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

After the meal, Yan Qing and Yuan Ye took it upon themselves to clean up the dishes. They argued about who would wash them at noon and who would wash them at night. Lin Du had no intention of entertaining anyone, and no one could stop her from following her daily schedule.

The area in front of and behind the dining hall is the warmest part of the Supreme Sect, where even southern crops are in full bloom.

The delicate white petals of the May snow fluttered down, like a snowfall in late spring, brushed by the warm wind and landing on people going out.

Lin Du squinted, but before he could speak, he heard a shout behind him.

"Fellow Daoist Xia, please wait."

Lin Du paused, calling out in his mind, "Xiao Du, Xiao Du?"

"...I'm here."

"This scene shouldn't have been in the original storyline, right?"

[The original storyline begins eight years later.]

Lin Du rubbed the callus on his middle finger, lowered his eyes and chuckled softly, "This butterfly effect is quite interesting."

The problem probably lies in that secret realm.

If it weren't for that secret realm, Wu Xi would have had plenty of time to find a suitable opportunity and then successfully form her core.

Instead of being forcibly possessed by that evil spirit, even if Lin Du had choked him half to death and forcibly saved him, his soul would probably still be somewhat injured.

He couldn't survive the Core Formation Heavenly Tribulation, causing his beloved to sacrifice herself prematurely.

The original plot was that during a battle to seize rare and precious materials, the white moonlight sacrificed herself to shield Wu Xi from the attack of a demonic beast and was poisoned by the cold, which is why Xia Tianwu's strange fire was needed.

If the Golden Core was shattered due to a heavenly tribulation, what would be the point of a different kind of fire? To cremate his beloved White Moonlight?

Xia Tian was not some naive and innocent girl; she was simply obsessed with alchemy and medicine, and didn't care about worldly affairs, just like her master.

Lin Du looked up and caught a petal. "The plot has completely changed now. I reckon they're no longer interested in that strange fire. System, when are you planning to adjust the progress?"

The real plot twist is yet to come.

"So this scene was in the original storyline? You didn't mention it."

Lin Du smiled and crushed the petal in his hand. He turned around and listened to the commotion behind him. It was nothing more than Wu Xi begging Xia Tianwu to introduce her master.

They hadn't been able to get help from the Supreme Sect before.

"It's not that we couldn't get what we asked for, it's that my senior brother is nowhere to be found."

Lin Du glanced at the drop of flower juice on his hand, casually cast a cleaning spell, and raised his eyes, a dark glint in them. "I can't wait for the Central Plains Grand Competition."

Xia Tianwu promised Wu Xi that he would pass on the message, but when he turned around, he realized that the group of people had not left yet.

Ni Jinxuan, who was there to greet Wu Xi and guide her, naturally didn't leave. Lin Du and Mo Lin also didn't leave. One lowered his eyes and wiped his hands, while the other stood there inexplicably holding his sword. The dining hall was quiet, and no sound of washing dishes could be heard. It was estimated that the two inside were also listening intently.

She stepped forward and said, "What are you doing standing in the wind? Aren't you just letting the wind get into your bones?"

Mo Lin hummed in agreement, his large eyes fixed on the flower that had fallen into her hair. "May snow, it's landed on your head."

Summer unconsciously reached out to brush it away, but the petals were delicate and clung to the beaded flowers.

Mo Lin wanted to reach out and pluck it off for her, but then felt it was inappropriate. Looking at the few petals that were translucent white with a hint of pink at the center, he thought they weren't too bad. He put his hands behind his back and said, "Keep them. Anyway, it's not a waste that this flower fell on your head."

Lin Du clicked his tongue and walked away.

toothache.

It's a bit too straightforward, but there's nothing wrong with being a bit too straightforward.

After Lin Du finished calculating the formation, she leisurely arrived at her fifth senior brother's peak, only to find that her senior brother, who always waited for her in advance, was not there.

After thinking about it, she went to Jiang Liang's alchemy room and found three people standing at the door.

When Lin Du landed, he stopped his footwork, deliberately making a sound. Then, he nimbly raised his hand to his chest and performed a Taoist salute, "Pei Qin... Daoist Master."

She swallowed back the words "Master Uncle".

Ju Yuan and Pei Qin are like brothers, so she really can't call him her senior brother.

Pei Qin, on the other hand, seemed quite pleased. He greeted Lin Du with a smile, arms crossed, and said, "Junior Sister Lin."

Lin Du straightened up, lowered his hand, and readily agreed, "Senior Brother Pei came to see my Fifth Senior Brother?"

"It wasn't me who asked for it." Pei Qin patted his disciple's shoulder casually. "My disciple, Wu Xi, you saved him before."

Lin Du smiled and glanced at Wu Xi. "He came at an inopportune time. It's time now. Senior brother should be watching me practice my aerobics. I'm not in good health and need to strictly follow the schedule."

Upon hearing this, Pei Qin grabbed Ju Yuan and turned to leave. "Then you keep practicing. Come on, Ju Yuan, where's your peak? Let's go for a drink."

Ju Yuan stumbled from his embrace. "No, what do you mean, 'good guy' drinking during the day? Weren't you here with your disciple to see the living judge? I haven't even settled the score with you for secretly complaining to my senior sister last time!"

Pei Qin shook his head. "I was just stating the facts. This isn't my business, so I don't care. He's my apprentice. I brought him here, but that doesn't mean I have to help him with everything. Come on, come on, shall I fight you?"

"You can't beat me." Ju Yuan pushed him away. "Let's drink instead."

Wu Xi didn't leave; she remained standing outside the door, seemingly ready to kneel down if Jiang Liang didn't come out, keeping him trapped inside and afraid to come out.

Lin Du sighed, opened the door and went in. The alchemy room was filled with cabinets of medicinal herbs and bottles and jars of all sizes. At first glance, he couldn't see anything.

After searching for a long time, she found a person huddled up in the back corner of the alchemy furnace, so small that only their back was visible, looking just like a tortoise shell.

"Senior brother, you can't be that serious."

She reached out and disrespectfully lifted her senior brother up, saying, "Come on, it's time to practice."

Jiang Liang hissed and squatted down again. "Don't move! I'm refining pills!"

"You haven't even opened your alchemy furnace!"

"Sifting out the medicine!"

Lin Du crossed his arms. "Pei Qin is gone."

Jiang Liang stood up straight instantly. "Let's go practice."

He whispered, "With Pei Qin's personality, everyone in the world seems like an acquaintance to him. If I really meet him, I'll have to help him whether I want to or not. That would mean going to Guiyuan Sect and meeting a bunch of strangers again. I'm not going."

"It's just a shattered Golden Core, why does it have to be your turn to intervene?" Lin Du opened the window and door. "Didn't you come here to avoid seeing strangers?"

Jiang Liang looked at Lin Du with disbelief, "Why jump out the window when there's a door?"

"The moment you open the door, you'll see Pei Qin's apprentice. Be careful, he might kneel down as soon as he sees you."

……

Jiang Liang and Lin Du stared at each other for a while, then Jiang Liang jumped out of the window.

Lin Du jumped out of the window and went straight down to a spiritual field.

"They're not just here for medical treatment," Jiang Liang said, regaining his usual composure and experience. "They're also here for medicine."

"What medicine?"

"The life-extending herb," ​​Jiang Liang said, lowering his eyes. "The kind in the medicine you drank."

Lin Du had just gotten into his starting position when he heard this and was taken aback.

"What do you mean?"

Jiang Liang crossed his arms. "I can't see them. Even if someone in the world can heal you after your golden core is shattered, the herbs that can prolong your life have been extinct for hundreds of years. Only our Supreme Sect's inner treasury still has the ones left by our ancestors."

"Although I don't know how they found out, I won't see them. As long as I don't see them, you'll be my only patient right now."

As long as you evade, you won't be morally blackmailed.

Lin Du raised an eyebrow. "Senior brother, there aren't many people in the sect who know I use this medicine, are there?"

Feng Chao is definitely not the kind of person who would agree to something without first clarifying the situation.

Jiang Liang swept his whisk across Lin Du's leg. "Get moving! What are you daydreaming about! Now I know why you're graying so quickly. You're overthinking such a small thing. No wonder the medicine I gave you, which included liver and kidney tonics, didn't work."

Lin Du, however, backed down. "I knew it! Why does my medicine taste even worse since I came back? Senior brother, don't give me random supplements! My kidneys are fine."

"You're not doing well, you need to improve!" Jiang Liang's whisk almost swept across her face. "Your liver qi is stagnant, your kidney qi is deficient, and your yin and yang are insufficient. It's no wonder you can't practice Tai Chi well. Calling it aerobics is too kind of you. At least aerobics can actually improve your health."

Lin Du covered his ears in despair, "Senior brother, please stop talking."

How did she manage to turn a socially awkward person into a chatterbox?

"You should sleep at least once every seven days. You've only slept three or four times in these hundred days. You've spent the rest of your nights cultivating, haven't you? No wonder you have kidney deficiency! Get started cultivating!"