He followed the Stone Steps down Emerald Cloud Peak.
The farther he walked,
The more Chen Yu felt something was wrong.
"Strange. Why do I keep feeling something sinister is ogling me from the darkness?"
It felt as though a needle were constantly pressed against the back of his head.
His back tingled, too.
And the farther he went down Emerald Cloud Peak, the more pronounced that feeling became.
Like thorns digging into his back!
Like a fishbone lodged in his throat!
"Something's wrong!"
Chen Yu frowned.
He stopped.
Then he glanced back in confusion.
It was one in the morning. The moon was dark and the wind high. A chilly breeze blew through the mountain, swaying the vegetation, while the white jade steps stretched upward...
There was no sign of anyone suspicious.
Moreover, the moment he turned around, the feeling of being ogled from the shadows vanished.
Suspicious, Chen Yu knitted his brows, turned back, and made a show of taking another two steps downhill. The feeling of being ogled returned.
One step,
Two steps,
He abruptly looked back without warning!
Nothing.
"No, no..."
Chen Yu shook his head.
This feeling definitely hadn't come out of nowhere. Whether or not someone was following him, the safest course was to assume someone was.
Then who was it?!
Chen Yu immediately recalled what Senior Sister Lü had told him two days earlier. The elders' recent decision to collect the disciples' debts ahead of schedule had left everyone on Emerald Cloud Peak anxious. Some disciples might be driven into a corner and stop at nothing...
Could a debt-ridden disciple be following me?
At that thought,
Chen Yu quickened his pace.
His cultivation had now reached the peak of the sixth layer of qi refining. If a fight really broke out, he naturally