None of them were ordinary people, and with no attempt at concealment, how could they fail to notice someone following behind them? Fu Dong wound his way through the crowd at a brisk pace to a relatively secluded spot with fewer people, then abruptly turned around and looked at Yue Qianchou helplessly. "Sect Master Yue, why are you so determined to follow me?"
Yue Qianchou was already full of frustration himself. He could tell that the other man was trying to shake him off, and he frowned. "It is not that I insist on following you. It is that Yue has noticed Sect Master Fu looking down on me. I do not know what I have done wrong to make Sect Master Fu avoid me as though I were the plague, so unwilling to keep my company."
"Where did Sect Master Yue get that idea? When have I ever looked down on you?" Fu Dong said, caught between laughter and tears.
"Then why are you hiding from me?" Yue Qianchou looked Fu Dong up and down. Though he could not see through the other man's cultivation, he had never even heard of Lingjia Sect, so its strength presumably could not be much to speak of. Narrowing his eyes, he snorted coldly. "I, Yue Qianchou, am not someone just anyone can humiliate. If you cannot give me a proper explanation today, then do not blame me for bringing some experts to your Lingjia Sect another day for a little sparring."
This was a naked, outright threat. Fu Dong was struck speechless. His cultivation was only about on par with the four sect masters of the Four Islands of Huguang, and he knew he was no match for Yue Qianchou. Besides, among the Tianxia Chamber of Commerce, who besides Yun Peng and