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

Inside the steaming private room, the chef was slicing meat with great enthusiasm, and the six people at the table were also enjoying their meal with great relish.

With a click, another stack of plates was empty.

Six pairs of eyes stared expectantly at the cook behind the cutting board.

The chef looked up and almost laughed in anger.

What kind of noble sect has produced such a bunch of gluttons who eat like a whirlwind?

Did they go hungry for three years before descending the mountain?

Ni Jinxuan looked at the ice lanterns on the street outside the window with envy, "They are all so exquisite."

Lin Du suddenly spoke, "You want it?"

Ni Jinxuan whispered, "How about we go downstairs and buy one? The meat hasn't come up yet anyway."

The chef suddenly sped up his cutting of meat.

Lin Du smiled. "What kind do you want?"

Ni Jinxuan tilted her head. "As long as it's more exquisite than the snowman that Senior Brother built."

Lin Du chuckled. That snowman built with a shovel was as big as a small mountain. How exquisite could it be?

The spiritual energy that had been sealed for nearly half a month suddenly dissipated, and the steaming copper pot continued to emit mist. The room, which should have been warm and cozy, suddenly grew colder inch by inch.

The chef couldn't help but look up, thinking someone had opened the doors and windows.

But the windows were still sealed tightly.

Inside the room, however, came the sound of ice forming.

Click click...

The steam rising from the copper pot vanished as quickly as it had been moved by something.

A swirling white light hovered in front of Lin Du, her expression serious and focused, as if she were preparing something.

The room was so cold that Chu Xiu shivered. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a voice say, "It's done."

He turned his head, and a young monk in a blue robe casually reached out his hand. The white spiritual light gradually dissipated, and a crystal-clear ice rabbit appeared in her palm. Although the lines were simple, it was lifelike, cute and round, with what seemed to be a perfectly round luminous pearl in its center.

Lin Du casually took out a peach branch and a red rope and tied them to the ice lantern. "Here you go."

She was clearly not very old, but she handed it to the little girl in the red and white dress, who was dressed like a child.

Ni Jinxuan answered, her almond-shaped eyes sparkling with joy, her cheeks practically glowing.

Yuan Ye slammed his hand on the table and stood up, "Me too! Junior Uncle! Me too!"

Lin Du waved his hand dismissively, "It's possible, but please wait a moment."

Just as Yuan Ye was about to throw a tantrum, he saw Lin Du quickly walk into the inner room.

"I'll go up one step first."

The spiritual power that had been sealed for half a month was about to break through the barrier of the late stage of the Qin Xin Realm as soon as it was used.

She quickly set up the spirit-gathering array, but fearing it would cause a commotion in the restaurant, she arranged a small mountain of spirit stones around herself.

It won't take long to advance to the Great Perfection stage.

Chu Xiu took a deep breath and suddenly felt that the trip was worthwhile.

To be able to see six people eat enough meat for sixty people, and to see the young master of the Supreme Sect advance in his cultivation level while eating, this life is truly worthwhile.

He won't find anything outrageous anymore.

Lin Du's advancement this time was indeed very fast. After swallowing the last Qi-Boosting and Qi-Regulating Pill, his lungs and internal organs were completely cleared. The speed at which spiritual energy entered his body was like a dam opening its gates, pouring into his body and flooding his meridians like a torrent.

After the people in front of him ate twenty plates of meat, Lin Du had already advanced to the Great Perfection stage. The spirit stones in front of him no longer had any spiritual energy left, and had become ordinary pebbles, dull and gray without any light.

All around was silent. Lin Du's divine sense was released, but it touched the barrier.

She keenly sensed something was wrong, opened her eyes, swiftly produced the Floating Life Fan in one hand, and stood up. "Who?"

How dare someone lay a hand on her in Dingjiu City? Are they tired of living?

In the ensuing silence, a soft male voice suddenly rang out, "It's just on the way. Didn't your master teach you that when you're advancing in cultivation, it's best to set up a defensive formation? Otherwise... what if there are bad guys around?"

"Your master isn't good enough, have you considered changing to another one?"

Lin Du knew who it was in an instant; it had the perfect voice for online dating, and its sarcastic tone sounded like it was whispering sweet nothings.

"Wei Zhi? What are you doing here in Ding Jiucheng?"

The man exclaimed, "I was really just passing by, but you called out to me, so I had no choice but to show myself!"

"Didn't your sect recently issue a kill order against the silver-masked, white-robed man? It just so happens that I caught a little thief when your spiritual energy fluctuated during your advancement."

The space rippled slightly, and the person who had been hidden in the barrier suddenly appeared.

The moment Lin Du stood up, he grasped the Floating Life Fan at his waist, and then his gaze fell on the spatial fluctuation.

The Buddhist monk was wearing a bamboo hat today, seemingly to avoid the snow. He was dressed in an ordinary, simple Buddhist robe, with the brim pulled down very low, revealing only the lower half of his smooth, narrow face. He looked much more pleasing to the eye than when he first saw him in his brocade robe, and had a pure and untainted air about him, like an ancient Buddhist monk with a solitary lamp.

But what Lin Du was more concerned about was that there was another person in front of the Buddhist monk.

The man wore a silver mask and a moon-colored robe, with two curved swords on his back. At this moment, Wei Zhi's hand seemed to casually grip the man's throat, but judging from the bulging veins and struggling limbs, he was already close to death.

Lin Du smelled a faint scent of wind and snow on Wei Zhi.

He was new, but the masked man wasn't.

Lin Du was unsure which was more dangerous, so he pulled off his disciple token from his waist and prepared to call for help.

"Don't shout, I'm a good person."

"Bad people always claim to be good people."

Wei Zhi still held that person back, easily gripping the person's neck with one hand, and gently taking a curved knife from the back with the other. With a light squeeze of his knuckles, the curved knife, which was clearly a top-grade magic weapon, snapped in two as if he had broken an ordinary chopstick.

Lin Du tensed up, his gaze falling on the gap where an array could be set up.

"You haven't changed your habit of scaring children all day long."

"Does one have to make oneself disliked by everyone to be considered a disgrace to Buddhism?"

A detached, emotionless voice entered the barrier set up by Wei Zhi, and then Lin Du smelled the unique scent of alcohol emanating from the drunkard.

Wei Zhi broke the man's two curved swords, and his bamboo hat covered half of his face, making it impossible to see his expression.

But Lin Du clearly sensed the strangeness in those words, and the aura of the man in the blue monk's robe suddenly hardened.

She looked at the person who had easily entered the barrier of the top Buddhist warriors.

The man wore a wide, dark purple robe embroidered with the sun, moon, and stars. His hair was tied up haphazardly on his head, just like Lin Du's when he first entered the sect. There were stray hairs scattered all over his forehead and back of his head. He had an incomparably noble face, but he was even less refined than Lin Du. He was carrying a wine pot in one hand, his eyes were drunk, but his expression was indifferent.

At the same time, the system, which had been dormant for a long time, finally responded.

[Host, this is the ultimate love-obsessed master you've never met, the one who selflessly dedicated herself to her lover for thousands of years before ultimately sacrificing herself to the Heavenly Dao—your master's eldest sister, the former sect leader, and now the number one on the Chongxiao Ranking, the Immortal Venerable Lin Tuan.]