Princess Qingli's fury left all three hundred thousand elite armored soldiers severely wounded. Ying Yi wailed to heaven and cried to earth as he used a teleportation array to rush to Twin Sun Red Dragon City and plead his grievances, but Ying Zheng's handling of the matter shocked the entire Blood Qin Empire!
Ying Yi, along with all his secondary consorts and children, was confined on charges of plotting rebellion, making him and Ying Jue a pair of brothers in misfortune. Xiong Wanjin's elder sister, Xiong Yinyin—the Sea Stabilizing King's principal consort—had borne the legitimate eldest son, Ying Fei, who inherited the title. However, the title of Sea Stabilizing King was changed to "Twin Rivers King," and his fief was moved to Twin Rivers Province, a third-rank province in the heartland of the Blood Qin Empire.
Sea City, renowned as the richest place under heaven, was bestowed upon Blackbeard, the Eastern Peace King!
That bandit chief who spent all his days in Dunkirk robbing homes and plundering households had suddenly transformed into a proper imperial prince of the Blood Qin Empire, with a fief of his own—and a top-tier, unimaginably wealthy one at that!
The news left the Blood Qin Empire's nobles clicking their tongues in amazement. Once again, they understood the standing that Lin Qi and his father, the Lin Family, held in Ying Zheng's eyes. Lin Qi and the others, however, knew perfectly well that given the formidable strength the Lin Family had displayed, the tiny bit of benefit Ying Zheng had paid was absolutely worth it.
A few days later, Blackbeard brought Princess Quan to Sea City. After taking over the Sea Stabilizing King's Manor and replacing its plaque with one reading "Eastern Peace King's Manor," this became the place from which he would handle the internal