After surviving the disaster, whether they rejoiced or wept, people ultimately still had to look ahead and keep moving forward.
Every city that had suffered an Abyssal Army invasion began its post-disaster recovery efforts.
However, in terms of damage, Mingdu had undoubtedly suffered the worst. Nearly two-thirds of the city's buildings had been destroyed, and more than three million people had died.
Those bloody numbers weighed heavily on everyone's hearts.
Rebuilding a new Mingdu would consume an immense amount of resources.
After joint deliberation between the emperor and the civil and military officials, it was decided that Emperor Xu Tianming would issue an order calling upon the rest of the empire to aid Mingdu, while various preferential policies were announced alongside it.
All so that Mingdu could recover and rebuild.
News that more than three million people had died in Mingdu and that two-thirds of the city had been destroyed gradually shocked the entire empire.
Countless people had never visited Mingdu in their lives, yet they had heard countless legends from it. Whether it was its powerful soul tool technology or its flourishing economy, it was undoubtedly a dream city people longed for. Yet now, it had nearly ceased to exist.
This also instilled an immense fear of that unfamiliar abyss in people's hearts. Fortunately, the abyss had been repelled. And the appearance of the Sun God was no longer merely some illusory existence in their minds, but a deity who had saved the empire.
Even Huo Yuhao had never expected that his image floating in the air in his golden form, along with the Heavenly Eye overlooking the mortal world from the heavens, would be painted into murals by later generations and passed down for ages.
But that was a matter for later.
Perhaps Ju Zi and Xu Tianming's