The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

The ominous, dark red aura extinguished from the Hilichurl and then instantly transferred to Ember.

These auras leaped and rose, contracting and expanding, seemingly trying to penetrate Yu Jin's body, but unable to find the right way.

Ember looked up at the flame-like curse on his palm. He clenched his fist, and the curse dissipated like smoke.

But before long, the curses that the embers had scattered reattached to his arm.

"So eager? Then all of you, get in!"

Seeing this, Ember stopped rejecting the curses on his body. The black and red color on his body quickly receded, disappearing into the gaps in his dark armor without causing a ripple.

The best way to study curses is to accept them!

As for who received the curse? Ember could only say it wasn't him.

……

Amidst the vast, dusty ruins, a wisp of black silk, invisible to the naked eye, drifted down from the sky.

In the dim light, the black stockings looked so inconspicuous that no one noticed this strange thing.

The black silk floated in the air like feathers, and suddenly, as if it had found something, it instantly became lively.

Turbulent and convulsing, the black threads squeezed into the grayish-white ash, crossed the thin layer of soil, and entered the writhing darkness.

The distorted face presented immense resistance, but this did not diminish Black Silk's determination in the slightest.

It struggled to wriggle in the mud of the human face, and after being eaten and riddled with holes, it finally found its "destined one".

It was a "person" squeezed in the mud, filled with grief and pain, thin as a bamboo pole.

The curse attached itself to it, and this "person" became even less like a "person".

At the same time, a gasp rang out from inside the initial furnace.

"Where did these mosquitoes come from?!"

Chapter 602 The Vanished Star

2024-04-12

At the bottom of the deep abyss, a Hilichurl is undergoing changes that seem impossible to ordinary people—its skin is turning white, its mask is shattering, its body is growing larger, and its fur is disappearing.

A brand new person is emerging from the body of a Hilichurl.

But it's not just the Hilichurls who have changed...

The underground was an endless darkness, seemingly devoid of any concept of time, but the surface was different. While Ember and his companions roamed the Abyss of Layered Rocks, time continued to flow on the surface.

By the time they lifted the curse, it was already nighttime on the ground.

Today, most parts of Teyvat enjoyed good weather, so the Milky Way shone brightly and brilliantly in the sky as usual.

But this brilliance was somewhat different from usual.

Fontaine, an unremarkable hillside, an unremarkable little house. What's unremarkable is the abundance of astrological equipment inside.

These instruments, shimmering with starlight and water ripples, are clearly very valuable.

Amidst the cluttered equipment, an old witch wearing an enormous witch's hat was bent over her desk, writing and drawing, seemingly doing something unknown.

Her hat and robes were covered in stars; it was unclear whether this was to increase her magical power or simply because she loved stars.

The pure white starlight, tinged with a bluish hue, streamed in through the window, causing the old witch to pause as she wrote.

"I wonder if little Mona got my..." The great astrologer Astomanser Barbiros Trismedigistus seemed to have thought of something unspeakable and did not continue.

She raised her head, her cloudy eyes meeting the stars in the sky. The starlight seemed to possess boundless magic for this old witch.

Her cloudy eyes became clear because of the starlight, and then she suddenly lowered her head.

"What...what's going on?!"

Looking at her somewhat wrinkled hands, Barbie Ross immediately pushed back her chair and ran upstairs to the second floor of the house.

A large skylight was opened on the second floor, and directly opposite the skylight was a sophisticated astronomical telescope.

"The stars don't follow their predetermined paths..." Muttering to herself, Barbie Ross put her eyes under the telescope to observe them carefully.

Her gaze swept past the starlight and the pervasive interstellar dust, locking onto the star she had just seen.

Barbie Ross was right; the star's trajectory was random and had no pattern whatsoever.

Others might think it's no big deal, but for Barbie Ross, who has spent her life studying the stars, it's a different story.

She cares more about the starry sky than others, and understands better than others what the trajectories of stars mean.

Fate is reflected in the starry sky; this is something no one dares to say.

But now, a star has broken its predetermined fate and begun to wander freely. The implications of this make Barbie Ross's scalp tingle just by thinking about it.

"Shouldn't we call those old guys back? This is a tricky business." Barbielos lowered her eyes in thought. She was certain that Teyvat had changed more than ever before.

Of course, this excludes the time when the laws of nature were established in ancient times. Even disregarding that distant period, in Babiros's view, the great calamity five hundred years ago brought about no more changes to Teyvat than this.

"Wait... there's more?!"

Barbie Ross closed one eyelid and immediately opened it wide, because she noticed that the erratic star in the sky had changed again.

In her field of vision, the star with its erratic orbit was dimming at a visible speed, eventually disappearing completely from sight.

It didn't disappear from sight because the light faded, but rather the entire star was simply erased.

A corner of the starry sky was empty, with only a dark background and nothing else.

"..."

"Should I find somewhere to take refuge?" Barbielos looked away from the telescope.

She stood there blankly on the second floor, not knowing what to do. If a star deviating from its trajectory meant someone had broken free from the constraints of a predetermined fate, then what did it mean for a star to simply disappear?

Dead? That's impossible. The life star of a dead person will turn into scattered stardust and fall from the sky, but it will never disappear.

When the stars disappeared, Barbie Ross could only think of one possibility—that someone had broken free from the constraints of the rules and the laws of nature.

Regardless of how that person did it, breaking the rules of the world undoubtedly crossed the line for Sky Island.

The anchor of destiny is what the gods of Sky Isle value most. Since someone has broken the rules, they must bear the consequences from those rules—even though the rules are now broken and incomplete.

"Well... I've held the title of 'B' for too long, it's time to hand it over to little Mona." After a brief moment of stunned silence, Barbie Ross hurriedly ran downstairs.

The enormous witch's hat trembled, and Barbie Ross, in such a hurry, didn't even sit down, but instead lay down on the table and started writing.

"That should be about right." Looking at the slightly messy notes on the notepad on the table, Barbie Ross snapped her fingers.

"Pop!" The bubble on the table burst open, and a lifelike pigeon appeared before her eyes. Of course, that is, ignoring its transparent body.

"Go, give this to Mona and tell her that I'm going to avoid... cough cough, I'm going to do some research. I'll leave the matters concerning the Witch Association to her."

"Coo coo!" The carrier pigeon, formed from water, tilted its head, then opened its mouth wide and swallowed the note.

With a flap of its wings, the carrier pigeon flew out of the window and into the distance. Barbie Ross wasn't idle for a moment; she glanced around at the meticulously crafted astrological instruments, a hint of reluctance flashing in her eyes.

"Forget it, forget it, I can't take it with me, I can't take it!" After only a moment's hesitation, Barbie Ross made up her mind.

If we were to ask who in this world understands fate and the stars most deeply, it would undoubtedly be witches and astrologers.

Now that the stars have disappeared, when the Heavenly Principles realize what's happening, they'll probably target these two professions first.

At that time, apart from her sisters who had made a deal with Sky Island, probably not many others will survive.

Nevertheless, Barbie Ross firmly believed that Mona would survive! Because she was her best apprentice—and definitely not because Barbie Ross wanted to make fun of herself.

"Goodbye, my little house!" After taking one last, reluctant look at the little house where she had lived for so long, Barbielos ran away without looking back.

At that speed, there was neither any indication that she was reluctant to leave, nor any indication that she was an old woman.

Walking as fast as lightning, that's all there is to it.

……

In the deep abyss of rock, the non-human parts of the Hilichurls gradually fade away, revealing their human nature.

The newborn Kanriyans curled up, their breathing long and rhythmic, as if they were immersed in a beautiful dream.

"Stab!"

Dain tore off a piece of his cloak and covered his naked body, which was curled up on the ground.

He struggled to control his body and gently moved the man's eyelids. Dilated and contracted star-shaped pupils appeared simultaneously.

"Huff... huff..." Suppressing her inner excitement, Dain tiptoed away.

He turned to look at Yu Jin, and then his face, which had just calmed down, suddenly trembled violently again.

The look of shock on his face was no less than that of someone who had just witnessed the resurrection of a Kanriyan.

He rubbed his eyes, and the two figures with their backs to Dain gradually became clearer, one black and one white.

What did Dain see? Dain saw Paimon wrestling with Ember.

Chapter 603 Small Body, Great Strength

2024-04-12

"Hey... you guys are having a 'uh-huh'..."

Dain's movements and voice were slowed down countless times, and by the time they reached Ember's ears, they had become a trembling sound that echoed countless times.

Of course, all of this happened from Ember's perspective; Dain himself did not slow down at all.

[I knew you weren't normal, little one! You've given yourself away, haven't you?] At this point, simply talking, such an inefficient form of communication, was clearly not enough to satisfy Ember's need for conversation.

So he delivered the message directly to Paimon's heart.

I let you break the rules a little, and this is how you did it? Do you think the world isn't bad enough already?!

Paimon's eyes emitted a bright yellow light, and its outward demeanor changed from being lazy and gluttonous to being arrogant and domineering.

Even though it was Ember looking down at her, Paimon inexplicably gave Ember a feeling that he was being looked down upon.

[In my opinion, this world is absolutely wonderful!] Paimon's little fists came flying at him, but Ember didn't dodge and took them all in one go.

Not only that, he also absorbed all the power within his fist. In this state, Paimon... let's call him Awakened Paimon, the power of each of his punches is enough to split mountains and shatter rocks.