The two high-ranking court officials transformed by Vladimir through the Night Embrace ritual were both men in their fifties or sixties.
For them, something was more important than power and status: their health.
After being transformed into Bloodkin, they felt a long-lost vitality return to their bodies, and their virility was restored with their young, beautiful concubines.
Of course, the two officials did not yet know that Bloodkin's desire in that regard would gradually diminish, just as it had for Kitz. They were still immersed in the excitement of returning to their youth.
When Bai Xiaowen stepped forward and demanded that the two officials cooperate with Shi Miyuan for the interests of the Eternal Life Sect from then on, they still put on airs and tried to refuse.
Vladimir merely willed it, making the vampire blood inside their bodies boil. The agony, like being scorched beneath ultraviolet light, gave the two men a thorough taste of what hell on earth was.
Only then did they realize that they had become slaves, with their lives and deaths controlled by others. Their spirits immediately deflated, and they could only agree to become peripheral members of the Eternal Life Sect and serve it.
Bai Xiaowen also took the opportunity to learn more about the situation. These high-ranking court officials had the latest firsthand intelligence from the front lines.
The Mongol and Song armies had already breached Caizhou.
The Mongols had carried off most of the gold and silver treasures of the Jin Kingdom's imperial family, while the Song Army had recovered the remains of Wanyan Shouxu, the last emperor of the Jin Kingdom, and captured the Jin chancellor Zhang Tiangang. They were transporting them back to Lin'an to pay respects to their ancestors, thereby avenging the destruction of the Northern Song and the