The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

By autumn, the lampposts in the northern corridor of the Grey Rift Valley still maintained a constant brightness, showing no signs of diminishing or going out.

On the Silver Frost Sword, corresponding to the pattern of the dome crystal ball, a small mark appeared at the end of autumn. This was the route of the Azure Wave Society and was incorporated into the Twin Realms Platform's recording system.

The transaction records of joining the Alliance and the Canglan Society, along with the supplementary records of the Bilin Clan, were placed in the main database of the Dual Realm Platform. After summarizing the autumn resource allocation data in the main hall, Cultivator Cheng determined the flow of spiritual materials since the opening of the passage north of the Gray Valley Rift.

As autumn drew to a close, the short staff in the array room had completed its check on the beacon connections, confirming that the spiritual energy channels between the six beacons and the real bronze bell were intact and that the signals had not been interfered with.

As autumn drew to a close, Bai Ye visited the Dual Realm Magic Laboratory to check the audit results. The remote connection between the Silver Frost Sword and the Dome Crystal Ball remained stable.

When she placed the Silver Frost Sword on the table in the array room, the silver patterns on the sword and the crimson-gold crystal on the short stick resonated briefly. The resonance between the two magical artifacts quickly led to the delivery of the resource allocation records of the Dual Realm Platform and the confirmation documents from the Alliance to the main hall.

After the last frost of late autumn, a group of unprecedented visitors arrived at Twin Realms. The seven of them wore exquisite dark gray robes with wavy patterns embroidered on the collars, common in the southern plains.

The first person was an elderly man with white hair and beard, a thin face, a restrained aura, and a steady gait. He possessed the cultivation of the early stage of the Transformation Realm, making him a cut above most of the people on the Twin Realms Platform. He stood at the entrance of the city wall and handed an invitation stamped with the seal of the "Nanbo Chamber of Commerce" to the patrol members on duty.

Xiao Fan accepted the invitation and entered the main hall. The old man sat down, looked at the layout of the hall, and then looked at the map before saying, "I am Shen, the honorary president of the Nanbo Chamber of Commerce."

The Nanbo Chamber of Commerce has been operating south of the Silver Plains for many years. Recently, they discovered that you and the Canglan Chamber of Commerce have opened up a northwest trade route, and you also control a stable spiritual energy channel north of the Gray Rift.

The Nanbo Chamber of Commerce hopes to establish trade relations with Shuangjietai, using Shuangjietai as a transit hub to transport spiritual materials from the south of the Silver Plains through this misty rift valley to the north.

Xiao Fan confirmed the location, business scope, and past cooperation records of the Nanbo Chamber of Commerce, and then asked the old man surnamed Shen about the specific transportation route.

The old man pointed to the road shown on the map, which was south of the Silver Plains. Further north lay the Gray Rift Valley.

Bai Ye used the Silver Frost Sword to check the spiritual energy markers of the Nanbo Merchant Guild on one side of the main house. They matched the records in the southern part of the Silver Plains. Xiao Fan confirmed that this route intersected with the existing passage of the Twin Realms Platform.

On the same day, a preliminary cooperation agreement was reached with the elderly man surnamed Shen, and it was agreed to complete the route verification and capacity matching before the end of this winter.

After the people from the Nanbo Chamber of Commerce left, Master Cheng entered the main hall and added the cooperation records with the Nanbo Chamber of Commerce into the new category of the Shuangjietai's external cooperation archives.

In the second week of winter, an urgent message came from the Canglan Society: three batches of spiritual materials from the northwest were intercepted on a section of road north of the Silver White Plain.

The intercepting party identified itself as the "Northern Route Defense Alliance," claiming that the passage north of the Grey Rift should be shared by all parties along the route, and that Shuangjietai's monopoly on the passage was illegal. They also warned that if subsequent transportation continued, it would be considered an infringement on the interests of all parties along the route.

Xue Han glanced at the interception location provided by Canglan Society and confirmed that the interception location was north of the Gray Rift Valley, not on the edge of the road sign route.

In the main hall, Master Cheng checked the terms of the alliance agreement and confirmed that this section was indeed the passable route mentioned in the agreement. The Twin Realms Platform retained the right to use the route for the signatories of the alliance, while the intercepting party, being a non-signatory of the alliance, did not have the right to pass through or manage this route.

Pei Laojiang looked at the person who claimed to be from the "Northern Front Guard Alliance" and confirmed that the name did not exist in the alliance, nor in the records of the Canglan Society, nor on the spiritual material transport route north of the Silver Plains.

Xiao Fan obtained the spiritual energy records near the array room and confirmed that during this period, there was a brief fluctuation in the flow of spiritual energy, but this fluctuation was still within a safe range and did not have a significant impact on the passage.

He then contacted the liaisons of the Star Pattern Sect and the Azure Scale Clan to confirm his itinerary during this period and found nothing unusual.

Four days later, Canglan sent a supplementary message confirming that the spiritual materials being transported along the interception route had been coordinated in accordance with the alliance's agreement and no losses had been incurred.

After the interception, the Northern Frontier Guardians took no further action, and traffic on the northern route of the Grey Rift returned to normal that week.

In the third week of winter, the array chamber of the Twin Realms Platform received a new spiritual energy signal from the passage north of the Gray Rift.

This signal is different from the signal emitted by the dome crystal sphere. It is about 30% stronger than the signal emitted by the dome crystal sphere and is located in an unmarked place in the far west of the northern part of the Scale Ridge.

Bai Ye used the Silver Frost Sword to record the signal, confirming that it lasted for an hour and that its intensity was stable.

Xue Han took Bai Ye's record and compared it with the ground activity records of the Northern Front Guard Alliance during the interception. He confirmed that no personnel activity was found during the interception process.

After confirming that the signal strength was stable, Xiao Fan sent a confirmation letter to the Star Pattern Sect's outpost and the Canglan Society's contacts along the way.

The Star Pattern Sect Observatory confirmed that no abnormal surface activity was observed in the northern part of the Grey Rift during this period; the Canglan Association coordinator confirmed that no new personnel entered the monitoring areas on both sides of the passage during the same period.

By comparing the signals emitted by the dome crystal ball segment by segment, the array room confirmed that there was a stable offset between the two. Moreover, during the continuous monitoring, the newly emerging signals did not attenuate, nor did they show any further offset or interruption.

After receiving signals continuously in the array room for several days, the signal waveform stabilized, with no attenuation or interruption.

Cheng Xiushi overlaid the location of the signal source onto the existing map, determining that the location was on the edge of the road sign route, at an appropriate distance from the route range in the alliance agreement, and not within the control area of ​​any party.

In the fourth week of winter, a communication from the Star Pattern Sect confirmed that a fixed observation point located on the west side of the passageway north of the Gray Rift had recorded an independent spiritual energy pulse, the location of which was consistent with the signal source coming from the array room.

The pulsations lasted for a very short time and remained stable without change during the recorded time period.