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

Lin Du removed the gauze, intending to perform a live color-changing act for Yan Ye, but before he could, he was seized by the back of his neck by spiritual power.

"I can see it with my eyes, but what's wrong with this hair?"

Lin Du gestured, "I just thought Master's white hair looked good, so I did this and then that, and it turned out like this, do you believe me?"

Yan Ye didn't believe her at all. What kind of disciple would spout nonsense or utter rubbish?

"So if you change the color again tomorrow, are you going to find some colorful demon clan to recognize as your father?" Yan Ye sighed in disgust. "Did Jiang Liang take your pulse today?"

Lin Du nodded and then shook his head. "Aren't I practically your father? Let's get down to business. Why are you still bothered by your only disciple dyeing his hair white when we have a formidable enemy at hand?"

Yan Ye snorted through his nose, barely managing to connect with the empathy and see the world before Lin Du's eyes.

"There is indeed a flow of the laws of heaven and earth, but didn't you not choose your path? Why can you directly face the laws of heaven without your divine sense becoming unstable?"

Lin Du casually remarked, "Maybe it's because I ate a Snow Spirit alive, or maybe Heaven opened a door for me this morning and then closed it again."

Yan Ye stopped moving. "Wait a minute."

He turned to look at Lin Du with disbelief, a tremor clearly appearing in his empty gray eyes.

What did that little brat just say?

It's either nonsense or a bombshell.

Lin Du, completely unaware that he had unleashed heavenly lightning, said, "But Master, this thing is covered in a dense layer of the Three Poisons, and it can even devour the spirits of heaven and earth... Logically speaking, the Three Poisons forming such a dense fog, even capable of materializing, proves... Hey! Master!"

Yan Ye lifted the person who had been squatting up, "Say that sentence to me again?"

Lin Du struggled for a moment but couldn't break free. "I said, this thing has a very strong concentration of the three poisons, or it might even be formed from the three poisons..."

"No, the sentence before that." Yan Ye narrowed his eyes.

"She said she ate a Snow Spirit raw, and that's why she turned out like this." A soft male voice sounded behind Yan Ye.

The master and disciple simultaneously channeled their spiritual power and slammed backward.

Wei Zhi narrowly dodged the two freezing attacks and pushed Lin Tuan forward, saying, "Your Supreme Sect's way of treating guests is truly unique."

Lin Tuan's gaze, however, fell on the cloud of mist in front of Lin Du. "What's that?"

"The Three Poisons," Lin Du and Wei Zhi said in unison.

"Master, outsiders have arrived. If you let go, it will be embarrassing," Lin Du struggled to transmit his thoughts using his divine sense.

Yan Ye refused to back down, "Do you know what the consequences of absorbing the essence of heaven and earth are? Are you really still my disciple now?"

"Yes." Wei Zhi, completely oblivious to the fact that he had reported him, earnestly reminded him, "How can it not be the refining technique I personally taught you?"

Lin Du closed his eyes in despair.

"Then I should thank Master Wei Zhi?" Yan Ye turned to look at the two royal orphans.

"How dare I?" Wei Zhi smiled. "It was merely a moment of pleasure, and the opportunity presented itself."

Yan Ye chuckled, switching from using spiritual power to carrying it by hand. "You just said you only had one father?"

"Half, half," Lin Du whispered a reminder, "they are Buddhist cultivators."

"Can't a Buddhist practitioner conceive after admiring a master?" Yan Ye thought he'd be driven mad by this rebellious disciple who was always causing trouble. "You're quite good at keeping secrets! Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

Lin Du had no choice but to unleash his ultimate move, looking innocently at Lin Tuan, "Senior Uncle, save me!!!"

Lin Tuan smiled as he rescued Lin Du, saying, "You just throw a bunch of array books at her and let her figure them out herself. She's been raised by Feng Chao and the others all these years. Besides, which cultivator doesn't want to be taught by their seniors? Wei Zhi is practically his senior brother, so it's no harm to teach her."

"Besides, I'm the one who asked him to teach me."

Lin Tuan touched Lin Du's hair, feeling his hand was ice-cold. "If you keep suppressing the child like this, of course the child won't dare to tell you anything."

"Isn't she bold enough?!" Yan Ye glared angrily. "The spirits of heaven and earth are equivalent to the gods of a small world, their power is roughly one-tenth of the Heavenly Dao. You sent a child to chew on explosives, how come she didn't die?!"

Lin Du shuddered in fright and burrowed into Lin Tuan's arms.

Hou Cang, standing at a distance, witnessed this scene and was so angry that he almost crushed the disciple token in his hand.

"If you spoil your child like you do, you'll only raise a reckless, unethical wolf cub!"

Yan Ye was always unruly, and Lin Du wanted to shut him up as soon as he heard this. How could he say such a thing?

"With Lin Du's temper, what wouldn't she dare to do? She's incredibly audacious, always thinking about this and that, never considering her own safety! Sooner or later, she'll ruin herself." Yan Ye was so angry he wanted to hit a child. "Tell me, if I don't keep her in check, who will? She does everything others can't, and the consequence of going against the grain is utter destruction! Hasn't she thought about the consequences herself?"

The person Lin Tuan was holding trembled slightly and turned their head away.

"Didn't she succeed? Why are you yelling like this? Look how scared the child is." Lin Tuan said helplessly, "Your temper hasn't changed even after three hundred years of meditation."

Wei Zhi thought Lin Du had been scolded too harshly and was about to speak up to help ease the tension when his gaze swept across her and met her expressionless face, which seemed to say, "I knew this would happen." He almost burst out laughing.

Lin Du rarely showed such helplessness; more often, he exuded a calm and composed demeanor, as if he had the overall situation under control.

"Fellow Daoist," Wei Zhi said.

"What fellow Daoist? Call me Martial Uncle," Yan Ye sneered. "Aren't you half a Senior Brother?"

……

Wei Zhi readily accepted good advice, not only ceasing to call her "fellow Daoist" but also stopping using her name altogether. "As parents, we feel as if our children's lives belong to us. Not to mention life and death, even the choices we make in every step of their lives are not up to them. You are her master, so you feel that she cannot take risks, cannot go against the will of Heaven, and cannot sacrifice herself for this world. Why?"

"You are clearly the path of destiny, yet you prevent her from walking that path that should lead to her utter destruction. Why?"

"She has never been afraid, never been apprehensive, never regretted anything. What exactly are you angry about?"

"Destiny is created by oneself, and appearance is born from the heart."

Wei Zhi's voice was calm, but to Yan Ye, it wasn't such a nonchalant statement, but rather the voice of a bad person who indulged the little brat's mischief.

"It is said that Tantric Buddhist disciples recite scriptures from childhood and have a photographic memory. But we are not of the same ilk, and my disciple is not a Buddhist practitioner."

Lin Du really wanted to ask these two people who couldn't speak properly to stop talking. Originally, she could have solved the problem by saying a few more words of coaxing, but once Wei Zhilin Tuan came out, Yan Ye, who was in a bad mood, would probably have been so angry that he would have ascended to heaven on the spot if she didn't give him a way out.

Yan Ye and Wei Zhi both looked at Lin Du, who was trying to minimize his presence.

"say!"

"What do you think, Fellow Daoist Lin?"

Lin Du didn't want to speak, so she shook off Han Yue Ling, who was trying to absorb the moonlight, looked up at the sky, and said, "I have struggled with myself for a long time, so I would rather be myself."

Yan Ye almost kicked him.

Lin Du slipped away without a trace, squatting down to look at the thing he had bound for so long. "Although it is one of the Three Poisons, it has the aura of the world's rules, but its energy is not even as strong as mine, a half-spirit. What exactly is this thing?"

Chu Guanmeng muttered to herself, "I thought you'd forgotten about me, the victim."

"I'm going to eat it raw! My lunar power is reduced by half; how many years of moonlight would I have to endure to recover from that!"

"I already said it's filthy stuff." Lin Du suddenly realized something and turned to look at Wei Zhi. "Your Three Poison Seals... will attract this kind of thing into your body?"

Wei Zhi nodded. "Possibly. What about the people of Qianyu?"

Lin Du stood up, frowning. "Now that we know whose it is, there's no need to keep it."

Wei Zhi stopped Lin Du, then squatted down and tentatively reached out, "Lin Tuan, what do you think it is?"

"Fragments of the Heavenly Dao?" Lin Tuan was also drawn into the state of mind.

"What kind of fragment of the Heavenly Dao could be afflicted by the Three Poisons?" Yan Ye didn't believe it.

In a flash, Lin Du thought of something: "Senior Uncle, I want to ask, what replenishes the power of the Heavenly Dao after it weakens?"

Lin Tuan thought for a moment, "Self-regulation, such as the demonic tide you mentioned that caused a large number of cultivators to perish, and their spiritual power returned, as well as the life tribulations of high-level cultivators. If they cannot overcome their life tribulations and perish, their spiritual power will also return."

"The power of Heaven will decline because the spiritual energy circulation cannot supply it. What if someone ascends to heaven as a sacrifice with the Three Poisons?" Lin Du asked seriously about this possibility.

"The Great Dao is pure and cannot contain the three poisons." Lin Tuan and Yan Ye are both people who are close to ascension and are very familiar with the rules of the Heavenly Dao.

Lin Du frowned, looking a little aggrieved. "I don't understand."

"If you can't figure it out, then don't bother. You're not even a fraction of my age, and you'll never understand even if you rack your brains." Yan Ye tapped her head. "Go find Jiang Liang to take your pulse."

"I'm going to destroy the Three Poisons." Lin Du didn't leave.

"It's just a matter of one sword strike. Get lost. I'll go ask Jiang Liang about your pulse later, and then I'll check your soul again when I get back." Yan Ye pretended to kick her.

Lin Du grabbed the dumplings and ran off, only to find an unexpected person at Tianrui Peak.