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

No matter how hard Lin Du tries to escape, he can't escape returning to his sect.

Feng Yi came early in the morning to guard the door and keep watch over the people.

Lin Du wanted to escape, but he couldn't.

"What's wrong? You're Master Lin Du, the leader of array formations, even when you're out in the world. Why are you hiding like a ghost at home?"

Feng Yi narrowed his eyes, his long, narrow eyes filled with threat.

Lin Du immediately stood at attention. "I didn't."

Feng Yi patted her shoulder with a smile, "You better not, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Lin Du resigned himself to defeat, but after listening to Feng Yi's account, he felt he could still put up a fight.

"Why am I the one entering the Heavenly Crafting Pavilion? It sounds like the place where Second Senior Brother and Seventh Senior Sister would go. Besides, isn't the Heavenly Crafting Pavilion guarded by the Feng family for generations? Do you think the Feng family would agree to this?"

Feng Yi patted her face, "It's okay, your senior sister has already arranged everything for you. I know you're not particularly proficient in talisman techniques, you're just smart."

"Although only members of the Feng family and the top 100 in the Talisman Master Conference are qualified to challenge for entry into the Heavenly Crafting Tower, no one has been able to succeed in the past ten thousand years. I am now the elder sister of the Feng family head, and you are the leader of the Array Dao and a top 100 expert in the Insight Realm. It is not impossible for you to make an exception if you want a qualification."

Lin Du still tried to argue, "This...relying on connections and using back channels, isn't that a bit inappropriate?"

Feng Yi had been waiting for Lin Du to say something, "Then you can give it a try and compete for a top 100 spot. It'll be a good opportunity for me to test whether your talisman skills have improved."

Lin Du: ? Huh? You're waiting for her here?

"Senior sister believes in you, you can definitely do it, right!" Feng Yi looked at her with a smile, coaxing her gently, "The first hundred will get a magic weapon talisman pen and a hundred sheets of top-grade talisman paper! Do you know how expensive talisman paper is these days?"

Lin Du thought for a moment, "That works too."

Then the Paw Patrol members, who were happily enjoying their short vacation, were all dragged over, looking completely bewildered.

"Huh? Is our sect so short of money that even buying talisman paper is a problem?"

"Top 100? Doesn't seem too difficult, let's go! Let's grab it!!"

The group's faces were full of fighting spirit. After watching the whole thing, Feng Yi sighed and said, "It has to be Lin Du. He can get a group of people to suffer together with just a few words."

The Supreme Sect is really rich now.

Mines, treasures, and spiritual plants—they had everything, most of which were brought back by these kids.

A group of people were taken to a place for extra training by Feng Yi.

Lin Du posed a profound question, "Since Senior Sister is so good at teaching, why don't you take on a disciple during the Central State elections in a few years?"

Feng Yi tapped Lin Du on the head with his talisman brush. "Teaching you is tiring enough, why would I take on disciples?"

Lin Du resigned himself to his fate and lowered his head, but he remembered what Feng Chao had said about his seventh senior sister, and pondered it for a while.

A month later, all the Paw Patrol members, except for Mo Lin and Xia Tianwu, were sent to the Talisman Master Conference.

Fortunately, the first stage was very simple, and it was also a written test.

All four completed the test after the special training and passed with high scores.

The second test involves drawing talismans, with a time limit, and the top 100 in each rank will be selected.

Lin Du and Yan Qing relied on extensive reading, deep memory, and diligent practice; Ni Jinxuan relied on the powerful spiritual energy she harnessed; Yuan Ye… Yuan Ye formed his own school, relying on unorthodox methods.

His talismanic arts originated from the Lu Ban Book, but the system was different from what Feng Yi taught.

The books they copied from several secret realms and the Tree of Origin of Fallen Gods were verified by their teachers and found to be learnable. Alchemy, talismanic arts, mechanical arts, weapon crafting, formations, secret arts, and the like were all divided up for study, copied, and sent to the library.

Although it is a fallen god, it is still the earliest heavenly-grade secret manual, which is of great benefit to them.

All four successfully drew high-level spirit talismans within the allotted time. The power contained within them, after testing, was comparable to that of a Heavenly Grade talisman, allowing them to smoothly enter the top 100.

At this point, people also began to notice that these four people were neatly ranked near the bottom of the top 100.

"Wait, what are these four doing here?"

"A master of array formations, a master of mechanisms, a rising star in weapon crafting, a prodigy in spiritual martial arts... what are they doing here?"

"I've really had enough! Can't the Supreme Sect at least give people a way to live?!"

As they were talking, they saw the group walk neatly towards the platform. After saying something, the four of them went back and sat down on the stands, where they began to eat spirit peaches.

Everyone: ??? The third level is about to begin, what are these four doing?

Lin Du held a peach in one hand for Chu Guanmeng to eat, and ate one himself with the other, saying, "Why does this Tiangong Tower only open after the competition is over?"

Yan Qing put away her notebook, making sure no peach juice got on it, and asked, "You guys really aren't going to try it?"

"I know my own limitations," Yuan Ye commented sincerely. "We only relied on intensive training and only know a few kinds of Heavenly Grade Spirit Talismans. It's only thanks to Uncle Feng Yi's blessing that we made it into the top 100."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a cold voice rang out, "What do you mean, 'God bless'?"

The group sat up straight at the same time. Feng Yi stared at Lin Du, "Why aren't you continuing?"

Lin Du spread his hands, "I can't."

Are you kidding me? She's only studied a few books on talismans. How can she compare to those talisman masters?

If she had another ten years, she would dare to go up and confront him again.

Lin Du had a clear understanding of his own abilities, and the group of apprentices he trained also had a full understanding of their own capabilities.

Their skill in talismanic arts is merely adequate, not a weakness, but certainly not exceptional.

They've only lived for a few decades? Specializing in just one thing is already impressive, let alone comparing themselves to these old monsters? Isn't that just suicide?

It's more reassuring to hold the talisman pen and paper in your hand.

Anyway, quite a few people withdraw from each round, so it doesn't matter if there are four of them.

The four had no idea what rumors were circulating about them for not participating in the third round of the competition.

Some say that the people from the Supreme Sect passed by the Talisman Art Competition, casually took a place in the top 100, and then, finding it uninteresting, decided not to participate further; others say that they came specifically to test their skills, fearing that taking first place would leave no room for others, so they deliberately did not participate in the finals.

When everyone found out later, the story had become increasingly outrageous. When they returned, the four of them were given a stern lecture by Feng Chao, who warned them not to take the competition lightly, as it was disrespectful. They were punished by copying the scriptures ten times.

After that, the Supreme Sect deliberately kept a low profile and went into seclusion.

Lin Du also successfully arrived at the Tiangong Tower, which had been guarded by the Feng family for generations, after the Talisman Art Competition.

Only with the personal leadership of the Feng family patriarch and the combined efforts of the nine Feng family elders could the restrictions on the forbidden area be broken, allowing them to see the true Heavenly Craft Tower.

Lin Du wasn't the first person this year to try and enter the Heavenly Crafts Pavilion. In fact, as soon as she entered, she saw someone fall vertically into a lake in a bizarre manner.

She carefully scanned the area, then cautiously asked Feng Yi beside her, "Where is the Heavenly Crafts Pavilion?"

She doesn't seem to have seen it.

Feng Yi raised his chin. "This is it."

Lin Du paused for a moment and looked ahead.

The water and sky blend into one, the lake reflecting the entire sky, and in the center of the lake, there is not an island, but a large, verdant tree with a lush canopy. It appears to be deeply rooted in the lake, its gnarled roots exposed, not menacing, but rather exuding a sense of lush greenery.

The sky reflects in the water, and the trees illuminate the lake; the purest water and trees between heaven and earth blend seamlessly under the sunlight.

"That's the Heavenly Craftsmanship Pavilion, entirely created by nature, not by human hands." Feng Yi stood beside Lin Du with his arms crossed, his eyes filled with pride, admiration, and a barely perceptible regret.

"The Feng family's responsibility is not only to protect, but also to pass on the legacy."

"Throughout history, no one from the Feng family, except for the patriarch, has ever entered the Heavenly Crafting Tower. I was once a candidate for the young master of the Feng family. I established my foundation at the age of ten and drew the first spiritual talisman that borrowed the power of heaven and earth at the age of thirteen."

"The Feng family's unique skill is to draw talismans out of thin air. Many people cannot comprehend it even after thousands of years, but I learned it when I was twenty."

Feng Yi always kept his back straight, like a proud swan, or perhaps more like a born success story.

"I once thought that I could inherit the legacy of Tiangonglou on my own, but I did not receive recognition."

Feng Yi's voice suddenly fell silent. "But the Feng family has another mission: to find the true successor. Your aptitude for talisman arts is not very high. Back then, I wanted your master to try his hand at the Heavenly Crafts Pavilion. He told me that array formations are things that require precise and meticulous calculations, which is completely contrary to the essence of the Heavenly Crafts Pavilion."

"But when I first saw you gazing intently out the window during a break from studying, I suddenly thought, maybe you can do it."

"Natural scenery, in fact, doesn't seem to have anything strange or surprising to me, but you always seem to never get tired of it, and you always manage to discover very small things."

"A bird's tail feather has fallen off, a tiny wildflower at the base of a tree, drifting clouds in the sky, and stars at night."

She paused for a moment, then said, "Lin Du, you haven't even realized it yourself, but you have a natural appreciation and admiration for nature."

Lin Du understood after listening.

Feng Yi didn't understand, but she did.

She had been to the modern world and was dazzled by the city's skyscrapers and light pollution at night. Now that she's back, everything seems so strange to her.

It turns out that Feng Yi was attracted to her naive and unsophisticated appearance.

Lin Du felt he needed to prepare a preliminary plan for her first, "But my brain is an artificial brain, very artificial, it's the brain of a natural array master, haha."

Her speed in calculating and understanding formations is also influenced by modern physics, chemistry, and advanced mathematics.

Feng Yi gave her a push, "You have to give it a try."

"I can't bring your master here, but I'll bring you here."

Lin Du nodded and flew towards the Tiangong Building.