Chapter 498: The Demon God of Time, an Overseas Island

Jiang Yi stepped onto the center of the island, and a huge sundial exactly the same as the one on the south side of the Thousand Winds Temple appeared before him.

There are broken inscriptions on it, also a line of inscriptions.

“The wind brings new stories, and time makes them myths.”

This is a different inscription from the line "The wind brings the seeds of stories, and time makes them sprout."

"The relationship between wind, stories and time." A flash of inspiration came to Jiang Yi's mind, and he pursued the traces of time and the mysteries of time.

It's still early to explore the ruins.

He felt the elements around him, everything was calm and peaceful, nothing out of the ordinary.

We arrived at the shore and sat down under a rather shabby tent exposed to the wind and sun. This was a camp built by adventurers who had been here before.

Jiang Yi remained calm, opened the torn notebook he got from under the pile of rocks, and checked the information he got from the game in his memory.

As mentioned above, the words on the sundial on the island were engraved following the words on the sundial in the Thousand Winds Temple. Only when all four sentences are combined are they complete.

The Thousand Winds Temple and this place should be connected to a demon god related to "time".

The Temple of Thousand Winds still exists, but the Temple of Time has disappeared in time.

"Demon of Time." Jiang Yi looked at the gray-white holes on the tent washed out by time.

Watched the sun set and the stars rise.

"There are seven elements in the world of Teyvat: ice, water, fire, thunder, grass, wind, and rock. Is there an element of time outside of this world?"

"Can time be controlled by mortals?"

In some ancient texts, some scholars believe that there is some connection between the "God of Wind" and the Demon of Time.

The notes also mentioned that during a certain period of time, things around the island would become strange.

That time is from 2 am to 5 am.

However, the adventurer who wrote the notes did not have the divine eye, and guessed that the surrounding elements would become abnormal and leave traces, but he himself could not observe it.

He cursed with emotion, "These days, academics can hardly make any progress without the 'Eye of God'."

"The God of Wind is in Mondstadt, but unfortunately, we won't get anything out of him even if we ask him! No amount of fine wine can get him to tell us such a secret." Jiang Yi sighed.

Wendy can drink a lot, and he can't actually tell whether he's really drunk or not, or whether he's talking nonsense when he's drunk or just saying it on purpose.

He waited silently until two o'clock in the morning.

The wind started to blow around.

Unusual winds appeared over the island.

Jiang Yi stood up and let go of all his senses.

Green wind elements appeared in his eyes, constantly flowing and gathering.

He saw four green leaves on the sundial, which were made entirely of wind elements and could only be seen by those who controlled the elements.

The leaves are just below the sundial ring, seeming to be an offering or a gift.

"Four, why are there four leaves?" Jiang Yi pondered, "Two o'clock in the morning, three o'clock, four o'clock, and five o'clock. According to the notes, the anomaly will disappear at five o'clock. Doesn't one leaf correspond to one hour?"

He looked up, and at the moment when that time arrived, wind elements also gathered in the three directions of the island, condensing into clusters and then into points.

The wind ball is the size of a human head. The center is extremely bright, almost white, the outside is pitch black, and the middle is blue. It constantly absorbs the surrounding wind elements, like a wind tunnel, causing strong winds to rage in the perception.

Jiang Yi leaped up and came to a ball of wind, his hand passing through the dense aggregate of wind elements.

After experimenting for a while and failing to find the cause of its formation, he called upon a thousand winds to make it dissipate.

"Three wind element gathering points correspond to three hours?"

He came to another place and blew away all three wind groups on the edge of the island.

The wind element instantly became more concentrated and all flowed into the center of the ruins, a square with a circular ancient pattern.

The circular pattern was surrounded by the remains of four pillars.

The huge wind element accumulated and turned into an extremely huge wind ball, standing on the pattern in the center of the square.

Jiang Yi was not in a hurry to disperse the fog immediately. He looked at the sky. The mist was thick and hazy, covering the island.

The hurricane surrounded him, forming a barrier of condensed wind that blocked out the starry sky, making it seem as if the outside world was gray and gloomy, making it difficult for him to see through.

He pulled out a pocket watch and checked the time.

"Thousand Winds!" He controlled the violent wind element in the outside world with his mind and dispersed it.

A vague and distant voice came from nowhere, appeared above the island, and whispered softly in his ears.

"The long-ago story has come with the wind..."

This sentence seemed to be frozen in three hours in the early morning. As long as the explorer disperses the siltation of the wind, he will definitely hear it.

Jiang Yi couldn't tell whether the owner of this voice was Wendy, the demon god related to time, or someone else?

Before he could think, the "Wild Wind Core" representing the pain between heaven and earth suddenly appeared.

The advanced wind element condensed into a spherical body as bright as the blue sun, and materialized into extremely hard dark blue leaves.

The wind is rising and the hurricane field is coming.

The wind element began to cut Jiang Yi's body like countless sharp blades.

The whistling wind seemed as if the heaven and earth were roaring.

It was strong enough to uproot trees, destroy houses, throw stones high into the sky, and shake the square of the ruins.

This Gale Core is more powerful than any other one Jiang Yi has ever seen.

The huge amount of wind elements seemed to be condensing into dazzling crystals.

A wind field connecting the sky and the earth was born, turning into a tornado that pulled everything around it.

The core of the violent wind in the sky fell down.

Behind Jiang Yi, a turquoise-gold light leaped out and transformed into a stone whale of rock element, emitting a long roar.

"boom!"

The two collided, and the sound shook the island.

The sound waves spread in a circle with the overflowing wind, and the sea outside the island was surging.

The sea level rose and fell as heavy rain.

Dark clouds are gathering outside and the wind and water are spreading.

The leaves of the Wind Core broke into pieces.

The sword's divine light slashed through the rocks and circled around Jiang Yi's body. The stone whale on top opened its fangs and swallowed the elemental core condensed by the wind element with its mouth as big as the world.

The green light on the sword became more intense, and the wind element gem embedded in the hilt was particularly bright, and a white light appeared.

"It seems that I was too heavy-handed!" After a while, Jiang Yi looked at the ancient circular pattern on the ground. Rays of golden light emanated from it, and the patterns on it turned into a gilded color, sacred and bright.

The island became calm, and a winding wind ring appeared in the sky, heading straight to Mondstadt in the west.

"According to the process in the game, it seems that we need to let the Wind Core escape to the Thousand Winds Temple."

"Forget it. I can go by myself without it to guide me."

Jiang Yi walked around the island again, used the escape technique to enter the earth veins, checked the congestion in the veins, and cleared them by the way.

An hour's delay did not yield much.

Except for the inscription on the sundial and the words told to him by the ethereal voice.

He took a step into the air and flew towards the sea.

"According to my memory from the game, there should be one more sentence." He returned to the Thousand Winds Temple.

Between 2:00 and 5:00 in the morning, the same anomalies as on the island occurred here.

Jiang Yi opened his elemental vision and looked at the leaves condensed with wind elements on the sundial, as well as the wind elements near the sundial.

A strong wind blew from the sea, and when it left, there was a group of Qiuqiu people near the sundial, who were killed by Jiang Yi.

The surrounding monsters were also cleared out by it, but when it came back, wind slimes appeared around the sundial.