Because Pei Ye's ability to control fire had already been displayed to the city observers on a rainy night at West Pond, Yu Sicheng never showed his own flames as the Imperial Envoy when facing him, since it would be like handing weapons to the enemy.
Therefore, Li Xizhou never thought that those fire embers did not come from the opponent but from the "Mercury Floating Raft" itself.
The "Mercury Floating Raft" was never afraid of fire.
On that fragment, aside from the fire... there was only blood left.
The same bloodline as hers.
That made complete sense.
"Sin Scale stained with blood, Mercury Floating Raft will mend," this mystical body from the Yang Yi Tower and Guo You, known as the "Mercury Floating Raft," had only one rule: it must not harm the Empress.
And that day, the Yongbei Spear that emerged from the Mingyue Palace was stained with her mother's fresh blood.
Yu Sicheng never realized this even as he fell in defeat that day.
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