Chapter 109

Even without spiritual power, Mo Lin’s strength was immense. For a while, Lin Du’s neck veins ached from the pressure.

Ju Yuan couldn’t bear to watch, wanting to replace his junior sister. After all, his disciple’s physical strength was almost catching up to his own.

But Lin Du refused.

She even managed to squeeze out a smile, even though the pain was almost unbearable, she didn’t let go of Mo Lin’s hand.

“Just a little while longer.”

Lin Du’s mind was surprisingly clear despite the excruciating pain. Compared to the heartache, the pain in her wrist was nothing.

She thought about the dream over and over again, sometimes it was Mo Lin crying, clutching her wrist, begging her, calling her Little Junior Aunt, sometimes it was Yan Ye’s pale eyelashes blinking away a tear.

After cultivators entered the Dao, they rarely had dreams unless they were plagued by heart demons.

All dreams were caused by daydreams. Dreams were delusions. If one’s heart was pure and free of desires, there would be no dreams.

Whether it was a good dream or a bad dream, it was because there were desires, attachments, and obsessions in the heart.

That wasn’t Lin Du’s dream, it was Lin Du’s heart demon.

In the original plot, why was it only mentioned that Lin Du was inherently deficient? Why was it said that this Little Junior Aunt had a pure Dao heart, her cultivation speed was incredibly fast, exceeding her fellow disciples by several times?

There was never a mention of Lin Du’s heart ailment.

Lin Du’s heart in the original plot was probably fine.

Lin Du didn’t even ask the system, she just quietly accepted it.

Some things would eventually be revealed as her cultivation deepened and she got closer to the heavens.

She didn’t care anymore, no matter who asked her to save people, no matter if this heart demon was her own, she didn’t care.

Mo Lin was just injured by accident, she couldn’t accept it, and it wasn’t hard to guess why the Lin Du in the dream’s Dao heart was unstable because of her grand-nephew.

Lin Du knew she had an unchangeable stubbornness in her bones. To put it sentimentally, she had been wandering and drifting all her life, so she craved stability and peace more than anything. No one could disrupt her peace.

No one.

She couldn’t withstand the storms and waves, the wandering and drifting, the loss of friends, the destruction of her home.

She didn’t have any family, so she didn’t mention the loss of family.

A stubborn person couldn’t cultivate pure inaction, nor could they cultivate supreme detachment.

Lin Du just wanted to piece together those things that were about to fall apart, bit by bit.

Mo Lin was the first piece.

“Grand-nephew, don’t be afraid, you can’t move now, and you’ll have to rest for a while. Did you finish reading the books I asked you to look at?” Lin Du suddenly started talking.

Mo Lin didn’t expect his Little Junior Aunt to quiz him on his studies at this time. His big eyes looked at Lin Du innocently, blinking hard, but he realized she was blindfolded and couldn’t see.

Lin Du didn’t wait for his answer, she continued, “You’re cultivating your body, but you need to read more books.”

Yan Qing read a lot, Yuan Ye read less, but he read widely, unlike Mo Lin, who was simple-minded and prone to trouble.

Lin Du nagged him to study, “You’re a simple-minded person, it won’t hurt to read more books. ‘Ordinary people all like those who are similar to them and dislike those who are different from them.'”

“Natural disasters are unavoidable, but man-made disasters can be prevented.”

She lectured her grand-nephew, who was much older than her, in front of her two senior brothers and sisters.

Old Ma didn’t say anything, but she thought the kid was still too naive.

Ju Yuan was stunned by Lin Du’s words. Feng Yi listened with her arms crossed for a while, then leaned over and whispered, “What kind of nonsense did Master Yan Ye teach Little Junior Sister?”

“It’s true, isn’t she just encouraging him to study?” Ju Yuan said.

Feng Yi paused, “But your disciple really needs to be neutralized by Little Junior Sister.”

One thought that as long as he was strong enough, he could ignore all conspiracies and schemes, the other wished she could calculate a hundred steps ahead, her mind was so meticulous that it almost pierced through her heart.

If they each took half of the other’s personality, they would probably be better off.

Feng Yi hadn’t spent much time with Lin Du, but in just half a day, she had realized that every word Lin Du said had a purpose.

Even her casual remarks were intentional.

“Great wisdom leads to great sorrow,” it wasn’t a lie.

Feng Yi was afraid that one day Lin Du’s little brain would smoke from thinking too much.

This bone-scraping torture lasted a long time. It started near dusk and it was now late at night.

Mo Lin was in so much pain that he finally let go of Lin Du and Xia Tian Wu.

“Alright, the medicine is ready.” Old Ma threw the blackened silver thread into a dish and called for the corpse puppet to deliver the medicine.

Ju Yuan received the transmission talisman they sent and rushed to the Supreme Sect to get a top-grade Dragon Essence Grass. He arrived in Phoenix City almost at the same time as Feng Yi.

The four key ingredients were complete. Old Ma didn’t mention the auxiliary ingredients, but she had already started stewing the medicine before removing the parasitic insect. It was just right now.

Mo Lin had his wounds bandaged by Xia Tian Wu, then he drank the medicine and lay down. He was exhausted, he had been holding on for a long time before finally fainting. Before he passed out, he didn’t forget to grab Lin Du’s hand again.

“Little Junior Aunt, I’m fine, my bones are fine too. The spirit energy was eaten away by that thing, but there’s still a trace left. I’ll be fine soon, you can rest assured.”

Lin Du’s body stiffened, she felt the damp sweat on his warm hands.

Her memory returned to the time when his bloodstained hands grabbed her wrist in the dream. Lin Du thought, it would be best if these hands were always dry and never stained with blood.

Then she turned and walked outside. She didn’t need anyone’s support, relying solely on her memory, she smoothly walked to the door and pushed it open. Only then did she remove the bandage from her eyes.

It was late at night, most of the courtyard was covered by vines, and the sky couldn’t be seen completely.

Lin Du flipped onto the wall, her movements decisive, and looked up at the night sky of Phoenix City.

This place was in the west of Yunnan, it had just rained during the day, and the night sky was as clear as if it had been washed, rarely without the usual fog.

It was a full moon.

Lin Du suddenly felt a little itchy in her heart, she muttered softly, “It’s not me who’s been infected with the Love Gu, what’s going on?”

She saw clearly in the dream what happened to Mo Lin. He was in excruciating pain, lost his reason, but his soul was fine, clearly he had been infected with the Love Gu.

Old Ma walked out of the house and was startled by a leg hanging casually over the wall. She followed the leg and saw the kid sitting casually on the low wall. The cascading spirit vines poured down like a waterfall, under the moonlight, countless crystal-clear moonflowers bloomed around her.

Compared to those people in white robes and silver masks, Lin Du’s face and her aloof aura were enough to intimidate anyone. If she said she was the Moon Goddess descending to earth, people would believe it.

“You’re sitting on my vine.” Old Ma said.

“Your vine isn’t good, moonlight is good for you too, why don’t you let the moonlight shine into the courtyard?”

Old Ma was surprised, but she quickly suppressed her surprise.

Feng Yi somehow knew that she was a Corpse King, but she did know that Lin Du was Feng Yi’s junior sister, knowing that she was a Corpse King, it wasn’t strange for her to say that moonlight was good for her.

“Your wrist is broken, and you still dare to jump up there?” Old Ma sat down in the rocking chair under the moon vine.

“I’m using my left hand.”

Lin Du was left-handed, but in front of everyone, she always used her right hand.

It wasn’t to keep something in reserve, but because when Lin Du was a child, she was beaten by her mother for eating with her left hand, until she changed to using her right hand.

Old Ma was speechless.

“Lin Du, if you ever find yourself unable to live, you can consider coming to me. You are very strong, you will become stronger than me.”

Lin Du waved her hand, “Forget it, if I die, I die.”

“Fighting against people is endlessly enjoyable, fighting against heaven is a waste of time and effort.” Lin Du tilted her head and smiled, “Don’t you agree?”

Old Ma looked at her helplessly, “That’s not what the books say.”

“That’s what I said.” Lin Du smiled, her right wrist gathered spiritual energy and nurtured the fracture.

“Now the mastermind is hiding, how do you plan to kill him?”

Old Ma was burning something under the moon, emitting a frosty scent.

Lin Du tapped her bent knee with her left hand, pondering for a moment.

She was also hesitating whether to kill openly or secretly. Secretly would be easier, but…

The Supreme Sect’s nature probably required an open kill.

Since it had to be open, then she had to plan carefully, occupy the moral high ground, and have sufficient evidence to prevent the other party from biting back.

The most crucial thing was that the Willow Demon’s body was gone, using the spirit vines as a body was another story.

The best way… Lin Du’s hand slowly moved on her knee, like placing pieces on a board.

Lin Du tilted her head, she didn’t know what she thought of, she smiled brightly, “Let him pay the five hundred thousand first.”

She turned to look at the three people who were walking out of the house, “Senior Brother, do you have five hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones?”

Ju Yuan’s face twitched, he covered his storage bag and storage ring, “Little Junior Sister… what do you need five hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones for?”

He… didn’t necessarily have that much.

Lin Du then looked at Feng Yi.

Feng Yi didn’t need to ask, she said, “I don’t have that much, but it’s not impossible to sell a few treasures from my storage rings.”

Lin Du clapped her hands, “That’s the problem, even you don’t have that much, why did an elder from the Feixing Sectcasually pay five hundred and fifty thousand, without blinking an eye?”

Five thousand might have been paid by the Feixing Sect , but five hundred and fifty thousand was a different story.

Lin Du had asked her Senior Sister, the Sect Master, and there had been no communication from the Feixing Sectafterwards. She didn’t know if they knew about her price increase.

Yan Ye was the leader of the Formation, that was another story, but what was Yin Zhong?

The Feixing Sectwas a large sect, with many people. An elder’s annual allowance was also cultivation resources, if he took it, he wouldn’t just be a miser.

Who would believe Yin Zhong if he didn’t have a side hustle?