Time flew like an arrow, bringing them to the day the Douluo Continent's Unification War began.
That day, the sky was blue and pristine. Brilliant sunlight streamed through gaps in the dense clouds, forming pillars of light, thick and thin, that illuminated Heaven Dou City beneath its drifting, gauzelike mist.
From Imperial Avenue all the way to the gates of Heaven Dou City's imperial palace, crowds packed the streets and alleys.
The procession of spectators had set out from the city gates and steadily swelled along the way. Every commoner on Heaven Dou City's streets, every thief with nothing to do, and every vagrant encountered along the route joined in. By the time they reached the palace gates, the gathering was vast and magnificent.
At that moment, the area around Heaven Dou City's largest square was already a sea of people, with music ringing through the air. Relatives of the allied troops, students, and ordinary people from the empire's kingdoms and provinces had traveled enormous distances to attend this grand event and witness the historic moment when the Sky-Blasting Gang and the Imperial Army marched to the front.
They stood in the crowd on tiptoe, looking this way and that, anxiety written across their faces.
After days of newspaper publicity continually explaining the necessity of the Unification War and the sinister intentions of powers such as the Spirit Hall Empire and Sea God Island, the common people's resistance to the war was no longer as strong as before. Still, this was a momentous matter affecting everyone on the Douluo Continent. Although they knew the Sky-Blasting Gang was powerful, they lacked confidence deep down.
Holding flowers and imperial flags, the common people stood on both sides of the road. More than ten thousand students held red and yellow flowers, arranging themselves