The entire sect is obsessed with love, but I'm the only one who's truly insane.

Jiang Liang came to return those ancient books on Yunnan and Gu techniques. He was completely relieved that Mo Lin's Gu poison had been cleared. Just then, he ran into Yan Ye, who was troubled and came to find a suitable cultivation method for his disciple.

The moment Yan Ye met Jiang Liang, he couldn't help but think of Lin Du's words again: "If I go before you, don't forget to take my eyes away."

He sniffed the medicine, his brow furrowing and relaxing several times before finally speaking, "Jiang Liang?"

"It's me." Jiang Lianggang obediently put all the books away by category and was just about to leave.

The library was always a quiet place within the sect, rarely visited or stayed in, except for Lin Du.

Lin Du is a bookworm that the Supreme Sect has only seen once in a hundred years. Because of his poor health, he is relatively free and spends all his time in the library.

The rest of the people spent their youth focusing on physical training, prioritizing the body over the spirit, and diligently studying the books arranged by their master.

After all, the books in the library are numerous and varied, and many of the Heart Sutra and cultivation methods are not suitable for young people who have not yet developed independent thinking abilities.

When the two meet, they don't know what to say. At this age, their paths diverge, and it's difficult to discuss anything. They end up just talking about their children.

"If you want to raise a spirit pet, and she is destined to die before you, would you still raise it?" Yan Ye asked.

Jiang Liang noticed the child who had quietly entered early in the morning. After thinking for a moment, he said frankly, "Who knows what kind of adventures you might have in the future? You were able to enter the Divine Tomb before, and perhaps Lin Du can also enter the second Divine Tomb."

"Even the Divine Tomb couldn't heal my eyes, let alone her heart," Yan Ye said calmly. "The gods are gone, what use is her inheritance?"

He stood there majestically, his gaze icy, looking down upon all living beings, and even upon the gods.

Yan Ye has never had any reverence for the heavens. Even though he cultivates the path of destiny, it is only because he has received the inheritance and can only walk that path.

He is the sole inheritor of the Divine Tomb, the pride of the Dongming Realm, and the youngest righteous powerhouse on the Chongxiao Ranking besides Wei Zhi.

The reason Yan Ye became the second best in the world at such a young age is simply because he was chosen by the Divine Tomb, nothing more.

He could calculate his fate, yet he still couldn't decipher its workings.

Lin Du was the only fate that gave him confusion and unexpected destiny after he followed his destiny.

"You never said what you saw in the Tomb of the Gods back then. Afterwards, you challenged the infiltrated demon spies and the Demon Lord alone. It is said that you had a great enlightenment and attained enlightenment overnight. Now it seems that you only realized a mirage."

Jiang Liang's tone wasn't very friendly. "Anyway, you have to take your clothes off eventually. Are you just going to refuse to wear them?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Du's hand slipped while grinding ink, and his expression turned somewhat strange.

Indeed, Yan Ye really doesn't wear it.

Yan Ye frowned. "Can they be the same? If you gather, you'll eventually disperse. It's better not to gather at all."

Upon hearing this, Lin Du finally slipped the ink stick in his hand. Why was Yan Ye possessed by Lin Daiyu today? Just one sentence from her had such a powerful effect.

She cleared her throat. "I've already raised you, how can you abandon me?"

Yan Ye said in a muffled voice, "No, no, I was just thinking about whether or not to raise a spirit pet. What does that have to do with you?"

Lin Du said sarcastically, "You didn't...you're not...how about I go and catch a goose for you to raise myself?"

"What goose? What kind of person raises a spirit pet and a goose?" Yan Ye was speechless, choked by Lin Du's question.

"We can raise chickens, ducks, pigs, geese, and that naughty monster hiding in the forbidden forest behind the mountain. We also recently got a little tiger cub. Do you want it?" Lin Du blinked.

Yan Ye raised his hand, and three books appeared on Lin Du's table.

"One book covers footwork, one covers fist techniques, and one covers body-refining techniques. Read them to me today, and I'll teach you how to practice them tomorrow."

He walked out of the library with his hands behind his back, when he suddenly heard his young apprentice speak up behind him, saying something even more rebellious than his own.

"My very existence as your disciple is a testament to your destiny, isn't it?"

"Master is unwilling to accept fate, but your disciple is even more unwilling."

"Isn't my very existence defying the heavens?"

"As long as the process is spectacular, even if the ending is hasty, my name, Lin Du, should be recorded in the history books of the cultivation world in the future."

The young man was arrogant, just like Yan Ye back then.

Jiang Liang was somewhat dazed upon hearing this. It really was a master-disciple relationship; both of them were even more arrogant than the heavens.

If anyone else had said these words, they would have been laughed at for centuries, but when these two people said them, they only stirred people's emotions and did not elicit ridicule.

Lin Du turned to Jiang Liang, "Senior brother, could you take my pulse? I'm currently in the Core Formation stage, is that appropriate?"

Jiang Liang straightened his face and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? You've only been in the industry for a year."

He walked over, took Lin Du's pulse, and said in surprise, "Who took care of your body? Your heart seemed to be overloaded and on the verge of breaking a while ago, but it was held together by medicine and did not fail."

Lin Du decided to find a scapegoat: "I happened to meet a witch doctor named Granny Ma, and she took a liking to me and used some medicine on me."

Jiang Liang thought for a moment, "It's not impossible to consider. You are exposed to the ice spring every day, so your physical strength is no worse than others. It's just that it takes a long time to make up for the deficiencies inside. If you reach the point where you have to advance, with the formation that your master set up for you last time, you should be able to advance smoothly."

Lin Du felt reassured and said, "Okay."

She turned to look at Yan Ye. "Master, shall we look at those three books later?"

Yan Ye: ...Waiting for me here?

He hesitated for a moment, then said, "It's up to you. It'll be easier to train after you reach the Core Formation stage."

After being tempered by heavenly lightning, the physical body undergoes a complete transformation, and minor ailments are eliminated, making it indeed easier to refine the body.

After receiving a message from Jiang Liang, Lin Du returned to his cave. Only after sitting down did he remember what his fifth senior brother had said earlier: "Your master set up the formation for you last time to block it."

She lowered her eyes and rubbed her knuckles, feeling a rare pang of conscience.

On the eternally frozen bed, Lin Du sat cross-legged, opened the jade box that the system had placed in her storage ring, and the Heavenly Heart Lotus displayed a delicate, semi-transparent light like icy glass. She didn't bother to observe it closely, and simply stuffed it into her mouth and swallowed it whole. Then she channeled her spiritual power into her stomach to begin refining it.

The substance didn't have any extra flavor, and Lin Du swallowed it smoothly. It wasn't until she used her spiritual power to begin dissolving it that she realized that this unique natural treasure of the world did indeed have something special about it.

The pure, icy medicinal power swept through her internal organs, almost freezing the blood in her body into ice crystals, making it almost impossible for the medicine to work.

Lin Du, who had hardly ever trembled since entering the Dao, was now shaking.

If someone were inside the cave at this moment, they would surely see that the young cultivator on the bed had even his eyelashes and eyebrows covered in a layer of frost.

The indigestible medicinal effects, coupled with his body's spasms and trembling muscles, left Lin Du in a dilemma, both internally and externally.

She adjusted her breathing, knowing that with enough effort, even an iron rod can be ground into a needle. Even if the elixir was difficult to digest, it would still be digested slowly.

Lin Du tried his best to circulate the spiritual energy in his dantian to digest the medicinal effects, without any intention of getting rich overnight.

Yan Ye stood outside her cave entrance, glanced at the tightly closed door, reached out and turned the "Do Not Disturb" sign to face the front, and then set up an even more powerful lightning array at the cave entrance than before.

He stood outside the door, thinking of Lin Du's words from earlier that day.

He took her as his disciple, which should have been his first act of following the will of Heaven, but she said that her very existence was an act against Heaven.

So it turns out... it wasn't exactly a compromise with fate.

Yan Ye strode back to Luo Ze, just like the day he killed the Demon Lord. The Dao of Destiny slowly unfolded within his divine consciousness. It was a mysterious and obscure path that few dared to touch. Before him, his divine palace was open and the journey was smooth.

The unspeakable feelings in his heart gradually dissipated, the barrier shattered with a crack, and the realm of the late stage of Taiqing Realm appeared before his eyes, connecting with the sky and stealing the path of heaven.

Inside the dining hall, the group of children, who had been stood up by their junior uncle for the first time, looked at each other and asked, "Should we... just have someone from down the mountain deliver it?"

Mo Lin wasn't physically incapable of cooking, so he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Alright, I'll do it."

Yuan Ye looked miserable. "How come Junior Uncle has also joined the ranks of unreliable adults?"

Yan Qing put his hands in his pockets and said, "Actually, if you think about it, Junior Uncle is also our elder. Now he's just... living in the same world."

"Is this how you use 'blending in with the world'?" Yuan Ye asked, seemingly understanding but not quite.

Ni Jinxuan looked worried. "Junior Uncle never breaks his word. Could it be that he's ill?"

Xia Tianwu knew some of the inside story: "Junior Uncle should be in seclusion preparing to break through to the Cloud Soaring Realm, and he also took away one of my master's few Bigu Pills."

Ni Jinxuan breathed a sigh of relief, then her eyes widened, and Yan Qing and Yuan Ye's small eyes also widened, "Junior Uncle, she's about to form her core like that???"

"But isn't Junior Uncle... younger than all of us?"

Among the newly initiated disciples, Yan Qing, whose cultivation level was the highest, was only at the late stage of the Qin Xin Realm.

Xia Tianwu was not surprised. "Grandma Ma told me that if Junior Uncle hadn't been burdened by this body, or if he had started cultivating earlier, he would definitely not be at the mere Great Perfection of the Qin Heart Realm now."

Yuan Ye clicked his tongue in amazement, "No wonder he's ranked number one on the Qingyun Ranking, his talent is terrifying."

Xia Tianwu added, "However, Granny Ma also said that the reason why Junior Uncle was able to advance so quickly despite his physical limitations is because of his transcendent state of mind. You haven't gone down the mountain to gain much experience yet, and you haven't seen much of the world. You also only have a superficial understanding of the Heart Sutra. To have your current level of cultivation is already a rare genius in the cultivation world."

Ni Jinxuan nodded, "Junior Uncle is the smartest."

Lin Du, who was being praised for his intelligence, secretly thought to himself that he was a complete fool.

She was so foolish, really. She only thought that the Heavenly Heart Lotus was the coldest thing in the world, and that no one except her, with her Heavenly Grade Ice Spirit Root, would dare to refine it directly. But she forgot that this thing was the rarest top-grade Heavenly Grade spiritual plant in the world, and its spiritual essence and medicinal power were far beyond her imagination.

The elixir had only just begun to dissolve when its medicinal power surged into her meridians, causing them to swell and her brain to throb with pain from the cold.

The spiritual energy within his body was almost being pushed along by the medicinal power, which surged into his heart meridian with overwhelming force, but instantly lost its initial momentum, as if it had been poured into a bottomless abyss and disappeared without a trace.

The medicinal power gradually dissolved, constantly flushing through the meridians, and finally poured into the heart, like entering a bottomless pit. It was as if a futile effort had been made, silently filling the heart without any effect.

Lin Du wasn't in a hurry. She knew how bad this body was. In Jun Ding Prefecture, she was faking vomiting blood, but in Fei Xing Sect, every drop of blood she vomited was real.

Even with the Biyuan Pill protecting her, her heart meridian was still injured in that battle.

Since it's all stagnant blood anyway, vomiting it out is fine.

If she can make up for some of it, then she's gained something; if she can't make up for it completely, then she hasn't lost anything.

This profound and clear spiritual energy is already challenging the barriers to her cultivation realm.

Finally, the swallowed Heavenly Heart Lotus grew smaller and smaller, until only a tiny ball of blue light remained, and Lin Du finally sensed some changes.

Her heart seemed to have become much stronger, and even her head, which had been aching from the shock, was now slowly feeling cool and comfortable.

Lin Du found it somewhat strange. In the past, she had only thought that being enlightened by pointing out the key to a difficult problem would be like having an academic breakthrough. This was the first time she had experienced an enlightenment in the sense of spiritual cultivation.

It was an indescribable feeling of being thoroughly refreshed and invigorated by a refreshing shower.

She finally understood why everyone in the cultivation world was so eager for rare and precious materials, even resorting to any means necessary.

Since it is of the highest quality, there must be a reason why it is of the highest quality.

Authentic product, five-star rating.

No matter what cultivation method a Taoist cultivator practices, it is ultimately the path of internal alchemy, that is, cultivating an internal elixir. The difference in spiritual energy reserves between the Qin Xin Realm and the Teng Yun Realm is vast. The reason for this is the process of forming a golden elixir during advancement. A golden elixir is formed in the dantian, which represents a qualitative leap compared to the spiritual liquid in the dantian before.

A Heavenly-grade spiritual root has a high affinity for spiritual energy and can absorb it quickly, which is why Lin Du's cultivation level has risen so rapidly.

The spiritual food, pills, and rare herbs that Lin Du eats on a daily basis are all sources of spiritual energy. They are faster and more concentrated than the spiritual energy absorbed through meditation. At this moment, a single top-grade spiritual plant is enough for Lin Du's spiritual energy in his dantian to achieve a qualitative leap.

The last wisp of medicinal power and spiritual essence was digested, the barrier between realms shattered with a roar, and the spiritual energy surged and roared into the dantian. Under the continuous circulation of the great and small heavenly cycles, the dantian could not withstand the internal pressure, and the spiritual liquid became more and more concentrated, finally being compressed into a perfectly round golden pill with a cold luster.

The frost on his body was directly shattered by the burst of spiritual power. Lin Du didn't even have time to pay attention to the changes in his heart meridian. He opened his eyes, jumped off the bed, and went straight out the door.

Heavy clouds of calamity had already gathered above the cave.

Lin Du stood beneath the clouds of tribulation with practiced ease, then pointed his Floating Life Fan at the sky, "Practice makes perfect. Since I'm a regular customer, how about we make a deal? Go easy on me?"

Nine heavenly lightning bolts struck down.

Lin Du was blasted apart, charred black, and exhaled a puff of black smoke. "God, you're ripping me off!"

This tribulation was far more massive than the last one. Everyone in the sect had come out and stood on the mountaintop, gazing at the surging, inverted, dark sea of ​​clouds from afar.

"Junior Uncle has been in seclusion for half a month now, hasn't he?" Yuan Ye clicked his tongue in amazement.

"It's only been a little over ten days." Yan Qing calculated, "My master went into seclusion for more than three months when he formed his core back then."

"Today is the second day of the second lunar month, the day the dragon raises its head, an auspicious day." Feng Chao and Feng Yi stood side by side, looking up at the calamity clouds.

"I remember, it was the beginning of spring last year, when that child had just joined the sect."

Several bolts of profound lightning struck down with tremendous force, even causing the boundaries of the formation to split into fine branches. Lin Du first used the Floating Life Fan to block them a few times, but by the ninth lightning tribulation, he could no longer stand and simply sat down cross-legged.

Only when she had this brief respite did she realize that her physical strength was much greater than during the previous tribulation; at least she could withstand the Nine-Thunder Tribulation.

When the lightning tribulation of the second nine strikes down, it is even more terrifying than that of the first nine. Lin Du's eyelids are so heavy that he can't even lift them. He simply closes his eyes and lets the lightning strike him. His meridians are also filled with the power of lightning, and even his golden core is being tempered by the lightning.

Jiang Liang stood behind, ready to rush in and provide medical assistance at any time, while also giving Yan Ye real-time updates on the battle situation.

"Everything's fine, the second nine-day period is over."

Yan Ye hesitated for a moment, then said, "I'm blind, not deaf. I can count."

The Core Formation Tribulation is the Tribulation of the Three Nines. The year of arduous progress and daily bitter medicine seemed to have a good effect. By the end of the Two Nines, Lin Du was still sitting steadily.

Until the twenty-first bolt of lightning struck, Lin Du slowly collapsed, his body convulsing, his mind completely numb.

She obediently spread herself out in a starfish shape, enduring the ravages of the lightning. At this moment, she actually managed to spare a bit of attention, thinking of the heart that had almost been torn apart by the lightning last time.

Only then did she realize that her heart was steadily gathering, and the power of lightning was flowing smoothly through her heart meridian without any tearing.

The final lightning strike was deafening, shattering the array barrier set up by Yan Ye. Lin Du was so weak that he could barely move a finger, and his consciousness became blurred.

The medicinal power absorbed earlier glowed with a faint blue light, slowly releasing from the heart meridian and then returning to the entire meridian system and dantian. The burning pain was soothed and instantly cooled down, and Lin Du's spirit palace also returned to clarity.

Lin Du suddenly realized that she had almost seen her great-grandmother.

The clouds of calamity slowly dispersed, and the spiritual rain began to fall in a light drizzle.

On the second day of the second lunar month, the Azure Dragon raises its head, the yang energy rises, the weather is favorable, evil is driven away, disasters are averted, and good fortune is welcomed.

The scars on his body, tempered by the heavenly lightning, began to slowly fade, and new, strong flesh grew back. Lin Du let out a long breath, still lying on the ground, lazily stretching out one hand and waving it in the direction of Yan Ye, guided by his senses.

"Master, did you see that? I've defied the heavens again!"

The white-haired man in black adjusted his sleeves, lowered his eyes, and smiled helplessly, "You reckless little brat."

As the sunset glow descended upon Mount Fuyun, the first line of characters on the Azure Cloud Pillar began to move. The cultivator responsible for copying hurriedly picked up his pen, and was taken aback when he saw the change.

After Lin Du's name, it became Tengyun Realm.

Talent is paramount; he truly lives up to his name.