The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

Cole's condition was much more serious than Galuro's.

Aside from the larger mass of demonic remnants, there was also a trace of deep purple mixed in with Cole's soul. This must be the demonic scale disease that Cole mentioned she was "born" with.

Black clouds and purple mist were locked in a fierce struggle within Ke Lai's soul, likely the work of that so-called doctor. Their battle had somehow achieved a peculiar balance!

It seems the PhD holder does have some skill.

However, it's unclear whether he realized that the so-called Demon Scale Disease was merely an external phenomenon. And that "innate" condition was simply due to the contamination of forbidden knowledge during the embryonic stage.

After observing for a while, Yu Jin made his own decision. No one understood the soul better than him, and this kind of pollution was just a bit of a hassle for him.

The embers began to slightly loosen their attraction to souls. Instantly, both the remnants of the demon god and the milky-white souls began to tremble.

At the same time, Galuro and Cora also groaned, their faces turning pale. The feeling of having one's soul drawn away is not pleasant.

Fortunately, Ember's control was precise enough that Galuro and Cole's souls only trembled briefly before ceasing their fluctuations, leaving only the remnants of the demon god struggling to hold on.

However, it was all in vain. Soon, black energy began to appear on Galuro and Cole's bodies, a sign that the remnants of the demon god were leaving their bodies.

At this moment, Galuro and Cora felt no pain. On the contrary, they felt extremely comfortable because something that did not belong to them had rolled out of their bodies, making them feel light and agile.

Large gushes of black energy were drawn into Yu Jin's body, causing the "thing" inside him that hadn't been fed for a long time to begin to stir.

However, Yu Jin ignored them; they were just defeated opponents and posed no immediate threat to him.

At this moment, Ember stared intently at Cole. As he expected, after the remnants of the demon god left her body, the delicate balance within Cole's body was disrupted.

Without its control, the Demon Scale Disease began to erode Kolei's body.

"Ah!" Cole felt unbearable pain all over her body, and her limbs became increasingly weak. Not only that, she could clearly see pale purple scales starting to appear on the back of her hands—her Demon Scales disease was starting to flare up.

"Brother Ember, please save Sister Cole!" Galuro put aside her joy at being reborn; now she only felt terror, the Demon Scale Disease had terrified her.

Ember took a deep breath, and his palm shimmered with brilliant golden light.

He stood up straight, his arm outstretched at an angle, like a precise clock hand.

"Bang!" Yu Jin turned his arm 45 degrees in a precise manner, and a magnificent golden light radiated from him.

Above the ground, the triangular-circle pattern representing the fundamentalism of the Golden Law expands outwards. Wherever it goes, everything is transformed into its most primordial form.

The Principle of Return—A Prayer of Golden Law Fundamentals. One of the foundational prayers.

It can cure all abnormal conditions, eliminate special effects, remove all mimicry, and reveal the true nature of things.

Fundamentalism explains the Golden Law using two forces—regression and causality. Regression refers to the convergence of all things towards the unchanging; it is a kind of gravitational force in its meaning.

Under the golden light, everything about Cole returned to its most original state, and in its original state, she was free from any disease.

Demon Scale Disease is an alien disease!

Chapter 16 The So-called God

2023-08-28

"Hmm..." How much time has passed? Tina looked up at the sky and earth.

Fire, endless fire.

Tina raised her hand and looked at it. Was it a hand? No, it was a burning stick.

It seems like she wailed a long time ago, but now she's quiet.

The pain from the burning flames did not lessen in the slightest; only her body changed, and now she could only vaguely retain a human form.

Within that thin, withered body, a faint, milky white mass flickered, a testament to her former identity as a human.

"I can't die yet."

"It feels like I have a younger sister waiting for me."

"I think someone told me that if I just held on a little longer, it would be fine."

"Yes, hold on a little longer, hold on a little longer, we can't die, we can't die..."

The withered figure, engulfed in flames, seemed to remember something and began to sway and move. She had no destination; she simply felt that stillness was closer to death, and she was afraid of death.

Tina is just a microcosm within Yu Jin; there are things she can do and things she cannot do.

If you do something you shouldn't, you'll naturally have to pay the price.

However, Yu Jin didn't pay much attention to her, because at this moment, his body was suddenly filled with a long-lost excitement, and he needed to check it out to prevent anything from going wrong.

Yu Jin calmed himself down and looked inside his body, where he saw a desolate desert.

Large swathes of weapon wreckage lay haphazardly on the ground, and the crimson stains on the ground were of unknown origin—whether blood, flags, or both.

In the heart of the desert, a small campfire burned quietly. The sky was dark, and so was the sun.

Pure blackness had enveloped the sun. Only a pale red halo lingered around its outer edge.

The light seemed to fear the darkness, escaping from the sun and forming a pale red band of light connecting heaven and earth.

That was the original furnace, and the place that left the deepest impression on him.

In the battle against the incarnations of the Lords of Cinder, Ember saw the Lords of Cinder, the ancient gods, and himself.

However, by then he already possessed power beyond fire, and later he relinquished that power in exchange for the rebirth of the Dark Souls world.

Of course, all of that is in the past.

Now, Ember looked at the Initial Furnace, and this time it was his turn to twitch his lips.

"Three, want it or not?" Around the campfire of the Initial Furnace, four strange things were gathered.

They were a thick lump of black mud, a cluster of leaping red flames, a frenzied orange flame, and a pile of writhing chunks of meat.

"Your turn, Chu Huo. A pair of threes, want it or not?" A pile of playing cards, which he had somehow gotten his hands on, was covered by You Sui's body. He flipped over two cards, and they were indeed two sets of threes!

"Huh? Huh!" Chu Huo shouted a few words after hearing You Sui's words, but did not react at all.

"Damn it! You have no brains! It's your turn, Madfire!" You Sui cursed under his breath when he saw Chu Huo's appearance.

"The cards? You can burn them! Burn them! Burn them!" Upon hearing You Shen's words, Dian Huo immediately went berserk.

"Bloom! Bloom!" Corruption saw the cards in Madfire's hand suddenly burst into flames and immediately joined in the fun.

Immediately, fleshy buds began to sprout from the cards before Him, and scarlet flower buds grew from them.

The burning card fragments fell on You Sui, and a scarlet flower bloomed before him. You Sui felt like he was about to die of anger.

Every single time! No matter what fun things He finds in the embers, it always ends up like this.

"Get out of here!!!"

"One idiot, two lunatics, I must have had the worst luck in eight lifetimes to be locked up with you!" You Sui roared, but to no avail.

In some ways, the Deep is the craziest one, but He doesn't realize it.

Just as the Deep One was wreaking havoc, a wide spatial rift suddenly appeared above the Primordial Furnace.

Then one day, a giant glass dragon and a blue ox fell out of the crack.

The air suddenly fell silent. Then the campfire quartet—no, the four gods—suddenly became very enthusiastic.

"The time to feast has come!"

"Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!"

"Burn! Burn! Burn!"

"Bloom! Bloom! Bloom!"

……

Looking at the four gods howling and screaming, Yu Jin had a headache. He needed to pick out the First Flame from the group in the future, otherwise, who knows what it would become if it followed those three wicked guys.

Fortunately, Ember just checked and all four of them are fine; they're neither dead nor too powerful to be out of control.

That's good. Keeping these guys under control is the safest approach.

"How are you feeling?" Yu Jin squatted down, pulled up Ke Lai's sleeve, and looked at her fair arm.

"Okay...it's all done!" Ke Lai was in disbelief when she saw the purple scales on her arm disappear and felt the abundant energy in her body.

Although she had been in the doctor's laboratory since she could remember, it did not prevent her from understanding the troublesome nature of the Demon Scale disease.

Because she was the best experimental subject for the doctor, the Fools didn't want her to die prematurely, so they used Cora for experiments while also treating her.

Even so, the doctor could not cure her Demon Scales disease; all he could do was suppress it.

But now, Ember cured her Demon Scale Disease in less than half a day. How could Cole believe this dreamlike experience?

"Pop!" Cole kissed the Ember's helmet, feeling its warmth and the unique rusty smell of steel. Cole knew this was not a dream.

"Sister Cole is cheating, I want some too!" Galuro saw Cole kiss Ember and felt a little jealous.

"Chirp—" Before Yu Jin could react, Galura climbed onto him and began absorbing his brain matter.

"Ptooey! It smells so fishy!" After kissing it for a while, Galuro couldn't stand the metallic smell of the helmet and jumped off Ember.

"Haha!" Seeing Galuro's performance, Cole couldn't help but laugh.

Yu Jin touched the spot where he had been kissed and scratched his head. This was the first time he had ever been kissed.

It doesn't seem bad?

"Let's go, we should head back." Yu Jin only sighed for a moment before calming down. It was just a kiss between two girls; he'd seen plenty of women!

After saying that, Ember pulled Cole and Galuro out of the tower.

Unlike when they arrived, even though the gales of the Wind Dragon Ruins had returned, they seemed to have reached some kind of tacit agreement and deliberately avoided the location of the embers.

They walked smoothly to the Wind Barrier and stopped, simply looking calmly at the raging winds inside.

Then, to the astonishment of Cole and Galuro, the Wind Barrier spontaneously opened in front of them.

Upon seeing this, Yu Jin turned around and looked back. The demonic resentment within was quite perceptive.

He nodded in satisfaction and then walked out.

Emerging from the Wind Dragon Ruins, Ember resumed his previous posture of embracing someone from the front and carrying them from behind.

With a frantic dash, the three of them finally made it back to Mondstadt before sunset.

As he approached his home, Yu Jin noticed a slender figure at the door. He looked closely and recognized her as Lisa, whom he had met the previous night.