiritual materials stockpiled in the storage area with their grade and purpose. Ning Yao checked them and confirmed that any discrepancies between the grades of these spiritual materials and those on the accounts had been resolved.

In the fourth week of winter, at the junction of the central Aurora Plain and the Silver Plain, the Hunter Battalion was conducting a winter snow march training exercise.

This is a larger campsite further north than the one in autumn, and there are more traces on the campsite. The snow melted and then re-frozen, indicating that it was used for several weeks, but it has been abandoned for a long time now.