No one knew why the exotic monsters appeared in this world.
Over a decade ago, the Fate Stone of the Holy City Palace suddenly emitted a dim light, foretelling an ominous fate for the royal family of Benchu. It predicted that there would be a great calamity for the Benchu royal family in their fate, which would begin to unfold ten years later. At that time, the evil forces would bring disaster to this ancient and powerful family. The royal family would face a great trial concerning life and death. The key to overcoming this calamity would be a human who possessed both the spiritual power of the Benchu royal family and the blessing of love from the mysterious fairy clan.
Presumably, the appearance of the exotic monsters two years ago marked the beginning of this calamity.
After receiving this prophecy, the Benchu royal family held urgent consultations and ultimately decided to have King Benchu Feng Mo request the hand of Princess Shizuru of the Purple Kingdom in marriage, hoping to bear a joint heir for both the Benchu and Zi royal families.
Members of the Benchu royal family were born with powerful spiritual powers. Among this generation, Kikyo and Zui Ai were particularly outstanding in their spiritual abilities. The various large and small spiritual barriers scattered throughout the royal palace were the masterpieces of successive generations of the Benchu royal family members. Kikyo and Zui Ai also guarded the forbidden area of the royal family, the entrance to the Mirage. The entrance to the Mirage connected the surface world of the Fantasy Continent with the inner world. The surface world was the peaceful world where people had lived for generations, which had already been developed to its fullest extent by the continent's people. The inner world of the Mirage, however, was a world full of unknowns. In history, a few members of the royal family had ventured there. Some returned successfully, while others remained there forever. Therefore, the secrets of the Mirage were almost unknown to anyone.
Like most residents of the Fantasy Continent, the Zi royal family did not possess as strong spiritual powers as the Benchu royal family. However, the ancestors of the Zi royal family had formed an alliance with the fairy clan that lived in seclusion on the Fantasy Continent. Every member of the Zi royal family would receive a loving blessing from the mysterious fairy clan at birth, to bless the royal family members with purity of heart, exceptional appearance, and peace and prosperity. Therefore, the Zi royal family was hailed as the naturally beloved family, the luckiest and most enviable family on the continent.
Shizuru had expressed doubts about this prophecy before. Was it possible that a member of the Benchu royal family had also received the blessing of love from the mysterious fairy clan?
"Hasn't there ever been a member of the Benchu royal family who has been blessed by the fairy clan? The little princesses were born in the Mirage, right?" After learning of Kimoon's true identity, Shizuru raised objections to Kikyo and Zui Ai. Shizuru had also attempted to save the fate of the two who were about to be separated, even though this hope was slim.
"Kimoon doesn't have any spiritual powers." Seeing through the intention behind Shizuru's question, Zui Ai explained to her.
It turned out that shortly after Kimoon was born, the Benchu royal family discovered that they could not sense any spiritual power from this baby. The Benchu royal family was born with powerful spiritual powers and took pride in it, gaining fame as a result. In history, there was only one traitor to the royal family who, like Kimoon, had no spiritual power. That person almost destroyed the entire royal family in the end. Since then, the ancestors of the royal family had left behind a prohibition: if another royal baby was born without any spiritual power, they would be executed without mercy.
When Kimoon was born, the rulers of the Kingdom of Light were the previous king and queen, who were also the parents of Zui Ai. Although the old king and queen cherished their youngest daughter the most, they were unwilling to defy the ancestors' command, but they could not deeply hurt their beloved youngest daughter. At the moment of hesitation, as if favored by heaven, the Fate Stone emitted guidance. As long as the bloodline of Kimoon's Benchu royal family was sealed, separating her from the royal family physically and psychologically, she could grow up normally like most people. Therefore, Zui Ai and Kikyo had to use their spiritual power to seal the bloodline of Kimoon within her. This was also a scene witnessed by Kimoon in Zui Ai's memories.
With the royal bloodline sealed, Kimoon became an ordinary person. She couldn't freely break through the various barriers set up in the palace, couldn't contract with the royal family's exclusive holy beasts, and couldn't activate any noble artifacts that required royal blood to activate. The royal family also concealed Kimoon's identity from the outside world. Ruo Pu, therefore, is the only daughter of Zui Ai.
Although Zui Ai loved this child in her heart, for Kimoon's future, Zui Ai still had to reluctantly place her alone in the Fallen Sword Palace, occasionally sneaking glances at the young Kimoon in secret. Kimoon was unaware of this and couldn't understand why her mother always seemed to dislike her and kept her distance.
Three years ago, to Zui Ai's surprise, she discovered two major secrets about Kimoon.
The first secret was that Kimoon's blood could actually break spiritual powers. Although a few people on the continent possessed various abilities, such as Zui Ai's ability to be immune to all toxins, the ability to break spiritual powers was extremely rare. It should be noted that most people on the continent possessed spiritual powers. Spiritual power was the foundation of survival for the people on the continent. Whether it was the intelligent high technology that supported the operation of the cities or the contracting with spiritual beasts, all of this more or less required spiritual power. If the fantasy continent lost its spiritual power, it would become a ruin. Therefore, the ability to break spiritual powers was terrifying and considered taboo. To this day, only a few people had possessed the same ability, and most of them had met unfortunate ends. Thinking of this, Zui Ai couldn't help but worry.
Fortunately, Kimoon's ability required her blood to be effective. Therefore, apart from Zui Ai, no one else had discovered this yet. Zui Ai also decided to keep it a secret for Kimoon's safety.
The other secret was that on the night of the royal wedding, Kimoon chose to end her own life. Perhaps due to the natural connection between mother and daughter, Zui Ai sensed that something had happened to Kimoon that night, so she hurried to Kimoon's side. But she was a little late.
By the time Zui Ai arrived, Kimoon was already in a state of near-death, her consciousness fading away, and most of her soul had dissipated. In order to save her beloved daughter, who she had always loved deeply but could not accompany in life, Zui Ai, driven by maternal love and in desperation, used an ancient forbidden technique. Zui Ai transferred one-third of her own soul and a large amount of spiritual blood to Kimoon in haste. To increase Kimoon's chances of survival, Zui Ai cast a "perpetual" curse or spell on her. Anyone under this curse could not die voluntarily. Moreover, whenever there was a threat of death, the cursed person would act in ways beneficial to survival, regardless of their own will. Even if, this action would bring about unbearable consequences.
Kimoon ultimately survived, inheriting some of Zui Ai's soul, Zui Ai's spiritual blood, Zui Ai's curse or spell, and thus her fate became united with Zui Ai's: if one of them were to die, the other would also die.