One of the laws of the universe was that it could deprive a person of their intelligence, which was very difficult to guard against.
If the first Yama's Needle was so useful, Lu Yin was looking forward to the other six needles.
And this was only the Seventh Stronghold.
The more he learned about the Ninth Base, the more amazed he became. Lu Yin could not understand how the Ninth Base had been destroyed at its peak.
Was it just because of Red Hero and Wang Wen's betrayal?
Was it because of You Che's betrayal?
Was it because of the siege of the various fishing civilizations?
How many powerful fishing civilizations would it take to resist the Ninth Base?
At that moment, powerful auras surged from all over the Butterfly-Progenitor Continent. There had been four butterflies, but he had already killed two of them. Now, five more had appeared, which meant that there were now nine Eternal Realm butterflies. Including the Butterfly-Progenitor, there were ten.
This was in line with the scale of a fishing civilization.
He was just afraid that there might be more.
That shouldn't be the case.
Now, there were seven Eternal Realm butterflies flying around, frantically searching for him. The entire Butterfly-Progenitor Continent was in an uproar, and countless butterflies flew out.
Lu Yin retracted his gaze. Seven?
It would not be that easy to kill more butterflies. These butterflies were in groups of two, or at most three. This was to guard against him. They were really cautious.
But this made it even harder to find him.
He should also search for the remnants of the Taiqing civilization and complete the mission in the Death Universe.
There were not many records of the war between the Taiqing civilization and the Butterfly-Progenitor Continent in the Death Universe. It was only confirmed that there had been a war, but no one knew what had been left behind.
Lu Yin would have to search for it himself.
After so many years, trying to find traces of the war in an area the size of the universe was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, he had the Mirroring Technique, so as long as there was no cover, he could see through it.
He could see through the heavens.
Lu Yin had thought that there were countless creatures on the Butterfly-Progenitor Continent, and even if he did not touch the pollen, there would be creatures that would touch it. However, he had not expected that no creatures would approach the area covered by the pollen. This should be a rule for creatures outside of the Butterfly-Progenitor Continent.
Fortunately, the pollen would dissipate after a period of time. Otherwise, there were many places that he would not be able to go, especially places that were not covered by the pollen. He would not be able to get close.
The earth receded rapidly behind him. Lu Yin's every step covered a great distance, and he was relying purely on his strength. Since he could confirm the butterflies' whereabouts, he would not be discovered...
Time passed, and Lu Yin traversed mountains, rivers, and oceans. He reached the highest peak of the planet and explored the deepest canyons.
He saw all sorts of strange creatures on the Ancestral Butterfly continent. They were the same as the normal universe, and there were many, many of them. He also saw the history of the Ancestral Butterfly continent.
What he was looking for was history.
Humans were not the only intelligent creatures in the universe. Many creatures, even the most ferocious-looking insects, could develop intelligence, build cities, and record history.
He found a lot of history and understood more about the Butterfly Ancestor Continent.
The colorful butterflies of the Butterfly Ancestor Continent were not as beautiful as they looked. Behind each butterfly was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
The pollen didn't come from flowers, but from living creatures.
The Rainbow Butterflies could devour the energy of ten thousand metals. They used this method to devour the energy of living beings to form pollen. With the pollen, they had absolute control over the Butterfly Ancestor Continent. If an enemy were to enter or search for something, they would have no way to escape from the pollen.
Lu Yin saw a place where bones had been buried, all of which belonged to Cai Die.
But after reaching the Immortality Realm.
However, these colorful butterflies would not swallow the Qi of Life, which would increase the Karma Binding. Therefore, they would only swallow the Qi of Life before breaking through to the Eternal Life Realm.
Lu Yin stood quietly in the valley. Below him, the colorful butterflies covered countless creatures of flesh and blood as they devoured the Qi of Life.
This Qi of Life could also be used as Yama's First Needle.
However, Lu Yin did not want it.
It was disgusting.
The more beautiful something was, the more vicious it could be.
However, this did not mean that they were wrong. This was the survival of the fittest.
There were also sinister humans who were disgusting. Lu Yin's goal in coming here was to destroy the Butterfly Ancestor Continent, and he had not specifically asked about the situation of this civilization. To these colorful butterflies, he was the sinister one.
The walls of the Heart Realm were both white and black. The longer one lived in the Core Space, the more they could adapt to the dark side.
Lu Yin watched for a while before leaving.
Soon, several years passed by.
During these years, countless colorful butterflies released their pollen to search for him without stopping for even a moment.
Lu Yin continued to hide and search for the history of the Butterfly Ancestor Continent.
He did not find the history that he needed, but he did learn more about the butterflies. One of the guesses he made shocked him.
This guess came from the ancestor of a certain biological civilization that had been exterminated by the butterflies. Lu Yin had coincidentally found the guesses left behind by that ancestor in an ancient ruin.
"We were born on the Butterfly Ancestor's back. Legend has it that the Butterfly Ancestor is in a deep slumber, roaming the universe for countless years without ever waking up."
"Since ancient times, the Butterfly Ancestor Continent's Eternal Life was only achieved by the Butterfly Ancestor Continent's Eternal Life. None of us can achieve it, and there are only ten Eternal Lives."
"There is no injury, only death. This is the Butterfly Ancestor's fate."
"Butterfly?
Is the Ancestor really asleep?
If it's asleep, how can it roam the universe?
Why can't the Butterfly Ancestor Continent exceed ten Eternal Lives?
Why can't it be lower than ten?
Why are the wounded butterflies buried in the yellow soil?
What is yellow soil?
It's the Butterfly Ancestor's back, its body. So, I have a guess. Could it be that the Butterfly Ancestor is not asleep at all? Could it be that it's cultivating with the cooperation of ten Eternal Butterflies? Could it be that the dead butterflies aren't actually dead? Could it be that they have undergone some sort of transformation in the Butterfly Ancestor's body and have taken the form of another butterfly? "
"I don't dare tell anyone about my guess, as I'm afraid that I'll be killed."
After reading through this theory, Lu Yin crouched down and picked up the yellow soil. The soil flowed through his fingers and fell to the ground like a small grave.
This ancestor's guess was not without reason.
The Butterfly Ancestor had always roamed the universe, but it had said that it was in a deep slumber. If it was in a deep slumber, then why hadn't it approached the abyss of a thousand tricks for countless years?
The Butterfly Ancestor Continent had fought with the Grand Clear Civilization, so how long ago had that been?
And if it was in a deep slumber, why was it still roaming around?
Why did the Butterfly Ancestor die when it was injured?
He had heavily injured two of the butterflies. The second one had definitely died, but the first one might not. It wasn't impossible to recover from such heavy injuries, and normal civilizations would do their best to heal it. After all, every Eternal Life lost was one less Eternal Life, but these butterflies didn't care at all.
It was very likely that the Butterfly Ancestor's body had undergone some sort of transformation, retaining the power of Eternal Life and becoming another butterfly.
Otherwise, how could these Eternal Butterflies have been born?
Lu Yin had wandered around the Butterfly Ancestor Continent and read the histories of various civilizations, but he hadn't seen any mention of this.
There were records of the Butterfly Ancestor's breakthroughs in the rebooted universe, but these butterflies were the most ordinary Eternal Lives. It was impossible for them to break through on their own.
There was one more thing.
Ten.
There were ten Eternal Butterflies.
He had only seen nine so far.
Where was the tenth?
Lu Yin looked up and saw pollen falling from the sky. It wasn't released by the Eternal Butterflies, but it could still find him.
He avoided the pollen and continued to roam the world.
He would find an opportunity to kill one or two more.
It was a pity that he didn't have the power of karma. Otherwise, he would have been able to use karma to investigate these butterflies, and they would have been able to enter Hell to increase the Dao of Karma.
What a pity.
Another few years passed, and Lu Yin continued to search for the remnants of the Grand Clear Civilization. The Eternal Butterflies had split up and were no longer in groups of two. They definitely knew that they wouldn't be able to find Lu Yin and wanted to use themselves to lure him out.
Lu Yin didn't act rashly because he knew that there was another Eternal Butterfly hiding. It was likely to be the most powerful of the ten butterflies, second only to the Butterfly Ancestor.
He wouldn't act unless he was completely confident.
Over the past few years, he had suddenly thought of a cultivation method, which was to use the energy of ten thousand metals to grind his bones.
This was an idea he had gotten from reading the history of a biological civilization.
That civilization specialized in grinding their teeth with all sorts of hard objects, making their teeth incomparably sharp. He wondered if using the energy of ten thousand metals to grind his bones would make his bones even tougher.
With the help of the Thousand Trickeries, the bone clone had reached the limits of its potential and was quite tough. It could withstand the attacks of the Eternal Butterflies without any problems, but it would be even better if it could be improved.
Thus, Lu Yin decided to comprehend the Metal Breath and condense the energy of ten thousand metals.
His energy was the first needle of the Yama Gate, and he used the first needle of the Yama Gate to grind his bones.
At first, it was just an experiment, but after more than ten years, the areas where his bones were ground were much tougher than the others. Lu Yin's confidence grew, and he decided to completely grind his bones before acting.
Although the bone clone didn't have as many techniques as the main body, its defense might surpass the main body's when it was still a rogue.
The energy of ten thousand metals was, in essence, a type of breathing that came from metal.
It was said to be using the energy of ten thousand metals to grind his bones, but it was actually using the path of breathing to grind his bones.
If the main body hadn't learned the path of breathing from Master Grass, the bone clone wouldn't have been able to comprehend it so easily.
Just like that, dozens of years passed, and Lu Yin calculated that it had been fifty years since he'd arrived on the Butterfly Ancestor Continent.
Almost all of his bones had been polished, but the butterflies hadn't given up on searching for him.
For an Eternal Realm, fifty years passed in the blink of an eye, and it didn't even count.
But for Lu Yin, these fifty years had allowed his bone clone's strength to increase by another level.
Every civilization had their own unique strengths, and Lu Yin had come into contact with many civilizations, and he had been able to glean benefits from almost all of them. If he could one day see all of the endless civilizations within the Square Kilometer, he did not know how much his own strength would increase.
Pushing aside the bushes, Lu Yin rowed the boat into a dark, deep cave, where water flowed directly into the ground.
This was the largest continent on the Butterfly Ancestor Continent. Lu Yin hadn't dared to come here in the past few decades, as most of the butterflies had scattered their pollen throughout the continent. Now that a batch of butterflies had spread out, he finally dared to come here.
This place was the continent's forbidden zone, and he'd only discovered it after studying the history of many lifeforms. The outside world hadn't declared it a forbidden zone, and only the lifeforms that lived nearby knew that this place was a place where one could enter but not leave.