While Bo Saixi and Tang Chen were fighting, another incident was unfolding in Vast Sea City, several hundred miles away.
Qian Xunyi was attended by twenty castrated eunuchs, all palace stewards.
Where had these twenty men come from—
Ning Fengzhi had offered up these twenty Soul Masters of at least a certain rank as support, though in truth, they had become hostages.
As for why there were no female Soul Masters and only male ones, it had much to do with the worldview of this era. Women were a family's resources; to aristocratic clans, a woman's marriage meant their bloodline flowing outward.
Ning Fengzhi also feared that, in the future, there might emerge some Seven Treasure Wang Clan, Seven Treasure Li Clan, Seven Treasure...
Among those twenty, Ning Zhiyuan had been specifically named.
This Ning Zhiyuan was Ning Fengzhi's younger brother, a level 68 Soul Emperor with the potential to advance further into a Soul Sage. He was a rare talent within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Within the next few decades, their sect would gain another level 79 support-type Soul Sage.
Ning Fengzhi had not dared to be vague about it. Though unwilling, he had sent over twenty powerful support-type Soul Masters.
In this war, those twenty men had unexpectedly met with an accident.
Qian Xunyi found that these twenty men spoke pleasantly and handled matters properly, so he castrated them and made them his eunuchs to serve him.
As for why they had willingly accepted castration, Qian Xunyi had neither granted them Overlord Blood to control them at the root of their bloodlines nor turned them into Black Fury. Instead, he had sent them to the Evil Lord's Mental Department. Before entering for their cleansing, every one of them had been hostile toward Qian Xunyi. Once they