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

Lin Du stepped off the arena and turned to walk towards her seat. All around her was a shimmering light. She hesitated for a moment, then rummaged through her storage ring, found a piece of gauze, and covered her eyes.

That's much better now.

The people in the seats were originally talking about how "Lin Du doesn't even look people in the eye when he fights, showing contempt for his opponents," etc. But after Lin Du covered his eyes with gauze, the discussion stopped abruptly.

Several people who were discussing the matter simultaneously felt a little guilty.

"Is he... really blind?"

"...Could it be that all of Immortal Venerable Yanye's disciples will end up like this?"

"But wasn't Immortal Venerable Yanye born that way...?"

The crowd was abuzz with discussion, but everyone felt a vague sense of guilt.

They deserve to die.

He Gui looked at Lin Du thoughtfully, "You...you really can't see?"

He watched Yan Ye enter the sect, and he never heard that practicing Yan Ye's cultivation method could turn one into a second-generation Yan Ye.

"Oh, no, that's not it." Lin Du gestured for people to make room for him and sat down. In an instant, the few bok choy plants that had originally wanted to gather around him all sat back in a row.

Unaware of his surroundings, He Guiyi picked up the teacup on the table, intending to take a sip of water to calm his nerves. After trying for a while without getting any water, he looked closely and saw that the water had frozen over.

He gasped, then turned to look at Lin Du, "Take your chill down."

Lin Du turned to look at her sixth senior brother innocently. The gauze blocked some of the light, and she felt better now, but others did not.

"I can't control myself."

"Where's your hair? Don't tell me you've been hiding in your cave and dyed your hair." He Gui put down his teacup, looking worried.

"Oh right, because I had too much gray hair, and it made me look older, so I dyed it all white. Look, since my hair turned white, don't I look much more energetic?" Lin Du said casually.

He Gui: ...

He silently used his spiritual power to reheat the tea, then tilted his head back and downed it in one gulp. "If you keep spouting this nonsense, do you believe your senior sister will throw you into the brush-washing tub?"

Lin Du thought it was possible, so she decided to escape as soon as the competition was over. After all, the first place in the team competition and the top three in the individual competition were qualified to enter the Lost Mansion Cave and receive the inheritance left by the great masters of Zhongzhou in the past.

Compared to other prizes, this is the real reason why all the disciples are desperately trying to represent their sect in battle.

Before passing away or ascending to immortality, great masters in Zhongzhou would leave behind a legacy to pass on, ensuring its continued existence.

Feng Yi sat upright next to Lin Du. "Your breathing seems a bit unstable."

Those at the same cultivation level could only sense that Lin Du's aura was at the late stage of the Cloud Ascension Realm, but it was too outwardly projected. However, cultivators at a higher cultivation level could detect some clues.

Lin Du smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's not that my foundation is unstable."

She was well aware of her abnormality.

After the senior uncles finished exchanging pleasantries, Yuan Ye spoke up, "Junior Uncle, you're late. Jin Xuan has already finished her competition and will advance to the Cloud Soaring Realm."

Lin Du nodded. "I know."

She saw Lingyu Group when she arrived. Although she wasn't sure who it was, she knew because Jinxuan wasn't there.

Lin Du attacked too quickly, and Ni Jinxuan and Xia Tianwu only realized there was an extra person in the seats of the Supreme Sect when they returned.

Even with her eyes covered by a white veil, Ni Jinxuan recognized her at a glance as her junior uncle.

After all, Immortal Venerable Yanye doesn't comb his hair, and Lin Du's white hair is always neatly tied in a topknot on his head. Even if you can't see his facial features from a distance, it can't possibly be Yanye.

"Junior Uncle!"

As soon as Ni Jinxuan approached, she felt the intense pressure of the late-stage Soaring Cloud Realm. The extremely cold aura even made the strange fire in Xia Tianwu's dantian slightly agitated.

Lin Du lazily greeted them. The Snow Essence Pill within his body had broken its restriction and was continuously replenishing his spiritual energy while also transforming his body.

Once the Snow Essence Pill is refined, all the spiritual energy absorbed by Lin Du's body will be transformed into the coldest ice and snow power between heaven and earth. The side effect is that... during this period, his body, which has not yet been fully transformed, is somewhat similar to a snow spirit.

This is uncontrollable, just like when you digest a pineapple, the enzymes inside the pineapple are also digesting you, only you are more potent.

She was surrounded by an intense chill; if it weren't for her and Gui Fengyi's formidable strength, they probably wouldn't have been able to withstand such cold.

Despite the freezing cold, Xia Tian wanted to take Lin Du's pulse, but Lin Du politely declined.

"I'm really fine." Lin Du turned his head slightly to the side. "Don't worry."

It would be a miracle if Xia Tian were to be so carefree. Looking at him like this, anyone who saw him would say he'd gone completely astray during his cultivation.

The first match was finally over. Lin Du finished his practice, stood up, and walked towards the ring.

This time, Lin Du drew a more troublesome person: Li Qing, the chief disciple of Chongxu Sect. She followed the same path as Lin Du and was said to have a water spiritual root. Due to some fortuitous events, she completely completed her cultivation and became a heaven-grade water spiritual root.

The two bowed to each other and introduced themselves.

Looking at the blue-robed cultivator in front of her, Li Qing suddenly thought of a line: "Frost and snow cover the forest, why complain that spring is late?"

The cultivator raised his hand to form a hand seal. Although Lin Du's eyes were covered, she could still feel the dazzling spiritual light through the gauze. She blinked. How much light pollution must this cultivation world be causing?

In the blink of an eye, a vast aura rushed over. Lin Du raised his hand, and the spiritual power on his folding fan poured out. The two streams of spiritual power collided in the air, and the interface between them began to be covered with fine frost. The powerful spiritual pressure of the Great Perfection of the Cloud Soaring Realm was revealed at this moment, like a giant wave crashing through the frost, its momentum undiminished, heading straight for Lin Du.

Lin Du straightened his expression, put away his fan, took a step back, channeled his spiritual energy into his hands, and began to use Tai Chi.

"The Yellow River flows backwards, opening up a new path." The overwhelming spiritual energy was restrained and pushed back. The originally powerful spiritual energy turned into a babbling brook as it turned around, a difference between a great power and a newborn baby.

Li Qing was somewhat surprised. She had heard others mention Lin Du's weapon, a folding fan, which seemed to be at least a spiritual treasure. However, she did not expect that Lin Du would put away the spiritual treasure as soon as the fight started and instead fight her bare-handed.

That move just now... was it Tai Chi?

Before she could figure it out, Lin Du had already moved closer, unleashing a chilling spiritual force from her hand, which Li Qing repeatedly broke through.

Then the wind rose, and Lin Du hurriedly retreated, but was still caught in it.

The sound of water cascading down from the sky, formed from spiritual energy, locked onto the target of the attack.

The river's waters flowed down from the sky, and Lin Du sensed the powerful impact, a sense of crisis rising in his heart.

No longer concerned with her spiritual power, she leaped into the air, unleashing a torrent of icy energy that reflected on the surface of the Floating Life Fan, creating a scene of snow-covered mountains.

The two spiritual energies collided again, and everyone could clearly hear the crackling sound of ice forming.

But the overwhelming power descending from the sky was caught by the frost and snow, slowing its descent at an eerie speed. Lin Du then raised his hand and threw a punch at the spot where the frost and snow had caught it, his spiritual power like an ice blade slicing through the stalemate.

In an instant, their spiritual power turned into countless fireflies-like dust.

Taking advantage of the situation, Lin Du threw out several array stones, freezing them on the arena with the power of ice and snow.

The two unleashed their hidden moves simultaneously. In the blink of an eye, the arena erupted in a raging torrent of spiritual energy, which covered the entire arena. Lin Du was so shaken that even her divine sense was shaken, not to mention the impact on her body from the opponent's moves. The giant waves of spiritual energy roared fiercely, almost throwing her to the ground.

Lin Du simply froze himself in place, then bent down and poured spiritual energy from his folding fan into the array's core, causing array patterns to appear.

In an instant, the home and away teams switched places, and the silver array patterns drew upon the power of heaven and earth, with immense pressure pressing down on the shoulders of those in the array like a mountain.

With a thud, Li Qing was pressed down and fell to the ground. She quickly searched for the key to break the formation, formed hand seals, and attacked that weak point, only to find that her position under her feet suddenly changed, the pressure on her body eased, and when she turned around, the arena was already behind her.

Lin Du withdrew his spiritual power and gathered his divine sense. He clasped his hands and bowed, saying, "I apologize for the offense."

Li Qing stood there stunned for a moment before realizing that Lin Du's pressure was fake, the change in position was real, and the array eye that she attacked was the real place that triggered the illusion array.

She looked up at Lin Du on the arena and suddenly smiled, "No wonder everyone says you are incredibly clever; it turns out you are like this."

Lin Du straightened up. "When fighting someone of a higher level, you always have to use a little trick. Sorry."

If it were a pure fight, she might not be able to completely defeat Li Qing, who possesses abundant spiritual power and extremely strong magic. She wanted to save some strength for later, so she could only finish the battle quickly.

Li Qing shook her head. "Indeed, I didn't realize it clearly under the pressure."

She looked up and smiled, "I hope we'll be teammates next time we meet, not opponents."

Lin Du smiled too, "There will always be a chance."

When the demonic tide arrives, everyone in Zhongzhou will be an ally.

Li Qing assumed Lin Du was trying to befriend him and left with a smile, but Lin Du was still there.

The stones must be picked up; they can't be thrown away carelessly, as they can still be used.