"An abandoned child of the Starry Sky?" Lin Cang Hai asked in astonishment. "The Starry Sky Academy?"
"What other academy would dare name itself after the Starry Sky?"
"You're a Starry Sky Scholar too?"
Lin Cang Hai could hardly imagine that the man before him—whose hair was as disheveled as wild grass and whose face was as dark as a blackened wok, leaving almost none of his other features discernible except for those gentle, bewildering eyes—was also a student of the Starry Sky Academy.
And then there were his clothes. Their color had long since become impossible to make out, and even the part covering his buttocks had been patched with animal hide. Where was the slightest trace of the arrogance and dignity expected of a student of the Starry Sky Academy?
A person like this had also come from the Starry Sky Academy?
Lin Cang Hai's favorable impression of the Starry Sky Academy plummeted in an instant. How could the academy accept just anyone?
The savage didn't like hearing that, so he simply stopped listening. He strode toward the fire, dropped himself onto the stone bench beside it, picked up the jujube-red gourd, and began gulping down water.
The Gu Diao glared viciously at Lin Cang Hai, its cold expression seeming to say, Don't even think about running. I'll catch you and eat you in minutes. It too moved toward the savage, squatted down beside the fire, and began eating the roasted meat the savage had torn off for it.
Lin Cang Hai looked down the cliff once more. Yin winds howled, and black mist churned. The red moon's light in the sky was growing fainter and fainter, while visibility shrank shorter and shorter. Jumping off the cliff to escape would be far too dangerous at a time like