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

Lin Du slept for a very, very long time.

During this time, the organizers of the competition moved all the participating disciples to prepared rooms. Lin Du turned into a hedgehog, her body covered in needles, and people's spiritual power was continuously poured into her, but she was completely unaware of it.

The pill that Lin Du and Xue had swallowed finally began to slowly dissolve as the golden needles injected spiritual energy.

The person who was originally on the verge of death, with barely any movement of their chest, slowly began to recover.

The heart meridians, shattered by the spiritual energy, were being urgently repaired by the medicinal power. Su Muchu did not notice it at first, until he discovered that the person who had been weak and had lost too much blood suddenly had some strength.

She wasn't surprised. The Supreme Sect probably had a lot of life-saving items, so she figured the child must have some emergency life-saving pills on him. She checked his pulse again and asked Du Shao to change the prescription, emphasizing that replenishing blood and vital energy was the priority.

When Jiang Liang arrived, Su Mu had just finished transferring spiritual energy using golden needles.

A man hurriedly entered the crowded room with a cold face, keeping his head down and remaining silent like a turtle shell.

"Get out, everyone." As soon as Yan Ye saw this person arrive, he turned around and began to shoo them away.

Feng Yi thanked Su Mu and invited her and her apprentice Du Shao to go out for tea. Only then were there one person whose fate was unknown and another person who could not be seen inside the room.

Jiang Liang took the pulse, glanced at the medicine that had just been brewed and delivered, examined it, and shook his head.

"Where is my apprentice?"

"They haven't recovered yet; they're still injured."

Jiang Liang pursed his lips and could only silently set up the stove and cook the medicine himself.

"I need to go see my apprentice."

Yan Ye, arms crossed and radiating coldness, noticed his plea for help and scoffed, "You don't expect a blind man like me to lead the way, do you?"

Jiang Liang remained silent, as honest as a silent stone.

Yan Ye: ...

"Is it okay to leave this medicine here?"

"It'll be fine in a little while."

"Then let's go, let's hurry." Yan Ye stepped out the door.

Lin Du woke up when the room was empty. She felt terrible and was in great pain.

"Don't move yet, your master and senior brother have gone out."

The space rippled slightly. Lin Du tried to open his eyes, but his head was throbbing so badly that even speaking was difficult. He managed to utter a muffled sentence, "Why are you here?"

Lin Du was never polite to Wei Zhi, and he didn't mind. He stood in front of the stove and controlled the heat himself. "There's something I wanted to tell Lin Tuan, but I think you're closer to that royal kid, so I'll just tell you."

"Hmm?" Lin Du barely opened his eyes.

"Let me tell you what you want to hear first. Your master has already killed a powerful figure in charge of the construction of the secret realm. That person is about to die. Someone found a way to get the contract for the construction of the secret realm through back channels. After all, the construction of a secret realm is too large, and the funding is limited, so outsourcing is not a strange thing."

"The bribe given to that powerful being was the Destiny Stone, which delayed his death."

"But he's dead now, and the remaining contractors are nowhere to be found. Your senior sister has issued a kill order."

"Also, your eighth senior brother probably didn't die. The person Feng Chao took away was a puppet. I suspect he wasn't Qian Yu's man at all. Qian Yu probably also wanted to kill him, which is why he left him in Zhongzhou instead of taking him away. This time, Wen Fu died with Qian Yu, but you left behind a blockhead who's incredibly clever."

I played through both the Central Plains and the Demon Realm by myself.

Wei Zhi spoke very quickly, but his voice still reached Lin Du's ears clearly.

"Why are you telling me all this? I don't think I'm of any use to you."

"Yes," Wei Zhi said calmly. "I also have something else to discuss with you, about that little dragon man from your sect. Of all your junior disciples, it seems that besides those two female cultivators, he gets along best with Yuan Ye?"

Lin Du kept her eyes closed and didn't speak, her fingers twitching slightly. No matter how Wei Zhi could tell that she and Yuan Ye got along better, it didn't matter.

The important question is, what happened to Yuan Ye?

"When I was watching from the stands, Qianyu mentioned that there was something strange about him. After you broke through the formation, I went to investigate and indeed found something."

His tone was somewhat strange when he said this, lacking his usual playful and detached attitude.

"He should have reached the Core Formation stage, but he hasn't been able to break through the barrier. The reason is simple: he's been nurturing a dragon vein."

Lin Du twitched his finger and struggled to open his eyes. "Dragon vein?"

"Yes, their old dragon should have died, but he kept it alive. A portion of his cultivation was given back to the dragon vein, so the dragon vein was brought back to life."

"But how can a low-level cultivator fully sustain a dragon vein? So he is constantly overdrawing his source, lifespan, and even luck. If this continues, he will surely die young and violently."

Wei Zhi paused for a moment, then said, "Just lie down and rest. If you feel tired, close your eyes. I'm telling you this now so you won't have to worry about it. Later, ask your elders in your sect to tell them. They should know how to remove the curse from Yuan Ye."

Lin Du closed his eyes again. "What do you want?"

This time, it was Wei Zhi's turn to remain silent.

He paused for a moment, and when he sensed that Yan Ye and Jiang Liang were about to return, he said, "Take me with you when you go to the mortal realm."

Lin Du: ...?

"You're ranked third on the Chongxiao List, you can go wherever you want, why are you pitifully asking us to take you with us? If someone like you went to the mortal world, wouldn't a bunch of people come to worship you, like a living Buddha descended to earth!"

Even if she disagrees, there's nothing they can do if this person follows them around.

Wei Zhi raised an eyebrow. This person's spiritual power, divine sense, internal organs, and meridians were all depleted, but his little mouth was quite good at talking.

"I can't stay here at the foot of your Supreme Sect Mountain forever, waiting for you to leave. Besides, I might scare you and ruin your plans, and then you'll make me pay you back. Those old guys have lived for thousands of years and only accumulated a few hundred spirit crystals, and you've emptied them all out."

"Do you think I'm that kind of person?" Lin Du said coldly. "You suddenly launched into a long list of secrets. Secrets are poison; you're not setting a trap for me, are you?"

"A monk does not lie. I, Wei Zhi, never break my vows. Every word I say to you is true."

Lin Du, on the other hand, has broken the precept against lying so many times that even the Heavenly Dao probably doesn't bother to care.

Wei Zhi turned to look at her, his voice softening from serious to gentle.

"Please tell me when you leave, I'm begging you."

As Wei Zhi spoke, he walked up to Lin Du and placed a jade bottle next to her. "Don't say I didn't pay you. These messages, plus a bottle of medicine to enhance your spiritual sense, will be enough to keep you sharp when you're feeling better.

"How should I tell you?" Lin Du asked lazily.

"Go to the peach grove and find Lin Tuan. I will know when the time comes." After Wei Zhi finished speaking, the space rippled slightly, and he disappeared.

After the others left, conversation could be heard outside the door.

Lin Du put the medicine into his storage ring, closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, but was actually thinking about the news the monk had just told him.

The information conveyed in that short conversation was so dense that it would take her half a day to process it all; no wonder she needed a brain-boosting medication.

"Stop pretending. Squeak out if you're awake. I could feel the fluctuations in your consciousness earlier. Were you having a nightmare?" Yan Ye's strong voice reached Lin Du's ears.

"squeak."

Yan Ye instinctively reached out to tap his head, but then thought that his mind was already blank, and tapping it would be like hitting a hollow drumhead, so he simply stopped. "Were you scared back then?"

He's only in his early twenties, still a child, and he's about to face a life-or-death crisis with a great demon. He probably won't be afraid.

Lin Du's voice drifted casually from the bedside, "I didn't have any nightmares, but I did dream that I smashed the demon's dog head in, and I woke up laughing."

Yan Ye's face twitched.

Very good, the taste is right, it seems to be a real, living Lin Du.