Of course, he said he could sell Star Luo Empire up to ninety-nine Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, but in truth, both Lin Yun and Xu Jiujiu knew perfectly well that such a number was absolutely impossible.
It was not that Lin Yun could not provide them, but that Star Luo Empire could not afford them!
The Sun Moon Empire's "official price" for a Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell was roughly fifteen million Gold Soul Coins, but for the technologically blockaded Douluo Three Kingdoms, that price would only be calculated at double!
Even thirty million Gold Soul Coins per shell was already considered cheap. Even if Lin Yun truly sold them at this "low price," ten Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells would cost as much as three hundred million, and ninety-nine of them, rounded off, came to three billion!
What kind of concept was that?
The combined tax revenue of every city in Star Luo Empire over ten years might not even amount to three billion Gold Soul Coins!
To put it more concretely, five Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells could buy one Snow Empress Embryo. Ninety-nine Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells could buy nearly twenty Snow Empress Embryos—enough to bring Snow Empresses home and form a girl group in white lace dresses!
Snow Empress:?
Granted, Star Luo Empire had been passed down for over ten thousand years. To say its treasury did not contain three billion Gold Soul Coins would be absurd. But there was a premise here: Douluo Continent was not a unified world, nor did Star Luo Empire dominate alone. Wealth was meant to circulate.
Where there was tax revenue, there would inevitably be expenditure. The most typical expense was military spending. Star Luo Empire's army had always been formidable, and its