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Butterfly Dream Trial Back at the manor, Lu Li issued a command with a single thought:
[Alert]
Imdiately, puppets sprang from the warehouse, agilely leaping and bounding to surround and guard the manor.
Of course, this was just the outermost line of defense.
Back in his room, six Flying Swords moved through the air like fish, serving as his close protection.
With the defensive asures in place, Lu Li imdiately began his breakthrough.
Refining God through Soul Ergence is undoubtedly a transformative realm, and those who master Divine Skills are revered as “True Masters.”
However, Divine Soul Ergence and consciousness leaving the body clearly violated the original structure of the body and its instincts.
Strictly speaking, this is a case of artificially induced “biological mutation,” triggering a mutation in the central nervous system.
To achieve this, one first needs a powerful body quality capable of withstanding the “Mutant Damage.”
Lu Li took out the “Wei Country morial dal” and called down the “Shadow Painting Sword.”
He drew the sword across his fingertip, squeezing out a drop of blood that shone like lead rcury, and let it fall on the dal.
This act aid to maximize the resonance with the “Soul Anchoring Object,” and the wound on Lu Li’s finger miraculously healed itself within three to five seconds!
This was the powerful body quality brought on by Martial Arts Blood Exchange.
The human body is a complex organic whole, and the enhancent brought about by advancing in Martial Arts Realm wasn’t just about simple attributes like strength or defense.
Lu Li’s recovery ability and damage resistance also greatly improved, which was essential for enduring the “Central Nervous System Mutation.”
Now ca the critical mont!
He needed a force to shock his consciousness, awaken his Divine Soul, to leave the body and break free—this was Soul Ergence!
Throughout the long years of cultivation in the Otherworld, many thods had been devised.
At this mont, Lu Li employed the “Butterfly Dream Soul Ergence Technique,” which was derived from the theory of “Zhuang Zhou’s Butterfly Dream.”
Dreams and reality are hard to distinguish; even Zhuang Zi, transford into a butterfly upon awakening, felt bewildered, unsure whether he was Zhuang Zhou or a butterfly.
Using the deep emotional resonance crafted from “Butterfly Dream,” naturally caused intense vibrations in Lu Li’s Divine Soul.
He gripped the “Wei Country morial dal” firmly with both hands, took control of his subconscious, and voluntarily entered a brain dormancy state.
At the sa ti, his Spirit connected with the emotions stored in the dal, imrsing his thoughts into it.
Under brain dormancy, the operation of the central nervous system nearly halted.
Lu Li’s thoughts beca sluggish, leaving only a trace of consciousness, a sliver of his True Self, continuously descending.
It felt like plumting into the deep sea, the speckles of light above gradually fading away, surrounded only by chaos.
Layer upon layer of images appeared before him; first, he saw his father lying sick in bed, followed by his childhood desk mate, and then his mother, whose face he had nearly forgotten…
And amazingly, he also saw the Kunlun Mirror!
The ancient copper mirror faintly shimred.
Scene after scene flashed by until he sank into the darkest, most silent place, where Lu Li saw a massive dark shadow.
With huge wings and three heads, it seed to let out a roar that might have been urging him, shrouded in darkness, unclear.
At that mont, the “Wei Country morial dal” in Lu Li’s hand was faintly emitting a blue crystalline light, clearly having taken effect.
But not far away, the ashes urn of his father also began to emit this faint blue crystalline light!
In an instant, the dark chaos before Lu Li’s eyes cracked and peeled off quickly like dried paint.
Revealing the sunlight, sky, and mountains behind—a whole world!
The feeling of solid ground suddenly ca, and Lu Li, unsteady, stumbled and fell to the ground.
Caught off guard, he fell painfully, his palms covered in bloodstains and mud.
“My power…has disappeared!?”
Lu Li struggled to stand up using a tree, finding it hard to believe:
His body quality capable of withstanding bullets was gone, and the strength to lift a car had vanished, leaving no trace of Divine Skills no matter how hard he tried!
He had beco disabled, just as before acquiring the Kunlun Mirror!
But it wasn’t over yet!
Lu Li quickly realized why he had tripped, noticing that his right pant leg was empty, and even his prosthetic limb was missing!
“Making co all alone… This is truly a hellish start.”
After all he had experienced, Lu Li was no longer his forr self and wouldn’t shrink back due to difficulties.
He took a deep breath to regain his composure and started observing his surroundings.
The forest was deep and serene, strewn with fallen leaves, quintessentially an autumn mountain scene.
“Deciduous broadleaf forest, a temperate monsoon climate, like the northern part of my holand… I think I know where this is.”
“Due to the ‘Butterfly Dream’ activated by that dal, the place isn’t hard to guess.”
Lu Li was planning to find a thick branch in the forest to use as a crutch, but he froze when he turned over the dry grass at his feet…
There, in the half-green, half-yellow pile of leaves, was a square black box—an urn containing his father’s ashes!
“Why would the urn be here?”
Lu Li was genuinely puzzled.
He hadn’t even brought his prosthetic limb; how could this item be… Wait!!!
There was sothing underneath the urn, and upon closer inspection, it was his own prosthetic limb!
The socket, tal joints, connection tubes… It was indeed the one he had always used.
Though sowhat old, it was made largely of high-strength, lightweight materials such as titanium alloy and carbon fiber composites.
Expensive yet valuable, it was bought by his father years ago and had remained by his side ever since.
Lu Li couldn’t fathom why this was happening, but there was no ti to think in detail, and he had to temporarily set aside his doubts.
He crouched down, fitted the socket onto his stub, and secured it tightly.
After walking a few steps, his mobility was restored, and the difficulty decreased significantly.
At first glance, the sunlight was a bit dazzling.
A cold breeze rustled a few dry leaves his way, making the world seem terrifyingly real.
Lu Li took another deep breath and began exploring his surroundings, looking for the opportunity to complete this Butterfly Dream Trial.
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For the caster, this “Butterfly Dream” was essentially a trial.
The Soul Anchoring Object, also known as the “Wei Country morial dal,” was the key to starting the trial and wouldn’t kick up a fuss for no reason.
Lu Li was decidedly “fated to appear”, certain to experience the deepest and most intense emotions of his great-grandfather.
With sunlight accessible in the woods, Lu Li was not far from the mountain’s peak.
He decided to head uphill first to overlook the surroundings from a high vantage point.
But he had grown accustod to transcendental enhancents and forgot how difficult climbing was for soone with a disability.
Less than half an hour into the walk, his stub was rubbed raw.
Additionally, fatigued and thirsty, Lu Li had to stop.
He carefully placed the urn on the ground and sat down to rest against a large tree.
“Turns out I’m just an ordinary person now… What would happen if I got injured here?”
He had tested it multiple tis along the way, fully reverted to his original form, even losing the “Bullet Ti” brought by Concentrating.
The pain from his fall was still there, and this tired and thirsty feeling couldn’t fool anyone.
“If I encounter danger and get hurt here, it could lead to very bad consequences!”
Lu Li pondered this while continuously loosening his muscles and promoting blood flow by removing his prosthetic, hoping to recover as quickly as possible.
But just then, he suddenly sensed a gaze!
This was not a capability brought by “Refining God”; Lu Li was a naturally sharp person, or else he wouldn’t have been able to dodge a tank shell while carrying Jessica.
He imdiately looked toward the nearby woods.
There, indeed, were two figures staring in his direction.
Because they saw Lu Li removing his prosthetic, they were montarily stunned, which allowed Lu Li to notice sothing was amiss.
Seeing this, both figures revealed themselves and walked over.
Lu Li remained where he was and waited until they got closer, the expressions on both of their faces quite striking.
Because there were now two people in the world who looked exactly alike.
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