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

Qi Zhun has lived for over a thousand years and his resentful spirits have existed for thousands of years, yet now he is trapped in the hands of a teenager.

He thought he had shed his burdensome physical body, yet he was still trapped by a child.

A skin riddled with holes and a body inherently deficient, a one-on-one fight is a 50/50 affair. At first, both deliberately stall for time. The broken body can only slowly mobilize its strength, waiting for the collision. Regardless of who wins or loses, there is a bit of luck involved. No one knows who mobilizes more strength or whose condition is worse.

Even after discarding the physical body, a thousand-year-old ghost is still three moves behind a teenage living soul.

Lin Du had already beaten him several moves.

Formations can be divided into inner formations and outer formations. Outer formations are placed on the outside, using geographical location and formation materials, and are conventional formations. Inner formations are formations placed on a person.

Lin Du used her body as a formation, connecting with the Vajra Wall outside the village. She borrowed most of the basic formation of the Vajra Wall. After meeting with Qi Zhun, she determined the final position and drew the last stroke. With the inside and outside intersecting, she became the center of the formation.

Although this inner formation is ingenious and flexible, ordinary formation masters do not know how to use it. Firstly, there are too many variables, and it is impossible to calculate without any flaws. Secondly, the slightest carelessness will surely backfire on oneself.

Qi Zhun never expected that he had provoked a madman who was too smart and could also pretend to be crazy.

If Qi Zhun still didn't realize he'd been rigged by this point, he would have truly lived a life in vain.

"When did you realize something was wrong?"

"Prisoners have no right to ask questions." Lin Du calmly pressed the array pattern down another inch, his voice sounding like a demon whispering in Qi Zhun's ears.

"But as a reward, I can tell you that it was Shao Fei who told us we were wrong."

The shadowy figure was startled and stammered, "Impossible."

Lin Du followed up with, "Why not? Didn't you notice? She's the one who led us to see you."

"But she clearly..." Qi Zhun's voice was squeezed out in rough syllables as if it were flattened by the pressure of the Vajra Array pattern.

"Helping you out of a predicament? Out of necessity? Do you really think that's helping you out of a predicament? Isn't that just making us suspicious? Qi Zhun, it's true that it's easy for a Gu Master to control someone, but don't you know best how complex the human heart is?"

Lin Du chuckled. "Now answer my second question: where is that tiger demon's cub?"

"What cubs?"

Lin Du was taken aback, then narrowed his eyes. "Neither you nor Shao Fei have encountered a tiger demon?"

At this point, Qi Zhun really had no need to pretend. The spirit was trapped, and even if he didn't tell the truth, Lin Du had plenty of ways to forcibly search for it. It was just that searching for a thousand-year-old spirit would take some effort and wouldn't be friendly to her consciousness, as it would be disturbed by some resentment.

That would be strange.

How could a tiger cub just appear out of thin air?

"No, Shao Fei seems to have told me that you guys fought a tiger demon today."

Lin Du frowned slightly, not having time to think it over carefully, "One last question, who are you? What is your real name? Whose body did you borrow? And why are you mingling with Shao Fei as fellow disciples?"

Qi Zhun remained silent, even resigning himself to his fate by curling himself into a muddy, black cloud, filled with resentment.

Lin Du, annoyed, forced the array patterns downwards, pressing the person down a foot to the ground. She looked down at the mass of things with disdain, "I'm giving you face by asking you questions. Do you think I can't perform a soul search?"

"You should know what will happen if you get tainted by a resentment that has been nurtured for a thousand years. You will do things a hundred times more extreme than I have. The only reason I've fallen into your hands today is because I haven't found a suitable body yet! What do you think..."

Lin Du replied, "Do you think I'm afraid?"

"Today I'll show you what it means for a human to be more terrifying than a ghost."

She poured out her divine sense expressionlessly, and the array patterns imprisoned the yin spirit, rendering it unable to move and allowing Lin Du's divine sense to probe in.

The boy's pupils were as dark as ink, strikingly black. Her cold, mechanical movements were like those of someone who used to dissect laboratory rabbits and mice fixed on a table without any emotion, removing the internal organs she needed, then weighing, grinding, manipulating, and calculating.

Qi Zhun felt an extremely cold chill, a sensation that made him mistakenly believe that he had returned to his broken body and was suffering from the damned cold poison of the Black Snow Green Serpent.

That poison was truly cold. His flesh and blood were transformed from red willow branches, which were yin and resentful, yet he was still frozen by the poison, his bones aching all over, and he even had the illusion that he was about to freeze to death.

He won't die, how could he die?

With just a little flesh and blood, preferably that of a cultivator, the red willow branch will repair this body.

He can live, he definitely can live.

The child's flesh and blood are not enough; he needs the flesh and blood of a cultivator, imbued with abundant spiritual energy.

Shao Fei said that Lin Du was the best choice. She was young, had high cultivation, had not yet learned physical skills, had no ability to protect herself, and did not know any formations or talismans.

The results were all false.

Lin Du doesn't know physical skills, yet he can dent the chest of the flesh and blood body formed by the red willow with a single punch. Lin Du also knows formations better than anyone else.

Qi Zhun thought to himself, "The key point should indeed be that sentence: Lin Du is smart."

I hate people with so many guilty thoughts.

Shao Fei, Shao Fei is that kind of person too.

He was the one who saved that useless person who couldn't even cultivate, yet this person still dared to betray him.

She called him her savior to his face, someone who would do anything for him, but then turned around and betrayed him when the Supreme Sect came. She even disregarded the fact that he had a venomous insect in her body and could listen to her every move. He could kill her with just a flick of his finger.

Lin Du was also puzzled.

What puzzled her was why Qi Zhun could live such a miserable life and still insist on living.

He emerged from the secret realm a hundred years ago, his resentment soaring to the heavens, and he still carried the aura of the Willow Demon. The original owner of this body was so poor that he didn't even have the money to find a magic treasure to cover himself.

The outer disciple had no master. He did not perform well in the secret realm and failed to establish his foundation to enter the inner sect. He was afraid that people would discover the strangeness of his identity, so he simply ran away secretly. In Yunnan, he accidentally entered a Gu sect village and was thought to have a natural Yin Sha physique, which was the best for raising black Gu.

From then on, he became a Gu master, using the Yin energy of Gu insects to conceal the resentment and evil energy within the Yin spirit.

However, the flesh and blood of the willow demon need flesh and blood to maintain its vitality, otherwise it will gradually decay.

Qi Zhun was once an extremely upright and virtuous gentleman. He cultivated the Gentleman's Sword and followed the Gentleman's Way. Everyone said that he was the most polite sword cultivator in the righteous sect, and perhaps he would also have the opportunity to ascend.

It wasn't until people realized that no one in the Lanju Realm had been able to ascend for a long time, and there weren't even any cultivators at the seventh level.

Cultivators may not want to ascend that far, but everyone wants to live.

That period of memory was extremely chaotic in Qi Zhun's soul, like it was covered by a layer of yellow sand, fragmented, and incoherent.

It seems that for Qi Zhun, it was a nightmare that even he found unbelievable.

But in the realm of enlightenment, memories are simply the absurdity of reality.

Those who cultivate the Gentleman's Sword, in order to survive, are like rats in the gutter, coveting flesh and blood, wandering among humans, cultivating the most yin and evil Gu techniques, becoming evil practitioners, not daring to advance through the righteous path, for fear that the Heavenly Dao of the Insightful Realm will discover this outsider during the Heavenly Tribulation.

Yes, they entered the Insightful Realm through special methods. The one they should fear most is not anyone, but the heavens.

In the end, it was all fate's cruel joke.

He saved Shao Fei on a whim. He didn't want to eat people anymore. He wanted a normal human body and wanted to collect the materials needed to successfully possess someone's body and change souls. But to completely succeed in possessing someone's body and avoid all accidents, he also needed a loyal servant.

With a person whose life is cut off, his life couldn't be more suitable.

Who would have thought that this person would dare to collude with outsiders to devour their master?

After reviewing his memories, Lin Du said, slowly and deliberately, "You've been in the Cave of Brightness for over a hundred years, and you've eaten fifty-seven people. Do you remember?"

Those people ate very cleanly, silently, without anyone noticing. The bone-dissolving water made by the Gu master using Gu poison is also a good thing.

At first, Qi Zhun was still restraining himself. Even recently, every time he felt his body was declining, he restrained himself until his body aged, the Gu worms turned against him, and he was poisoned.

The reason his body was elongated in a strange way was because Hong Liu had not eaten flesh and blood for too long and was slowly regressing to his original form.

But he could never resist his desire for flesh and blood.

Just as he was finishing off the child during the day, Shao Fei ran over and hurriedly said, "The village chief has called for cultivators from the Supreme Sect. You need to run quickly, I'll help you clean up the mess."

Surprisingly, some scraps of flesh were left at the scene, which was clearly Shao Fei's doing.

After exploring the soul, Lin Du couldn't help but laugh. This Shao Fei is truly amazing.