The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

With his arms crossed, Ember addressed the sullen soldiers below.

"Will and spirit? What will and spirit do we have?"

Upon hearing Ember's words, someone cautiously asked their companion the same question.

"I don't know either—maybe we ran fast?" his companion whispered in response.

What extraordinary willpower could these people possess? They were just ordinary soldiers. At most, their blood would boil a few times during pre-battle mobilization, but within three days, that blood would cool down again, and they would become the usual people who just loafed around and waited to die.

In other words, if one truly possesses an astonishing will, one would not remain here—because a superhuman will attracts the attention of the gods, which is how the Eye of God came to be.

Once you have the Eye of God, you've completely broken away from the ranks of ordinary people, and your future is bright. Why would you still be just a common soldier like them?

"What your will is not important; what matters is what other people... what other dragons think, understand?"

Seeing that the crowd below was still puzzled, Yu Jin said he didn't want to explain. Then he pulled out a whole bunch of hypnotic flasks.

The pale purple hypnotic jars were stacked into a pyramid several meters high, and for a moment it was impossible to count how many there were.

"Each of you take a few of these. Just throw them at any dragon lizard you see! They're guaranteed to work!"

Ember slammed his breastplate down, making a loud thud. After two or three jars of hypnosis, even a demigod would have to lie down and sleep for a while.

Seeing how lazy the dragon lizards were, Ember had no doubt that a single use of a hypnotic pot would keep them asleep for days.

The purple pyramid was quite eye-catching, and the soldiers in the camp gathered around. Filled with all sorts of questions, and succumbing to drowsiness, they began distributing the sleeping flasks.

As for Ember, he had already gone to do something else.

"What exactly is that purple thing of yours?" The shadow in the distance saw the faint purple smoke rising from the camp and a sense of vigilance suddenly flashed through his mind.

Shadow's intuition told her that this thing posed a threat to her.

"For dealing with dragon lizards." Yu Jin waved his hand. Luckily, he used to like to scavenge, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to pull out this hypnotic flask!

"Haizhi Island has something this powerful?!" Ying asked in surprise, naturally assuming that it was something the Coral Palace had created.

"What do you think?" Yu Jin asked in return, then he pulled Ying along and hurriedly went to a more secluded place.

"hey-hey……"

"What do you want to do?" Ying looked around at the desolate surroundings, a hint of wariness appearing in her eyes.

"What kind of move is that?" Seeing Ying quietly take a few steps back, Yu Jin immediately felt that his character had been looked down upon.

But he didn't really care, and unconsciously continued to move closer. Ember rubbed his hands together, then shouted loudly at Shadow:

"Let me see the heart of God!"

Chapter 572 has a minor problem.

2024-03-28

"What do you need the Heart of God for?" Ying's doubt deepened, she practically had the word "doubt" written all over her face.

"Can't I take a look?" Yu Jin said matter-of-factly. It's just a business license, right? Could there be some shady secret involved?

"Just to look?"

"Just looking."

Shadow took out his God Heart, and then Ember snatched it into his hand with lightning speed.

Looking at this thing, which was completely different from the Eye of God, Ember turned it over and over, feeling that it looked very familiar.

"Why does it sound so similar to some kind of chess game that Patch plays?" Yu Jin scratched his head, unable to figure it out.

"Chess? The Heart of God does indeed resemble a certain kind of chess piece; the style of the Heart of God is different for each god." Shadow nodded upon hearing Ember's speculation, but she quickly realized something:

"Who is Patch? Has he ever seen this kind of game before?"

"Um...you don't need to worry about that. As for this kind of chess, I don't know if it's the same game." Yu Jin shook his head at Ying, ending the topic there.

Patch has so many novel gadgets, it's impossible to count them all. Just take chess for example, Ember can think of several variations.

However, all these chess games ultimately end up with only one fate—being smashed by the embers.

After observing for a while, Ember quickly abandoned his study of the Heart of God's exterior and began to explore its internal structure.

Like her, Shadow's Divine Heart was entirely purple. At the very center of the Divine Heart, lightning occasionally crackled across the purple jewel.

The lightning bolts looked small, but Ember knew their power was no joke. If they weren't bound by the Heart of God, each of these bolts would have been enough to turn the Abyssal Dragon Lizards below into charred corpses.

But soon, Ember discovered something peculiar about the Heart of God.

"I'm rubbing and rubbing, but I can't get it off!"

"Hey! Your Heart of God has gone black. Let me make it clear beforehand, I didn't do it."

Ember waved to Shadow, who was idly standing to the side, signaling her to come and take a look at his Heart of God.

To make it easier for Shadow to notice this, Ember held the Heart of God in one hand and broke off a thin stick with the other, pointing it to the dark side of the Heart of God.

"Look, it's a bit dark here." Ember tapped the dark surface of the Heart of God with a small stick. Considering that Shadow had never been outside before, he suddenly realized:

"Has it been centuries since you last took a bath? Look at you, even the heart of God has turned black."

"..."

Ying glanced at Yu Jin. His armor was covered in so many spots, yet he still had the nerve to criticize her?

"Why are you looking at me? I take showers all the time!" Yu Jin said shamelessly.

He does take baths frequently, if... well, bathing in the pool counts as bathing.

There was really nothing that could be done about it. After all, so many people had died in Rodel and Rodland, and there was no one specifically assigned to collect the bodies. So the corpses were just piled up haphazardly by the roadside.

Over time, the ground became... well, quite damp.

Sometimes that thing is so thick that it can bury a person inside. Coincidentally, there are quite a few places like that, and Yu Jin has been there quite a lot.

Seeing Ember's confident demeanor, Shadow decided not to waste words with him. Pointing to the almost negligible darkness on the Heart of God, Shadow slowly said:

"These aren't stains; they're the strange things from Bayun Island, Qinglai Island, and Heguan."

Upon hearing this, Ember looked up at Shadow in surprise: "Wow, that's fast! By the way, can the Heart of God do something like this?"

"Nonsense, if I really wanted to do something, I could do it in the blink of an eye."

"As for the heart of God, it is meant to absorb people's beliefs. It can absorb good will, so why can't it absorb bad will? It all depends on whether you are willing to give it up or not."

Ying crossed her arms, looking as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"Then why haven't your Eye Hunting Order and the Isolation Order been implemented after so long?"

"Are you going to look or not? If not, I'm taking it!"

"Let me see!"

Ember stopped talking and began to focus on studying the internal structure of the Heart of God.

As a result, the more Yu Jin looked at it, the stranger he felt it was.

"Your Heart of God... is it perhaps an urn of ashes?" With one hand holding the purple Heart of God, Yu Jin rested his chin on his other hand and said with a look of surprise and uncertainty.

The more he looked at it, the more he felt that this thing was forcibly rubbed out of the buttocks of some unlucky guy.

"Are you trying to disgust me?" Ember's words were startling, but Shadow was already somewhat used to it.

However, she still took her own Heart of God. This was because Shadow feared that Ember would truly turn her Heart of God into an urn.

Ying had gotten used to what Yu Jin said, but she knew she still needed time to get used to what he did.

"Looks like you don't know? If you don't know, you can go back and ask your older sister. She definitely knows more than you do." Seeing that Shadow had taken the Heart of God, Ember didn't try to take it back.

He's already seen everything he needed to see, so why is he still clinging to it? Yu Jin isn't like some old woman who likes to chew on ashes.

"Why are you suddenly interested in the Heart of God?" Shadow asked curiously, looking at Ember who seemed lost in thought.

Ember is definitely not one of the Seven Gods, yet he possesses such power. Shadow racked his brains but still couldn't figure out where he came from.

"Because I've been so worried about your relationship with the dragons." After saying this nonsensical thing, Ember secretly ran behind the bushes.

The vegetation on Haiji Island isn't very dense, but it's certainly enough to cover one's body.

Ying suddenly felt an immense pressure emanating from all around her, making it much harder for her to breathe.

“Turn around, or I’ll scream for help.” There was a rustling in the bushes, followed by Ember’s voice.

Upon hearing this, Ying immediately turned around, and the pressure around her body decreased considerably.

"squeak--"

The scraping sound of toothache echoed, like sharp fingernails frantically rubbing against a steel plate, sending shivers down one's spine.

Fortunately, the unsettling sound didn't last long before it dissipated. Immediately afterward, Ember, clutching a lump of black ash, emerged from the bushes.

"What were you doing just now?" Ying asked, feeling a chill run down her spine as she saw Yu Jin reappear.

“The raw materials for making things.” Yu Jin showed off the black ash in his hand, which still faintly glowed with fire, and then sat down cross-legged.

"Kneading something... you wouldn't be... "

"You guessed right!"

Ember readily admitted it without any hesitation, and then, right in front of Shadow, he began to rub and rub.

The black ash looked very dry, but in the hands of the embers it seemed to have inexplicably gained a certain amount of moisture.

Therefore, under the constant kneading of the embers, the black ash that was originally forcibly kneaded together gradually began to resemble a whole.

But why is it round?

Although she had doubts, Ying remained silent.

Clearly, Ember also noticed the black disc in his hand, and he thought it looked very ugly.

As the embers continued to knead, yellow and red patterns appeared on a pitch-black round cake.

"Oh!"

The orange-red flames burned, completely imprinting the pattern onto the round cake. Its original black body also turned a gentle orange-red from the heat of the flames.

"The final step!" Yu Jin flipped the round cake in his hand, feeling that it was almost done.

So he held the "Heart of God" he had just sculpted in one hand, and extended his fingers in the other.