The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

After finalizing the next course of action, Yuan Shang cautiously emerged from behind the large rock and began to cautiously move forward.

Why is Fuchigami so cautious? It's all because of his painful experience of being robbed 34 times after arriving in Inazuma.

He's only been in Inazuma for a short time, and he's already been robbed 34 times. Only he knows the hardships he's endured.

Wild thugs robbed him, deserters robbed him, and even when he asked for lodging, vicious villagers extorted money from him!

Yuan Shang adjusted his glasses, thinking that next time he would definitely conjure up a muscular man who looked like someone not to be messed with.

He moved forward on the shallow beach, accompanied only by the pale white soil and sparse vegetation unique to Haizhi Island.

Soon, a dilapidated shrine appeared in front of him, and in front of the shrine stood a stone tablet that was extremely weathered.

"Let me see... a stone tablet? There really is something there?"

Upon seeing the shrine and stone tablet, Yuan Shang's face lit up with joy. He hurried forward and examined them closely.

The stone tablet is severely weathered, and its edges have become extremely rounded. Fortunately, the inscriptions are still clear enough that they are not completely illegible.

But what difference does it make to Yuanshang?

He stroked his chin, circled the stone tablet several times, and then slapped his forehead, saying, "What am I doing looking at this? I can't understand human writing at all!"

Then Yuanshang sat on the ground, tugging at his hair in frustration.

If I can't see the words clearly, what should I do next?

Hey! What are you doing here?!

Just as Yuan Shang was feeling troubled, he suddenly felt someone pat his shoulder.

"Who?" Yuan Shang was startled. He jumped up from the ground and saw the Fools carrying large and small bags in front of him.

"Fools? Trying to steal again? I'm warning you, I'm a good fighter!" Yuan Shang saw the Fools in front of him and immediately raised his fist.

"Steal things? What do you have to steal? On the contrary, I'm going to give you something." The leading officer found Yuan Shang's aggressive demeanor quite amusing.

He nodded to the Fools behind him, and the soldiers behind him stirred slightly.

"Captain, are we really going to send it?"

"Otherwise, what can you do but disobey the lady's orders?" The lieutenant sighed deeply, unsure of what his superiors were thinking.

He was just a lowly lieutenant, whose job was simply to follow orders. He didn't want to think about anything else.

"Give me something? What do you mean?" Seeing that the group of fools had no intention of robbing him, Yuan Shang breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, he had met someone he could talk to.

"Here's some food. We're moving out of our camp, and we have some left over. Here you go."

As the officer spoke, a soldier behind him threw out a package.

Yuan Shang opened the package, inside was a long, buttery loaf of bread.

“We’re about to be mobilized, and all this stored grain we’ve been carrying will have to be given away sooner or later. You’ve just happened to be in the right place at the right time.”

Seeing Yuan Shang's stunned expression, the lieutenant explained.

Unfortunately, Yuan Shang wasn't in a daze at all; he was simply disgusted by the gifts from the fools.

He could be an apostle of the abyss, so why would he need this food?

"Th...thank you." After hesitating for a while, Yuan Shang thanked the group of fools opposite him.

"Haha, you're welcome." Yuan Shang's reaction, in the eyes of the Fools, was undoubtedly one of gratitude so profound that he couldn't even speak clearly.

Seeing Yuan Shang's grateful expression, the leading officer scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly, never expecting that such a thing as helping others would happen to him.

It feels pretty good?

"What are you doing here all alone? You're not fleeing famine, are you?" The officer raised an eyebrow and asked, noticing that Yuan Shang was relatively clean.

“Me?” Yuan Shang pointed to his face. He looked around and then noticed the stone tablet next to him.

"I came here for archaeology. I saw some ruins here, so I came!" Yuan Shang pointed to the stone tablet with one hand and adjusted his glasses with the other.

At first glance, it looks quite convincing.

"Archaeology? Interesting. In this chaos of war, someone actually comes here to do archaeology?" The officer couldn't help but laugh when he heard Yuan Shang's words.

"I reckon you guys are too, right?" Yuan Shang stood on tiptoe and glanced at the large and small scrolls held by the soldiers behind the officer, speculating.

The average Fool wouldn't carry such knowledgeable things; they'd rather replace those books with bombs than be satisfied.

"Haha, pretty much, but we're not doing it anymore!" The lieutenant nodded in admission. They had been on this island for a long time, and their research had come to a standstill.

Now they're being summoned by the lady again to do some "grain transport" business, so their research is probably going to be abandoned.

Seeing Yuan Shang begin to wander around in front of the stone tablet again, the officer showed his approval.

He said to the abyss, “The words on this stone tablet mean: When performing a holy pilgrimage, one should be blessed with divine grace, walk slowly and carefully, follow the lamp, and refrain from running, leaping, shouting, crying, or making a ruckus. One must die with a sorrowful heart, bearing the great grace of the divine…”

"Specifically, it means having a devout heart."

The officer sighed. Piety? What could the foolish masses possibly possess? Thus, the research stalled.

"With a devout heart?" Yuan Shang didn't understand the first half of the officer's sentence, but he understood the second half.

He also lacked piety.

"These are our results, they're useless now, so I'm giving them to you. Let's see what you can figure out!"

Seeing Yuan Shang's thoughtful (confused) gaze, the officer's admiration deepened, and he promptly tossed Yuan Shang the results of his work over the past few days.

"If you achieve any results, don't forget to let me know. After all, this is the first mission I've led, and I don't want to have any regrets."

“Our future base should be here. We Fools are doing good deeds now. If we've lost everything, we can get some things here.”

He forcefully stuffed the scroll into Yuan Shang's arms, and the lieutenant also stuffed a map into it. Then he waved his hand and led the soldiers behind him away from the tail of the sea god.

He touched the soft bread in his hand, then looked down at the scroll and map in his arms. Even though Yuan Shang wasn't human, he was still moved.

There are still more good people than bad in this world!

Yuan Shangwu said excitedly.

Chapter 451 The Abyss of Moon Bathing

2024-01-28

"What does all this mean?"

The lieutenant Yuan unfolded the scroll for him, and as he said before, he couldn't read.

After looking for a long time, they still couldn't figure it out. Fortunately, Yuan Shang simply opened the abyss passage and threw the scroll and map in.

This abyss passage connects to Yuan Shang's own private secret space, which is filled with his treasured collection.

Since the lieutenant had entrusted him with such precious research results, Yuan Shang felt embarrassed to just throw them away and decided to return them to him sometime.

"With a devout heart?" Yuan Shang murmured the officer's words, looking thoughtfully at the dilapidated shrine.

He looked around and, seeing that no one was around, knelt down and put his hands together in prayer position.

"Great Jade God, Great Jade God, open sesame!"

"call……"

The sea breeze rustled the withered branches and fallen leaves.

"What the hell is this damned piety?!" Yuan Shang yelled as he rolled on the ground.

He's an Abyss Singer! Asking him to develop any piety towards that Great God of the Sea Island is worse than sending him to his death.

"Damn it! Let's see what this piece of junk is all about!"

Yuan Shang looked at the dilapidated shrine and stone tablet, and immediately kicked them.

"boom!"

Yuan Shang kicked him, but nothing happened. He twitched his lips and slowly moved his foot back.

He just twisted his ankle.

"Hiss..." Sitting on the ground, Yuan Shang gasped. What was going on today? Why was he getting thwarted at every turn?

Aside from encountering that group of fools earlier, nothing good has happened.

He recalled his experiences of being robbed every three days and thieves every two days after arriving in Inazuma, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became.

"Wow! My body has been restless lately, so I'll try this!" Yuan Shang's evil intentions were aroused, and a cloud of reddish-black smoke rose up, and he returned to his original form.

The Abyss Codex in my hand moved without wind, and a new page of text appeared on the book that I knew all too well.

Ever since receiving such a warm welcome in Hishiki Village, especially after drinking water infused with the bark of the Washizu tree, Fuchigami felt his internal power becoming somewhat restless.

Now, that restlessness is constantly bothering and tempting Yuan Shang.

"#&..."

Looking down at the text on the Abyss Codex, Yuan Shang, who usually knew very few characters, found the text so familiar that he could recite it after just one glance.

As the words were recited, the forbidden power within Yuan Shang began to interact with the elemental forces in the air.

It's described as an interaction, but it's more like the power of the abyss forcibly pulling elemental forces into Yuan Shang's body.

"Humph……"

A completely different sensation appeared within Yuan Shang's body. Unlike the intense heat he experienced when he introduced fire elemental power in the past, this time he felt a stabbing pain reverberating within him.

"sublimation!"

With a loud shout, purple lightning spread and rose, sweeping across the entire shallows.

"Sizzle, sizzle!"

Yuan Shang looked at the purple light covering his body in amazement and couldn't help but cheer.

"Could it be... that I'm now an Abyss Baptist?!"

Unfortunately, it turned out that Yuan Shang was overthinking things. Before his cheers had even stopped, the purple light surrounding him rapidly faded.

"Is my body rejecting the lightning elemental force?" Yuan Shang felt the persistent stinging sensation within his body and seemed to understand something.

"Let Yuanxia shock me more often in the future!" Yuan Shang immediately thought of a good way to adapt to the lightning elemental power, and he couldn't wait to go find Yuanxia.

"Woo——"