The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

"It's time, let's go take a look." As the sky changed slightly, the stragglers opened their eyes.

"If it's really as I think, then this place is going to be interesting." After saying a few simple words that left the young master dizzy, the stragglers got up from the campfire and prepared to leave the camp.

"Where to?" The young master also got up.

"Of course, we're going to the place we went to yesterday." The soldier turned his head and chuckled softly before striding off into the distance.

The scenery rushed past them, and with the three of them moving at full speed, they soon arrived at the territory they had just visited yesterday.

The young master glanced around and felt that the place was becoming more and more familiar. Not only was the terrain similar, but even the distribution of the monsters was the same.

The distribution of these monsters doesn't seem to have changed much.

"Just as I suspected, it seems my guess was pretty accurate." After pondering for a moment, the stragglers set off again without even taking a breath.

Upon arriving at the southernmost island, the first thing that catches the eye is the perfectly intact, massive rock pillar.

"Hmm? I remember this was the place that was cut down yesterday?" The young master jumped to the top of the rock pillar and stomped his foot. He had personally witnessed the skirmishers cutting the rock pillar in half yesterday, so how come it's back to normal today?

"Yes, this rock pillar was cut in half, but it has now been restored. How did that happen?"

The stragglers revealed a meaningful smile.

“Yeah, what exactly happened?” Yu Jin followed suit, stroking his chin like the skirmisher.

"Stop with the riddles, what is it?" The young master jumped down from the rock pillar, looking at the pretentious Embers and the scattered soldiers, feeling somewhat annoyed.

These two guys are just relying on their cleverness to keep trying to outsmart him. Once they get stronger, they'll definitely teach the stragglers a lesson.

As for why there's no Ember? The young master felt that catching up with Ember would be "a tiny bit" difficult.

He'd better stop daydreaming.

"Well, the clever ones have to take care of the less intelligent ones," the soldier said with a sigh.

"If I'm not mistaken, there's probably something wrong with the timing of He Guan's visit."

"I estimate that time in Heguan has stopped at a certain point in time. When a new day comes, everything in Heguan will return to the state it was at that point in time."

"I never expected that there would be a problem with the time here. It's really unexpected."

The soldiers looked around and were surprised to find that the strange fog on He Guan Island was secondary; the truly peculiar thing was the unusual time of day.

"Time...time is wrong? You're not kidding me, are you?!" The young master almost dropped his jaw in shock when he heard what the soldier said.

The only timeline of change in the young master's memory was when he fell into a fissure in the earth at the age of fourteen.

During that time, he trained in martial arts with his master in the black rift for three months, and he also mastered the Demon King Armor technique during those three months.

However, when he returned to the ground from the crack, he was surprised to find that only three days had passed.

From then on, those three months of darkness became an experience deeply buried in the young master's heart.

He originally thought he would never experience such a special event as "time anomaly" again in his life, but he never expected that such an experience would happen again in Heguan today.

“You’re quite smart.” Yu Jin glanced at the stragglers. Although the guy was arrogant, he was actually quite clever.

"Don't compare me to a simple-minded guy like me." The soldier rolled his eyes at Ember and took the opportunity to mock the young master next to him.

He has always been very bright.

"I don't know if you've noticed, but the time in He Guan isn't just something that stays still at a certain point in time." Yu Jin stretched out his hand, and the aura of He Guan could be described as extremely complex.

In addition to the usual elemental forces, there is also the lingering resentment and residual power left behind by some powerful being after its death.

Moreover, the embers could also sense the chaotic power of the underground ley lines.

The reason why the earth's veins are so disordered is because something fell from the sky.

Because something fell from the sky, the earth's veins became disordered. It was precisely because of this disorder that the powerful entity, harboring endless resentment, was able to use its own power as a catalyst to trap He Guan in a cycle of reincarnation.

"Reincarnation? You're not kidding, are you? Who could do something like that?" Upon hearing this, the soldier showed the exact same expression as the young master before.

He thought his prediction was already surprising enough, but what Yu Jin said was even more astonishing.

"Don't believe me? Anyway, time changes here; it's definitely not stuck at a certain point in time." Yu Jin said confidently, arms crossed.

"How did you figure that out?" The soldier didn't believe it immediately, for no other reason than that the time of reincarnation was simply too unbelievable.

"There's no point in saying more. Nothing has changed here, but the main road where we met Aru won't be this quiet."

"Go and see?"

Yu Jin pointed behind him. The stragglers and the young master might not be able to see that far because of the fog, but he could see it very clearly.

That area had transformed into a roaring thunderstorm.

"go!"

"I can not wait any more."

The soldiers and the young master readily agreed; in fact, they were far more enthusiastic than the embers.

This was the first time they had ever seen such a scene, but Yu Jin had seen it all. So Yu Jin's reaction was rather calm.

Without much talk, the three of them turned and ran towards the main road where they had first met Aru.

Although the fog still lingered over the Crane Viewpoint, the map had already been completed by the Fools and the scattered soldiers.

Therefore, the three of them did not have to take many detours in the fog before they returned to the main road.

But the road was no longer as peaceful as before. The sky here seemed to have undergone some kind of change, turning the entire sky blood red, which in turn made the surrounding mist also turn crimson.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Amidst a fiery red glow, countless bolts of lightning descended from the sky, sending up clouds of flying sand and soil.

There was no one in sight on the road; it was as if everyone had been erased. This scene made the young master and the scattered soldiers' hair stand on end.

It would be better if more arrogant people from Heguan came. Regardless of how disdainful they are, at least there would be some human presence here.

Now, things are really messed up; forget about popularity, you can't even see anyone.

"What's going on here?"

As the thunderstorm raged across the ground, the young master stepped forward, his face filled with astonishment and uncertainty.

"What happened? It's just the end of another cycle that has lasted for thousands of years."

After pondering for a moment, Yu Jin shrugged and said.

Chapter 486 Blood Sacrifice

2024-02-14

For some reason, the sky became enraged, and purple lightning roared ceaselessly.

The fog that had been lingering over Heguan also dissipated due to the terrifying thunderstorm.

Scorching lava flows across the land, melted by the descending lightning. The islands in the sea now resemble the legendary underworld.

"I'll dodge! What on earth is happening here?!" The young master desperately dodged the lightning bolts falling from the sky, but unfortunately, several still struck him.

The lightning that descended was like raindrops, leaving the three people present with almost no way to avoid it.

"Nothing happened. Haven't you ever seen thunder before?" Yu Jin didn't dodge like the young master. He simply shrugged, bathed in the thunder, looking quite relaxed.

The lightning struck him relentlessly, but nothing happened, as if the raging thunder was an illusion.

"This lightning is really dense. Could it be that there was once a demon god in He Guan?" While dodging the lightning, the soldiers also tried to use their own strength to block it.

Nevertheless, the thunderstorm brought him considerable pressure, leading the soldiers to wonder if it was lightning sent down by a demon god.

Seeing the young master and the stragglers dodging in such a sorry state, Yu Jin clapped his hands. He felt that if he didn't make a move soon, the young master and the stragglers would have to get big afro hairstyles.

A staff inlaid with brilliance appeared in his hand, and as he waved the staff, a deep, lightless black hole appeared in the sky.

Ancient Darkness—a forbidden magic of the magic town of Seria. It can create darkness, attracting magic and prayer. It can be cast while moving.

This is the lost magic of the Eternal City—and the despair that led to its destruction.

As soon as the blue-bordered black hole appeared in the sky, it unleashed an immense suction force. The straight lightning bolts were immediately distorted, rushing headlong into the black hole.

Black holes in the sky seem to only attract specific objects. In the entire space, only falling lightning is attracted by the gravity of a black hole; everything else remains unaffected.

A black hole, shrouded in wisps of purple, floated silently in the air, instantly silencing the noisy, trembling earth.

"Finally, things have calmed down a bit." The young master wiped the charred marks off his face and breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the lightning strike from the sky wouldn't kill him, the stinging and tingling sensation from being struck by lightning was anything but comfortable.

If possible, the young master would prefer not to be struck by lightning.

"No one has run away from Heguan for a long time, which is probably related to what we're seeing right now, right?"

Yu Jin looked down at the wrecked ground around him. With this level of destruction, the chances of an ordinary person surviving were extremely slim.

It is more likely that the civilization of Heguan was completely destroyed in this catastrophe.

"The festival was a success?!"

Just as Ember and the others were carefully observing the hellish scene before them, they suddenly heard a familiar child's voice.

Looking in the direction of the sound, they saw that Aru had appeared behind them at some point, his face filled with barely suppressed excitement.

"I knew that with your help, the festival would definitely be completed!"

"Dear guests from afar, let me take you on a tour of Heguan in my final moments!"

With cheerful steps, Aryu skipped and hopped to the front of the group.

"The last moments? Little one, you're getting ahead of yourself." Hearing Aru's words, Yu Jin raised an eyebrow.

Judging from the little guy's expression, he probably thinks the cycle of reincarnation has ended. Unfortunately, the current peace is just something the embers are forcibly maintaining.

He snapped his fingers, and the black hole in the sky vanished without a trace. The thunderstorm, which had just subsided, returned.

This immediately turned Aryu's excitement into astonishment.

"The festival... has it failed again?" The thunder roared, but Aryu seemed like an outsider.

The lightning struck him but passed right through him, having no effect whatsoever.

But Aryu just stood there, bewildered, without making any move.

"Your festival... it's probably not a good thing, is it?" Ember snapped his fingers again, the black hole reappeared, and the thunderstorm correspondingly stopped again.