All the Celestial Venerables and Imperial Sovereigns erupted into an uproar at Eastern Heavenly Lord's words.
Nearly every Celestial Venerable thought they had misheard. He had wiped out an Ancient Era and offered it as a sacrifice to the heavens.
This was almost utterly impossible. The last person to accomplish such a feat had been Creation Heavenly Lord.
When the Ten Great God Cities had first been established, an Ancient Era had cast covetous eyes upon the Martial Dao Era. Its army had pressed forward, and even Creation Heavenly Lord had endured several bitter battles before finally uprooting several Ancient Eras.
Yet for them, this was practically a memory buried beneath the dust of ages. Most of the Celestial Venerables and Imperial Sovereigns had not experienced it firsthand; it existed only in myths and legends.
Even figures such as Eastern Heavenly Lord and Heaven City Lord had merely been insignificant newcomers who had just attained godhood and enlightenment at the time. They had only heard of the Ten Great God Cities and had not lived through those events.
After Creation Heavenly Lord, no one had ever achieved such a grand feat again. Thus, upon hearing this, they all froze in shock.
They nearly believed they had heard wrong.
"How could this be possible?!" Heaven City Lord was the first to voice his disbelief. Among the various city lords, his cultivation was practically at the very pinnacle. It was not as though he had never attempted to uproot an Ancient Era in the past.
It was not merely a matter of rendering great merit to the Creation God Dynasty. More importantly, he himself would gain enormous benefits. The Heavenly Dao was impartial: it rewarded merit and punished transgressions. Such was the cycle of the Heavenly Dao.
At present, that road had