The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

The man in black robes standing to the side also spoke up.

"Looking for Yuan Shang? Where did you get the name Yuan Shang from?" Kong looked at the man in black robes with a wary expression.

"Not just Yuanshang, I hope you can also call all the humans here." The man in black robes seemed completely oblivious to the wariness on Kong's face, and proceeded to state his other requests.

Upon hearing this, the wariness on Kong's face instantly turned into vigilance. He sized up the enormous figure before him and asked:

"Kanriyans?"

Upon hearing this, the man in black glanced at Ember. Then he replied calmly, "You can think of it the same way."

"I understand, you want to come and pick the peaches?" Kong's expression changed from worry to seriousness.

Ember's visit was merely a matter of testing his mentality, something he could tolerate. But the black-robed man before him involved the core interests of the Abyss Order, something he absolutely could not back down from.

"Pick the peaches? That's not how you should think. Kanria was destroyed once because of the Abyss, and I can't watch my newly born people get entangled with the Abyss again."

"Aren't you right? The outsider to whom we place our hopes for transcendence?"

Chapter 686 Echoes from Beneath the Earth

2024-05-24

"?!"

Kong's eyes widened suddenly at the words of the man in black. The outsider, on whom they had placed their hopes for transcendence, was someone whose identity was something no ordinary Kanria could possibly know.

"An old thing that survived from five hundred years ago?" A faint light flashed in his empty hand, and then he held an ordinary one-handed sword in his grasp.

"Age... means nothing to us anymore."

The black-robed man's voice suddenly became indistinct, a jumble of male and female voices, old and young, all mixed together, making one want to shatter their eardrums.

After the indistinct words, his aura suddenly changed. The man in black robes now gave off a sharp, cold, and rational feeling.

"It's so noisy." Yu Jin held the bottle in one hand and picked at his ear with the other.

He glanced at Kong, who was holding the bladeless sword, and quickly ran away.

"Here, here, here!" Ember released Shisa's hand and placed a handful of nuts beside her.

"My master, what do you mean by this?"

"What I mean is, we're in for a good show." After chewing and swallowing the seeds of the sunflower seed, Yu Jin was practically waving his arms and shouting.

"Us?" On the other side, Kong was also pondering the vague words of the man in black robes.

"Boom!"

The ground trembled as the man in black stomped his foot, causing the massive stone slab beneath him to rise and crack inch by inch along the direction of his force.

When the stone slab fell into the hands of the man in black robes, it had transformed into a large stone sword the same length as his body.

"Roar! Fight! Fight! Fight!" Seeing this, Yu Jin became even more excited.

True powerhouses have very low requirements for weapons. They need weapons simply because they want a longer arm and a medium to easily execute specific moves.

Clearly, the black-robed man wielding the stone slab greatsword and the man with the bladeless sword, Kong, fit this description perfectly.

Of course, this only applies to the powerful; there is one exception: Kong's stubborn younger sister, Ying. Despite losing most of her strength, she still likes to wield the bladeless sword. Yu Jin has warned her several times, but she hasn't listened.

You're definitely going to stumble in the future!

Even if I stumble, I can get back up!

This is a conversation between Ying and Yu Jin. Yu Jin can only express his confusion: Why is such a stubborn girl?

"boom!"

A loud bang jolted Ember back to reality, followed by a violent gust of wind.

"Shisa?! If you're not dizzy, make a sound!" Amidst a flurry of flying nuts, Ember searched for Shisa's figure.

"Uh... my master, I'm here." Higher in the sky, the spinning Shisa managed to respond.

"It's good that it's not broken." Yu Jin breathed a sigh of relief. He stood up from the air and suddenly rushed up to grab Xi Sha in his hand again.

Looking down, the spot where the black-robed man and the void had collided was now deeply dented, and the once smooth, prismatic ground was covered with spiderweb-like cracks. The enormous abyss passage at its very center was also twisted and distorted as a result.

"Ha!" Kong switched the bladeless sword to his other hand, while shaking the wrist he had been holding the sword with.

The black-robed man before them possessed unexpectedly powerful strength.

Recalling the posture of the black-robed man who had almost carried the greatsword behind his back before fiercely slashing down, Kong Xin had a guess.

"Are you one of the palace guards?"

"No."

The man in black robes strode forward, raising his stone slab sword high, seemingly about to unleash an even more powerful and devastating slash.

Kong was equally unwilling to be outdone. He gripped the unsharp sword tightly with both hands and, with even greater speed and a smaller form, plunged it straight into the black-robed man's heart.

"call!"

The moment he leaped into the air, the man in black robes turned and lowered his raised greatsword. He then spun around, transforming his slashing attack into a wide-ranging sweeping motion in front of him.

"Grow!"

Seeing this, Kong stopped simply competing with the black-robed man in strength or skill. He activated the elemental power within his body, and thick vines rose from the ground, wrapping around the black-robed man's spinning body.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The thick vines, brimming with abundant grass elemental power, were torn apart by brute force, but the time they gained was enough for Kong to deal with this sudden change of tactics.

At his feet, yellowish-brown light spots gathered, and a piece of amber, shimmering with the brilliance of rock elements, appeared out of thin air.

With a foothold under his feet, Kong instantly unleashed speed and power no less than that of the man in the black robe.

"Bang!!!"

After the shockwave was visible to the naked eye, the two men's weapons became entangled.

The bladeless sword, which could be forged from scrap iron, and the greatsword made of stone, were now bearing a force powerful enough to break divine weapons.

Both men were holding their breath, neither willing to back down an inch. But the fact that they could continue to struggle didn't mean the ground beneath their feet could withstand the immense force from both of them.

"Kakaka-"

Kong and the man in black robes felt their feet suddenly sink into the ground. As they quickly separated, they also observed the changes in the ground.

"Boom!"

The rock-built prism could not withstand the weight of the two people, and the corner where they were located collapsed instantly after the cracks spread.

Beneath the thick, smog-filled sky lies a high platform with a missing corner.

"Ha..." Kong gasped for breath, recalling the exchange just now. The moves used by the man in black robes gave him an inexplicably familiar feeling.

"Cough...cough cough!" However, compared to Kong, who was panting, the black-robed man in the distance was clearly more seriously injured.

Amidst the thick dust, his cough could still be faintly heard.

"As expected... it doesn't work?" The man in black robes lifted part of his robe, revealing a delicate, fair arm.

But the arm, which should have been straight, was now bent. The violent collision had broken the newly formed arm bone.

"Crack!" The black-robed man groped around on his bent arm with his other, still relatively intact hand for a while, then twisted it hard, forcibly straightening the broken bone beneath the flesh.

The pain did not affect his movements at all. The rising smoke subsided, and the man in black robes was still holding the greatsword.

Seeing his somewhat distorted movements, Kong frowned. Had his attack just now broken this guy's bones?

"Stop it. You should know your place, considering how far you've cultivated yourself."

"Moreover, if I were to go all out, the commotion would not be limited to this."

Kong advised the black-robed man opposite him, who was brandishing his weapon. This was the Abyss Order's camp, and many of the Order's possessions were here, so he was somewhat hesitant to act freely.

"So you're empty-handed? You overestimate yourself. The injury on my hand wasn't caused by you."

"You know my name?" Kong Xin's surprise and vigilance intensified. Just who was this guy? Not only did he know the expectations Kong Xin carried in Kanria, but he also knew his name.

"Outsider to whom Kanria placed his hopes for transcendence, do you recognize the move I just used?"

"Movement..."

Kong pondered for a moment upon hearing this, but came up with nothing. Seeing the confusion in his eyes, the man in black robes knew the answer.

"The motherland can't rely on you!"

He shook his head, tore off the cloth covering his broken arm, and tied it to the very top of his greatsword.

"Crash!"

The greatsword was swung, the black cloth wrapped around its tip constantly slapping against the air in its path. The greatsword in the black-robed man's hand now resembled a banner fluttering in the wind.

"Drink!"

"boom!"

The sword hilt slammed heavily into the ground, accompanied by a loud shout from the man in black robes, and the waving flag came to a stop.

A faint crimson light began to emerge from his body, which was tightly covered by a black robe. The light dissipated and then reappeared from top to bottom.

At the same time, the aura emanating from the man in black robes underwent a dramatic transformation in an instant. If he was previously an unfathomable, dark rock, then he was now a war drum about to be sounded.

As for the drumsticks that strike this war drum, they represent courage and duty.

"The White Swan Knights, flag signal number: 2-6-6—Charge!"

Chapter 687 Strange Body

2024-05-24

As Yu Jin sat cross-legged in mid-air, he looked down and saw the black-robed man waving a flag, and immediately felt a strong sense of familiarity.

He quickly slapped his forehead and realized, "Bring him under my command? He knows this trick too?"

"To be under your command? What does that mean?"

"Hmm... just think of it as an essential skill for large-scale military operations."

Ember explained to Hisa. Any large-scale legion would try to equip itself with this tactic.