The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

“Suppressing Spirits…” The Abyss Apostle stared at Hisa, who was floating beside Ember, for a long time. His direct gaze made Hisa shrink back behind Ember.

What was the Abyss Apostle thinking? It was wondering what exactly the Spirit Suppressor was. However, after thinking for a long time, it still couldn't figure it out.

“I can’t confirm the veracity of this news. If you’re not in a hurry, you can come with me to the Order and talk to more people. Besides, such a big matter is not something that I, an apostle, can decide. You will have to go to the Order sooner or later.”

After a moment's thought, it made its decision. If this creature truly knew the location of the Eternal Oasis, then all would be well.

But if he didn't know...

The Abyss Apostle glanced at the arm blades on its arms; its weapons were not merely for show. The Order's location could not be easily revealed.

Having considered everything, the smug apostle turned his gaze to the man in black robes: "This guest, who would you like to hire?"

"Hmm... take me to your cult. You can't make decisions about what I need to do either." The man in black robes didn't reveal any more information. He just looked at the overgrown ground and responded calmly.

“That won’t do. The Order doesn’t receive outsiders unless you can produce some bombshell news like this guest.” The Abyss Apostle shook his head, refusing the black-robed man’s request.

"Oh? If you're not taking me, then I'll have to find it myself." Upon hearing this, the man in black simply raised his arm and pointed to the ground on the side of the valley.

"The Abyss Order is right down here."

"Boom!"

Visible cracks spread from beneath the black-robed man's feet, seemingly about to split the ground apart at any moment.

"Um... I'm warning you, don't act rashly. The cult is very powerful. I'll take you there, and don't forget to spread the word about it when you come out."

The Abyss Apostle looked down at the cracked ground and broke out in a cold sweat. It seemed that its small body couldn't withstand that kick.

"Don't use any more force, or it will collapse. Come with me." With a helpless sigh, it took the lead and walked ahead of the others.

Chapter 682 The bustling underground

2024-05-22

Pushing aside the dense grass and tangled branches, Ember and the others followed the Abyss Apostle to a small cave hidden in the vegetation beside the valley.

The hole is small, probably only half the size of a person. An ordinary person would probably think it was dug by a mushroom pig or a leopard.

"Stay close." The Abyss Apostle saw the small hole and, without saying a word, bent down and crawled inside.

"..." Upon seeing this, Yu Jin, the black-robed man, and the Hisa fell silent again. Looking at the wriggling apostle's buttocks, Yu Jin inexplicably had the urge to kick it.

"You go first," he said humbly to the man in black robes beside him.

"Why should I go first?" the man in black robes retorted.

"Don't you know your own size? If you get stuck outside, someone will have to push you in," Yu Jin said in a matter-of-fact tone.

At the same time, the Abyss Apostle's shouts echoed from within the cave: "What are you two dawdling about?! Hurry up!"

The man in black robes stopped arguing and bent down, mimicking the actions of the Abyss Apostle as he crawled inside.

The man in black robes was enormous, his body twice the size of an ordinary person. The passage that was large enough for an Apostle of the Abyss to squeeze through was blocked at his shoulder.

But before Yu Jin could even kick it a few times, the entire valley began to tremble.

"Boom!"

The sound of soil and rock being squeezed came one after another, and to Ember's astonishment, the man in black robes forced his way into the cave.

"Tsk tsk tsk, what a mighty warrior!" Looking at the cracked cave walls, Yu Jin couldn't help but sigh.

He immediately took Hisa and followed. With the black-robed man clearing the way ahead, the originally narrow cave became spacious. Before long, the entire cavern was even more expansive.

The man in black robes and the embers emerged one after another from the narrow passage, and they had now arrived at a spacious underground cavern.

"It's cracked. We'll have to repair it again soon." The Abyss Apostle looked at the entrance, which looked like it was about to collapse, and casually picked up a boulder from the side and stuffed it in.

"Crack!"

The cracks in the entrance passage were more obvious, but the Abyss Apostle didn't care at all, since it wasn't its responsibility to repair them anyway.

"What are you doing?" Yu Jin asked curiously as he leaned closer.

"Do you humans have something called a 'door'? I'm closing the door." To make it clearer for Ember, the Abyss Apostle even snapped the huge thing back into place with a "pop".

Put it back in, take it out, put it back in, take it out… The Abyss Apostle was having a great time.

Looking at the layers of round stones piled up beside the entrance passage, Ember could only mutter, "You guys really have a lot of 'doors'."

"Let's go. Don't get distracted now, or you'll get lost." Abyss remained noncommittal.

After saying something to the embers and the man in black robes, it led the group forward again into the dark underground cave.

The apostle in the darkness emanated a starlight tinged with frost and white. In this lightless underground network, the apostle's body and Hisa's glowing eye points together constituted the only light in the place.

"It's so dark...so deep...deeper than those water pipes buried deep underground in the desert."

Shisa followed behind Ember the whole time. From the beginning, the underground cave in front of them had been sloping downwards.

Now, having traveled for an unknown amount of time in the darkness, Shisa could tell from her senses that they were in a place much deeper than the deepest tunnel in the desert.

"You're already getting impatient? It's still early." The Abyss Apostle, radiating starlight, chuckled a few times upon hearing this.

"Your human brains are too fragile. If we could just go directly through the abyss passage, we wouldn't need to go through all this trouble."

Upon hearing this, Yu Jin glanced at Hisa, who was flying back and forth beside him, but did not refute the Abyss Apostle's words.

The garbage information in the abyss passage is unbearable for humans, and it's probably not much different for Zhenling.

In the complex and winding network of underground caves, a peculiar group chatted idly.

After jumping into countless bottomless pits and navigating countless sharp turns, the Abyss Apostle at the forefront suddenly stopped.

"Are we almost there?" The black-robed man, who spoke the least, raised an eyebrow and asked when he saw the apostle's movements.

"That's right. I heard that your eyes are just as fragile as your brains. Remember to protect your eyes later."

The Abyss Apostle's reminder left the people behind him somewhat puzzled, but they soon understood why it had said that.

After continuing on for a while, the darkness of the distant pit passage disappeared, replaced by a dazzling white light.

Beyond the barrier formed by the blinding light, the scene before them suddenly opened up, and the darkness in their vision was completely dispelled by the light.

"sun……"

Shisa, floating beside the embers, murmured in shock. Upon entering this vast underground space, the first thing that caught their eye was the enormous fireball suspended above the cavern.

The fireball emitted a fierce, blazing yellow light, spewing flames from within. It seemed as if this sun-like fireball would explode at any moment, sending this enormous underground cavern, along with the strata above, flying into the sky.

However, this was destined not to happen. The flames rolled on the surface of the fireball, but once they surged beyond a certain limit, a dark purple unknown rune would appear from the void, firmly suppressing the raging flames.

"The sun... you could say that too. Anyway, the chanters, priests, and sinners fought continuously for months to create this thing!"

"I see. And what about your apostles?" Yu Jin nodded, then asked the smug apostle beside him.

The singers wondered why this apostle was so proud of what they had done.

"Hmph! Are you questioning the abilities of our Apostles? Or are you questioning the unity of our Order?" The Abyss Apostle showed no embarrassment or panic upon hearing Ember's question.

He raised his finger and pointed behind him: "Those dense underground caves that I led you through were dug out by our apostles at that time."

Then he pointed to the houses standing further away: "These houses were also built by our apostles."

"And..." The Abyss Apostle glanced at the distant cave walls and didn't continue.

"What else?" Ember asked the silent apostle with great curiosity. The Abyss Order was not bad when it came to fighting, and it was equally good at construction.

How long has it been since he purified the Hilichurls? Not only did he create a sun, but he also transformed the barren underground into this. If given some more time, a brand new underground city will probably rise from the ground.

"Thump!!!" In the distance, the entire cave suddenly trembled a few times, followed by a sound of rocks cracking under the weight.

"Crack...crack crack! Boom!"

Cracks appeared on the cave walls, which were hundreds of meters high, and then the solid cave walls collapsed, and countless torrents of water gushed out.

"Bang!" The white waterfall crashed heavily onto the ground, shattering rocks and spreading outwards.

"Ah? Why is there a flood here?!" Yu Jin exclaimed in surprise. At the very back of everyone, the black-robed man's body pressed down, as if he had transformed into a cannonball, ready to be launched at any moment.

"Of course, it's because our people need water," the Abyss Apostle said with his arms crossed, laughing with immense pride.

However, its coolness lasted only three seconds before a head popped out of the floodwaters in the distance—those were also several apostles.

"Water and ice, come quickly!" Several apostles swept away by the floodwaters leaped out of the torrent and shouted.

Actually, it doesn't matter if they don't shout, because the moment the water appears, many blue and white figures have already run towards the rushing flood.

"I'm not going to say any more to you, I have important business to attend to."

"Remember! Don't run around, or we won't be responsible if you get beaten to death!"

After leaving a few words of advice, the apostle of the abyss ran off, exuding an aura of frost.

Chapter 683 The Baptist of Deep Sin

2024-05-22

"All the frost has fallen, and the flow of water has been stopped!" Many apostles have already gathered where the surging waters flowed.

Most of these apostles were light blue or frost white, with a small number of purple or red ones coming to watch the show.

After someone shouted something, all the Abyss Apostles known as "Frostfall" busied themselves with their tasks.

They moved swiftly, standing orderly on both sides of the flood's inevitable path.

"Attack!" Whether in flood-ravaged lands or dry lands untouched by water, all the Ice Abyss Apostles exuded a chilling aura.

The ice elemental power was firmly held by the abyssal power within them, reshaping its form according to the apostles' wishes.

"Kakaka!"

Beneath the earth, two new and thick ice walls solidified and rose. Each ice apostle was responsible for a section, and these ice walls climbed upwards and expanded in all directions.

Soon, all the ice walls formed by the apostles connected into one. In an instant, a riverbed made of thick ice was created on the ground.

The raging flood roared and crashed back and forth between two towering ice walls. The power of water is sometimes greater than imagined; cracks have already begun to appear on the ice walls at the bends in the icy riverbed and at the source of the flood.

The ice apostles glowed continuously as they did their utmost to maintain the integrity of the ice wall. However, how long they could hold out under such relentless attacks was anyone's guess.

Fortunately, the Abyss Order has more than just the "Frostfall" apostle.

"Rapids! Your turn!"