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

Everyone in the Heavenly Palace knows that the Dao Ancestor has another personal disciple, the True Lord Lingwei, who is said to be exceptionally gifted. He ascended to heaven at the age of five hundred, mastered the method of opening chaos without a teacher, and will surely become a great figure in time.

In the immortal realm, age and time are the least important things. Lingwei Zhenjun's status and lineage are beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Lin Du listened to lectures every day and studied on his own after class. He never left the Holy Disciple's Hall. As a result, no one was able to see what this Lingwei True Lord looked like, and they gradually forgot about it.

Until one day, the ancient ruins reappeared.

Before the gates of the ruins were even opened, all the immortals in the Thirty-Three Heavens received the news. The celestial officials performed their duties, but the wandering immortals and those still cultivating had already begun to move upon hearing the news.

The news also reached the Holy Disciple Tian.

Lin Du didn't immediately think of going, after all, she was still looking for records of Houtu in the book, but perhaps because her level was not high enough, she couldn't find any records, not even records of Yin Huaitian.

Most importantly, she is poor, and without money, she can't move an inch. She also doesn't yet have a way to make money.

Yuan Ling liked this junior sister very much. She was well-behaved and sensible. She lived alone in the palaces of the Forbidden Land and the Ruins of Return and was very content. She was also very studious. After listening to the lecture, she would go to read and study. So Yuan Ling reminded her, "Don't work behind closed doors. There are many innate spiritual treasures and secret techniques in the ancient ruins. You should go and take a look. It's not for any advancement, but to broaden your horizons."

Upon hearing this, Lin Du also descended from the Heavenly Disciple.

The moment she appeared, everyone waiting in front of the ruins turned to look at this newcomer.

A stranger, dressed simply, a Taoist disciple with a white jade token at his waist, a direct disciple of Qingwei Heaven, with an extremely young bone age—this must be the legendary Lingwei True Lord.

Wei Zhi stood beside her, feeling the gazes around him, and said, "You're quite famous now."

After all, how many people cultivate the Dongzhen Dao? There are even fewer people who are truly direct disciples of the Dao Ancestor than those who ascend to immortality from the Wushang Sect.

Chu Guanmeng leaned on Lin Du's shoulder and said, "There are so many people."

Lin Du stood there casually. "It's okay, I'm used to it."

She has never been low-key in her life.

"To be honest, we're pretty poor. If I weren't a disciple of the Holy Disciple Heaven and got a house for free, I think we'd still be homeless."

Lin Du made up his mind to go in and steal as much stuff as possible.

None of her fellow disciples from Qingwei Heaven came down, and they rarely appeared during sermons, appearing and disappearing like ghosts. Apart from Yuanling, Lin Du had no one she could talk to.

Fortunately, she still had her father, who at least let her know that the common currency here was jade coins, while in the immortal cities of the Twenty-Eight Heavens, a house cost a million jade coins, and most people could only open their own cave dwellings in remote wilderness.

Lin Du is not just poor in appearance, he is truly poor.

They were dirt poor.

Chu Guanmeng whispered a reminder, "How come I remember that the ores from the Cold Moon Secret Realm can also be sold for money in the Immortal Realm?"

"That's your food reserves." Lin Du was very ethical. "It's best not to move unless absolutely necessary. I may not be good at anything else, but I'm quite good at scavenging. Trust me."

"Look at this group of people, each of them looks like they've lived for thousands of years. Can you possibly defeat them?" Chu Guanmeng expressed her concern.

This is different from the one below; Lin Du now only has two helpers.

"It's okay. At my age, I'm exactly at the age where I can pick up trash quickly and efficiently."

Lin Du glanced at Wei Zhi, who understood. "Don't worry, my dragon scales can hold their own."

It can hold a lot of things.

Lin Du was relieved.

Just as the group was whispering among themselves, the ancient divine ruins suddenly burst forth with brilliant light and overwhelming divine power.

But then, a vast, ancient wind swept out as the gate opened, repelling many immortals.

The crowd hurriedly approached, trying to break the seal on the gate. The two stone beasts at the gate seemed to sense something and instantly transformed into enormous beasts, causing chaos and destruction as they roared.

Lin Du was prepared and blocked his hearing. "Ah, what a boastful tone."

Chu Guanmeng was caught off guard and was almost blown away by the energy wave emitted by the beast's roar.

It clung tightly to Lin Du's clothes.

Lin Du felt the claws tearing through the fabric on his shoulder and felt a sense of despair. "I'm really poor."

She doesn't even have money to buy clothes. She's not a celestial official; the Dao Ancestor doesn't issue robes to his disciples!

With only a few sets of clothes, they wouldn't even qualify as robes in the Upper Realm; they're excessively plain, and now she's even torn one of them.

This has made matters worse for their already meager assets.

Chu Guanmeng apologized softly, "I can use moonlight to create one, but it will require some materials and time."

Lin Du shook his head, "No rush."

A fight has already broken out at the entrance.

The ancient behemoth was extremely powerful. The people in front were already locked in combat with it, and the sky was filled with dust and spiritual light, which was dazzling.

Chu Guanmeng questioned, "Why don't you go?"

"What would I be doing here? Delivering vegetables?" Lin Du was well aware of his own limitations. "I already said, I'm here to collect trash."

Once the fighting was nearly over, she went up again. The sealing formation on that door looked familiar, and it wasn't that she had no solution.

But isn't it true that the nail that sticks out gets hammered down?

"Lin Du, oh no, Lingwei Zhenjun, you haven't been in the Immortal Realm for long, you can't fall behind like this. Can you see through the formation and restrictions of this gate?" A voice came from ahead.

Those at the entrance, struggling to break free from the barrier under the pressure of the giant beast, all looked towards the cyan figure in the distance.

Lin Du sighed; Kaiyang had really gone to great lengths.

She's been waiting for this ladder.

This isn't some bad person who dislikes her and tries to sabotage her; this is a truly good person who has perfectly helped her achieve her goals at every step.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Lin Du leaped across the fierce battlefield and landed in front of the door.

She glanced at the towering stone gate of the ruins, stood beneath it, and looked up so high that she could barely see the top, which looked not much different from Wei Zhi's current form.

"It's not easy." Lin Du reservedly offered everyone a way out in advance.

But it's really not difficult.

Kaiyang stood before the stone pillar. "It was indeed not easy. This is the Heavenly Stone Gate, with ancient runes forming an array inside. It's not the kind of array stones commonly used by people in the lower realms and among wandering immortals today. I did manage to decipher the meaning of a few of the runes during my cultivation..."

"But it's no challenge for me at all," Lin Du said calmly. "The place you broke is a stone-activating talisman. Once broken, the stone comes to life, and a stone beast emerges."

Kaiyang: ...

Lin Du pointed them out one by one, finally looking at the perfectly round array pattern in the center. "Lord Kaiyang summoned me here, presumably because this is a fortune-dispelling array. I lack fortune, so you fear I won't be able to enter and will fall behind?"

Lin Du turned his head and looked directly at Kaiyang. "So, Star Lord, you specifically wanted to borrow my luck to open the array? You're such a good person."

Everyone suddenly realized, "Lord Kaiyang is really taking good care of the new Dao Lord."

Kaiyang was flattered, but his gentle face remained expressionless, only his eyelids twitched violently.

LOL, it's no challenge for her at all.

These are ancient runes, and they haven't fully translated and deciphered many of their meanings. How did Lin Du manage to understand them all?

Lin Du, who had inherited all the ancient runes in the Dongming Realm, had no idea how surprised Kaiyang was looking at him.

She pointed out, "All you need to do is infuse it with the immortal power of a person of good fortune, and at the same time divide it into the five elements to fill this five-colored array, and the gate will open."

Upon hearing this, everyone followed the runes representing the five elements pointed out by Lin Du and poured their immortal power into them. Kaiyang also raised his hand and poured his immortal power into the fortune-dispelling array.

The five-colored array was about to be broken, but the luck-dispelling array in the middle was still not filled.

Kaiyang's expression gradually became serious.

"True Lord Lingwei, how much immortal power do we need to replenish this formation?" Kaiyang turned to look at Lin Du, gritting his teeth as he squeezed out these words.

Lin Du glanced at it and said, "Sorry, I forgot you can't draw runes with immortal power. Wait a moment, I'll come and help you out."

She raised her hand, summoned the Floating Life Fan, poured in her immortal power, and used the top of the fan to condense the immortal power, quickly drawing a feng shui talisman to ward off misfortune in the air.

Seeing this, Kaiyang quickly used his immortal power to push the talisman into the array. In an instant, the array patterns spun rapidly, and the sound of gears turning could be heard. The Tongtian Stone Gate opened in response.

Lin Du calmly raised his eyes and said, "Thank you all for helping to open the door."

"Not at all, it is True Lord Lingwei who has studied this path so deeply. I have learned a lot from him today."

Everyone bowed respectfully to Lin Du, creating a very harmonious atmosphere.

Then someone behind shouted, "Hurry inside! The stone beast is about to smash the door!"

The wandering immortals who had wanted to approach Lin Du to chat scattered like birds and beasts in an instant.

Only Kaiyang glanced at her and asked, "How exactly did True Monarch Lingwei know the meaning behind those ancient runes?"

Lin Du answered honestly, "Although I don't know why your Upper Realm doesn't have the rune inheritance of the ancient gods, coincidentally, it does exist in the Dongming Realm, which you think you can destroy at will."

Kaiyang: ...

"I never said it could be destroyed at will." He was also very sincere.

"Isn't closing down the whole thing just destroying civilization?" Lin Du's gaze was calm, but the curve of his lips was undeniably sarcastic.

Kaiyang was even more sincere, saying, "When a person dies, the legacy is lost."

"It's sealed off, and the inheritors are all gone. If you go in, then the Cave Realm won't be sealed off anymore." Lin Du turned his theory into a vicious cycle.

Kaiyang then brought up another matter, "Is True Lord Lingwei doing well at Huanchen Palace?"

Wei Zhi suddenly spoke up, "The stone beast has caught up and is showing signs of going berserk. We should go in first."

The next instant, a silver dragon swept her away.

Chu Guanmeng desperately clung to the dragon scales, the wind blowing her furry ball into a shriveled mango pit. "No, can you slow down?!"

The silver dragon plunged into the thick fog, and after flying for a while, it shook off the stone beast behind it before slowing down.

Kaiyang was hit hard by the north wind, his face stiffened, and before he could make any move, the ground behind him shook heavily, and he quickly took off from the spot.

The group was chased by the stone beasts into a place filled with stone pillars.

The stone beast seemed to be afraid of something and retreated away dejectedly.

"This is..." Chu Guanmeng was stunned for a moment, looking at the stone pillar forest that appeared in front of her almost instantly.

Lin Du slid off the dragon's body, looked up to examine it, and said, "Ancient script, the most primitive version. It will take me a while to translate it."

After watching for a while, she suddenly spoke up, "They are the pillars of rules that each of the ancient gods represents."

No wonder the stone beasts dared not enter; the divine power here is extremely strong.

Lin Du suddenly looked up at the top of the towering stone pillars. "There's a teleportation array."

Lin Du never missed anything related to formations.

Even Kaiyang did not refute, "But please enlighten me, True Lord Lingwei."

Lin Du spoke up, "It seems like we're... about to pull the coffin lid off someone again."

Kaiyang: ?

Even though this might be a place left behind by ancient gods, the way you're talking sounds so creepy. Shenwei's expression turned sinister.

The group began to identify the ancient god represented by each stone pillar and choose the one that best suited their lineage.

Lin Du suddenly took out the Floating Life Fan. "Come on, choose one. We'll go in, whatever you say."

Kaiyang took a step back, turned to the boy holding his sword behind him, and asked, "Is she asking for an opinion on a fan?"

Moreover, it's a fan without the opinion of any spirit.

Where did that guy who seemed so knowledgeable, even about ancient runes? Was he just faking it?

The folding fan floated in Lin Du's palm. With a gentle flick of his slender index finger, it spun rapidly before slowly coming to a stop, facing a stone tablet with almost no writing on it.

Just as Kaiyang was about to look away, bored, he heard the boy behind him say, "It moved! It moved by itself!"

Kaiyang suddenly turned around and saw a heavy iron folding fan rushing straight toward a stone pillar.

Three other figures simultaneously darted out.

Lin Du forcefully stopped the folding fan, "Wait a little longer, let me finish reading the words on the stone tablet, it will only take a short while."

Kaiyang: ...It's really like seeing a ghost. How can a broken fan be so superstitious?

"Did True Lord Lingwei choose the site of his inheritance so hastily?"

Lin Du turned around. "Why would you think that?"

Kaiyang immediately stood still, wanting to hear Lin Du's explanation.

"Since we're going to have to go in anyway, let's just pick one randomly." Lin Du smiled. "I'll take my leave now."

She's still busy picking up trash.