Upon reaching Ye Feng, Zi Jing reported, "I just received a message from Ma Zi that the border fortress of the Divine Sword Empire—Winter Wolf Fortress—has been attacked, resulting in heavy casualties among the defending soldiers!"

Ye Feng's brows immediately furrowed tightly.

The border fortress of the Divine Sword Empire—Winter Wolf Fortress—is not far from the Death Mountains.

That's why General Long, Geshu Feixue, sent Gongbu Qiuye with the Mountain Ghost troops to cross the Death Mountains to investigate the situation in Silla City.

Winter Wolf Fortress is under attack, and although it has nothing to do with Silla City, we must still be vigilant!

But what exactly attacked Winterwolf Fortress?

Could it be that the oppressive policies of the Divine Sword Empire have finally aroused public anger, leading to the common people of the Divine Sword Empire rising up in rebellion?

While Ye Feng was still lost in thought, Zi Jing shouted, "It's Crimson-tailed Beasts! A lot of Crimson-tailed Beasts have attacked Winter Wolf Fortress. It's said there are three or four thousand of them!"

"So many Crimson-Tailed Beasts? Really?" Ye Feng asked.

"Of course it's true!"

Before Zijing could finish speaking, a golden light flew into the tent and headed towards her.

It was clearly a communication talisman, so Zijing grabbed it, and then the expression on her face turned very ugly.

“Okay, the news is false,” Zijing said.

"Winter Wolf Fortress wasn't attacked by the Crimson Tail Beasts?" Night Wind asked.

"No, Winter Wolf Fortress was indeed attacked by Crimson-tailed Beasts, but there weren't as many as I just mentioned; there were only a little over a thousand in total."

Zijing then explained, "After Ma Zi arrived near Winter Wolf Fortress, he heard a lot of rumors, so he compiled them and sent them to me. That's why my report just now was wrong."

"In his second message to me after a detailed investigation, he made it very clear that there were only a little over a thousand Red-tailed Beasts that attacked Winter Wolf Fortress, and the number of the fortress's defenders who were killed or wounded should not have been too many, but there must have been at least a few hundred."

"This involves the military secrets of the Divine Sword Empire, which Ma Zi cannot find out, so he can only make a rough estimate of the casualties among the city guards."

Zijing stopped there, staring intently at Yefeng without blinking.

After pondering for a moment, Ye Feng said, "Is it finally the Divine Sword Empire's turn? The Crimson Tail Beasts have attacked our Silla City several times, but they finally attacked Winter Wolf Fortress once. This is a good thing."

"Of course it's a good thing. The Divine Sword Empire won't be able to keep quiet now," Zijing said with a grin.

“That’s not the good thing I was referring to,” Night Wind said.

"Not this? Then what are you talking about?" Zijing was completely confused.

Ye Feng said seriously, "The Hongtian Empire has been attacked by the Crimson Tail Beast, and now the Divine Sword Empire has also been attacked by the Crimson Tail Beast. In that case, do you think the Hongtian Empire and the Divine Sword Empire will still be in a tense standoff as before? In my opinion, the royal families of the two countries will soon put aside those trivial conflicts, shake hands and make peace and form an alliance to jointly deal with the Crimson Tail Beast."

"They would only do that if they were out of their mind, which is highly unlikely."

Upon hearing Ye Feng's words, Zi Jing suddenly realized what was going on.

Suddenly, Luo Qing ran in from outside, her face beaming, and shouted, "Ancestor! Ancestor! Director Li and I have finally overcome the difficulties and made the wave cannon a one-man unit!"

This news immediately brought a satisfied smile to Ye Feng's face.

"How did you do that?" Night Wind asked.

"We've improved the materials used to set up the formation!" Luo Qing said with a smile.

Luo Qing then explained in detail, and Ye Feng understood immediately.

Setting up a spirit-gathering array generally involves using spirit stones in combination with materials like mithril.

Mithril has a very strong ability to conduct spiritual energy, so it is widely used in the crafting of weapons.

However, even miniaturizing the Spirit Network and stuffing it into a palm-sized array base is still impossible with the performance of mithril.

Luo Qing and Li Xuanming's improvements to the Spirit Network had reached a bottleneck, and they could no longer simplify it further, so they turned their attention to the materials.

After several attempts, Luo Qing and Li Xuanming actually succeeded.

By mixing and melting mithril, amber gold, and black hibiscus gold in a ratio of three to three to four, the resulting composite material will greatly improve the efficiency of transmitting spiritual energy, at least five times that of the previous material!

In this way, the iteration of materials makes the shrinking of the spirit network a reality!

“Ancestor, look, this is the spirit net that has been re-laid out using this composite material. It’s only this small.” Luo Qing took out a formation base from her storage ring and placed it in front of Ye Feng.

Ye Feng picked it up and examined it, confirming that it was indeed a complete spiritual net, with an excellent effect in gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth!

"Impressive! Moreover, this composite material can also be used in giant wave cannons, which will greatly reduce the heat generation problem of giant wave cannons!" Ye Feng said.

Luo Qing's expression suddenly became somewhat subtle.

“Ancestor, that’s true, but…” Luo Qing said hesitantly.

"But what?" Night Wind asked.

"But this new composite material, while useful, is too expensive! One pound of amber gold is equivalent to ten pounds of mithril, and one pound of black hibiscus gold is equivalent to ten pounds of amber gold!"

"Therefore, using this new composite material to set up the spirit net costs dozens of times more than before!"

As Luo Qing finished speaking, an embarrassed expression appeared on her face.

After a moment's thought, Ye Feng said, "The increase in costs is inevitable. The effect of using the new composite material is so good, so I think it's worth it! Go to your aunt and tell her that this is what I said. Tell her to buy Amber Gold and Black Lotus Gold without worrying about spending money!"

"Understood, Ancestor!"

Overjoyed, Luo Qing skipped and hopped outside.

Night Breeze suddenly said, "Wait a minute, could you please pass on another message to your aunt?"

"What did you say?" Luo Qing asked curiously.

“Just tell them that the Hongtian Empire and the Divine Sword Empire will form an alliance soon,” Ye Feng said.

Upon hearing Ye Feng's words, Luo Qing's eyes widened in surprise.

"How did you know, Ancestor?" Luo Qing asked.

"This is all thanks to Zijing," Yefeng said with a smile, patting Zijing's little head.

So Zijing immediately straightened her chest and raised her head, looking extremely proud.

Luo Qing was puzzled, but she nodded and said, "I understand, I'll go tell my aunt right away!"

Night Wind's orders were carried out thoroughly and effectively.

Rowling generously purchased tens of thousands of kilograms of amber gold and black hibiscus gold for Xinluo City, practically plundering the entire stockpile of these two materials in the Southern Territory.

Although this action consumed a large amount of spirit stones, causing Rowling considerable financial distress.