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

The suona's sound is high-pitched and resonant, extremely penetrating, capable of splitting rocks and flowing clouds—nothing could be more powerful.

Lin Du subtly tried to move back a little, but silently suppressed the urge under his second senior brother's disapproving gaze.

She listened to the song with a forced smile, and just as she breathed a sigh of relief after her second senior brother stopped, she saw Cang Li pick up his teacup, moisten his throat, and then raise his suona.

Lin Du closed his eyes in despair. The shock to his soul was secondary; the main problem was that his eardrums were also shaken too much.

The tone was indeed exceptionally powerful and inspiring, carrying the awe-inspiring aura of a thousand troops, forcing the gloom within her soul to retreat and gather, then gradually fade away.

When one song ends and one cup of tea is finished, another cup is served, and then another song begins.

When Cang Li's two disciples, Yan Qing and Yuan Ye, returned, Lin Du felt as if he had met a savior.

But it was clear that Cang Li did not seem to intend to stop and greet the two returning disciples.

The three children went to find Sect Leader Fengchao first, which is why they returned to their territory a little late.

And seeing their master and junior uncle under the tree, they showed no surprise whatsoever, as if their master was always like this, and their junior uncle's arrival was just another person.

Yan Qing walked to a boulder and brandished his sword. Yuan Ye met his master's gaze, had a sudden inspiration, took out his zither, and then sat cross-legged under the tree.

After being glared at by his master, Yuan Ye silently adjusted his position, making it symmetrical to Yan Qing's. He then frowned and began to carefully pluck the strings on the other side.

As the sound of the zither blended with the sound of the suona, Lin Du felt for a fleeting moment that he was really about to be sent away.

The resentment within her soul was almost shattered by the stirring music. About half an hour later, the shadow in Lin Du's divine palace finally disappeared, leaving only a very faint trace of resentment within her consciousness.

Yuan Ye was a little tired; music that affected the soul actually consumed a lot of spiritual energy.

Cang Li went over and probed his soul. "Come find me again tonight. Two more times should be enough."

Upon hearing that there would be two more rounds, Lin Du rubbed his ears and said, "Senior brother, can't we give it a few more days? I'm afraid I'll go deaf soon."

"No, it won't," Cang Li said kindly. "Eat oranges; oranges are good for tinnitus."

So that's where they were waiting. Lin Du silently took the orange and stuffed it into his mouth in a fit of anger, so full that he could barely chew it.

Cang Li hesitated, then handed over a handkerchief.

Lin Du swallowed the orange with difficulty, and then had to thank his senior brother properly, "Senior brother, you must be very tired after blowing for so long, right? I still have some tea leaves picked from the Tea Queen Mother tree here. Senior brother, you've worked so hard for so long, why don't you have some good tea?"

Cang Li's eyes lit up. "How could I possibly accept this?"

"Is this the tea queen plant that grows beside your Luoze? It's best to brew it with ice spring water."

Lin Du understood immediately, "I'll bring over some fresh spiritual water from the Luoze Waterfall tonight."

Yuan Ye called out from afar, "Junior Uncle! I want one too! I want one too!"

Cang Li didn't even turn his head. "No need to prepare any for him. He's so young, why waste such good food?"

That tea is truly rare. If a high-level cultivator whose cultivation is stagnant and whose understanding of the rules is insufficient could obtain even a small amount, they might have a chance to break through their confusion and advance to the next level.

It would be a waste to let low-level cultivators drink it before they have even begun to comprehend the rules.

Lin Du hesitated, wondering if she could say that she was tired of calculating the formations and would brew a pot of tea in the afternoon.

Forget it, let Yuan Ye come to the library later to make a pot.

In terms of material life, Yan Ye never mistreated her.

Of course, it's also because he's not short of money.

When Lin Du landed on the main peak, Feng Chao was already sitting upright and waiting.

"You've arrived?" Feng Chao, as the sect leader, was used to wearing a dark purple robe, but it gave off a completely different vibe compared to Lin Tuan's style. She was voluptuous and elegant, with unparalleled beauty.

Lin Du suddenly felt a sense of tension, as if he had just escaped one danger only to fall into another, as if he had returned to the fifth grade of elementary school when he was called to the teacher's office for the first time and stood at the door, nervously knocking.

"Senior Sister."

Of all the people in the Supreme Sect, she only saw Feng Chao, whose aura was three-tenths weaker.

"Sit down." Feng Chao did not receive her at the desk today, but instead in the reception room in the side room.

Beside her arm was a tall rosewood table with a purple-gold incense burner with animal-shaped handles. A wisp of smoke rose straight up from the carved and openwork lid, carrying a pure and fragrant scent. It seemed to have been lit recently and had not yet fully diffused. Lin Du could only smell it after he walked inside.

Feng Chao didn't bring up the matter of Yan Ye's rambling request for comfort, but instead talked about the situation in Jun Ding's mansion.

"Shao Fei has woken up. She is indeed an outer disciple of the Flying Star Sect. For the sake of relations between the two sects, we still need to send a letter to discuss the specific way to deal with her. However, she will be imprisoned in the Eighteen-Sided Dungeon for the time being."

"She was originally in a state of impaired health, but she was able to cultivate spiritual energy by using Gu worms. However, she still had the evil cultivator's offspring Gu in her body. In the last moment before the evil cultivator died, it aroused the offspring Gu in her body. Although she reacted immediately to suppress the offspring Gu and consume her own essence to resist, she was still severely injured. I can tell that she is not old."

"The outer sect of the Flying Star Sect has been in some chaos in recent years, but I always suspect that the upper echelons are crooked and the lower echelons are crooked, and there are worms inside. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a Gu Master in the outer sect."

"Shao Fei said that the evil cultivator Qi Zhun came from the Black Gu Village. His Gu techniques are hard to defend against. You thought he used Gu when he swung his palm, but in fact he left a Gu curse transfer technique on the last corpse. It doesn't need to be touched, or even wind. Even if there is spiritual energy protecting the body, it can still work on the nearest person."

Upon hearing this, Lin Du couldn't help but frown. "This Gu technique is that powerful? Wouldn't it be impossible to defend against, and anyone could potentially suffer?"

"If the cultivator's realm is higher than that of the Gu Master, the Gu worm cannot penetrate that layer of spiritual power. Or if the cultivator carries something that the Gu worm fears, they will not be poisoned. But we are not Gu Masters, and we do not know what kind of Gu worm the other party is cultivating, so we have no way to deal with it."

Feng Chao said, "We are located in the north, and we know very little about the Gu Masters in southern Yunnan."

She looked at Lin Du frankly and said, "Junior Sister, I've said all this just to tell you what we've found out. I have no other intentions."

Lin Du nodded; she understood.

The homeroom teacher would also say that I was just stating a fact, without explaining any reasoning, and that I had to figure it out myself, and if I couldn't figure it out, I would get scolded.

In short, she was told not to blame herself.

"Now that we know the name of the Gu, it's called the Nine Cold Yin Serpent Gu. Your fifth senior brother is already looking for a cure, but I'm afraid he'll have to go to Yunnan to look for clues."

Lin Du suddenly became restless, but Feng Chao reached out and pressed his shoulder down.

"What I mean is, if you'd like to go, why don't you come along and take a look?"

Lin Du had already reviewed all the information he had seen in Yunnan and the Flying Star Sect, and then arranged the task of finding records of Gu techniques in the library. Upon hearing this, he looked up and looked at Feng Chao with some surprise.

She withdrew her hand, looked at her with a smile, her phoenix eyes shining, "I knew it, knowing your personality, you would probably go."

"There's nothing wrong with that, go for it, as long as you're well-prepared."

"Mo Lin's current poison can still be suppressed by cultivating with Tian Wu. However, although Shao Fei's actions for her own survival are understandable, she is too scheming."

Lin Du was first drawn to the words "dual cultivation" at the beginning. "Dual cultivation? Is this proper dual cultivation?"

Feng Chao couldn't help but chuckle. "You're not that old, but you think a lot. Is it all from reading those random, nonsensical novels?"

Lin Du: ...Playing with mobile phones in modern times.

"Tian Wu simply uses her spiritual power to suppress the Gu poison for Mo Lin every day. Using one's spiritual power to flow and converge in the other's meridians as if it were daily cultivation is what dual cultivation is."

Lin Du gave an "oh" and lowered his head to touch his nose to hide his embarrassment.