Douluo Unrivaled: The Beginning Materializes the Black Abyss and White Flowers

Chapter 324 Strategic Advantages
"Master Nan, please lead your disciples through as quickly as possible."

Zhang Lexuan stepped forward slowly, pointed to the towering, massive spatial gate that rippled with a blue halo like water, and spoke in a calm tone.

"This place is ultimately dangerous, and the situation is becoming increasingly chaotic. No one can predict what will happen next. It is best to move to a safe area as soon as possible."

This miraculous spatial gate was a masterpiece constructed by the Black Tower using its control over a portion of the power of the Thousand Realms One Vehicle.

As long as the location has been marked and its precise spatial coordinates recorded in advance by Qianjie Yicheng, it can be instantly teleported through this door with almost no regard for distance.

Although maintaining a spatial passage of this size requires a massive amount of energy, this consumption is well within the acceptable range for Abyss City, which has successfully researched and applied a highly efficient Honkai energy reactor.

Before the group from Dilongmen arrived, Zhang Lexuan had already used her excellent organizational skills to safely evacuate all the civilian survivors gathered in the stronghold.

Now, only a handful of people remain in this temporary camp. Most of them are powerful individuals who volunteered to stay and are responsible for guarding the final operation of the space gate and are ready to intercept any approaching antimatter legion phantoms.

With the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, two powerful beings who control the ultimate ice, guarding the central area, this stronghold can be considered safe for the time being, unless the terrifying Annihilation Lord Xingxiao personally takes action.

But everyone knows that this security is fragile and short-lived, like the false calm before a storm.

The relative calm at this moment is only because the fierce battles in the core areas such as the palace ruins and the deep pit battlefield have attracted most of the attention of the antimatter legion.

If the situation on the main battlefield changes in any way, or if Xingxiao suddenly turns his attention here, this temporary refuge could be transformed into an even more brutal new battlefield at any time.

"Thank you, Miss Zhang, and thank you for your help, Haiyuan City."

Looking at the stable spatial gate, Nan Shuishui showed heartfelt gratitude and solemnly bowed.

If it weren't for Haiyuan City extending a helping hand at this moment, she really wouldn't know how to lead these wounded disciples of the Earth Dragon Gate to survive in this purgatory.

She clearly remembered that at the beginning of the chaos, many sects and forces had tried to break through the siege of Mingdu with their own strength, but they were ruthlessly suppressed by the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Master Legion, which had been lying in ambush for a long time, in the wide area outside the city. Those sect teams, which were not weak, were completely wiped out without even making a decent ripple.

Even the combined forces of the powerful Body Sect and the Heavenly Soul Empire, after paying a heavy price to break through the walls of Mingdu, also encountered devastating resistance.

Ultimately, they paid a heavy price, losing a titled Douluo elder on the spot, before being forced to retreat back to Mingdu City in a very sorry state. After wandering around the ruins and struggling to survive, they finally managed to find the stronghold established by Haiyuan City.

Nan Shuishui's gaze unconsciously turned to a spot not far away, where she saw Princess Xu Jiujiu of the Xingluo Empire softly comforting Princess Vina of the Tianhun Empire, whose face was pale.

The remaining members of the Body Sect and the Heavenly Soul Empire were all wounded, dressed in rags, and their expressions were filled with sorrow and exhaustion, their morale at its lowest point.

Poison Undying was not here—this hot-tempered sect leader of the Body Sect had already gone alone to the core area of ​​the palace at the very beginning of the battle in the palace, attempting to carry out the almost impossible decapitation operation to assassinate Xu Tianran.

Meanwhile, the main force of the Body Sect, led by several senior titled Douluo elders, escorted Princess Vina in an attempt to forcefully break out of Mingdu.

But as soon as they rushed out of the city gate, they ran headlong into the Soul Master Corps, whose consciousness had been completely corrupted and assimilated by the power of destruction. Among them were even Beast King-level Soul Master Corps such as "Imperial Dragon" and "Evil Lord".

Those Soul Masters formed a tight and efficient Soul Guidance Battle Formation, which, together with the fixed Soul Guidance Device array controlled by several Level 9 Soul Masters, launched an overwhelming saturation attack that the Body Sect team, which lacked the absolute combat power of the Limit Douluo, Du Bu Si, could hardly withstand.

If it weren't for a fiercely independent titled Douluo elder from the Body Sect who resolutely charged into the enemy ranks at the last moment, detonating his soul core and forcibly blasting a breach in the Soul Master Corps' impenetrable battle formation at the cost of self-destruction, it would be uncertain whether they could have retreated back to Mingdu alive.

What's even more disheartening is that no one knew their initial plan wasn't to recklessly force their way out.

They originally planned to use a specially designed earth-drilling soul-guided device to quietly evacuate from the depths of the earth.

Even with such a secretive operation, the Soul Master Corps, who were guarding the city's outskirts, still managed to accurately discover their whereabouts.

The entire Mingdu, and even the surrounding airspace and underground, are under the all-pervasive surveillance and "Harmony" network coverage of Xingxiao.

Even the energy fluctuations and metal structure of a drilling soul guide device hidden thousands of meters underground cannot be hidden.

The detonation of a single pre-planted Level 8 Earth-Splitting Soul Guidance Cannonball generated a terrifying seismic wave that forcibly pulled everyone from the Body Sect, along with their soul guidance devices, out from the depths of the earth.

Exposed on the open ground, they were instantly surrounded by the Soul Master Corps. In the end, they could only rely on the powerful physical body of their own martial soul and secret techniques to fight to the death, thus gaining a slim chance of survival and fleeing back to the city in a sorry state.

Thinking of this, Nan Shuishui couldn't help but sigh deeply, her relief at surviving the ordeal intertwined with her worries about the future.

Without further hesitation, she tightly grasped her daughter Nan Qiuqiu's hand and led the disciples of the Earth Dragon Sect toward the spatial gate that represented the path to survival. In this cataclysmic event that swept through the entire Ming Capital, being able to reach this place alive was already a stroke of incredible luck amidst misfortune.

The moment Nan Qiuqiu was pulled into the blue light curtain by her mother, she felt a slight daze, as if she were gently enveloped by a warm and invisible force. Her sense of time and space blurred and spun for a moment.

The next second, a fresh sea breeze with a slightly salty and damp scent swept over them, completely dispelling the nauseating smell of gunpowder and blood in Mingdu.

She opened her eyes instinctively.

What came into view was no longer broken walls and burning ruins, but the neatly arranged and ready-to-fight soldiers of the Haiyuan City Imperial Guard.

Clad in uniform, glossy black soul-guided armor that gleamed with a cold, eerie light, and wielding exquisitely designed, fully charged soul-guided firearms, their eyes sharp as hawks, they guarded the area around the spatial gate's exit with impenetrable defenses, exuding a chilling yet reassuring aura.

Behind him, the majestic, enormous spatial gate continued to operate slowly, emitting a steady and reassuring hum.

The pale blue light curtain, like flowing crystal, gently reflected the faces of those who had just escaped danger and still looked shaken.

Not far away lies the vast, boundless sea, as blue as a jewel.

A salty sea breeze swept over us, and white waves lapped merrily against the rocks on the shore, making a rhythmic "whoosh" sound, a stark contrast to the deathly, oppressive atmosphere of Mingdu.

She instinctively turned around and looked around, and was surprised to see the faint, yet incredibly modern, outline of a magnificent city in the distance.

Skyscrapers stand side by side, their glass curtain walls reflecting dazzling light in the sunlight, and you can even see several sleek, towering skyscrapers that seem to pierce the clouds.

This city is just as prosperous and advanced as Mingdu, but it exudes a purer, more futuristic modern technological atmosphere.

"So...so awesome..."

Nan Qiuqiu couldn't help but cover her mouth with her hand and let out a gasp of disbelief.

In the blink of an eye, as if they had only experienced a brief dizziness, they had already traveled thousands of kilometers from the war-torn, hellish ruins of Mingdu to Haiyuan City.

She clearly remembered that when Dilongmen set off from Longcheng to Mingdu to participate in the competition, it took them more than a month of bumpy travel just to ride in the best carriage.

Even though the distance from Dragon City to Mingdu is farther than that from Sea Abyss City to Mingdu, the efficiency difference between this spatial teleportation and ordinary transportation is like heaven and earth, a veritable dimensional reduction attack.

Even the most advanced and fastest flying soul tool would take at least several days of non-stop flight to fly from Haiyuan City to Mingdu at full speed.

But this magical portal can actually be reached in an instant, turning an insurmountable barrier into a thoroughfare.

Standing next to her, Nan Shuishui's face was also filled with shock and disbelief.

Even though she was already a powerful expert who had reached the level of a Title Douluo, she had never truly touched such profound spatial power.

That is a profound realm that only Super Douluo of level 95 or above can barely sense, and Limit Douluo of level 98 or above can only initially grasp.

Even for a Limit Douluo, it would be impossible to carry so many people on such a long distance and on such a large scale in one go.

The total amount of soul power and the precision of mental control required have long exceeded the limits that an individual soul master can bear.

Not to mention cities like Haiyuan City, which effortlessly and safely transferred tens of thousands of civilians with no soul power from the distant Mingdu to this place.

This earth-shattering move completely overturned her understanding of the development of soul guidance technology over the past decades.

This space technology, far ahead of its time and even bordering on divine, shook all the powerful figures from various sects and top academies present, filling them with unprecedented fear and awe.

With such terrifying strategic projection capabilities, Haiyuan City can almost "depart in the morning and arrive in the evening, attacking wherever it wants," without having to consider the huge time cost of troop deployment and the obstacles of complex terrain in traditional warfare. This is undoubtedly an overwhelming and unsolvable strategic advantage in any conflict that may occur in the future.

Nan Shuishui secretly felt a surge of relief.

Fortunately, the Earth Dragon Gate had long ago established a relatively close relationship with the Sea Abyss City because of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal. The two sides were bound by interests and could be considered as half allies.

(End of this chapter)