Dilemma of the Immortal Cultivators

Looking at the disabled veterans bowing and offering wreaths, Li Jialing clenched his fists and said, "Things must've been different in the age of Blackstar the Great."

"They're all the same."

Li Yao said, "If the Immortal Cultivators did not have so many corruptions and internal conflicts, and they were not as selfish and despicable as they are today, it was not because the Immortal Cultivators had higher integrity but because the Imperium was still in the phase of expansion. The interests of the newly-conquered areas could be swallowed in order to soothe the conflicts within.

"The vigor and vitality of countries such as the Imperium of True Human Beings are built on accelerated expeditions. Whenever they stop expanding, the internal contradictions will burst out together, resulting in their inevitable decline.