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There is always a way out. Ying glanced around and saw a hint of bright red in the snow-white.
She did not hesitate, the edgeless sword appeared in her hand in an instant. She rushed out with one step, leaving a striking gully on the snow.
"Crack!" The deep red stone was not a hard object to begin with. Under Ying's full-strength attack, it instantly turned into countless pieces.
Then a swirling red breath lingered around Ying. Gentle and long-lasting heat emanated from this red breath, dispelling the coldness from the sky.
"Everyone, come here!" Ying waved to everyone, then ran over.
"Ha! Alive, alive!" Paimon came to Ying's side and stretched out her two short hands as if warming herself by a fire.
"Oh, this is such a bad climate. My skin has become a lot drier." Lisa blew a breath into her palms. This was her first time experiencing such low temperatures.
"Where is Yu Jin?" Albedo gathered next to Ying. He took a quick look and found that apart from them, there was no sign of Yu Jin.
"Here I come!" Just as Albedo finished speaking, the sound of embers came from the sky.
Everyone looked up and saw a dark shadow in the blur of flying snow. And the shadow was getting bigger and clearer - it was the embers that fell from the sky!
"Bang!" The embers fell to the ground, splashing large flakes of snow. Then he stretched out his palm and swept across, and a strong wind stronger than the strong wind on the top of the mountain was blown up.
Whether it was the splashing snowflakes or the thick snow that had been deposited for thousands of years, they were all blown away by the strong wind.
"Ah~, what a strong wind!" Paimeng covered her face and screamed. With such a strong wind, she might be blown away to an unknown place.
But she soon discovered that the wind was not as strong as she had imagined. The strong wind was enough to blow the thick snow to Paimon's body, and the scene in her imagination of flying into the air did not happen.
Even..., this wind is a little warm?
Paimon loosened her hands that were tightly covering her face and opened her eyes. What came into view was the brown and hardened earth. After being in the cold for who knows how long, the earth had already become as hard as steel.
Paimon looked up, and then she saw Cinder with his arms folded, and the golden tree waving in the wind above his head.
“Dangdang! The Adventurer’s Association’s fighting force, Embers, is here!”
"Shhhhh!"
Yu Jin flexed his biceps in front of everyone, and the golden tree seedling above his head kept shaking, as if cheering him on.
Moreover, mint leaves kept falling around him - Lance Shanks also ran over at some point.
As for why she sprinkled mint leaves, it can only be said that in the poor and arid area of Longji Snow Mountain, only mint can grow.
"..."
"Forget it, I don't want to play anymore." Yu Jin gestured with his muscles and found that he was not strong enough to burst the armor. In addition, due to the strange looks from others, he gave up the idea of showing off.
He stopped his actions, picked up the golden tree sapling from above his head, and came to the crowd.
"Huh! It's quite cold here. Do you know the origin of that big pillar?" Yu Jin stretched out his hand and imitated Paimon to feel the heat coming from Ying's body.
In fact, he didn't feel anything. Embers were not sensitive to temperature or anything like that.
"I don't know."
“This is also my first time to the top of Snow Mountain.”
Lisa and Albedo both shook their heads. It was also their first time to reach the top of Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain, and they didn't know the origin of that conspicuous large pillar.
"Don't worry about it for now! The heat of the Deep Red Stone is about to dissipate!" Just as Yu Jin was wondering, Ying, who was surrounded by everyone, spoke.
The red aura lingering around her was becoming dimmer and dimmer, and it looked like it wouldn't last long.
"Let me make a fire." Albedo said, and took out some bottles and jars from the leather bag around his waist.
These were the alchemical materials he carried with him, and it was not difficult for Albedo to mix them into combustion agents.
But just as Albedo was about to mix it, Jhin walked up and interrupted him.
"No need to bother."
Yu Jin looked at the Frost Sky Nail in front of him, with huge blue-white ice condensed around it. Even after enduring the warm wind, the ice still showed no signs of melting.
"Crack!"
The crackling sounds of countless firewood being burned rang out one after another, and a huge amount of heat emanated from the embers.
The heat decayed quickly, and by the time it passed over other people, it had turned into a hot stream like a warm spring breeze.
Yu Jin lifted his toes off the ground and floated slightly in the air. The light around him was distorted, and it was unknown whether it was because the temperature was too high or for some other reason.
Lifting his hand, Yu Jin saw that this time more of the gauntlet was melted than ever before.
He took a deep breath, and the breath that was gushing out sparks hit the visor and rolled back. The temperature was so high that even the embers that were not sensitive to temperature could feel the heat brushing against his face.
"Wuhu, burn!" Yujin stretched out his arms, and the fire that was originally burning inside his body began to burn on his body surface.
The flame was not very big, and its color was just ordinary fiery red. But the jumping flame contained all possibilities.
This was the original fire that swept away the darkness and brought about all things.
"Boom!" The small flames covering the embers suddenly boiled up. They rose up and turned into tongues of fire, rushing towards the Frost Sky Nail not far away.
As soon as the flame left the ember's body, it became blurred and distorted. Wherever the flame passed, it continued to fluctuate like the space around the ember's body.
In this situation, the light and sound were distorted beyond recognition. Everyone could only see large patches of red flames gushing out of Yu Jin's body.
The red flames wrapped around the Frost Nail, and mist from the melted ice drifted off into the distance through the blurry space.
Ying rubbed her eyes, trying to see what the fiery red was, but unfortunately she saw nothing.
She knew it was fire, fire that could not be touched.
The things from the sky could no longer maintain their original appearance under the flames. Whether it was the mist emitting a bright blue light or the column of the Frost Sky Nail full of patterns, they were all burned up in the flames.
The flames consumed them and devoured their strength. When the flames returned, they became more vigorous.
The blur disappeared, and the huge stone pillar standing in the distance disappeared.
Ying sniffed and she smelled the scent of earth, which was the smell of the earth being renewed and looking forward to a new life.
Ying lifted her foot, and a faint footprint appeared in her sight - the iron-hard frozen soil had melted.
The sound of burning firewood disappeared from my ears, and then there was a peaceful silence.
"Huh? The wind has died down?" Paimon asked in surprise. The Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain was always full of strong winds, especially at the top of the mountain.
Ever since arriving at the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain, Paimeng's ears have been filled with the whistling of the wind. Now that it has suddenly become quiet, she is really a little uncomfortable with it.
But now, why is the wind so weak?
"Not only will the wind be weaker, but the temperature of the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain will also slowly rise."
In Ember's perception, the wind from Mondstadt entering the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain would no longer turn into icy and restless gales as before. Instead, it would bring warmth from the wilderness and gradually melt the long-frozen mountains.
The wind has died down and the weather is not so cold anymore. It's time to plant something.
Chapter 204 The Secret Under the Frost Sky Nail
2023-10-01
"Plant trees, plant trees!" Yu Jin picked up the golden tree sapling on the ground and trotted to the place where the Frost Nail was just now.
But soon he was stunned.
"What's wrong?" Lisa saw Yu Jin frozen and became curious, so she hurried to Yu Jin's side.
Then she saw a huge hole.
The Frost Nail is very tall. Even though no one has observed it closely, one can roughly estimate that it is about a hundred meters long.
Originally, Lisa thought that the lush ice jungle around the Frost Nail grew from the ground.
But now it seems that she was wrong. The ice gradually extended and grew from the big pit, and finally filled the entire deep pit before growing upwards.
The huge pit formed after the melting of the ice is hundreds of meters long and wide. In the deep pit, countless broken walls and ruins are exposed to the light of day.
They were originally frozen in the ice forever, but now they reappeared in front of everyone, silently telling everyone what happened here.
"Looking at the damage to these buildings... I'm afraid they were destroyed at the same time." Albedo also came over. He looked at the damaged state of the wreckage in the giant pit below and made his judgment.
Albedo looked at the deep pit with a rare look of shock in his eyes. This huge pit was probably created by the embers that had just burned out the pillar.
What a terrifying power, it is truly unheard of.
"Is there a city down there?" Ying said in a heavy tone, looking at the ruins in front of him.
These dilapidated buildings even look "new", and the marks of time left on the ruins wrapped in ice are very shallow.
But what made Ying even more horrified was that she didn't see any corpse in such a huge ruin.
Such a large building complex should have a lot of people living in it. But Ying looked around and didn't find any corpses, not to mention human ones, not even animals.
Under the conditions of the snowy mountains, corpses can sometimes be preserved even longer than some buildings.
But Ying didn't see it, as if life in the city was wiped out in an instant.
Compared to the huge force that turned the city into a deep pit in an instant, Ying still felt that this method of making life disappear silently was more terrifying.
"It should be." Yu Jin listened to Ying's doubts and nodded. And this should have happened thousands of years ago.
"Paimon, how do you feel?" Yu Jin changed the subject and began to care about Paimon.
"Ah? Me?" Paimon pointed at herself, then she looked at the huge ruins in front of her, stomped her feet angrily and said:
"It's so abominable! Such a big city was destroyed in an instant! If I knew who did it, I would let Ying teach her a lesson!"
"Why me?" Ying looked at Paimeng speechlessly. Paimeng said it well, but why did she become the executor in the end?
"Hehe, I'm very weak!" Paimon smiled at Ying, as if he was very embarrassed.
Then Paimon looked at Yu Jin again, waved her fist and said, "Yu Jin, don't underestimate me! I'm also working hard to become mature!"
"At least... at least I'll be there watching Ying deal with the monsters!" Paimon said at the end, puffing out his chest proudly.
It seemed that she thought Ember was worried that she was too young.
"Hahaha, not bad! Paimon, remember what you said, don't forget it next time." Yu Jin said to Paimon and then laughed out loud.
"Of course, I remember everything I said." Paimon started bragging again.
"You ate too much again last night! You said you wanted to lose weight!"
"Wow! Ying, why do you always ruin my show?"
"Hahaha!"