The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

As it rolled, Ember picked up a pebble from the ground and threw it at Ying, who was still in a daze.

"Come on... come on!"

Ying rubbed her head, snapping out of her daze. She and Paimon slowly walked to Kong's side, seemingly unable to believe what they were seeing.

"Let go!" Kong struggled even more as he saw Ying approaching. He wasn't ready to face Ying directly.

"Running away is not how a man should behave," Yu Jin said earnestly as he saw Kong struggling.

"Since that's the case, you forced me to do this!" Kong's struggling movements suddenly stopped, as if she was brewing something big.

"careful!"

Seeing Kong's resolute expression, Dain immediately warned him. The power of the Abyss is strong and unpredictable; no one knows what Kong will do next.

As a result, Ying's stride forward was halted.

Firefly doesn't believe her brother would hurt her, but that was the brother she used to know. The current Sora feels somewhat unfamiliar to her.

"Boom!"

"Come on!"

"You damned bastard, you don't need to wash your armor, do you?!"

Suddenly, Kong's body twisted like the air under the blazing sun, and then exploded with a "bang!"

"呲-"

Ember rose from the ground, radiating intense heat that scorched the surrounding earth into molten lava.

The reason is simple: what comes out of the air blast isn't flesh and blood, but a writhing mass of sludge. To be honest, it's somewhat similar to the Deep Abyss, but slightly better looking.

That's why Ember was so angry. If it were real flesh and blood, it would be easier to deal with, but it wasn't.

"Crack!"

"Don't let me catch you next time, or I'll make you taste what it's like to be covered in stinky mud."

As Yu Jin spoke, he put the "stinky mud" he was talking into his mouth. The crunching sound was quite crisp.

"We traveled through ley lines and abyssal passages."

Dain squatted on the ground, closed his eyes, and felt the emptiness for a while before speaking.

"It seems his spirit has been tempered in the abyss enough to detach from his body." He stood up, his brows furrowing slightly.

Unexpectedly, Kong's strength had reached such a level, which made Daine feel that the road ahead would be even more difficult.

"Transcending the physical body? Next time I'll let him experience a clash of souls!"

In a daze, Dain seemed to see countless blue and white laser beams erupting from Ember's hand.

Soul Torrent – ​​A spell taught by the First Sage at the founding of Lothric and the Grand Archives. It can unleash a large torrent of souls.

The First Sage was not only a doubter about linking the fire, but also, it is said, secretly the prince's tutor.

Blinking, Dain realized that the pillar of light he had just seen had disappeared again, and it all seemed to be an illusion.

That wasn't a hallucination, of course; it was just Ember going mad. He used to enjoy playing around with Soul Torrents whenever he had free time.

This phenomenon became even more pronounced after he learned about Comet Yazler.

Left hand: Soul Torrent; right hand: Comet Azle. Both mental and physical attacks are essential; you need to be strong in both!

However, Ember rarely went berserk after arriving here. After all, this wasn't the border region between Lordran and the capital, where there were vast stretches of dead land for him to unleash his full power.

After his outburst, Yu Jin stopped. He turned and ran to Chong Yun's side. As one of the few people who had tasted Chong Yun's cooking, Yu Jin felt that Chong Yun could definitely give him some advice.

"Uh……"

At this moment, Chongyun was slumped on the ground, his eyes already swollen like mosquito coils.

"Um……"

Shen He looked at his nephew, who seemed to be lost in thought, and poked his cheek.

It was scalding hot, probably due to the intense burst of yang energy just now.

Chongyun's head tilted to the side, and then began to sway involuntarily.

"This won't do; we need to use drastic measures." Yu Jin shook his head when he saw Chong Yun's dizzy state.

It seems that even the cooking of the gods is hard for ordinary people to accept. Although he only put a tiny bit into Chongyun's mouth.

"A potent medicine?" Shen He gripped the Floating Stone with one hand and stroked his chin with the other, lost in thought.

"The goddess has commanded you to come here immediately! Take cover!"

"Snapped!"

As Shen He chanted his incantation, her large hand slapped Chong Yun's crown.

A chill emanated from Shen He's palms, and icicles gradually began to form on Chong Yun's eyebrows and hair.

"＃&★!"

After a few strange cries, Chongyun shuddered and regained consciousness. Rubbing his temples, he felt his mind was completely blank.

"Senior, and Auntie. What just happened?" Opening his eyes, Chongyun saw Yu Jin and Shen He staring at him.

"Hmm... nothing happened, you don't need to worry about it." Yu Jin patted Chong Yun on the shoulder. Is this some kind of protective mechanism of the brain?

Chapter 386 The Secret of the Abyss Order

2023-12-31

"Dain, are you having an affair with the Abyss Order? I've noticed that the Abyss Order pops up every time you appear."

Walking along the path in the secret realm, Ember joked with Dain, who was standing silently beside him.

"Heh, you've got the cause and effect wrong. I came here because I discovered the Abyss Order's whereabouts, not because the Abyss Order followed me."

Dain answered Ember's question while observing the surrounding stone walls. However, his expression was somewhat unnatural.

Because Dain remembered the abyss mage on the surface. It turned out that the mage wasn't unwilling to speak; Dain simply hadn't given it the chance.

Who could have imagined that an Abyss Mage would run right up to the top of the stronghold? Dain thought he should go easy on the monsters of the Abyss Order in the future.

We need to at least give them time to say their last words; maybe we can find out some information that way.

His gaze gradually shifted from the unchanging stone slabs to Ying, who was looking distracted ahead. "Ying, has the upside-down statue you mentioned arrived yet?"

Ying continued forward with her head down, seemingly oblivious to Dain's question.

"Hey! Luminous, Dain's asking you about the upside-down statue!" Paimon glanced at Luminous, whose eyes were darting around, and patted her on the shoulder.

"Huh?!" Ying suddenly looked up, snapping out of her reverie.

She surveyed the surroundings, then nodded and said, "Once we get past this downhill, we'll be almost there."

"Really? It seems those guys from the Abyss Order are quite interested in this stolen Seven Statue of Gods." Dain didn't suspect anything.

However, the Abyss Order places far too much importance on this upside-down statue.

Not only was an Abyss Apostle stationed here, but even Kong, who led the Abyss Order, was here, which made Dain even more curious about what these non-human beings were up to.

"An upside-down statue of the Seven Gods? I really... can't imagine it." When Chongyun heard Ying's words, he imagined what the statue of the Rock God would look like upside down in his mind, and then a layer of goosebumps rose all over his body.

The seven-day statue hanging upside down is truly bizarre.

“Of course! This statue is the Statue of the Seven from Mondstadt next door. Who would have thought that Barbatos standing upside down would be so terrifying!” Paimon also recalled the first time she saw the upside-down statue, which had frightened her quite a bit.

"Terrifying?" Ember stroked his chin, sketching Wendy's image in his mind, then turned him upside down.

"Cough cough cough..."

It was a bit of a shock, but not really. However, Wendy's comical upside-down pose almost made Ember laugh.

Ember couldn't help but think, "When will I meet Wendy and have him do a handstand on the spot?" He was suddenly curious whether the Anemo Archon doing a handstand was terrifying or funny.

"What's wrong with you? Have you been corrupted by the power of the abyss?" Dain saw Ember cough a few times and was a little worried. He naturally assumed that Ember had been corrupted by the power of the abyss.

Being in close contact with such a massive amount of abyssal power, it's normal to be corrupted. In fact, it's somewhat surprising that Ember could hold out for so long.

"It's nothing, I just thought of some fun things." Yu Jin waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.

"I'm just more curious about those seven statues now." He looked at the purple figure that appeared in front of him and strode towards it.

As he emerged from the slightly narrow path, Ember's vision was immediately drawn to a flickering, deep purple light.

"How dazzling! It seems the upside-down statue hasn't been affected at all," Paimon exclaimed as he flew over and looked at the upside-down statue from afar.

Despite all that has happened, including the Abyss Apostle and Kong being driven away, the statue remains completely unchanged.

“This power…” Chongyun saw the dark purple light pulsating in the palm of the statue from afar, and the yang energy in his body, which had been dormant, began to stir again.

“An evil spirit… and an extremely pure evil spirit at that,” Shen He said with a solemn expression.

The aura emanating from the upside-down statue reminded her of the scene when she faced that dark "spirit" in her childhood.

The "celestial spirit" of that time exuded an aura similar to that of the statue before them. However, the aura of this statue was many times stronger than that of the "celestial spirit" of that time.

"Chongyun, can you handle this?" Xingqiu leaned close to Chongyun, whose face was flushed, and asked quietly.

"Are you planning to offer incense to me during the Lantern Festival?" Chongyun said speechlessly, condensing ice and applying it to his face.

Unlike the others who hesitated, Dain strode up to the upside-down statue.

He stretched out his arm, which was covered by black sleeve armor, and slowly approached the ball of light held in the statue's palm.

"call……"

The closer Dain got to the light emanating from the upside-down statue, the slower he reached out. It was as if the invisible light now possessed weight and resistance.

"boom!"

The light emanating from the upside-down statue suddenly surged, knocking Dain's arm away.

"Is this thing rejecting me?" Dain stared intently at the statue before him. In the undulating dark purple light, he even felt that the serene smile on the upside-down statue's face seemed to have turned into mockery.

"Hmm... this wasn't originally intended for you."

"Let me see... the body of the demon god... the newly formed foundation... the eyes of the first tractor..."

"Um... I don't understand."