Two carriages of ducal-rank splendor met before the gates of the Xiong Residence. An old eunuch with a deathly pale face, bloodless lips, and scarcely any black visible in his eye sockets leisurely opened the door of the newly arrived carriage. A burly man in black armor knelt on both knees beneath it. One foot came down heavily on the man's head, then stepped on his shoulder and the back he had bowed low before slowly descending.
Lin Qi glanced at the black-armored burly man kneeling on the ground and could not help feeling a wave of disgust.
Judging by the insignia on the man's armor, he was likely a high-ranking general of the Blood Qin Empire. At the very least, his status in the army could not have been lower than Long Cheng's back then. Long Cheng had been granted the title of Eagle Soaring Grand General and held command over a division of the imperial capital's forbidden army; this man's ranking among Sea City's military forces had to be within the top ten.
Yet such a highly placed commander, a senior general with the strength of a Saint Knight, was actually being used as a stepping stone to disembark!
Princess Qingli saw the scene as well. Her pretty face darkened as she said softly, "I never expected Sea Stabilizing King Ying Yi, who has such an excellent reputation in the imperial capital, to be this sort of man. Humiliating a senior military general like this—doesn't he fear shaking the army's morale?"
Sea Stabilizing King Ying Yi was considerably younger than Ying Qin, yet he was still past fifty. However, his strength was far from weak. With peak Saint Disciple cultivation, coupled with all manner of precious supplements stuffed into him like feed into a pig, the Ying Yi