Once he found the Spirit Rhinoceros Butterfly, he personally broke its wings and saw how much these foolish creatures would cry and scream.
"We've arrived." The eldest sister, Spirit Butterfly, led the remaining Spirit Butterflies forward to kneel and pay their respects. "Quickly pay your respects to the clan leader."
Huan Changming stared at the scene before him with a stiff smile. "Are you... playing me?"
In the center of the floating platform in the forest, floated a piece of ice the size of a fist. Inside the ice was a tiny butterfly, its body a pale golden and transparent color. It was locked in the ice, motionless, and looked like a dead thing.
Does a dead butterfly deserve his prostrations and kowtows?!
Huan Changming strode onto the floating platform, attempting to break the ice to retrieve the Spirit Rhinoceros Butterfly inside. Whether it was dead or alive, he only needed the butterfly's wings.
"What are you going to do to the clan chief?!"
Before his hand could even touch the ice, the Spirit Rhinoceros Butterfly emitted a dazzling white light, and a vortex appeared out of thin air, its suction force trying to pull him in.
"The part of your face that least resembles hers is your eyes."
“If you remove it, it will look even more like it…”
An unfamiliar male voice suddenly rang out, its cold and indifferent tone reaching Huan Changming's ears, stirring up a surge of resentment within him and causing his inner energy to churn.
He sensed something was wrong, and used his spiritual power to leap into the air, barely managing to escape the vortex before collapsing onto the floating platform.
With his departure, the frozen Lingxi Butterfly on the floating platform returned to its tranquil state.
"How dare you run onto the floating platform! This is a grave disrespect to the clan chief!"
Huan Changming's actions had already provoked the dissatisfaction of the Spirit Butterflies. He reacted quickly, saying, "He must be suffering terribly trapped in the ice. I just wanted to bring him out of the ice..."
Upon hearing this, the eldest brother, Lingdie, was taken aback. After exchanging glances with her younger siblings, she asked, "Could you be the savior of our Flower Sleep Island?"
"What?"
"Our clan leader was frozen in ice three hundred years ago and has never woken up since. If you can enter the clan leader's frozen illusion, awaken him, and bring him out, then you will be our savior!"
Huan Changming thought quickly, "You mean... only by entering the Frozen Illusion and awakening your clan leader can we bring him out of the ice?"
"That's right."
"Then why don't you go in and wake up your clan leader yourselves?"
My sister, Spirit Butterfly, said, "Entering the illusion might cause you to lose your mind and be unable to escape, dying inside. The clan leader has set up a barrier to prevent us from getting close..."
It turns out there was this hidden danger. Although Huan Changming wanted the wings of the Spirit Rhinoceros Butterfly to cure his illness, he was not foolish enough to risk his life.
He had a sudden inspiration: "I have a way to bring your chieftain out, but you must do as I say."
"Okay, as long as you can help us rescue the clan leader, we're willing to do anything you say."
After Eldest Brother Spirit Butterfly finished speaking, she keenly sensed that someone had landed. "Another human has arrived!"
The demonic dragon leaped out of the sea, flew over the island, and stared at Huan Changming.
Huan Changming ordered, "Arrest those three siblings!"
The demonic dragon, spitting out flames, excitedly rushed towards the shore.
He then said to the group of butterflies, "The two men and one woman who came ashore are not good people. Can you catch them and bring them over?"
The spirit butterflies had already regarded Huan Changming as the savior of their Flower Sleep Island. Upon hearing this, they immediately flew to the shore in droves and, sure enough, found two men and a woman standing close together.
As soon as Lu Pianpian stepped onto Flower Sleep Island, he felt an extremely familiar aura. He couldn't describe this aura; it was like a sensation emanating from the depths of his body, as if something was calling to him from the shadows.
Just then, the demonic dragon suddenly attacked them, spewing out several streams of dragon flame.
Qu Surou stood in front of Lu Pianpian and Huan Juntian, struggling to block them. "This dragon... is rather ferocious."
"You wicked humans, do not act rashly!"
The little butterflies flew above the three of them and attacked with their tridents.
They may look young, but their cultivation level is quite high.
The eldest brother, Lingdie, disarmed Lu Pianpian in just a few moves. Then, he pulled out a piece of silk and quickly bound Lu Pianpian, lifting her from the ground into the air.
"We've caught a bad human!"
Huan Juntian had not fully recovered his strength. Seeing Lu Pianpian captured, he immediately leaped into the air and drew his sword to slash at the silk binding Lu Pianpian.
The silkworm silk was incredibly tough; no matter how he tried to cut it, he couldn't break it. Instead, it stuck to his willow-leaf knife.
Lingdie, the younger sister, attacked Huan Juntian from behind with a silkworm thread. Lu Pianpian shouted, "Junior brother, watch out behind you!"
Huan Juntian reacted extremely quickly to dodge, but the silkworm silk continued to extend in his direction, faster than he could retreat.
Huan Juntian was caught off guard and bound by silkworm threads, falling into the hands of his younger sister, Lingdie. "We've captured two bad humans!"
Qu Surou was left to fight the demonic dragon. Seeing that her two junior brothers had been captured by moths that appeared out of nowhere, she was both angry and anxious and shouted: "What's wrong with you two! How come you can't even handle a few winged children? You're too useless!"
It's understandable that Lu Pianpian couldn't handle it, but he didn't want to tell them the reasons.
Huan Juntian truly lost his composure this time. With a cold face, he was lifted into the air by his sister Lingdie, enduring Qu Surou's scolding, his lips tightly pressed together, not daring to utter a single word of rebuttal.
"There's only one woman left, what should we do, brother?"
Eldest brother Spirit Butterfly said, "Little brother, go and capture that woman!"
It is said that human women are as fierce as wolves and tigers. When his younger brother Lingdie saw that Qu Surou could still move freely under the attack of the demonic dragon, he hesitated.
The demonic dragon and Qu Surou were locked in a fierce battle, one attacking and the other defending. Qu Surou, not wanting to get entangled with it, tried to rescue Lu Pianpian and Huan Juntian, but the demonic dragon seized an opportunity and almost burned her.
Lu Pianpian shouted, "Senior sister, protect yourself first!"
"You and Huan San have both been arrested, what chance do I have of protecting myself!"
Qu Surou nearly tumbled into the sea while trying to avoid the dragon's flames. Her younger brother, Lingdie, seized the opportunity to pull out a silkworm thread, successfully binding Qu Surou and lifting her into the air. He breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness I caught her..."
The demonic dragon, having lost its plaything, circled the shore once, spotted Jing Yi tied up in a corner, swallowed him whole, and flew back to Huan Changming's side.
Three spirit butterflies flew in an orderly fashion, each holding a silkworm thread, with Lu Pianpian and her two junior brothers hanging below them, creating a rather comical scene.
Qu Surou was unconvinced and kept cursing along the way, "Look at you all, you're all sick or injured, and I, a weak woman, have to bear all the pain! Lu Er and Huan San, aren't you ashamed!"
"Especially you, Huan San. It's understandable that Pianpian was injured. But what about you? You were seasick the whole way. Are you still unconscious now that you're ashore? How come you're even more delicate than those young ladies in those storybooks?"
"If you ask me, you men really are no good..."
Huan Juntian and Lu Pianpian were already used to Qu Surou's nagging, so they obediently accepted it and dared not argue.
Lu Pianpian looked up at her older brother Lingdie, who was carrying her, and said, "Your little wings are quite pretty."
Big Brother Psylocke nodded in satisfaction, "Bad human, you have great taste."
Lu Pianpian found the little spirit butterfly to be speaking rather politely, so she asked what had been on her mind, "What race are you? Why do I feel that the aura on you is somewhat familiar?"
Psylocke, the eldest sister, immediately became alert. "Bad human! Don't even think about getting close to me!"
Lu Pianpian said sincerely, "I'm serious..."
The eldest sister, Spirit Butterfly, gave a haughty snort, clearly disdainful of being compared to Lu Pianpian, "Our noble Spirit Butterfly Clan would never have anything to do with a wicked human like you..."
He twitched his nose and caught a whiff of an extremely familiar and gentle scent. To his surprise, he discovered that the scent was coming from Lu Pianpian. "Why? I also feel that your scent is somewhat familiar?"
"That's really strange..."
Huan Changming sat on the steps below the floating platform, the demonic dragon sleeping at his feet, and Jing Yi lying unconscious in the open space behind him.
Huan Changming followed the scales on the demonic dragon's body, his eyes fixed intently on Lu Pianpian, who was bound by the spirit butterfly and flying towards him.
"Huan Changming, you're still alive!" Qu Surou exclaimed in surprise.
Lingdie, the eldest brother, placed Lu Pianpian at Huan Changming's feet, saying, "I brought them here!"
Huan Changming smiled slightly at him, "Thank you for your hard work. Leave the rest to me."
"OK!"
Lu Pianpian lay prostrate at Huan Changming's feet, her head bowed to the ground, making it impossible for Huan Changming to see the expression on her face.
He stretched out his toes, hooked Lu Pianpian's chin, and lifted it up, forcing Lu Pianpian to look at him. He said with great interest, "I'm still alive. You must have disappointed the Immortal Lord, right?"
Lu Pianpian's eyes were calm as still water. Huan Changming carried his spiritual bone, so even if he wanted to commit suicide, it wouldn't be so easy for him.
"Huan Changming, you heartless bastard! You hurt my junior brother, and now you dare to humiliate him in front of me!" Qu Surou struggled against the silken threads binding her. "He treated you so sincerely! You ingrate, I'll skin you alive and tear your tendons out!"
“A heartless man, a fickle lover… these are rather novel terms.” Huan Changming smiled instead of getting angry. “Senior Sister Qu, please don’t be upset. I am the ruler of a country, and my words are law. I will never go back on my word.”
He hooked his toes forward and lifted Lu Pianpian's face a little higher, his smile extremely bright, "If Senior Brother Pianpian is willing, I will marry Senior Brother Pianpian when we return to Li Kingdom."
At this point, he lowered his voice slightly, "As a man, Senior Brother Pianpian will naturally not have a formal title in public, for the sake of the royal family's reputation. He can only be kept in the inner palace, and I'm sorry to say that Senior Brother will have to be a plaything..."
Those who didn't hear this conversation assumed that Huan Changming had truly decided to marry Lu Pianpian.
But Lu Pianpian knew very well in her heart that Huan Changming was marrying him out of spite, but harbored resentment towards him and was truly trying to humiliate him.
He opened his mouth and uttered a single word: "Get lost."
Jing Yi weakly got up, clenching his fists and pinching his palms, forcing himself not to get angry.
Qu Surou shouted, "Huan Changming, stop daydreaming! My junior brother already has someone he loves, and he will never have anything to do with you again!"
Qu Surou's random words, however, were taken as truth by Huan Changming.
Has someone else entered your heart? Who else could it be?
It was nothing more than Lu Pianpian's beloved junior brother, Huan Juntian, for whom she even pushed him into the sea!
Huan Changming was furious. He suddenly pulled his foot back and stood up, pointing at Qu Surou and Huan Juntian, saying, "Lingdie, throw the two of them into the Frozen Illusion!"
Lingdie obeyed Huan Changming's every word and picked up Huan Juntian and Qu Surou to approach the entrance of the illusion.
In an instant, the vortex reappeared from afar.
Huan Changming grabbed Lu Pianpian and pulled her in front of him, pinching her face and forcing her to watch Huan Juntian and Qu Surou being sucked into the vortex. "Take a good look at your senior and junior brothers. This might be the last time you see them."
Lu Pianpian's face turned pale instantly. "Senior sister, junior brother... please don't do this. Push me in, I'm willing to go in in their place!"
Before being pushed into the vortex, Huan Juntian gave Lu Pianpian a deep look, "Senior brother, take care of yourself."
The next moment, Qu Surou and Huan Juntian disappeared into the vortex.
He would send the enemy to help Huan Changming awaken the Spirit Rhinoceros Butterfly and break the seal. Even if they failed, he wouldn't be in mortal danger, and he would also eliminate the threat of Huan Juntian.
Everything was under Huan Changming's control. A triumphant smile appeared on his face. Suddenly, he felt a pain on the back of his hand and immediately let go of Lu Pianpian's hand.
Freed from his constraints, Lu Pianpian suddenly leaped into the vortex, which emitted a dazzling golden light and swallowed her whole.
Huan Changming was stunned for a moment, but his feet reacted faster than his thoughts. He chased after Lu Pianpian into the vortex and roared, "Lu Pianpian, you're asking for death!"