The Emperor's heart is won, she sits on the Phoenix Throne! The Divine Physician's Eldest

The fire is soaring!

Smoke billowing!

This was Song Siyao's first impression of Hengshan Mountain as she stood at its foot.

Yokoyama has lost its original appearance.

A night breeze swept by, causing the flames to leap towards her. Song Si swayed several meters away, her hands burned.

At this time, a voice came from behind.

"Are you Princess Youfeng?"

Song Siyao turned around and saw several wounded imperial soldiers.

They were badly injured, with bandages wrapped around their heads and arms.

"Where is the prince?" Song Siyao asked.

"The prince and the others are all on the mountain. We were too badly injured, so the prince didn't let us go up the mountain," the soldier who had spoken earlier replied.

Another soldier added, "Today is the day we launch our final assault. Except for those of us who were too badly wounded, the rest of us went up the mountain with the prince. They hadn't been up the mountain for two hours when a fire suddenly broke out. By the time we got there, the fire was too big to put out or get up there."

Song Siyao looked at the soldiers; their faces were blackened, as if they had been fighting a fire.

"Where are your blankets? Bring me two." Song Siyao ordered.

"Princess, are you going up the mountain?" a soldier asked.

“Princess, you mustn’t! There’s only one path up the mountain, and it’s extremely narrow. The fire is too big; even if you were wrapped in a blanket, you couldn’t make it up,” a soldier advised.

These soldiers were all Shen Pei's men. Some of them had fought alongside Song Siyao in battle, so they greatly admired her.

"Get the blanket!" Song Siyao emphasized.

"Yes, princess."

These soldiers couldn't be persuaded, so they had no choice but to obey orders.

Soon, the soldiers brought two blankets.

Song Siyao threw the blanket into the river, and then she jumped into the river herself.

Soon, she came ashore. One of the blankets had already been placed in her Soul-Capturing Bracelet. She wrapped herself in the other blanket and rushed into the firelight.

"Princess!"

Several soldiers shouted and knelt down in unison, tears streaming down their faces.

They admired Song Siyao's bravery, selflessness, and righteousness.

Do you think the princess and the prince will be able to come back alive this time?

"I hope they can come back, but the fire is too big..."

"Let's go back and report to the Emperor, Princess and the Prince..."

Everyone knows the outcome, but they don't have the courage to say it.

Song Siyao rushed forward, wrapped in a wet blanket. When the blanket became scalding hot, she entered the Soul-Capturing Bracelet and changed to another blanket.

After alternating like this for an hour, Song Siyao finally reached the mountaintop.

Based on the normal route, it shouldn't have taken her that much time.

However, the already narrow mountain road was deliberately blocked by people.

In addition, the burnt trees in the middle slowed her down.

The fire spread from the foot of the mountain to the top.

At this moment, there was no fire on the mountaintop, only thick smoke.

Thick smoke filled the air, making it impossible to open one's eyes or breathe.

Shouts could be heard all around.

These bandits have gone mad with bloodlust. They no longer want to live, but they want to drag the imperial court down with them.

They swung their knives indiscriminately, sometimes even killing their own people.

Some were choked by the thick smoke after only a few cuts, collapsing to the ground and quickly losing their breath.

Song Siyao looked around, but she didn't see Shen Pei.

Unfamiliar with the mountaintop and unsure where to hide, she pulled over a soldier and asked, "Where is the prince?"

The soldier shook his head.

Song Siyao asked ten soldiers in a row, but none of them knew where Shen Pei had gone.

In the end, she had no choice but to start searching little by little.

She knew that Shen Pei would never abandon these soldiers to hide alone.

Another half hour passed, and a beam of light pierced the darkness, casting the first rays of dawn.

Song Siyao finally found Shen Pei in a corner on the mountaintop.

At this moment, Shen Pei was leading his soldiers to dig a tunnel.

"Shen Pei!"

Song Siyao shouted loudly; her voice was so penetrating that it drowned out the sound of the burning fire.

Upon hearing the sound, Shen Pei suddenly looked up, and their eyes met. They were both stunned.

Song Siyao knew that the person in front of her was Shen Pei.

But if you were to try to tell them apart by their faces, she wouldn't be able to.

The person in front of me was dressed entirely in black, as if he were covered in black soot.

Similarly, Song Siyao was seen in the same way by Shen Pei at this moment.

"Yaoyao?" Shen Pei couldn't believe that the person in front of him was Song Siyao.

However, his heart told him that the person in front of him was Song Siyao, whom he had been thinking about day and night.

He got up, rushed over, and hugged Song Siyao tightly.

"Yaoyao, when did you get here? The fire down below is so big, how did you get up the mountain?"

Shen Pei released Song Siyao, put his hands on her shoulders and asked.

"We just arrived yesterday, wrapped in blankets," Song Siyao asked Shen Pei. "You plan to dig a hole and hide inside, then come out after the fire burns the whole mountain down?"

“Yes, this is the only way to survive that we can think of right now,” Shen Pei said.

"No, the fire is too fierce. The temperature of the soil will be very high, and people hiding underneath won't be able to survive," Song Siyao disagreed.

"The third leader here said that there used to be an ice cellar under their house, but it was left unused for a long time, so they buried it. Now, if we dig from here, we can reach the ice cellar, and if we hide inside, we can escape this disaster," Shen Pei explained.

The third brother, who had overheard Shen Pei and Song Siyao's conversation, also came over and urged, "Dig quickly! If you don't dig now, we'll all die!"

"Why are you helping us?" Song Siyao asked.

"Because I wanted to live, I died before I could even dig this hole myself." The third brother wasn't telling the truth.

He wanted to live; he wanted to find out the cause of the fire.

This fire couldn't have been started by the imperial court; Shen Pei is still on the mountain, and they wouldn't dare burn him to death.

Similarly, the bandits of Hengshan all lived on the mountain, so this fire could not have been started by them.

Moreover, as the third-in-command, it's impossible that he was completely unaware of such a momentous decision as setting fire to the mountain and bringing about his own destruction.

"Dig!" Song Siyao chose to believe the third brother.

However, despite their speed, they were still no match for the raging fire.

Before the hole could be dug through, more and more people collapsed on the ground.

A look of despair crossed everyone's faces. The fire was getting closer and closer, and some houses were already on fire.

Will they all perish in this fire today?