Chapter 1681
In Jun Changxiao's imagination, the center of an empire ought to have been magnificent and grand. Yet all he saw were broken bricks and shattered tiles, with even the roads pitted and uneven—utterly neglected for years!
Most speechless of all, after entering God City, he found barely any pedestrians on the main street before him. It looked utterly empty and desolate.
"Mr. Jun must be very disappointed," Yu Feiya said.
"Mm."
Jun Changxiao admitted frankly, "Very disappointed."
This was not an imperial capital at all. It was more like a slum.
Yu Feiya said, "The major kingdoms have all broken away. What our Canglan Empire can control now is only this city. With no fiscal revenue, it has not been repaired for hundreds of years."
"No subjects?"
"Only several tens of thousands. Many have left."
"..."
Jun Changxiao fell silent.
He knew the Canglan Empire existed in name only, but he had not expected it to be reduced to such a miserable state, with only one ruined imperial capital remaining.
Wait!
If the Imperial City was this poor, would the Imperial Palace's medicinal herb stores still have medicinal herbs?
"Princess." Jun Changxiao asked weakly, "Can you produce two thousand first-grade Fire Stones?"
A first-grade Fire Stone was equivalent to a Dao Stone in the Upper Realm. Could such a down-and-out imperial house really produce them? It felt... unreliable.
"Would second-grade ones do?"
"No."
Jun Changxiao had already tested this during this period. Only the energy contained within first-grade Fire Stones could power the warship.
"I'm very sorry."
Yu Feiya said guiltily, "I only have second- and third-grade Fire Stones. Could they be used in place of first-grade Fire Stones?"
Jun Changxiao had wanted to say no, but seeing that she was an imperial princess living in such a