Chapter 303: Butterfly Effect (7)
Blood-Blossom Dream Illusion Butterfly.
In Korean, would that be the "blood flower’s dream illusion butterfly"?
It was the name of a massive red venomous butterfly, listed as one of the Ten Great Venomous Creatures in the Tang Clan’s Secret Compendium of Venomous Creatures.
Blood-red wings gliding through the sky under the moonlight.
When the creature overlapped with the full moon, as if posing in front of it, the soft moonlight half-penetrated its body, shining through like stained glass—red and transparent.
Most people don’t know this, but some butterflies’ wings are actually transparent, like dragonflies.
That powder—called “linbun,” with the unpleasant connotation of human waste—is actually fine scales that cover the wings.
Well, more precisely, they’re not covered by powder, but by microscopic scales aligned like tiles along the wings, only visible under a microscope.
If those are scraped away, you’ll find that the butterfly’s wings are indeed transparent.
So when it overlapped with the moon, the light partially passed through its body like stained glass.
As I stared blankly at the thing, its softly fluttering wings gently stirred the air, and with each flap, blood-red powder scattered through the sky like flower petals, just like its name.
I’d read in the Secret Compendium of Venomous Creatures that it was called the Blood-Blossom Dream Illusion Butterfly because it scattered blood-colored pollen that, when it landed on someone, made them fall into dreams or illusions.