The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

Now, he was more motivated than ever to search for any trace of the Abyss Order. Dain didn't believe, nor did he accept, that the Abyss Order could truly restore Kanria, but he at least needed to find out the situation of the Kanria survivors.

Yu Jin looked at the teleportation method and clicked his tongue in amazement. Was this guy really not a traitor who ran away from the Abyss Order?

"And you guys?" With the dazzling starry sky curtain closed, Ember turned his attention to the others.

"I'll wait for you to cut the peach and eat it." Ye Lan leaned against the wall, looking at the huge fruit behind Yu Jin that was emitting a faint white and green light.

Where did this guy get all these weird and wonderful things from?

“This can’t be cut for now.” Yu Jin shook his head, declining Ye Lan’s request.

"Then why don't you hurry up and send us up? Otherwise, if there's nothing to eat, someone might steal your peaches at night."

Ye Lan covered her forehead and said with a helpless expression.

"Of course, that's why I called you all here." Yu Jin stood up from the ground and nodded.

"How are you going to get us up there?" Ye Lan finally perked up. The terrain of the Layered Rock Abyss was complex and couldn't be figured out in such a short time. So, it would probably take quite some time for them to walk up on their own.

"Hold on tight, and watch me send out tree roots one by one!"

Yu Jin snapped his fingers.

"What's the meaning……"

"boom!"

Before Ye Lan could finish speaking, she felt the entire upside-down city tremble.

Immediately afterwards, golden pillars pierced the ground, carrying everyone forward into the sky.

"what!!!"

"What's wrong with you? You can fly, why are you yelling so loudly?" With a white peach on his head and a giant mushroom beast in his hand, Ember sat on the roots of the golden tree and complained to Paimon who was screaming.

"Who told you that you can fly and not be afraid of heights?!" Paimon clung tightly to the ribbons on Ying's body, his screams showing no sign of abating.

Ember, sitting on the golden tree, quickly passed Paimon; his trajectory was different from everyone else's.

The others soared straight into the sky, while the embers moved diagonally upwards.

"Hey—, the roots under you are crooked!" Paimon shouted, alerting him in his loud, shrill voice.

"No way—I'm going to play in Sumeru!!!" Yu Jin waved his still-free arm and replied.

"boom!"

Then, Paimon saw the tree roots where the embers were embedded straight into the rock wall at an unknown depth.

"Ying, do you know Iron Head Kung Fu?"

"No, what's wrong?"

"nothing."

Paimon shrank back, then pulled the ribbon tightly against Ying.

"Boom!!!"

"Ah! My head!"

From the bottom of the towering abyss, came the cries of a young girl. In fact, it wasn't just young girls; both men and women experienced the same pain.

Chapter 625 Ruggedness and Desert

2024-04-23

"call--"

The sky was filled with yellow sand, and as far as the eye could see, there was only a gray haze.

Amidst this terrifying sandstorm, a strange-looking group was advancing.

One person, one mushroom, and one peach.

To be precise, it was the large peach in front that rolled against the storm, while the figures of people and mushrooms followed behind it.

"Wow, it's huge! Sumeru is truly vast." Yu Jin looked up and around. The area he could see with his naked eye was still the same unchanging yellow sand dunes.

This immediately fueled Yu Jin's urge to complain. He was baffled; where did such a vast desert come from in Sumeru? It was right next to a lush rainforest. This climate change was simply unbelievable.

"I'm...I'm going to turn into dried mushrooms." The Iwamoto mushroom beast, which was at the very back, couldn't help but echo in a hoarse voice.

Even as a member of the Grass Dragon's family, it could not endure the heat and sun exposure of so many days.

Now its rock-like skin has shrunk, its color turning a deep, dark hue, like a black rock that has been scorched and compressed by lava and tectonic plates underground.

The large white peach at the very front, which had been rolling and leading the way, clearly noticed this as well. It stopped in place, and after a short while, its still plump shape wobbled a few times before rolling in another direction.

Following the trail left by the large white peach in the fine sand, a clear crescent-shaped pool of water appeared before Yu Jin.

Near the pool, greenery reappeared after a long absence. On the unidentified trees hung plump fruits of various colors, making one's mouth water at first sight.

Of course, none of this appealed to Ember. The only one truly excited was the Iwamoto Musume behind him, about to return home.

Watching the Iwamoto mushrooms rolling around excitedly in the pool, Yu Jin sighed with emotion.

"Indeed, having a guide is always a good thing in a place like this!"

After saying that, Yu Jin pushed the big white peach and sat down under a tree in the oasis.

Considering the condition of the Iwamoto mushroom beast, the group... and the items rested until nightfall.

The desert nights are exceptionally quiet; the sandstorms that raged during the day seem to have tired themselves out and want to rest for a while under the night sky.

Ember leaned against the tree counting stars. Iwamoto Musashi had long since fallen into a deep sleep, and the large white peach beside him had also quieted down.

"Hurry up, I remember there's an oasis ahead, we can rest when we get there!" A rough, urging voice came from the darkness. Although the voice was bold, if you listened carefully, you could still tell that it was a woman's voice.

Sure enough, not long after, a group of desert people dressed in distinctive desert attire walked over carrying torches.

"Where did this monster come from?!" The firelight illuminated the surrounding area, and the woman in the lead exclaimed in surprise when she saw the strange group of embers.

“It’s a person, big sister,” Yu Jin replied helplessly, leaning against the tree trunk.

"Oh, it's a person. I thought it was a mummified corpse that had escaped from a tomb."

Yu Jin glanced sideways at the woman with a red silk headband and rough skin, which made her shiver for no reason.

"It's getting colder tonight. I'll have to warm up properly later." The woman rubbed her arms, a strange smile appearing on her face, and then completely ignored the odd combination of Ember and Ash.

Yu Jin thought the group would light a fire to dispel the darkness, and they did indeed light a fire at a distance.

But the ways in which desert dwellers keep warm go far beyond that.

The makeshift tent was swaying, and the sounds of flesh colliding were incessant, leaving Yu Jin in shock for a long time.

"Tsk, how open-minded. Do you have any ideas?" Yu Jin turned his head to look at the white fruit beside him and asked meaningfully.

The big white peach bounced up and down for several days, and the way it did so made it seem as if it was trying to explain itself.

"Alright, alright, I'm not that fussy. This little noise is nothing!" Ember pressed down the bouncing white fruit, completely unconcerned.

The tent continued to shake until the early hours of the morning, while Ember, as if he hadn't heard the noise, continued counting stars as usual until dawn.

As dawn breaks, the desert's nighttime chill transforms into daytime heat, so intense that even sleeping in becomes impossible.

"Huh? You didn't freeze to death?" The tent was opened, and the woman in the lead looked radiant.

She was quite surprised to see the embers stretching their limbs in the distance. After all, the Sumeru Desert was the region with the greatest temperature difference between day and night on the entire continent.

During the day, it can roast people without protection into jerky, and at night, it can freeze people without warmth into popsicles.

The dangers of the desert lie not only in the scorching heat during the day, but also in the frigid cold at night.

"Knowing I'd freeze to death, why didn't you move the campfire closer?" Ember picked at his ear and complained to the desert people in the distance.

He had thought that with such a large group of people, some would be kind enough to move the campfire around, but instead, the group snored loudly and slept soundly until dawn.

This led Ember to reasonably suspect that these desert people might be transformed mushroom pigs.

"Haha, if you die, your armor will be worth a lot of money." The desert people laughed loudly when they heard Ember's words.

Most people in the desert don't have much of a desire to help each other. The reason for this is that resources in the desert are extremely scarce, even resources for survival.

Most desert dwellers are still in a tribal state. If it weren't for the nearby Sumeru Rainforest that allowed them to use force to earn a living, the desert's situation would probably be even worse.

"Isn't the desert part of Sumeru's territory?" Yu Jin shook his head and sighed for a moment, then led the mushroom beast and pushed the big white peach away from the small oasis.

As for getting angry? Sorry, most of the time Ember just ignores everything said, whether it's praise or insult.

He has his own world in his heart, so most of the time Yu Jin's mind is filled with his own thoughts, making it difficult for anything else to interfere.

The strange group left, and the woman in the lead finally relaxed.

"Phew, what a strange combination, but at least they're finally gone."

As they watched the embers disappear into the rising sand, the desert dwellers sheathed their hidden blades and forgot about this little chance encounter.

They rose up again, repeating the same actions day after day in the yellow sand.

……

After an unknown amount of time, the scenery around Yu Jin and the others was no longer filled with yellow sand, but had turned into a canyon with ravines and gullies.

The ground here is still covered with a layer of sand, and huge cracks that suddenly open and close are visible everywhere.

Every now and then, you can see bulging clods of earth rising up. They don't look like mountains, but rather like tectonic plates of earth being hit and lifted up by some heavy object.

Looking at the increasingly complex and difficult-to-discern terrain before him, Ember wiped the yellow sand from his face and asked the rolling fruit in front of him:

"Hey, how much longer until we get there? Are you lost?"

Of course, the big white peach couldn't answer Ember's question, since it was just a peach that couldn't speak.

But from the clever fungus.

Iwamoto Masaki stood at the very back, but his gaze was fixed ahead, landing on several dark figures hopping and skipping in the yellow sand.

"Those are my twisted family members over there. The Grass Dragon should be nearby."

As the group continued onward, the dark figures hidden in the desert gradually revealed their true forms.

They were a group of strange creatures, some of which looked like shellfish stuck in the ground, their two large, dark green shells opening and closing as if they were breathing heavily.

Some resembled Inazuma's floating spirits, only much larger, hanging low in the air, seemingly lost and unsure of what to do.