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

Wen Fu remained calm and acknowledged her identity as "Junior Sister".

Lin Du's eyes held no smile, his smile hadn't faded, and his tone was even polite, but his words were anything but kind.

"That is incorrect. How could I possibly agree with you?"

Wen Fu lowered his head slightly, his hood drooping slightly with the movement, creating wrinkles, and a low chuckle escaped his throat. "You knew I'd come?"

"No, I just suspected it was your doing." Lin Du paused. "And you were the one who sent the Demon Lord to infiltrate the Supreme Sect?"

Wenfu couldn't help but sigh, "How did you guess that? Do you only see conspiracies and schemes? Maybe the Demon Lord is just not very bright?"

"His worst trait is that he trusts you, right? Eighth Elder? Or... Third Elder?" Lin Du said with a smile, then finished gathering his strength, his smile vanished, and his gray eyes revealed a murderous intent.

Upon hearing this, Wenfu was clearly surprised. Before he could react, he was met with a slap made of ice and snow.

Amidst the swirling wind and snow, the branches of the Heavenly Tree swayed gently, yet made no sound. Only the rustling of the wind and snow, the sharp spiritual energy, and the omnipresent killing intent were all present. Even the tension of drawn swords and the smoke of gunpowder could not adequately describe the sharpness within.

The black robe was blown by the wind and snow, clinging tightly to the person's body and lifting the hood, allowing Lin Du to confirm the person's figure.

Wen Fu hurriedly raised his hand to block, but couldn't help but marvel at the power of the blow.

"You clearly know you can't kill me like this! Such a venting attack isn't what you'd do!"

Amidst the wind and snow, Wenfu had no choice but to shout loudly.

Lin Du sneered, swinging his folding fan again, sending the man flying. "They're always trying to ruin people's peaceful lives. You swat one, and another one pops up. So why not kill them one by one to stop bothering others? Isn't that right?"

"Even if you kill every single one of me, the game is already played. Have you ever seen a formation that, once the formation stones are placed, cannot function on its own without the formation master?"

The man in black robes did not retaliate, but only defended. After a few moves, the man in green robes fluttered and was already in front of him. The sharkskin gloves were close to the man in black robes' throats, and the cool, slightly rough touch slowly tightened.

Wen Fu lowered his eyes and saw the slightly protruding tendons on the back of the sharkskin gloves, realizing that Lin Du was truly going for the kill.

She even wore gloves.

For a moment, he struggled to laugh, unsure whether to say that Lin Du was truly cautious or truly childish, even liking to use such strange methods to humiliate people.

But in the latter half of his life, he was preoccupied with petty scheming and didn't care about such things.

Wen Fu spoke with difficulty, "I came to tell you what this Heavenly Dao Secret Realm really is. Aren't you curious?"

Lin Du tightened his grip, his face remaining calm and composed. "It's nothing more than what you did with Qian Yu's help. Does it even matter what it was?"

"Of course it's important." Wen Fu's throat was already extremely tight, his neck was swollen and purple, and the veins were bulging. "You'll want to know this truth even more than I do."

"The Heavenly Dao is unstable, and the demonic energy seal has greatly increased. The root cause lies in this truth."

Wen Fu could even laugh out loud, "How can a player who doesn't know the truth or his opponent win?"

Lin Du conjured a short blade in his other hand and expressionlessly plunged it into Wen Fu's chest. "It's alright, I can search your soul."

"You can't find it," Wen Fu tried to laugh, but his throat was tightly choked, and he could only make short, strange noises. "You can't find it, Junior Sister, do you really think you're the smartest person in the world, that you can always win in any situation even if you're the one who has to act later?"

"You won't find the truth in books, but you can with me. Do you really think everything recorded in books is true?"

The short blade piercing a person's heart slowly twisted, making the sound of flesh and blood. A storm was raging in Lin Du's eyes, but his hands moved slowly and methodically, applying just the right amount of force.

"Books are written by people, and people naturally make mistakes. But Wenfu, what makes you think I would believe the words of a traitor?"

Lin Du's voice was also somewhat strained, this time simply because of the resistance coming from the short blade.

Wenfu met Lin Du's eyes, which held a suppressed madness and undisguised murderous intent.

"Lin Du, answer a few questions for me, and I'll tell you the answers. They're not difficult questions."

"My first question is, how did you discover that Qianyu had infiltrated the Supreme Sect?"

"Second question, how do you come to believe that the Third Elder beside Qianyu is me?"

"Third question: Where is Hou Cang? Where is he?"

Lin Du did not look directly into Wen Fu's eyes. She slowly removed the power binding his heart. "I've already fallen for your trick once. This soul-capturing move is ineffective against me."

"So you really are after Hou Cang. Why?"

Wenfu sighed helplessly, "You really are..."

Lin Du lowered his eyes, sensing the blade touching the last bit of strength, and smiled slightly, "It seems this body is going to be ruined too. Wen Fu, leave me some last words, and I might take pity on you and tell you the second question."

"The power of the Heavenly Dao in the Lanju Realm weakened and could not be replenished, and the world's rules could not function, so it collapsed. You must already know the tragedy that resulted. But once the number of creatures in each world increases, the Heavenly Dao will always find some way to achieve balance."

"For example... a catastrophic disaster, species extinction, the world recuperates, and life is born anew."

"Heaven never shows mercy to us cultivators! You call your path righteous, following the will of Heaven and acting in accordance with Heaven's will! Have you ever considered that Heaven will not tolerate you!"

Wen Fu became agitated and coughed heavily, with drops of blood trickling down the bottom edge of his mask. He felt his connection to the energy source had become as thin as a thread, and he quickened his pace.

"The reason why the Insightful Realm is called the Great World is that cultivators have been able to extend to this day and prosper several times because they have been constantly replenishing their power to enter the Heavenly Dao."

"Junior Sister, guess how many of those recorded ascensions actually contributed to the Heavenly Dao? And why is there no record of that in the righteous scriptures? That wasn't ascension, but sacrifice!"

"You probably guessed it by now. The Heavenly Dao is unstable, and the binding force that was poured into it in batches is reduced. It's like a broken mirror. You see that the mirror as a whole is still there, but perhaps some tiny fragments have already fallen off."

"Would you like to guess how many fragments of the Heavenly Dao Qianyu possesses?"

"But what exactly does Heaven want to do? If you believe in Heaven, if you believe in the Way, then where does the Way exist? Where does Heaven stand?"

Lin Du raised an eyebrow slightly. Wen Fu spoke with absolute certainty that it was a fragment of the Heavenly Dao, yet he seemed completely unaware of the Three Poisons.

This surprised her somewhat.

"How do you know that it is a fragment of the Heavenly Dao and not some other demon or monster?"

Wenfu was barely breathing. "Answer my question first."

"Oh, I guessed." Lin Du dismissed him with four words.

Wen Fu let out a long sigh of anger. Seeing that his body was already ruined, he simply closed his eyes peacefully and waited for death.

Lin Du's words made him take another breath and open his eyes.

"Qianyu appeared too coincidentally, so I observed him more closely. I overheard him calling on the Third Elder to discuss matters in his room, but because the rules were too strong, I only managed to break through them for a moment."

The second half of the sentence is false. Lin Du didn't go to listen to it himself at all. Even if he were outside the window, he wouldn't have heard it. The barrier that Qian Yu set up inside the house couldn't even break the birds that Yan Qing released.

It was a seemingly normal lamp placed inside Qianyu House that heard it.

Inside is the eavesdropping technique that Lin Du stole from the hibiscus jade carvings in Fusifang. It's extremely useful.

It's a pity that it was just a few words. After that, Qianyu probably added another layer of barrier, which just happened to isolate that lamp.

The statement that Wenfu didn't believe was the truth.

Lin Du really guessed it.

The Third Elder was an option that neither Hu You nor she initially considered, because he had been following Qian Yu for a long time without any abnormalities; he was simply a demonic cultivator.

He only conspired with the Third Elder that day after hearing that they were going to deal with Hou Cang. After confirming that Wen Fu was taking special care of Hou Cang, he just made up a lie.

No matter how well a murderer tries to conceal it, he will always subconsciously return to the crime scene to confirm whether the target has been hit.

Wen Fu struggled to speak, his voice barely audible, "How do you think these inheritances came about? Which powerful being who can ascend to immortality wouldn't have a deep understanding of a Heavenly Dao rule and its related cultivation techniques? They sacrificed themselves, but the inheritance remains."

"I have visited many ancient tombs and found a lot of evidence. Today, I spoke with this Tree of Origin, and I can confirm that it is a fragment of the Heavenly Dao. Without me, you would all be fertilizer..."

"Like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, it's overestimating its own strength. I am... the oriole unaware of its prey."

After Wenfu finished speaking, he personally severed the connection with the energy in his heart and closed his eyes.

Lin Du expressionlessly pulled out his knife, looking down at the person who slowly slid down the tree trunk and fell to the ground, the body already lifeless.

A... demon's heart and a human body, with the demonic energy rooted within the heart serving as its power source.

The puppetry skills were superb.

"Is what it says true?" Lin Du glanced at the corpse, chuckled softly, and then looked directly at the "Tree of the Origin of Heaven's Dao".

"The books are fake, and the language is even more fake."

Having entered the path, my heart remains steadfast.

Lin Du slowly suppressed his smile, his gaze becoming calm, but there was indeed a connection between truth and falsehood.

Perhaps this thing is indeed related to the Way of Heaven.