Chapter 2065: Dream Memory Tampering

The dream surged like tide and water.

This time, it did not come from the Heavenly Phantom Butterfly Lord, but from the human race's Supreme Grand Sun Sword Immortal!

This was the Law-Destroying End-Law Great Dao simulating the Dream Dao, displaying the appearance of the Dream Dao, and the human race's Six Paths of Reincarnation inheritance had greatly strengthened every aspect of the Dream Dao.

"No…"

The Heavenly Phantom Butterfly Lord let out a somewhat shrill and wretched roar.

At this moment, her soul memory began to fall into disorder.

She was originally born as a butterfly within the Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Realm, an anomaly born alongside the immortal artifact Calamity, who formed a deep friendship with the Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon-Refining Furnace; amid the fragments of the failed immortal artifact Eight Wastelands Heaven-Refining Cauldron, a butterfly seized its opportunity.

This was the origin of the Fallen Immortal Realm's Heavenly Phantom Immortal Butterfly clan.

This was the reality of the past.

What was the reality of the present?

This butterfly appeared on the Eastern Spirit Mountain of the Northern Plain Lesser Realm!

This butterfly was the origin of the many Blue Glow Butterflies on the Eastern Spirit Mountain of the Northern Plain Lesser Realm, the bloodline ancestor of the many Blue Glow Butterflies; on a certain day more than three hundred thousand years ago, a young man who had just started Gao San came to Eastern Spirit Mountain.

This tender green-robed youth gazed for the first time at the sky of the Northern Plain Lesser Realm, and saw a pale-blue butterfly shadow as many birds swept together across the heavens…

"Oh?"

Jiang Ding's expression turned slightly cold.

This was not the dream he had planned!

The dream he had planned began from stepping out of the Eastern Spirit Prefecture, the first time he appeared in that stretch of jungle on Eastern Spirit Mountain — something he subconsciously did not wish anyone to know.

The woven dream had developed a slight deviation.

It had gained that pale-blue butterfly shadow.

Jiang Ding looked into the dream he himself had woven, and saw, amid layer upon layer of Six Paths of Reincarnation, a cocoon wrapped in countless five-colored silk threads; the butterfly within that cocoon was looking at him with mockery.

As if to say, the Dream Dao — is it something you are qualified to lay a finger on?

Around him, heaven and earth shifted, seas turned to mulberry fields; as Jiang Ding looked back, he found that he had at some unknown moment arrived at the Northern Plain Lesser Realm, arrived at that stretch of mountain forest, where on the earth the green-robed youth had already begun his journey, collecting specimen after specimen of flora and fauna, starting his own path from the smallest of beginnings.

A pale-blue butterfly kept appearing at his side.

Sometimes it was when he was digging up a small tree specimen, a butterfly flapping its wings nearby;

Sometimes it was when he encountered Gong Gong Caiyu, a butterfly resting on a treetop not far away;

Sometimes it was in the general store, butterflies chasing and flapping on the tile roof…

In many of Jiang Ding's memories from his youth, butterflies began to appear one after another; they were not conspicuous, did not interfere with anything, yet were everywhere, deeply participating in every event of his young years.

"Six Paths of Reincarnation?"

Jiang Ding silently watched what was unfolding on the earth below, and gave a cold laugh.

Clearly, the Heavenly Phantom Butterfly Lord had obtained the Six Paths of Reincarnation inheritance!

The Lord of the human race's Six Paths of Reincarnation truly harmed people without end.

From long ago, he had known that the Lord of the human race's Six Paths of Reincarnation had for some unknown reason fallen into death and slumber, vanishing; now beginning to revive, spreading the Six Paths of Reincarnation inheritance to every race in the endless starry sky, no longer confined to the human race — the human race's interests overlapped with his yet did not overlap, not entirely the same.

He longed for all living beings of heaven and earth to obtain the Six Paths of Reincarnation, longed for living being after living being to seize the authority of his Six Paths of Reincarnation Great Dao.

A figure abruptly appeared in Jiang Ding's mind.

The Great Love Divine Lord.

This old friend, whom he had not seen for more than two hundred thousand years, appeared once more in his mind; this person must have many points of connection with the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Of course, all of this existed only in his heart, merely something to think about.

The Supreme Grand Sun Sword Immortal would forever maintain respect toward the living beings deep within the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and such respect would never change.

"The Dream Dao — Fellow Daoist does indeed possess extraordinary aspects."

"This sovereign truly is somewhat laughably out of his depth."

Jiang Ding said lightly.

Clang!

The Supreme Clarity Flying Sword unsheathed from between his brows.

The Grand Sun Immortal-Mortal Sword Soul's Law-Destroying Silence Pupil opened slightly, releasing a pitch-black Law-Breaking Silence Divine Light; this pitch-black divine light merged with the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword as one, and within the deep phantom of the Law-Destroying Great Dao, it slashed toward the heaven and earth of this dream-realm with a single sword twisted into a line.

The heaven and earth of this dream instantly fell still.

The entire dream that was evolving and being woven was stained by black-gray threads of silk spreading without cease, permeated by Law-Destroying rules into every corner.

Boom!

The heaven and earth of this dream shattered, countless fragments scattering in all directions.

Amid countless shards of spiritual light, a Star-Dream Phantom Butterfly slammed violently into the earth, vomiting blood in great mouthfuls; around it, piece after piece of continental plate crumbled, scorching magma surged from the cracks, slowly covering much of the butterfly's body, deep-blue fresh blood mingling with crimson magma.

The Heavenly Phantom Butterfly Lord's aura was listless, her face full of unwillingness.

So what if the Dream Dao was stronger than her opponent's?

With a single sword slash, every advantage of the Dream Dao must shatter, must be torn down and begun anew!

"Continue."

Jiang Ding said lightly.

Boom!

Boom…

In the sky, amid the light of the End-Law Era, the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword, bearing the phantom of the End-Law Great Dao, slashed down again and again, striking the Heavenly Phantom Butterfly Lord back to the earth time after time; resistance was almost useless, and soon her body was covered in wounds, filled with sword scars one after another.

Terrifying Law-Destroying power seeped through the sword scars into the Heavenly Phantom Butterfly Lord's body, weakening her soul resistance, making her grow ever more feeble.

At this moment, a dream finally appeared once more in this stretch of heaven and earth.

This time, the dream proceeded entirely according to the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal's plan.

That blue-robed youth walked out of the East Spirit Prefecture, encountered a pale-blue butterfly along the way, used the Immortal Gate's beast-taming method to control it, and continuously strengthened this beast-taming prohibition throughout his future cultivation life—nothing but the concentrated refinement of prohibition science, without a shred of emotion.

During this period, it was not as if the Heavenly Phantom Butterfly Lord did not resist.

She possessed higher attainments in the Dao of Dreams, and could often see through this dream, struggling to tear it apart.

But such results would often invite terrifying flying-sword suppression—sword after sword cleaving down, both wings shattered, nearly hacking her into a pulp of flesh and blood.

After lesson upon lesson, the Heavenly Phantom Butterfly Lord learned obedience.

The dream continued to evolve—from the Fallen Immortal Realm, to the Great Dream Sword Realm within the time rift, and through the various events that occurred in the time rift—this butterfly's original consciousness was continuously overwritten. A brand-new life, brand-new prohibitions had appeared within her soul and flesh and blood, thereby… erasing her entire being!

This was not seeking a subordinate, seeking a servant!

But rather erasing her, then refining once again upon her corpse a dream-Dao dharma treasure!

"No!"

"No, no…"

The Heavenly Phantom Butterfly Lord shuddered awake in horror.

She abruptly awoke from this illusory dream, a terrifying aura of destruction erupting all over her body—preferring to self-detonate and be destroyed rather than let the enemy profit.

She could accept becoming a servant, lying in wait for the future—this was one process on the path of a dream-Dao cultivator.

But she could under no circumstances accept death!