The Secret Directorate was the intelligence agency Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long trusted most. It also served as a check upon and supplement to the Heavenly Patrol Division, and was deeply valued by Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long.
The tens of thousands of palace attendants, meanwhile, served the emperor and imperial consorts in their daily lives. It could even be said that they formed one of the foundations supporting the entire imperial palace's operation.
Before this, whether it was the Secret Directorate or the Internal Inspectorate that managed the tens of thousands of palace attendants, Yu Chaoen had carried both burdens alone, though he had dozens or even hundreds of subordinate officials beneath him.
With Yu Chaoen's betrayal and subsequent punishment, the emperor immediately arranged for others to replace him.
Within the imperial palace, there was never any shortage of people.
Since Yu Chaoen had betrayed the throne, his confidants could no longer be counted among the trusted. His followers and forces had to be purged.
The corpses constantly being carried out of the palace, along with the sweeping searches throughout Luoyi, stemmed from this.
Yet amid this great search, a group of handsome young men appeared within Ye Zhen's Duke's Mansion by a strange means.
They entered Ye Zhen's Duke's Mansion carrying tokens from the Barbarian Spirit Hall.
The instant Ye Zhen saw them, he thought of Yu Chaoen.
A group who were clearly male, yet had no Adam's apples—what else could they be but eunuchs and palace attendants?
The auras of this group were also rather strange.
The man standing in the center at the front bore himself with lofty elegance, his eyes full of confidence and calm. If their identities had not already been confirmed, one might have taken him and the group behind him for young masters from