The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

"What is this?" Yu Jin asked, looking at the wilted sapling on the table.

Could it be that Lisa is having trouble planting trees? But he doesn't know how to plant trees; he only knows how to burn them.

"This is the golden seed you left behind. After it sprouted, it looked like it was half-dead. I tried everything but nothing worked, so I came to ask you for help."

Lisa looked at the sapling that was almost lying on the ground and said with some frustration. She had tried everything she could to get the seed to germinate.

The result, showing the animal in this half-dead state, made her quite anxious. She had put a lot of effort into it and naturally didn't want it to die.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have spent her precious holiday searching for embers. Lisa's attitude towards questions is much better now than before.

Previously, she had tried her best to avoid having any academic questions. Even if she did, she wouldn't seek answers.

The price of knowledge once left a deep mark on Lisa's heart.

"Is this the Golden Tree?" Yu Jin slapped the table and brought his face close.

The golden tree saplings that Lisa nurtured were growing extremely poorly due to the dual limitations of the world and the methods she used.

Its main stem is a wooden stick about the thickness of a chopstick. Two branches struggle to emerge from the top of the seedling, and on the branches are two or three leaves that are as green as flowing jade.

Perhaps due to severe malnutrition, the seedling struggled to support even just two or three green leaves.

Its main stem bends and droops under the weight of the green leaves, seemingly due to the seedling's latent "golden" nature. It is still struggling to support itself, preventing the green leaves from touching the soil in the pot.

"Hahaha! Oh my! A tiny golden tree." Yu Jin laughed as he looked at the somewhat "delicate" golden tree sapling.

If I were still in the border area, I would at least let that old bastard, the Supreme Will, see this little sapling.

Hearing the embers' mockery, the golden tree sapling trembled as if it were sentient. It twitched its leaves together, like a human covering their face in shame.

This anomaly naturally did not escape Lisa's notice. A conscious tree? This was the first time Lisa had ever seen one.

She looked at the golden tree sapling struggling to turn around, trying to hide behind the embers, with a mixture of surprise and delight, and said:

"Little Tree, can you understand us?"

Upon hearing those words, the golden tree sapling froze. It had been hiding for so long, but today its defenses were breached by the embers.

Actually, it's not its fault. It fell from the glittering golden tree into the world, and should have taken root, sprouted, and grown into a brand new golden tree.

Unfortunately, life is unpredictable, and before it could realize its ambitions, it was picked up from the ground by the embers.

Then it watched as the embers slashed their way down to its old mother—the Great Golden Tree—and finally burned the Great Golden Tree to the ground.

It can be said that it endured a long period of time under the dual torment of the shadow of the embers and the pride of being gold.

Later, the embers threw it to this woman. This world lacks the soil for a golden tree to grow; it should have endured eternity beneath its golden shell.

But the waves of time can always be unpredictable. Just as the embers had dug it out of the earth, this woman melted away the golden shell, and it was thus brought back to the light of day.

Part the leaves, and they fold up; bend the trunk, and feel the resistance. The embers tease the golden tree sapling, but the latter always stubbornly refuses to yield.

"Stop playing around, you'll break it soon!" Lisa saw Ember teasing the golden tree sapling and immediately pulled it into her arms.

Upon hearing Lisa's words, Yu Jin reluctantly withdrew his hand. How come he hadn't noticed before that the golden tree saplings were so fun?

In reality, the golden tree never had a seedling stage. Under the protection of countless corpses and people, the golden tree seedlings always grew into towering trees very quickly.

"You haven't told it how it's going to grow yet!" Lisa pulled Ember back from her reverie; Ember hadn't yet answered her question.

"Little tree, little tree, tell your sister what you want to eat?" Lisa lifted the flowerpot and looked at the golden tree seedling that had recovered with a smile.

A tree with consciousness—such wondrous life could only exist outside the world.

"It needs to eat blood and flesh." Despite the heartwarming scene, Ember deliberately broke the tranquility.

The golden tree, its light can illuminate the entire sky. However, the price of this brilliance is incredibly heavy.

The former borderland of death runes was sealed, and the original death runes were replaced with "Returning Tree".

Even after people die, it is not over. Their souls are reshaped within the Golden Tree, while their bodies are placed beside the roots of the great tree that spreads throughout the borderlands, becoming nourishment for the Golden Tree.

These will ultimately become a continuous stream of blessings, pouring down from the golden tree and bringing endless blessings to life.

It sounds wonderful indeed: life nourishes the golden tree, and the golden tree bestows blessings upon life. The more life there is, the stronger the golden tree grows, the more blessings it bestows, and the more life it receives.

This cycle continues until the entire world is incredibly prosperous. However, while the Golden Tree is wonderful, the Golden Law is not.

The Golden Rule allows no changes.

Therefore, the towering golden trees at the border must have grown from the corpses of countless lives.

But this little guy, without a life furnace to graft onto it, and without countless human corpses to draw from, naturally won't grow up.

"Blood and flesh?" Lisa stiffly put down the flowerpot she was holding after hearing Ember's words.

She looked at the golden tree sapling in front of her. Although it had just sprouted, it still radiated a faint golden light.

The patterns on its branches are intricate and mysterious, as if they were woven together from the essence of countless lives; its green leaves are vibrant and lively, with the vitality of life imprinted within them.

Lisa could hardly believe that these saplings, which seemed to be created by the gods, could be so ferocious!

The golden tree seedling in the flowerpot seemed to sense the change in atmosphere and suddenly became anxious.

It struggled to straighten its trunk, its green leaves unfurling. The miniature golden light grew larger, and the remaining green leaves began to tremble.

It looks like someone is using the toilet, specifically the constipated kind.

“This is…” As the possessor of the Eye of God, Lisa could naturally sense the flow of elements.

She felt the elemental forces in the air, which were normally flowing smoothly, being drawn in by some kind of suction, rushing towards the seemingly fragile sapling on the table.

"Pop!" A few drops of dew suddenly appeared on the green leaves of the golden tree sapling. Very small drops of dew, a gift condensed by this little fellow with all its might.

Its mother tree's dewdrops can cover the entire border area, and the blessings formed by its brothers, which grow into small golden trees, can nourish a piece of land.

That's all it can do.

The golden tree seedling looked even more wilted, but it still managed to deliver a drop of dew, almost invisible to the naked eye, to Lisa.

"What is this?" Lisa asked the golden tree sapling, seeing the dewdrops floating in front of her.

The latter, of course, cannot speak. Now its leaves are scattered on the ground, and the pride it has held onto for so long has been abandoned by itself.

“Grace, this little guy really likes you.” Ember looked at the trembling golden tree sapling on the ground, then at Lisa not far away, and said, “Give it a try?”

After listening to Ember's words, Lisa stroked the golden tree sapling and then swallowed the dew.

There was no sensation upon ingestion—the amount of Dettol was simply too small.

Soon, Lisa noticed something was wrong with herself. She suddenly realized that she could seem to sense the flow of elemental energy.

This feeling is not manifested through an external organ like the Eye of God, but rather is an almost instinctive sensation.

No, it's not just about feelings!

Lisa extended a palm. Then, seven-colored light began to shine. The seven elements obeyed its guidance without obstruction, as if manipulating the elements was an instinct.

Lisa suddenly realized that something essential about her life had changed at that moment.

Chapter 129 The Golden Order

2023-08-28

However, this mysterious feeling quickly came to an abrupt end. The seven lights in Lisa's hand also dissipated.

Coming to her senses, Lisa carefully felt the flow of elemental power, and this time she returned to her original form.

Through her divine eye, she could sense the flow of elemental power, but it was very abstract. If she wanted to control it, she could harness the element of lightning.

"Phew—" Lisa breathed softly, picked up the flowerpot again, and said with a smile, "What a wonderful little thing, I'll call you Little Tree from now on!"

As she spoke, she touched the green leaves of the golden tree seedling with her hand.

Upon seeing this, Yu Jin smiled and said, "It seems I was narrow-minded. The Golden Tree can eat a lot of things."

“That’s true, trees are very adaptable!” Lisa looked up and replied, then said to the golden tree sapling, “Don’t you think so, little tree?”

Upon hearing Lisa's praise, the golden tree sapling immediately perked up; its trunk straightened and its leaves stopped drooping.

"Hehehe!" Seeing the golden tree sapling so happy, Lisa couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle. Besides being amazing, this little guy was also very cute.

Yu Jin looked slightly bewildered. Did the Beast Elden also fawn over the Supreme Will in this way? He thought about how the Beast Elden acted coquettishly and couldn't help but shudder.

The case is solved. It was because of this that the Supreme Will ignored the border area in the end.

"Hey, stop being so happy!" Ember gently tapped the top of the golden tree sapling and took out a drop of crimson teardrop crystal.

Tvalin shed many tears back then, and he also collected some of them.

"Can you turn this into nutrients?" Ember asked, presenting the teardrop crystal to the golden tree sapling.

There was something wrong with the tree beneath the earth, and he didn't want to dig a hole. So Ember thought of finding it a helper.

Hearing Ember's words, the golden tree sapling tilted slightly. It lightly touched its crimson teardrops with its green leaves, like a hamster stealing food, testing for any danger.

"This thing is too dangerous, you can't eat it!" Seeing that the golden tree seedling had been hesitant to eat it for a long time, Lisa pulled the flowerpot back.

She recognized the substance in the tears; it was the same aura as when the Sumeru scholar went mad.

Crazy, unpredictable.

"You underestimate it." Yu Jin felt a toothache as he watched Lisa protect the golden tree sapling as if it were a precious treasure.

"What do you think is inside?" Ember infused a trace of power, and the chaotic aura immediately rushed towards Lisa's face.

Lisa's expression changed instantly, but thankfully the feeling only lasted for a moment before it ended.

"Incomprehensible, ineffable chaos." Lisa gently touched her chest, looking at the crimson teardrop in Ember's hand with lingering fear.

Ember nodded, then pointed to the golden tree sapling in her arms, "What do you think it is?"

"Uh... a cute and magical little guy?" Lisa said, calming herself down, though she sounded a little uncertain.

“Let me show you what it is.” As soon as Ember finished speaking, Lisa suddenly felt everything go black.

When she came to her senses, she found herself in a lush green field.

A breeze brushed her cheek, and the rustling of leaves filled the air. Further away, she saw life she had never seen before dancing in the woods.

It should have been a vibrant scene, but Lisa sensed no life in it. It was as if... as if the place had frozen in time.

Everything was as if it had all been predetermined. A strong, unyielding force permeated the air, telling everything in the world that nothing should be transgressed.

Suddenly, golden flakes began to fall from the sky, scattering like snowflakes. Lisa seemed to realize something, and she abruptly looked up.