Offering herself

She was twenty-eight now and had only recently taken the throne. The previous king of her clan had been murdered not long ago.

She had been pushed onto the throne.

The Snow Kingdom was ruled by a clan. Its talented children had gu worms implanted in them from an early age and cultivated day and night in the hope of growing stronger.

In truth, even if they achieved success in cultivation, they were still nothing more than the Lineage's puppets.

The previous king, her elder brother, had been killed because he refused to obey.

And Ye Xueqing might follow in her brother's footsteps.

The clan elders had wanted to issue a royal edict through the monarch, requiring all citizens of the Snow Kingdom to be cremated after death. Their stated reason was that corpses were easily infected.

Not long ago, a kind of mutant had wandered out of the forest, infecting even corpses buried underground.

Although the Snow Kingdom had worked hard to eliminate those mutants, the clan elders had still insisted on enforcing the edict.

Ye Xueqing knew the elders had wanted to do this for a long time. They had only held back because they lacked an opportunity and feared a fierce backlash from the people.

Later, they had seized on the mutant crisis to push it through.

Moreover, every deceased citizen had to be cremated at facilities established by the Snow Kingdom's court.

But what the families received was not ashes at all. It was a special powder. The actual bodies were transported away for an evil cult to practice evil techniques.

According to her brother,

Their clan elders had become involved with a group of evil sects. Those people had somehow obtained a resource that could improve cultivation and were trading it with the Ye Clan.