readytorunbook Chapter 869 The Sun Within the Cave Heaven
Chapter 869 The Sun Within the Cave Heaven
"Of course I won't give it to you directly."
After Wendy finished half a bowl of Qianfeng, a blush appeared on her face.
"You know, the Heart of God isn't as easy to take as other things. Stealing... or exchanging it is easy, but hiding it is difficult. And I don't have your method of using the Heart of God to brew wine..."
As she spoke, Wendy leaned towards Xu Ning and said, "Hey, tell me, how can you hide a single drop of water?"
Xu Ning glanced at him, "Naturally, we should put this drop of water into the sea..."
As soon as he said that, Xu Ning immediately understood where Wendy had hidden the Heart of Ice.
The best place to hide a drop of water is the seabed, and the best place to hide a piece of ice is naturally... a snow-capped mountain!
But within Mondstadt lies a great snow-capped mountain, the Dragon Ridge.
He and Qingyi had once spent a long time searching for a fragment of an ice pillar, but they hadn't discovered where the Heart of God was hidden...
Xu Ning suddenly turned his head to look at a small floating island above Jiuquan.
It was something that Beidou and I moved from a broken cave. Later, after Qingyi and I pried the fragments from the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain, we were afraid that the frost that was constantly emanating would damage the flowers and plants on the ground, so we placed the ice ball on the floating island.
Ever since Wendy, that cowardly god, came in, he's been going up there to freeze Thousand Winds quite a bit. So, does that mean that guy froze the Heart of the Ice God inside that ice ball after he came in?
In other words, after he picked up the first Wind God's Heart for free, he actually already had two God Hearts in his hands.
Looking back now, Xu Ning suddenly understood some of the strange things that happened back then.
No wonder the Emperor looked at the Wind God Barbatos with such a strange gaze when he first came to the cave, and lingered for a long time under that floating island before suddenly saying that he would repay a favor to him the next time he saw him.
With the Emperor's insight and perception, he must have known at that time that the Heart of the Ice God had fallen into his hands.
Moreover, in the eyes of the Emperor, not only this unreliable Wind God, but even the Ice God who had been seeking to collect the Heart of God had given his own Heart of God to him. That's why the Emperor deliberately went with the flow and gave the Heart of God that he had originally promised to the "Lady" to him.
This is a huge misunderstanding. Who would have thought that this cowardly god orchestrated the whole thing from the very first Heart of God?
No, His Majesty the Emperor certainly can see that there must be a deeper meaning behind His actions. Ugh, what am I thinking! He must really just be going with the flow to see just how far he can go, right?
That coward is really good at hiding his true colors. He'll just beat everyone up and vent his anger when they're all gone.
Xu Ning said to Mavica, "It's easiest for you to handle the ice-breaking. How about it? Helping out is better than you and this cowardly god teaming up to set me up."
Mavica knew that her attitude and actions today would not escape Xu Ning's notice. In order to preserve Nata's culture and memories, she had almost dragged the entire Teyvat into the mess.
Although he had received guidance from Barbatos beforehand, the matter was not handled clearly enough. Xu Ning was willing to let it go with a small matter, so what else could he do but gladly take action?
He drank the wine jar in his hand in one gulp, tossed it to Barbatos to fetch another jar, and then Mavica and Xu Ning boarded the floating island together.
Kong and Paimon, of course, wouldn't miss such a juicy moment, and they followed suit and logged on as well.
Over time, the floating island was eroded by the fragment of the ice pillar, and both the gnarled trees on it and the stone platform at its feet had turned into ice.
However, from the moment Mavica stepped onto the stone platform, the heat emanating from her body began to push back the frost marks step by step, until she reached the ice ball, where the cold air, supported by the fragments, barely withstood the backlash of the heat.
"The Heart of the Ice God is indeed inside."
Upon closer inspection, both Mavica and Xu Ning clearly felt two cold cores within the hockey puck.
With a sudden flick of her finger, a line of fire precisely sliced through the center of the two cores, dividing an ice puck into two semicircles.
Mavica clenched her fist, and the fire suddenly split apart, setting the two semicircular packages ablaze.
Everyone could clearly see that the chilling aura emanating from one of the two semicircles barely withstood the scorching flames, while the other slowly melted, revealing what was hidden within.
Before the ice shell on the object had completely melted and peeled off, Xu Ning reached out and scooped the object out of the flames, as if afraid that the flames would damage it in the slightest.
With a casual flick of his wrist, he removed the remaining ice shell, and a beautifully crafted chess piece, almost identical to the other Hearts of God, appeared in Xu Ning's hand.
I expected the chess piece to feel like a block of ice, but when I actually held it in my hand, it felt like I was holding a warm and cool piece of jade, without the piercing coldness of holding an ice block.
After caressing the Ice God's Heart in his hand for a moment, Xu Ning turned to Mavica and said, "The Fire God's Heart, Lady Mavica, you should also carry it with you, right? If possible, please give it to me as well."
Without saying much, Mavica flipped her hand, and a chess piece with flame-like patterns appeared in her palm. She then threw it towards Xu Ning.
Xu Ning carefully took the flame chess piece into his palm and examined it closely.
This chess piece seems to be the opposite of the Ice God's Heart, its flames surging and rising vigorously.
Xu Ning compared the two Hearts of God in his hands with great interest before jumping down with satisfaction.
Apart from the spring that can already produce pure water, four of the remaining six springs have been given new names.
Sweet wine transformed into a thousand winds, immortal brew into a thousand cliffs, and heavenly dew into a thousand birds. As for Yao Guang, because her name sounded particularly fitting for the imagery of the heart of the grass god, she transformed into a thousand leaves.
Now only the Qiongjiang and Yuye springs remain, and these two springs are still unclaimed.
Xu Ning weighed the two chess pieces in his left and right hands respectively, and then threw the Heart of the God of Fire towards the "Jade Wine" pool.
Kong and Paimon were witnessing such a spectacle for the first time. They stared wide-eyed as the stone-carved dragon head slowly shook and swallowed the Heart of the Fire God.
Beyond the unseen cave, the golden dragon on the gourd was suddenly bathed in the color of dawn.
Within the grotto, the dragon's mouth, which had originally flowed with clear nectar, suddenly turned the wine it spat out into a bright red color. The shimmering water in the wine pool seemed to reflect the setting sun.
Of course, if everyone looked up, they would know that the setting sun in the pond was just a reflection of the blazing sun in the sky.
The cave finally has its own sun!
Xu Ning still has a Heart of the Ice God that he hasn't yet placed.