At the highest level of the goblet-shaped Brass Building.
Within the vast, empty, tranquil hall, there was only the rhythmic swaying of the timer and the soft rustle of the Feather Pen in Jiang Yu's hand scratching across Dragon Skin Paper.
The simulated starlight from the dome spilled down softly. The shadow of the Xuanhuang Wood sapling stood quietly at the center of the sand table, its roots threading between mountain ranges and fractured Earth Veins, flickering between light and dark as though keeping pace with the breathing of the entire world.
Screech—
At one corner of the stone table, a Brass instrument shaped like a goblet but far more intricate, its surface covered in dense markings and crystal lenses, suddenly emitted a sharp, ear-piercing alarm. It was not the gentle, steady hum it made during normal operation, but an uncontrolled shriek like that of a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
Crack!
The sharp tip of Jiang Yu's Feather Pen went out of control under the sudden disturbance, piercing the thick Dragon Skin Paper and leaving an ugly blot of ink across the carefully drawn Earth Vein trend chart and schedule.
The witch abruptly raised her head.
Her gaze instantly locked onto the noisy instrument.
The Sky Monitoring Instrument.
She had spent vast resources on it, and with the joint support of Zheng Qing and Zhong Mountain, the family's senior, Jiang Qianli, a renowned grand alchemist of The Alliance, had personally forged this "Eye of the World." With the Brass Building as its core, it used tens of thousands of miniature monitoring Spinning Tops placed beforehand at major Earth Vein Nodes throughout the Xuanhuang Small World to perceive, report, and automatically analyze the state of the Earth Veins, the distribution of residual draconic aura, energy fluctuations across the