Chapter 115: Heavenly Secrets

“That’s enough, Little Ya.”

Miss Vilyric raised her hand, and an invisible sp spread out, perfectly sealing off the wild pressure released by the ferocious beast, ensuring it didn’t reach the area where the Taotie was suspected to reside.

Hearing her voice, Ya Zi nodded slightly, immediately retracting its aura and transforming back into the form of a golden-haired cute dog, suppressing its wild intent that could bring disaster and breed evil demons around.

No wonder they were so cautious; after all, this place was key to sealing the Taotie. Various signs indicated that the seal here was not entirely secure. If a small oversight awakened the chaotic beast, it would make their previous efforts go to waste, which would be a huge loss.

Regardless of whether Miss Vilyric was confident in dealing with that creature, just from its displayed size, once a battle broke out, both sides would likely bring unimaginable disasters upon this place and the surrounding Cangyun Mountain.

Not to mention, she still didn’t have much understanding of that creature.

Ya Zi slowly retreated, returning to the side of the black-haired girl.

【My Lord, please be careful. This woman is not as simple as she appears. It seems she hides some immense mysterious power within her body, only dormant for now.】

“Mm, I’ll be careful. Thank you, Little Ya, you can go back now.”

【…Yes, just call for me if you need anything.】

With the light retracting, the golden giant dog gradually disappeared within the magic circle, leaving only the figures of the two girls.

After a brief silence, it was the other party who spoke first this time.

“My name is Hen, and I am currently the Spirit Princess of the Western Spirit Kingdom. What’s your name?”

“Vilyric.”

“Vilyric… I see.”

Contemplating those words, Hen turned away again, gazing up at that part of the Taotie’s body, her voice still flat and calm, drifting along with the hot wind from the ground.

“You should have many questions in mind right now.”

Recalling what she had seen and heard since arriving in the Ancient Spirit Realm, Miss Vilyric nodded and stepped close to her, standing shoulder to shoulder without reservation.

“Then, can you enlighten me?”

The silver-haired girl revealed a faint smile.

“I exist for just that purpose.”

…

That is… another version of the story.

One that is both similar and utterly different from what anyone who has interacted with this Spirit Princess from He Zhu or any other source has heard.

Seven years ago, a meteor fell from the sky, bringing a newborn girl named Hen to the Ancient Spirit Realm, where a pair of ordinary couples from Xiyuan County’s Xinghu Village picked her up in the mountains and took her home.

But what they didn’t know was that from the very beginning, Hen had already seen everything.

Hen’s consciousness awakened in a cocoon of silver light; upon opening her eyes, she saw that young couple cautiously approaching from afar, observing, touching, and gently holding her, communicating in a language she couldn’t comprehend.

All of this, the newborn infant Hen remembered clearly.

Yet at that moment, Hen was just a blank slate. She possessed a clarity of consciousness, logical thinking, and judgment unmatched for an infant, but could find no memories to draw from in her mind. She didn’t know who she was, what she should do, or why she was there.

So, she did nothing and could do nothing, merely letting that couple take her home and care for her.

In that “home,” Hen spent about four years.

Soon, she discovered her body was like a massive vortex, constantly absorbing the invisible spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Hen was unclear what that meant and could not control it, so she simply let it be.

As this process continued, she changed at an astonishing speed. Besides her rapidly growing body, disjointed memories began to gradually surface in her mind.

Those were fragments of “memories,” wrapped in some mysterious information she still couldn’t understand.

Hen did not tell anyone about these things, not even her nominal parents or older sister. She spent four years deepening her understanding of this world through everything she could touch around her, learning its language, culture, and history.

She pushed herself as much as she could, even though she didn’t know why she was doing it, a vague sense of urgency persisted in urging her to hurry.

Hurry, hurry!

Time… was running out.

So, on a certain day of the fourth year, she heard words like “Innate Spirit Body,” and “Spirit Princess” from a high-ranking official who traveled from afar to assess her due to her “prodigy” talent.

Though Hen didn’t fully grasp what they meant, she could guess there was a huge correlation to the various peculiarities her body had exhibited since childhood. The teenage Hen wanted to ask further, but that official merely cautioned her not to run around indiscriminately and hurried away.

Hen had a feeling that the official would bring about great change for her.

Sure enough, not long after, the official returned with a large group of strong individuals reportedly from the Kyoto “Yin Yang Office,” and officially informed Hen and her parents about her situation.

The specific details need not be elaborated, but in short, they hoped she would become the latest generation of Spirit Princess of the Western Spirit Kingdom, promising her many, many benefits to get her to agree.

Hen didn’t actually care about the so-called status, fame, and wealth mentioned. What surprised her more was another matter.

In the scene where the official formally extended the invitation, Hen realized she had seen it among those gradually surfacing fragmented memories!

Of course, “seen” is a very vague description; to be precise, she had a premonition of this situation arising, or rather had a slight déjà vu about it.

Though still unclear, looking at the official’s sincere expression urging her to take on the role of Spirit Princess, an inexpressible realization surfaced in her heart, immediately clarifying for Hen what the best choice would be.

A month later, the Spirit Kingdom officially announced to the world that the new generation of Spirit Princess had been born according to heavenly will, and under the auspices of the current Holy Monarch Yuanfeng, she was formally inaugurated in a ceremony.

Hen thus seamlessly became the Spirit Princess, which she felt was one of the most crucial tasks she needed to fulfill from those fragmented memories.

After becoming the Spirit Princess, Hen moved with her family to Kyoto under the protection of the Yin Yang Office, and began learning the knowledge and skills that matched her position in a more favorable environment.

With the support of an entire nation, the girl’s growth accelerated tremendously, as the palaces and meals specially reserved for Spirit Princesses, along with a high-concentration spiritual power cultivation environment designed to assist her so-called “Innate Spirit Body,” could almost be said to be tailor-made for her.

The completion of her knowledge reserves and many secrets only comprehensible to Spirit Princesses gradually allowed her to understand many previously incomprehensible fragments of her memory.

Those memories became clearer and clearer; Hen began to comprehend their essence from the source, gaining insight into many issues.

That was the “Heavenly Secrets.”

   

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