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

As Qiu Ling passed by the dining hall, she saw a boy in black sitting alone under a tree behind the hall. His bowl contained only green vegetables and steamed buns, which looked pitiful.

Feeling a pang of pity, she walked over. "You're the new disciple? Why are you eating out alone?"

Upon hearing this, Qi Zhen subconsciously stood up, a hint of embarrassment appearing on her delicate face. "I have met you in person. It was my own fault. I wanted to observe mourning for my mother. The food in the dining hall is all meat, so I came out to eat by myself, afraid of disturbing my fellow disciples' enjoyment."

Qiu Ling is actually a very business-minded person with a decisive and efficient personality. Even though Mu Chen doesn't allow her to manage the business affairs now because she is pregnant, she is now the only idle person in the sect.

Today, her junior sister even took over her cooking duties, so Qiu Ling simply strolled over to ask her junior sister and the new junior disciples if they had developed any new magical artifacts to sell.

She met Qi Zhen's stubborn yet austere gaze and couldn't help but sigh, saying, "But we can't just sit outside the dining hall."

When Qi Zhen saw the elders who were in charge arrive, her eyes immediately reddened, and she felt a sense of anticipation.

Then he heard the real person in front of him say, "You don't know that there is a thousand-year-old spirit cedar behind the dining hall at this time of year. When the wind blows at this time of year, the pollen is more terrible than a blizzard. At least the trees within a radius of several miles can be pregnant with its offspring. Your bowl of rice must be clean."

Qi Zhen: ...

Is this the key point?

Qiu Ling dragged the person into the kitchen, where she saw Lin Du pressing a rabbit against the cutting board, looking fierce and intimidating.

"Didn't I tell you to eat the food I put on your plate obediently? You don't need to rely on those to make a living. But my nephews haven't even mastered the art of fasting yet, and you're competing with a bunch of kids who're already in their twenties for food? Have you no shame?!"

The rabbit was actually fully capable of fighting Lin Du, and was fully capable of defeating Lin Du.

But now she can only be pinned to the cutting board, struggling desperately.

Lin Du is terrifying when he's really angry.

Chu Guanmeng tried to explain, "I was wrong, really, I just couldn't control myself."

How can a rabbit that has never had a companion know what convergence is? It has no concept of it.

Eat what you can, and take what you can't? That's not an option. There's nothing Han Yueling is interested in that she can't swallow right now.

Lin Du pointed at her and said, "Don't be willful in the future, or I won't let you out in this kind of situation again."

The young man, with a cold face, held a patina-covered kitchen knife that he hadn't replaced in almost decades, and pressed it firmly against a rabbit cake. The scene looked eerie no matter how you looked at it.

If Qi Zhen were truly just a seventeen-year-old boy, he would have been terrified, thinking he had entered some kind of terrifying demonic cave, rather than the number one sect in Zhongzhou.

He shuddered, looking terrified.

Actually, Han Yue Ling could be chopped up and glued back together, since it was moonlight, but since there were other living people present, it didn't provoke Lin Du into actually chopping it off.

After scaring the rabbit, Lin Du picked the person up, casually wiped their fur with a damp cloth, and dried them off haphazardly. He then calmly greeted his senior sister, "Senior sister, what brings you to the kitchen?"

"I originally wanted to talk to you about our recent business," Qiu Ling said with a smile, seemingly unaffected by the scene just now.

"I happened to see this young disciple eating under the cedar tree behind the dining hall, so I gave him this place with a roof to eat in."

Han Yueling, clinging to Lin Du's shoulder, tried to stretch herself into a long towel, letting the wind dry her fur. Upon hearing this, she strangely raised her head.

"But... Lin Du, didn't you arrange for them to eat at Xiaoshan Hall? Why are they under the tree?" Chu Guanmeng thought people were really hard to understand; why not eat at a proper place instead of eating outside?

Upon hearing Rabbit's words, Qiu Ling's expression became quite subtle. She was all too familiar with her junior disciple's style of doing things.

It tastes like the fourth senior brother's, and it's been played with by Hou Cang to the point of being leftover!

However, Qiu Ling chose to remain silent. When it comes to scheming people in the sect, apart from the Ju Yuan lineage, they are all people with so many holes that they would leak at the slightest touch. She only needs to be more careful.

Lin Du glanced at Qi Zhen with a half-smile, one hand still on the throat of the rabbit on his shoulder.

The kitchen was poorly lit, and she stood in the shadows, looking nothing like a good person.

"I suppose my junior nephew doesn't know the place, or he's scared being alone in that room," Lin Du said lightly, brushing the matter aside. "Tomorrow I'll make some cabbage and tofu, at least he'll have something nutritious. He looks so skinny, he probably can't even lift a knife."

"Senior sister, you've come at the right time. I've just developed a new array to identify demons, and I just handed it over to Yuan Ye and Yan Qing to take to the weapon-refining room. Could you help me calculate the cost?"

As Lin Du spoke, he casually placed a stool from the kitchen behind Qi Zhen, then took Qiu Ling's arm and left.

The two walked quite a distance before Qiu Ling sent a telepathic message to Lin Du, "What happened to that junior disciple?"

"It's hard to say yet, let's not alert them." Lin Du vaguely felt that if the Demon Lord entered the sect simply for that one item in the sect's treasury, it would be too naive. If she were the Demon Lord, she could accomplish a lot in just one day.

Qiu Ling glanced at her junior sister again and finally understood why Feng Yi had said not to treat her like a child.

What Lin Du couldn't figure out was how Qian Yu had passed through the three trials—the Mirror of Insight developed by Ju Yuan and Cangli, and Xia Tianwu—without any abnormalities.

She needs to find some information.

As soon as Lin Du arrived at the library, he was met with Hou Cang's icy expression.

"Senior brother?"

"Master is looking for you." Hou Cang said with a long face, radiating a low pressure that was even colder than Lin Du's.

But Lin Du knew perfectly well that Hou Cang's coldness this time wasn't directed at her, because he even added coldly, "Yun Moluo's person is also here."

Lin Du understood that Wei Zhi and Lin Tuan actually had a very good relationship, or rather, Wei Zhi was quite talkative when he was with people he was close to.

When she entered the peach grove, she indeed saw Wei Zhi and Lin Tuan chatting happily.

Lin Tuan waved to Lin Du as she arrived, first asking how she was doing and whether the Snow Essence Pill had left any aftereffects, before leisurely getting up and saying he was going to assign her some new homework.

After Lin Tuan left, Wei Zhi spoke up, "The Demon Lord is in your sect."

Lin Du nodded, "I know."

Wei Zhi was a little surprised. "How did you know?"

Almost no one could see through Demon Lord Qianyu's disguise; even he only found out because of the magic seal he had placed inside that person on a whim.

Lin Du didn't tell the truth. "I guessed."

Wei Zhi had a gut feeling that Lin Du was lying, but he didn't expose him immediately.

"Aren't you curious? How did he manage to fool all your senior brothers and sisters who are quite capable?" Wei Zhi looked at the rabbit-shaped towel that was about to drip off Lin Du's shoulder and felt that Han Yue Ling was really contrary to the identity of a spirit of heaven and earth.

"I'm curious, so I'd like to ask the master for guidance." Lin Du was very honest and asked questions when he didn't understand.

"I haven't figured it out yet either. I even took a special look at that extra junior disciple in your sect, and I didn't find anything unusual about him." Wei Zhi frowned slightly as he said this. "Demons and humans are not the same species. The difference between them is even greater than that between humans and demonic beasts. It's very difficult for them to completely disguise themselves as normal people."

He made a pointed remark, "But what I can say for sure is that he is indeed Qianyu, but it's not impossible for things to change drastically in the future. For example, you are not entirely human now."

Lin Du is now a half-spirit, which in the far north would be a genuine spirit of heaven and earth. Of course, in terms of strength, he can only be considered a child.

"What kind of magic seal did you leave behind?" Lin Du frowned as well. "He's a Demon Lord, after all. Didn't he notice?"

Wei Zhi suddenly laughed, his tone relaxed and at ease, "I did it openly and honestly, without any intention of hiding it from him. It was the absorption of the Three Poisons Seal. The Three Poisons are a treasure for many demons to nurture their demonic fetuses, so Qian Yu's body will not only not reject it, but will accept it. Even a Demon Lord cannot completely suppress his body's instinctive desire for the Three Poisons, so unless he hardens his heart to give up the Three Poisons and becomes a saint, he will never be able to get rid of the Three Poisons Seal."

To make a demon lord a saint is undoubtedly a fantasy; Qianyu could never become a saint.

Lin Du realized that the reason this monk was called a demonic monk was largely due to his wicked behavior; he enjoyed the sight of others disliking him but being unable to do anything about it.

Her thoughts raced, and she keenly grasped at one thing: "Does this Three Poisons Seal have any other side effects?"

"Huh?" Wei Zhi asked, bewildered.

"Qianyu," Lin Du said, his tone complicated and his heart heavy, "I just touched him and he threw up."

Wei Zhi's eyelids twitched. "Huh?"