Butterflies Come Fluttering at Midnight

"Of course it was a good thing. It was enough to ensure that her cultivation advanced at breakneck speed. But if someone harbored ulterior motives, she would also be in extreme danger," Feng Ji said.

"Such as?"

"For instance, if someone specialized in the laws of life and death and encountered her, then to them, she would be the finest Cultivation Furnace for raising their cultivation."

A cultivation furnace.

A specialized term in the cultivation world.

What was a cultivation furnace?

Simply put, it was a medicinal pill!

She was a pill that cultivation masters could use to raise their cultivation!

Lin Xiaosu's heart stirred slightly...

Suddenly, he raised his gaze.

A butterfly came fluttering over the courtyard wall.

Its flight path was completely unlike that of an ordinary butterfly.

No, to be precise, it only appeared so unusual when it crossed this courtyard wall.

The wall was fitted with strange stones that created turbulent air currents. The turbulence prevented sound waves from passing through smoothly, thus keeping the courtyard quiet.

Ordinary people generally could not sense such air turbulence. No matter how chaotic the air became, people could cross it with ease. But for such light butterflies, turbulent air would distort their flight—yet this butterfly's flight path did not change in the slightest.

A thread of Lin Xiaosu's voice slipped quietly into Feng Ji's ear. "Senior Sister, be careful!"

Under ordinary circumstances, a butterfly was not something that required caution.

But this was Kun Cang, where mighty figures were everywhere.

Who could know what a butterfly might signify?

Following his gaze, Feng Ji saw the butterfly.

Her heart gave a small jolt. She sensed every movement it made, yet deliberately did not focus on it...

Suddenly, a strand of sound came from the butterfly's mouth and drilled into her