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"Yes, Your Majesty!" The Imperial Guard general responded loudly, stood up, and forcefully waved his arm at the soldier in charge of lighting the fire.

The next second—

"call out--!!!"

The first launch tube suddenly shuddered violently, spewing out a thick plume of dark gray smoke from its bottom, while streaks of dark red light shot into the night sky with a sharp whooshing sound!

"Bang--!!!"

Then it exploded!

The sound was extremely loud, echoing through the silent palace gardens, making people's eardrums buzz. Some nearby civil officials even instinctively covered their ears.

In the night sky, a ball of fire, about the size of a washbasin and dark reddish-black in color, burst open.

Immediately afterwards—

"Whoosh—Bang!!"

"Whoosh—Bang!!"

……

The twelve "heavenly fires" were all released in just a few dozen breaths.

The night sky was once again filled with darkness and the light of palace lanterns, leaving only the increasingly acrid smell of gunpowder slowly dissipating, and the lingering buzzing in everyone's ears.

The usual smile on the face of the Western Regions envoy, Ussuri, vanished instantly, his eagle eyes fixed on the night sky, his pupils contracting.

The continuous explosions, the blinding flashes of light, the acrid smell of gunpowder...

As expected of Ye Fan! Even though he's gone, what he left behind is still so... troublesome!

It seems that although this empress is not a threat, the matter of attacking the Great Flame still needs to be carefully considered.

Standing on the high ground, Shu Jingwei took in the reactions of everyone below.

The courtiers were genuinely excited and full of praise, the military officers were thrilled with pride, and the envoys, in particular, could no longer hide the solemnity, apprehension, and even a hint of fear on their faces...

Shu Jingwei nodded in satisfaction, finally feeling some of the anger she had been holding in.

She even adopted a victorious air, casting her gaze once more upon the high-hanging sky—

You all saw it! The power of my Great Flame's "Heavenly Fire"!

Lin Ye!

you!

Are you scared?!

……

On the sky, Lin Ye had no idea what she was thinking.

Even if they knew, they would just scoff and laugh. A few firecrackers, who are they trying to scare?

and--

This is probably what God has chosen for me—a constitution that gets slapped.

Lin Ye glanced at the smoke from the extinguished "firecracker" and the smug look on Shu Jingwei's face.

My lips twitched involuntarily.

This scumbag woman actually set off firecrackers right when I was about to set off fireworks, tsk tsk tsk.

Lin Ye glanced at it and then ignored it, holding the little bag in his arms, picking up his phone and sending a message.

The next second—

The world suddenly brightened!

Hundreds of beams of light simultaneously rose into the air from the ground on the opposite bank of the river.

Blazing white, golden yellow, azure blue, emerald green...

then.

"boom--------"

They exploded at the same time!

The darkness was blown into daylight.

All the colors bloomed at the same time, as if someone had overturned the Milky Way in the sky, igniting billions of stars at once.

The wine glass in Shu Jingwei's hand fell to the ground with a "clatter" and shattered into several pieces.

Her mouth was agape, her jaw almost dislocated, her pupils reflected the sky dyed in vibrant colors by fireworks, and her mind was completely blank.

Heavenly fire!?

No! This is not heavenly fire!

The fire from the sky is only one color; it disappears once it explodes...

What... what is this?!

……

The fireworks in the sky continued.

Before the first wave had even subsided, the second wave had already soared into the sky.

Crimson fireworks formed a giant heart shape. Before one heart had even dissipated, a second one had already piled on top of it. Countless heart-shaped fireworks layered upon each other, filling the entire sky.

Azure fireworks plummeted from the sky, cascading down like a waterfall, their roar deafening. The blue light reflected on the river, making the entire river appear as a fluorescent blue ribbon flowing across the land.

The emerald green fireworks, like willow branches, hung down one by one, scattering a shower of shimmering light. The willow branches swayed in mid-air for a moment before disappearing, leaving only faint wisps of smoke.

[Guan Yue, Director of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Works: Good heavens! What is that?! Heavenly fire? Heavenly fire doesn't look like that! Heavenly fire only has one color! They must have dozens of colors! And so many shapes and so many variations!!]

[Commoner Wang Laoshi: Good heavens! This can't be fire from the sky, this is... this is someone plucked a rainbow from the sky and blew it up! A god! Absolutely a god! Only a god could blow the sky up like this!]

[Minister of Works Du Mingyi: I've seen Heavenly Fire before; it only has red and yellow colors, and it explodes into a burst of light. This is called fireworks… it's not the same thing as Heavenly Fire! This is ten thousand times more advanced than Heavenly Fire!]

……

The barrage of comments was still scrolling wildly, while the fireworks in the sky had already entered the next stage.

"Buzz—"

A deep, resonant hum, like the awakening of an ancient behemoth, suddenly exploded.

Then, the ground lit up.

Thousands of points of light rose from the ground simultaneously, each of them a tiny drone.

They lined up in two rows, moving straight and steadily toward the highest point of the night sky.

Soon, a huge circular firework suddenly solidified in the sky, like a "magic circle" left behind by an ancient god, intricately interwoven with countless streams of light and fire.

The outer layer is a band of light in red gold and crimson, like a divine ring encircling the sky. As it slowly rotates, each point of light seems to pulsate with life.

The inner layer is filled with clusters of indigo and deep purple fireworks, like a galaxy surging within.

Soon, at the center of the ring, the firework exploded with a loud bang.

A waterfall of light cascades down from the center of the ring, its colors as blue as a bottomless sea, as purple as a collapsing nebula, as gilded as the blazing sun, and as silvery as moonlight...

They tumbled and roared as they fell through the air, their trailing streaks of fire sweeping across the sky like phoenix tail feathers, accompanied by fine dust of light that drifted slowly down, draping the entire night sky in a veil of stardust.

It looks like the Milky Way has fallen from the ninth heaven!

"Truly worthy of being called... Heavenly Flame Funeral!"

On the sky, a soft, almost sighing whisper seemed to come from Lin Ye.

……

The Great Flame Kingdom, beneath the heavens.

Once again, deathly silence descended.

Then, the barrage of comments poured out like a flood that had burst its banks.

[Guan Yue, Director of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Works: A formation! Fireworks can be arranged into a formation?! Those circular patterns, those symmetrical designs, those rotating rays of light... This isn't fireworks! This is... this is magic! It's magic!]

[Du Xiu, Academician of the Hanlin Academy: I have devoted my life to studying ancient texts and believe I know all the wonders of the world. But this "Heavenly Flame Funeral"... it is not recorded in any book, and I have never heard of it before. That rotating magic array, that flowing waterfall of light, that stardust falling from the sky... this is not fireworks, but a miracle painted with the sky as paper and light as ink!]

[Han Zhang, Vice Minister of War: The waterfall of light cascading down from the center of the magic array is as powerful as a thousand horses galloping down! If this were used in a military formation and released above the enemy camp...]

……

In the West Garden, Shu Jingwei slumped on the dragon throne, her face ashen, her lips trembling incessantly.

She stared at the comments on the screen, at the subconscious praises from her subjects, her fingers gripping the armrest so tightly that her knuckles turned white.

Her heavenly fire was supposed to be a powerful weapon to intimidate all nations.

But now, someone else's fireworks display has shattered everything she has painstakingly built up.

She opened her mouth as if to say something, but a metallic taste suddenly welled up in her throat, which she desperately suppressed.

The Western Regions envoy, Ussuri, was also completely stunned, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets. If the previous raging fire from Da Yan had only made him somewhat wary, he still harbored treacherous intentions.

So, these fireworks, these sparks and streaks of light that seem to have the power to turn the world upside down.

This made him absolutely afraid to harbor any disloyal thoughts, and even more afraid to have the slightest disrespect for that person or that country in the sky.

……

The circular magic circle spun in the sky for a full five minutes before the drone began to slowly descend.

But the fireworks didn't stop!