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The flames in her body stopped flowing, and the smoke rising around her gradually dissipated. The huge skirt that had been inflated by the heat flow shrank back to its normal shape.
The lady's condition was not very good at the moment, and her body was covered with marks of burns.
Several huge orange and black grooves were burned on the lady's body. If you look closely, you can see the dense stripes in the grooves.
The lady felt as if she was being held tightly by a giant, burning hand. And that was indeed the case.
At the last moment, what the lady saw was not the embers, nor the Lance Shanks rushing towards her, but a huge palm.
The palm was very strange. It had only three fingers, and the earthy yellow surface looked like it was carved from long-weathered rock. The fingerprints on it were clearly reflected in the lady's eyes.
In the cracks on the surface, the surging orange-yellow flames exuded heat and a faint glow, making one wonder if the residue falling off the surface of the palm was caused by the burning of the flames inside.
The palm with only three fingers tightly grasped the lady. The huge heat was projected onto her body through the clothes, and the pain of her body being burned by the fire and the deep despair rushed into her body, almost making her faint.
Should we say that the lady had a strong will? Or did she bear greater pressure from the embers before? Anyway, she finally managed to hold on.
The huge grooves on her body were caused by the burns of the three fingers that seemed real but not real. The smaller lines in the grooves were the fingerprints on the three fingers.
"Hey! Wang, is she okay?" Lance Shanks squatted beside the lady and poked the dazed lady with a branch.
The lady kept moaning in pain, and with the hideous burns on her body, she looked like she was dying.
Yu Jin, who was fiddling with a lady's skirt, raised his head and replied nonchalantly, "It's okay. I'm not that idiot Three Fingers. Even if I have clothes, I can carve crazy fire on others."
The three fingers are the messenger of the mad fire. They convey the will of the mad fire and bring the end of burning everything to the world.
Everything begins with the great One, from which differences arise. Differences are born, life appears, and at the same time life has a mind.
This is the mistake made by the Supreme Will, and all sin and suffering are caused by this "mistake".
So Dianhuo wanted to make up for this mistake and return everything to its original starting point. He used the chaotic yellow flame to melt everything and let everything return to the huge, all-embracing "one".
Regarding guys like Dianhuo, Yujin can only describe them as: pure terrorists who must be properly disciplined!
Anyway, Yu Jin was dozing off while listening to Three Fingers or Dian Huo's "great" idea. If it weren't for Melina's fussing in his ear, Yu Jin would have fallen asleep.
As for Yu Jin, he was willing to wholeheartedly agree with the Supreme Will.
Come on, creating life is such a great and impressive thing. If the Supreme Will didn't do it, then maybe he would have done it!
As for the pain, Yu Jin felt that it was simply the laziness of the Supreme Will. With His ability, what was there that He didn't know?
It is not difficult for the Supreme Will to watch everything about every living being. Of course, whether doing so will bring greater pain or not, Yu Jin is not sure.
And I don’t know if it’s the Three-Finger Cake or the Dianhuo Cake, but during the process of receiving the Dianhuo, you can’t even wear clothes!
Anyway, after confirming it again and again, Yu Jin threw Melina out and started to take off his clothes. As he expected, after seeing his body, Three Fingers exploded on the spot, which made him depressed for a while.
Now, after Yu Jin accepted the Mad Fire, this shortcoming must have been solved. And the lady was his first experimental subject.
"You..., what are you doing?" a weak female voice came. The lady saw Yu Jin fiddling with her skirt and couldn't help but shrink in fear.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm just curious about how your skirt expanded to such a big size!" Yu Jin put down the skirt and made a circle with his hands.
The second stage of the lady is really amazing. Not only does her skirt expand to an enormous size, but the mask on her head also grows larger, becoming bigger than her head.
"..." Yu Jin's words caused the lady to be silent for a while. She stood up tremblingly, breathing heavily from time to time.
Every time she moved, the burn marks on her body felt a sharp pain. Pain and despair faintly appeared in the lady's ears, like a stick, stirring her brain.
The mental and physical pain was clearly engraved on her body. The lady clenched her teeth and tried not to scream out.
Fortunately, the pain did not last long. The lady could feel the pain becoming real. It wandered around her body and finally shrank into her eyeballs.
"Huh..., what did you do to me?" The lady rubbed her eyes. Her originally soft eyeballs were now extremely hot, as if something horrible would burst out at any time.
"I'm just helping you suppress the flames. How is it? Is the effect good?" Yu Jin looked at the lady's eyes that had turned orange and said casually.
The effect was more than good. The lady could feel that the fire in her body had shrunk into a fireball, trembling as it moved away from what she saw.
"Haha, come on. Whether the thing in your eyes will become the fire that destroys you or turn into your strength, it all depends on your future performance." Yu Jin looked at the lady who was thinking about something and said with a smile.
"Bye! If you feel more and more miserable in the future, don't look for me. Because I will probably say to you: 'Good death!'" Yu Jin waved at the lady, and disappeared with only his back left.
Yu Jin walked very quickly and disappeared in the blink of an eye. But Lance Shanks did not leave. She looked into the lady's eyes curiously.
"Why don't you follow him?" The lady saw Yu Jin's figure disappear and sat down against a tree trunk.
"Actually, Wang is a very nice person." Lance Shanks said as he looked at the lady who had experienced the gates of hell twice.
The lady just closed her eyes and didn't respond to Lance Shanks's words. She was exhausted both physically and mentally, and she had just been holding on while talking to Yu Jin.
"The thing in your eyes is called madness fire. It's hard to say whether it comes from despair or represents despair. But the king allowed the madness fire to infect you, which means that your experience must be related to despair." Lance Shanks didn't care about the lady's attitude, but started chattering on.
"The king has tested many things on you, which he normally wouldn't do. Most likely it's because you've done something that would make you deserve death in the eyes of ordinary people, so the king doesn't take your life seriously."
As soon as Lance Shanks finished speaking, he saw the lady's eyes open. She looked indignant and wanted to explain something, but in the end she said nothing.
"Haha, it seems I was right! But the king has always been very generous. Don't neglect the chance to redeem yourself. The despair in your eyes was caused by you."
"As for how to convince them not to devour you, that depends on your own ability!"
"Why are you helping me so much?" The lady looked weakly at Lance Shanks who kept pouring out beans, and asked with half gratitude and half confusion.
Lance Shanks looked at the lady's eyes, took a step back and said, "Don't get me wrong, let's be fair. I beat you up on impulse, and now we're even!"
"If I see you doing evil in the future, or if someone asks me for help, don't doubt it, I will beat you to death." Lance Shanks said while waving his fist.
The lady saw Lance Shanks's expression and nodded, but her expression froze soon because she saw the embers rushing towards her from a distance.
"Lance Shanks! I noticed that you have no idea how to read the atmosphere!" Ember shouted while running.
"What's that atmosphere?" Lance Shanks asked with a questioning look on his face.
"The boss has left, shouldn't you, the younger brother, follow closely behind?" Yu Jin came to Lance Shanks, nodded her head and said.
"Oh, I see." Lance Shanks nodded to show that he understood.
Then the lady saw Yu Jin's back and Lance Shanks following closely behind him disappear from her sight.
Chapter 185 Thousand Winds Arena
2023-09-21
Outside Mondstadt, a group of people were walking in the vast wilderness.
"By the way, why did you call us here so early?" The sky of Mondstadt was unexpectedly bright after the dragon disaster was eliminated. Paimon flew to Yujin's side and asked curiously.
They, the "Tevarin Rescue Team", had only been separated for a few days when they reunited again.
But why did it seem a little strange? Paimon tried to fly higher, and then he suddenly realized that the singing man seemed to be gone, and was replaced by Lance Shanks.
"Hey! Yu Jin, did you forget about the singer? Where is he?" Paimon noticed something unusual and asked immediately.
"I thought you didn't notice." Yu Jin couldn't help but complain when he saw that Paimon took so long to notice the abnormality.
But he still explained: "I called you here so that you can see how Tevarin recovers."
"As for Wendy, he went to call Tevarin. I guess he wants to chat with him. After all, he hasn't seen him for so long."
"Then who is she?" Paimon asked puzzledly, looking at Lance Shanks not far away.
"Hey, my name is Lance Shanks, and I'm a dragon!" Lance Shanks' eyes had been shining since she saw Paimon. She hugged Paimon in her arms and began to ravage him.
"Wow! What a magical creature, are you an elf?" Lance Shanks asked curiously while rubbing Paimon's hair.
"No! Paimon is Paimon!" Paimon broke free from Lance Shanks' arms and immediately flew to Ying's side.
She stamped her feet in anger. Why did anyone who was related to Yu Jin like to touch her so much? Obviously, no one else would do that.
"Okay Paimon, doesn't this make you look cute?" Ying looked at the angry Paimon with a smile and said comfortingly.
Speaking of which, Paimon seems to be unexpectedly sensitive to others touching her, this thought suddenly popped up in Ying's mind.
But she quickly shook her head to get rid of her wild thoughts. Paimon was so strange, it was normal for him to be a little sensitive.
Paimon's anger came and went quickly. Soon she flew to Lance Shanks' body, looked at her curiously and said, "You are a dragon? Why can a dragon turn into a human?"
"Hehe, where we are, dragons have to interact with humans." Lance Shanks turned around and said with a smile.
"But how do dragons and humans interact?" Paimon asked, scratching his head. She was terrified when she saw Tevarin, let alone getting along with him.
"How do we interact..." Lance Shanks paused when he recalled the friendly "communication" between himself and his believers.
She thought that if she said it directly, it might scare Paimon. So Lance Shanks just scribbled, "Anyway, it's just an interaction like answering their questions. It's boring. By the way, do you have many dragons here?"
"Very rarely. Before we met Tevarin, we thought dragons were legendary creatures!" Paimon looked at Ying and said.
Regardless of what others thought, she had really believed that dragons were just creatures from legends. She was shocked when she saw Tevarin.
"Um..., do you know where this is?" Qin suddenly found herself in a somewhat unfamiliar place without realizing it.
In Qin's field of vision, a cylindrical arena appeared. The entire arena was brown-gray, as if it was carved out of several huge stones, and it looked seamless and extremely heavy.
Between the stones, there is an even taller stone pillar, on which are carved intricate and swirling patterns, which, together with the hollow sculptures in the stone wall, add a touch of humanity to the dead silent arena.
Qin was familiar with all the terrain in Mond, but in Qin's memory, there was no such architectural style in Mond.
Whether historical or present, the architectural style of Mond in any period is completely different from the arena in front of us!
"Shouldn't this be the Thousand Winds Temple? How did it become like this?"
Although the terrain of the Thousand Winds Temple had been changed by Tevarin, Qin still judged that this was the Thousand Winds Temple based on the scenery on the road just now and the undamaged terrain.
"You can recognize this?" Yu Jin was shocked. In his opinion, the Temple of Thousand Winds had been plowed by Tevarin's High Sky Closing Song, and the overall appearance was completely different from before.
Plus the newly built arena, it’s amazing that Jean could recognize it!
"Of course, as the acting leader of the Knights Templar, I should know every inch of Mondstadt like the back of my hand!" Qin said this without any pride, as if she was just stating something that was a matter of course.
In fact, Qin still had some reservations. For her, as long as Mondstadt was not dead, she could roughly determine its location no matter where it was.
Because she had memorized the distribution of Mondstadt's unique creatures. As long as the climate remained the same, she would be able to recognize them no matter how the terrain changed.
"Hmph, very good momentum. If all the guys in the Knights Templar could be like you, I wouldn't have to be so busy every day." After hearing what Qin said, Diluk nodded with satisfaction.
Although he was very satisfied with his junior Jean, Diluk's attitude did not soften at all and he still looked indifferent.
After hearing Diluk's praise, Qin just scratched her head and said nothing. She knew in her heart that there were too few people who could do what she did.
However, due to Qin's inner humility, she was embarrassed to show it.
"Wow! It feels so familiar, is this the arena?" Lance Shanks also saw the tall building standing in the distance.
Although Lance Shanks had never been to the arena, he recognized it at a glance. It can only be said that the architectural style of the border is too eye-catching.