The silver Soul Tool train streaked across the ground like a meteor. Accompanied by a gentle ripple of decelerating Soul Power, it smoothly pulled into the grand, modern platform of Shrek City Station.
"Dear passengers, we have arrived at Shrek City Station. Thank you for riding with us..."
A pleasant female voice sounded over the broadcast. Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena followed the crowd off the train, setting foot on this land that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
A distinct atmosphere, blending ancient Soul Power with cutting-edge Soul Tool energy, instantly enveloped them. Unlike Mingdu's cold, fragmented sense of order, the air of Shrek City carried a deeper, more majestic vitality and weight of history, as though every inch of land breathed with the glory and dreams of Soul Masters.
The platform was exceptionally spacious, its dome rising a hundred meters high and constructed from transparent Soul Tool materials that allowed sunlight to pour down unhindered. The air wasn't empty either. Several fixed Soul Tool light rails, glowing with a gentle white radiance, stretched across it like aerial bridges connecting different sections of the platform. Small passenger Soul Tools glided silently along them, efficiently transporting travelers.
"The changes... are huge." Tang Wulin sighed softly, his black eyes sweeping over the futuristic transportation hub. The Shrek City of ten thousand years ago had never possessed anything like this.
Gu Yuena nodded slightly, a trace of surprise in her violet eyes as well. She could sense that this enormous station was itself an extraordinarily complex giant Soul Tool. Its energy circuits were intricate and vast, far surpassing anything they had seen in Mingdu.
When they had first awakened, they hadn't cared in the slightest about the earth-shaking changes in present-day Shrek City. All they had wanted was to search for their memories.