Eunuch Zhan's judgment rested on two grounds.
First, Nangong Yao harbored great evil in his heart. He had manipulated disciples who regarded him as a father like puppets on strings, even scheming against their child. A man so ruthless and heartless could hardly be expected to possess any loyalty to sovereign or country.
For some purpose, he might well have disregarded Twelfth Prince Beitang Xing's status and struck him down without mercy.
Second, he possessed the Spirit Seizing Secret Art. Since he could absorb the origin power of the Chaos Body into himself and elevate his own being, who was to say he would not covet Beitang Xing's unique qualities as well, using the same Spirit Seizing Secret Art to ambush and kill him?
As for Twelfth Prince Beitang Xing, Eunuch Zhan had not known much about him at first. He had merely regarded the young prince as a peripheral figure.
At least within the inner palace and harem, Beitang Xing had been an inconspicuous nobody, with no possibility whatsoever of contending for the throne. Naturally, no one paid him any attention.
Yet after the Twelfth Prince's death, Beitang Xing's towering fury and the Imperial Clan Court's string of major actions made everyone in the inner palace and harem realize that this Twelfth Prince was far from ordinary—so extraordinary that both Beitang Sheng and the Imperial Clan Court had placed immense expectations upon him.
Especially when, not long after Beitang Xing's death, word spread that he possessed the Imperial Mandate and Qi and was very likely the key to reversing the imperial clan's fortunes in the future, many people vaguely understood why Beitang Sheng and the Imperial Clan Court had been so enraged by his death.
Unlike others, who could only speculate about Beitang Xing through scraps of hearsay, Eunuch