The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

"How come it's just like me? Lilupal is the same way." Ying felt a deep sense of empathy upon hearing this. She had also been wandering around in the desert and then got entangled with Lilupal.

"Hehehe, why are you two so troubled? It's never a bad thing to have someone to serve you."

This time, Lilupal no longer called the embers "tin can." She chuckled softly, a sound as melodious as a wind chime ringing in the desert.

"No? Should you look at your own shape before saying that?" Yu Jin shrugged, saying with a hint of helplessness.

Upon hearing this, Lilupal looked down at herself. A glass bottle, and an irregularly shaped one at that. The person who needed this to serve them... could only mean they were somewhat seriously ill.

"Well... my power is almost completely dissipated now. Once I regain the remaining power, I will be able to transform into various forms!"

Lilupal paused for a moment, then said proudly. If she had a body now, she would be patting her chest in pride.

"No need, why don't you hurry up and lead us to the Eternal Oasis?"

“That’s right, senior is right.”

"That's it!"

Of the three, Paimon was the most eager. If Lilupal really regained her powers, wouldn't she be out of a job and homeless?

This absolutely must not be allowed to happen!

"But there are endless traps and barriers on the Eternal Oasis, and I need to use my strength to break through them."

Lilupal defended herself, saying that no matter what she wanted to do, whether it was to go to the Eternal Oasis or something else, her own strength was absolutely essential.

"That only proves your strength isn't enough!" Ember flexed his muscles in front of the group, then asked Hisa:

"Do you know the way to the Eternal Oasis?"

"Know!"

Shisa nodded.

"Keep leading the way!"

With a wave of his hand, Yu Jin led the group, following Shisa, into the depths of the ravine. Lilupal was left alone, bewildered in the wind.

"..."

"Wait for me!"

After remaining silent for a moment, Lilupal quickly followed. She was very weak now, and if she were captured by some kind of scorpion or holy beast, it would be disastrous.

……

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

Beneath the desert earth, the sound of steel clashing against steel echoed continuously.

"There are places like this in the desert? Amazing." Yu Jin scratched his head, his voice echoing through the massive water pipes and carrying into the distance.

"Can you please stop being so jumpy? What if... what if some monster comes out?" Paimon almost flew to the top of the pipe when he heard Ember suddenly speak.

It was extremely dark inside, and the walls of the pipes were covered with large patches of rust. As people walked through, they could see the loose sand that had accumulated from time to time, sometimes even clogging the entire water pipe.

Of course, none of this mattered to Ember. Even the thickest layer of sand couldn't withstand a single punch from him.

So, Ember led the way, with Hisa and Lilupal following behind. Unusually, the usually talkative girls were both silent.

Looking at the place before her, both familiar and strange, Shisa felt a sense of disorientation. Had she been working diligently in this very place for hundreds of years?

Looking around, the massive water pipeline had long been shut off, covered with a thick layer of loose sand, and the exposed machinery could still be vaguely seen in the sand.

They were already rotten and decayed, and it was unknown whether the spirits imprisoned within them had dissipated with time or been extracted and compressed into weapons.

Hisa was moved by the scene, while Lilupal simply didn't know what to say.

She knew nothing about the water pipelines near the Eternal Oasis, so there was nothing for her to say. Besides, she was largely to blame for the current situation.

"boom!"

In the silence, a muffled sound came, and then light poured into the dim pipe.

The water pipeline has come to an end.

Chapter 751 The Holy Grail in the Desert

2024-06-30

"Boom!"

The yellow sand surged, and then a figure completely shrouded in armor appeared behind it.

Ember looked down at his surroundings. He was in a closed temple, and the light on the temple hall floor still shone brightly after who knows how long.

They were located in a ditch beneath the temple's main hall. This place may have once been filled with a constant flow of clear water, but now only yellow sand remained.

"Wow! There's such a huge temple underground?!" Paimon flew out of the pipe, looked around, and exclaimed in amazement.

This temple is astonishingly large, with its height estimated to be over a hundred meters. In fact, this can be seen from the diameter of the water pipes.

The water pipes themselves are wide enough for people to walk on, so the source of the water supply cannot be small.

“Underground? That’s not necessarily true.” Lilupal was filled with emotion as she saw the familiar scene again.

"Looks like you know this place?" Ying raised an eyebrow.

“Of course, my master. This is the source that once supplied water to the Five Oases. Outside this temple is the summit of Mount Dama, which is also the gateway to the Eternal Oasis.”

Lilupal explained slowly. "It has to be said, going through the sewers is much faster. If we had followed the usual route, it would have been impossible to reach the Source Temple so quickly."

The temple supplied water to the entire desert, so you can imagine how heavily guarded the area around it was. Normally, getting from the foot of Mount Dama to the top would require passing through countless restrictions and traps.

Lilupal can break these restrictions and mechanisms, but only if she has sufficient power. That requires her master to search the entire desert for the lost fragments of the magic bottle.

"Then how do we open this door?" Ember climbed up to the temple hall, where there was something that looked like a control panel in the center.

He pressed his hand upwards, and the blue light in the temple instantly turned crimson.

"Om-"

The air distorted, and a large number of previously dormant elemental constructs awoke from their slumber.

"Don't press the buttons randomly!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The sound of parts being disassembled interrupted Lilupal's exclamation. Looking at the mechanical parts scattered on the ground, Lilupal swallowed back the words she was about to say.

"Great!"

Ying, who was below the temple hall, saw this scene and immediately clapped her hands. Such a multi-energy construct—if she were in charge, it would definitely take her a lot of effort.

But now that Ember is around, Luminous can simply watch the show like Paimon.

"Still standing down there, hurry up and come over and see how to open the gate!" Seeing Ying clapping blankly, Yu Jin immediately waved her over.

After all, this temple is a relic of an ancient civilization. Unless it's the last moment, Ember would prefer to avoid using violent means as much as possible.

So... now it's his turn to be idle.

Ying ran to the pillar in the middle of the temple hall, pondered for a while, and then began to act.

First, she infused it with elemental power, but it didn't work; then she had Paimon move the obelisk in the hall, but it still didn't move; next, she picked up a stone and threw it at a certain spot in the temple, but still no reaction...

So Ying turned her head and shrugged at Yu Jin.

"I have no other choice."

"What? Aren't you supposed to be a cracking expert?" Yu Jin was taken aback, having had high expectations for Ying.

"Who gave me this title? I don't know anything about it." Ying scratched her head. She had never said that she was good at decryption. Who spread this rumor?

"My lords, I have a solution."

"what?"

"Restore my strength."

Is it troublesome?

"..."

Seeing that Lilupal had fallen silent again, Ember already knew the answer in his heart. So he walked step by step from the temple hall to the temple's tightly closed doors.

The gate was incredibly tall, its thickness unknown. Ember tapped on it lightly; the material seemed quite good.

This door is so strong that most people probably couldn't break it with brute force.

However, Ember is no ordinary person.

He straightened his fingers, his fingertips touching the door, and then suddenly exerted force, bending his fingers into a fist.

"Thump! Crack—"

Visibly, cracks appeared on the door. Ember pulled his hand out of the cracks and tapped lightly on the broken door in front of him.

"Crash!"

The facade, made of some unknown material, collapsed into fragments the size of finger joints, until a passage the size of a person was created, at which point the collapse stopped.

"Let's go!"

Waving to the crowd behind him, Yu Jin walked out of the temple first.

"Whoosh...swish..."

As he moved forward, the wind around him grew stronger. Only when Ember had completely left the temple did he understand why—he was now in the eye of the storm at Mount Dama.

The entire sky was a yellowish-brown, and the wind and sand enveloped the area, creating a unique world.

You can't see this from outside, and you can't see outside from here.

The summit of Mount Dama has clearly been altered by human intervention; it is incredibly flat and covered with patterned marble tiles.

And of all these, the one that is most trusted and valued is the Holy Grail, which stands quietly atop the mountain.

This thing is like a key, firmly inserted into the mountaintop, as if guarding something.

"Really...really came out like this?"

Lilupal emerged from the passage, somewhat incredulous at the sight before her. She knew better than anyone how tough the temple's materials were, yet even such a sturdy temple had been punched by Ember, creating a path just wide enough for one person to walk through.

This power, and the degree of control it exerted, terrified Lilupal.