Soul-chasing butterfly was a bizarre species living in the abyss of the underground world. It had a very special feature. If its egg was caught by someone, as long as a knight fed it a bit of his blood after hatching, the soul-chasing butterfly would establish a marvelous spiritual connection with the knight who fed it. After that, the soul-chasing butterfly could follow the knight's command and help the knight find or lock onto someone.
When a person moved in a certain region or space, he would leave his own odor. Trained hounds and military dogs could easily identify this odor and find the owner of this odor. This odor was emitted from a person's body. However, besides this odor, a person actually had another invisible odor, which originated from a person's internal characteristics. It was the "odor" of a person's spiritual energy or soul. The sharpest feature of soul-chasing butterfly was that it could sense the invisible "odor" of a person like hounds and find a person through this "odor".
This was the most valuable feature of soul-chasing butterfly.
Through numerous studies, as long as a person stayed in a place, even if that person left, within 72 hours, his "soul odor" would not dissipate. The "soul scent" left by that person in that place would not dissipate. If a soul-chasing butterfly was placed in that place, the soul-chasing butterfly would be able to accurately identify that person's "soul scent" and firmly remember it. Then, within a range of 300 kilometers, it could accurately sense that person's location.
Zhang Tie remembered two key figures of soul-chasing butterfly — — 3 days and 300 miles.
Of course, these two numbers were only rough numbers and were only for reference. In fact, there might be a slight error due to the individual differences of soul-chasing butterflies, but the difference would not be too big. For example, some soul-chasing butterflies could sense their targets from more than 310 kilometers away, while some soul-chasing butterflies could only sense their targets from more than 290 kilometers away. Some soul-chasing butterflies could still identify the "soul scent" of a person 74 hours after they left the place, while some soul-chasing butterflies might not be able to identify the "soul scent" of a person 65 hours after they left the place. These were all normal.
According to the speculation put forward by Beishan Yun in the article "Soul-chasing Butterfly and the Extermination of the Great Wilderness Sect in Taixia Country". The extermination of the Great Wilderness Sect might be related to soul-chasing butterfly. According to the legend, an elder of the Great Wilderness Sect deepened into the underground abyss and controlled a mutated soul-chasing butterfly by animal controlling skill. Not only did he have a long lifespan. Moreover, its ability to chase souls could be said to be terrifying. It was more than twenty times stronger than ordinary Soul Chasing Butterflies. After gaining that soul-chasing butterfly, that elder of Great Wilderness Sect cooperated with others and did some great things with that mutated soul-chasing butterfly. As a result, he became famous for a short while. Meanwhile, he offended some powerful forces in Taixia Country due to those "great things". Finally, those forces joined hands with each other. It led to the extermination of Great Wilderness Sect.
The second reason was that soul-chasing butterfly could identify everybody's soul odor. However, soul-chasing spiritual butterflies could not identify and lock the animal which was being controlled by the soul-based animal controlling skill of Great Wilderness Sect. In the 2nd holy war, the disciples of Great Wilderness Sect deepened into the territory controlled by demons using the soul-based animal controlling skill and obtained many key intelligence. They destroyed many movements of demons. Because of this, demons and Three-eye Association were afraid of Great Wilderness Sect. Therefore, demons and Three-eye Association cooperated with each other and were exterminated.
To be honest, this article was too gossipy. The relationship between the extermination of Great Wilderness Sect and soul-chasing butterfly was a bit far-fetched. Some details could not stand careful consideration. However, this article was very useful to Zhang Tie as it told Zhang Tie the two information that he wanted to know the most at this moment — — how was the ability of soul-chasing butterfly? Would I be discovered by soul-chasing butterfly in the state of animal controlling skill?
Zhang Tie was thinking, 'If the demon general has more than one egg of soul-chasing butterfly, what should I do in the future?' 'Unless I hide in Castle of Black Iron for 60 days each time I moved, as long as I exposed my original body, I would probably encounter the demon general or be besieged by other knights. Today, the demon general used a soul-chasing butterfly to chase after me. Who knows whether there would be 3 or 5 soul-chasing butterflies chasing after me in the future? ' 'As long as there were more than 3 soul-chasing butterflies chasing after me, the three groups of knights would be able to search for me within a range of 1,800 miles with one soul-chasing butterfly. When they reached this range, the three groups of knights only needed to coordinate their actions and fly across the demon's territory in the north in a straight line. The moment Zhang Tie exposed his original body, he would be locked by demon knights at once. As a result, the danger that Zhang Tie would face would increase by dozens or even hundreds of times. '
'Even though I could escape away by incarnation or hide in Castle of Black Iron at the critical moment, I would also have to pay a price — — exposing my secrets. Once my secrets were exposed, I would have to face endless troubles. '
'Nothing is free. An emperor has to pay a price for eating in a dining hall; a handsome man has to pay a price for flirting with a woman in a brothel; even though I have Castle of Black Iron, I would also pay a price for penetrating deep into the enemy's rear. '
At this moment, Zhang Tie had already thought about leaving here. To be honest, it was already very impressive for him to make such a great achievement after penetrating deep into the enemy's rear. 'I've almost destroyed and severely damaged two cities of demons and Three-eye Association, killed over 10 precious gravetower demons and a powerhouse knight. Additionally, I've disrupted the action plan of demons and Three-eye Association. With such a great achievement, it was reasonable for me to leave here even if I encountered danger.'
However, not knowing why, Zhang Tie couldn't help imagining the scene where the owner of the pair of swollen feet stepped on the icy and wet muddy ground and the scene where the owner of the pair of feet fell to the ground and was shared by demonized puppets.
'What should I do at this moment to make my mom and dad proud and gratified? '
Whenever he was in a dilemma, Zhang Tie would always ask himself this question...
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