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

Yuan Ye breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Lin Du arrive. "Junior Uncle! You're finally here! This ghost kept howling, I was so scared!"

Lin Du rubbed his temples. "Are you really sure he wasn't disturbed by the noise?"

Yuan Ye nodded, his phoenix eyes full of sincerity, "I'm sure, I only started playing the xiqin to calm it down."

Lin Du was certain. "It was just noise."

"I'm really scared, Junior Uncle. Wouldn't you be scared if you were me?" Yuan Ye tried to find a sense of validation, his gaze falling to Lin Du's hands hanging by his sides.

Lin Du's hands are recognized by both generations as steady. Decades of unwavering pen control and seal engraving training have made her unparalleled in her generation. Yet, at this moment, her hands are trembling.

The shaking wasn't very strong, but the inside of his palm still showed deep red and purple marks from the scorching fire, with specks of dried blood on them.

Lin Du remained oblivious, staring at him expressionlessly. "Do you think I'm scared? I think the ghosts down below are more afraid of you."

Yuan Ye examined Lin Du's hands for a while. "Junior Uncle, your hands?"

Lin Du lazily brought his hand to his eyes and looked at it. "It's nothing, just a burn from Yin Fire. I'll use some muscle-regenerating ointment in a bit and it'll be fine."

Yuan Ye frowned; it looked painful to him. "What kind of Yin Fire burn is this, with blood?"

"It's not mine, I don't have that much yang energy." Lin Du lazily cleaned his hands with a cleansing spell and applied the medicine perfunctorily.

Yuan Ye: ? That's true.

Lin Du was someone who had one foot in the grave, so he certainly didn't have that much yang energy.

"It's just a minor injury, but it's Yan Qing."

The resentment in the ghost realm was extremely heavy. In order to protect her, she must have expended a lot of spiritual energy and was also affected by some resentment. When she took blood just now, she took her pulse and found that her pulse was a little weak.

While applying the medicine, Lin Du briefly explained the situation to Yuan Ye.

Yuan Ye listened and chimed in, but when he heard about what the ghost had seen, his focus shifted slightly. "Is this person really that busy? My second uncle likes to farm in the backyard when he has nothing to do. Logically speaking, he shouldn't forget his own family, right?"

"And according to you, this house faces south, the door faces southeast, the main room is in the southwest, the feng shui is so good... the backyard is... in the northwest? Logically speaking, it should be the Qian Palace..."

"Qian Palace, the head of the family." Lin Du replied, then suddenly remembered something, grabbed Yuan Ye by the back of his collar, and flew back to the original courtyard of the mansion.

The backyard was large, with even more plants, trees, rocks, and remnants of exotic flowers and vines. A gust of wind stirred up the remnants as Lin Du jumped down, and withered branches slowly fell in the wind.

"The Ghost Realm was created by the obsession of ghosts. Those things did indeed happen, but there must have been omissions. At first, I thought that the master of this Ghost Realm didn't have a deep impression of the backyard... so there were no illusions in the backyard. Now it seems that the most crucial part was omitted."

As the two stood before that courtyard, Lin Du suddenly had a bad feeling.

The soul-sealing array in front of the courtyard was broken, allowing the yin energy to flow smoothly and releasing the resentment.

Yuan Ye swallowed nervously. "Junior Uncle, why... do I feel like there's a sound coming from underground?"

Lin Du gripped his fan tightly, while Yuan Ye took out a talisman.

The hardened earth surged up, instantly transforming into a turbulent sea, except this time it was all mud rolling around.

The two of them gathered their spiritual power and jumped onto the courtyard wall. Almost the instant they took off, countless bone-eating insects burst out of the ground. Hundreds of adult insects with strange colors and covered in carapaces, wearing ferocious fangs, rushed towards the only two living people present.

Without hesitation, Lin Du scattered a handful of powder and pulled the gauze around his neck back up to cover his mouth and nose.

Yuan Ye could only cover his mouth and nose tightly with both hands, and at the same time use his spiritual power to create a protective shield.

The moment the powder was sprinkled, the surging bone-eating insects instantly curled up into countless round beetles, then rolled onto the ground and lay motionless.

Lin Du grabbed Yuan Ye and jumped over the courtyard wall.

First came the ghost-faced bat, then the bone-eating worm; both are creatures that feed on yin and evil.

Shen Yan is hiding something from them, and this hiding thing is the key to the secret of the ancient city.

Yuan Ye landed outside the wall, and asked with surprise and doubt, "Junior Uncle, what is that? Insect repellent powder? But judging from the color, it wasn't given by Junior Uncle Jiang Liang."

A dark emotion flickered in Lin Du's eyes, but he said calmly, "You don't want to know the ingredients."

The secret technique of the Gu sect given by a Corpse King certainly doesn't contain things that are good in the sense that ordinary people understand.

The Gu Sect's greatest strength lies in using poison to fight poison.

Yuan Ye silently shut his mouth, not daring to ask any more questions.

People who read a lot of books are really scary.

He still hasn't finished studying the Lu Ban book.

"Let's go to the temple and meet them."

To complete the third challenge, they must uncover the secrets of the ancient city. Regardless of whether the person leading them to the temple had any sinister intentions, they must brave the mountains of corpses and seas of ghosts.

Xia Tian and the other two were already standing at the temple entrance. They were somewhat surprised to see Yuan Ye arrive.

"Don't you need to press down on the coffin lid?" Yan Qing was receiving treatment from Xia Tianwu, and this was the first thing she said to Yuan Ye.

Yuan Ye: ...

"I don't know either, my junior uncle brought me here."

"I left a surveillance camera there. If there's anything unusual, I can just go back."

Lin Du really didn't want to hear that erhu player's voice anymore; it was far more irritating than any bone-eating insect.

As her divine sense spread outwards, she could hear, "Junior Uncle, I'm scared."

Looking at the temple before him, Lin Du could vaguely discern its former splendor, with its vermilion walls and yellow tiles, its open gate, and the excellent quality of the wood used, which showed no signs of decay even after many years.

She stepped out and walked straight towards the main room in the middle. After taking a few steps, she stopped.

The people following closely behind also stopped.

Xia Tian sensed it for a moment and exclaimed, "Is there a formation?"

Lin Du stared at the nine bronze cauldrons in the courtyard, which were filled with incense ash. On the other side, there were still many tall incense sticks, almost more than twenty, which showed that the incense was once very popular.

"No... I was wondering if this bronze tripod... is valuable?"

Summer is not here:?

Yan Qing glanced at it. "Worth a little, not much."

"Never mind then." Lin Du continued walking forward, the compass in his hand trembling slowly.

There is a formation; as long as you suppress your killing intent, there won't be any major problems.

She roughly knew how Shen Yan had died.

"There is a Loyalty Formation in this main courtyard."

The people behind Lin Du all stopped in their tracks, not daring to take another step.

"It's alright, we're not here to assassinate anyone, it's not a big problem. Just tone down your murderous aura and bandit-like demeanor."

The four of them looked at Lin Du in front of them, their eyes filled with a firm doubt.

Lin Du realized that the people behind him hadn't stopped walking after he finished speaking, so he finally couldn't help but turn around and ask, "Why are you all staring at me like that?"

"We... don't seem to have that kind of thing, but Junior Uncle, do you really not have it?"

Several people kindly offered their reminders.

Lin Du: ?

"Prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony; freedom, equality, justice, rule of law; patriotism, dedication, integrity, friendliness—what qualities do I lack?"

"There aren't many good people like me anymore, so what are you questioning?"

The group hesitated, watching Lin Du calmly walk to the threshold. "Then it's alright."

Lin Du crossed his arms and said, "I'm not saying this to be mean, but people need to have initiative. What you think is what you see, and what you see is what you think. As long as I think I'm a great philanthropist, then I am a great philanthropist."

"If I stacked up all the Heart Sutra copies I made, it would be taller than Yan Qing and Mo Lin combined. What are you doubting me for?"

The four of them shook their heads in unison, "No, no, you are the great philanthropist."