The Superhuman Tower, which dominated the heart of Dragon City, had once stood like a Sea-Stabilizing Divine Needle piercing the clouds.
Even during the fiercest days of the Monster War, when nearly half the city had been reduced to blazing ruins, the Superhuman Tower still stood tall and majestic. The nine ultra-high-powered crystal searchlights atop the tower constantly bloomed with sword-bright radiance, allowing people struggling bitterly in every corner of Dragon City to see it clearly—to see humanity's will, like wildly burning flames, pierce the heavens and point straight toward the sea of stars, granting them a hundredfold courage and faith.
Yet at this moment, caught in the subtle, tense standoff between two clearly divided armored airship fleets in the sky, the Superhuman Tower seemed to sway from side to side, stirring even greater unease and tension.
As the headquarters of all Transcendents in Dragon City, security inside and outside the Superhuman Tower was naturally extraordinarily strict. Several emergency operations departments had also made it their temporary command center.
Armored vehicles transporting Blood Alliance members and criminal evidence moved in and out around the Superhuman Tower like Iron Hedgehogs clad from head to toe in armor.
Invisible ripples laden with vast quantities of information drifted through the air, more like unseen Stormy Waves, layer upon layer and dense beyond measure, spreading ceaselessly in all directions.
Yet apart from a very small handful of people like Meng Chao and Lü Siya, most of the Transcendents busily working in the upper and middle levels of the Superhuman Tower had no idea that directly above their heads, the Martial God Hall—regarded by all Transcendents, no, more accurately, by all Dragon City Citizens as a "sacred land of martial arts" and even a "spiritual pillar"—was already completely empty.
And beneath their feet, within the