The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

"How can you grow fruit if you don't have a gender?" Yu Jin asked rhetorically.

"Oh, so that thing wasn't a fruit, but something you didn't know where to put?" He then nodded thoughtfully.

As expected of something bearing the title of "King," its mere consciousness was enough to cause the Golden Tree to bear such large fruit—Ember still believed that the thing was the fruit of the Golden Tree.

It is important to know that in addition to bestowing blessings, the golden tree has another extremely important function: it is responsible for the reincarnation of the creatures that return to the tree.

The vast space within the Golden Tree is, in a sense, a hellish realm where countless lives are reincarnated in accordance with the Golden Laws.

So, the sheer complexity of the consciousness that left the Golden Tree bewildered is commendable, regardless of other factors.

Of course, even if the Golden Tree wanted to, it couldn't. This world has its own system of life and death, and there's no need to insert the superfluous concept of "reincarnation."

Ember didn't let Little Yellow activate the reincarnation function; it was content to just be a big tree!

After chatting with the Golden Tree for a while, Ember returned to the vicinity of Iwamoto Masaki.

Seeing that Iwamoto Masaki was about to be completely bewildered, Yu Jin patted its cap.

"Stop thinking! I think I know where the King of Grass is. I'll bring it to you right away!"

After saying that, Ember tapped the cap of the Rock Mushroom again. It was quite soft, much more comfortable to pat than the Mushroom Man.

“The King of Grass… bring it here…” Iwamoto Masaki was confused for a moment, then quickly perked up.

"Then I'm sorry to trouble you!"

"Alright!" Yu Jin pointed his arm to the sky, and then a huge golden tree root broke through the ground, carrying him straight up to the sky.

"The King of Grass is coming soon." In her excitement, Iwamoto Masaki also began to rack her brains to recall her distant memories.

“Spark…Heart of the Oasis…Guidance…Dragon of Grass…Homeland…” One word after another came from the mouth of Iwamoto Shinzun, and it breathed a sigh of relief.

Very good, those memories that the King of Grass told her back then are still clear to her now.

But soon, the cap of the Iwamoto mushroom began to uncontrollably spew out spores like mist.

It discovered that the King of Grass seemed to have given it a message. All of this must have happened after the [Apocalypse] had ended, when the King of Grass came to it on his own initiative.

But looking at it now, it doesn't seem like the Grass King came to find him on his own initiative at all—he was clearly dragged here by Ember!

"Wait—, King of Trees—, don't bring the King of Grass here—" Iwamoto Masaki shouted loudly under the Golden Tree, but unfortunately, Ember could no longer hear him.

……

"boom!"

In one corner of the spiraling, concave rock abyss mining area, a sudden earthquake shook the ground. Golden tree roots, having pierced through countless layers of soil, brought the embers to the surface.

The magnificent scenery before him did not attract Ember, for he had more important things to do.

Upon noticing Zhiqiong staring blankly into the distance, Yu Jin instantly grabbed the back of her collar.

Without saying a word, he led Zhiqiong through the rocky abyss that could be described as "precipitous".

"Senior, where are you taking me? I haven't finished my surveying work yet, Sister Jinwu will worry!"

"Now you know someone's worried about you?" Yu Jin chuckled. He leaped to a high place and looked around, quickly spotting the figure he had expected.

"Lan, I'm entrusting Zhiqiong to you!"

After tossing the sword Zhiqiong to Lan, who was tirelessly searching for it, Yu Jin gave her a few words of advice and then left.

"Huh? Zhiqiong, weren't you surveying maps with Jinwu at the bottom of the Abyss of Layered Rocks? How did Yu Jin drag you here?"

Lan walked over from among the sword mounds and helped Zhiqiong up.

"Hehe... it's a long story, and I don't think you, Sister Lan, would want to hear it." Zhiqiong rubbed her bottom, which was almost bleeding, and grimaced a little.

It can only be said that Yu Jin had no sense of chivalry. At such a height, he simply threw Zhi Qiong down, making her bounce around quite badly.

"Sister Lan, where is the nearest tunnel? If I don't go down soon, the mission might be delayed." Zhiqiong rubbed his hands together and gave Lan a fawning smile.

After looking Zhiqiong up and down, Lan rested her chin on her hand and nodded slightly.

"I get it. You must be planning to go down there alone and do something earth-shattering, right?"

"what?"

"What do you mean, 'huh'? You young people's thoughts are practically written all over your faces!"

"Courage and spirit are commendable, but first, take this sword!"

"Stop hitting her! Sister Lan, stop hitting her! If you keep hitting her, she'll really go crazy!"

In an unknown corner of the towering abyss, two little green figures were darting about wildly. If anyone saw them, they would surely exclaim in surprise:

"What a thrilling and exhilarating battle!"

Although this battle was one-sided.

……

"call--"

Without Zhiqiong, Yu Jin's speed suddenly increased significantly, and all he could hear was the whistling wind.

At a speed fast enough to leave a white trail in the air, Ember soon saw the towering Dragonspine Snow Mountain, and the even taller golden tree planted on it.

Having easily found his way to the Golden Tree, Ember heard a series of clanging sounds as he struck metal.

"What are you doing? Didn't I tell you to just wander around?" Ember came up to the Forge Knights. The clanging and banging sounds of iron being struck earlier were indeed from them hitting the Golden Tree with their greatswords.

"This subordinate is trying to find a way to cut down the Golden Tree! If a Golden Tree appears in the border area again in the future, we can nip it in the bud!" the Forge Knight replied boldly.

The Forge Knight and Gopher were in cahoots. Since the Golden Tree had gotten rid of Gopher's wife, naturally the Forge Knight wouldn't treat the Golden Tree well either.

"Boom!!!"

The dull thud of the hammer striking the steel wall was deafening—the Forge Knight was sent flying by a powerful blow from the Golden Tree.

Leaping onto the still-wanting branches of the golden tree, Ember could only offer his sincere blessings to the Forge Knight.

"Alright, I hope you can find a way to cut down the golden tree soon."

The golden tree carried the embers high into the air, and soon after, the clanging and banging of metal being struck could be heard again from below the tree.

Then, not long after, there was a loud "bang," making it seem as if someone had fired a cannon on the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain.

Leaping over the clouds, Ember landed on one of the thick, unnamed branches of the golden tree.

Above the branch, a "peach" the size of a person hangs down, radiating an alluring white-green luster.

Next to this large peach, a somewhat simple golden wooden house rises from the ground.

The person living inside was none other than Abedor, the chief alchemist of Mondstadt!

"Ember? What brings you here?" Noticing the commotion outside, Abedo came out of the cabin.

"Of course I came here to pick peaches." Yu Jin ran over and then asked Abedo, "You've been here for so long, what have you discovered?"

“A discovery? Hmm…” Abedo lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then took out his notebook and said:

"This unknown thing took shape several months ago, and now it is simply absorbing power."

"This power... is terrifying. My previous speculation that its explosion could turn Mondstadt into a primeval forest is probably true."

Aberdo looked up at the large white peach; this ticking time bomb sitting here was unsettling.

"So the thing inside was already formed, and then it just stayed on Little Yellow and wouldn't leave, right?" Yu Jin crossed his arms and walked around the rather huge "white peach" a few times.

The peach shook a few times, as if trying to explain itself.

"I heard the Sumeru Desert is very large, right?" Yu Jin suddenly remembered something.

“That’s right.” Abedo nodded.

"Then let it explode in the desert!" Ember shouted excitedly, waving his hand.

The peach shook even more violently.

Chapter 623 News of the Grass Dragon

2024-04-22

"Goodbye, Abeldo!"

Goodbye!

Abedo stood on a branch of the golden tree, stiffly responding to Ember, who was dragging a large white peach, leaping down from the sky behind him.

"Hopefully nothing unexpected will happen." After taking a few steps forward, Abedo arrived at the spot where the fruit had been hanging.

The broken surface is now as smooth as a mirror, and new shoots have begun to grow, repairing the neck-thick wound.

"This can be considered...lightening my burden?" Abedo scratched his hair. The white fruit and the golden tree were both phenomenal.

The first thing Abedo does every morning when he wakes up is to choose whether to study the golden tree or the large white fruit.

This usually meant Abedo wasting his precious morning run time, but now he doesn't have to make a choice anymore.

……

A streak of white light leaped up and down in the air; it was Ember carrying freshly picked fruit toward the Abyss of Layered Rocks.

After passing over the towering rock walls that spiraled up from the giant abyss, Ember arrived at the place where he had come from in no time.

The roots of the golden tree there had shrunk back, leaving only a large, dark hole from which a cool breeze emanated.

Without a word, Ember jumped off the ground. Before leaving, he also grabbed several huge rocks out of thin air and used them to cover up all the holes that the golden tree had created.

He mainly felt that Zhiqiong might sneak over and run back to the bottom of the Abyss through these pits, so it was better to be on the safe side.

The tunnels dug out by the roots of the golden tree were extremely long and narrow, which also reflects the depth of the abyss of layered rocks.

Suddenly, his vision cleared, and Yu Jin realized that he had fallen into a stone hall at the bottom of a deep abyss.

"Boom!"

"boom!"

A white streak was the first to fall to the ground, and not only that, it bounced upwards. But soon, this white streak was pressed down by a dark shadow that fell next.

"So sturdy?!" Yu Jin exclaimed in surprise after rolling off the large white peach, picking it up and examining it carefully.

As expected of the fruit from the golden tree, it remained unharmed even when used as a cushion!