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

After receiving the letter left by Lin Du, Xia Tianwu and the others began to act separately.

Yan Qing and Yuan Ye closed the door and buried themselves in studying what Lin Du wanted. Ni Jinxuan and Mo Lin began searching for the whereabouts of the Heavenly Dog in the Immortal Realm. Xia Tianwu joined the Heavenly Medicine Department and began to carefully read through the classics.

The Heavenly Palace seemed unusually calm. It was common for a Dao Lord to go into seclusion, and no one suspected Lin Du's whereabouts.

In other words, the star lords and Dao lords of various prefectures sometimes feel that they are not used to the absence of a wandering person.

But the lifespan of immortals is so long. Even the most memorable person is ultimately just a beautiful cloud that once flowed before one's eyes. At the time, one only felt that it was breathtakingly beautiful, but many years later, it is difficult to recall why the clouds on that day were so captivating.

In the celestial realm, outside a bottomless cave in the Nagano Forest.

Sheng Yan frowned. "This divination... is extremely ominous."

Upon hearing this, Mo Lin gripped his sword tighter. "Junior Uncle said that there aren't many places that can trap Er Gou. Perhaps it's a place without the light of the sun and moon. Yan Qing has been looking at the map for a long time and listed places that even the sun and moon can't reach. This is the only place left that we haven't found."

Sheng Yan straightened up. "Forget it, whether it's fierce or not, I'm tough. I can't just abandon a dog like this. Thank you."

She drew her twin swords from her waist and was the first to descend into the cave.

The cave entrance was filled with miasma and teeming with poisonous insects. With a few slashes, flames roared and crackled, and countless poisonous insects were burned, leaving a burnt smell.

Even at this moment, Sheng Yan still had the mind to joke, "It's a pity it's poisoned, otherwise my Tiansheng Restaurant could have another new seasonal dish."

In the next instant, sword energy and blade light appeared simultaneously. A giant snake-hunting rat confronted the two for a moment before finally being defeated.

Further inside, weak screams could be heard.

"Hey, you guys are back! Could you please stop swarming bugs on me? I'm really scared of bugs, and this rat, it's huge!!! I'm terrified!!"

feast:……

The cave was cramped, forcing Mo Lin to bend over, his feet wading through sewage, making a slight noise as he walked.

"You're a dog, no, you're a cat!! You're afraid of that? Is that reasonable? Do you know how much I begged and pleaded, searching everywhere for you, even going to the Heavenly Palace! And you've been hiding in this place for decades?"

The angry roar of the feast echoed in the narrow cave.

"Oh, no, that's not it." Er Gou's voice suddenly became calm. "The main problem is that I can't get out. I've lost my head."

Mo Lin: ...?

"What's gone?" Sheng Yan was stunned.

"Ouch, my head, is that strange? It's all the fault of the person who woke me up before not sewing it up properly, plus... the formation in this place is my natural enemy, you all have to be careful too, I'm being burned by ten thousand poisons, I can't get out."

After the feast was lit, she discovered that a headless celestial dog was huddled inside the cave, seemingly afraid of frightening her, and only facing her with its weathered back.

"So what if I lost my head? Why are you looking for me? Why come here to die?" Er Gou said casually. "If I lost my head, I'd just be trapped. If you come, you're doomed."

Mo Lin looked down at the shimmering water at his feet. It turned out that it wasn't the water from the cave, but rather swarming insects. As soon as he retreated, the insects began to surge upwards at high speed, trying to devour him.

Tengu's voice rang out again, "Don't back down! This insect is called a Ghost Sucker. It doesn't bite the flesh, it bites the soul. If the soul is poisoned, there is no cure."

"Burning with ten thousand poisons," he said softly. "So that's how it is."

The young immortal's voice echoed softly in the cave, then he laughed, "What a coincidence, my wife is naturally resistant to this kind of evil formation."

Sheng Yan's lips twitched, and he could actually detect excitement in Mo Lin's tone, "Your Supreme Sect is really not on the same path as us."

The Tongtian Sect believes that it's better to rely on oneself than on others, and the Wushang Sect believes that relying on oneself is not enough to establish itself, so it's like the horse shaking people.

The two humans and half-dog crouched inside the cave, not daring to move. Above, poisonous insects kept gathering, some weaving webs, others flapping their wings. Below, ghost-sucking insects throbbed incessantly. The firelight illuminated their dark carapaces, giving off an ominous, mottled, poisonous glow.

Three days later, a blazing sword aura, with a winding and graceful arc, plunged into the labyrinthine cave, crackling and popping wherever it went, while a faint, bitter medicinal scent wafted into their nostrils.

Sheng Yan looked at Mo Lin, "Isn't it shameful to send your wife to rescue you?"

Mo Lin opened his eyes wide, revealing an innocent and pure heart, "Why is it embarrassing? She's so amazing, I love her even more."

The grand feast was held in silence, a testament to the unpredictable and unconventional nature of the Supreme Sect.

"Let's go, let's go." Mo Lin gestured for Sheng Yan to lead the half-dog out, and then raised his hand to clear the path they had come from with the Divine Firmament Sword Qi, so that Xia Tianwu could walk more smoothly, and also to light up the dim cave.

"Tianwu! Thank goodness you're here!" Before even turning the corner, Mo Lin saw the water-colored skirt and took a big step, his dark eyes instantly brightened by the water color.

"How are you? Are you hurt?" Xia Tian didn't reach out her hand out of habit, but Mo Lin's wrist had already been placed in her hand for her to take his pulse.

"It's alright." Xia Tianwu was relieved. "It was the right thing to stay still. Without my strange fire and antidote to break this evil formation, it would indeed be a certain death situation."

Mo Lin said softly, "This thing is a ghost-sucking insect; I don't know if its soul is affected."

Xia Tian glanced at the person who was bent over, raised his hand and pressed it against his forehead, making him lean back. "That's enough. Everyone knows what you're thinking."

Mo Lin wasn't flustered when he was exposed; he just smiled. His tall figure resembled a giant dog, following closely behind Xia Tianwu, his sword held high like a dog's tail.

She looked towards the grand feast that followed, "How are you?"

"I'm alright, but the Tengu..." Sheng Yan paused, "...what do we do without a head?"

"I can survive," the headless raccoon said. "It's not a big problem. When I become human, I can think of a way to avoid becoming a headless person."

Xia Tian glanced at the Tengu being held by Sheng Yan, "If we find the head, I can find a way to reattach it."

She learned a lot from the craftsmen, which is not a big deal.

"The problem lies with the dog," Er Gou said lazily. "He was taken away by something even more of a dog than me."

"Who?" Mo Lin and Xia Tianwu both looked at Er Gou at the same time.

"Probably... someone with the power of the sun. I sensed something was wrong, and on a whim, I tried to devour that sun that came from an illegitimate source, but I ended up being killed instead."

Tengu is immortal and can be reborn repeatedly unless it is completely crushed.

But the Tengu is not so easy to crush.

The best solution is to take his head and seal it away.

After the three of them came out, Xia Tianwu pressed his temples and said, "Something's not right. Yan Qing... he received a transfer order and is no longer in the Three Yuan Nine Prefectures."

Mo Lin frowned. "What do you mean?"

"Yan Qing has been transferred to Tai Xuan Province." Xia Tianwu was also somewhat puzzled. "Moreover, we haven't seen him for a long time. What's even stranger is that when I came out to rescue you, I saw him coming from the north."

The north is clearly the location of the department under the jurisdiction of the Emperor of Fusang.

"Then...should we inform Junior Uncle?" Mo Lin's expression turned solemn. "But Yan Qing...he values ​​propriety, righteousness, and a sense of shame above all else; he's not that kind of person."

"Why not?" Er Gou's voice rang out again. "You know what, I really did see that scholar carrying a big sword over my head. There's a saying, 'The righteous are often the slaughterers, and the ungrateful are often the scholars.'"

Sheng Yan tried to cover Er Gou's mouth, but found nothing to cover it with, so he gave up.

Xia Tianwudao said, "I've already left a message for Junior Uncle."

Sheng Yan suddenly remembered, "By the way, where's Lin Du? I haven't seen her lately. I haven't thanked her in person yet."

Xia Tian didn't shake his head. "He's in seclusion."

Decades passed in the blink of an eye, and even the immortals on the Thirty-Sixth Heaven were covered with a layer of solid ice.

"Lin Du?" A voice, spanning a century, finally entered Lin Du's consciousness.

The contract within his consciousness was activated, and Lin Du opened his eyes.

The solid ice shattered in an instant, making a crisp sound.

"I found it." Wei Zhi's voice was heavy and hoarse. "And I've received all the memories left behind by the previous Taiyin before his death."

Lin Du didn't immediately ask about the truth. Instead, he asked, "How does it feel to have wandered through the Ruins of Return for a hundred years?"

"The abyss is unfathomable; only a clear mind can illuminate the path ahead." After saying this, Wei Zhi laughed to himself, "Without your guidance, I'm afraid I wouldn't have found it even after a thousand years."

All the worlds, large and small, countless rivers and waterways, converge at Guixu.

Even a dragon that can travel a thousand miles a day took a considerable amount of time to find the true stream that belonged to the Realm of Enlightenment.

"How is it?" Lin Du lowered his eyes, looking at the Heart-Binding Rope in his hand that was faintly glowing.

Wei Zhi quickly organized the information he currently had at his disposal.

Lin Du guessed correctly. Yin Huaitian had specifically found the flow leading to the Dongming Realm, and that's how the red rope and golden pill were introduced into the Dongming Realm.

Yin Huaitian discovered the other end of the demonic energy's origin.

The reason is simple: the Realm of Enlightenment is where the Fallen Gods first became gods, and it is also where their true souls were formed. Back then, the believers in the Underworld used the Song of Returning Souls to summon their true souls and reincarnate them in the Realm of Enlightenment.

Ten thousand years ago, the sealing array loosened. On the surface, it appeared to be a demonic uprising, but in reality, it was the same situation that happened in the Dongming Realm. Fragments of fallen gods, which are called demonic fetuses by the immortals, condensed from the corpses of dead incense-burning immortals and the ghosts entangled with the resentment of the people, and flowed into the immortal realm.

Yin Huaitian's discoveries did not stop there.

She discovered that those demonic fetuses could still be bound by the Seal of Ten Thousand People and seize the bodies of normal immortals.

Yin Huaitian thought that the only way to find those hidden people was to search for the Three Poisons and the Seal of Ten Thousand People. After her careful investigation, she seemed out of place in the gradually peaceful Heavenly Palace. Instead, she was repeatedly regarded as an innocent person who had been wronged because of her failed investigations. She was obsessed and was repeatedly punished and exiled.

Yin Huaitian knew she wasn't smart enough, so she spent a long time forging a spiritual treasure and then went up to the Thirty-Sixth Heaven, trying to forge a treasure that could detect the three poisons at a glance. However, after she succeeded, she found that she couldn't control it and failed.

She did not give up, and was therefore regarded as a thorn in the side by the lurking demons. Once, she was banished to the edge of the heavenly realm and was besieged by many people. After killing most of the demons, she was seriously injured and escaped to the Cold Moon Small World to heal her wounds, but she was already at her last gasp.

That was also the time when Chu Guanmeng and Yin Huaitian first met.

Afterwards, she carefully arranged everything for her death, and with the red rope attached, she made one last effort.

"Using the red rope to lure out those hiding people?" Lin Du thought of what Kaiyang had said.

Wei Zhi agreed with Lin Du's conjecture, "That's indeed the case."

"On that day, some people did go, and quite a few others, Yin Huaitian, exhausted, threw themselves into the ruins, leaving behind a final contingency plan."

Wei Zhi paused for a moment, then continued, "We have the evidence, but Lin Du... do you know why it's us?"

"I have a rough guess," Lin Du replied calmly. "You're because of bloodline, and I'm because of the Crystal Heart."

"No," Wei Zhi's voice sounded somewhat ethereal, "She initially placed her hopes on the descendants of the last demon god's followers, thinking they would be able to react and purge the evil spirits."

"But unexpectedly, it turned out to be a completely unrelated person, someone with no background, who became her true successor."

"She didn't choose me; I was just lucky. But the Red Thread chose you; you are the one who truly inherits the will of Taiyin."

"Lin Du, I suddenly feel a little regretful."

"I regret not cultivating a heart of crystal, so that you wouldn't have become a sacrifice for the greater good."

Lin Du laughed back, "Who said I was going to sacrifice myself?"

"If a person without a heart can live, then a god without a heart can live even more." Lin Du stood up. "If all else fails, then I'll just become the first corpse immortal in the world."

After a long pause, Wei Zhi asked, "You know?"

"Yes, I cultivate in the Thirty-Sixth Heaven." Lin Du's voice echoed deep within the Ruins of Return. "Bound by the Seven Emotions, purified by the Glazed Glass, this is the path I will walk to the very end."

Unsure if her arrangements would allow her to survive, she made all the necessary preparations with the resolve to die.

This wasn't the first time Lin Du had done something like facing death head-on.

"The person on the other side played a trick on me, and I thought for a long time about how to counter it, but then I suddenly realized that I didn't actually need to scheme back."

Lin Du chose to go all out at close range, shattering all schemes and tricks with a flurry of punches. "I might as well just be a young man and beat the old master with my bare fists."

"Now that you've obtained the most crucial memory inheritance, come back. We don't have much time left."

Wei Zhi was silent for a moment, "I probably won't be able to get out, but it's okay. I can transmit all the images of my inheritance to you through my divine sense, so it won't delay your actions."

"No need, I've arranged for someone to pick you up." Lin Du calmly received the images transmitted by Wei Zhi's divine sense, and saw the scene from ten thousand years ago.

Most of those people were hiding their identities, but the images and conversations during the confrontation clearly revealed enough information to serve as evidence for restarting the reckoning.

Lin Du took out the disciple token of the Supreme Sect, gave an instruction to the person next to him, and then closed his eyes again to continue to thoroughly digest the divine talisman of the Heart-Binding Rope.

A century later, a second couple visited the site near Guixu.

The Crimson-Clad Immortal cast aside his fishing rod and turned to the Apricot-Skirt Immortal beside him, saying, "Do you think what Junior Uncle is saying will work? With your blessing, it'll definitely be more effective?"

Ni Jinxuan crossed her arms and said disdainfully, "Compared to this, don't you think your straight-hook fishing—oh no, fishing for dragons—is even stranger?"

"What's wrong with that! I call this 'willing to take the bait'! Don't you understand?!" Yuan Ye pulled out a small stool, incredibly proud. "Just kidding, this rope of mine is the longest rope in the world, it can grow infinitely long!"

"Then tell me who found this rope?" Ni Jinxuan refused to back down.

Yuan Ye remained silent for a moment, then placed the stool behind Ni Jinxuan, and pulled out a shorter one for himself, and the two of them sat down together.

"Behold my super-powerful, invincible flashing light! Hehe!" Yuan Ye cast a spell to activate the mechanism, and instantly the Guixu shone brightly. No light had ever shone into the bottomless water before, but now there was an extremely bright light inside the Guixu.

"How is it? Brighter than the lamps I make for you every year!" Yuan Ye turned to Ni Jinxuan and raised an eyebrow, his eyes and brows like ink flowing freely from a brush.

Ni Jinxuan thought seriously, "You mean... Master Wei Zhi might have gone blind because it's too bright?"

Yuan Ye: ...Good question.

Wei Zhi wasn't blind, but he now understood Lin Du. Everyone has moments when they want to go blind.

Fortunately, thanks to this light, he found the most direct way back.

The silver dragon darted through the flowing water, striving forward.

In the Ruins of Return, the most difficult part is crossing the undercurrents of different waters. But this time, a long rope is pulling the way, reducing the resistance of the undercurrents by more than half and allowing Wei Zhi to move even faster.

The two people sat on small stools, pulling on exceptionally cool, glowing straight fishing rods. They looked ridiculous no matter how you looked at them, yet they sat there quietly for a full hundred days.

Above the thirty-sixth heaven, Lin Du's divine sense was like a sea, now filled with fragments of gold. The vortex around her body was rapidly merging into her body, eventually slowly forming an extremely thick iceberg, even harder and more vast than the icebergs of the far north that had not melted for millions of years.

The solid ice, like a cocoon, tightly trapped the immortal inside.

Within Lin Du's dantian, the pure energy had long been digested into immortal power, and it had now reached its limit.

She suddenly opened her eyes; without destruction, there can be no construction.

Even though she was frozen solid, like a pitiful insect trapped in resin, Lin Du remained calm and composed. She used her surging immortal power to break through the layers of icebergs.

If he doesn't strike with a single, decisive blow, Lin Du will have to cultivate for another hundred years.

This is the checkpoint for testing the immortal power of Daojun to Yuanjun.

The iceberg remained motionless at first, but disintegrated in an instant after three breaths. The vast immortal power had not yet ceased, and it dispelled all the heavy clouds of the thirty-six heavens.

Thirty-six heavens were covered in white clouds, but at this moment a vacuum halo appeared in the center, haloed by a pale golden rainbow.

Many immortals looked up at the distant highest point.

Beside the Ruins of Return, Yuan Ye suddenly stood up, then was pulled by the force of the fishing rod and almost fell headfirst into the Ruins of Return. Ni Jinxuan quickly grabbed him, and he stood firmly on the shore, letting the raging waves and silver dragons surge in the Ruins of Return, as he tried to break through the last obstacle of the Ruins of Return.

Yuan Ye turned around with great pride, "Look! This fish is huge!!"

"That's enough." Ni Jinxuan held him tightly. "If you keep showing off, I'll let go and make sure you suffer a humiliating defeat."

Yuan Ye silently shut his mouth, but after a while he spoke again, "Catching a dragon with bare hands? I could brag about that for a thousand years!"

A dragon's roar startled many people, causing them to head towards the Ruins of Return.

No one has ever come out of Guixu before; it is the burial place of many immortals. But today, a real dragon has actually swum out.

Feeling the immense gravitational pressure exerted by the surging currents, Wei Zhi let out a long roar, vigorously whipped its tail, and broke through the final shackles.

A silver dragon suddenly leaped out of the waters of Guixu. Upon contact with the immortal energy, it stirred up a terrifying vortex. The aura on the silver dragon surged instantly. The moment the negative pressure that had been accumulating for so long was released, its strength increased steadily, and the pressure emanating from its body also rose steadily.

The accumulated lightning suddenly descended, but was directly pushed aside by the upward-reaching silver dragon. Electric currents flashed across the dragon's scales, but the lightning stopped in an instant.

Upon hearing of this extraordinary phenomenon, the Heavenly Emperor rushed to the scene, followed by the Longevity Emperor and the Fusang Emperor, who were in charge of the Thunder Department, and many celestial officials.

The silver dragon rushed into the rainbow that had appeared at the highest point. A white-haired Yuanjun appeared within the halo. The ice fragments that remained on the robe were instantly shaken off, and the ice crystals shattered into the air. Divine light, unseen since ancient times in the Thirty-Six Heavens, shone through these broken ice shards, and the rainbow light descended upon the Yuanjun.

Lin Du, with the silver dragon, swooped down easily and landed gracefully in front of everyone. Before they could congratulate her, she smiled and said, "You've all come, just in time."

"I also need to speak with you all."

The moment those words were spoken, the celestial officials who had wanted to offer their congratulations were all stunned into silence.

Wait… what does Lingwei Yuanjun mean by that? It sounds like she's planning a purge.

Only the Heavenly Emperor raised his hand to stroke his beard, and beneath the beard, the corners of his lips slightly turned up.