Why is my territory in a 2D anime art style?

Chapter 168 Dream-Eating Butterfly

"Huh? I don't have that ability!"

Sui An retreated repeatedly, his face showing surprise, but he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that this young master was just subconsciously judging based on the mindset of a strongman's territory.

If he had mentioned the He family alone, perhaps he knew something, but mentioning his own circle made the implication quite clear.

Being able to withstand attacks from territories of the same level and eliminating other territories of the same level are two different concepts, if we disregard background and only consider the strength of the territory itself.

"I admit that the buildings in my territory are very powerful, but they can only be used for defense. The professionals in our territory are quite average; they simply don't have the strength to invade others. Even Aunt Zhao only recently broke through to level 5. If we were to deal with those second-generation territories, even if I tied up all my level 4 professionals and threw them over there, I'm afraid it wouldn't be enough!"

"Besides, wasn't it said that Crescent City was responsible for the Zhao family's territory? Only high-level professionals could do that, so why should I?"

"Brother Xu, you can't say things like that carelessly. If the city lord hears me, I'm in big trouble!"

"It really wasn't you—" Zheng Xu was visibly disappointed, the sparkle in his eyes vanished, and he even muttered a complaint under his breath.

"Even if I go back to call my dad now, it's probably too late!"

"Then why don't you ask your dad to go and look for him in Pinghu?" Sui An looked at the young master's troubled expression and suppressed a laugh.

Zheng Xu sighed: "Pinghu is so big, it's too difficult to find a few lotus roots. Besides, by the time my dad gets here, the lotus roots will already be exposed in the water. Without the protection of the Ice Source Crocodiles, they'll probably have been eaten long ago."

"This thing is a rare treasure for water-attribute professionals, especially ice-attribute professionals. Ordinary treasures only accelerate cultivation speed, but this one specifically improves the quality of your source energy. Even ordinary high-level treasures may not be able to compare. It would be a real pity to miss it."

He was still somewhat unwilling to give up: "Boss Sui, how about we go take a look from a distance?"

"No way!" Sui An waved his hands repeatedly: "My car can't keep up with theirs. If we really encounter a level 6 source beast, we won't be able to escape."

"Not to mention that high-level source beasts used to roam Pinghu. It would be fine to go there when the lake is frozen, but going there now is like lighting a lantern in a latrine—it's suicide!"

"It's just a little treasure. If I get it, I'm lucky; if I lose it, it's fate. Don't worry about it!"

Zheng Xu sighed again: "That's all we can do. Let's see what my brother says when he comes over tomorrow."

After luring Zheng Xu away, Sui An took the wine jug and returned to the mushroom house. This thing required a high concentration of energy, and if you were to ask where in Sui An's territory there was a place with a high and safe concentration of energy, it would only be the Botanical Garden.

Sui An shouted at the two brothers who were studying the recovery of the Energy-Devouring Giant Tree.

"This wine jug is a secret treasure, so I've left it here. Please keep an eye on it, and let me know if the spiritual water inside is almost full!"

The two brothers looked up at the wine pot. The older brother showed no desire to investigate, and after a quick glance, he squatted down again. Only the younger brother felt that he should reply to the boss.

"Okay, boss!"

This scene amazed Sui An; he felt that such an appearance couldn't be faked.

Night gradually fell, and the blood moon descended; this was the third blood moon at level four.

The new guard team, led by the old guard team, quickly completed the personnel selection. Compared to the last Blood Moon, this time there were a full twelve more level three professionals.

Although the influence of level 3 professionals on level 4 territories is greatly reduced compared to level 3 territories, the fact that so many have appeared at once still makes everyone a little worried that the rift might undergo some major changes.

As soon as the blood moon appeared, everyone nervously gathered on the city wall.

But Sui An wasn't very anxious; he even carried a large bowl of roasted meat wrapped in green leaves and walked towards the city wall.

As long as no high-level professionals appear in his territory, the rifts will only fluctuate in size for him, and will not have a significant impact on Sui An's territory.

Today, Uncle Wang successfully learned the corresponding recipe from a recipe he had never unlocked before.

[Recipe Name]: Perilla Roasted Pork [Recipe Quality]: Green [Recipe Level]: Level 2 [Recipe Effect]: Accelerates the user's stamina recovery. If the user has abundant stamina, it will provide a small strength bonus based on the user's physical condition for a period of time. The strength bonus will gradually decrease for users with higher or lower physical conditions than Level 2. The duration of the effect will be extended appropriately according to the amount consumed, but the maximum duration will not exceed half an hour.

【Main Ingredients】: Level 2 Source Beast Meat, Source Leaf Perilla.

While it's called a recipe, it's more like a snack recipe, as it can be made with very simple ingredients.

There's no need to discuss level 2 source beast meat; just choose some that are suitable for grilling.

As for the source leaf perilla, it is indeed a source energy plant, but it is abundant in the wild and can be considered a natural spice of the new era. There are even quite a few in Sui An's secret realm.

Although the ingredients are simple, the food is quite delicious. It's a recipe that many people know, and the preparation method is relatively simple.

It involves using other auxiliary ingredients, grilling the food while simultaneously using the chef's energy to enhance its properties, and finally using the energy...

Wrap it in perilla leaves, then lightly fry it again, and it's done.

So Wang Ping selected several methods during this period and finally chose this one to try, and it was indeed successful.

The probability is actually not very high. He has been in the territory for twelve days, and although he does this every meal, he only tries it in his spare time.

However, it took so long to even get a level 2 green recipe, which was somewhat disappointing for Sui An. The building provided by the cheat system was ultimately not that powerful.

Sui An regretted not witnessing such a magical scene, so he waved his hand and picked out some high-quality source beast meat from the cellar, which Uncle Wang then cooked into a large batch.

"Give me another one!" Sui An, who had just stepped onto the city wall, was bullied by the erhu player and couldn't protect himself at all.

Forgetting the meat in his mouth, Sui An quickly scolded, "Weren't you full?"

Erhu finished the bag of wrapped meat in a few bites and replied with a smile.

"I was full five minutes ago, but now I'm hungry again!"

"Get lost, you big eater, I can't afford to feed you anymore!"

Sui An hurriedly retreated while holding the large bowl, but he was no match for Erhu, who snatched another piece of food from his mouth.

Now Sui An no longer cared about savoring it slowly and started eating it in big bites.

Zhao Feng couldn't bear to look at them and rolled her eyes at the two of them: "Slow down, don't hold back, there's no tea to pour down your throat!"

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"You're not one of us combat professionals. Eating so much will cause indigestion. Be careful you don't stay up all night!" Erhu teased from the side.

"Mind your own business!" Sui An stuffed the last piece of food into his mouth, then slammed the bowl down on the city wall. He felt a little full, but also very satisfied.

"Energy-rich foods still smell so good!"

"I'll have Uncle Wang grill again tomorrow!"

Erhu laughed heartily, "Grill more! You're so stingy, are you afraid we'll eat you out of house and home?"

"That's right, boss, tell Uncle Wang to grill a lot more!"

"Uncle Wang's cooking is absolutely amazing!"

"I didn't dare to eat my fill today, I barely ate until I was about 50% full."

On the city wall, people suddenly became lively. These people, who were about the same age, were all in their youth, and there were very few like the Ye brothers who were taciturn.

Even the two brothers couldn't be seen from the city walls. Keep in mind, even a young girl like Fang Nian was curious...

It's true, every time there's a blood moon, it just has to come up.

They showed no interest whatsoever and went back to the mushroom house to tinker.

"Get out! Do you want to work my husband to death?"

Before Sui An could retort, Zhao Feng couldn't hold back anymore. She said that the amount of food prepared tonight had already exhausted her husband. Did she really think that chefs didn't consume energy when making energy-based food?

"Ha~ha~ha~"

"Buzz~"

Amidst everyone's jokes, the third rift opened.

Most people have become accustomed to it. Anyone who has experienced a complete rift in Sui'an will subconsciously feel the thought, "What use am I?"

What am I doing?

Am I just watching a show?

Such misconceptions.

A dazzling starlight appeared in the southwest, slowly rising from within about a kilometer of its territory.

"Won't any source beasts from Pinghu come over to join the fun tonight?"

Sui An was a little worried. Others might not have this misconception, but he was different. He was a man who had always lived in a world of surprises.

Except for those on guard duty, everyone on the wall began to move towards the southwest side of the city wall.

Erhu said as they walked, "It shouldn't be like that, it's twenty kilometers! I've never heard of the Blood Moon being that powerful. If it could attract source beasts from twenty kilometers away, all the source beasts on Lianyun Mountain would have run away long ago."

Fang Si, walking beside him, added, "At most five or six kilometers. Any further, and the chances of being attracted here are really slim!"

Sui An remained pessimistic: "I'm afraid those rioting source beasts are no longer in Pinghu Lake, but are wandering around the area. Then it's hard to say what will happen."

"This isn't the first time I've encountered something like this."

"That's true. It's really too dangerous for a level 2 creature to encounter a Dark Breath Silver Scale Beast cub. I'll keep an eye on that direction for you. But if it's just a behemoth like the Ice Source Crocodile coming, wouldn't that just be handing you free money?"

Erhu still didn't think that intermediate-level source beasts posed much of a threat to the territory. The territory was too well-developed, and it would be difficult to break through without the power to surpass the higher levels.

Ye Tengyang suddenly added, "Most of the creatures in Pinghu are aquatic beasts; even amphibians are rare, so they might not be found there."

Wandering around all four days!

"Let's hope so!"

Sui An stopped discussing the topic and quickly adjusted the positions of the barriers and other devices that needed to be deployed, making the southwest city wall the core area.

The starlight from the distant rift gradually stabilized.

Erhu quickly relayed his observations: "The crack is about five meters high, which seems normal, not much higher than the previous two!"

But after observing for a while, he suddenly frowned and said.

"However, the rift has stabilized for a while now, so why haven't any source beasts appeared yet?"

"No source beasts have appeared?"

Everyone was stunned. What the hell was going on?

After watching for a while, Erhu complained again, "It can't be some kind of invisible source beast, can it?"

"It hasn't appeared yet? That's very unusual!"

Sui An frowned immediately, and looked down at his detection station again. There were no lights outside the city wall within a 300-meter range.

Ye Tengyang looked around the territory, then looked back at the territory itself. As if he had thought of something, he casually turned the spotlight in his hand and threw it into the sky above the territory.

As bright lights shone into the territory, the group saw nothing unusual through the barrier, except that there seemed to be a lot of dust particles in the air.

But Ye Tengyang's expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly shouted.

"Xiao An, quickly raise your sword star!"

Sui An was startled. Although he didn't know what had happened, he still raised all three sword stars from the bottom of his heart.

As the sword star in the sky emitted a dazzling light, there was still no obvious change in the sky, but Sui An was not giving up. He immediately condensed a giant fire sword and made it float in the air.

This time, things finally began to change under the cover of night.

Countless eerie figures appeared above the barrier, hovering and flapping their wings. As if sensing the heat of the Flame Sword, they revealed themselves and began to flee.

These source beasts finally revealed themselves; they were flying source beasts with wingspans of about one meter, resembling some kind of giant butterfly source beast. Their huge wings were covered with strange silver patterns, and they flew silently, their forms invisible.

Moreover, illuminated by the firelight, the tiny particles on the surface of the cyan barrier reflected the flames, revealing a strange...

A special radiance.

This thing is clearly abnormal!

The tiny beings that can be blocked by the Thousand Winds Barrier as foreign objects can only be special source energy creations that are automatically identified by the Thousand Winds Barrier as a type of source beast attack, rather than beings that naturally float in the air.

The detection station belatedly issued a warning, and nearly a hundred orange dots appeared on the projection.

Everyone was immediately terrified. Who would have thought that in just a short while, so many flying source beasts would arrive silently above the territory without making a sound?

"My God, what is this weird thing?"

"That was terrifying! They surrounded us without us even realizing it?"

"There must be at least a hundred of them!"

Ye Tengyang also breathed a sigh of relief: "Luckily, the barrier was fully activated beforehand."

"Dream Eater Butterfly, an extremely special level 4 source beast, can adjust its own color to the environment to achieve the effect of invisibility, and can even conceal its own source energy and life fluctuations. It is a very terrifying source beast."

"It doesn't have much offensive power, but it emits a special silver dream dust that can be inhaled by humans and source beasts, causing them to fall into a coma. Once the target is unconscious, it will insert its mouthparts into the target's body and suck out the target's body, especially its brain."

"However, this thing has a very weak physique. Most level 4 source beasts have strong physiques, and their mouthparts are difficult to penetrate their defenses, so they usually target low-level source beasts."

Sui An was also somewhat alarmed. Fortunately, he had developed a habit of opening a barrier to envelop his territory when the rift opened.

Who would have thought there was such a thing, not attacking the place where so many professionals were staying, but silently passing by them, and instead hovering above the territory.

If we think that no source beasts will appear in the rift tonight, and rashly remove the barrier to leave, even if we are instantly attacked, we will not keep the Thousand Wind Barrier open all night.

"Dream-eating butterfly, shouldn't it be called brain-eating butterfly?" Erhu was also seeing this kind of source beast for the first time, and felt that the name was not accurate enough.

Ye Tengyang looked at the source beasts circling far away from the Great Fire Sword and began to explain.

"If we call it the Brain-Eating Butterfly, people would probably only think that its methods are to attack the head. But the Dream-Eating Butterfly makes people more likely to associate it with hypnosis. However, this name was not given by us, but written in the records of the Origin Realm."

Zhao Feng craned her neck, watching the Dream-Eating Butterfly gradually disappear into the distance: "This thing is so strange, it doesn't even have the slightest desire to attack under the blood moon?"

Ye Tengyang nodded: "These source beasts, capable of hypnotizing others, naturally possess strong mental resistance and lack powerful offensive capabilities. It's normal that the Blood Moon has little effect on them; it's enough that they remain within the territory and refuse to leave."

The relentless application of powder is probably the limit the Blood Moon can push them to.

"So, what's the next step? They flew a bit further and then became invisible, making them impossible to lock onto. Are we just going to wait like this?"

Erhu looked at Sui An, wondering what method he had to deal with this source beast that had little desire to attack.

Sui An simply looked towards the distant rift: "There don't seem to be any other source beasts appearing there. Surely they can't all be like this?"

Ye Tengyang also glanced at the crack in the distance: "It's highly unlikely that any other source beasts will appear. If such a creature exists, low-level source beasts will be hypnotized and then eaten if they get close."

"This time, the Source Rift probably opened in the hometown of the Dream Butterfly Noodle Clan. Logically speaking, these things are not considered social creatures, so I don't know how so many of them gathered together."

"That means this is roughly what we'll be dealing with tonight. A full level four lineup, the Origin Realm really thinks highly of us—"

"About right!"

"In that case, they shouldn't be too difficult to deal with!"

Sui An looked at the distant crack, ignoring the indistinct figures hovering in the sky.

"Let me give it a try!"

"What do you want to do?" Erhu asked curiously as he leaned closer.

"Let's try blowing up the door first!"

As soon as Sui An finished speaking, the golden firework aimed at the rift, which was slightly beyond a kilometer away, but not by much.

"boom!"

A fiery shell struck a spot just in front of the rift, and intense flames swirled up from the crater in the ground, instantly engulfing an area of ​​seven or eight meters around the rift.

In the firelight, three or five small figures could be vaguely seen being swallowed up.

As the flames dissipated, some small fragments fell to the ground in front of the crevice, barely resembling the shape of a flying butterfly.

"This thing is too fragile; I'm afraid I'll lose money if I fire this shot!"

Sui An was both amused and exasperated. This was probably the most fragile level-four source beast he had ever seen. Even the previous Tianxing Centaur still had a relatively complete body. This butterfly-like source beast's body was ridiculously fragile.

Without the protection of source energy, it is probably not even as good as an ordinary flesh-and-blood type level one or two source beast.

It was only thanks to the source energy that its body was protected that it was able to barely retain some remains.

The fire-attribute golden flower cannons are too powerful to be used against this kind of source beast.

He looked up at the giant sword shining in the sky. It was a pity that he couldn't detonate it directly. Otherwise, if he released the sin flames over his territory, he could have wiped out a large number of people in an instant.

Sui An shot it towards the rift, but the Sword Star Totem only had an attack range of 500 meters, so it obviously couldn't reach the rift. It dissipated on its own halfway, turning into countless sparks scattered in mid-air.

The massive range of sinful flames brought by 【Burning Night】instantly covered three or five Dream-Eating Butterflies that had just flown out. The source energy they used for invisibility was instantly ignited, turning them into flame butterflies that flew around everywhere.

The Dream-Eating Butterflies clearly had no experience dealing with flame attacks like the Sin Flame. No matter how they flew, they couldn't extinguish the flames on their bodies and eventually fell to the ground one by one.

Unfortunately, the Sin Flame could only burn source energy and did not have much power over the body itself. The Dream-Eating Butterflies quickly took flight again, but they no longer had source energy to hide. Under the blood moon, they turned into gray shadows and flew towards the territory, eventually circling above it.

As the Great Fire Sword dissipated, the Dream-Eating Butterflies should have lost their fear and returned to the skies above their territory. These Dream-Eating Butterflies, which lacked source energy for invisibility, were clearly mixed in with the group.

Even the silvery-gray particles on the Thousand Winds Barrier increased, making the barrier appear slightly gray.

Despite hundreds of dream-eating butterflies hovering in the sky, no one could see any obvious trace of them. They could only vaguely sense that the blood moon was somewhat dim. This method of invisibility was truly too strange.

"Xiao An, even you can't do anything about it?" Erhu said with a worried face. Even combat professionals are at their wits' end when faced with a source beast with such strange habits.

Even if they have a continuous attack, there's not much they can do against an enemy they can't see or touch.

Ye Tengyang frowned: "When you encounter one or two of these things in the wild, you have to throw out developing powder to prevent them from attacking. There really isn't a good way to deal with them."

The atmosphere on the city wall was also somewhat somber. Without clear instructions from their boss, they could only remain on the city wall in silence.

"What's the rush? I'm testing out all the features of this thing!"

Sui An wasn't in a hurry. After all, these things weren't very aggressive. At worst, he could just waste a rift and open a barrier for a day. Once the blood moon receded, they probably wouldn't stay near his territory any longer.

Looking at the locations of the Dream-Eating Butterflies that hadn't gone invisible, Sui An chose to summon an illusion this time, and the huge illusion rose into the air under his control.

The newcomer stared in fear at the enormous illusion, but the old man's eyes lit up; he hadn't expected the illusion to be able to fly.

But soon everyone's expectations were dashed, as the dream-eating butterflies were not exposed by the hallucinogenic effects of the illusions.

Sui An frowned, surprised that this thing had such a strong resistance to hallucinations, even a purple building of the same level couldn't affect it.

Do you accept it?

"Even Boss Sui's miraculous illusions couldn't lure this thing out?"

"Wouldn't this thing be invincible? Invisibility, flight, and even hypnosis—it's practically defenseless!"

"If you can hit it, you can kill it; what you fear is missing!"

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