There really are a lot of people staring at me!
Chen Shi was filled with doubt and alarm. He had originally thought that feeling of being watched was merely his own illusion, but now that the sensation had suddenly vanished, it made him realize it was no illusion at all—someone truly had been watching him just now!
Furthermore, there were dozens of gazes.
Within his heart, he was both terrified and somewhat puzzled. Isn't the Dao Ruins a place of few human footprints? Why are there so many people spectating even as I achieve Dao Integration and cultivate my Dao realm?
The people watching him harbored no malice; they merely observed from afar and did not interfere with his actions.
Could this place not be as desolate as I imagined? Perhaps I even have neighbors.
Thinking of this, Chen Shi flew to the edge of the Dao realm and stepped outside of it.
Outside lay the Dao Ruins, where green mountains surged like dragons, prostrate across the wilderness. This place was even larger than the Western Ox Continent, stretching without boundary, and the mountain ranges were likewise more colossal, filled with bizarre peaks and strange rocks in a magnificent landscape.
Chen Shi flew about aimlessly in all directions, but at that moment, he actually spotted human dwellings amidst the mountain peaks, with wisps of cooking smoke rising into the air.
Flying close, Chen Shi saw that it was a village with a small population of only a dozen or so households, resembling a large family living here together.
He arrived before the village, where the villagers were each busy with the tasks in their hands. A woman was picking mulberry leaves to feed silkworms, an old man was leisurely smoking a tobacco pipe, and a farmer was splashing fermented manure