The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

“Sing to Kapachiri. Where is she!” Aru pointed to the floating island in the sky and said to Shadow.

“The resentment of lightning… Crane View…” After hearing Aru’s words and recalling what had happened at Crane View before, Shadow had a general idea in his mind.

Looking back into the distance, at the horizon, a dark shadow shrouded in mist could be seen faintly.

That is Tsurukan, located on the very edge of Inazuma, and also the place with the fewest records in Inazuma.

Recalling Thunderbird's inexplicable rage before, Shadow shook his head. Who would have thought that such a desolate and remote place would contain such sincere feelings?

"Can you hear it if you sing to it here?" Ember looked into the distance at the huge vortex in the sky, which was the strange phenomenon formed by the resentment of the Thunderbird after its death.

“It’s alright. Just watching Kapachiri sing from afar is already quite nice,” Aru said with a contented smile, scratching her head.

In fact, when Tsurukan still existed, Aru sang to Kapachiri from afar in this way; now, the distance is just a little greater.

"How can that be? I'll send you up!" Yu Jin said, intending to send Aru up, but he also picked up the young master and the scattered soldiers.

"What do you want now?" The young master struggled a few times in Yu Jin's hands, but after realizing it was useless as before, he gave up in frustration.

"I'll send you two to scout ahead!" Yu Jin said, then waved his hands and threw the young master and the stragglers into the floating island high in the sky.

"Hold on tight." Yu Jin grabbed Aru's hand. He was about to jump up, but then took a few steps back and came to Ying's side.

"You probably don't need me to 'deliver' you, right?"

Shadow glanced at Ember, but did not answer him. Instead, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and streaked through the air.

"Awesome!" Yu Jin gave a thumbs up, then gave a word of advice to Aru beside him.

"Hurry up—takeoff!"

"what--"

A moment later, Ember carried the screaming Aru to the floating island in mid-air.

The closer you get to the floating island, the more loose rocks you see. It's as if the island was blasted up there by someone.

The area around the floating island was pitch black, with thick, dark clouds obscuring the light. The only source of light was the ceaseless lightning flashing from the island's center.

However, two leaping figures have now appeared within the lightning.

"Where did this thing come from?!"

"I told you not to be so impulsive! You ran around like that the moment you came in and lured this thing out!"

The young master and the scattered soldiers dodged Lei Yinquan's attacks while blaming each other.

"Is this the lingering resentment of the Thunderbird? It's indeed very strong." Yu Jin glanced at the strange creature chasing the young master's scattered soldiers below and sighed.

It truly lives up to its reputation as a being capable of turning an island into a wasteland; even the resentment it leaves behind is incredibly powerful.

Yu Jin landed on the ground with Aru, and Lei Yin Quan Xian immediately noticed the two newcomers.

It was as if it were a simple conditioned reflex; it immediately abandoned the young master and the scattered soldiers and came to hunt down the newly arrived Yu Jin and Aru.

However, just as its steel-like wings were about to glide across Aru's body, it suddenly stopped.

"Ahhh~~, la..."

The child's ethereal and innocent voice broke through the thunder's roar and echoed across the island. The song Aru had always wanted to sing to the Thunderbird was just a repetitive little tune.

But it was this sound that made Lei Yinquan stop what he was doing.

"The power of a promise..."

“You could also say it’s the power of wishes,” Yu Jin said cryptically, glancing at the approaching figure.

"Alright, I know I was wrong. Can you stop making fun of me?" Ying looked at Yu Jin speechlessly.

Before arriving at Qinglai Island, Yu Jin led Ying to visit both Shenwu Tomb and Bayun Island.

What you hear is not as good as what you see. Knowing something is one thing, but seeing it with your own eyes is another.

The more Ying saw, the more her heart wavered. Perhaps, she had indeed been wrong in the first place.

Ordinary Aru's voice could never be this loud, and the reason for everything is that Aru used her already limited power.

The singing was gradually swallowed up by the thunderstorm once again. Aryu's figure had also become so blurry and indistinct that it was almost invisible.

As the song ended, a purple feather slowly fell from Lei Yin Quan's body into A Lu's hand.

"Brothers, this is the last feather. Offer it to the perch, and Crane Watch should return to normal."

Aryu looked at the feather in his hand, his expression complex. For thousands of years, he had wanted to complete the festival and end the cycle of the Crane Watch.

But who would have thought that one of the feathers offered to the perch would be taken away by Capachelli?

With a gentle lift of his arm, the purple feather floated down in front of them. Aryu's expression was no longer complicated; it became pure.

Pure joy, pure liberation.

Goodbye, big brothers... and this big sister.

"I'm going to take a boat."

"Oh, the glittering silver boat heading to the moon, I'm going home, to the golden mansion on the moon..."

Humming an unknown tune, Aru waved to the group with a smile before disappearing from their sight.

"Phew... that kid... he really likes to sing." The young master shook his head with a sigh.

Aryu really loved to sing. Even before he completely disappeared, he didn't forget to sing them a folk song, although the young master didn't understand a word of what he sang.

"Going home, the moon, the golden house..." The soldier murmured Aru's last lyrics, then suddenly looked up at the sky as if he remembered something.

Unfortunately, the thick thunderstorm obscured his vision, making it impossible for him to see anything clearly.

"Hey...did you hear that? That kid seems to be trying to tell us something." Ying watched Aru leave, savoring Aru's last lyrics, and belatedly realized something.

"Huh? I heard that. Isn't it about flying to the moon in a boat?"

"Hiss... This isn't right. People from Teyvat should return to the ley lines after they die, so how did they end up on the moon?"

Upon hearing this, Ying gave Yu Jin a deep look. She couldn't tell whether Yu Jin genuinely didn't know or was just pretending.

"Hiss... something's not right. A silver ship? I think I packed up the boatman and took him with me. Aryu can't ride the ship!"

Yu Jin clapped his hands, suddenly realizing a big problem—that the shipwright of the "silver ship" that Aru had mentioned had already been thrown into his body.

That's good; the boat is now without a boatman. Ember can only hope that Aryu knows how to row and can row herself to the moon.

……

Meanwhile, in a world unseen by ordinary people, Aru opened her eyes, somewhat dazed.

"Is this the world after death?" Aru looked around, but all he could see were large patches of blurry light, making it impossible for him to see anything clearly.

Aryu was somewhat panicked. According to the legend of Heguan, after a person dies, they will be taken to a golden land by a silver ship.

Is this golden land truly a chaotic wasteland?

Just as Aru was panicking, a suction force suddenly came from afar, and Aru's body moved rapidly with the suction force.

A portion of the light spot became clearer, and Aryu's eyes widened as the clearer part gradually outlined a figure—the figure of Ember.

Before she could say anything, Aryu was sucked into Ember's body by that suction force.

In the end, he vaguely heard this sentence.

"No way? I've become a ship?!"

Chapter 542 Another Group of Migrant Workers

2024-03-13

While Yu Jin and the others were busy with the cleanup, things were gradually getting lively underground, some distance away from them.

Amidst the ruins of Yuanxia Palace, a rare sight of people running was spotted.

"Someone in charge, check the situation around here!"

"Sir, everything is normal!"

After a brief investigation, the debt collector brought back long-awaited good news.

Upon hearing this, the lieutenant of the Fools' squad breathed a deep sigh of relief. He looked up at the dark sky; in the past, he would never have believed that there was such a vast space beneath Inazuma.

Perhaps this isn't underground? The officer recalled the crumbling land of Yuanxia Palace and the endless abyss beneath it, and made some speculations in his mind.

"Rest where you are! Watch out for those monsters!" Seeing that there was no movement nearby, the officer waved his hand, ordering his team to rest on the spot.

In the Abyss Palace, they saw something they couldn't see on the ground: a beast that resembled a giant lizard.

Because it was a wild beast, the Fools initially didn't take it seriously. A wild beast was nothing to the Fools.

But they soon paid a heavy price for it. Wild beasts are not to be feared, but what if these "beasts" possessed extraordinary intelligence and elemental adaptability far beyond human capabilities?

The Fools' squad answered the question; they were all wounded, and the fear on their faces was evident even through their masks.

If it weren't for the Fools' advance team emphasizing teamwork, and the fact that there were several elites with the Evil Eye in this team, they probably would have perished in the first ambush long ago.

After catching his breath on the ground for a while, the lieutenant got up and looked at the wreckage where they were.

This is a cluster of collapsed buildings, with scattered rubble and irregular stones on the ground. Many of the patterns on them have become blurred over time, making them look quite old.

As the officer casually parted the rubble, he was somewhat surprised to find that beneath it lay a rotten wooden cabinet.

Underneath the dilapidated wooden cabinet, several yellowed pieces of paper lay scattered haphazardly on the floor.

"Cheer up, everyone! We've got work to do!" The officer's spirits lifted at the sight of the paper. Having paper meant having records, which might deepen their understanding of this unfamiliar land.

As soon as the officer gave the order, the Fools, who had been resting, immediately sprang into action. The stronger ones cleared away the rubble, while the clerical staff deciphered the information on the papers, their cooperation seamless.

Soon, they achieved some results.

"The wild beasts we encountered here... they are called 'dragon lizards' by the locals."

"Dragon Lizard?" The lieutenant nodded upon hearing this; the name "dragon lizard" was indeed fitting for those wild beasts.

They resemble both lizards and the legendary "dragons," making the name "dragon lizard" quite fitting.

"Moreover, judging from these studies, from the fourth generation onwards, their intelligence has generally been no less than that of a human at age twelve." The Fools responsible for interpreting the data were somewhat surprised; this level of intelligence was quite remarkable.

"Four generations later? What about now?" The officer noticed the key point. If the intelligence of the fourth generation was already so astonishing, what about the other generations?

"I don't know about that. It seems that the people here eventually left, and we can't find out how far the experiment ended."