Newbie Male looked at the smoke and devastation covering the ground, furious.
Personally assuming the role of grand general, he led troops out of the city to face the old Cultivators.
Standing before the ranks, he shouted with immortal arts, "Back then, every one of you ate leaves, drank bark soup, and dug up grass roots. As long as you survived, you called it a golden age."
"Civil officials and military generals, so long as there were no displaced people rebelling, praised the ruler's wisdom."
"And now?"
"You wear silk clothes, eat until you're all fat, and every one of you has the Three Highs!"
"Yet none of you are satisfied. You've amassed so much property for your grandsons, and now you want them to live two hundred years?"
"You want everyone to reach Foundation Establishment Stage? You truly are insatiably greedy!"
The old men were left speechless.
After all, the world today surpassed even the most prosperous eras in every respect.
Even Zhenguan and Kaiyuan could not compare.
Those eras had merely been relatively better, because there was still much wasteland and the population had not yet filled the land. Between renting land at exorbitant prices and reclaiming wilderness, ordinary people still had a choice.
After the old men fell silent for a while, the oldest among them finally spoke.
"Grand General, in the affairs of the world, the problem is not scarcity, but inequality."
"My descendants and I may all live prosperous lives, but our lifespans are short. None of us surpass the Qi Refining stage, and none of us live beyond a hundred years."
"But you members of the imperial clan and powerful nobles can all reach Foundation Establishment Stage, living over two hundred, three hundred years. Some even form Golden Cores and live for more than