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

When three more people sat on the ground atop the peak, Hou Cang still couldn't understand how he could sit peacefully with the two people he used to hate the most, and drink together.

Hou Cang glanced at Wei Zhi beside him, shifted his position, and silently sat down on the other side.

Lin Du is fine, but Wei Zhi is still an eyesore.

Even if someone has a pitiful background, they're still an eyesore.

"Speaking of which, you've been to the Peacock Clan before?"

Wei Zhi drank spirit fruit juice, Lin Du drank fruit honey wine, and Hou Cang drank spirit wine that he got from Wei Zhi.

Whether it tastes good or not is another matter, but it's probably quite expensive.

"I thought you would ask about the fragments of the Fallen God." Lin Du pulled out Han Yue Ling and handed it an iron basin.

Wei Zhi lowered his eyes, the wide sleeves of his soft linen monk's robe falling lightly onto the rock. "Is there anything you want to ask me?"

Hou Cang couldn't stand it anymore. He turned around, his face like that of a banished immortal, and said bluntly, "Aren't you, this Buddhist cultivator, just making small talk? What could my junior sister possibly want from you...?"

"Yes," Lin Du said.

Hou Cang: ...

He quietly moved a little further away from Lin Du.

He still disliked those two people, just as he suspected.

"Isn't demonic energy the three poisons that were created when the fallen god was still a god?" Lin Du asked calmly.

Hou Cang's hand suddenly trembled, spilling all the spirit wine onto his tiger's mouth. He turned to look at the two people.

Wei Zhi calmly met Shang Lindu's gaze and said, "Yes."

"You knew all along." Lin Du stared at his overly exotic amber eyes.

Those eyes were naturally pale, with a vague gaze, and always seemed insincere.

"I knew it all along." Wei Zhi was also looking at Lin Du, who had no aura left after the battle and seemed unable to use his spiritual power.

"The Three Poison Seals weren't something you set up casually; you did it on purpose." Lin Du looked at him, as if he were looking at his past self.

Wei Zhi couldn't help but laugh. "Nothing can be hidden from you. How did you figure it out? Even the patriarch of the Peacock Clan and the current Dharma King of Buddhism didn't notice."

Lin Du turned his head away, no longer looking at him, thinking to himself, "Just as I thought."

When she sealed the source of demonic energy that day, the red rope on her wrist was very hot, but the situation was urgent and she didn't have time to judge.

Later, during her conversation with Yue Chen that day, she remembered something.

"Why is it called a demon? It steals wisdom and life, destroys the Dharma, merits, and good roots; therefore, it is called a demon." Lin Du always recited at a very fast pace. "The sutra says: All Buddhas, from their very origin, are always in the three poisons."

"That day I suddenly realized that things that we Taoists cannot judge at all can be easily explained by you Buddhists."

Wei Zhi couldn't help but laugh, "Those great sorcerers have chanted scriptures for thousands of years, but they are no match for a Taoist genius like you."

"A genius is a genius no matter where they are," Lin Du said calmly. "It's not that being in one place makes someone a genius."

Hou Cang felt that this was not right; he was definitely not a genius when it came to formations.

But he couldn't get a word in edgewise.

Wei Zhi nodded. "That's why I wanted to take you as my apprentice back then."

Hou Cang then said, "Then you should think about it."

The two continued without being interrupted by Hou Cang, "I also had my doubts, so I checked it out."

"How do I verify it?"

Wei Zhi did not answer. "The source of demonic energy contains the scattered power of the fallen gods. It took tens of thousands of years for that power to barely condense into a single entity. However, the power of the fallen gods cannot be completely separated from the Three Poisons, so most of what you encounter has a strong concentration of the Three Poisons."

"That fragment from six thousand years ago?" Lin Du suddenly realized. "No wonder it said I had no idea how enormous the complete fragment was. That oil field that spans two worlds must be huge."

It's laughable, really. The upper realm probably sealed the fallen god with a Buddha's bone, and the fallen god was inseparable from the three poisons inside the seal, decaying and decaying like rotten roots underground.

You thought that tree was calm and peaceful, and that it would grow a new bud in the spring ten thousand years later, but you didn't expect that the inside of the new bud had long been rotten and smelly.

That was not the hope of new life, but the end of decay.

"An oil field?" Wei Zhi asked, puzzled.

"It's just a metaphor, it's not important." Lin Du finished the half-full pot of wine in his hand, his face turning even paler.

The danger has been confirmed; Lin Du is currently unable to use his spiritual power.

His eyes flickered, and he asked again, "Lin Du, do you regret it?"

Hou Cang was confused, what did Lin Du regret?

"I have no regrets," Lin Du said, lowering his eyes. "As long as I don't die, even if I lose everything, as long as I can get rid of the parasitic dodder, I will have no regrets."

"But you've become half a cripple now, even if it's only temporary, all for the sake of killing gods and bringing peace to the world," Wei Zhi reminded her.

"You said it yourself, it's only temporary." Lin Du raised her chin. Without any spiritual power to manifest, her gray eyes shone with a sharp silver light under the clear sky. "I have the courage to start all over again, as long as there is still time and opportunity."

"But you didn't know before you acted that you might not be able to withstand the power of the rules and would die. Perhaps the Fallen God is powerful enough..."

Before Wei Zhi could finish speaking, Lin Du turned around and met his eyes again. Her voice was hoarse from the sweet wine, "Master Wei Zhi, Lin Du of the Supreme Sect has the best calculation ability in the world."

"Including Yan Ye."

"I am the best in the world."

"So I can't have miscalculated."

"I actually thought about it that day, whether I should drag my master down a bit more, but after I calculated it, I felt that with me and my senior brother, that was enough."

Hou Cang's hand holding the wine pot trembled again.

"So you can trust me."

"What price would I have to pay for another chance?" Wei Zhi looked at Lin Du and finally decided to return to the path he should have taken after his unorthodox path.

Lin Du thought for a moment, "I don't want much. You can calculate the value of a life yourself."

"I understand now. My entire fortune is probably not enough. I'll have to trouble you to go to the Buddhist temple in person and discuss it further." Wei Zhi stood up. "How much longer will it take for you to recover?"

Lin Du's gaze swept over the faint white mark on his hand.

It seems she wasn't the only disabled person present.

"I will restore the temporary seal on the source of demonic energy before it is completely exhausted," Lin Du said after finishing her business.

Wei Zhi turned around and said, "That means within a year. After that, I'll have to come and bother Master Lin Du often."

Lin Du smiled and said, "No problem."

As Hou Cang watched Wei Zhi leave, he inexplicably felt that the light, floating figure seemed to have actually landed on the ground.

He couldn't understand, but he would still ask, "Junior Sister, what are you two talking about?"

Lin Du withdrew his gaze. "Wei Zhi agreed to sacrifice himself to the demon, permanently sealing the source of the demonic energy."

Hou Cang was taken aback for a moment, "Huh?"

He stood there, unable to resist taking one last look at Wei Zhi's departing figure. "Then...then...was what you were just discussing about sending him into reincarnation?"

"He can't enter the cycle of reincarnation," Lin Du said calmly. "But that's alright, I have a way."

The jade slip that Wei Zhi gave her that day contained a formation.

A formation that allows for flexibility and leaves room for maneuver.

"With his personality, how could he accept such a fate?" Hou Cang frowned, his tone no longer showing the disdain he had before.

Lin Du lowered his head and said softly, "Perhaps it's because he's been walking for a long time and hasn't reached the starting point of hope yet."

But it doesn't matter. Lin Du is good at calculating. She made a promise in her previous life, and it's time to fulfill that promise in this life.

Of course, the amount of money is essential.