What Scholar Bian had said was not beyond Pan Long's imagination.
But certain ideas were so deeply ingrained in his mind that, without someone to point him in the right direction, he could rack his brains to no avail and never think to look at things from certain angles.
For instance, he would never have believed that the Di Lineage had lost control of the situation.
In his previous life, he had lived in a world with an extraordinarily powerful government. The Grand Federation government rarely made its presence felt, but at a single command, it could move mountains and part seas. Even the stars in the sky... Well, perhaps not stars, but asteroids at least. If the Grand Federation deemed it necessary, it could dispatch a fleet at any time and blast one to pieces.
A few years before he crossed over, a deep-space mining operation codenamed "Zhao Gongming" had concluded. A Grand Federation fleet had hauled an asteroid that was forty-two percent gold out of the asteroid belt and dragged it to a space smelting center at a Lagrange Point, where it was refined into gold. The arrival of that colossal "gold mine" at the refinery had even been broadcast live across the world.
If that was what they could do to a celestial body, people went without saying.
So Pan Long found it hard to imagine that a great nation that had stood for a thousand years could not even control the Zhu Zhao, its own close kin.
It was absurd!
But after listening to Bian Deming's analysis, he realized things might truly be as Bian Deming had said.
The Di Lineage appeared lofty and sacrosanct, but did it really have the strength to take on the entire Zhu Zhao?
Since the founding of Great Xia, the