"But the war happened a very, very long time ago."
Xiao Hongchen spoke slowly, the smile on his face gradually fading.
"When we were first defeated, nothing much changed. The entire nation still thought about sounding the horn for a counterattack."
"But the timeline dragged on too long. Peace lasted far too long—so long that many people gradually forgot the passion they once had, forgot the grand ideal that had once stirred every person of the Sun Moon Empire."
"And so, parasites were born."
"But those parasites will not be rampant for much longer."
As he spoke, Xiao Hongchen's tone gradually turned hostile.
"I did not feel it so strongly before, but during our trip to Star Luo, several auctions actually sold Soul Tools from our Sun Moon Empire!
If one God-Sealing Altar can appear, then more Class 9 Soul Tools can appear as well. They have grown complacent for far too long."
"I have already reported this matter to Grandfather. Before long, there should be action taken to clean up these parasites that keep clinging to the Empire and sucking its blood!"
Ye Luochen gave an impassive nod at those words.
Yet his thoughts churned within him.
To him, Xiao Hongchen's words were far from as simple as they sounded.
They contained a great deal of information.
For instance: peace had lasted too long.
If those words had come from anyone else, Ye Luochen would have merely taken them as a joke and assumed he had encountered a war hawk.
But Xiao Hongchen had said them, and he had said them with complete seriousness.
Who was Xiao Hongchen? A pillar of the Empire, the biological grandson of Jing Hongchen, one of its absolute core figures.
And because of his personality, he would certainly have received more information from Jing