Shocking! The female protagonist unlocked her powers by killing people!

"Fine, since you want to stay, I'll stay with you." After arguing for a while, Yan Wuxin said, "Anyway, I can't leave you here alone."

Seeing that Yan Wuxin refused to leave, Mu Shengyuan wanted to ask Ling Yi to take him away. But when he looked, he found that Ling Yi had disappeared.

"Ling Yi?" Mu Shengyuan looked around and called out, "Ling Yi?"

Yan Wuxin then realized that Ling Yi was missing and murmured, "No way?"

Yan Wuxin liked Ling Yi quite a bit. She genuinely felt that Ling Yi wasn't the kind of person who would be afraid of death and leave alone at a time like this, but reality was indeed like that, leaving Yan Wuxin conflicted.

If it were anyone else, Yan Wuxin would feel disgusted when she discovered that the other person was afraid of dying and left without saying a word. But she just couldn't feel any disgust towards Ling Yi. Her eyes told her that Ling Yi had just left them first, but her mind kept telling her that Ling Yi didn't seem like that kind of person.

Ironically, Yan Wuxin didn't know why he trusted Ling Yi so much.

"Stop shouting, she should be gone by now." Yan Wuxin looked at Mu Shengyuan: "Ling Yi is gone, are you really not leaving?"

Mu Shengyuan shook his head again: "I can't leave."

It's normal for Ling Yi to leave since she can't deal with the Ghost Vine Tree, but as a princess of the Southern Kite Empire, she absolutely cannot leave easily.

She was now useless; her only purpose was to buy time for others to evacuate.

Thinking of this, Mu Shengyuan looked at the soldiers and said, "You all retreat immediately. Tell those people outside to retreat as quickly as possible, the farther away the better!"

"Princess!" The soldiers were reluctant to leave. "How can we abandon you?"

Mu Shengyuan said coldly, "This is an order. Since you still acknowledge me as a princess, then follow the order. If you don't acknowledge me as a princess, then you don't have to obey my orders."

"This..." The soldiers were in a dilemma, of course they believed that Mu Shengyuan was the princess.

Finally, the squad leader spoke up: "Follow the princess's orders, retreat!"

The soldiers had no choice but to take one last look at Mu Shengyuan and then leave.

Once the soldiers withdrew, only Yan Wuxin and Mu Shengyuan remained at Changsheng Lake. The two looked at the Ghost Vine Tree and found that it had regained control, and the aura of the Strange Wood Spirit Source was weakening.

Still too weak.

Yan Wuxin looked at Mu Shengyuan: "What are you going to do now?"

Mu Shengyuan looked at the Ghost Vine Tree with a cold expression: "If we let it leave this place, countless people will die. We must not let it leave this place."

Yan Wuxin said, "This is the Spring Kingdom, not the Southern Kite Empire. You don't need to..."

“Sister Xin Xin.” Mu Shengyuan interrupted Yan Wuxin and looked at her seriously, saying, “The Spring Kingdom is dependent on the Southern Kite Empire, so the Southern Kite Empire has a responsibility to protect it. As the princess of the Southern Kite Empire, I have this responsibility.”

Yan Wuxin couldn't refute it; if such a thing happened in the Western Yan Empire or a small country under its jurisdiction, they would also take action.

She understood and comprehended Xiaoyuan's thoughts, but everyone has selfishness. When it happened to her best friend, she didn't realize it was happening to herself, so she wanted to protect her best friend.

"I understand," Yan Wuxin said. "What do you want to do?"

Mu Shengyuan didn't answer, because she didn't know how to destroy the tree either.

She didn't know how to destroy the Ghost Vine Tree, but she did know what kind of disaster the Ghost Vine Tree would bring to the Spring Kingdom if it left.

"Born with green eyes, it's an ancestral inheritance!"

"The spirit source of the strange wood is truly a reappearance of the ancestral bloodline!"

"The princess will surely inject new and continuous vitality into our Southern Kite Empire!"

"The princess will surely be able to expand our territory and lead our Southern Kite Empire to become stronger and stronger, just like the legendary ancestors!"

"Your Majesty, please bestow upon the Imperial Daughter the title of Crown Princess!"

The Southern Kite Empire has many princesses, but there will only be one Crown Princess. The Crown Princess will become the next Empress. Once she becomes Empress, she will no longer be able to focus on cultivation, but will have to devote more of her energy to the empire.

Empress Nan Yuan understood this better than anyone else, which is why she was unwilling to choose Mu Shengyuan as the Crown Princess. However, Mu Shengyuan was born with green eyes and was recognized by his subjects as the reincarnation of his ancestor's bloodline. Since he was of the ancestor's bloodline, he could naturally be like his ancestor, managing both cultivation and state affairs.

The appointment of Mu Shengyuan as Crown Princess is the will of the subjects and the people.

This situation reached its peak when Mu Shengyuan tested his unique wood spirit source at the age of three.

Empress Nan Yuan was not only Mu Shengyuan's mother, but also the ruler of all people. In the end, the people triumphed over her daughter, and Mu Shengyuan became the Crown Princess.

The Crown Princess is more noble than the other princes and princesses, but she also has a harder time. Since the discovery of the strange wood spirit source, Mu Shengyuan has hardly had any rest during the day. At night, she can finally spend time with her mother, but what her mother tells her is the way of the subject and the heart of the people.

She not only had to cultivate herself, but also learn the ways of ruler and subject. Everyone placed high hopes on her, nurturing her to become a powerful being like their ancestor.

Later, one day while practicing magic, she couldn't control it well. The teacher in charge of teaching her was very strict with her. Seeing that she couldn't control it well, he said in a stern and disappointed tone, "How can you be so dull when you are a person whose ancestral bloodline has been restored?"

The constant exhaustion, the infrequent time spent with his mother, the teacher's punishments, and the verbal abuse caused five-year-old Mu Shengyuan to shed tears for the first time.

That day, the Empress happened to come to check on her cultivation progress. When she saw Mu Shengyuan crying, she knew that Mu Shengyuan was her own child, so she did not blame her but gently comforted her. It was a mother's love for her child, but this love became the reason for the ministers to rebuke the Empress.

It is said that the Empress's excessive pampering of the Crown Princess will eventually cause the Crown Princess to become increasingly weary of her cultivation.

Was Mu Shengyuan wrong? No, she was not wrong.

Was the Empress wrong? A mother, out of love for her child, softened her stance just once, so why was she attacked by her ministers?

Were the subjects wrong? From their perspective, they were absolutely loyal to Mu Shengyuan, who possessed the bloodline of their ancestors. Their harsh treatment of Mu Shengyuan was also in the hope that Mu Shengyuan could become as powerful as their ancestors. From this point of view, they were not wrong.

It's not wrong for the people to hope that Mushengyuan will be as powerful as their ancestors and protect the empire.

If no one is wrong, then in this situation, someone has to back down.

To help Mu Shengyuan cultivate properly, his teacher secretly showed him the ministers rebuking the Empress. From that moment on, Mu Shengyuan resolved to cultivate diligently and learn the ways of the ruler and his subjects.

After crying once when she was five years old, she never cried again, no matter how hard or tiring it was. In fact, in order not to worry her mother and other brothers and sisters, she usually acted like a naughty child, and no one would think she was tired.

But isn't she tired?

Tired, so tired.

After the initial shock of becoming a useless person subsided, Mu Shengyuan even thought that it was alright, at least he wouldn't have to work so hard anymore.

Upon seeing the Ghost Vine and learning the calamity it would bring to the Spring Kingdom, she knew she couldn't let go of it.