"The Emperor Lord is invincible!"
"May the New Era flourish forever! May all living beings endure eternally!"
Waves of cheers swept across heaven and earth. Countless cultivators knelt and kowtowed, tears filling their eyes, offering the white-robed figure their highest reverence.
Holding the Primordial Return-to-Ruins Emperor Sword, Lin Feng slowly descended onto the land of the New Era. He restrained his emperor's might, no longer suppressing heaven and earth, leaving only a gentle, boundless primordial Dao resonance to slowly nourish the ravaged mountains and rivers.
His gaze swept across the shattered territory, and a plan had already taken shape in his heart.
Though the demonic scourge had been eradicated, the New Era's foundations remained shallow. Its territories were broken, its talent depleted, and its resources scattered. It was still far from true prosperity. To firmly establish primordial orthodoxy, hold the myriad heavens and worlds in check, and even support future breakthroughs to higher levels, he could never rely solely on one man's achievements in a single battle.
He needed a true central immortal city, an era's nexus that gathered talent, industries, resources, fortune, and wealth from across the heavens.
"Pass down my decree. Let the entire New Era rest and recover. Every cultivator who fought shall receive a generous reward, and the sects shall provide compensation for all casualties."
Lin Feng's voice was calm, yet carried the inviolable will of an Emperor Lord. "From this day forth, we shall rebuild heaven and earth around the New Era Heavenly Palace and construct a supreme immortal city, named-the Primordial Heaven-Piercing City!"
As his words fell, hundreds of millions of rays of primordial golden light burst from Lin Feng's body, piercing heaven and earth and linking the mountains and rivers.
He would no longer merely be the Emperor Lord presiding over the Heavenly