The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

At this moment, the drawbacks of inferior weaponry became apparent. Even with the edge sharpened, the blunt sword was far from sharp enough to harm the Doctor.

The hand gripping the sword's edge wasn't even broken; the Doctor squeezed hard, and the weapon that had been with Ying for so long became scrap metal.

"Get out of my way!"

The doctor regained his focus, and with him concentrating on dealing with the situation, he kicked the attackers away one by one in an instant.

"boom!"

"Cough cough!"

The already blood-stained Confession Hall was now stained with even more blood. Ying wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and took out a bladeless sword.

However, the doctor had no time to deal with them at this moment, because that sense of crisis had returned to him.

"Damn it, I can't see it!"

His entire temples were throbbing, but the doctor had no idea where the crisis was coming from or when it would strike.

He could only use his speed advantage, jumping around the entire Order House, in order to lessen the sense of crisis that permeated his entire body.

"what happened to him?"

"I don't know. Perhaps ignoring our attack will only cost him his intelligence?"

The crowd watched the doctor's rapidly disappearing figure, and became quite puzzled and wary.

Although they didn't know what had gotten into him, as the second seat of the Fatui, the others didn't believe the Doctor would do something meaningless.

"and many more……"

Tina's pupils contracted; he seemed to see something familiar on the ceiling.

"Pfft!"

"Crack! Glug glug..."

The doctor's darting and leaping figure suddenly stopped, followed by a chilling sound of bones being crushed and flesh being ground up, coming from the ceiling.

Looking up, the glass dome of the Church of Christ was so exquisite and beautiful, with patterns intertwined and tightly connected, like a giant vine with vigorous growth.

Strangely, blood inexplicably seeped out from the air in the center of the dome. There were no bodies or anything like that; it just fell out of thin air, and it sounded like the gruesome sounds of flesh being ground up were coming from there.

Suddenly, everyone felt their vision blurring. They rubbed their eyes and looked up again, only to be astonished to find that the patterns on the dome glass were distorting.

In a fleeting moment, the scene above suddenly became real. The patterns weren't patterns at all, but real branches and giant vines.

The blood didn't just fall out of nowhere; the doctor's body was crushed beyond recognition by the enormous plant that had grown there, with only a few scattered pieces of cloth falling with the blood revealing the fleshy mess above.

"Did I scare you?"

A voice that was both familiar and unfamiliar came from behind. The group looked in the direction of the voice and saw that the same scene was unfolding on the exposed sacred tree as it had on the dome.

First it twisted, then the protruding bark of the sacred tree inexplicably transformed into a petite figure. The whole process was incredibly natural, and if it weren't for the precedent, no one would have noticed anything unusual.

“Little Lucky Grass King?! You…” Dixia’s face was filled with shock and confusion.

"You want to ask me why I'm so strong? Or why I'm so fierce? Or why I ran away?"

The Great Tree King smiled at the crowd, then waved for them to enter the depths of the Order House:

"There will be plenty of time to discuss these issues later. You guys should hurry up and go to Jingshan Palace. Naxida has been pacing anxiously for quite some time now."

“Nasita… wait… who are you…”

“Then I’ll leave this to you.” Elhesen interrupted Dixia’s next words, nodded to the Great Tree King, and then pulled Dixia into the depths of the Order of the Church.

"If external force can't break it, you can try shouting loudly next to Nasita, and it will open automatically."

Hearing the gentle reminder behind him, Elhesen paused. Why did the Great Tree King's meditation barrier automatically open when it encountered noise?

Based on what he had just seen and heard, he thought it was very likely that the Great Tree King would go out and beat people up if it was disturbed.

"Ta! Tat! Tat!"

The bodies on the dome were mangled beyond recognition, and like blood, they dripped thickly onto the ground.

"I wouldn't normally be this cruel, but why did you have to do this to my people?"

"You smashed their heads, so I'll smash your whole body, don't you think... huh!"

The Great Compassion Tree King raised her delicate hand, and then all the plants above her head broke through the dome, searching for the enemy above.

"Boom boom boom!"

A deafening roar filled the sky, and then the somewhat disheveled doctor jumped down from the broken part of the dome.

"Huff...huff...I never thought the news of the Great Tree King's demise...was actually false?"

The doctor, panting heavily, stared intently at the petite figure before him.

"If it's true, then today, the grudge against Sumeru... will have no one to avenge it."

Upon hearing this, the Great Compassion Tree King smiled slightly, but the smile was not gentle; rather, it was somewhat eerie.

Chapter 720 Confrontation

2024-06-10

"Disperse!"

With a clear shout from the Great Tree King, the Doctor immediately felt that his surroundings had become "empty".

The elemental power within his body poured out like water from a leaky sieve, then quickly receded from the area. Before long, he realized that his physical abilities had plummeted.

The slice returned to its original state, without any elemental power enhancement.

The doctor tried desperately to squeeze out the life force, but the result still didn't change anything.

The only result of the life force of this slice was that the elemental power of Sumeru became slightly denser.

"As expected of the source of the earth's veins, the World Tree's control over elemental power is unexpectedly strong."

The doctor abandoned the idea of ​​using elemental power. If he used elemental power in front of the World Tree's avatar, he might find that the attack had been turned against him as soon as he threw it out.

"I didn't expect the new Ice God's subordinates to be so troublesome. What benefits did she give you to make you work for her?"

The Great Tree King felt much the same way as the Doctor. This guy called "Doctor" was simply impossible to kill.

As long as one slice exists, he still has the possibility of making a comeback.

And that doesn't even mention the scene where he just transferred the damage to other slices. This is equivalent to distributing all the damage among the other slices.

A little goes a little to this one, a little goes a little to that one. Even the most powerful attack, when spread across all the slices like this, becomes negligible damage.

"Haha, my relationship with the Queen is more of a cooperative one. If you can offer me the same conditions as Zhidong and allow me free access to the World Tree, serving you is not out of the question."

"You're overthinking it. My opinion of you is even harsher than that of the Order of the Church. You shouldn't be banished; lying on the ground as fertilizer is your only destiny."

"Really? Well, that depends on whether you have the ability."

The doctor snorted coldly, then quickly rushed towards the Great Tree King. However, just as he was about to reach the Great Tree King, a familiar scene unfolded once again.

The figure before him distorted and then disappeared, leaving the Order of the Church empty in his eyes.

"It's this trick again!"

He jumped to the side, and the throbbing in his temples subsided somewhat. The doctor looked carefully back at the original spot and finally noticed a clue.

There seemed to be some unremarkable patterns on the ground there. The patterns lay quietly on the floor, and no one would care even if they were stepped on countless times.

But the doctor knew that there were no patterns here originally, and if you looked more closely, you would find that the patterns were not lying on the ground, but were three-dimensional.

"Did it change my perception, or was it her own definition?" The doctor relaxed slightly, and the pattern seamlessly blended into the space, making it impossible for him to subconsciously detect any anomalies.

To fight against one's subconscious, one must concentrate fully on the place one perceives as "abnormal," which is simply impossible in combat.

While the Doctor might be able to transfer the damage to Ying and others without a care, this is tantamount to handing over the slice to the Great Tree King who has discovered a countermeasure.

"Since you can transfer damage, I'll keep you firmly under control. When the time comes, will you transfer the damage or give up this slice..."

The Great Tree King, blending seamlessly into the entire space, stood openly opposite the Doctor, and even when the Doctor's eyes were directly on her, he still couldn't see her.

With a thought, the Great Tree King caused the sacred tree to grow more branches, which suddenly appeared from all directions, trying to firmly grasp the Doctor and then repeat the same trick.

But the doctor's instincts were no joke; relying solely on instinct, he managed to evade several encirclements.

But can you dodge it once, twice, three times, or even a hundred times? Just one mistake can destroy the life of this slice.

The doctor understood this, and after stepping back, his body underwent new changes.

The sliced ​​body was constantly expanding, with a huge tumor growing on the doctor's neck and new limbs sprouting from around his limbs. A newborn person was growing from this slice.

"watch out!"

Emerald green formed from the center of the doctor's body; it was a blade composed of elemental force, supplied by the elemental force flowing through the earth's veins.

However, before the blade could even fly over, the body itself shattered first.

"Snapped!"

Blood and bits of bark were scattered all over the ground, and then two brand-new doctors appeared before the Great Tree King.

At the same time, the Great Tree King also appeared before the two doctors.

As if some tacit understanding had been broken, the Great Tree King instantly realized that the understanding he had just modified for the Doctor had failed.

The belated blade of grass merely cleaved the wall of the Order of the Monastery in two.

"Not just a clone?" The Great Tree King narrowed her eyes. At first, she thought that the Doctor's so-called "slice" was just a special name for a clone, but now it seemed that she had underestimated him.

At least an ordinary clone cannot escape the influence of the World Tree. But the doctor in front of him broke through the cognitive barrier that the World Tree had imposed on him the moment his two bodies separated.

"I don't care about such a petty trick as creating clones!" The two bodies approached the Great Tree King quickly, one after the other.

Taking advantage of the gap before the Great Tree King could find information about the new slice within the World Tree, the Doctor decided to act quickly.

The air was soon no longer empty. The doctor released a large amount of purple and black energy from his body, causing the plants that had been spurred to grow by the Great Tree King to wither and die quickly.

The remnants of demons and the aura of the dead, which would corrode and kill an ordinary person with just one breath, smelled like a large amount of corpse stench mixed with some kind of highly irritating gas to the Great Kindness Tree King.

"The remnants of a defeated demon god... and weakened forbidden knowledge... cough cough..."

She radiated a dazzling green light, instantly refreshing the nauseating air around her, but this also meant revealing her location.

"call!"