The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

"After I've finished looking at it, I'm going to bleed you." Seeing that everyone was silent, Yu Jin walked up to the golden tree sapling and prepared to let it bathe in his blood.

"Bleeding? Didn't you say the Golden Tree could grow here?" Lisa asked in confusion when she heard that Ember wanted to bleed.

"That's possible, but that would take too long. I'll accelerate its growth, and once it's grown, it'll be better able to handle things unique to your world."

As Yu Jin spoke, he made a cut on his arm.

Thick, bright red blood flowed from the wound on Ember's arm, its color so vivid it seemed otherworldly.

Ying looked at the blood dripping from Yu Jin's arm. At first, she just thought that Yu Jin's blood was so red, so unreal.

However, as her gaze focused, Ying saw more colors within the crimson.

There were so many colors, countless colors that had been seen before or not, intertwined on the crimson screen, creating an eerie and uncanny effect, as if all the colors in the world were contained within it.

Ying rubbed her sore eyes. Looking at the bright red blood in front of her, she inexplicably felt that the blood looked like paint.

The bright red paint was flowing from the embers, which is why they felt the scene before them was so unreal.

Ying's conjecture was correct; the blood of the embers was the pigment, the pigment used to create the world. The colors beneath the crimson lay the possibility of another world.

If an artist can use this paint well, it will be enough to create a whole new world on the canvas.

Blood, unlike anything real, splattered and fell onto the golden tree with its canopy pointing upwards.

Blood and flesh are the best nourishment for the golden tree. And now, this golden tree sapling, sprouting in another world, is absorbing something that even its mother never tasted.

The blood of the embers, or spilled on the land where the golden tree saplings stood, quickly faded into brown.

Then, the golden tree seedling felt a huge warm current surge from its roots up its entire body.

"Hold on tight! The golden tree is about to start growing!"

"Boom!"

As soon as Yu Jin finished speaking, a rumbling sound echoed from all directions. The land on the mountaintop surged like waves on the sea.

Beneath the earth, the golden tree's brilliant root system began to grow wildly at an extremely rapid pace.

The thicker the roots of the golden tree, the dimmer its golden sheen becomes. This makes the golden tree look more like an ordinary tree.

This is a normal phenomenon during the growth of the golden tree. The golden tree will only be as shiny as gold when it is a seedling or a fully grown plant.

As the seedling grows, it will gradually grow in the direction of an ordinary large tree. Once it has absorbed enough nutrients, it will return to its original state, transforming its enormous form back into pure gold.

The roots of the golden tree are like strong, powerful wooden dragons, striving to grow deep into the earth.

Whether it's hard frozen soil or massive rocks, they're all like paper before these wriggling roots. They can crush them effortlessly and continue growing deeper.

Above ground, the branches of the golden tree saplings are growing rapidly, just like their roots beneath the earth.

In the blink of an eye, the golden tree grew to tens of meters tall. Its size was now comparable to other ancient trees on the continent.

However, its growth rate suddenly slowed down when the main stem was about to touch the crowd.

Immediately afterwards, several vine-like branches drooped down from the thick branches of the golden tree. These branches tightly bound the group and pulled them high into the air.

Once everyone had left the ground, the golden tree had no more worries and began to grow freely.

A towering wooden wall began to appear, pushing aside large swathes of earth and stone; nothing could stop its advance.

The people entangled in the vines found themselves growing taller and taller... until they broke through the clouds.

"Whoosh—" Incredibly dazzling golden light began to fall, dyeing everything around it golden.

"Look! What's that?!"

"A tree, such a big tree!"

"How can it grow so fast!"

……

Since the Dragonspine Mountains are located within Mondstadt, the Mondstadt people were naturally the first to notice the anomalies on the mountains.

When they looked toward the snow-capped mountains, they were shocked to find that the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain was no longer the same unchanging frosty white as it had been for millennia.

The golden hue that blanketed the entire snow-capped mountain completely overshadowed the white snow. It seems Longji Snow Mountain will have to be renamed "Longji Golden Mountain" from now on.

And what made all of this possible were the enormous trees that pierced the clouds atop Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain.

Longji Snow Mountain no longer has a summit because its peak has long been squeezed out by golden trees that have stopped growing.

The enormous canopy of the golden tree shades the entire Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain! That dazzling golden color comes from the canopy.

"Lord Diluc, you can't..."

"boom!"

Jean's office door was flung open, and a flustered Diluc rushed in. Behind him followed an anxious Wood.

Diluc was initially taken aback by the sight in Jean's office, but quickly regained his composure.

"Wood, don't worry about it, go downstairs." Jean quickly realized what had happened at a glance. So she let Wood go downstairs.

"Yes!" Wood gave a Favonius salute and stopped worrying about Diluc's forced entry into Jean's office.

"Bang!" Diluc hooked his back foot, and the office door was slammed shut.

“Not bad, I’m starting to have a good impression of the Knights of Favonius.” Diluc glanced at Yura, Kaeya, Rosalia, and Venti, then nodded in approval.

These people are the backbone of the Knights, and they all arrived before him, which is commendable.

Although he came from the Dawn Winery, Kaiya and his team did arrive first, and that attitude deserves praise.

"Kaya, Rosalia, Lisa, and Abedo aren't here?" Jean asked, looking at Kaya and Rosalia who were surrounding her.

Lisa and Abedo are also indispensable high-end combat forces in Mondstadt, and they are knowledgeable and can always find the reason behind things.

And this time, the giant tree that suddenly appeared on Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain will probably still depend on them.

To her surprise, both Rosalia and Kaeya shook their heads and said:

"Lisa (Abedo) has gone out on business."

"They went out?" Qin frowned slightly. Lisa and Abedo, those two homebodies, actually went out? What could possibly attract them to go out?

"No need to guess, it's Ember." Wendy said helplessly, sitting on the windowsill and looking at her palm.

The wind in his hand contained many auras, including those of Ember and Lisa.

As soon as Wendy finished speaking, the office fell into silence.

"It really was him!" Kaiya shrugged, looking as if he had known all along.

"They're really asking for trouble." Diluc's lips twitched, but he didn't say anything more.

"That big tree..." Qin asked, still clinging to a sliver of hope, after hearing that it was Yu Jin who had taken Lisa and the others away.

"They're the ones who did it. Just ask them when they get back." Wendy turned to look out the window, where the huge, shimmering golden tree was so eye-catching.

Wendy rubbed his eyes, now thinking about how he would fall asleep that night.

……

"Ember, why didn't you say the golden tree would grow this big?" Lisa asked calmly, looking at the branches beneath her feet that seemed as solid as the earth, and the leaves overhead that dazzled her eyes.

"You didn't ask either?" Yu Jin was completely oblivious, putting his arm armor back on as if nothing had happened.

Lisa's calm expression instantly crumbled. Her contorted face, amplified by the dark purple lightning element, appeared exceptionally terrifying.

"Hey, hey, hey! Lisa, what are you trying to do?"

"What am I doing? We've gotten ourselves into big trouble! Don't run!"

"Only a fool wouldn't run!"

Chapter 207 Heading Down into the Earth!

2023-10-02

The summit of Longji Snow Mountain is quite different from before. If someone were to climb to the top, they would find that most of the summit has been occupied by the trunks of golden trees.

Perhaps due to insufficient space, many of the golden tree's massive roots have even bulged out from beneath the earth and are exposed to the outside.

"Come here, Lisa! Come over here for a second." A voice could be faintly heard coming from the tree.

On a thick branch of the golden tree, Lisa stared speechlessly at Ember, who was pointing at her waist.

She glanced at the purple lightning dancing in her hand, then at the unchanging armor of the embers, and silently extinguished her own lightning.

Sadly, when her lightning struck Ember, not even a spark flew. She had intended to vent her anger, but now she'd ended up giving Ember a massage.

"Hey? Why isn't the electricity working?" Yu Jin pointed at his waist for a long time, only to find that the familiar tingling sensation was not there.

He turned his head and saw Lisa with her arms crossed and a serious expression, as well as the others who were marveling at her.

"Let's think about how to explain the Golden Tree issue to Commander Qin!" Lisa rolled her eyes after hearing Yu Jin's words.

With such a huge tree suddenly growing in the Dragonspine Mountains, she could already imagine the chaos that would ensue in Mondstadt.

"Explain? Explain what? Such a big tree, don't you think it's magnificent?" Yu Jin said, drawing a circle with his hands.

To be honest, he never expected that his blood would make the golden tree grow like it was on hormones.

But a larger size is fine too; at least you won't need an umbrella when it rains on Longji Snow Mountain.

"Yes, yes! Lisa, look at this spectacular sight, lots of people will definitely come to visit."

"We'll sell some delicious food down there, and Mora will come in droves!" Paimon flew over and said excitedly.

Perhaps it was the sight of such a magnificent creature as the Golden Tree, or perhaps it was pride in having come up with such a brilliant idea, but Paimon's face was filled with barely suppressed excitement.

"Paimon, I think you're perfectly fine staying here by yourself. You go make money, and I'll go traveling, okay?" Ying watched Paimon flitting around and started to play with her.

"Oh no! We're best partners, we can't be separated!" Sure enough, Paimon immediately flew back from afar and started arguing with Ying.

However, their conversation quickly shifted from the meaning of travel to which snacks they should sell next.

"Oh well! Anyway, the snow mountain is a mess, it won't get too bad no matter how much we mess with it." Lisa looked at Ying, Paimon, and Ember's carefree attitude and said helplessly, covering her forehead.

Anyway, the golden tree has already grown, and what's done is done. Mondstadt can only accept it, no matter what the consequences are.

Lisa looked around and saw nothing but gold; the golden branches beneath her feet seemed like the real earth.

If it weren't for the faint white clouds around her, Lisa would probably have completely forgotten that she was high in the sky.