"Marquis, you've come..."
Several squads of soldiers patrolled back and forth outside the workshop. The moment they saw Qiu Yan approaching, they immediately came over and rendered military salutes.
After Qiu Yan nodded, someone led him inside. Yet when passing through the workshop gates, Qiu Yan still took out his token and exchanged the password before entering.
These passwords changed every half-day and were transmitted through the Earth Vein Method. They were generated through special books and particular arrangements, all to prevent impostors.
After all, in this world, even without employing extraordinary Divine Abilities, one could alter one's appearance to a certain extent through changes in sinew, bone, flesh, and blood. There was naturally no room for carelessness, so several layers of safeguards had to be established.
In truth, whether the passwords or the tokens, they were merely surface measures meant to mislead people—making them think these were the means of identifying visitors, so that anyone wishing to impersonate someone would start there. Little did they know that this workshop itself had been built by Qiu Yan to research and promote Mechanism Arts. The true means of identifying visitors were the mechanisms concealed throughout the earth and buildings.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
After walking several steps, waves of heat blasted toward them, billowing Qiu Yan's robes. The surging heat was like white mist, originating from a wooden shed to the side. It looked crude, like an enormous warehouse, but tiny gaps lined its exterior at deliberate intervals.
Dense white mist was now spraying out from within, accompanied by wave after wave of searing heat.
Seeing this, Qiu Yan nodded and said to the person beside him, "It seems the Wind-Fur Array has already been put into use."
The man replied, "With the Chen Household's assistance, things have indeed been twice as