Chapter 97

This is the voice of True Man Shengwei. Indeed, they have already discovered my trail. It seems I am safe now!

True Man Zhizhu stopped and said, "This boy stole the secret treasure of our Heavenly Spider Sect. I have come to capture him!"

True Man Shengwei said, "Stole a secret treasure? This boy is a disciple of our Spirit Butterfly Sect. Senior Brother Zhizhu, can you consider the friendship between our two sects..."

In an instant, Luo Li understood. The Spirit Butterfly Sect didn't know what he had obtained and assumed he had committed a crime, so he fled back to the Spirit Butterfly Sect. Otherwise, they wouldn't have said that.

He immediately shouted, "I have..."

Just as he started to speak, the entire world shook. Boom, boom, boom. Luo Li's vision went black, and endless explosions sounded around him. True Man Zhizhu attacked him, trying to stop him from speaking and to kill him to silence him, destroying the Spirit Butterfly Chrysalis.

Without hesitation, True Man Shengwei came to his aid. The two Golden Core cultivators battled, causing celestial phenomena.

Boom, boom, boom. Luo Li felt as if the sky was collapsing. This is what a Golden Core True Man is! Too powerful! Essence and energy condensed, and wind and thunder accompanied his attacks!

Luo Li finally managed to see clearly. In the void, a fifty-zhang spider illusion and a thirty-zhang Spirit Butterfly illusion faced each other.

Beneath the spider, True Man Zhizhu looked at Luo Li with a regretful and pitiful gaze. He didn't expect True Man Shengwei to react so quickly and immediately protect Luo Li.

True Man Shengwei stood in front of Luo Li, his left hand hanging down, dripping with blood. It seemed he was injured, but he was unafraid, facing True Man Zhizhu to protect Luo Li!

Luo Li had never had a good impression of this person. He was domineering and arrogant, never giving Luo Li a second glance. But he never expected that he would actually protect him, even before Luo Li revealed he had the Spirit Butterfly Chrysalis.

Luo Li couldn't help but ask, "Why?"

True Man Shengwei smiled and said, "No matter what, you are a disciple of our Spirit Butterfly Sect. Whatever you did, since you fled back to our sect, we must protect you and cannot let you die here.

However, if you really stole the secret treasure of the Heavenly Spider Sect, we will handle it fairly and will not..."

At this point, he was stunned because Luo Li took out the butterfly chrysalises. These chrysalises, which they had always remembered, were instantly recognized.

In an instant, boundless aura erupted from True Man Shengwei. He understood why the Heavenly Spider Sect was pursuing Luo Li. If it came to a fight, so be it!

From a distance, True Man Zhizhu said, "Ah, it was a misunderstanding. Sorry, there's something in the sect, I'll go back first!"

With that, he leaped up, transforming into a stream of light and returning to Heavenly Spider Island. True Man Shengwei stared at him until he was far away, then took a deep breath and said to Luo Li:

"This, this is?"

Luo Li nodded, leaving one each of the Time Pattern Sword Butterfly, Three Realms Crystal Butterfly, and Empty Cicada Holy Soul Butterfly, then handed the rest to True Man Shengwei. True Man Shengwei took them with trembling hands and said:

"Senior Brother, Senior Brother, look, look..."

Suddenly, Fang Ruolei appeared beside Luo Li. He had been there all along, which might be why True Man Zhizhu left.

Fang Ruolei also took the Spirit Butterfly Chrysalises with trembling hands and said:

"Yes, yes, absolutely. As long as we use the secret technique, we can find the origin and gather enough seeds to bring these three Spirit Butterflies back to the world!"

True Man Shengwei said, "Senior Brother, Senior Brother, our Spirit Butterfly Sect has a bright future!"

Fang Ruolei said, "A bright future, a bright future! From now on, our sect has a bright future!"

He took a deep breath and bowed to Luo Li, saying, "Thank you, thank you! We received news that you had a dispute with the Heavenly Spider Sect and were being pursued, so you fled back to the Spirit Butterfly Sect!

We didn't know it was because of these Spirit Butterfly seeds. Otherwise, we would have fought to the death to rescue you!"

Luo Li smiled and said, "Everything I have now comes from the Spirit Butterfly Sect. Without you, I would still be in the Silver Continent, living a chaotic life, never knowing the wonders of cultivation. Cause and effect, everything is fate!"

Fang Ruolei sighed deeply and said, "The Spirit Butterfly Sect has wronged you, wronged you!"

Then he turned and shouted into the void, "Hanhai, take your punishment! Go to the Bitter Butterfly Kiln and meditate for a hundred years!"

From a distance, True Man Hanhai's voice said, "Disciple was wrong, disciple accepts the punishment. Disciple really didn't know it was these butterfly chrysalises, sigh!"

In the past, Ancestor Xiyi had scolded True Man Hanhai as a traitor and a spy for the Heavenly Spider Sect. It seems True Man Hanhai was indeed in league with the Heavenly Spider Sect, and this time's misinformation from the Heavenly Spider Sect was his doing.

Then Fang Ruolei shouted, "Yingxue, come over!"

"What is it?"

Fang Yingxue asked crisply, hesitantly walking over.

Fang Ruolei said to Luo Li, "Luo Li, don't leave. Stay in the Spirit Butterfly Sect! What do you think of my daughter, Fang Yingxue? If you like her, I'll marry her to you and let you inherit my position as sect leader!"

Luo Li was stunned and then looked at Fang Yingxue.

Fang Yingxue was tall, with prominent breasts, a white neck, and a slender waist. Her fair face had features that seemed carved, and he couldn't help but swallow.

Upon hearing this, Luo Li, True Man Shengwei, and Fang Yingxue were all stunned, not expecting Fang Ruolei to say such a thing.

Luo Li hurriedly said, "Sect Leader, Sect Leader, I still want to travel and see the Chu Nan region..."

True Man Shengwei also quickly interjected, "Yes, yes, it's clear that Luo Li is not an ordinary person. It's good for him to travel.

It's a bit early to talk about this now. Let's wait until Luo Li returns. Let's go back to the sect and quickly find the origin of these Spirit Butterflies. That's the right path!"

Fang Ruolei said, "Yes, yes, let's handle the important matters first. Back to the sect!"

With that, he waved his hand, and Luo Li felt himself flying, riding the clouds. In less than a hundred breaths, the scene brightened, and he was back on the Spirit Butterfly Mountain's Purple Sun Peak!

Back on Purple Sun Peak, Fang Ruolei began to gather all the Golden Core True Men of the Spirit Butterfly Sect to perform the ritual. Everyone was very excited because the Spirit Butterfly Sect had an infinite bright future.

Everyone looked at Luo Li with gratitude, and then they began the ritual, first setting up a hundred-zhang ritual array on the ground.

After the ritual array was set up, boundless clouds rose in its center, forming a map that looked very familiar. It was clearly the map of the Five Heavenly Spider Islands. Then they placed the butterfly chrysalises in the center of the map. Four Golden Core True Men surrounded the array and began the ritual.

The other Golden Core True Men waited silently. This ritual could take days or months. As the ritual progressed, the map in the center of the array would continuously change, tracing the source of the chrysalises, gradually moving towards other continents until it found the origin of the Spirit Butterfly Chrysalises.

Luo Li watched for a while and realized this wouldn't be over quickly. He turned and left, heading straight for Purple Sun Cliff.

It had been more than a year since Immortal Ruo Tong occupied Purple Sun Cliff. Now it was a forbidden area. When Luo Li arrived at Purple Sun Cliff, he saw endless clouds covering the area. Immortal Ruo Tong was at a critical moment in her advancement to the Golden Core stage and no longer allowed anyone to enter the small world she had created.

Luo Li stood outside the clouds and shouted loudly:

"Ruo Tong, Senior Sister Ruo Tong, I've brought you the Spirit Butterfly seeds. I've completed your task!"

With that, he took out the Time Pattern Sword Butterfly, Three Realms Crystal Butterfly, and Empty Cicada Holy Soul Butterfly and threw them into the clouds!

As the Spirit Butterfly Chrysalises entered the clouds, the clouds seemed to boil, making a hissing sound like boiling water. The entire Purple Sun Cliff trembled violently.

Suddenly, a loud boom echoed, and all the clouds dissipated. In front of Luo Li, there were eighteen strange trees standing there!

These trees were very peculiar. They looked lush, but the branches, leaves, and trunks didn't seem like trees at all; they gave a strange human-like feeling!

In the forest, three colorful butterflies were dancing gracefully: the Time Pattern Sword Butterfly, Three Realms Crystal Butterfly, and Empty Cicada Holy Soul Butterfly. They had transformed into adult butterflies and were flying there.

As they danced, the forest began to change dramatically. Luo Li vaguely felt they were growing larger, gaining direction, and becoming more ancient, as if time was continuously flowing!

Suddenly, a loud boom echoed, and the heavens shook. Boundless essence energy gathered here, and then an endless light erupted. Luo Li couldn't help but step back, continuously retreating...

Then, a voice sounded from Purple Sun Cliff:

"Three Realms Crystal spans far and near, Time Pattern Sword Butterfly transforms past and present.

In the Eight Trigram aura, treasures lie hidden; in the Five Elements light, the primordial spirit is concealed.

When the black tiger moves, rain and dew pour; where the red dragon plows, jade and gems grow.

After a hundred years of hard cultivation, the path to enlightenment is found; a single Golden Core pill ensures eternal life."

With a loud boom, when he looked again, there was nothing there, only a graceful woman, Immortal Ruo Tong, no, now True Man Ruo Tong, holding a painting and smiling.