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

"Oh, who's here? The new disciple the sect leader found for me?"

As soon as Lin Du landed on the border of Luoze, he heard Yan Ye's merciless mockery.

"Go tell the sect leader that I am no longer accepting disciples. My eldest disciple has disappeared without a trace, neither alive nor dead. I have ordered my disciples to follow suit, and I dare not delay the lives of another living person."

Lin Du walked straight to the center of Luo Ze. "It's alright, I'm tough. One master can't kill me. You don't want a disciple who can form a Nascent Soul at thirty-two? How about the disciple who carries the array diagram that connects the Upper Realm's remnant to the operation of the small world?"

Yan Ye: ...

He stiffly carried Lin Du on his back, stretching out his arms straight out.

Lin Du chuckled and placed the folded, enormous array diagram in his palm.

"Where did you get this upper realm array diagram?" Yan Ye's tone remained harsh. Without turning around, he scanned Lin Du's entire body, including his hair, with his divine sense. He breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his white hair hadn't increased; in fact, it seemed to have decreased. It appeared that he was still alive.

Lin Du circled around and sat down opposite Yan Ye. "Oh, I've reached the core of the Cold Moon Secret Realm and obtained a Snow Essence Pill. I have so much power that I didn't even have time to go home before forming a Nascent Soul."

She spoke casually, and her aura was normal. Yan Ye listened attentively and was completely relieved.

"It's alright, it has half of my former charm."

As Yan Ye spoke, he carefully opened the array diagram. "Now that you're back, don't let your studies suffer."

"Hmm." Lin Du held out his hand. "I'm doing my homework."

Yan Ye slapped three tattered ancient books on formations into her hands. "Study them thoroughly. Ask me if you don't understand."

"By the way, I won first place in the Central Plains Grand Competition." Lin Du put away the three books. "I won first place at the age of twenty-five."

Yan Ye clicked his tongue. "So proud of yourself? What's the point of competing for first place with a bunch of kids? If you're so capable, compete for first place with those people who are over a hundred years old and have obtained all sorts of strange and fancy inheritances."

"It's not impossible," Lin Du raised an eyebrow. "Just tell me if I've surpassed my teacher."

Yan Ye said decisively, "You're far from it. Look at how capable you are. Do you think you can beat me? Speaking of which, your formations are nothing compared to those top-tier formation masters in the Formation Master Alliance. They've earned their reputation through years of experience. They've seen more formation diagrams and made more formations than you have hair on your head."

As he spoke, he reached out and flicked the forehead, "You'd better learn properly. It's not enough to just know a few advanced formations. You may have enough depth, but you don't have enough breadth."

Lin Du rubbed his throbbing forehead and nodded in agreement, indicating that he had learned something.

Yan Ye sighed again with disdain, "Jiang Liang, what's wrong with you? Can't you even cure your white hair?"

"So what if you're hardworking?" Lin Du snorted.

"It's ugly, like he's thousands of years old." Yan Ye sighed in disgust. "Let him prescribe some medicine to help him improve his brain function."

Lin Du's head was buzzing. "I heard from my senior uncle that you were unwilling to leave the pass to set up a large-scale defensive formation on the border of Zhongzhou."

"I can no longer get involved in karma." Yan Ye frowned slightly. "Besides, there are plenty of people who can do this small thing; I don't need to do it."

Lin Du's eyes dimmed upon hearing this, and he asked in a low voice, "So if I die one day, you really won't go out to collect my body? There will always be someone to collect my body anyway."

Yan Ye smacked her on the head again. "What are you saying? What are you talking about, dying or something? Go down and get your brain cleaned up."

"Furthermore, everything in this world is born and dies. A thousand years later, there will be another prosperous era. My actions now will inevitably have the effect of reversing fate. But there is no reason to obstruct fate in this world. I can stop it for a while, but it will only make things worse."

"Besides, I don't need to get involved in such a small matter as the defensive formation. Why don't you do it yourself? You are my only disciple. If you don't have the ability, you don't need to be my disciple."

"You kids should take a good look at the world. If I really have to take action, I will."

Lin Du fell silent, staring intently at the person in front of him.

Six or seven years is nothing more than an insignificant grain of sand in his long life; he is no different from before.

Perhaps they once deeply resented fate, yet had no choice but to submit to it, seeking a smooth path forward amidst the constraints of destiny and human nature.

Before she could finish thinking, the ice beneath her bottom disappeared, and she fell into the water with a thud.

Lin Du was submerged by Luo Ze's waters, but he no longer felt the biting cold; he simply swam upstream skillfully.

Just as Han Yueling sensed that Lin Du seemed to have stopped talking to someone, and was about to come out, she was met with the impact of the waterfall's top, like a cold, heavy slap across the head, which stunned the rabbit.

When Lin Du came out of the still pool and went ashore to dry himself, he found himself holding a rabbit that was in a terrible state of anger.

"Let's go, Master," Lin Du called out.

"Yes, remember to hand in your homework after each book."

"Okay!" Lin Du dried the rabbit as well. "Now I can take you to eat something. Don't be angry anymore."

Enraged, the rabbit bit, leaving a distinct teeth mark on the knuckle of Lin Du's index finger, which was gripping her neck.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Chu Guanmeng shouted, expressing her dissatisfaction.

"Who told you to come out in such a hurry without telling me? You need to change this habit." Lin Du made sure its fur was dry before letting it climb onto his shoulder.

"Junior Uncle!!! Junior Uncle, you're finally back!" Yuan Ye and Yan Qing, having somehow heard the news, stopped Lin Du at the sect gate.

"Do you know how we've survived these past seven years?!"

"I slept well for less than ten days in those seven years!!!"

"Six years," Lin Du coldly reminded him. "Did you two get struck by lightning?"

Yan Qing and Yuan Ye both ran their fingers through their hair. "It's only been a month since we last combed our hair, it's all burned from the fire."

"Junior Uncle, we can't go on without you! Master wants you to come and help him modify the magic weapon for tracking demons."

Lin Du frowned slightly. "Didn't we have an array plate for detecting and tracking demonic energy before?"

"Over the years, it seems that demons have evolved and become smarter," Yan Qing explained. "There was once a village that seemed normal on the surface, until passersby were eaten one by one. It was then discovered that half of the villagers were low-level demons. Their auras were exactly the same as ordinary people with weak spiritual power, showing no abnormalities at all. So my master modified a magical artifact to detect demons, but tracking them is still not completely possible."

Before Lin Du could speak, Han Yueling said, "Can those filthy things outside even pretend to be people? How terrifying."

Yan Qing and Yuan Ye looked at the rabbit on Lin Du's shoulder. It could speak, but it was still in its original form. They couldn't sense the strength of its cultivation level. What kind of demon cultivator could ride on their junior uncle's head... oh, neck?

"Let me introduce you. This is Chu Guanmeng, the Cold Moon Spirit from the Cold Moon Secret Realm." Lin Du glanced at the sky. "You two haven't eaten yet, have you? There's no rush. Come down the mountain with me for a meal."

The fact that the second senior brother didn't come to arrest people personally indicates that it wasn't particularly urgent.

Yan Qing and Yuan Ye nodded in unison, their eyes filled with tears. They said, "It still has to be Junior Uncle!"

"Wait a minute... Junior Uncle, how did you bring Han Yueling out?" Yuan Ye finally grasped the key point.

"That's because it was..."

"Because I want to come out and see the world! I want to!" Chu Guanmeng slapped Lin Du's cheek mercilessly with one hand.

Lin Du, whose forehead was still bruised, received another claw mark.

Lin Du closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and thought, "I can't get angry, I can't get angry. They're all a bunch of ancestors."

That night, in a village not far from Yunshan Town, blood gushed into the sky.

Mo Lin silently wiped the demonic blood off the clean sword sheath, his eyes flashing with suppressed anger and regret.

"We're too late." Ni Jinxuan's eyes reddened. "It's all gone. These demons, they actually..."

They were originally guarding Yunshan Town, but who would have thought that the evil forces would silently change their target and massacre the village?

"There are demons too?" Mo Lin keenly sensed movement inside a room, and a sword beam shot out rapidly.

The rice jar shattered with a crash. A boy dressed in coarse cloth gritted his teeth, stood up, and raised an axe. "I'm not afraid of you! Come on!"

Upon seeing the faces of the members of the Supreme Sect, the young man hesitated, raising his axe. His fair and handsome face was smeared with debris, dust, and blood, yet the filth couldn't conceal his good looks. He asked with a mixture of panic and confusion, "Are you... here to rescue me?"