Sage of Humanity

"Don't!" Lu Ye shook his head, his eyes reddened, "You'll get better, I'll heal you."

Little Butterfly smiled sadly, "No need, just talk to me a bit more." Her voice gradually weakened, like that of a mosquito.

Her eyelids slowly closed, and the hand touching Lu Ye's face fell away.

"Little Butterfly?" Lu Ye called softly, seemingly hearing a familiar response: "I am here, Brother Ye!"

But as the cold wind blew past, it turned out to be just an illusion.

"Ah..." He held the body in his arms tightly, even when maligned by others, even when surrounded and severely injured, he had never shown any emotional outbursts, yet at this moment, his heart ached to the core.

Inexplicable hazy images appeared in his mind, unclear...

Extreme sorrow surged in his heart, like an invisible giant hand suddenly sweeping away the enveloping fog.

The hazy images suddenly became clear.

In the mountain village, Little Butterfly, with a sword across her neck, died by suicide; on the desolate mountain, Senior Sister Dark Butterfly died tragically in the mouth of a demon beast, her white clothes tainted with blood-red stains, impossible to erase through countless reincarnations; in the Prime Minister's Residence, unwilling to be humiliated, biting her tongue to commit suicide to preserve her purity, Little Butterfly; only loyal to him, forced to jump into the river despite everything, Little Butterfly...

Scene after scene, image after image, many pictures surged endlessly.

The blurred aspects of past lifetimes suddenly became incredibly clear at this moment, memories of those lifetimes swept over like tidal waves, drowning Lu Ye entirely, making him feel shortness of breath.

It turns out that this is already the tenth lifetime!

It turns out, Little Butterfly died because of him every time!

What is this? Destiny? Ridiculously amusing!

"Huh..." Lu Ye tugged at the corner of his mouth, beneath his calm gaze was extreme sorrow, he looked up at the moon, the crescent moon fragmented, like his life story after story, "Truly uninteresting!"

The clashing sound rang out, he reversed the grip on the long blade, aimed it at his own heart, looked at the person before him, and softly said: "Little Butterfly, walk slower."

Ten lifetimes of reincarnation, each time Little Butterfly died because of him, now the fog had finally lifted, he no longer wished to survive, only to reunite with Little Butterfly in the next reincarnation.

Next time, never will the tragedy repeat!

The lifeless Little Butterfly suddenly opened her eyes, Lu Ye momentarily couldn't distinguish whether this was indeed a hallucination.

She smiled sweetly, raised her hand to grip the hilt, smiling brightly at Lu Ye: "Brother Ye, are you ready?"

Lu Ye looked at her with a smile, even unwilling to blink, his tone firm: "Ready."

As his words fell, pain arose in his chest, the long blade pierced through.

Little Butterfly smiled joyfully: "Brother Ye, the bond... formed!"

Blood oozed from the corners of Lu Ye's mouth, his expression baffled: "What?"

Little Butterfly's coquettish laughter revealed an expression Lu Ye had never seen through ten lifetimes: "A bond, Brother Ye's willingness to die for me is the sign of the bond's formation, but truly Brother Ye's psyche is strong, taking ten lifetimes!"

Every reincarnation's life and death farewell accelerated the growth of the bond, and as she said, only when Lu Ye willingly sacrificed his life for her could the bond be truly formed.

The Insect Matriarch had previously used the Divine Origin Illusory Sea against captured human race cultivators, primarily to extract some information, not to mention Enter the Path, even those at Dao Fusion had fallen to her technique.

Yet even that Dao Fusion only lasted five lifetimes of reincarnation.

Only Lu Ye withstood ten lifetimes under this secret technique!

And even an Enter the Path!

Originally, the Insect Matriarch intended to kill Lu Ye after digging out the secrets from his heart, after all, an Enter the Path was of little use, but at this moment she felt unwilling to do so, changing her mind, secretly deciding to spare his life.

"A bond, what bond?" Lu Ye's chest throbbed with piercing pain, but despite the fatal injury, he didn't feel close to death, only confused.

"You'll find out soon!" Dark Butterfly playfully winked at him, then she grasped both of his hands.

Lu Ye was amazed to realize a strong connection suddenly formed between him and Dark Butterfly, not physical contact, but resonance of psyche.

Dark Butterfly's eyes like the sea, seemingly able to see through all the secrets of his heart.

With a boom...

An explosion echoed from deep within his mind, all bewilderment dissipated at this moment.

The bond formed, Dark Butterfly could now peer into Lu Ye's secrets, rendering all the previously constructed illusions ineffective.

Reality returned!

Lu Ye's eyes contracted abruptly.

Finally recalling everything previously.

A great battle in Fengji Stronghold, captured by Li Qi and brought to the insect hive to meet the Insect Matriarch!

He remained wary of the Insect Matriarch, knowing she mastered Divine Soul Power, therefore maintained vigilance upon entering the insect hive.

But he hadn't realized when exactly he'd succumbed, the last true memory was a surge of pure, light blue Divine Soul Power.

There's only one explanation for such a scenario: the Insect Matriarch must be far stronger than him, to have unknowingly drawn him into so many cycles of reincarnation.

Originally, he thought he might encounter the Insect Matriarch. He had secretly resolved that if she were to ask about the Crane Wings Array Runes, he would tell her directly; survival was his priority, after all.

After all, he was the core of the Crane Wings Array, and the runes leaking wouldn't be a major issue.

But he hadn't even seen the Insect Matriarch; he fell into a trap as soon as he entered the insect hive!

Although he couldn't discern what kind of secret technique the Insect Matriarch was using, he could sense that she was probing into his secrets.

Moreover, this probing was something he couldn't stop!

All of this is likely related to the bond the Insect Matriarch just mentioned!

There now exists a very close connection between himself and the Insect Matriarch.

This is bad!

He has too many secrets, others are fine, but the Talent Tree absolutely cannot be revealed to the Insect Matriarch. It's a supreme treasure-level inheritance. If she becomes aware, who knows what means she might have to strip this inheritance away from him.

What to do?

Although he didn't know the exact cultivation level of the Insect Matriarch, the previous experiences alone were enough to deduce that his strength was far beneath hers, and now with the bond established, he couldn't resist her probing at all!

Unable to resist, how was he to save himself?

In the blink of an eye, countless thoughts surged in Lu Ye's mind.

The Little Butterfly in front of him still smiled at him, clearly sensing something, but she didn't seem to care. Instead, she spoke comfortingly, "Brother Ye, don't worry, I won't kill you, I can't bear to!"

A cultivator who endured ten lifetimes under her secret technique could be worthwhile to nurture; the future is promising.

"I'm not worried!" At this moment, Lu Ye suddenly smiled at her, "It's just after experiencing the ten lifetimes, I feel sorry for you."

Little Butterfly paused for a moment, then covered her mouth with a chuckle, her coquettish demeanor blooming in full, "As long as Brother Ye has that mindset, we won't have to part anymore in the future."

"You don't want to part with me either?" Lu Ye raised his eyebrows and looked at her.

Little Butterfly nodded, "Of course." Her bewitchment was laced with a touch of innocence, truly captivating.

"Then Brother Ye will give you a gift!" Lu Ye grinned.

"What gift?" Little Butterfly paused, then her expression changed drastically, "What's this?"

At some unknown time, a complex array of runes suddenly emanated from Lu Ye's body, and because they hadn't parted, these runes swiftly spread onto her.

On Lu Ye, Soul Power surged, fierce to the extreme!

Little Butterfly felt as if thunder had struck her, she raised a hand and flung Lu Ye away.

However, it was already too late.

Upon inspection, her body was now covered densely with complex patterns, merging into her being.

Lu Ye rose awkwardly from the side, shaking his head, "Indeed, the prettier a woman is, the less you can trust her words. Just now speaking of not parting, now she's flung me aside, Brother Ye is very sad!"

"What exactly is this?" Little Butterfly looked at Lu Ye with a cold severity, instinctively feeling that something was wrong. Being at Peak Dao Fusion, she knew about Dao Runes, and she was sure these patterns were a kind of Dao Rune, but she had never seen anything like them.

Moreover… how could one who just entered the path construct Dao Runes? And so quickly, almost in the blink of an eye.

"Take a guess?" Lu Ye looked at her with a confident smile.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief; fortunately, he had this Dao Rune, otherwise, he might have truly suffered this time.

Since the day he relied on the Talent Tree to derive the As-Close-As-Siblings Dao Runes, Lu Ye had been paying great attention. The old spirit runes were mostly unusable, not because they were useless, but because they couldn't withstand the impact of Dao force. To make them function, they needed to be redeveloped, using the spirit runes as a foundation to construct higher-level Dao Runes.

So, in his spare time these days, Lu Ye had been relying on the Talent Tree to rederive spirit patterns.

Not a long time passed, and the number of derived Dao Runes wasn't many; the one just deployed was one of them.

And to successfully construct the Dao Rune on Little Butterfly, the bond played an essential role. Only because a deep bond existed between them could the construction succeed; otherwise, even with the Talent Tree, Lu Ye couldn't have managed to build the Dao Rune on Little Butterfly.

Little Butterfly closed her eyes to investigate for a moment, still couldn't discern the function of the Dao Rune. She wasn't bothered to think more, she raised her hand and directed a palm towards Lu Ye, shouting angrily, "Just an entry-level cultivator, yet so presumptuous!"

Though she was a Secondary Soul, she was nonetheless a Secondary Soul at Peak Dao Fusion. Previously, she had shown some interest in Lu Ye, wishing to spare his life, but his move undoubtedly incited her anger.

This strike was meant as a lesson.

This palm strike appeared gentle, but in reality, it was an attack on the psyche, for both she and Lu Ye were in soul bodies at the moment.

Everything around them was still just an illusory realm.

Under the palm strike, Lu Ye grunted, even his soul body appeared somewhat dim.

Yet at the same time, the sound of clinking chains arose, and suddenly a chain emerged from nothingness, one end connected to Lu Ye, the other to Little Butterfly, like the bond of ten lifetimes of reincarnation binding them inescapably.

With Lu Ye injured, Little Butterfly's expression changed too, her figure staggering slightly.

Her expression became incredibly complex, for half of the damage from her palm was reflected back onto herself!

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