She was very curious about the current situation, the marks on Shade's body, and what the humanoid object Shade was carrying was.

"Look, didn't we catch up in the end?"

The old witch said with a smile, then looked up at the two people hugging each other among the red butterflies in the sky in front of the big crack on the top of the mountain:

"Ritual, a ceremony that takes place every 22 years. Teachers can only get together once every 22 years, and the time to get together is one year. After that, those who have lived alone for 21 years return to death, and those who have been awakened from death walk alone.

In this world, she will live alone for another 21 years until she returns here to meet her sisters again. After spending a year together, she will enter the 22-year cycle again."

She sighed. As the person who has witnessed the most rituals in the past hundred years, Xina Cassandra is the one who feels the most empathy:

"This is the blessing of the great ones of the past [Twin Gods]. They will be together forever. As long as they follow the ritual cycle, they will always be together. Hamilton, do you know what the meaning of the red butterfly is?"

Xia De stared blankly at the two people among the red butterflies:

"The red butterfly is the holy symbol of the old gods [Twin Gods]."

"The twin gods are two persons in one body, one body and one heart."

Sister Devlin gave Shade the correct answer.

The old witch nodded and explained softly:

"In this ceremony, the red butterfly symbolizes separation. When the reunion every 22 years is over, the teachers will return here again, and then the party who needs to wait for another 21 years will strangle his sister to death with his own hands and kill her

The corpse was thrown into the crack on the top of the mountain. This was not only for the cycle to start again, but also for the good god who once came to the Sikal Mountain area to assist in suppressing Hazama."

The witch apprentice took a deep breath.

Shade bit his lip:

"I once saw the phoenix under this crack in a dream, and saw that it was surrounded by densely packed corpses (Chapter 708). Those are"

Shade didn't say any more, but he already understood.

"Red butterfly."

Sister Devlin asked softly:

"These flying red butterflies must be related to rituals, right?"

"Yes, tell me, what does the red butterfly look like?"

Shade had already guessed it.

"The corpse fell into the big crack, and the red pinch mark on the neck will fly out again and turn into a red butterfly."

The four people on the edge of the cliff looked at the red butterflies flying in the sky together. The old witch's voice was very soft:

"Each of the red butterflies here symbolizes a long separation, the sadness of killing a sister, a twisted ritual of love, and the next reunion. Mr. Hamilton, do you know how many red butterflies there are here?"

Shade could no longer describe his feelings at this moment. He thought it wouldn't be a heartwarming story, but he didn't expect it to be like this:

"I don't know, but it must have been a long time, right?"

They originally participated in the God's Wine Party in order to escape the separation between life and death, and to save future generations of their family from this fate. They got the answers they wanted, and even gained immortality, but in the end they still couldn't.

Escape the fate of separation.

However, the permanent separation has turned into a cycle of pain and waiting for 22 years. This will be eternal pain, everything is for the encounter and reunion once every 22 years.

Someone seemed to be singing in the wind, and "she" in my ears was also catering to that faint voice. The ancient language that traveled through the curtain of time told stories of encounter, waiting, blood and love:

[Red butterfly spreads its wings and flies,]

【Flying over towering mountains,】

【Crossing the black river.】

[May the wind take away eternal thoughts,]

【Until the end of life and death.】

This was a nursery rhyme that Professor Manning had mentioned, and it was also Old John's method of making pendants. But it was not until this moment that Shade understood the meaning of this nursery rhyme.

It's not a ritual, it's not a recipe for alchemy, it's really just a story.
Chapter completed!