PHOENIX BLOOD

"My King, the prince will be able to manifest his power, and avert this calamity, he need to undergo three test. 'These test are to check, and help him become a good leader.

'If he failed this test, then My King this land will face calamity. And the Royal household will face the consequences.

"Minister Xiang, I believe this test will prevent this outcome from happening, No? And how soon does he have to take this test? "Jia will surely go mad if she hears this.

"Replying to his Majesty, these three tests include, intelligence, death, and love.

"Intelligence, death, and love. Minister Xiang's what do mean?

'Your Majesty, the prince should know the knowledge on how to rule his people.

'He should be able to have his thinking, without being manipulated.

"That I agree. What about death, how can my Son take this test.

"My King, the Prince should be invisible to death.

"Haha, Minister Xiang isn't this too much, how can someone overcome death.

I think the gods are setting him for failure. 'Sigh, this is too much.

"Your Majesty, because the gods know that humans will never be invisible to death, that why he needs a helper, to help him overcome this test.

"The person with the Phoenix blood.

"At the mention of Phoenix blood, the King got alert.

'It is said that whoever possesses it will become someone powerful.

"Someone close to an immortal.

'It said that during the Yang dynasty, the King became sick, so sick that none of the Royal and local doctors were unable to heal the King.

"Until there was a rumor of a young girl who healer.

'They said She can heal all kinds of sickness.

'Then she was summoned to the Palace. And within one week the King was cured.

'Witnesses prove that it was phoenix blood, that heal the King.

'After that, she was rewarded with a title of a Queen.

The King became powerful, so powerful that with every battle they fought, they won.

'With the Queen by his side, the King became invisible to humans and death. They were the idle couple that everyone looks up to.

'The Queen was warrior, For She heals all kinds of sickness. She became the anchor to a prosperous Yang empire.

"But..... the King sigh, She was betrayed and plot against by her husband.

"The proud and greedy King saw his wife as a threat. 'He felt worried that he will lose his power over the people to his Queen.

"Then he decided to have a Concubines wife, to have her Children compete with the Queen. 'But the Queen never saw that as a threat, instead, She welcomed them.

'Her kindness was praised throughout the land.

The people began to worship her, For she was the Woman that welcomed her husband's concubines with open arms.

She loved her husband so much that she's willing to accept every changed her husband made.

Her loyalty to her husband remains the same. The warrior Queen continues to go to war and won every one of them.

'This leads the King to take drastic action, to poison his mother, the Queen dowager. He knew his mother was against the idea of killing his wife. She was ready to send a message to his wife about his plan to kill her, on her arrival to the capital. A quick poison, that won't let the Queen dowager last the three days remaining.

The evil King knew that his wife won't be able to reach her at that time. And it was a perfect plan to accuse his wife of murdering his Mother.

The Queen tries to reach on time but it was too late. She knew her husband was selfish but to go to extend of killing his mother for power was beyond her expectation.

She felt angry and betrayed, that upon her death she cursed her husband, that he will never find love and sons will kill him for power just as he does his mother.

'But the evil King was not satisfied even after killing his wife. He asks for his wife's blood to be drained dry of her lifeless body, for his use.

"But even after her death, the people continue to sing praises of her reigning days. Because of his action, he loses the trust and loyalty of his people.

'He was enraged that even he had killed her, her shadow remains in the mind of the people. So he made a Royal decree, that whoever says the name or sings a praise song of the Queen will be put to death.

'Her name became a taboo in the entire Yang empire.