Heaven Dou Empire, Heaven Dou City.
Ancient brick walls stood on every side, brilliant colored lights hung overhead, and people streamed through the streets. Bright red lanterns lined the roads, each exquisitely made and painted with beautiful pictures of children, lotus flowers, firecrackers, and more. From afar, they resembled a crimson ocean, with festive joy overflowing everywhere.
Business boomed in the shops lining Imperial Avenue, which ran through Heaven Dou City. Some sold handicrafts, others commemorative trinkets celebrating the unification of the Douluo Continent. There were red shoes, large carp, finely woven bamboo flower baskets, bamboo tables and chairs, brightly colored oil-paper umbrellas with beautiful designs, silk clothing, and handkerchiefs. Shops selling collectibles displayed lifelike jade and stone carvings. The Dragon Spring Swords were exquisitely crafted, their engraved patterns beautiful to behold. Even the Sky-Blasting Gang's signature Demon Masks stood on the counters.
With the Douluo Continent unified, this capital, which had endured the baptism of war several months earlier, had long since washed away war's shadow and regained its former splendor and bustle.
Among all these shops, one enjoyed the hottest business of all. A long queue stretched outside its doors, and loud calls rang out from time to time:
"Don't miss out as you pass by! An epoch-making game created by the leader of the Sky-Blasting Gang himself, offering you a second life! Now just one Silver Soul Coin, with a limited release of one million virtual helmets!"
Although many ordinary people regarded games as frivolous distractions that sapped ambition, hearing that this epoch-making game had been personally created by the Sky-Blasting Gang's leader sparked unprecedented enthusiasm. They all knew that his might overshadowed the ages. He was a peerless genius without equal in the past or future, and he would never waste his efforts. Hadn't the seeds