The Eve of the Wedding

Xuan Lan remained in the imperial city. Ying Zheng was very interested in him, so he had quite a few death-row prisoners taken from the Heavenly Prison and Edict Prison to feed Xuan Lan.

Without a doubt, Xuan Lan immediately fell in love with the imperial city. Lin Qi could hardly take a frost giant over three hundred meters tall, radiating bone-chilling cold from head to toe, wandering about everywhere. That would absolutely throw the world into chaos. So Lin Qi was happy enough to let Xuan Lan stay here.

Lin Qi also had the other Dragon Demon War Ghosts, along with those unique creatures from the abyssal world, remain in the imperial city. Since Ying Zheng himself did not fear the risks these abyssal creatures might bring, there was no reason for Lin Qi to worry on his behalf, was there? Ying Zheng could study those abyssal creatures however he pleased.

After a whole night of commotion, it was already late the next morning when Lin Qi and Blackbeard, father and son, left the imperial city surrounded by a large crowd of eunuchs. There were a full thousand eunuchs, manpower bestowed upon the pair by Ying Zheng for their use.

After all, Lin Qi and his father were now both princes of the Blood Qin Empire. According to imperial etiquette, they had the right—and were required—to employ eunuchs. A mere thousand eunuchs was nothing; with Lin Qi's fiefs of three second-rank provinces, he could easily support a thousand times that number.

The moment they stepped out of the imperial city gates, an old eunuch with lowered brows and submissive eyes came up from the side. Holding a deed in his hands, he respectfully kowtowed before Lin Qi and his father. "This old servant greets the two princes. This old