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It was a great sword, the blade had been eroded by time and its original appearance could no longer be seen. But even so, the great sword still stood there, straight as ever.
Yu Jin felt itchy when he saw this thing. Wouldn’t this thing tempt him to go over and pull it out?
As for what will happen after it is pulled out, I'm sorry, Ember has never thought about this issue.
"Benlang Territory..., there is actually such a place?" Xiangling looked around. This huge pit was tightly surrounded by dense forests. It was hard for ordinary people to imagine that there was such a magnificent building here.
"This is where the Wolf King sleeps." Lei Ze felt a little excited as he looked at the huge pit in front of him.
Although he has been here many times, Lei Ze is still infected by the strong wolf breath and cold wind here.
The scent of wolves is everywhere here; even the breeze is the howl of wolves.
"Good, good! It seems that your wolf king is doing well and sleeps with his people." Yu Jin looked at the scene on the stone platform at the bottom of the huge pit below and immediately applauded.
On the large square at the bottom of the pit, which was also paved with rocks, there were many wolves of different fur colors lying there, their eyes slightly closed, looking like they were sleeping.
Are wolves so lazy? They don't even get up when the sun is shining on their butts? Yu Jin looked at the sun hanging in the sky, criticizing this lazy behavior in his heart.
"It's not sleeping. The wolf comes here when it's injured." Lei Ze noticed Yu Jin's eyes and explained.
The breath of the wolf king not only makes the wolves feel comfortable, but also helps them heal their injuries. This is why Lei Ze has come here many times.
"Let's go down." Lei Ze saw the wolves moving again, so he said to Yu Jin and Xiang Ling.
This place is different from the previous dense forest. Maybe wolves often come here, so Trail No. 6 winds from the heights to the bottom.
Going down the path, they arrived at a corner of the wolf altar. From here, the wolves lying down to recover from their wounds looked like little gray dots.
The altar is so large that it is more than enough for a dragon to move around.
"call!"
A biting cold wind blew, bringing with it fine snow from who knows where, making it difficult to see the scenery in the distance.
The cold almost made Yu Jin think he was back in the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain. Fortunately, the cold didn't last long.
The cold wind dissipated, and an extremely huge wolf, more than ten meters long, walked out of the wind.
The giant wolf's body was blue-green, and its flying braids of hair moved without wind, reflecting the sunlight like strands of ice crystals.
At this moment, it is shrouded in a faint blue light, looking a little unreal.
But as the blue light dimmed, the illusion also disappeared along with it. Standing before him was a real giant wolf, the wolf king of the Running Wolf Territory.
Yu Jin looked up at the giant wolf. Didn't they say that the demon god would lose his body but retain his spirit? How come he still retained two spirits?
Too lonely to have schizophrenia?
It’s not surprising that he thought so, but in Yujin’s eyes, Boreas in front of him was just two intertwined light and shadows.
One was stained with blue and white, the other was flowing with breeze. The two souls intertwined together, it really looked like split personality.
If you must say, the lady and the wolf king are a little bit similar. The lady lived for another five hundred years after her original memory was sealed.
Although the two memories will shock her mind when they are awakened at the same time, in essence, the lady's soul is intact.
But the Wolf King is different. It is rare to see two completely different souls intertwined together and in such harmony.
Let's compare her to the lady. In the eyes of the ember, the lady's soul with fire has sprouted spikes, as if something is stabbing her soul fiercely.
As for the Wolf King, Yu Jin raised his head and looked through it like a telescope. Hmm, it was very round and complete. It looked like the two souls were still chatting!
"Tsk tsk tsk, what a loser. It's bad enough that you can't beat ordinary people, but now you can't even beat a wolf." Yu Jin shook his head and mocked the lady from a distance.
"So, have you two reached an agreement?" After the taunt, Yu Jin returned to the main topic.
Chapter 227: Long-lost Secret
2023-10-12
"Two?" Boreas narrowed his wolf eyes, lowered his head and sniffed the embers.
But it smelled nothing.
"That was a long time ago. Now we have become one, indistinguishable from each other." Boreas raised his head again, as if recalling the past.
"Two? Are there two wolf kings?" Xiangling held Guoba and looked around. But there was only one wolf, Boreas.
Even the other ordinary wolves retreated outside the altar square when the wolf king appeared. Now, only Yu Jin, Xiangling, Lei Ze and Boreas were left on the huge stone platform.
"There is only one Wolf King." Lei Ze shook his head. In his impression, Boreas has always been the leader of the Wolf Pack.
Moreover, according to the old wolves in the wolf pack, Boreas began to protect the wolves of the Wolf Territory a long time ago.
It is it that sets the rules for this land, allowing wolves and humans to live in peace.
"Your eyes are very powerful." Boreas looked at Yu Jin who had a calm expression and said slowly.
In fact, it didn't know what Yu Jin's expression looked like under his armor, but looking at Yu Jin's leisurely look, he should be very relaxed.
In comparison, the thing in the human girl's hand was not like that.
"Ah! Guoba, don't move!" Xiangling held Guoba even tighter with her hands.
Xiangling was very surprised, because Guoba was usually very gentle. But after coming to the Wolf Territory, he became a little irritable.
Not only had he been spitting fire for no reason in the forest before, but now he was trying to break free from her arms. This had never happened before!
Could it be that the food she cooked recently is not to Guoba’s taste?
Xiangling hugged the rice crust tightly, thinking about how to improve the food problem during the trip in the future.
"Haha, don't be so nervous. I'm a loser just like you." Boreas looked at the threatening Guoba, and a rare smile appeared on his huge wolf mouth.
Unexpectedly, the foreign demon god would choose to integrate his power into the earth. This feeling of finding a companion was quite good for Andrius, who had merged with Boreas.
Naturally, its mood affected Boreas.
Yu Jin looked at the slight movement of Boreas' tail and felt a little emotional. It seemed that the remaining will of the demon god had really merged with Boreas in front of him.
"Who is it?" Lei Ze looked at the wolf king with curiosity in his eyes. Many wolves in the wolf pack were curious about the wolf king's past, but the wolf king was sleeping most of the time, so it was not a good idea for them to disturb him.
"Andrius," Boreas answered softly, looking down at his completely different people.
Andrius is the king wolf of the North Wind, and Boreas is a wolf that fought alongside humans thousands of years ago.
When the wolf spirit that had guarded the Verdant Land met the King Wolf after thousands of years of wear and tear, the new Wolf King "Boreas" was born.
After their broken souls merged, the new will that was born was stronger than before, and that's why it was able to come into the world.
"It was the demon god that fought with Barbatos for the throne. It knew that the fierce north wind could only extinguish life but not nourish it. In the end, it integrated its power into the earth and melted the ice and snow."
When Boreas talked about this experience, he also felt proud. The experience was also engraved in his soul.
After hearing what Boreas said, everyone fell silent. They had never expected that such a thing had actually happened in ancient Mondstadt.
It turns out that not all demons are as ferocious as they are in the stories.
"Wow... so great!" Xiangling looked at Boreas with shining eyes. This trip to Mondstadt not only gave me new tastes, but also gave me such wonderful secrets. It was really worth the trip!
"This is nothing. The thing in your hand is greater than mine." Boreas' tone changed a little.
Yu Jin looked at the icy mist surrounding Boreas and understood. It seemed that Andrius's consciousness was now dominant.
But will they really not fight? Ember scratched his head as he watched the wolf king switch seamlessly between Andrius and Boreas.
"Guoba?" Xiangling followed the wolf king's gaze and saw Guoba calming down in her arms.
"Potato crust? Haha! What an interesting name." Andrius opened his wolf mouth even wider, and the biting icy mist even spewed out directly from his big mouth.
"It definitely didn't have this name before, but since it doesn't object, I can't say anything."
"Guoba...was he a demon god before?" Xiangling seemed to realize something. She lowered her head to look at Guoba, who scratched his round bear ears embarrassedly.
"As far as I feel, yes." Andrius looked at Guoba's silly face and nodded.
"It did more than I did. I just integrated my power into the earth, and it probably integrated its consciousness as well."
Andrius sighed as he finished speaking. It had left its soul behind in the first place just to see where Barbatos could lead this land.
However, what it didn't expect was that Barbatos simply became a hands-off boss, and it itself turned into a residual soul under the erosion of time.
If it had not finally merged with Boreas, it would have disappeared between heaven and earth long ago.
"Guoba is so powerful!" After hearing what Andrius said, Xiangling was not afraid at all. Instead, she excitedly picked up Guoba and started spinning around.
"Hehe, when we get back to Liyue, I will definitely make a big meal for Guoba!" After turning around for a while, Xiangling put Guoba down.
She had thought about what Guoba was before. It might be a mutated slime, or it might be a mechanical beast of a fairy... But Xiangling never thought that Guoba was actually an ancient demon!
Does this mean she has a demon companion?
When Xiangling thought of this, she couldn't help but straighten her back. The world is so big, she can go anywhere!
"Don't think too much. The rice crust is very weak and can't withstand your tossing and turning." Yu Jin looked at Xiang Ling and immediately understood what she was thinking.
As for why? Of course, it's because Yu Jin is usually like this! But Yu Jin is really powerful, while Guo Ba can only light a fire and cook food.
"Ah~, why is this happening!" Xiangling's momentum suddenly weakened a lot. At a certain moment, she even thought of the recipe for stir-frying the ancient rock dragon lizard with the Explosive Tree Flower.
Unfortunately, now it’s just something I can think about.
"After talking so much, isn't it time to talk about you? This strange guy with good eyes?"
Andrius narrowed his eyes. He couldn't see through the embers, but this inability to see through was abnormal in itself.
"Me? What's there to talk about?" Yu Jin pointed at himself and continued:
"I'm just an adventurer, so I'd better tell you about those ancient secrets. They sound very interesting!"
As he spoke, Yu Jin took out his power of attorney and showed it to Andrius.
Andrius stretched out his huge wolf claws and squinted his eyes to look at it carefully.
Soon, it put down the power of attorney in its hand and rubbed its eyes - the power of attorney was too small and it was difficult for it to read.
Xiangling on the side also nodded. Although the embers were strange, they were not as strange as the demon god.
Ancient secrets, just hearing about these things is exciting enough, not to mention that Xiangling herself is an adventurous girl.
She travels around the world looking for ingredients. On the one hand, it is indeed due to her job, and on the other hand, it is her nature.
"Haha, ancient secrets?" Andrius sharpened his claws. "There are many things that cannot be told to ordinary people."
"So, pass my test! Prove that you are not ordinary!"