The guards held the stone and protected the emperor. "Your Majesty, Lord Fu and his men are highly skilled in martial arts. We can't stop them at all! Besides, the capital is on fire. Why not put this matter aside for now?"
The emperor leaned forward, kicked him, and angrily shouted, "I don't care. Even if I die, I must see the bodies of the Fu family before I die! I must!"
The guards dared not say anything more, but their faces showed obvious impatience, "Your Majesty! You should save your life first!"
The emperor clenched his fists, looked at the fiery red sky, and said to himself with gritted teeth: "I will tear the entire Fu family into pieces!"
His words were filled with reluctance and anger. At this moment, a streak of red light flashed across the sky again.
An eunuch came running outside the rockery, "Your Majesty, something bad has happened! Outside... outside..."
The emperor asked sternly, "What happened outside?"
The eunuch stared with eyes wide open and filled with fear, trembling, "Your Majesty! Fire! The flint is coming again..."
Before he could finish his words, a blinding light shone in from the window, followed by a loud bang!
A huge flint was seen smashing a huge sinkhole on the outskirts of the capital. The magnificent palace was shaking wildly, and a fierce fire instantly spread to all parts of the city!
The emperor covered his ears in panic, trembling and shouting at the top of his lungs: "Someone! Quick! Quickly protect the carriage!"
However, by this time, the palace maids, eunuchs, and concubines had already fled everywhere, and even the guards turned into bandits and searched the palace.
In the huge palace, there were only two guards and a young eunuch left by his side.
As the flames in the palace burned fiercely, heart-wrenching screams echoed in the air.
The emperor, the supreme ruler, trembled as he heard the terrifying shouts. He gritted his teeth and curled up into a ball like a wolf. "It seems that the heaven is going to kill me! The heaven is going to kill me!"
He roared and suddenly sat paralyzed on the ground.
The Chu Mansion and the Prime Minister's Mansion outside the Imperial Palace had been burned to ashes, and the people inside were either dead or escaped. It was likely that the two families could not even fit a table of people.
The fire in the capital burned all night. The next morning, there was the only heavy rain in the next few years. The fire was put out and the emperor slowly woke up from the rockery.
He looked at the fires all around him and was overjoyed. "That's great! I'm not going to die!"
However, he was too happy too soon, as a firestorm destroyed not only the capital, but also his supreme throne.
The entire Dayong Kingdom fell apart after the Flint Incident, with some prefecture governors declaring themselves kings, and no one would call him the emperor anymore.
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