A Change of Heart

(PS: Today my wife took the child to see a doctor, and I also helped with some questionnaire surveys at home, so the update was a little late.)

Wu Pifu descended through the air and landed before a eunuch.

This eunuch was the very person in whom he had vaguely sensed the presence of supernatural power. After Wu Pifu entered the imperial palace, he had not expected the eunuch to secretly flee the palace, change clothes, and head straight out of the capital.

By the time Wu Pifu returned from the palace and settled Lin Daiyu in, he followed the lingering aura here—only to find the eunuch's corpse. It bore neither external nor internal injuries, yet had died for no apparent reason.

Some kind of essence within it had escaped.

Wu Pifu carefully examined the corpse and finally arrived at this conclusion.

There was nothing remarkable about the eunuch's body. What was truly unusual was some sort of core within it. Wu Pifu did not know whether it was consciousness or a soul, but in any case, the escape of that core was what had caused the eunuch's death.

According to the information about the Heavenly Court that Wu Pifu had learned in the Lost Lands, the supernatural path unique to that ancient civilization was unclear. Yet its displayed abilities encompassed the body, consciousness, and soul alike. It was an exceptionally rare all-round super civilization. In particular, its supernatural path involving souls was something other civilizations did not possess. The people of the Lost Lands had only one way to describe it... unfathomable as ghosts and gods!

Wu Pifu suspected that some essence within the eunuch had originated from Heavenly Court methods, but he did not know whether it was consciousness or a soul. If it was the former, that