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

The courtyard, covered with vines, is so dark that even during the day, the sun cannot be seen.

Mo Lin, leaning on his sword staff, stood before the array patterns. "It's the sixth day."

The person behind him who was helping to process the medicinal herbs straightened up, glanced at the sky, and said, "It's getting dark; they should be back soon."

Granny Ma sat to one side, looking at the strange and unusual medicinal herbs. She glanced at Xia Tianwu, who was exceptionally talented. It would be fine to pass on some medical skills to her, but passing them on to Lin Du would be a waste.

She looked at the array pattern that was still lit up.

In one more day, this array will go out, the gates of hell will close, and those people will never return.

She looked away. "Are you all usually so quiet?"

Xia Tian was somewhat surprised by this. "Don't you prefer quiet?"

Granny Ma turned her head and said, "I thought there wasn't a single person in your Supreme Sect who didn't argue."

Summer, unaware of what was happening, suddenly laughed.

Mo Lin explained, "Tian Wu likes quiet. I talk a lot, but I'm also a blunt person who doesn't know his own limitations and always says the wrong thing, so I'll stop talking."

He wouldn't care in front of acquaintances, but now that Granny Ma held the lives of his fellow disciples in her hands, he dared not say anything reckless.

The atmosphere among the three in the courtyard was inexplicably tense. Just as the atmosphere was about to sink again, taking advantage of the last ray of daylight, several small, floating paper figures suddenly emerged from the formation. Their souls had not yet returned to their places, but their voices had already become loud.

"Hey, how about that! I told you we wouldn't stay until the last day to come back!" A boastful voice broke the silence.

"Oh, finally I saw the light! I was so scared that I got ink all over myself. It was the ink and brushes I managed to bring in."

"What do you mean 'hard-won'? That's ink and brush that I painstakingly cut out! Don't you know what a ghost talisman is for delivering gifts? Hurry up and thank your father."

"My father is still in the mortal world." The little paper figure pounced on the paper figure next to it and splattered ink on it, instantly making both of them look like they had just been fished out of an ink vat.

"That's enough." Lin Du's voice rang out as he strode forward. "If you don't get back to your positions, do you want to disband? Or will I send you all back to hell?"

A group of tiny figures frantically ran towards their meditating bodies, while two pitch-black figures tumbled and crawled away, returning to their white state the moment they were freed.

The four of them finally returned to their own bodies.

"I didn't dare look back at all along the way. The evil spirits along the way pounced on us like hungry tigers when they saw us breaking through the gates of hell. They all knew we were people from above and wanted to drag us down." Yuan Ye clutched his chest, still shaken.

"I almost couldn't make it up." Yan Qing wasn't much better.

As soon as Ni Jinxuan's spirit returned to its place, she turned to her senior brother excitedly, "Senior brother, it's such a pity you didn't see it! Fourth Uncle's sword strike was incredibly powerful! Even more powerful than your first sword strike, Senior Brother!"

Their journey back from the River Styx was relatively safe until they reached the Gates of Hell. However, when they were about to enter the Gates of Hell, a group of evil spirits suddenly appeared and attacked them after discovering that they were living souls. This was only slightly better than the group of ghosts they had encountered in the River Styx.

If the fight continues, they will certainly not survive.

It was at that time that they truly witnessed the sword intent of a cultivator at the Formless Realm.

Even though it was just a ghost, that sword strike was like a rainbow piercing the sun. It swept across the area, carrying a chilling killing intent that swept away all the vengeful and greedy ghosts around it. It looked down on the group of evil spirits with equal indifference. The sword energy raged and lingered for a long time.

Under Hou Cang's cover, Lin Du successfully opened the hidden door and led the others out of the Gate of Hell together.

Ordinary array masters can naturally set up ghost gate arrays, but once the ghost gates are opened, evil spirits will take the opportunity to cause trouble, sneaking into the ghost gate arrays with the intention of returning to the human world.

Mo Lin and Xia Tian were outside for this very reason.

But none of them expected that Lin Du's Ghost Gate Formation was no ordinary Ghost Gate Formation. It had a hidden entrance, and ordinary ghosts would not be able to find it from within.

The few who followed Lin Du down to the underworld were unaware, but the three outside saw it all clearly.

Not a single ghost emerged, because not a single ghost found the hidden door to Lin Du.

"If it weren't for the fact that you're a junior, senior brother, I'm afraid the title of the number one sword genius in Zhongzhou would be lost." Ni Jinxuan continued to ramble on.

Hou Cang had just returned to his body when he heard this. His expression stiffened, and he turned his head away, not used to this kind of topic.

"What's wrong with that? Throughout history, there have been countless outstanding figures among sword cultivators. Today it's me, tomorrow it's you. We are all sword cultivators of our Supreme Sect, so it's not surprising that we can become the number one genius," Mo Lin replied subconsciously. "Especially since it's Fourth Uncle, it's even more normal."

Upon hearing this, Granny Ma turned around and glanced at Mo Lin. This guy isn't just straightforward and doesn't know how to talk; he's quite eloquent.

Lin Du handed the cup of Styx water that had not yet melted to Granny Ma.

Granny Ma lowered her head and looked for a while. "Is this the water of the River Styx?"

"Absolutely true," Lin Du replied.

Granny Ma took it, her hands sticky from the ice cup. She remained silent for a moment, then nonchalantly transferred the Styx water into her own bottle and shattered the ice cup in her hand with her yin energy.

"After your trip to the underworld, remember to take care of your body. I taught Xia to refine a batch of pills."

"Your pills are the most troublesome. They require a lot of slow-release additives and are a bit larger than others'. She said she wants to refine them separately and has been considering it for several days."

After Grandma Ma finished speaking casually, she got up and was about to go inside when she inadvertently stumbled upon the scene before her. She couldn't help but twitch her lips slightly.

Those people who had just come out of the underworld had each been given a pill. As the sun set, the four of them stood in a row, looking very familiar and steaming.

Hou Cang stared at the wisps of smoke rising from the heads of the two boys beside him for a moment, then raised his hand to touch the top of his head, becoming even more stiff.

He looked at his second nephew, hesitant to speak, and then hesitated again. He tried to use his spiritual power to create a gust of wind to blow it away, but failed. Instead, it turned into a human-shaped self-propelled steam engine.

Lin Du laughed out loud, but Hou Cang stood in a row with the three grinning children, his face cold, acting as a still kettle.

Ni Jinxuan, who had no close relationship with Xia Tian, ​​blurted out, "Senior Sister! Your alchemy fire has gotten too strong again?"

Xia Tian offered no sincere apology, "This time it wasn't. This time it was intentional. The Yin energy that has been entangled in the Underworld for seven days is extremely heavy, so I had to increase the intensity for you."

Lin Du ate the pill under the eager gazes of the group. Apart from some difficulty in swallowing, he was unaffected after using his spiritual power to neutralize the medicinal effects. He remained calm and composed.

Hou Cang was devastated. "Why isn't she steaming?!"

Before Xia Tian could explain, Lin Du spoke up, "Because I'm a rather steady and reserved person."

Hou Cang: ...? What does this have to do with anything!

He glared at him, his eyes blazing with anger, which finally made Lin Du burst into laughter again. The previously ethereal figure could only silently steam and shrivele up like a mushroom in the corner under the setting sun.

Lin Du turned his head with a smile, rubbing the new ring on his finger, when he suddenly overheard the group discussing their upcoming itinerary.

"I may have to stay here for a while. Granny Ma wants to pass on some unorthodox medical skills and pharmacology to me."

Mo Lin hesitated for a moment, "Should I stay and keep you company? And also guard this place. There are likely to be more demons here in the future, so it's only right that I stay."

Anyway, they are at the right age and level of cultivation from their training outside, so it's not a big deal if they don't return to the sect.

Xia Tian remained noncommittal, but Yan Qing remembered something, "Junior Uncle, how did you recognize it as the Ghost Emperor at a glance back then?"

"Because there were evil spirits following her all the way, but when she appeared, all the evil spirits around her turned and ran away. Logically speaking, she should be an evil spirit that is more powerful than them."

"She is clearly an evil spirit, yet she has no ghostly aura at all; she is closer to the realm of Heaven."

Lin Du smiled. "Besides the Ghost Emperor, I can't think of anyone else."

As Lin Du spoke, she vaguely sensed that Yan Qing's question was not as simple as just asking one question. She rubbed the ring on her index finger with one hand, listening to their sighs.

"Then what did you say to the Ghost Emperor back then... about reincarnation?"

Lin Du pressed his hand on the ring, his expression calm and composed. "I don't reincarnate, I ascend. That makes sense, right?"

Yan Qing was suspicious. "But the Heavenly Realm also goes through reincarnation. When their blessings are exhausted, they will return to reincarnation with their karma. It's just that compared to mortal cultivators, the time for reincarnation is too long, so it's as if there is no reincarnation at all."

Lin Du nodded, "You said it yourself, compared to mortal cultivators, that's just how it is."

Yan Qing was a little skeptical, but Lin Du was too calm. Ni Jinxuan also didn't believe it, but her junior uncle said that to see if someone was lying, you had to see if they dared to look directly at her, whether they touched their nose, blinked, or made any small movements with their hands.

Lin Du looked so normal that no one could detect a single flaw.

"Don't look at me like that. My belief is that we only live once." Lin Du smiled and patted Jin Xuan, who looked worried and confused. "I won't be able to meet you guys in my next life, so cherish the people in front of you."

Ni Jinxuan was convinced; it sounded very reasonable.

"So where should we go next? If our senior brother and second senior sister are going to team up, then we'll team up too!" Yuan Ye sensed something and changed the subject.

Lin Du sighed, "It's all thanks to Yuan Ye's cleverness."

A group of children huddled together. Hou Cang walked up to Lin Du and said, "I heard you."

Lin Du froze, then heard Hou Cang continue, "Their cultivation level is insufficient, but I heard it."

"Abandoning reincarnation, imprisoning oneself in the Realm of Enlightenment, stealing a sliver of heaven?"

Hou Cang stood before Lin Du, the white smoke above his head still lingering. He lowered his eyes and glanced at Lin Du. "Also, what does it mean that someone who has abandoned reincarnation has their corpse in the River Styx?"

His brows were sharp and imposing, and when he looked down at people, he exuded a heavy sense of oppression.

Lin Du had already come up with a solution. "It's a long story. My heart is a bit overloaded. I found a medicinal herb in the River Styx and now I need to go into seclusion to refine it. Granny Ma, could you spare me an empty room in your house?"

When faced with a problem, retreat into seclusion to resolve it.

She lifted her foot to leave, but Hou Cang used his footwork to block Lin Du's path.

Lin Du exclaimed, "You're training me again! You've already lost to me twice in footwork."

As she spoke, she used the same footwork, feinted around the sky, turned around and ascended into the heavens. She landed steadily in the courtyard, found the small room where she used to live, and casually pulled out a broken wooden sign that read "Do Not Disturb During Seclusion" from a corner. She hung it up and then neatly set up the formation.

Hou Cang chased after him to the room in the backyard, furious. "Lin Du! You always cheat when you win! I'll tell my master!"

"Your master, your master, she won't blame me, she'll only comfort me!"

Hou Cang: ...That's true.

"I'll tell your master!"

"Can you even get into Loze?"

Hou Cang: ...So annoying, he really can't get in, Yan Ye didn't even look at him properly.

Although Yan Ye never really "looked" at anyone.

After dealing with Hou Cang, Lin Du turned and went to bed.

She wasn't entirely wrong; she did need some medicine, otherwise she probably wouldn't last much longer.

The dead will be reincarnated seven years after their death, and they will begin to reincarnate one after another after that. The peak period of spiritual practice will be reached within the last five hundred years.

She secluded herself for three years to digest the rare and precious herbs she had previously prepared for to repair her heart.

Lin Du used his divine sense to open the storage ring. There were no spirit stones inside, only medicine and spirit liquid.

She vaguely knew that the spiritual liquid was probably from Wei Zhi's side. It was something he hadn't used when he was a ghost, so he stuffed it in with a few bottles of pills.

Lin Du suddenly recalled the scene of taking pills on his first day in the cultivation world.

That day, she choked on a pill so hard her eyes rolled back, but she had seen the pills in Du Shao and Su Mu's hands before. Those pills were not the size of ordinary people who would choke if swallowed.

Only Xia Tianwu and Jiang Liang would add auxiliary ingredients when refining their own pills to slow down the release of the medicinal power. Ordinary doctors and pill refiners would choose to use smaller doses because the slow-release auxiliary ingredients could not be precisely controlled, and the dosage might be uncontrollable.

Only those with exceptional skills and daring, and who are more willing to delve into research, would choose this method, just to reduce the number of times Lin Du forgets to take his medicine.

But that pill clearly showed no trace of any strange fire, Jiang Liang…

Is that Fifth Senior Brother?

Fifth Senior Brother doesn't seem like the type to agree to her plan.

Summer is not like that time...

Lin Du held the scattered pills in his hand and carefully sorted through the fragments of memory.

In front of the courtyard, the three children met Hou Cang's face, which seemed more lively than usual.

"Fourth Uncle, Junior Uncle and Senior Brothers and Sisters all want to stay here. Can we still leave? There must be a lot of demons at that border, right?" Ni Jinxuan was pushed forward by the two, relying on her obedient image that no elder would refuse, and tentatively asked in a low voice, "Can the three of us go first?"

Hou Cang looked at the two huge creatures behind his junior disciple and suddenly felt that the next generation of the Supreme Sect was doomed.

Do two grown men really need a little girl to support them?

"I'll go with you." He coughed lightly. "Going to the border to exorcise demons is our original purpose. Ignore those three."

These three were unreliable, and his sense of responsibility, which he hadn't had for centuries, suddenly began to grow wildly, and he began to understand the heavy worries of his elders.

Elsewhere, Xia Tian looked at the pill formulas and asked, "Do you have any more pill formulas here?"

"Yes, some medical cultivators have asked me about the antidote for Gu poison before. Because they were unable to kill, they left behind many pill formulas that they used to treat and compensate for the aftereffects of Gu poison in exchange. I can't refine pills in this body, so these are useless to me, but they can be used by you medical cultivators."

"The reason I chose to teach you is because I read your booklet. You are quite good at writing. In the future, this secret recipe for Gu medicine will be passed down after you finish writing it down."

Xia Tianwu took the pill formulas and saw several formulas among them that he hadn't been able to learn from his master: "Azure Condensation Pill? Ascending Yuan and Rejuvenating Heart Pill? Golden Crow Profound Yuan Pill? Divine Thought and Far-Reaching Will Pill?"

"You said that most of the Gu poison resides in the heart and the divine palace, which explains why there are so many elixirs to slow down heart failure and replenish divine consciousness. After the Gu poison is removed, the original essence is indeed easily depleted, so these elixirs to replenish the original essence are very useful."

Summer, without realizing it, looked up, her expression sincere, and said crisply, "Thank you, Granny Ma, these are very useful."