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

From the moment Lin Du began drawing the array, the elders of the Lianheng Sect sat up straight and stared intently at him, but after a while they fell silent.

Lin Du's calligraphy is good, but it's a bit hard to understand.

The characters written with his left hand, in particular, have rounded lines that don't resemble the script of the Central Plains, but rather the script of the Yunmoro region.

And why doesn't this child use counting rods when calculating formations?

Is it okay to calculate with pen and paper?

Yan Qing and Yuan Ye have thoroughly surveyed the territory of the Supreme Sect, while Lin Du has completed the array diagram.

"Wait for me down there with your gear."

Before Lin Du could finish speaking, a bowl of murky-tasting herbal soup appeared in front of him, a true testament to Granny Ma's skills.

She frowned. "Why does this taste even worse than usual..."

Xia Tian pushed the bowl forward a little more, staring intently at her, "You don't like the taste of licorice, adding other sweet things will ruin the medicine's properties."

Lin Du remained silent, pinched his nose, tilted his head back, and gulped it down. Then he picked up the blueprints and headed down the mountain.

While she was calculating the formation, the members of the sect had all arrived one after another.

Although most people follow the rules and set up their defenses first, what if there are those who don't know martial ethics?

Lin Du drank a drug that was more chaotic than his own life force. Now, he was surrounded by a cold and aloof aura. He buried his head and began to set up the formation. He felt that even the air he was breathing was sweet.

Xia Tianwu and Ni Jinxuan both came down to help. The five of them setting up the formation was much faster than one person setting up the formation, and it also made the people in front of the screen more confused.

At first, it looked like a maze formation; after half of it, it resembled a four-gate battle formation; and after another halfway through, it resembled an eight-desolate formation.

Even the elders and others in the audience became increasingly confused and turned to ask the experts, the leader of the Lianheng Sect.

The sect leader replied, "We have them all."

Everyone: ?

How can you say that you have all of these?

"So, in your opinion, what level is this complex formation?"

Yuheng replied, "It's at the level of your Luoshu Sect's protective mountain formation."

The sect leader of Luoshu Sect remained silent for a moment, then said, "Hmm? You must be joking."

"I'm not joking." Yuheng put down the counting rods in his hand. "Your sect is not good at formations, so you asked the people from the Formation Alliance to plan and set up the formation. After that, you didn't trust the formation masters of our Formation Alliance and insisted on making additions and changes, weakening a perfectly good formation by at least 30% of its defensive power. The formation that Lin Du set up now is about that level."

She glanced at the sect leader of Luoshu Sect indifferently, "Based on the array she broke in the third level and the array she just set up, she can at least become a seventh-level Xuan-grade array master in our alliance, and it's not impossible that she can even become a Di-grade one."

Ju Yuan and Cang Li had already returned to their seats to watch the excitement. The two of them stood with their hands neatly tucked inside, regretting that they hadn't brought any melon seeds.

"What's going on between them? How could someone like Yuheng be so rude to the sect leader of Luoshu Sect?"

"What else could it be? It's because the Luo Shu Men family likes to talk theory on paper, gesturing with books, and after altering the array diagrams of a top-grade array master, they said that the Array Master Alliance was no good, which angered Yu Heng, the elder in charge."

The two of them turned their heads at the same time and found that there was a Feng Yi next to them.

After explaining the situation, she expressionlessly tossed a communication talisman to the two of them, saying, "The sect leader is on his way."

Ju Yuan then remembered that Feng Yi and the leader of the Lianheng Sect seemed to have a very good relationship, no wonder Yuheng was so protective of Lin Du.

He couldn't understand Lin Du's haphazard and disorganized formation.

Ju Yuan didn't even need to say anything; Feng Yi knew at a glance what he was thinking. "Yu Heng never exaggerates."

She taught Lin Du talismanic arts, and at first she thought Lin Du was learning very quickly. He could even calculate two or three of the 108 basic formations in an hour. But later she discovered that the introductory formation that Yan Ye gave Lin Du was actually an ancient incomplete formation.

It's like they just built a castle in the air; I've never seen anyone so good at teaching children.

To Lin Du, those formations were nothing more than children playing house, something to do after dinner.

Within the water mirror, all twenty-five sects had arrived.

The Supreme Sect's five-person formation is almost complete.

Xia Tianwu looked at the string of useless pills that Lin Du had buried and still hesitated, "Isn't this too destructive?"

Lin Du straightened up, looking completely innocent. "Big? If you ask, it's just your useless pill. I buried it carelessly and didn't know it would have such a terrifying effect."

Xia Tian thought about it and agreed.

When in use, it's an invincible biological weapon, a landmine; when something goes wrong, it's just a useless pill you ruined. No problem.

Lin Du put down the last material, spread his divine sense throughout the entire area, and then his spiritual power surged and poured into the array's core.

The grand formation was fully activated. In the blink of an eye, the intricate and overlapping array patterns lit up one after another, only to be quickly submerged in the rocks and weeds of the mountain, leaving no trace of the formation.

Lin Du then went down the mountain and set up a few basic illusion arrays on all four sides, creating some flowers, trees, mist, and thorns among the rocks before leaving satisfied.

"Yan Qing, Yuan Ye, did you release the magical artifacts and puppets I asked you to place in the formation?"

"I've released them, I've released them." Yuan Ye chuckled. "I've released those puppets that we usually use for sparring, the ones that are almost destroyed."

Lin Du nodded. "Let's go up the mountain and cook. We've been here for several days and haven't had a proper hot meal yet."

So, while other sects were busy setting up formations and conducting reconnaissance within the water mirror, the Supreme Sect set up a large cauldron on the barren mountain.

Is this reasonable?

"I don't know why, but it reminded me of the legend that the Supreme Sect brought a bucket of rice when they participated in a competition."

"The Supreme Sect traditionally doesn't practice fasting? They're the first sect; their fasting pills should be made with the best ingredients, right? It shouldn't be like this, right?"

"...Perhaps this is why they are the number one sect in Zhongzhou. It's difficult to remove impurities from ordinary food, which hinders cultivation. We simply can't afford pure spiritual food."

"That makes sense, but why are the cultivators of the Supreme Sect running around like bandits, roaming around plundering resources?"

"...Good question. Every year people say the Supreme Sect is desperate for money, but...who knows!"

"Wait a minute...it's one thing for them to cook rice, but they even caramelized sugar!"

On the hilltop, two pots were steaming, forming two plumes of white smoke that rose continuously, making them quite conspicuous.

One pot, covered with a lid, seemed to be steaming rice. In front of another pot, a young man in a blue robe rolled up his sleeves and waved a spatula with a normal expression. In the large pot, the rock sugar had gradually been cooked into a golden-red color, and then the already fried pork belly was put into the pot.

"Let's just have a simple stew today, a big mix of pork belly, tiger-skin eggs, and green peppers. That's all I have in my storage ring."

Lin Du added water and spices, put the lid on the pot, and, holding the pot, put his hands on his hips and squinted as he gazed into the distance.

"Oh, there are other dishes now."

There were two groups of people at the foot of the mountain. One group came from the valley behind the mountain, and the other group came from the side. Judging from their clothes, they seemed to be from two different sects.

The disciples of the sect on the back mountain stepped onto the thorny array amidst the weeds without hesitation. The two on the side, who seemed to be from the Flying Star Sect, managed to bypass the maze array and fell into the pit that Yan Qing had dug at the life gate position of the maze array in the next instant.

"The dishes are very appetizing," Lin Du commented.