It was not that he felt tender sympathy for a pretty woman.
He simply had to consider that Xiang Baiwei's strength remained unknown. When the new disciples had been attacked on their way into the sect some time ago, they had first faced an encirclement by several black-robed men at the Qi Refining Seventh Layer. Then, when the black-robed elder appeared, he had devoured all the surrounding spiritual power. Yet Xiang Baiwei had seemed largely unaffected, which was enough to show that she was no ordinary person.
Since she had not directly threatened him, Chen Yu did not want to expose his true cultivation by clashing with her.
If he could shake her off,
then he would do his best to shake her off first.
Here in this crooked, wicked Dao Sect, caution still had to come first, at least for now.
He used the Wind-Riding Art.
Soon, Chen Yu arrived near Little Bamboo Peak.
However, since someone had brazenly tailed him on the way here, he worried that she might catch him red-handed when he emerged from the Immortal Ruins with his treasures. Instead of entering right away, Chen Yu hid nearby and waited for fifteen minutes. When Xiang Baiwei did not pursue him, he waited another fifteen minutes. Only then was he completely certain that she had not followed him.
Chen Yu took out the Jade Pendant and entered the Immortal Ruins.
The four treasures refreshed today were a rope of Mid-grade Spirit Artifact quality, a silver moon flower, a piece of cold origin iron, and a Mid-grade Qi Refining Pill.
"Not bad!"
Chen Yu picked up the rope.
By pouring spiritual power into it, he could control its bends and straight stretches at will.
He put it into his Storage Ring, then looked down at the three