Fallen Firmament

Chen Fan stood on the raised platform and looked around. A fierce wind whipped his clothes into a constant flutter. He looked up again. Thin clouds hung overhead, limiting visibility to a few hundred meters.

"Can you see the Copper Pipe disappear into the clouds?"

"Yes, Domain Lord." The Black Tortoise City lord bowed respectfully. "That is the Black Tortoise Sky Pillar."

Chen Fan said nothing. He stood there, lost in thought.

This world was too strange.

Everything he had known in his previous world, all its common sense, was useless here.

His main purpose on this trip was to build a Signal Tower here. Everything else could wait until the Black Tortoise Sky Pillar reached twenty thousand kilometers. Then he would need to build another Signal Tower on a platform twenty thousand kilometers above the ground.

After taking care of that,

Chen Fan began a ten-day inspection tour. He traveled through every region of the Eternal Night Continent, examining local development firsthand.

Every visit was unannounced.

Development across the regions looked good. Everything was advancing in orderly fashion.

At last,

ten days later,

Chen Fan returned to the Northbank Mortal Domain. After a hot bath to wash away his fatigue, he stood on the Northbank Defense Line and gazed toward the horizon. The Eternal Night Continent's protection period lasted three years.

The Heavenly Dao's formation would also take three years to establish.

Once the three-year protection period ended,

the Eternal Night Formation would reappear across the continent. Every node would be flawless. The Strange Tide would have no place to land directly and could only attack by force. That was the basic defense.

Every Second-Level Continent that survived its beginner period had it. But a basic defense was something everyone had, and when everyone had a defense, in a