Chapter: 792

In the Demonic Cult, those who died or were killed were said to turn into ashes of sanctification.

It was the belief of the Demonic Cult, that those who returned to ashes, would be reborn as time passed.

“At that time, by the orders of the Great Lord, we studied the Qilin’s Core and searched for ways to take away its Blood.”

Since the Imperial Palace was interested in the Qilin as well, the both of them had joined forces and proceeded with the research, but no useful results had been found.

There were those who’d taken in the blood, but had died after being unable to handle the flame energy.

“My colleagues at the time had said that the flame energy was too dangerous for a female body to withstand, and they held me back from taking in even a small quantity of blood for testing.”

As a result, Ran-yeong ended up being the only one who had survived after eighty years.

Her voice trembled as she spoke about that time, and she took a deep breath before continuing.

“Once my colleagues turned into ashes of sanctification... ha, I had such a terribly lonely time.”

She had meditated and achieved peace, but as she grew old, she realized that there wasn’t much time left for her to live. It caused her to come up with an idea.

Since she had already started counting her last breaths, she could now test the Qilin’s Blood and see for herself how it felt.

“Since the Emperor was interested in the Qilin’s Blood as well, we were able to extinguish the flames to an extent with the use of ten thousand year old snow.”

Testing out the Qilin’s Blood was her last resort. Surprisingly, she had actually succeeded in absorbing the fire for the first time.

Consuming the Qilin’s Blood had caused her to regain her youthly beauty after undergoing metamorphosis.

“As my body succeeded in absorbing the energy, I began looking for a way to utilize the Qilin’s Blood.”

“The palace must have shown interest.”

“Yes. But it didn’t just stop with showing interest.”

All their attempts to use the Qilin’s Blood had failed.

They couldn’t handle the flame energy even from the diluted Qilin’s Blood.

“So you tested it on the women of the Imperial Palace?”

“Right. But before that... I made up a lie.”

“A Lie?”

Ran-yeong had figured out that the diluted blood could be consumed by the female warriors, but to prevent the warriors from trying to hoard the blood, she had lied to the Emperor.

“In order to absorb the Qilin’s Blood successfully the women couldn’t have any internal energy.”

“Hoo!”

The Emperor had no choice but to believe the words of the woman who had succeeded in absorbing the Qilin’s Blood.

The Emperor had already lost a lot of skilled male warriors because of his greed.

“There were a few martial arts users in the Imperial Palace who used internal energy, but a thousand court ladies who had no energy.”

And like that the Imperial Palace’s Guardians had been made entirely of court ladies.

Thud!