While one might think that ordinary people wouldn’t necessarily care if an envoy from a higher empire paid Grand Xia a visit, that wasn’t actually entirely true. After all, even an ordinary citizen from a higher empire should be treated with extreme caution; a higher empire had the ability to easily raze lower-tiered empires. A careless action, or even a word, here or there, could potentially bring destruction upon the empire.1

Xu Ge sucked in a cold breath, then he asked, "Daoye, are you for real? You are really from a sixth-tier empire?” He seemed to find it hard to believe.0

"Why would I lie to you?” muttered Li Daoye in discontent. “Actually, a sixth-tier empire isn’t even anything special; there are fifth-tier and even fourth-tier empires above us. If you look at it from a certain angle, you’ll find that we’re not too different from you guys.” 2

But Xu Ge didn’t buy that, and he was pleasantly surprised. "The difference is huge! At the very least,...2