"Brother, the Imprisonnt Space I'm guarding is just ahead," Zhao Yuan said, fawning ceaselessly over Ning Xuan as he pointed forward.
Ning Xuan gazed at the lush, flower-filled area and patted Zhao Yuan's shoulder sympathetically. "This must be difficult for you."
He said this because, along the way, Zhao Yuan had shared a great deal of information about the most powerful Cultivator in this Imprisonnt Space. If Zhao Yuan wasn't lying, then that guy was a complete psychopath!
When Ning Xuan passed through the Defensive Barrier and entered the Imprisonnt Space, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch. He saw an old, white-haired man with no beard, dressed in a Dragon Robe. At that mont, the man was sitting upright on the Dragon Throne, with more than ten eunuchs kneeling below him!
"General Zhao has returned from Jiangnan?!" the old man in the Dragon Robe exclaid upon seeing Zhao Yuan. His eyes lit up with joy as he stood. His voice, however, held none of the dignity an emperor should possess. It was the shrill, grating voice of a eunuch.
"Long live Your Majesty, long may you reign!" Zhao Yuan dropped to one knee, tugging on Ning Xuan's arm just before he did.
Ning Xuan didn't move an inch.
"My loyal subject, where are the chosen maidens?" the old man asked, ignoring Ning Xuan and staring intently at Zhao Yuan.
"Your servant deserves death!" Zhao Yuan bowed low, his voice trembling. "They were detained by the Happy Forest."
"What?! The sheer audacity of the Happy Forest, daring to touch my won! Soone, guards…"
The mont the old man spoke, Zhao Yuan knew things were about to go wrong. He wanted to stop Ning Xuan, but it was already too late.
"You damned eunuch, you're not even a man, yet you're still lost in these grand daydreams! I have never seen anyone so shaless!" Ning Xuan shouted, pointing right at the old man's face.
"You… what did you say?" the old man stamred, looking at Ning Xuan in disbelief.
"I said you're a damned eunuch! And a twisted pervert! These n had no quarrel with you. It's bad enough you castrated them, but you also force them to kneel before you every day. Are you insane?!"
As soon as Ning Xuan spoke, all the kneeling n turned to look at him, their faces filled with gratitude. They were supposed to be enforcers! This Imprisonnt Space might have a rule that the strong preyed on the weak to beco stronger, but this eunuch's thods were simply too vile. By the ti they realized they had been castrated, an unknown amount of ti had already passed. A loophole in the rules had been exploited against them!
To make matters worse, the damned eunuch had a body as tough as bronze and iron. They couldn't lay a scratch on him. The more they fought, the more damnably excited the bastard beca. In the end, they despaired, compromised, and grew numb.
"You've got guts! Everyone here fears . It has been many years since I t a young man as courageous as you!" After being berated by Ning Xuan, the old eunuch surprisingly didn't get angry. Instead, he walked over, intending to pat Ning Xuan on the shoulder.
The kneeling enforcers all looked on with anxious faces.
"Dodge, quickly!" Zhao Yuan's telepathic voice urgently rang in Ning Xuan's ear.
Ning Xuan was just about to move.
"Heh heh…" The old eunuch chuckled, and then his hand landed on Ning Xuan's shoulder, patting it three tis.
It's over! Zhao Yuan slumped to the ground. He had once desperately wanted to see Ning Xuan crippled, but that was before. His opinion had truly changed during their journey here. At this mont, his heart was filled with imnse regret for bringing Ning Xuan to this place.
But just then, a voice cut through his despair. "I don't feel anything. Are you sure you did anything at all?"
Zhao Yuan looked up and saw the young man staring at the eunuch with a puzzled expression. The eunuch's face was a mask of disbelief as he suddenly seized Ning Xuan's wrist.
The next mont, the eunuch staggered back more than a hundred feet. He stared at Ning Xuan from the corner, his eyes filled with terror, and murmured, "Auspicious Earth Aura… It's actually the Auspicious Earth Aura…"
Ning Xuan himself couldn't help but feel a jolt of shock. This eunuch might be a pervert, but his strength was terrifyingly real. He could actually perceive the world-destroying Auspicious Earth within his body!
Zhao Yuan and the other enforcers dressed as eunuchs stared at Ning Xuan, their faces a picture of shock. They didn't know what Auspicious Earth Aura was, but they could all clearly see the absolute terror on the eunuch's face.
"My Lord, I, your humble servant, have waited so long for your arrival!"
The eunuch started to kneel, then suddenly rembered the Dragon Robe he was wearing. He fumbled to take it off, wanting to offer it to Ning Xuan but not daring to approach. Finally, with a THUD, he dropped to his knees. Holding the Dragon Robe high above his head, he began shuffling across the ground toward Ning Xuan. It looked for all the world like he intended to support Ning Xuan's ascension to the imperial throne!
Zhao Yuan and the others were even more astounded. Although the eunuch was imprisoned here, he had countless followers. With this single gesture, if Ning Xuan ever got out and reached the Emperor Capital, a single call to arms would have innurable people laying down their lives for him!
Ning Xuan's face darkened. "Stop right there! I have no interest in that thing!"
"Don't! Mister Ning, no, My Lord, please accept it!" Zhao Yuan's telepathic voice sounded again, far more urgent than before.
Ning Xuan shook his head.
"My Lord! This eunuch was once the Emperor's personal attendant! He was imprisoned here for trying to help Princess Ye Qingqing ascend to the throne! He commands legions of powerful experts. If you accept, they will all serve you!" Zhao Yuan was nearly delirious with excitent.
Before, hoping Ning Xuan would take him away was just an unrealistic fantasy. But now, if his lord accepted this, he was certain he could leave this place as soon as Ning Xuan got out! If that happened, he would beco a founding minister!
Unfortunately for him, Ning Xuan had other ideas.
"What the hell?! This eunuch committed a cri punishable by the execution of nine generations of his clan! Are you trying to get killed?!" Ning Xuan exclaid, utterly aghast.
He beca even more reluctant. He had little interest in the throne to begin with. Moreover, if this eunuch was so powerful and still couldn't succeed, then the Emperor he opposed must be even stronger! He wasn't stupid. Only an idiot would agree to this.
"My Lord, what the eunuch did was not rebellion, but an attempt to right a terrible wrong. Princess Ye Qingqing is the Emperor's legitimate daughter, but the current Emperor is an imposter, the result of a fraudulent swap for the true heir!" Zhao Yuan revealed after a mont of hesitation.
Ning Xuan was dumbfounded. "What did you say the princess's na was again?"
"Ye Qingqing. You should have already t her. Oh, and Master Zou—he's actually Ye Qingqing's teacher."
Holy hell! Ning Xuan was completely floored. He had originally assud the powerful Cultivators imprisoned in the Heavenly Principle Star Realm ca from different eras or even different planes of existence. As it turned out, the few he'd t were all from the sa place! Ye Qingqing, Master Zou, and now this eunuch… they were all part of the sa faction! And if each of them was so incredibly powerful yet still couldn't escape being imprisoned, just how strong was their enemy?!
Ning Xuan couldn't help but ask Zhao Yuan, "What is their background, exactly?"
Instead of answering, Zhao Yuan asked a question of his own. "Have you heard of the Big Dipper Star Domain?"
Ning Xuan grunted in affirmation. The Big Dipper Star Domain contained the Seven Realms. He not only knew of it, but he had also already visited two of them.
"The place they co from stands above the Big Dipper Star Domain! To be precise, once Ye Qingqing ascends to the throne, she will rule over the entire Big Dipper Star Domain!"
A tremor went through Ning Xuan's mind, and he was so stunned he exclaid aloud, "You're from the Chi Ming Dynasty?!"
These words weren't spoken telepathically. Ning Xuan had lost his composure because the most critical item needed for Sister ng Luo's revival was located within the Chi Ming Dynasty's Imperial Secret Vault.
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