That year, the Sixth Prince of Yan Kingdom was gravely wounded on the battlefield in the Six Prefectures and went missing. By the time he returned to Yan Kingdom, he had gone from a mighty young general to a foolish boy with a gravely injured soul and no memories.
The land of Yun in Yan Kingdom's Six Prefectures bordered Zhou Kingdom and Qingyang.
The Sixth Prince had been stranded in the Three Crossroads. After people from Zhou Kingdom and Qingyang found him, Xing Ji of Zhou Kingdom and Nangong Ming of Qingyang escorted him all the way to Yan Capital.
Donglan Li stood atop the City Wall and looked back toward the Royal Palace. Lights blazed inside the palace as storms swept across the land.
Donglan Li knew that, by this late stage, the army commanded by his mother was responsible only for repelling foreign invaders. Everyone had a hand in Yan Kingdom's internal strife, because his mother couldn't let everything go, either.
Even on her deathbed, his mother had refused to hand Yan Kingdom over to the Zhao Clan.
Zhao Yuxiang tried every possible way to cure Sixth Highness, but the King of Yan didn't want anyone to seize power from him—not even his own son—so he left him to his fate.
The Crown Prince's Faction was even less willing to let its greatest rival live.
The Eldest Princess's faction, too, had no wish to save anyone from the Zhao Family. The Zhao Clan did everything in their power to protect the Sixth Prince, even secretly cooperating with people from Nanjing without Zhao Yuxiang's knowledge. Nanjing had produced a World Destroyer: a Thirteenth Realm Sorcerer of the Military School who possessed a Strange Fire and had once won glorious military honors for Nanjing.
The Nanjing Great General Xin Wu