Invitation

Gongye Mingchan's connection to the Western Continent Imperial Dynasty stemmed from Consort Chen.

Back when Fu Xuanhe and his wife had searched the Western Continent for his younger sister's soul pearl, they had unexpectedly discovered that Consort Chen, one of the Sage Emperor's two favored consorts, was Gongye Mingchan's niece. She was also the youngest daughter of Xuanhe Kingdom's late crown prince.

Forty thousand years ago, Gongye Mingchan's family suffered a cataclysmic upheaval. Her parents and elder brothers all died in battle. She herself had pulled along a pair of nephews and nieces while acting as regent. Later, once her nephews had grown somewhat and could barely handle affairs, she had led the kingdom's female army to support the Southern Continent. There, together with fellow cultivators from the other two continents, she had been betrayed from behind by the Southern Continent's ancestors, and her soul had fallen in a foreign land.

As for Xuanhe Kingdom, it ultimately failed to resolve the demonic calamity and met its doom.

Yet Gongye Mingchan's nephew had indeed deserved to be called Xuanhe Kingdom's last master of sealing arts. As the ruler of a fallen kingdom, he decisively placed his hopes in the future. At the cost of his life, he sealed Xuanhe Kingdom's legacy within the Ice Palace treasury.

There it would remain, awaiting the day when the demonic disaster had been extinguished and someone came to awaken it.

The years flowed on, while nations across the Western Continent rose and fell one after another.

In the end, the young Sage Emperor found Xuanhe Kingdom's treasury.

Within that treasury, the most important and precious legacy was an ice-sealed princess and three hundred citizens.

At the time, the Sage Emperor had merely been the heir of an aristocratic family in a small kingdom. Through Xuanhe