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Chapter 2117 The Perfect Dream Body in Reincarnation
The butterflies have gone mad; they're determined to perish together!
Woohoo~
Wuuwuwu… Wuuwuwu…

The sound of sobbing and crying, seemingly coming from nowhere, grew louder as it approached.

Suddenly, the sky and earth darkened.

This is the moment when the sky is just before it gets dark, right on the border between night and day. According to old legends, this neither-hell-nor-light moment is when the gates of hell are wide open, and this moment belongs to hell and Yama, the King of Hell.

Countless sheets of white paper fluttered down, drifting outwards with the wind, gradually covering the entire world.

In the sky, a turbid river appeared from nowhere and flowed into the distance. The deceased creatures in the river had numb expressions as they floated and sank in the water, walking away into the distance.

A terrifying aura spread in all directions.

"The River of the Dead..."

Jiang Ding's expression was icy, and he said indifferently.

This is the Yellow Springs River, one of the fundamental rules of the universe, belonging to the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Any living being dragged into the river will never be able to be reborn.

Jiang Ding saw that the Heavenly Illusion Butterfly Master, in her desperate situation, tore off her left butterfly wing, turning it into a beacon to guide the souls of the Yellow Springs. Her right butterfly wing decayed and rotted, revealing white bones, and turned into a soul-summoning banner, attracting countless ghosts in the Yellow Springs River to look this way with strange eyes.

"Roar!"

The Heavenly Illusion Butterfly Master, struggling incessantly, let out a mournful roar and burned itself.

Wow…

The Yellow Springs River flowed gently, but suddenly changed direction and surged towards this side. Countless numb ghosts suddenly became ferocious, screaming in unison, as if the young man in blue in the distance was their mortal enemy. They all went mad, opening their blood-red mouths to devour this side.

This world was suddenly shrouded by the River of the Underworld!

Jiang Ding watched indifferently.

The River of the Underworld is a miracle of heaven and earth, the boundary between life and death. Touching it will surely lead to death, and even the Nine Tribulations Supremes would be useless against it. It is extremely terrifying.

However, this is the power of heaven and earth, not the power of cultivators.

Keng!
Jiang Ding drew his sword.

The Great Sun Immortal Sword Soul's black and white eyes flickered. Its sword soul characteristics were to suppress all heavenly laws and to control the spirit of heaven and earth. The combination of these two characteristics gave it an extremely obvious advantage in observing and exploring the world.

Every substance, every living being, and every rule in this starry sky is clearly visible.

Therefore, he saw what was happening in this starry sky.

The six realms of reincarnation are faintly emerging, influencing heaven and earth, drawing the waters of the Yellow Springs River, and frantically sending a faintly visible butterfly soul into the six realms of reincarnation.

In that deep cycle of reincarnation, there seemed to be countless beings. At this moment, countless beings unleashed all their power to support this butterfly, pulling her into the cycle of reincarnation and freeing her from the terrifying sword prison of the end times.

"I see,"

"In the cycle of reincarnation... are there beings similar to you?"

Jiang Ding suddenly smiled.

In that dark cycle of reincarnation, figures emerged one by one: old men, dragons, phoenixes, gods, and all sorts of beings, different in age, appearance, gender, and race.

However, they all have one thing in common.

They share a similar characteristic with the Heavenly Illusion Butterfly Master!

That is, a faintly visible aura of transcendence, similar to the aura of a true fairy!

The Celestial Butterfly Master is not the true fairy of the future.

She is only a small part of the future Dream Dao True Fairy of the Demon Clan!
The future true fairies of the demon race are these countless beings who are trapped in the cycle of reincarnation, becoming different races and completely different beings, undergoing the leap and transformation from the Eight Steps Dao Child to the True Fairy, just like the Supreme Great Sun Sword Fairy's leap from the Eight Steps to the Nine Steps in the time rift.

Unlike the intense and extremely dangerous leap transformation of the Supreme Great Sun Sword Fairy as a sword cultivator, the leap transformation of this true fairy of the demon race, who is in the cycle of reincarnation, is more gradual, takes longer, and is safer.

In at most several hundred thousand years, she will complete all her transformations, and all her reincarnated bodies will be united into one, thus ascending to become a true fairy of the demon race.

This final body needs to be borne by a perfect Dream Path Body, a Body of Reincarnation.

This perfect reincarnated body is the extraordinary demon race born during the failed attempt to forge a celestial artifact on the Shangqing Lingbao Dao, the Heavenly Illusion Butterfly Master! It can be said that the Heavenly Illusion Butterfly Master is the artifact for the future Dream Dao True Immortal of the demon race to achieve enlightenment!
This is a crucial step towards becoming the Nine-Step True Fairy!
Unfortunately, she had bad luck.

The Heavenly Dao of the Human Race is too vengeful, the Phoenix Luck in the Destiny of the Demon Race contains malice towards her, and the Fallen Immortal Realm is too small to accommodate two true immortals.

Throughout history, the path to enlightenment for every true immortal has been fraught with thorns; no one has had an easy time.

Nowadays, the demon clan's Dream Dao True Fairy is lacking some luck.

Therefore, before she attained enlightenment, she encountered the Supreme Great Sun Sword Fairy.

Keng!
Clang clang clang!
The cries of swords rose and fell, filling the heavens and earth.

The Heavenly Illusion Butterfly Master's soul was about to escape this world and enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation, but suddenly it froze and could no longer move an inch.

"Fellow……"

"Fellow Daoist... Fellow Daoist..."

Within the deep, dark cycle of reincarnation, came voices that were old, young, melodious, and unpleasant, like the calls of countless reincarnated beings.

"...Fellow Daoist, I have a scripture here called the 'Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal Scripture'..."

The call from these billions of living beings was transmitted instantly. The scriptures are mysterious and unpredictable, and must contain great opportunities, enough to move even an emperor.

Keng!
The Great Sun Immortal Sword Soul flickered once.

The Taiqing Flying Sword slashed along the lines drawn by the black and white pupils, severing all paths of heaven and earth with a single strike, even severing the connection between this starry sky and the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Wow…

The raging Yellow Springs River flowed past the boy in blue, disappearing without a trace, as if in a dream, without causing any harm.

The River of the Underworld is not a thing of the human world.

After losing the pull of real-world coordinates, the Yellow Springs River returned to the world once more.

At this moment, the Heavenly Illusion Butterfly Master, who was about to escape from this world, froze. Then, her soul was cut into two even halves and fell softly to the ground, whereupon her soul and spirit were annihilated.

"Fellow Daoist—"

The voices of the billions of beings in the cycle of reincarnation froze.

In the cycle of reincarnation, all living beings revealed extreme resentment and venom. They wanted to say something, but when they opened their mouths, they only uttered a few words with a soft sigh.

"Three million years!"

"...Three million years, three million years of slumber..."

"...the hatred for those who obstruct the path...the hatred for those who obstruct the path...the hatred for those who obstruct the path..."

Men and women in countless reincarnations repeat these words again and again, as if even traversing the endless starry sky could not sever the resentment within.

That terrifying resentment was chilling.

"Ants."

"An ant beneath a true fairy..."

Jiang Ding gently stroked the Taiqing Flying Sword that had turned back, a smile on his face: "A mere ant that has not yet transformed dares to threaten me. It is too audacious and too courageous."

"I admire you very much."

He looked into the depths of reincarnation, where the shadows within the layers of reincarnation dissipated, revealing the most central human figure.

This was a man with an otherworldly air about him, with a faint butterfly mark between his brows.

The ethereal man stared intently at the boy in blue, then, using the illusion of reincarnation as cover, slowly vanished, not daring to confront a true fairy at this moment.

　There is another chapter, the Master.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)