Five Evil Soul Masters fell to a single stroke of the sword. As Ye Guyi revealed her holy power, two of their corpses melted away like butter in an instant, becoming nourishment for her growth.
Clearly, those two had held the most sway here while alive, and their sins had been the gravest.
The bodies in that pile must have been stripped of their organs and brains because of them.
Sensing the sudden surge in her Soul Power and cultivation, Ye Guyi looked faintly apologetic.
"Sorry. This is my first time killing so many Evil Soul Masters. I may need a moment to stabilize my Soul Power."
Lu Yi nodded. "No problem. Stay here. I have a few things left to take care of anyway."
With that, Lu Yi vanished before her eyes.
He went outside first and found several tied-up sacks in an alley not far away. From the look of them, there were children inside.
There had to be another passage nearby leading straight to the cells, but that no longer mattered.
Lu Yi opened the sacks, placed the boys and girls inside his suitcase, and asked the children who had woken up to look after them for a while. Then he put the suitcase away.
From what Lu Yi understood, the capture of these children with Innate Soul Power meant that most of their parents had already met with disaster. Every last one of them was an orphan.
At that moment, Lu Yi truly understood why there were so many orphans in this era.
With law and order this poor and an environment that all but let Evil Soul Masters run wild, it would have been strange if there weren't.
Lu Yi now had nearly twenty children with Innate Soul Power in his care, and for a