Zuan gasped, feeling a chill between his legs. He instinctively reached out to cover himself. "Brother Ribi, this is really too tragic. I'll probably have to change my name from now on."

Not to mention him, everyone in the room subconsciously clenched their legs, even the eunuchs Xiao Xu and Xiao He swallowed hard, the scene before them reminding them of the time they were castrated.

Back then, there was a lot of preparation before the castration. You had to go without water for several days, live in a warm silkworm house, and have the knife sterilized. Some people with money could bribe others to drink some anesthetic to make themselves feel less pain. Even so, everyone was in so much pain that they couldn't take care of themselves.

But this Shi Kun in front of me is completely unprepared for castration, and he didn't scream at all from beginning to end. What a real man!

No, this guy will never be able to be a man again.

Shi Kun's face was as pale as paper, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down his face. It wasn't that he didn't want to scream, but that he was in so much pain that he didn't have the strength to cry out.

This pain is not only physical, but also spiritual.

You should know that the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife can injure a person's soul!

Shi Kun could feel that something was missing in his mind at that moment, and he understood that he probably wouldn't be able to make any further progress on his cultivation path.

The worst part is that he also hurt Jill; he's no longer a man.

If it were Zu An who did it, with his family's power, he might have been able to bring the other party to pay with their life. But unfortunately, it was the Crown Princess who did it...

The thought of having to swallow this bitter pill filled him with pain and anger. He rolled his eyes and fainted.

"What are you all playing at? Why is this happening..." Bi Linglong was also a little confused. She knew that Shi Kun had a special identity and was not someone who could be dealt with casually. Now that he had suffered such serious injuries in front of the Crown Prince, it was easy to cause turmoil in the court and the country if she was not careful.

Everyone stared at him with strange looks, but the Crown Prince, oblivious to everything, laughed and said, "He was just behind the door brandishing a knife, and then you suddenly opened the door and stabbed him right in the back. Didn't you hear the sound of the knife piercing flesh?"

Bi Linglong: "..."

When she said that, she seemed to have vaguely heard a similar sound, but she was too angry to care about that at the time.

She was going crazy. What kind of situation was this? And she, the Crown Princess, had actually castrated a man with her own hands. If this got out, people might misunderstand and imagine all sorts of scenarios.

Zu An coughed and then spoke up, "This is not the Crown Princess's fault. Even if she hadn't come in, he would have been injured there. He and I made a bet with Heaven as our witness. Life and death are preordained and no one can be blamed. If the Crown Princess hadn't come in and continued according to the bet, he might have died here on the spot. In a way, the Crown Princess saved his life."

At this moment, Xiao Xu and Xiao He chimed in, "Hmph, the debt we just wrote down can be settled so quickly. We can't afford to offend anyone but us eunuchs!"

Bi Linglong finally came to her senses and even found Zu An much more pleasing to the eye. She hurriedly said, "Ahem, someone, quickly summon the imperial physicians... uh, send him directly to the Imperial Hospital and make sure they treat him with the best medicine."

Seeing a man bleeding down there is really disturbing; it's better to just not see it and not be bothered.

After Shi Kun was carried away, Bi Linglong obviously had no mind to blame the Crown Prince anymore. Instead, she was anxious for the eunuchs and guards present to find out the details. At the same time, she also wanted to make sure that these people told the same story so as not to make the Shi family resent them.

On the contrary, Zaun seemed to be a free man, staying in one place alone and ignored by everyone.

He glanced at the throwing knives lying on the ground; clearly, the Crown Prince had secretly tossed them aside out of fear of being scolded by the Crown Princess.

He picked it up out of curiosity; in fact, he had sensed the extraordinary nature of these throwing knives from the very beginning.

Given his current strength and recovery ability, even a Heavenly-level divine weapon shouldn't pose such a great threat to him.

Shi Kun's experience just now proves everything. After all, he is a sixth-rank expert. Even if he was injured there, he wouldn't be in so much pain that he would faint.

At that moment, he seemed unable to speak; the pain seemed to be directed not only at his body but also at his soul.

He reached out and touched the flying blade; a chilling sensation emanating from it made his soul extremely uncomfortable.

The path of cultivation begins with tempering the physical body with the primordial energy of heaven and earth. Only when one reaches the level of a grandmaster will one begin to perceive the tempering of the soul.

Only through rigorous physical tempering from the first to the ninth grade can the physical body become strong enough to withstand the consumption and power of the divine soul.

However, this does not mean that there is no soul below the Grandmaster level. The soul has always been there. The Grandmaster simply manifests the soul so that it can attack the enemy.

For cultivators below the Grandmaster level, their souls are invisible and intangible, yet they are there nonetheless.

If a person's spirit is damaged, it means that he is destined to have no future on the path of cultivation.

The thought that Shi Kun would use such a vicious thing against him made his expression turn cold. The other party had harmed himself in the end and deserved it.

Seeing that no one was paying attention, he secretly stored the set of throwing knives into the Glazed Pearl. Although this thing was insidious, it was definitely a precious magic weapon, and he might need it in the future.

He had just noticed that the throwing knives had faint patterns of the characters "Slaying Immortals" on them.

Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife?

Zu An was taken aback. He remembered that in the world of Investiture of the Gods, there was a Taoist named Lu Ya, whose most proficient magic weapon was the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife.

However, he immediately shook his head. Although these throwing knives were powerful, they were clearly not the same as the mythical flying knife that could slay gods and demons.

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