"The two emperors ascended from a Lower Plane, so it's only natural they would have feelings for the world that raised them."
"A Lower Plane... ascended from there..."
The young man murmured unconsciously. After a stretch of travel, the clusters of cities across the continent—separate from one another yet still maintaining certain connections—gradually vanished. In their place was a magnificent royal capital built around the entire trunk of the divine tree.
Beneath rows of towering city walls, countless pavilions filled the space, like branches extending up from underground, clustering around that pillar-like divine tree.
"We're here. This is the main city of the Endless Fire Territory, the prosperous Jianmu Royal Capital, and also the residence of the Flame Emperor and the Mystic Empress. Everyone, please."
Even those beside him could not help looking around curiously at everything here. To them, what lay before their eyes was rather familiar, yet the elements that made it all up were fundamentally different from everything they knew.
The young man looked at the palace towers carved with dragons and painted with phoenixes, yet he could also see images of the divine tree displayed almost everywhere upon them. It was hard to imagine that the Endless Fire Territory had already achieved such grandeur within just a few years.
For those of profound cultivation, palace towers like these could be built in any number, but the prosperity within required the real support of countless living beings.
The young man was silent for a moment and was just about to speak when he saw that two figures seemed to already be waiting quietly on the city wall.
"Hmm? Lin Ge?"
The figure on the city wall murmured unconsciously. In the next instant, he took a step forward and appeared before them.
The arrivals were a man and