Inside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Li Fei sat alone in his seat, reading the "war reports."
Although the Great Blue Dynasty had ultimately emerged victorious from that great war, the process had been humiliating.
For an empire that had dominated the Eastern Continent for more than five hundred years, being swept aside all the way to its capital was utterly disgraceful!
The reason the Great Blue Dynasty had lost so quickly and so miserably in the early stages of that war was certainly not merely that the Western Allied Forces had caught them off guard, or that the Great Blue Dynasty had been unprepared for the Western Continent's high-tech weapons.
An even more important reason was the Great Blue Dynasty's own corruption! In the records Li Fei saw in the "war reports," there were five provinces and dozens of great cities between the western coastline and Lanling City.
Yet when faced with the Western Allied Forces' Military Edge, more than half of those cities had either fled without fighting or directly opened their gates and surrendered! After enjoying peace for several centuries, most of the princes, nobles, and local officials had become cowards who clung to life and feared death.
Most of the City Guards and Overseeing Bureaus in various regions had been drawing pay for nonexistent soldiers. They lacked training, their combat strength was poor, and their morale was even worse.
Ironically, along the Western Allied Forces' route of advance, the people who truly inflicted significant damage on them were instead the local martial artists, powerful local clans, and great family clans.
To defend their homes and interests, these people had burst forth with fighting spirit far stronger than that of the official forces! But without unified command, those local powers were merely scattered sand. In the end,