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

"Junior Uncle, the demonic tide is approaching. At this rate, it should arrive in about half an hour."

Yuan Ye put down the telescope and turned to report to Lin Du.

Lin Du frowned slightly. "It's faster than I expected. At the speed we came from, we should have had at least a whole night to go."

Yuan Ye was also somewhat alarmed, "It's much faster than before, it's almost as if... it knew we were all here."

Lin Du paused in his finishing touches and looked at Yuan Ye.

Meng Ling, who was helping from the other side, also came over with her disciples. "Fellow Daoist Lin, the southern side is ready."

In fact, Lin Du's cultivation level is far above Meng Ling's. However, Lin Du is too young, so these people who have gone through life and death together in the Central Plains Competition don't bother to address each other by cultivation level.

Lin Du's brows relaxed slightly. "As expected of the disciples of the Lianheng Sect, with you here, the progress and strength of the defensive formation are much better than I expected."

"I'm ashamed," Meng Ling said, somewhat embarrassed. "I'm glad I didn't hold Fellow Daoist Lin back."

Lin Du shook his head. "Fellow Daoist is joking. You all have a solid foundation and are dedicated to setting up formations. You will all become excellent formation masters in the future. I just grew up on a high mountain, but who says that a tree that grows from the plains can't be a towering tree?"

The blood moon hung high, illuminating the northwestern city like a living hell, shrouded in ominous light. Yet, the edges of the defensive array shone with golden light, covering the entire city. They stood before this circle of golden array patterns, as if guarding the last sanctuary.

Meng Ling didn't know what the other disciples behind him thought, but he felt that Lin Du truly deserved to be number one.

No prefix is ​​needed.

The array master from Luoshu Sect also straightened up. Although he was unwilling to accept losing to Lin Du again, he still had to help if he could.

Lin Du turned and headed into the city. "The array has been activated, and it will require a considerable amount of spirit stones. I will trouble you all to keep an eye on the defensive array and replenish the spirit stones in a timely manner."

"We cultivators have suffered at the hands of evil spirits, and are powerless to do so. Now that we have the hope of protecting our homeland, we should do our best," said the array master of Luoshu Sect.

Meng Ling was interrupted: ...Then, me too?

Lin Du glanced at the people from Luoshumen and said, "Stop showing off your knowledge."

Array Master: Huh?

Lin Du had already walked quite a distance. "Have the city lord tally all the cultivators who have come to provide support. Except for the Lianheng Sect and Jishi Sect disciples who cannot be fought, everyone should be on standby. The demonic tide is accelerating and will not give us much time to prepare."

Yan Qing agreed and flew away, followed by the eldest disciple of the Chixiao Sect, who was eager to take a move from Lin Du.

Mo Lin and Yuan Ye seized the opportunity to block Yi Zhen's path. "Junior Uncle, should we temporarily set up a base outside the city?"

"It's too late." Lin Du glanced at the blood moon in the sky. "A blood moon in the sky will intensify the demonic tide."

As they descended the city wall, the disciples of the Jishi Sect were distributing sachets they had developed to ward off demonic energy. When Du Shao saw Lin Du, she quickly handed him the sachet she was holding.

"Sister Du Shao." Lin Du was handed a sachet by someone right in front of him, and it took him a moment to recognize the person.

Du Shao, however, had already bypassed her and handed the remaining sachets to the people behind Lin Du, explaining their purpose.

"It's me. I haven't heard from you all these years. If it weren't for your improved cultivation, I would have been worried." Du Shao breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that no one had been missed. "So, are you going to the front lines too?"

She turned her head and met Lin Du's calm eyes.

Lin Du stood there, saying, "Yes, I'm not the same person I used to be."

Du Shao was stunned for a moment, finding it hard to connect the person in front of her with the one she had met for the first time.

The news of Lin Du's advancement to the fourth Marquis was only mentioned briefly within the sect, but it caused a huge uproar outside.

A genius who advanced to the fourth rank in his thirties, surpassing even the once-famous genius Hou Cang.

There is really no reason not to go to the front lines.

Lin Du smiled at her, "I'm fully recovered, don't worry, sister."

Du Shao couldn't say anything, she could only nod.

Lin Du walked further and further down a very difficult path, just like when he climbed the mountain that day.

Even if the upward path is too much for her body, she will break through again and again and successfully reach the summit. The thorns and brambles cannot obscure her brilliance.

"Will there be any casualties tonight?" a young disciple asked in a low voice.

"Probably," replied another, slightly more mature cultivator. "But having enjoyed the best cities, resources, and cultivation techniques in this world, we should go and help the poor, impoverished, and disaster-stricken places."

"This is the meaning of the existence of disciples of the sect. If we die, it can be considered as a great merit we have accumulated for the next life. There is nothing wrong with that."

The leaders of the sects and aristocratic families had already gathered together. Lin Du succinctly stated, "Let's divide the sects and aristocratic families into three groups and take turns guarding the area. The rogue cultivators will be incorporated into the aristocratic families."

"No more tactics?"

"No need, it's too late, we're already here." Lin Du rubbed his tired temples, popped two mints into his mouth, and then covered his eyes with gauze, drawing the attention of the other cultivators.

Xia Tian frowned. "Junior Uncle, your eyes..."

Lin Du shook his head, "It's nothing, it's just too noisy."

The restless people around them became eerily quiet.

Did they disturb Master Lin Du's eyes?

At this moment, Han Yueling tapped the spirit contract, "What's wrong? So many people, are your eyes bothered by the noise of the seven emotions?"

Lin Du remained silent.

She is generally blind to the seven emotions unless they are particularly strong, so even if several of her junior disciples have lower cultivation levels than her, she still finds it difficult to see them.

But now, not only are there many people, but their emotions are also changing drastically. No matter how strong Lin Du's ability to withstand it is, he is also somewhat tired when hundreds or thousands of cultivators' emotions converge before him.

The cultivator guarding the city wall rushed down in a panic. He opened his mouth but couldn't speak for a moment, but everyone could feel the crazy tremors beneath their feet and knew that the demonic tide was coming.

"We are a small sect. According to the principle of Tian Ji's horse racing strategy, we, being inferior, should follow the lead of the superior sects!"

"Hey, no, that's hard to calculate. I have more people, while the Supreme Sect has fewer, so it's a perfect balance!"

The team leaders started arguing again. This time, Yan Qing wasn't senior enough, so Ju Yuan held everyone back, saying, "We members of the Supreme Sect don't leave the front lines even if we're lightly injured. You don't need to count us; just distribute yourselves."

Hou Cang lowered his eyes and showed no reaction, while Lin Du looked at his senior brother with disbelief, "My junior disciples are only at the Cloud Ascension Realm!"

"I'm not logging off! I'm not logging off! Anyway, your fourth senior brother and I aren't logging off," Ju Yuan said.

Lin Du didn't bother to say anything to him, and beckoned to Ni Jinxuan, "Go, bring your master back. He's disorganized and undisciplined, it's shameful."

Ni Jinxuan actually went up, and the other cultivators couldn't help but laugh when they saw this, which temporarily dispelled the tension in everyone's hearts.

"More than ten years ago, the demons wanted to kill the elites of my Central Continent sect. More than ten years later, the demonic tide has come. Today, I will do what is right for us. Let's go and kill the demons." Lin Du spoke coldly and clearly, his voice standing out against the increasingly chaotic background of the demons' roars.

She wanted to see what Qianyu was up to.

Hundreds of cultivators leaped down from the city wall in an orderly fashion. Lin Du didn't go down for a moment, but stood on the top of the city wall, looking at the approaching demonic tide.

Scattered spiritual lights appeared in the distance, suggesting that some independent cultivators from the surrounding area had not entered the city but had come solely to kill demons.

Those dark, rolling shadows trampled the snow outside the city into a muddy mess, filled with demonic energy.

Qi Zhen followed behind Ni Jinxuan, carrying a spirit sword. He didn't look like a demon lord at all, and he didn't even blink when he was cutting down low-level demons.

Lin Du thought about it and realized that it made sense. In the eyes of demons, there were no other kind, only food and food that they couldn't eat for the time being.

She wouldn't have any sympathy for chicken legs either.

Lin Du stuffed the white dumpling into his arms, leaped into the air, his black hair turning snow-white, and opened the Floating Life Fan with a whoosh, revealing a cool, snowy white light.

Everyone felt a chill run down their spines. "Hiss, why is this demon so eerie? It gives me the creeps."

The disciples of the Supreme Sect adapted well. "Don't worry, if the back of your neck feels cold, that must be our junior uncle."

"Huh?" Yi Zhen had successfully blended in with the disciples of the Supreme Sect, but was still a little confused. The next moment, his foot slipped and a giant wolf-shaped puppet casually grabbed him by the back of his neck.

The power of ice and snow, with the force to freeze everything in the world, surged forward like a snow-capped mountain erupting not far in front of all the cultivators, directly freezing the attacking low-level demon horde in place.

The snow waves surged and frost covered the ground, and even the demons of higher realms were somewhat restricted in their movements.

But even this short moment was enough for the righteous cultivators to seize the opportunity and annihilate them in one fell swoop.

The spiritual energy reserves of cultivators in the Huiyang Realm have made a qualitative leap compared to the previous three realms. The power of Lin Du's fan attack extended for nearly ten miles, giving the cultivators, who were still a little nervous about the upcoming battle, some time to adapt.

Just as Lin Du was about to raise his hand again to crush them into pieces, someone else had already taken the first step. Sword energy also stretched for ten miles, shattering all the demons that Lin Du had frozen.

Hou Cang's voice rang in Lin Du's ears, "The low-level demons at the front are nothing to fear. Let the younger disciples have them. Come forward and let me see if your master has taught you in vain."

Lin Du: ...She's a junior disciple too! Open your eyes and look around. The youngest person here besides her is Qi Zhen, who's quite old but insists on acting young!

"Come quickly! A vengeful demon has been discovered. It will incite the surrounding low-level demons, or at least mid-level ones. It is probably the core of the demonic tide ahead."

"Here we come." Lin Du resigned himself to his fate and flew forward.

Yuan Ye turned to look at Yi Zhen, "How about it, still want my junior uncle to give you a punch?"

"No, no, no." Yi Zhen shivered as he lit a fire for himself to warm himself up. "I think I need to keep burning fires for another hundred years."