Yun Tianyi fled in a sorry state. Lin Qi let out a strange cry and strode toward Ying Yi, who lay unconscious inside the pavilion. Several dozen eunuchs waiting outside the pavilion shouted furiously, while the palace maids scattered in panic. Like a gust of wild wind, Lin Qi darted through the eunuchs who reached out to stop him and arrived at Ying Yi's side in just a few strides.
Bending down, Lin Qi deftly removed the two brilliantly gleaming rings from Ying Yi's hand. He then carefully searched his body and, after confirming that he had no other spatial artifacts on him, finally glared triumphantly.
Wave after wave of invisible mental impact burst from his brow. The several dozen elderly eunuchs who were shouting as they rushed over gave muffled groans and collapsed to the ground at once. What Lin Qi had used was not offensive mental magic, but a small forgetting spell. These elderly eunuchs would forget everything that had happened tonight—though, because Lin Qi's control was not precise enough, they might forget everything from the past two or three months as well?
But judging by these elderly eunuchs' agile movements and aged appearances, they had surely lived for over a hundred years. They were all formidable palace guards of the king's manor. Having lived to such an age, what did it matter if they forgot two or three months' worth of events?
After knocking out all the eunuchs and palace maids and sweeping clean all the valuable furnishings in the pavilion—such as the various exquisite antique vases—Lin Qi set off home in satisfaction. Antiques from the Blood Qin Empire! Many of the antique vases displayed in Ying Yi's pavilion were treasures passed down from three or five thousand years ago. On the Western Continent, even vases from