When Earth Awakened, I Became a Sword Saintess

Chapter 170 : Girls in a Desperate Situation

170: Girls in a Desperate Situation

Although this place was uniquely blessed, gathering the Primordial Energy from all the surrounding great mountains, it was also under the watchful eyes of the alien beast kings and overlords on each of those mountains.

Whoever occupied it would be making a public provocation against all the surrounding alien beast kings! Moreover, this wild plain, with its rich Primordial Energy, was nourished into a land of abundant resources and plump, delicious prey, a true treasure land. If one of the alien beast kings were to occupy it, over time their strength would surely grow rapidly, posing a great threat to all the surrounding alien beast kings and overlords.

All of these alien beast kings wanted it, but none would allow another to take it.

It was the classic case of: if I can't have it, no one can!

If any one alien beast king tried to occupy it, they would be attacked in a group by the alien beast kings from the surrounding mountains.

"In the end, this best cultivation treasure land became, paradoxically, a land without a master." Yuyin gazed at the vast, peaceful Night Plains for a moment, then returned to her cave. The flickering firelight illuminated her long, beautiful legs.

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A hundred kilometers from the Lingdu Two Realms Gate, in the silent mountains deep in the night.

Lianyue and Hua Yuanjing, two girls, were running at high speed through the mountain forest.

"Quick, this way!"

Hua Yuanjing, holding her white longspear, had keenly sensed several other powerful auras approaching from another side.

She and Lianyue had no choice but to run upward, toward the top of this gloomy mountain range.

Not far behind them, several tall, burly alien tribesmen with dark skin, wearing beast hide and bronze pauldrons shaped like beast heads, chased after them in large strides. They held strange blades and ran barefoot, charging recklessly, their speed as fast as flight.

"Seize them!"

"Xia people, kill!"

"Female Xia people, first violate, then kill, hahaha!"

These alien tribesmen, the weakest of whom were at the Desolation-Stage of Spirit-Seeking Realm, with many at the Purple Domain Realm. Lianyue and Jing had been evading the pursuit of alien tribesmen and the attacks of alien beasts for some time. Their Primordial Energy and physical strength were greatly depleted. Their speed could no longer match that of their pursuers. And from another direction at the foot of the mountain, several other groups of alien tribesmen were also closing in.

"Lianyue, you go first! I'll hold them off!" Hua Yuanjing's white hair fluttered. Her tall, fair body was drenched in fragrant sweat. She panted fiercely, looking back, her gaze icy.

The pursuers were too fast. Hua Yuanjing made a decisive choice in her heart. If this continued, they would both be caught!

Lianyue looked at the several powerful alien tribesmen charging toward them with ferocious momentum, their howls echoing through the night forest. Her gaze was dark, but there was not a trace of hesitation.

Her small hand held Hua Yuanjing's hand. "Together."

"Lianyue, if we keep going like this, we'll both be..."

"And so what if we are?"

"Eh?" Hua Yuanjing was stunned.

"And so what if we are?" There was no light in Lianyue's eyes, but also no cowardice.

"Together." She gripped Hua Yuanjing's hand tightly, and the two of them ran together up the not-too-steep mountain slope.

"Running? Seize them!"

"Female Xia people, they are our prey! Hahahaha!"

The coarse, heavy voices behind them were already very close.

"Go!"

A barefoot Mid-Stage of Purple Domain tribesman at the very front threw a woven grass talisman in the shape of a snake. After flying out, the snake was three or four meters long. It flew toward the two fleeing girls. This was a binding-type treasure. Once entangled by this snake, even someone at the Mid-Stage of Purple Domain would find it difficult to break free.

Hua Yuanjing's longspear was ill-suited to deal with this kind of entangling treasure. While Lianyue and Hua Yuanjing continued their frantic flight, Lianyue manipulated her Moon Blades.

Ding-ling!

The Moon Blades transformed into arcs of silver light, shuttling through the dark mountain forest. With several consecutive strikes, she chopped the grass snake talisman released by the alien tribesmen into several pieces.

"Be careful of that Xia girl's treasure!"

Jing pulled Lianyue, whose Primordial Energy and strength were nearly exhausted, and continued to run. Behind them, the alien tribesmen threw shamanistic artifacts like bone tablets and stone pellets, shooting them over.

The two girls dodged and weaved as they ran.

Boom! Boom!

Various shamanistic Primordial Energy attacks, poison mists, and more erupted around them.

Even while dodging with all their might, they couldn't help but inhale some of the poison mist. Both had to circulate their Primordial Energy to resist it. Their consumption was nearing its limit.

Boom! A fireball explosion landed right beside them. The blast from the air wave knocked both of them to the ground. Their clothes were torn, and the glimpse of their fair skin that was fleetingly revealed drove the pursuers into a frenzy.

"Xia girls, we've got you!" A thin, wiry alien tribesman, holding two curved blades, leaped from an ancient tree toward the fallen Lianyue.

Clang!

Hua Yuanjing rolled to her feet and swung her longspear to parry, but the opponent was at the Early-Stage of Purple Domain Realm and even stronger. The two curved blades directly smashed her spear to the ground. The agile tribesman stepped on her longspear and slashed twice at Jing.

Lianyue's Moon Blades flew toward him. The wiry tribesman leaped aside.

"Go!"

This time, it was Lianyue pulling Jing as they ran.

"Female Xia people, you can't escape!"

The wiry alien tribesman ordered two other tribesmen holding knives and axes to pursue them from behind. Their speed was far greater than the girls'.

Lianyue suddenly leaped into the air while twisting her body back. She opened her long sleeves, and a strange light glinted in her eyes. A hazy, illusory Primordial Energy of a dark cyan color surged around her.

The three tribesmen had never encountered such an illusion. They fell into a momentary stupor, but their souls were innately primitive and powerful, so they were not easily completely confused and would recover quickly.

The Moon Blades danced back and forth, striking the bodies of the three alien tribesmen. However, the tribesmen's ancient bronze-colored skin was truly as hard as copper and iron. Lianyue's Primordial Energy was almost exhausted. The Moon Blades' attacks were extremely weak; they could only cut their skin and flesh, no longer having the strength to kill them.

And Lianyue herself, from the immense consumption, felt a wave of dizziness and fell, caught by Jing. Both girls were physically spent, stumbling forward as they fled.

After running for a distance, the pursuers behind them had already broken free from the effects of the illusion. Their auras showed no sign of weakening as they howled and chased after them.

But Lianyue and Jing were almost at the top of the mountain. Ahead came the roar of a waterfall.

The two girls ran to the edge of a waterfall that plunged a thousand feet under the night sky. Below, the bottom was deep and unseen. The roaring and trembling made it impossible to know what lay beneath.

And behind them, the lewd and ferocious alien tribesmen were already upon them. Further behind, several more cultivator-like alien tribesmen, carrying magical artifacts, were also drawing closer.

The two girls' Primordial Energy was almost completely gone. Forget about so many enemies; they couldn't even fight a single Purple Domain Realm alien tribesman anymore.

With pursuers behind and a bottomless waterfall ahead.

"There's no way out..." Hua Yuanjing trembled, her white hair flying. But in her eyes, the previous fear was gone.

"Who says there's no way out?" Lianyue gazed into the darkness beneath the plunging waterfall. The darkness seemed to hold some kind of incredible attraction for her.

"Where one belongs, that is the way." Lianyue said softly.

Hua Yuanjing looked at the roaring, bottomless waterfall at her toes and couldn't help but feel a bit of fear. For some reason, she recalled the words she had said to Yuyin.

If I don't enter hell, who will?

At this moment, Hua Yuanjing also seemed to find a sense of release.

She looked at Lianyue. "Together."

"Together." A relaxed, faint smile, like one returning home, appeared on Lianyue's delicate, pretty face.

Amidst the coarse shouts and yells of the alien tribesmen that continued to echo, on the lonely peak, the two girls embraced and leaped off the cliff, disappearing into the roaring, cascading waterfall...