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

Yuan Ye was a restless person, and soon he urged Lin Du to go for a stroll in the audience.

Seeing that the adults didn't object, the little rascals disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The Central Plains Grand Competition is a grand event in the Central Plains, and at this time, stalls and gambling games have all started up.

They went over to take a look and found that the betting game was very unusual.

What makes it unusual is that it lacks the name of the Supreme Sect, leaving them with no room to maneuver.

Yuan Ye felt that the spirit stones he had taken out were useless, and asked, "Why is there no place to bet on the Supreme Sect in the Youth Team Competition section?"

Someone nearby widened their eyes, "The Supreme Sect even has disciples participating in the team competition this year?"

Lin Du: ...Well done.

"I'm here." Yuan Ye nodded sincerely.

"No need to set it up, it's all customary. With the Supreme Sect involved, there's no suspense," the person who set up the betting scheme waved his hand. "The kid is too young to understand the rules. Don't ask such obvious questions next time."

Another passerby laughed and said, "It's said that this year is different. Of the five people participating in the Supreme Sect's team competition this year, apart from one medical cultivator, the oldest is only twenty-six years old, and there isn't even a single one who has reached the Great Perfection of the Cloud Ascension Realm."

"That's right. The disciples of the Supreme Sect this year all entered the sect through the Central Continent Grand Selection nine years ago. You'd think that a bunch of kids who haven't even grown up yet would have spent as much time cultivating as a Cloud-Soaring Realm cultivator cultivating in a single minor realm, right?" another person said in a booming voice, jokingly and carelessly.

"Last time, no one from the Supreme Sect could come. This time, they can only send a kid to show his face so that everyone will think that the Supreme Sect has not been interrupted. Otherwise... hey, it is said that even the most capable senior disciple among the hundred generations of disciples is no longer able to fight. If you ask me, hasn't the Supreme Sect already run out of successors long ago?"

"Is staying in one realm for ten years something to be proud of?" A cold, indifferent voice interrupted, and everyone turned around to see a lean young man in a blue robe and a crown.

The person appeared extremely young at first glance, yet was already quite tall, with a misty look in his eyes and a mocking smile on his lips. "Lacking talent, making up for it with age?"

"You brat, don't you know that from the Cloud Soaring Realm onwards, each minor realm requires decades or even hundreds of years of cultivation?" The first man glared with his tiger-like eyes, looking rather fierce.

"Young people are naturally hot-blooded, it's normal. They haven't reached that level of cultivation yet, how could they understand?" one person tried to mediate.

Lin Du smiled and ignored him, "If Yuan Ye is gone, then we won't bet anymore."

"No, wait a minute, Junior Uncle, there's still an individual competition. Let's stake our Supreme Sect on it first."

Lin Du tossed him a spirit crystal. "Bet, bet big."

Yuan Ye grinned and took the receipt, leaving satisfied.

After everyone left, those people finally realized what had happened.

"Were those people betting on the Supreme Sect's territory?"

"Didn't you hear the name? The one who placed the bet earlier was named Yuan Ye! Yuan Ye, ranked nineteenth on the Qingyun Ranking! Jin Xuan is the one ranked fifty-sixth on the Qingyun Ranking!"

"Then that junior uncle Yuan Ye mentioned... isn't he...?"

"The legendary Lin Du?"

"Hiss... Lin Du is actually alive? I thought he was about to die, how come he can still participate in the competition?"

After the group of kids left, feeling rather bored, things got chaotic at the gambling den.

"If I'm not mistaken, Lin Du's cultivation level just now was at the mid-stage of the Cloud Ascension Realm? How old is she?" a Cloud Ascension Realm cultivator with higher cultivation level asked.

"Did someone just say that the total time spent cultivating to the Dao is less than the time a cultivator in the Cloud Ascension Realm spends cultivating within a single minor realm?"

The group stared at each other, then gasped in shock.

Lin Du lazily crossed his arms and held his fan. "Boring."

No matter which world you go to, whenever you see a genius fall from grace, people lament and laugh. As long as there is a veteran champion team, it's like asking whether Lian Po is old and still capable, or whether the team will never regain its glory without a successor.

Public opinion is always like this; there will always be some people who can't stand seeing others do well.

"It's really boring." A soft voice reached her ears.

Lin Du didn't even turn his head. "Has the dragon finished digesting?"

Wei Zhi choked on his words, "At least it's under control."

Lin Du glanced at the people surrounding her from the left, right, front, and back, confirming that it was Wei Zhi relying on his high cultivation level to transmit his thoughts directly, while his real body was probably hiding somewhere.

"Here to play again?" Lin Du glanced at the increasingly crowded room. "Do you really enjoy coming to Zhongzhou to join in the fun?"

"The Central Plains Grand Competition is being watched closely by everyone in the Dongming Realm, whether human, demon, or monster. You'd better hold back and not go all out, or you might get captured and eaten by a monster."

Lin Du: ...I have so little meat that it gets stuck in my teeth, why bother?

Wei Zhi's voice became more serious as he continued, "Lou Lin Tuan told me that the rebellion of her once number one talented disciple seems to be related to that strange thing in your sect that died and came back to life. In short... as the current number one talented disciple, countless eyes are watching you."

"Do they want to eat a dying person?" Lin Du popped another mint into his mouth, chewing it with a loud crunch.

Wei Zhi chuckled, "Well, I can't say for sure. What if a monster sees you're about to die and thinks it shouldn't be wasted?"

Lin Du clicked his tongue inwardly. "My eighth senior brother, who's died and come back to life, wants me dead? Or is it related to some other outside force?"

"Don't try to trick me, it's useless." Wei Zhi's voice still carried a hint of laughter. "I'm not one of your stupid senior brothers."

Lin Du said "Oh," and then added, "So it's also related to your Buddhist sect."

Wei Zhi fell silent. In the stands, the person wearing a blue-green robe resembling a peacock spreading its tail silently concealed himself.

That was close... If I had said one more word, I would have given myself away.

Lin Du didn't receive a reply from Wei Zhi. He rubbed his fingers together and lowered his eyes thoughtfully.

So... to get first place, you also need to conserve your strength and make yourself look less appealing?

Lin Du thought for a moment, then sighed. It's difficult.

We have to take a shortcut.

The first event was the team competition. Among the nineteen major sects, the Supreme Sect had few members, and the Salvation Sect had even fewer participants. They only practiced medicine and helped the world, and never participated in any fighting or killing. They would rather stay at home and refine pills than watch people fight.

The leader of the Jishi Sect stood up and landed steadily in the center. Together with several other powerful figures, he began to announce the start of the Central Plains Grand Competition, which always started with the youth team competition.

After the five members of the Paw Patrol, each in their own color, walked down the stage, they formed neat clusters of small colored blocks that ended up in the center of the stage.

Once everyone had been accounted for, the ground inside the platform suddenly formed array patterns, creating a teleportation array that transported the hundreds of young people into the secret realm.

In the instant the space distorted, four enormous water mirrors appeared in the vast plaza. No matter the angle, they were all visible at a glance, but at that moment they were nothing but nothingness.

The four ethereal water mirrors gradually solidified, each divided into more than twenty scenes. Besides the major sects, many disciples from smaller sects also participated—after all, participation meant ranking, so they could say, "We are the twentieth in the entire Central Continent," when recruiting disciples later.

It is highly credible and prestigious.

The first to appear were the five disciples of the Supreme Sect. Due to the distortion of space, those with low cultivation levels and sensitive constitutions experienced some degree of discomfort.

Lin Du thought for a moment, realizing he couldn't be out of place, so he politely fainted, clutched his heart, and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Summer's gaze suddenly sharpened.