The moment Lin Feng touched the crown—
Reality stopped.
The battlefield vanished.
The sky disappeared.
The voices fell silent.
Everything became white.
Endless white.
Lin Feng stood alone.
A single word echoed through the emptiness.
A name.
His name.
Not Lin Feng.
Something older.
Something that made the universe itself tremble.
Yet before he could hear it completely—
A voice interrupted.
"Not yet."
The white space shattered.
Reality returned violently.
BOOOOOOM!
The crown erupted with golden light.
A shockwave blasted across Blackstone City.
Everyone was thrown backward.
Everyone except Lin Feng.
The crown floated before him.
Trembling.
Struggling.
As though two forces were fighting over it.
The heavens darkened further.
The giant golden eyes widened.
And for the first time—
Fear appeared within them.
"STOP HIM!"
The command shook reality.
Immediately—
The cracks in the sky expanded.
Figures began descending.
Not projections.
Not eyes.
Actual beings.
Each one wrapped in golden armor.
Each one carrying immense power.
Each one radiating authority capable of crushing mountains.
The Celestial Watchers had entered the world.
The giant guardian roared.
"PROTECT THE HEIR!"
Its spear pierced the heavens.
The ancient rider raised his sword.
The army behind him charged.
Thousands of warriors surged forward.
The sky erupted into war.
Golden explosions lit the horizon.
Ancient weapons collided.
Reality cracked under the pressure.
Yet Lin Feng barely noticed.
Because the throne was moving.
Descending.
Slowly.
Inevitably.
Toward him.
The floating throne crossed through the golden beam above the abyss.
Runes ignited one after another.
Ancient stars appeared around it.
Entire constellations manifested in the sky.
The world was responding.
No.
The world was welcoming it back.
The black-robed elder stared upward.
His voice trembled slightly.
"It recognizes him."
The crimson-robed man laughed.
A genuine laugh.
"We're actually seeing it."
The silver-robed woman remained speechless.
For once.
Because some events existed only in legends.
And they were watching one happen.
Meanwhile—
The crown finally stopped trembling.
Silence spread across the battlefield.
The crown slowly rose.
Then settled upon Lin Feng's head.
The moment it touched him—
The world exploded.
A pillar of golden light shot into the heavens.
Every celestial warrior froze.
Every ancient soldier stopped moving.
The throne stopped descending.
Everything paused.
As though existence itself had taken a breath.
Then—
The crown completed itself.
The final crack vanished.
The broken relic became whole.
Perfect.
Ancient memories flooded Lin Feng's mind.
Cities larger than worlds.
Endless armies.
Golden banners stretching across galaxies.
A throne standing above countless realms.
And one ruler.
A king.
No.
Something greater.
Someone who united worlds.
Someone who challenged heaven itself.
Someone whose name had been erased from history.
Lin Feng staggered.
Not because of pain.
Because of understanding.
The throne wasn't calling him because he owned it.
The guardian wasn't kneeling because of destiny.
The army wasn't searching because of prophecy.
They remembered.
And somehow—
Part of him remembered too.
The heavens suddenly roared.
"HE IS AWAKENING!"
The celestial warriors attacked simultaneously.
Thousands of attacks descended.
Enough power to erase entire nations.
The guardian charged.
The ancient army surged forward.
The sky became chaos.
And right then—
The throne arrived.
It stopped directly behind Lin Feng.
Massive.
Ancient.
Magnificent.
The same calm voice from before echoed inside his mind.
The voice that had protected him.
The voice that had waited.
"Sit."
Lin Feng froze.
The throne glowed.
The crown responded.
The mark on his chest blazed.
Everything pointed toward a single action.
One choice.
One decision.
If he sat—
Something would change forever.
The heavens knew it.
The guardian knew it.
The ancient army knew it.
Which was why the Celestial Watchers became desperate.
Their leader stepped through the broken sky.
A towering figure wrapped in endless golden light.
Power beyond anything seen before descended upon Blackstone City.
The leader pointed directly at Lin Feng.
And spoke a single command.
"Kill him."
Cliffhanger
Thousands of celestial warriors attacked at once.
The throne waited.
The crown shone.
And Lin Feng took one step backward—
Toward the seat of the ancient throne.