Breaking the Curse

"Our tribe was a tribe cursed in ancient times. There were over a thousand people in the tribe, and every single one of them was female. There were no men."

"Ah?"

Hua Qiang could not help crying out in surprise.

"All women, no men, then..."

He did not say the rest aloud, but how could someone as clever as Zi Furong fail to understand?

"Young Master wishes to ask how we reproduce, right?"

"Ahem!"

Hua Qiang coughed twice, then scratched his head.

"Our tribe has a spring called Twin Springs, also known as Yin Yang Spring."

"If any woman in the tribe wanted a child, she only needed to soak in that spring for a while. Once she returned, she would become pregnant."

"However, the children born were still daughters. For hundreds of years, not a single person had ever given birth to even one boy."

Hua Qiang could not help drawing in a sharp breath. Damn, this was far too mystical.

Wasn't this the legendary Daughter Kingdom?

Zi Furong opened the floodgates, as if she had finally found someone to confide in, and continued chattering away.

"Not only were all of us women, with no men among us, but our lives were also cursed. Every moment, we lived beneath the ticking countdown of time."

"We had to go out and hunt Time Beasts. Only by killing Time Beasts could we obtain time and prolong our lives."

"Right now, the longest lifespan among everyone in our tribe was only one month. As for us in the combat unit, we generally had only one week—seven days—of life left."

"If we failed to hunt Time Beasts and could not replenish our time..."

"We could only die one by one when our time ran out. And the old, weak, women, and children in