Star Luo City was not as impressive as they had imagined.
The people of the Divine Realm Empire had set their expectations too high, imagining Star Luo City to be the "imperial capital that never falls" from their textbooks. Only upon arriving did they discover that Star Luo City and Heaven Dou City were the same sort of classical city, with nothing particularly special about either.
Sima Lanxiao felt as though some of his dreams had been shattered.
In the Spirit Ice Douluo Era described in the textbooks, Star Luo City sprawled across the plains. Its widest main thoroughfare could accommodate sixteen horse-drawn carriages abreast, and its permanent population numbered eight million-more than the Divine Realm Imperial Capital had today.
The present Star Luo City was on the same scale as Heaven Dou City. It had really fallen off.
Unlike the people of the Divine Realm Empire with their private misgivings, the Star Luo Emperor took the Divine Realm Empire very seriously. He led his senior civil and military officials, along with two princes, to welcome the empire's diplomatic mission.
There should actually have been three princes present, but the second prince had died young the previous year.
"Dai Mubai is the third prince. He's only ten this year."
Joander explained to Long Yue, drawing on the information he had gathered from the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit City,
"And Dai Mubai has an older brother, Dai Weisi, who is six years older than him. He's sixteen."
Long Yue grumbled inwardly, What a name. Neither Chinese nor Western.
Joander continued his quiet introduction. "The man closest to the emperor is the Nether Duke. His inherited martial soul is the Hell Spirit Cat. It seems that in this era, the Hell Spirit Cat still isn't one of the imperial family's inherited