Three months passed in the blink of an eye.
Over those three months, Douluo Continent changed with every passing day.
The glow of the Soul Tool Divine Tower never ceased, day or night. Among the first hundred students to enter the tower and study, some could already independently produce the most basic soul tool lamps and soul tool heaters.
Heaven Dou City took the lead in installing soul tool streetlights. Once night fell, the entire city shone brightly, looking from afar like a river of stars fallen to the earth.
Traveling merchants marveled at the sight, and word spread throughout the nations. More and more people flocked toward Heaven Dou City as if on pilgrimage, simply to glimpse that legendary giant tower.
At the same time, an even larger network was quietly spreading.
Heaven Dou, Star Luo Empire, and Spirit Hall signed a draft federal agreement, pledging to abolish tariff barriers between them.
The blueprints for the Soul Tool Divine Tower were copied into simplified versions and sent to major cities as teaching materials for local soul tool technology academies.
The order of the old era was loosening, while the framework of the new era had already been built.
Today was the day the new era would officially be declared born.
Heaven Dou City had been placed under martial law since dawn.
The entire city had been cleaned until not a speck of dust remained. Golden-red federal flags hung along both sides of the main streets, embroidered with an emblem of a nine-story tower topped by a star.
A red carpet stretched from the city gates to the central square before the imperial palace, with armed royal guards standing along both sides.
A platform roughly thirty feet high had been erected in the center of the square, built entirely from