He avoided the crowds and hurried back to his lodgings.
"That was far too reckless!"
He closed the door.
Recalling what had just happened, Chen Yu shook his head.
He had never expected an idle, unintentional act to snowball into something like this, even prompting the sect to introduce a new rule banning entrapment.
It had drawn so much attention.
"The disciples of Emerald Cloud Peak are far too starved for Contribution Points!"
"Just for a little tip on catching rule-breakers, they actually knelt down and even said things like 'I'll do anything'... what kind of man do you think I am?!"
Putting the packed dry rations into his Storage Ring, Chen Yu sat cross-legged on the bed.
Still,
to be fair,
having countless disciples look at him with admiration and hearing them call him a "god" and the like might have been terribly conspicuous and terribly reckless... but it did feel a little satisfying.
Now, however, Chen Yu gathered his thoughts and considered the matter seriously.
"Senior Sister was right. Doing something that makes the sect introduce a new rule really does carry weight. The moment I was recognized, it drew that much attention. But in this crooked, heretical... Dao Sect, attracting attention isn't necessarily a good thing... luckily, I was already planning to cultivate in seclusion, so I can sit out this wave of publicity."
"My dry rations are ready. All I need to do is visit the Immortal Ruins before dawn each day, when no one's around."
With that thought,
Chen Yu took the water-attribute treasures out of his Storage Ring.
Then he took out the Spirit Essence.
This water-attribute Spirit Essence had already seemed half-dead when he obtained it. After being used for cultivation over this period, its spiritual power had grown increasingly depleted, and blood-red