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Seeing Wuku enjoying himself, Yu Jin said to his palm:
"People from the past, I can create new flesh and soul for you, or I can allow you to dream beyond reality. Which one do you want?"
"My Lord God, can you let me see it?" Uku said to the embers.
"Of course." Yu Jin spread out his palm. In a world invisible to others, a ball of light was flickering slightly.
Wuku saw a Hill King with several ferrets crawling on his body. He took out some grass seeds from his waist and threw them on the ground.
But the Snow Ferret didn't even look at it. Instead, the Hillichul King himself was extremely anxious - because he had just thrown away the feather that Yu Jin gave him.
Picking up the flower feather, the Hilliard King wiped off the non-existent dust on it and put it back on his waist - on the other side of the grass seed.
"I want to stay with it. It's a little stupid and I'm worried about it," said Uku.
"Really?" Ember smiled.
Then the feathers on Wuku's waist began to glow. Under the feathers, an open eye was staring at the surroundings.
Life always finds its own way, even under the curse of the gods.
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Chapter 50: Things that Condensed Thoughts
2023-08-28
"Hey! I'm leaving! Wuku!" Yu Jin stood not far from Wuku and said to the two new creatures behind him.
"Okay! Goodbye, Hilliard King!" Uku raised his thick arms and waved like Ember.
"Goodbye, my Lord God." Beside Uku, a fiery fairy spoke in human language and shook up and down at the embers.
The homeland has been buried by the wind and snow, and now the recorder Wuku has only two wishes in his heart: to see his homeland and to watch over Wuku. Therefore, he chose the fairy as his future body.
"Don't call me Hilliard King or God. I have a name. My name is Yu Jin." Yu Jin complained about the two people's name for him, then turned around and left.
Fairies with intelligence, Hilichurls who were truly born from a curse, plus his God's Eye, this is such an interesting combination, and it is sure to lead to an interesting path.
The wind and snow could no longer bring any coldness to Yu Jin. Anyway, he had never thought that there would be such a bright light waiting for him to discover in the snowy mountains.
After saying goodbye to Wuku, Yujin continued along the road. But unexpectedly, before he had walked for long, a camp appeared in front of him.
"I'm really lucky this time. I found a new clue so quickly." This is what Yu Jin thought at first, but soon he couldn't laugh anymore.
Reaching his arm into the unmelted ice, Yu Jin pulled out a new diary. After taking a look, he found that it was written by Joel's father, Joseph.
"How the hell can you run so fast!" After reading the log, Yu Jin almost tore it up. Because in the log, Joseph said he was going to try to reach the top of the snow mountain!
Why didn't Wuku beat him up at that time? Yu Jin thought to himself. Joseph wanted to come here, and it was certain that he would meet Wuku.
Yu Jin didn't think Joseph could defeat a Hill King, even though he had a lot of adventure experience. Perhaps it was because he didn't disturb the snow ferret, so Wu Ku didn't attack him.
"Oh, let's go climb some mountains and get some exercise." Yu Jin muttered to himself and continued to move towards higher places.
Following the clues in the log, Yu Jin once again traveled between the snow-capped mountains. It must be said that Joseph's legs were really good. After reaching the west side of the snow-capped mountains, he turned back to the east just to charge to the top of the mountain.
"Ha! Ha! I'm so tired." An iron hand was placed on the lower edge of the Seven Days Statue in the Snow Burial City, and then Yu Jin's whole body flipped up.
Standing up, Yu Jin looked at the Seven Days Statue beside him. The image of Barbatos was carved on it.
The tall statue of the Seven Heavenly Gods exudes blue light and a faint warmth, and is a place to visit in this uninhabited area.
I heard from others that the Seven Days Statue and the teleportation anchor points on the mainland have the function of teleportation, but no one knows how to use them.
Yu Jin also studied it, but because it was a bit complicated, he was afraid of damaging the remains of the ancient civilization. In addition, he was not very interested in teleportation, so he gave up.
After resting for a while beside the Seven Days Statue, Yu Jin bypassed the large pit of the ancient civilization ruins and ran towards the road leading to the top of the mountain as recorded in the log.
"How the hell can this guy get past people?" Yu Jin only ran for a while before retreating. In less than a quarter of an hour, his armor was covered with ice crystals.
He believed that no one would dare to rush to the top of the mountain in such a heavy snowstorm.
"He should have gone somewhere else." Yu Jin shook off the ice crystals on his body, turned his back to the rock wall on the road, and began to think.
As he walked, he rubbed against the rock wall behind him - because Yu Jian felt that the ice crystals behind him were not cleaned up.
"Dang, dang, dang!" Suddenly some gravel hit the embers, making a series of crisp steel knocking sounds.
"Hmm?" Yu Jin turned around and found that he had leaned against a pile of new soil without knowing when. And those stones fell from the new soil that had not yet frozen.
Yu Jin suddenly had a bad feeling. He looked at the three or four meter high pile of dirt in front of him. He pulled his arm back and punched!
"Boom!" Dust scattered, and Embers walked out of the flying smoke, looking at the new space.
As he expected, there was a simple camp not far ahead. Ember trotted over and saw a journal lying in the center of the camp.
Picking up the journal and looking at the scribbled words on it, Yu Jin felt that Joseph might be dead.
He took a look and, apart from some words that sounded like a last will, the main message was that Joseph was preparing to escape towards the cliff at the end of the cave.
"Well, let's take a look." Although Yu Jin felt that there was little hope, he still decided to go and take a look first.
Walking along the cave, the narrow entrance soon became clear. The cave was cut off here, and there was a snow-covered cliff in front.
Yu Jin did not delay, he walked directly down the cliff. Wherever he looked, it was all white.
But soon there was a slight change in his sight - there was a small gray-black dot at the bottom of the cliff.
Yu Jin changed his walking into running, and quickly descended from the cliff. When he reached the bottom of the cliff, he looked at the gray and black object that didn't fit in, and found it was a backpack.
He picked up the backpack and looked through it. There were some supplies that had long been frozen and unusable, and a frozen copy of "The Wild Boar Princess, Volume 6".
"He's really dead." Yu Jin sighed. Things in this world are unpredictable. He had originally planned to give Joseph a good lecture after finding him, but unfortunately, he was gone.
He looked around and finally found Joseph's body huddled under thick snow not far from the backpack.
"Okay, we can't let you be exposed in the wilderness." Yu Jin directly picked up Joseph's stiff body, took his backpack, and jumped back into the cave.
"Clang, clang." The sound of embers digging through hard soil was heard in the silent cave.
Placing Joseph's body and his backpack in the dirt pit, Ember said, "Don't worry, Joel, I'll take care of it."
Then they buried him in the cave.
"Huh!" Yu Jin sat in the camp and looked at a small mound of earth not far away. This was the first time he dug a grave for someone else. In the past, he was only responsible for killing but not burying.
"Hmm--" Just as Yujin was about to go down the mountain, he saw a few little foxes circling around Joseph's grave in the distance.
"Is this the little guy trapped here too?" Yu Jin took a look and thought about the few remaining supplies in Joseph's backpack.
What a kind-hearted guy.
"How did you get up here?" Yu Jin was very curious and threw some dried meat to them.
But foxes can't talk. They just lowered their heads and ate the dried meat that Yu Jin gave them. These little guys must have been hungry for a long time.
Thanks to the jerky, Yu Jin was able to pet the fox. Unfortunately, due to the gauntlet blocking his view, he was unable to feel what the fox's fur felt like.
"Let's go, I'll take you down." Yu Jin touched the foxes for a while and prepared to take them down the mountain.
But the little foxes scattered all of a sudden, and just when Yu Jin was wondering if he had no affinity with animals, he heard the foxes crying again.
Looking for the sound, he saw the foxes digging in the corner of the cave. Soon, they brought four blue glowing objects and placed them at Yujin's feet.
Ember bent down and picked up the gifts given by the little ones. They were a flower, a tail feather, a cup and a crown.
"Something condensed from longing?" Yu Jin looked at these four things. He could feel the courage to move forward fearlessly towards the mountain.
"You again?" Yu Jin looked at the grave not far away and was a little shaken.
Picking up the four holy relics left by Joseph, picking up the little fox in the cave, Yujin ran down the mountain.
Yujin went down the mountain much faster than he went up, and soon he ran back to the camp feeling relaxed - the little fox ran away just as he came down the mountain.
"Joel, I'm back and couldn't find it." Yu Jin saw Joel waiting at the entrance of the camp.
"Oh, really? Thank you, uncle." Joel became depressed for a moment, but he quickly recovered and said to the ember:
"Uncle, I have nothing to repay you. This pocket watch was given to me by my father. I give it to you. You are an adventurer, and you will definitely be able to go further with it."
"Really?" Yu Jin took the pocket watch and felt the pulse from the five holy relics. He pondered for a while, then looked towards the snowy mountains.
"Try it?" Yu Jin muttered in a tiny voice that no one else could hear.
Then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Then give it a try!"
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Chapter 51 Light and Darkness
2023-08-28
"Boom!" The Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain, standing tall above the earth, was still lashed with wind and snow. But this time, within the mighty storm, there was a faint flash of fire.
The wind and snow outside the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain were indeed terrifying, but they were not enough for the Ember who was unleashing his power.
He started from the foot of the mountain and rushed all the way to the halfway point of the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain in the face of the perennial snowstorm.
"Thump!" Yu Jin stepped lightly on the Seven Days Statue of the Snow Burial City. It had only been two hours since he left here and came back again.
He looked at the sky. The sun was already setting. If he delayed any further, Joel might not see his father tonight.
Yujin quickly ran to Joseph's grave, looked at the fresh soil, and then dug Joseph out.
But he thought about it again and buried it again. It seems that what he did could not be called a true resurrection from the dead.
Standing up, Ember ran to the bottom of the cliff at the end of the cave, to the place where Joseph died.
Seeing that the hole he had dug was about to be filled with snow again, Yu Jin couldn't help but sigh again at the strong wind and snow on the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain.
However, no matter how strong the snow and wind are, they will dissipate as long as they meet the sun!
“Crack…, crackle…, whoosh—whoosh—, swish!”
Under the armor of the embers, magnificent sparks began to spew out! At this moment, the body of the embers was like an infinite furnace, swallowing up the wind and clouds while spewing out the fire and smoke of the soul!
The incessant eruption of sparks lingered around the embers, melting the snow and illuminating the sky and earth.
Yu Jin stretched out one hand, and the fire that spread across the sky and earth seemed to have found its target and began to gather in the palm of his hand.