The Wu Kingdom's third prince.
Wu Yu Chi stared at the old eunuch, of whom not even ashes remained, then heard Zhang Yuan's cold question. Pale with terror, he collapsed onto the ground, swallowed, and hurriedly shook his head as he pleaded:
"No, no, no, Senior! I meant you were right to kill him! I've hated that old eunuch for ages! I only spoke because I was afraid killing him would dirty your hands. He was going to die sooner or later anyway."
Zhang Yuan put away the [Flying Light Sword] and asked, "Oh? Sooner or later? Why do you say that?"
Although the old eunuch was rather weak, practically scraping the bottom among Foundation Establishment Celestials, even the weakest Celestial Person still stood above Qi Refining Perfected Persons.
Even among the Five Surnames and Seven Great Clans, Celestial Persons were mainstays. In a royal household or a first- or second-tier aristocratic clan, they were pillars holding up the heavens for their lineage, the sort they could never afford to lose unless absolutely necessary.
Yet now the Wu Kingdom's third prince claimed the old eunuch would die sooner or later. Were they treating Foundation Establishment Celestials as expendable supplies?
Was the Wu Kingdom's royal household really that wealthy?
"Senior, this old eunuch was the guardian of both me and my second brother. Now that my second brother is dead, he failed in his duty. Once we returned to the Wu Kingdom, how could my imperial father let him live?" Wu Yu Chi said, as though this were only natural.
"As a Celestial Person, he could abandon you and flee elsewhere. With heaven and earth so vast, who could stop him?" Zhang Yuan asked.
A Foundation Establishment Celestial serving a royal household as a eunuch, and remaining so loyal at that-there