Not long after, he hurried back. "Sir, there are two very young girls outside. They said they want to see you and ask about something."
"Oh?"
The city lord looked surprised, then narrowed his eyes. "How young?"
A cultivator's strength was not necessarily reflected in their appearance. Even those below the Immortal Rank could delay aging by consuming various medicines.
Of course, there was a limit to how much aging could be delayed. At most, it could only multiply one's lifespan several times over. Most medicines could merely postpone old age; eternal youth was practically impossible. No matter how one disguised themselves, traces of age would still show.
That was precisely why the evil cultivator city lord already had his expectations when he asked.
The butler answered truthfully, "One is at most sixteen or seventeen, while the other looks around twenty. They are both very young."
"Under twenty?"
A trace of surprise flashed across the powerful man's face when he heard that number.
"So young? Could they have eaten something good in the past?"
After straightening himself up a little, he immediately had the butler take him to meet them.
More than ten minutes later, in the main hall on the first floor of the City Lord's Manor.
Ye Qian and the Mage girl arrived before the evil cultivator city lord.
How should one put it? His evil aura could not be seen from the surface alone. Yet the heavy stench of blood drifting over from afar still made people instinctively want to stay away from him.
For his part, when the city lord saw the two delicate young girls, he did not show even the slightest contempt.
A person like him had chosen to absorb infants' blood in order to increase his strength and extend his lifespan. With that