The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

“The King of Grass… and the King of Trees…” As soon as Iwamoto Shinzuru saw the white fruit held atop Ember’s head, he immediately came over.

"Ahem! Actually, I'm not the King of Trees, you can just call me Ember." Upon hearing Iwamoto Musume call him the King of Trees, Ember quickly told it his name.

It has to be said that monsters are simple-minded; they believe whatever they are told.

"Ember? Is that the King of Grass on your head?" Iwamoto Masaki called out the somewhat awkward name, then turned its attention to the fruit on Ember's head.

As a combination of elemental power and fungi, Iwamoto Masaki can sense the immense grass elemental power and surging life force emanating from above Ember's head.

Apart from the Grass Dragon and the Grass King, there is no other creature on the entire continent that possesses such characteristics.

The Grass Dragon is currently being tormented by the [Apocalypse] and has no chance of coming over, so there is only one truth!

"King of Grass? I think it's King of Peaches." Ember placed the white, peach-like fruit on the ground above his head and made a sarcastic remark.

"I don't know why the Queen of Grass has become like this. She used to shrink, but she turned into a plant... I've never heard of that before."

Looking at the "King of Grass" before him, which resembled a lifeless object, Iwamoto Masaki felt helpless. Although its memories were from a long time ago, it clearly had no way to deal with this situation.

“That’s normal, after all, these fruits grew on my tree.” Yu Jin patted the white fruit, and the fruit trembled slightly.

I don't know if it was the fruit's reaction or the slap from the embers.

"You truly are the King of Trees! The Grass Dragon will surely get along very well with you!"

"Grass dragon? Where is there a grass dragon?" Yu Jin's ears twitched. Had he just heard some incredible news?

"The Grass Dragon is our leader and our home." Seeing how interested Ember was in the Grass Dragon, Iwamoto Masaki felt that her guess was becoming more and more correct.

"Home? Judging from your homeless appearance, something must have happened to you, right?" Yu Jin pondered for a moment, stroking his chin.

It seems that most of the dragons he has seen so far have some kind of problem, and this grass dragon is probably no exception.

"【Doomsday】, it's 【Doomsday】 that has entangled the Grass Dragon, and our home has been polluted." Iwamoto Masaki's tone turned somber.

Its memory of the outside world begins from the moment the Grass Dragon expelled them from its body.

Shaking her head to clear away her inner turmoil, Iwamoto Masaki looked at the white fruit in front of her and continued:

"The Queen of Grass once made a pact with our people that when the [Apocalypse] is over, she will come to find me and let me tell her everything I know."

Iwamoto Masaki paused for a moment, then said somewhat confusedly, "But the King of Grass hasn't awakened yet; instead, you, the King of Trees, brought him back."

Has the "apocalypse" truly vanished?

After speaking, Iwamoto Shinzuru raised its head to look at Ember. Ever since it learned that the fruit of the King of Grass grew on the Ember Tree, it had been convinced that Ember was the King of Trees.

Even if Yu Jin corrected it several times, it was no use.

"It's definitely gone!" Ember slammed his breastplate down loudly. Doomsday? What doomsday could be more important than finding the Grass Dragon?

Even if this so-called "doomsday" really exists, the embers can still confidently scatter it like this!

"Let's go! Take me to the desert to find the Grass Dragon!" Ember casually brushed off a few words about the apocalypse, then impatiently asked Iwamoto Shinzun to take him to find the Grass Dragon.

Grass Dragon, this must be Apep that Kutri mentioned. She possesses a world within her body; as long as you build a good relationship with her, you'll never have to worry about where to dump your trash.

"Well... I'm sorry, Tree King, I don't know where the Grass Dragon is right now." Iwamoto Masaki stammered, finally managing to utter these few words after a long pause.

Upon hearing this, Yu Jin crossed his arms and looked the mushroom beast up and down, asking with considerable suspicion, "I now seriously doubt that you are a member of the Grass Dragon's family!"

Iwamoto Masaki was even more embarrassed. It shook the huge umbrella on its head and tried to explain, "When the Grass Dragon was infected by the apocalypse, she expelled all her familiars from her body in order to let us live."

"After that, we could no longer sense the presence of the Grass Dragon."

"Do you know if anyone knows the location of the Grass Dragon?" Yu Jin was a little worried. He had heard that the Sumeru Desert was ridiculously large. He couldn't possibly let him run through the desert day and night, could he?

"The King of Grass knows," Iwamoto Masaki said with absolute certainty.

"bass--"

A blinding flash of light echoed beneath the towering cliffs of the abyss.

Suddenly, a gleaming straight sword appeared in Yu Jin's hand. He placed the sword on a rock and rubbed it repeatedly.

As he rubbed, he muttered to himself, "I never thought that after living for so long, I would one day be the one performing a C-section."

"Whoosh!" He blew away the pebbles on the sword, and just to be on the safe side, he heated the sword until it was red-hot.

Then he slowly walked to the large white peach in front of him.

He straightened his sword and aimed at a good spot. Then he saw White Peach roll slightly to one side.

"The ground might be unstable," Yu Jin muttered, then picked up some stones and placed them on either side of the fruit to stabilize the large white peach.

They gestured again, and the big white peach rolled away again.

Looking at the neatly arranged stones on the ground and the white peach rolling around beside him, Yu Jin squeezed the hilt of his sword.

"It might be the wind."

With one hand holding the fruit down and the other wielding the straight sword, Ember suddenly felt a tremendous force coming from the hand holding the fruit down—the white peach rolled away again.

"I see, you didn't want to be born, did you?!"

Looking at the white fruit rolling around on the ground, Yu Jin figured that the thing inside must be seriously ill.

Chapter 624 Sending Tree Roots One by One

2024-04-23

Yu Jin pressed down on the large white peach with both hands, considering whether he should just break this unruly thing open.

Seeing the fruit that the King of Grass had transformed into tremble up and down, yet still unable to escape the palm of the embers, Iwamoto Masaki suddenly remembered something.

"King of Trees, wait!" Iwamoto Masaki immediately stepped forward and said urgently to Ember.

Looking at the mushroom beast arching around him, Ember released his hands.

"What? What's the problem?"

“The King of Grass may have his own plans for not wanting to come out,” Iwamoto Masaki explained to Ember.

Upon hearing Iwamoto Masaki's words, Shiramoko, who was in the distance, immediately jumped up and down a few times, as if nodding.

"Being without hands and a mouth is such a hassle," Yu Jin remarked, seeing Bai Taozi visibly excited.

Communication is a wonderful thing, but unfortunately, peaches can't communicate.

"The Grass King once said that when the [Apocalypse] ends, everything will be in turmoil. At that time, she will take the [Fire Seed], which is like the heart of the Grass Dragon, to save the Grass Dragon!"

"Something like a grass dragon's heart?" Ember pondered for a moment, realizing the Grass King really knew a lot about grass dragons. Ember even suspected that she might have dissected the grass dragon when it wasn't looking.

As long as the anesthetic is applied sufficiently, given the Grass Dragon's self-healing ability, Ember believes this is achievable.

He had known Kutri for so long, yet he didn't know what Kutri's heart looked like, which shows how well the Grass King knew the Grass Dragon.

Thinking of this, Yu Jin scratched his head. He suddenly realized that he hadn't known Kutri for very long, maybe a year?

But for both Ember and Kutri, this short period of time was but a fleeting moment, passing in the blink of an eye.

So Ember abandoned his malicious thoughts about the Grass King, because who knows, maybe the Grass King and the Grass Dragon are really close friends.

"That's right, that's the Heart of the Oasis. As long as we can send the spark into the Heart of the Grass Dragon's Oasis, we can unleash the Grass Dragon's self-healing potential. At that time, even the [Apocalypse] will be purified by the flourishing grass!"

Iwamoto Masaki became more and more excited as she spoke, because this was the way the Grass King had told her to save the Grass Dragon.

"so……"

"So now everything is not as planned. The King of Grass did not come, the spark is nowhere to be found, and even the Grass Dragon cannot be found."

Iwamoto Masaki's momentum immediately deflated, and she looked as if she was about to burst into tears.

"So, plans are unreliable; improvisation is more common." Yu Jin patted the umbrella-shaped cap of the Iwamoto mushroom to calm it down.

"Gululu~"

The big white peach rolled over to the side of Ember and Iwamoto Masaki and bumped into them.

"Hey, you're annoying!"

Yu Jin patted the white peach; it was like a ball, quite amusing.

The white peach was flipped over by the embers and then lay still, as if it were questioning its existence.

"Do you know where the Grass Dragon is?" Yu Jin felt that if they continued playing around, they might achieve the feat of giving Peach depression, so he decisively became more serious.

White Peach turned herself over and bounced up and down to indicate that she was sure.

"Should we go find Grass Dragon now?" Ember asked again.

The white peach naturally bounced up and down again.

"Alright, you lead the way. We'll talk about the rest after we find the Grass Dragon!" Yu Jin waved his hand, signaling the white peach in front of him to lead the way.

The white fruit circled the ground a few times, as if surveying its surroundings. Then it retreated into its own little world.

It's just a peach now, without hands or feet. How can it use its fuzz to climb the cliffs of the deep abyss?

"Oh! I forgot you're a peach." Yu Jin slapped his forehead, belatedly realizing his mistake.

He picked up the huge fruit in front of him and ran away, with a huge umbrella behind him swaying up and down.

……

In the upside-down city, Ember didn't immediately run to the surface with Mushroom and Peach. He had other things to take care of.

"Where...where did you pick these peaches? They're so big! Can you tell me where the tree is?"

Yuan Shang was astonished to see the enormous fruit, as tall as a person, above Yu Jin's head.

"That's all, just this one." Yu Jin placed it on the ground and quietly waited for the others to return.

Soon, the group of people who had gone out in twos and threes to search for the Hilichurls all returned.

However, this time their harvest was significantly less than before.

"Phew... all done!" Yu Jin let out a deep breath. The sound of You Su swatting mosquitoes and the incessant cursing echoed in Yu Jin's ears, but he ignored them all.

"That's it... Is this considered finished?" Dain was most concerned about and most sensitive to the matter of purifying the Hilichurls.

"That's all for today! You can come back and play again when you're free, but we have more important things to do now!" Yu Jin stretched and explained to everyone.

Dain nodded upon hearing this, saying nothing more. Seeing his compatriots again was enough to satisfy him.

"In that case, I must also investigate the Abyss Order. I hope they are truly prepared to restore Kanria, as they claim." After glancing at the Abyss, Dain turned and stepped into the dazzling starry sky.