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

Wei Zhi also sensed something was wrong and turned to meet Lin Du's eyes.

Lin Du shook his head slightly, and Wei Zhi understood. This person wanted to let his junior disciple try the risks on his own.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Yuan Ye seemed restless. "Second Brother Xie, from what you just said, that Imperial Preceptor is an evil cultivator. I parted ways with the Imperial Preceptor as soon as I arrived on the Immortal Island. Our righteous path is to eliminate evil cultivators."

"We're brothers, how about you do me a good deed?" Yuan Ye rambled on. "You let me kill that evil cultivator who's been taking lives, and in return, I'll help you find that young lady from the Song family in a proper, righteous way?"

"Just tell me your birth date and time, and I can perform soul-tracking. If that doesn't work, I'll ask my uncle and a master to help you calculate who you're looking for. I have a secret method here that can bind souls together, allowing them to reunite in reincarnation. Do you want it?"

Yuan Ye's voice echoed in the dark passage, and unexpectedly bumped into Xie Yu's back. Xie Yu stumbled backward, and Ni Jinxuan, who was walking silently behind him, also bumped into him without warning.

Lin Du and Wei Zhi were at the back and reached out to grab Jin Xuan in time. Yuan Ye exclaimed in pain and realized that Xie Yu was not moving.

The man was extremely tall, and even just his back view in the dark passage exuded a heavy sense of oppression.

Just as Yuan Ye was about to complain in a low voice, he heard Xie Yu speak in a deep voice.

He said, "Yuan Ye, go, don't look back."

Yuan Ye has always been a good listener, and as soon as Xie Yu spoke, he grabbed Ni Jinxuan's hand and started running back.

Lin Du hadn't even reacted yet when he was almost knocked off his feet by these two brats.

Yuan Ye tried to pull her along, but couldn't budge her.

Although Lin Du was physically weak, his lower body and core were always stable when he practiced martial arts.

She laughed and said, "Listen to your good brother, don't look back."

Yuan Ye ran like a wild dog that had broken free of its reins. He knew that his junior uncle was naturally skeptical of evil, but he couldn't argue with him at this moment because he sensed that the mechanism had been activated.

Among the new disciples, no one was more familiar with mechanical arts than Yuan Ye.

Moreover, this mechanical skill was not low-level; in fact, it surpassed his abilities.

As he ran with Ni Jinxuan, he shouted, "Junior Uncle! It's a mechanism technique! Aren't you afraid? My brother wouldn't lie to me!"

Ni Jinxuan wanted to turn back and pull Lin Du, "Junior Uncle!"

"Listen to me first! Junior Martial Aunt must have her reasons for doing this! Don't touch the stone wall."

One stone gate after another sensed the escape and fell behind the two, but they were always a step behind and could not catch up with them no matter what.

Xie Yu didn't turn around. Lin Du was at the Cloud Soaring Realm and had excellent night vision. She could clearly see that Xie Yu's hand under his wide sleeves slowly clenched, as if he was trying his best to restrain something.

Yuan Ye ran away, but Lin Du did not.

Not only did she not, but she also calmly asked the system in her mind, "Xiaodu, Xiaodu, this super love-struck brain, don't you consider letting me save it? Just give me some medicine to repair my stomach and intestines, that would be great, I'm easy to take care of."

The child just wanted to eat something by himself.

The system replied with two words.

No.

Lin Du: ?

Heaven has eyes! Xie Qingyu is such a love-struck fool; if sending Yuan Ye in could really revive his lover, he probably would have been revived long ago.

Didn't you hear what Wei Zhi said? Xie Qingyu is another anomaly in the demise of the Western Xia dynasty; he doesn't need saving.

Lin Du stood still, a half-smile on his face, arms crossed, listening leisurely to the system's sophistry. "You actually believe Wei Zhi's words, but unfortunately I don't."

"I have a suggestion for you. You can tell me directly that the Heavenly Dao of the mortal realm and the Heavenly Dao of the spirit realm are not interconnected and cannot govern each other. I might listen to you if you do that."

[No, if I told you this, would you agree? They're all Heavenly Dao of the Insightful Realm, how can they be divided into regions? After transforming into Heavenly Dao, does it possess self-awareness? You're the one who can get the answers right, Lin Du.]

Lin Du lowered his eyes and tapped his elbow, then looked up and smiled meaningfully, "You always make me feel like I'm talking to a mirror."

The system tried to argue, but Lin Du had already taken action.

Hearing the successive sounds of stone doors hitting the ground, Lin Du continued forward, his divine sense landing on the stone chamber not far away. His eyes were deep and somber. "This person's skill in setting up an array is not very good. He's lived all these years in vain."

Xie Yu slowly turned around. "Why didn't you run?"

Lin Du thought to himself, "Wow, he's quite polite."

"Xiaodu, you'd better come up with a reasonable explanation after I've done this. Why are there anomalies? After transforming into the Heavenly Dao, does a person's consciousness still remain?"

Sorry, insufficient permissions. The system has been logged off. Good luck.

Talking to someone like Lin Du is a recipe for disaster; the best approach is to remain silent.

The system is now filled with resentment, resenting itself for being so talkative as to try and guess Lin Du's thoughts.

Lin Du sneered and walked straight inside after Xie Yu's surprised look.

The restriction on the whisk was lifted, and under Wei Zhi's hesitant gaze, Lin Du swung the whisk heavily at him.

The stone gate shattered with a deafening roar, and the array inside the stone chamber was fully activated, with sealing array patterns descending from the sky like a cage.

Lin Du casually tossed out a talisman, and the sword energy of the Huiyang realm pierced through the array's core, shattering the golden cage.

Amidst the dazzling sword energy, Lin Du pinpointed several places where the sword energy had clearly dissipated, then flicked out a whisk.

The figures in the stone chamber slowly materialized, one of whom was clad in black robes, wore a silver mask, and had a slender build.

Lin Du sighed softly, "Eighth Senior Brother, don't come... Are you unwell? You've lost weight again."

"Second Brother Pig has already said that bad people never get enough to eat, but you just won't listen."

Lin Du's voice flowed slowly through the stone path, carrying a hint of coolness.

Xie Yu glanced inside, then silently pressed a brick on one side of the stone chamber, which disappeared in an instant.

"I have brought the person. Remember our agreement. Although I am just a mortal, there is no one I cannot kill on the territory of the Great Zhou."

Xie Yu's voice was cold. "Regardless of the outcome."

After listening, Lin Du felt that this Grand Commandant Xie was not entirely beyond redemption.

At least she was polite, and she could even tell that she would win, and she even knew to let her junior apprentice run first.

Lin Du was extremely satisfied, so he was much more efficient when dismantling his Eighth Senior Brother's puppet body.

Seven talismans floated in the air, then quickly adhered to the bodies of the seven people. They tried to break free, but could not move.

That was a high-level immobilization and spirit-suppressing talisman drawn by a cultivator at the Radiant Sun Realm.

"Wenfu, I don't care what you're doing, you can't touch Yuanye."

After Lin Du finished speaking, his long, strong hand opened the chest cavity of the black-robed puppet in the middle and expressionlessly grasped the place where the puppet's spiritual power was supplied.

It was a magic crystal, just like the one in the Grand Competition Secret Realm.

"Oh dear, Eighth Senior Brother, no wonder you're so thin. It turns out you don't have enough puppet materials."

See? If you're not a good person, you'll become poor! You won't have enough to eat! You won't even be able to mold a puppet into a big one!

Just as Lin Du was about to exert his strength, the puppet spoke.

"Junior Sister, you shouldn't have come."

"Junior sister, run! Don't look back!"

Lin Du was always intelligent; everyone in the cultivation world knew that Lin Du was almost demonically clever and quick-witted. However, he was momentarily stunned by these nonsensical words.

Lin Du was only distracted for a moment, and in the next instant, Wei Zhi lifted him up from a distance, and then the puppet turned into dust.

"What are you spacing out for?" Wei Zhi was a little scared. If this little brat hadn't been with him, he would have been chased to the ends of the earth by Lin Tuan.

Lin Du was fine at first, and he thought he didn't need help. Who knew that Lin Du almost fell for the soul-capturing trick?

Lin Du suddenly frowned. "Did you hear what the puppet said just now?"

"No, I only heard you threatening your inhuman senior brother to the puppet. You almost fell victim to the Soul-Capturing Curse. Come here."

Logically speaking, Lin Du is very wary and doesn't even believe what he says, so what's wrong with him today?

Lin Du frowned. Wen Fu…

"That formation just now wasn't a killing formation, it was a trapping formation."

Wei Zhi hummed in agreement, intending to check Lin Du's soul. "I need to make sure your soul is alright."

Lin Du stepped aside, saying, "I have a master who left a divine thought in my soul, so there's no need to trouble you, Master."

Wei Zhi glanced at her, somewhat surprised. "Are you angry that you didn't dodge the Soul-Seizing Curse in time? And catch that fragment of soul?"

Lin Du didn't speak. He walked up to a person, probed him, and found that he had a soul and was alive.

But it's not entirely alive.

She ripped off the puppet's skin again, then tapped the wooden skull, laughing like a Yama, the King of Hell, about to boil ghosts in oil. "You know what, my senior brother's puppet is quite well made. But how did you agree to let him give up the Willow Demon's body and enter this one?"

The mortal realm lacks spiritual energy, offering little benefit to these individuals' cultivation. Thus, Feng Yi's talisman was sufficient to immobilize them for a considerable time. Lin Du's divine sense poured forth, carrying immense killing intent, directly trapping the evil spirits and souls of the Lanju realm. He then rapidly began to peruse the text.

A series of tremors came from behind him, and Wei Zhi turned around in surprise.

Behind this underground stone chamber are eighteen stone doors, each with its own checkpoint. Escaping from the chamber is difficult, and once the mechanisms are activated, getting from the outside in is even more challenging, requiring mastery of mechanisms and a powerful spiritual sense.

"Junior Uncle! We've come to rescue you!"

The last stone wall shattered with a crash, and Ni Jinxuan slowly withdrew her palm, letting out a heavy sigh.

Wei Zhi's pupils trembled. Was this the strength a body cultivator of this age should possess?

The child may not be very smart, but he is certainly too strong.

"No, sister, hurry up, I can't hold on any longer!!!" Yuan Ye was lying across a mechanism in a strange posture, with his hands and feet twisted in different ways, and even his head was struggling to support a sensor mechanism.

Lin Du slowly withdrew his divine sense and turned his head to see the scene before him.

……

Even Xie Yu believed she could beat these people, but these two brats didn't?

Her hand trembled slightly as she casually crushed the divine soul.

[Side quest progress +1, reward: a bottle of Lotus Honey, which can temporarily protect your stomach.]

Lin Du's brows relaxed, and he turned to look at Wei Zhi, pointing at Yuan Ye who was about to collapse, "Master, save the child."

Wei Zhi: ...You change your expression pretty quickly, you little brat.