Over the next few days, Cheng Yu paid particular attention to the little girl with the strange soul and learned about her past.
It was the same old story. The major incident caused by the True Knowledge Sect had left West Sea Prefecture with many displaced people. Although the Great Qin Celestial Dynasty had taken action as quickly as possible, life remained difficult for the refugees.
The little girl had spent several years wandering with her parents. Not long ago, they had reached the vicinity of this city and been caught in a battle between cultivators. Her mother had died in the crossfire, and her father had been gravely injured. To keep her alive, her father had dragged his broken body into the city with her and sold her to a brothel, then died at its entrance.
Perhaps the madam had been in a good mood that day. After taking the girl in, she had also buried her father.
But as time passed, the madam soon discovered that the girl was deaf and mute. At first, she had assumed it was a congenital condition, but even an expert at the Void Inquiry Realm (Silver Five) could do nothing about it.
The furious madam had cursed her rotten luck. The little girl was quite pretty, and with some training, she might have become one of the brothel's star attractions someday.
Those wealthy patrons had no shortage of pretty girls around them. A girl needed to know how to talk, how to entertain, and how to handle men looking for a good time. All of that required speech and a voice.
Once she was deemed worthless, the little girl's life changed completely. Instead of being treated like a young lady, she became a servant. At only five or six years old, she