When Earth Awakened, I Became a Sword Saintess

Chapter 149 : The Two Realms Gate

149: The Two Realms Gate

Soon, Teacher Jiang Xue, Teacher Chen Siguo, and the others arrived.

Jiang Xue wore a white, high-slit, cinched long dress with red floral patterns, looking somewhat like a qipao but with a more ancient charm. Chen Siguo, on the other hand, wore coarse brown leather armor and rough cloth trousers.

Chen Qian'ning had gone to northern Huaxia on a mission as soon as the summer break began. Otherwise, even if she couldn't lead the team, she would have at least come to see Yuyin off today.

"It's about time. Everyone can board the buses now." Jiang Xue said to everyone. Several leather pouches hung from the belt at her waist, and she also carried a simple, ancient copper lantern.

A total of six buses had arrived. As everyone boarded, Jiang Xue and a few other teachers stood at the gate, repeatedly reminding them of various important matters.

"Don't bring your mobile phones or anything like that. If you have them, it's best to give them to me now, and I'll have someone take them back to the school for safekeeping. It will be more troublesome to deal with them inside the restricted zone."

"Female students, pay attention. What you are wearing must be genuine Prison Abyss products exchanged from the Lingdu Source Martial Academy. We cannot guarantee the authenticity of items from other channels. We have had incidents where female students passed through the Two Realms Gate and were seen completely naked, and it has happened more than once."

The teachers reminded them repeatedly. Some students, wanting to save Academy Credits to buy more important weapons, pills, or clothing, might purchase them from other channels, only to end up "streaking" after they went in.

Because they were carrying weapons and other items, each bus only seated about twenty people. At this time, the Lingdu Source Martial Academy was not concerned about the cost of the vehicles.

Yuyin, Lianyue, and Hua Yuanjing boarded one of the buses, and Jiang Xue also boarded their bus.

After a roll call on each vehicle to confirm everyone was on board, the six buses, one after another, drove out of the plaza in front of the Lingdu Source Martial Academy and onto the main road.

"Sister Yuyin..." Little Yuan and Yingluo were still standing at the school gate, watching until the bus was far away.

The sky was a grayish-blue, with a hint of dawn.

Along the way, military vehicles cleared the path.

The Lingdu Source Martial Academy was located in the southwestern suburbs. From here, there were very few other vehicles on the road in the early morning.

Yuyin had simply not brought her phone, but there were still some who couldn't resist bringing theirs.

"We are now driving toward the western border area of Lingdu." A student in front, who thought he was being clever, took out his phone for navigation and said, only to have it quickly confiscated by Jiang Xue.

Now, on Yuyin's body, from the inside out, there was truly not a single item made of Earth materials.

About half an hour later, the convoy turned from a desolate road and drove into a vast, boundless forest.

"This road..." Yuyin, sitting by the window, felt a sense of déjà vu. "This seems to be the same road in that unnamed area that Little Yuan and I got lost in during the New Year."

Although it was a rainy night back then, she could still make out some things. Moreover, the increasingly strong Primordial Energy made Yuyin certain that it was the same place.

Yuyin and the others were on the first bus. After driving for about ten minutes, a military roadblock appeared ahead. Several soldiers, armed with live ammunition, were guarding it.

"It really is that place."

Jiang Xue got off the bus. After presenting a special pass, the convoy was allowed to proceed.

After driving further into the forest for a while, they saw many military vehicles parked on both sides of the road. Further ahead, after passing through a heavily guarded barbed-wire gate, Yuyin saw that the barbed wire extended deep into the forest on both sides, with no end in sight. There were also watchtowers on both sides of the gate, with anti-aircraft machine guns mounted on them.

Besides her time at the Children's Palace when she was a boy, Yuyin had never seen real heavy weapons before, but back then, as a boy, she had paid some attention to them online. These were truly sophisticated, active-duty weapons for a field army.

In the forest ahead, large clearings appeared, filled with various military facilities, numerous light and heavy tanks, and vehicles.

Continuing forward, the road suddenly took a turn. Yuyin noticed a deep pit, dozens of meters deep. Judging from the damage around it, it had been destroyed by some immense force.

Further ahead, there were more and more traces of destruction, both large and small, but very few damaged weapons or military vehicles could be seen. Yuyin felt it wasn't that there was no damage, but that the Huaxia army stationed here operated with great order.

Ahead, on both sides of the road, large artillery positions appeared. Self-propelled guns and towed guns, most of them in the latest camouflage patterns. In the distance, missile launchers could be seen standing erect in the woods.

Most of the students had never been to a real field military base like this before. They all looked around, commenting to each other.

Only Lianyue, sitting beside Yuyin, was relatively calm.

As they continued on, Yuyin noticed that under some tents and temporary buildings, there were Source Martial Practitioners wearing high-tech protective suits, either patrolling or training. Yuyin could feel the Primordial Energy they exuded.

"These men are at least in the Late-Stage of Spirit-Seeking Realm." Yuyin said, looking at a few Source Martial Practitioners with crew cuts and camouflage pants. One of them even waved at the convoy. These were probably the Source Martial Practitioners of the Two Realms Gate defense force.

At this point, the convoy slowly began to ascend the mountain, winding back and forth continuously. The road conditions were complex. Yuyin noticed that the traces of destruction around her were increasing. A large number of trees had fallen. In the distance, there was even a mountain with half of its mountainside sheared off.

Her heart grew heavier with it.

After driving on the mountain road for a while, the convoy stopped at a parking lot carved out on the mountainside.

"Students, bring your weapons and belongings. From here on, we will be on foot." Jiang Xue said as she stood up.

Yuyin followed everyone off the bus. Around the parking lot, soldiers in camouflage bulletproof military uniforms were standing guard.

In front of the parking lot was a tunnel.

At the tunnel entrance, a short-haired man in a black Zhongshan suit came forward to meet them. This man had piercing eyes and exuded an aura that made Yuyin wary. This seemingly unremarkable man carried the scent of blood.

"A Source Martial Practitioner, his strength is likely not below Teacher Jiang's." Yuyin thought to herself.

"Teacher Jiang." The man came over and shook hands with Jiang Xue.

"Fellow students, I am the commander of the Source Martial Practitioner company of the C6 defense zone. My name is Liu Bin. I will be your guide into the internal defense zone of the Two Realms Gate. Please follow me." The man in black's voice was gentle and deep, but it carried a unique strength of a warrior.

The Lingdu Source Martial Academy's Source Martial Practitioner team followed the man in black through the tunnel. The tunnel was quite wide, but ordinary vehicles were obviously forbidden from entering. It was piled with various military supplies, and every ten meters on both sides of the tunnel, a fully armed soldier stood guard.

"Attention!"

Three officers stood on one side of the tunnel, facing the approaching team from the Lingdu Source Martial Academy. The officer in the middle shouted in a loud voice, "Salute!"

The soldiers on both sides of the tunnel, in near-perfect unison, raised and lowered their rifles.

They gave a military salute to the Source Martial Practitioner students.

At this moment, Yuyin, walking in the middle of the group, couldn't help but feel an unprecedented sense of solemnity.

"These are all true warriors. Beyond this tunnel, that bright light, is the battlefield." Yuyin's gaze was grave.

At the other end of the tunnel's exit, a bright expanse of daylight.

Yuyin followed the team out of the tunnel entrance and found herself standing on a high platform. In the distant sky ahead, amidst the vast clouds and mist, stood a huge, towering stone gate, both real and illusory.

Yuyin couldn't help but walk forward to the edge of the railing. Before her was a huge, circular deep pit, as if a large chunk of the earth had been abruptly scooped out. The stone gate stood at the bottom of this deep pit, and the upturned eaves at its top already touched the white clouds.

Under Yuyin's feet was a massive concrete dam-like defensive structure that circled half of the deep pit, hundreds of meters deep. This semicircular structure had various square openings of all sizes, through which could be seen a large number of cannons, rocket launchers, and countless machine guns mounted. On the upper part of the massive concrete structure, there were also defensive installations that resembled the close-in weapon systems on warships. Behind them were dense vertical missile launch systems, numbering several thousand by visual estimation, along with countless radars.

Countless soldiers, and Source Martial Practitioners who looked impressive even from a distance, were patrolling and standing guard on the defensive structure.

The man in black gave everyone some time to look at all this before saying, "Students of the Lingdu Source Martial Academy, this is the Huaxia Nation's No. 002 Prison Abyss Comprehensive Defense System, the foremost defensive line of the Lingdu Two Realms Gate."

"Blood..." Yuyin involuntarily placed her hands on the railing below. The huge deep pit in front of her seemed to be left by a collision between heaven and earth. Countless bloody auras, endless resentment and killing intent, emanated from the deep pit, crashing into Yuyin’s senses and shaking her very soul.

The rock walls of the deep pit had long been soaked with the blood plasma, Primordial Energy, and hatred of countless creatures who had died here over the decades... like a gigantic meat grinder.

Among this, Yuyin could no longer distinguish how much came from within the giant stone gate, and how much was the souls of the Huaxia warriors.

"Fellow students, you can all certainly see with your own eyes the huge stone gate before you, large enough for a great river to pass through. This is the Two Realms Gate."

The man in black said in a heavy tone, "For many years, our Lingdu Defense Zone has fought thousands, even tens of thousands of times against the alien tribes that have poured out from within the Two Realms Gate."

"There are records of 365,702 Huaxia warriors and 6,981 international warriors who have sacrificed their lives on this line of defense. The casualties of the alien tribes are too numerous to count. We do not know when the alien tribes from the other shore of the Prison Abyss will attack again, but up to now, we have held back every single one of their assaults."

The man in black looked at the Two Realms Gate, his gaze heavy and a little lost.

He collected himself, turned back to the group, and said, "Today, I will lead you down from this high platform into this huge deep pit, and across the pit to the foot of the Two Realms Gate. From there, you will enter the Prison Abyss."

"At this moment, our forward support units are already on guard on the other side of the gate. Since they have not returned to sound an alarm, there is a very high probability that we can ensure no alien tribes from the Prison Abyss will attack while you are passing through the Two Realms Gate."

After speaking, Liu Bin looked at Jiang Xue.

"Captain Liu, please lead us down then." Jiang Xue said.

Liu Bin led the Lingdu Source Martial Academy's Source Martial Practitioner team down a long, layered staircase about a hundred meters from the edge of the high platform, descending into the huge deep pit.