In the village of the butterfly elves, Lin Ziyue didn't know how long she had stayed, maybe dozens of minutes, an hour, the sky gradually darkened, the night in the illusory world came, the elves carried the leaf lanterns filled with fireflies, and Duoli led Lin Ziyue to the depths of the village. Along the way, the elves in the team followed more and more, the elves all carried leaf lanterns, and smeared strange symbols with pollen on their faces, Dori wiped them on Lin Ziyue's face as she walked, and when Lin Ziyue asked her, Dori explained that this was the meaning of dressing up on behalf of the butterfly elves, and whenever it came to an important occasion or ceremony, they would decorate themselves with pollen like this, and face the elf king with the most primitive appearance.

"The glow of the fireflies will guide the Elf King to our village, and our attire will allow the Elf King to pick out the best elves among us to participate in this ceremony, and whoever is chosen by the Elf King will be the honor of that elf. Duo Li looked Lin Ziyue's face full of messy pollen up and down, and nodded happily, "Yes, yes, my craftsmanship is really the best in the whole village, hehe." ”

Lin Ziyue looked at the elated Duoli helplessly, feeling like a mask on her face, so slimy that she couldn't breathe. Follow the butterfly elves to a wide cave deep in the village, she saw that the elves were bowing and walked into the cave, so she followed the elves and walked in, the cave was very wide, there were many colored fluorescent stalactites, and even several palm-sized butterflies were scattered and stopped on those strangely shaped stones, the more you went in, the more butterflies there were, and finally came to a place where there were no butterflies at all, Lin Ziyue was about to continue to move forward, but was dragged back by Dori.

"What are you doing! It's so dangerous! Lord Inquisitor can't fly, can he?" Dori shook Lin Ziyue's shoulder, that kind of shaking full of inexplicable power made Lin Ziyue think of Baozi, she instantly realized that she couldn't delay, she had to get out of here early, and then Lin Ziyue was about to ask why Dori said it was dangerous, she looked down at the ground and found that there was no ground.

Lin Ziyue's step just now, her feet were already hanging on the edge of a bottomless pit, if it wasn't for Dori pulling herself back in time, I'm afraid she would have been playing freefall at this time, thinking of this, Lin Ziyue's face was a little pale, and she said to Duoli seriously: "You saved my life." ”

Dori took her to sit on a straw mat on the edge of the pit, and the surrounding elves gradually filled the empty straw mats, and the sound of speech gradually became quiet from the beginning of the chatter, and finally everyone quieted down, as if silently waiting for something to happen, Lin Ziyue followed the elves to watch the deep pit, at this moment, the dim cave that was originally only illuminated by firefly lanterns suddenly brightened, Lin Ziyue raised her head in surprise, it turned out that there were countless small stalactite caves above the pit, and when the full moon reached the top of the cave, it would refract and gather all the moonlight, and fall on this big pit to illuminate the cave。

Then, a long low moan came from the bottom of the pit, and Duo Li hugged Lin Ziyue's arm excitedly, and Lin Ziyue could hear her mouth muttering: "It's finally this moment, it's finally this moment......"

"Are you nervous?" Lin Ziyue asked, touching Duo Li's head. Dori nodded and shook her head, then hugged Lin Ziyue's arm harder and harder, her face full of excitement.

Lin Ziyue smiled, and together with Duo Li, she looked at the big pit with anticipation. The low moan was getting louder and closer, and it seemed that it might rise from the pit at any time, and Lin Ziyue couldn't help but be full of curiosity about this elf's butterfly elf king.

Then a roar came from the pit, Lin Ziyue felt that the cave he was in seemed to be trembling, and when this roar had not completely dissipated, a huge body came out of the hole.

Lin Ziyue looked at the creature in front of him with a little horror, the torso was covered with finger-thick hairs, and the insect feet that were nearly the thickness of a person's thigh extended from the torso, writhing and lying on the edge of the pit, the intricate patterns on its body were extremely chaotic, just looking at it made people feel a little dizzy, this creature had huge tentacles on its head and a mouth full of sharp teeth, according to the size of this body, Lin Ziyue could almost assert that most of the caterpillar's body was still in the underground pit, and now what leaked out was probably only the head of this monster。

Lin Ziyue pinched her thigh, telling herself that this was an important ritual for the elves, and forced the urge to escape from the cave with her legs in her heart, she couldn't be rude, she had to spend this ritual quietly, and she must not destroy her relationship with the elves, after all, she still had to look for clues with their help.

The tentacles of this giant caterpillar danced up and down in the air, as if it was detecting something, and then Lin Ziyue secretly screamed in her heart, the tentacles of the caterpillar turned in her direction, the caterpillar slowly squirmed and turned around, and the tentacles danced back and forth to this side, Lin Ziyue looked at the insect mouth full of sharp teeth at this time, and felt more and more disgusted.

The tentacles stopped in front of Lin Ziyue, swayed from side to side for a moment, and then stretched straight to Lin Ziyue's side, Lin Ziyue was stunned to watch Dori being pulled out by the tentacles, and at the moment when Dori was pulled out by the tentacles, all the other elves burst out with cheerful shouts.

"Haha, it's Sister Dori!" "It's Sister Dori, and no one else will be taken by the king this year except her!" "Congratulations to Sister Dori, this is really God's favor!" "Dori is the most powerful in the village after all, as I expected!" "Dori!

Looking at the cheering elves around her, Lin Ziyue looked at Dori who was dragged away from her in confusion, but was surprised to find that Dori did not have a smile on her face, and her face, which had always been very happy, became pale and full of fear and pleading.

"Dori......?"

Although Lin Ziyue's call was so weak that it was drowned out by the voice of the butterfly elves in an instant, Duo Li still stretched out her hand weakly to Lin Ziyue, and in the noisy voice, Lin Ziyue saw that her mouth was clearly "help me".

Then the huge mouth of the "Elf King" opened suddenly, and Dori, who was swept by the tentacles, swallowed it in one gulp, and the sound of those sharp teeth colliding with each other made the cave silent for a few seconds, and then the elves erupted into even more enthusiastic cheers, which made Lin Ziyue shire from the bottom of her heart.

"Hey, what are you celebrating! Dori has been eaten!" Lin Ziyue pinched the collar of a butterfly elf beside her and roared angrily, "How can you still be so casual!"

The butterfly elf was frightened by Lin Ziyue's actions, and with an expression on her face that she was about to cry out of grievance, she trembled and said, "But, but, this is our ritual...... The spirits chosen by the king, are us, our greatest sacrifices......"

Lin Ziyue felt suffocated, and even a little trance in front of her: "So, send your own people into the mouth of the 'king' and into the stomach of that monster...... Is it your sacrifice?"

Lin Ziyue put down the elf and looked around at the butterfly elves who were happily greeting each other for the coming year's happiness.

Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it qualified or justified to judge? I am afraid that this custom has existed since the existence of the village, and has lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years until what I see now?

Duo Li's smile and the helpless expression of "help me" alternated back and forth in front of Lin Ziyue's eyes.

"I'm Dori, dear Inquisitor, welcome to the village of the Butterfly Elves!"

"Elves don't grow up, they don't grow old, because age makes beauty disappear, so most elves will maintain the appearance of children, maintain a pure and beautiful voice and appearance, this is also because of the blessing of the butterfly elf king......"

"Most elves live their lives without desire, but I've always wanted to go out and see what the outside world is like. So I'm very happy, really happy, to welcome the Inquisitor to our village......"

Why "the elves will perform rituals to offer sacrifices to celebrate the gift of life given to them by the elven king", is it in such a terrible way?

"I absolutely can't stand such a thing!"

Lin Ziyue was surprised how she could suddenly speak, but found that she was holding a magic wand with a small arm length in her hand, she didn't seem to belong to her body and moved, the wand swept in a circle in the air, and in an instant, countless blue roses flew out from under her feet, these roses would take root no matter where they landed, and then grow rapidly, the elves screamed under the entanglement of roses, their wings were pierced, and the wreath on their heads was torn apart by the sharp blade of the rose bush, they finally drowned in the sea of roses, and the roses were quickly drained of life in their bodies, and the roses on the caterpillar were full of flowers, but it has no effect compared to its huge body, the caterpillar roared and climbed up from the ground again, and its head hit the top of the cave so that the whole cave was trembling, the caterpillar lowered its head and smashed it angrily at Lin Ziyue with its tentacles, Lin Ziyue had realized at this time that she was probably no longer herself now, and those terrible blue roses were indeed very suitable for the name of this woman "Blue Enchantress".

"You're just an evil demon with only a little bit of cultivation! I'm still thinking about why there are no older wise people in the village, I'm afraid that the slightly older butterfly clan in this village have all been devoured by you in the name of the ceremony! You don't deserve to be called the Butterfly Elf King at all, you're just a worm trying to enslave this group of pure beings!" Lin Ziyue's hand brushed over the wand, and a rattan whip nearly two meters long immediately grew between the wands, Lin Ziyue, or the woman, shook the whip in her hand, and each whip left a bloodstained scar on the monster's body, and the scar slowly grew blue rose buds.

Lin Ziyue walked around in this small cave, the caterpillar monster was too large to keep up with her speed, so she could only bear the whipping, and gradually the caterpillar monster changed from roaring to whimpering, Lin Ziyue's hands were still cruel, and the speed of the whipping became faster and faster: "Still begging for mercy? The deity doesn't believe that they didn't beg you for mercy when you ate those innocent beings! There are so many ways to practice, since you chose the most cruel one, don't blame others for being cruel now!!"

Lin Ziyue, or the woman, bit her thumb while running fast, wiped the blood on the rattan whip, and then shouted: "Blue Soul Break!"

Suddenly, the blue rose buds on the caterpillar monster all bloomed, and all the roses were like bombs, cracking on the monster's exposed half of the body and head, and for a while, the flesh and blood of the monster's upper body were blown up, flying around in the cave, and falling on the blue roses that squeezed dry and trapped the butterfly fairies from above,

Lin Ziyue acted uncontrollably, she used the whip in her hand to whip the monster's fallen corpse fiercely, and the minced meat made her feel disgusted again, and then the whip shook, and a human figure was brought out of it, and as the whip fell back into Lin Ziyue's arms, Lin Ziyue realized that the woman's whipping was probably to find Duoli......

Dori's small body looked more and more fragile at this time, the wings had been corroded by gastric juice, the pollen that had been carefully smeared on her body had been corroded to the point that it was almost corroded, the dress she was wearing made of leaves had also been tattered, and her long hair, which had been tied into a ponytail, had already appeared to be of different lengths when it was spread out, presumably partially digested, and her body was also full of traces of erosion.

Lin Ziyue gently hugged Duoli's corpse, warm tears fell from her face, Lin Ziyue leaned down and dropped a kiss between Duoli's eyebrows: "I'm sorry, Duoli, I ruined your village, ruined your rituals, and ruined your king...... But I didn't let you see that I ruined all this, I didn't let you watch me destroy the shackles that bound you, I didn't take you out into the outside world to take a look...... You saved my life, but I didn't save your life, I couldn't repay you...... Do you know? There are six worlds in this world, six worlds of different structures, your ancestors must have come from the great demon world like me, and then came to this human world that charms all living beings, and there is even the underworld of the place of death in this world, and even the divine realm with a noble atmosphere, as well as the junction of various places, where all living beings exist peacefully**, I want to take you to see it, take you to ......"

Lin Ziyue sobbed, all the words choked in her throat, she held Dori tightly in her arms, holding the flower bracelet on her wrist, the person finally couldn't bear it anymore, and cried in this messy cave. At this moment, Lin Ziyue and this woman, the thinking of "Blue Enchantress" Wei Ya, completely coincided, and the common grief between the two finally pulled Lin Ziyue's thinking away from Wei Ya's body, Lin Ziyue stood aside and watched Wei Ya hug Dori's body, only to find that she had also burst into tears.

Then a darkness fell in front of Lin Ziyue's eyes, and when it became bright again, Lin Ziyue found herself lying by the lake, she sat up in a daze, and when she looked up, she saw the shadow standing in front of her and taking off her mask, the usual smirk on his face was gone, and he was looking at Lin Ziyue with tears on his face with sad eyes.

"Isn't it, the good people in this world deserve to suffer?" Lin Ziyue's voice was hoarse, as if it had dried up for a long time, her head was still dizzy and swollen, she didn't even know what she was asking, she just had a desire to question, wanting to seek any answer, so that her attention could be diverted from that memory.

The shadow leaned down and spread out her palm in front of Lin Ziyue, Lin Ziyue suddenly opened an apple-flavored fruit candy, and cried even more while holding it in her mouth, and the shadow sat down quietly beside her, always accompanying Lin Ziyue with that sad gaze.

"Sweet things are good, aren't they? can neutralize the saltiness of pain and tears, so my adoptive father often comforts me like this, although my brother pointed out that men eat sweet things too weakly, but I think it's good, Shadow took out a handful of candy and put it in Lin Ziyue's palm, "My adoptive father is a very gentle person, so gentle that no one who knows him doesn't like him, when he was diagnosed with liver cancer, everyone was indignant at God's injustice and jealousy of talent, but he told me and my brother...... The important thing is not what your life looks like in the eyes of others, but in your own eyes, you have experienced what it is like to be a human being, you recognize yourself as your own existence, is the most important thing, your own identification with your own life, you face everything in yourself, whether it is beautiful or terrible, only by facing yourself can you have the courage to continue to walk and face anything. ’”

Lin Ziyue was puzzled and looked at the shadow dance that was talking at length, and asked in a low voice: "But he, he doesn't want to die, does he......?"

The shadow shook his head with a wry smile and said, "He, he thinks he is very happy, so he insists that he is happy, and says something like 'even if he wants to die, there are two brothers to die, it is worth it'...... At the time, I thought he was crazy, but in retrospect, he was strong and courageous enough to face the truth of any life, and then he moved forward with determination. ”

Lin Ziyue wiped away her tears, her mind gradually calmed down a little after listening to the story of the shadow, and she looked down at the bracelet made of flowers that still existed on her wrist. Can Dori be chosen by the "king", no, or all the elves who are chosen by the "king", will they feel happy?

Lin Ziyue thought of the cheering voices of those elves, and her head ached faintly.

Fear...... That is the sacrifice in their definition, the beauty in their hearts, and the happiness in their concepts.

And Dori is the one who is abnormal, because she has the idea of going out of the village in her heart, so she has a nostalgia for life, instead of feeling that it is a great honor to sacrifice her life for the "king" like other elves. So Dori stretched out a hand to Wei Ya for help, and Wei Ya also responded to Dori's wish, destroying the entire village of the Butterfly Clan, obliterating their gods, so that Dori could be freed from that ignorant and beautiful village.

Lin Ziyue put the bracelet in front of her eyes and looked at it.

Name: Deception Garland

Part: Bracelet

Enhanced: By camouflaging itself, the affinity of any plant line is greatly enhanced.

Attributes: None

Side Skill: Flower Elf

Additional Attribute: Phantom

[Flower Elves]: The Butterfly Clan, one of the branches of the Ancient Zerg Clan in the Demon Realm, lacks combat ability itself, and often relies on other creatures to survive under the protection of other powerful forces.

Action skills

Consumes 15 skill points to summon wings with elven powers, which can fly in the air and consume 10 stamina per minute.

Chanting: None.

Weapon binding skills.