Chapter 777: Tian-Shu Realm

Clang—clang—

Inside the station of the Tian-Shu Realm, a staff member responsible for cleaning the platform heard the whistle coming from afar and looked up in confusion.

Billowing thick smoke rose to the clouds from the end of the tracks, and a realm train slowly drove in from the distance. As the signal lights changed, the conductors in the station returned to their positions one by one, preparing to welcome the train into the station.

"What’s going on? This is already the fourth train to enter the station today, right?" The cleaner asked in confusion. "A few days ago, weren't there hardly any trains coming in? Why are there so many all of a sudden today?"

"I don't know... Maybe the top brass has some arrangements? Otherwise, they wouldn't have temporarily added so many shifts." The conductor on the side was equally blank.

"Forget it, anyway, we just need to follow the instructions from above and arrange for them to enter the station."

Under the confused gazes of many staff members, the realm train slowly stopped at the platform... With a creaking sound of the doors opening, one figure after another walked out of the carriage, the dense crowd almost filling the entire platform!

"So many people?? The carriages were almost full, right?"

"More than that... I feel like quite a few people stood the whole way?"

"Since when do realm trains have standing tickets?"

"Come to think of it, the people on the last shift were just as many... Where did this shift come from this time?"

"Seems like the South Sea Realm."

"That’s different from the last shift... Four shifts a day, all coming from different realms, and all full?"

"It looks like something big is about to happen... Hey, could it be related to the news in the newspaper this morning?"

"Could it be that they are going to war with the Wuji Realm?"

"That shouldn't be it. These people don't look very old, and looking at what they’re carrying, they don't look like they’re going to war."

“……”

Nearly a hundred figures stepped off the train one by one. They looked to be under thirty, carrying large and small bags of luggage, curiously looking around, seemingly full of curiosity about the Tian-Shu Realm.

They didn't wait long on the platform before someone came up to lead them away from the platform in an orderly fashion.

"Buddy, what’s the situation here?" A staff member with extreme curiosity tugged at the corner of the guide's clothes and asked in a low voice, "What happened? Why are so many people coming today?"

The man smiled. "This is a lot? In the next few days, there will only be more and more people."

"Is there something big happening?"

"It is indeed something big..." The man leaned into his ear mysteriously. "In short, for the next month, our Tian-Shu Realm... will be quite lively."

After saying that, he led the group toward the exit without looking back.

……

"The Tian-Shu Realm is different from all other realms."

"Geographically and spiritually, this is the center of the nine human realms..."

"Tian-Shu Sovereign was the leader of the former Nine Sovereigns and the core figure who connected the Nine Sovereigns; the Tian-Shu Realm is the origin of the realm trains and the core station that connects the nine human realms."

"70% of the technology currently used by humans, including realm trains and realm signal towers, was designed and manufactured by the 'Tongtian Tower,' and the Ancient Treasury of the Clever Path is also one of the most highly developed divine path treasures currently available to humans..."

Spade 9 introduced as he stopped at an intersection. The traffic light flickered beside him, finally changing from green to red.

With a prompt sound, seven or eight light trains, resembling miniature versions of realm trains, slowly moved along the tracks laid in the middle of the road... There were no cars or pedestrians on the roads here, only several parallel tracks and vehicles that looked like ground trains from before the Great Cataclysm, moving in an orderly fashion.

While Spade 9 was speaking, a train hanging under the bridge even whistled past Chen Ling’s head at an incredibly fast speed.

Chen Ling looked at this scene, the shock in his eyes growing more intense.

Chen Ling had traveled to many realms and seen many things, but this was the first time in this era that he had felt the aura of "order"... Although these trains weren't fast and looked like old trains from the Republic of China era, this absolute "order" was something that would never appear in other realms.

"There are tracks all over the roads here... don't you run cars?" Chen Ling couldn't help but ask.

"The Tian-Shu Realm prohibits cars." Spade 9 said lightly. "Tian-Shu Sovereign once said that as the era regresses, the power principles of cars will also continue to regress, eventually emitting black gas like coal smoke. This disorderly and independent exhaust method will affect human health, and these black gases gathering over the city will block the starry sky."

"But the power principle of the trains is similar to cars, right? Aren't they all steam-driven now?"

"The Tongtian Tower designed a 'chain power transmission' mechanism that can integrate the power of all trains in the Tian-Shu Realm, unify power allocation, and unify exhaust... and the exhaust port is directed to the Gray Realm. In other words, the exhaust released by all the trains running on the road will be gathered together to pollute the sky of the Gray Realm, and the Tian-Shu Realm itself will not be affected at all."

Spade 9 looked up and pointed to the sky. "Haven't you noticed? The sky of the Tian-Shu Realm is exceptionally clear."

Chen Ling looked up, and indeed, as Spade 9 said, the sky was exceptionally blue... The last time Chen Ling saw a sky of this quality was in the Aurora Realm, but that wasn't because the Aurora Realm’s exhaust emissions were well-managed; it was simply because it was too cold there, and very few people could afford to drive cars.

"So, what exactly is the origin of this Tongtian Tower?"

"The Tongtian Tower is the gathering place for the craftsmen of the Clever Path. The 'Clever Path' itself contains all man-made material civilizations since the development of human civilization, including architecture, mechanisms, precision devices, industrialization, mechanization, etc... And the place in the world that retains the most of these material civilizations is, first, the Ancient Treasury of the Clever Path, and second, the 'Tongtian Tower' built by the Tian-Shu Realm."

"...So, the Tongtian Tower is the crystallization of human material civilization?"

"Not strictly. The crystallization of material civilization is in the Ancient Treasury of the Clever Path; what the Tongtian Tower represents is the future of human material civilization..." Spade 9 said solemnly. "Our Twilight Society has done many things, but we have never touched the Tongtian Tower... That place is sacred."

Chen Ling looked up and saw that under the blue sky, a massive white tower stood out from the dense cluster of buildings, like an unstoppable sword piercing the clouds.