withered prosperity

Yun Ji changed his face.

He lifted the hem of his clothes and flew up, using his strength to step on the water.

With such a wide lake, it only took five or six vertical jumps to reach the steps in front of the water pavilion.

Even the butterflies flying in the front have just come behind him.

He turned around and waved his sleeves at the swarming butterflies.

A stream of sword energy that looked like substance swung out, and wherever it went, those fragile butterflies broke their wings and fell down one after another.

But there were too many people following behind, and the vacant part was filled in an instant.

He took this opportunity to sneak into the room, and closed the door with his backhand.

There was a slight fluttering sound, which was the continuous impact of butterflies on the door.

Yun Ji looked at his hands, he touched one of them just now, and he didn't know if there would be any problems with this kind of butterfly.

"That should be Gu butterflies." Yan Hai's voice sounded from the other end of the screen: "They just follow my scent, and they are not harmful in themselves."

Yun Ji didn't walk over, and he didn't try to get closer. The two of them consciously kept a longer distance.

Yun Ji heard the sound of the window opening and closing again quickly.

During this opening and closing, there were a few more butterflies in the room.

"Actually, it sounds like a lot, but in fact, there is only one kind of butterfly on Qianlian Island from beginning to end. The first ones are Yin butterfly and Yang butterfly. After absorbing enough innate energy, they will cocoon and then change Become Gu butterflies." Yan Hai told him: "These Gu butterflies are also weak and harmless, but as long as they can swallow a drop of my blood, the blood poison in my body can prompt a very small part of them to become blood butterflies. And everything else that doesn't change becomes its food."

"The blood butterfly is the kind with red wings?"

"Yes, the reason why Princess Cheng is alienated is because she mistakenly swallowed the eggs of the blood butterfly." He stretched out a hand from behind the screen, and a butterfly stopped on it: "After the blood butterflies swallowed the Gu butterflies, they mate with each other. It will lay eggs, and if those eggs are swallowed by a woman, they will be able to hatch in the woman's body, and then continue to nibble away nutrients and flesh, and finally penetrate into the mind, turning people into butterfly slaves with only a body but no mind."

"Is it Yueliuyi?"

"Probably not, it's not easy to breed these butterflies, especially to allow Gu butterflies to break out of their cocoons." Yan Hai denied his guess: "And even if butterfly slaves can be raised in the end, only the palace master knows how to enslave those butterfly slaves." , After her death, this ability will be completely lost, Die Nu has no mind and can't control it, I don't know how troublesome it will be, and there is no need for Yue Liuyi to do such a thing that does not have much benefit."

"Bai Chunchun died because of these butterflies?"

"The blood butterfly can't swallow it, but it can inject a kind of venom into the human body, turning the internal organs into blood, and then suck it, but this is only for men. Because the poison of the blood butterfly is a kind of yin, women Although you will die after being bitten, the internal organs will not be damaged, so there is such a difference."

"Those women whose wombs were dug out have something to do with these things?"

"The womb of the virgin is the place where the yin of the human body gathers. It takes a lot of yin to hatch the Gu butterfly, and the two must be inseparable." Yan Hai crushed the Gu butterfly in his hand with his backhand. "To become a butterfly slave, you must be a virgin, otherwise you will soon be unable to sustain the blood butterfly's survival needs. The reason why Princess Cheng wants to devour the uterus after alienation is also because of the lack of yin energy. If It is a butterfly slave transformed from a virgin, and it only needs to suck the viscera of a man to survive."

"Yue Liuyi said that babies born on Qianlian Island must be female babies to survive, and male babies must be disposed of."

"The island needs a lot of baby girls. There are human traffickers along the coast. They regularly send some trafficked girls to designated places. Occasionally, there are pregnant women like my mother in exchange for some gold and silver. "Yan Hai laughed: "You will never know which one is scarier, monsters or humans."

"But you..." Isn't it a boy?

"My mother met Aunt Li, whom she had known many years ago, on the island. After she begged hard, Aunt Li helped her find a way to hide the butterflies who were testing fetal gas." Yan Hai's voice gradually became lower. : "After I was born, she tried her best to cover it up for me, so that I could successfully pretend to be a woman and survive."

What's more, he forced Yue Qingbi into the endless abyss with a single sword, and failed Aunt Li's entrustment to him before her death.

"Aunt Li is Yue Qingbi's mother." Yan Hai murmured, "Before she died, her only wish was to let Yue Qingbi leave that ghostly place, but..."

Even if he could tell everyone that killing Yue Qingbi was a last resort, but after all...

The room suddenly fell silent, and the rustling outside the door became more obvious.

"The island also needs men to do those more arduous chores, and the palace owner thinks that it is better to conceive and give birth to a baby girl on the island. Monk Fuzhen and Wei Heng were sent to the island for this reason. Some of them are Some of the kidnapped young men are half-grown children who have been trafficked." He paused, and then said: "Yue Liuyi and Yue Qingbi were born to those men that my mother and Aunt Li were forced to give birth to."

"What about Yin Jiu and Yin Twelve? No matter how they are not valued, they are always princes, so why did they end up on Qianlian Island?"

"They went out to sea to search for medicine, and in the middle of the night they encountered a storm and capsized the boat, and Yin 12 and they lay on the same board and floated along the sea to the island." Thinking of their desolate appearance back then, Yan Hai said with a smile: "Yin Jiu is a smart man. It didn't take long for him to guess all about the things on the island. He knew that if he wanted to survive, he had to find someone who could protect him, such as Yue Qingbi. Fool, he deliberately ran to seduce Yue Qingbi."

A Gu butterfly flew out from behind the screen, Yan Hai's hand reached out to grab it, and then crushed it to death.

Yun Ji took a good look at the hand and took a deep breath.

"You also told me before that once you reach the age, the four monarchs also need to fight..."

"Qianlian Island is a place where there is no right or wrong, and only the most ruthless and strongest can survive to the end." Yan Hai laughed this time, but it had a different meaning: "But if you think about it carefully, things are different." Natural selection, the method of respecting the strong, do you think it is quite familiar?"

Yun Ji fell silent.

Of course he knew what Yan Hai meant.

Although Chaomu Pavilion is not as cruel as Qianlian Island on the surface, it is the same in the end.

Some children were sent up the mountain, and then the fittest survived. Everyone wanted to enter the upper pavilion, and after entering the upper pavilion, they wanted to be the owner of the pavilion.

Thinking about it this way, maybe the ancestor who founded Chaomu Pavilion is really inextricably linked with Qianlian Island. I wonder if there will be anything on Butianya...

"Is there anything else you want to ask me?" Yan Hai interrupted his thinking.

"Yes." Yun Ji straightened his neck unconsciously, and swallowed hard: "Why is the smell so strong? What's wrong with you?"

As soon as he entered the room, he noticed that the unique fragrance of Yan Hai was extremely strong, even if other spices were burning in the incense burner, it could not cover it at all...

"I said why you didn't react at all, it turned out that you were holding on." Yan Hai smiled again: "You can find a piece of mirage clothes for me! The wound was not sealed by the mirage clothes, and it split open again."