I never thought I'd get a mid-grade Spirit Artifact Defensive Robe in the Immortal Ruins today. This treasure alone is worth more than everything I found before put together. More importantly, I now have another means of staying alive...
Chen Yu pondered this on his way back to his residence.
Suddenly!
His steps halted.
"...Something's wrong."
Chen Yu surveyed his surroundings warily.
No one ahead.
No one behind.
A rock wall on his left.
A cliff on his right.
But,
"Someone's watching me like a creep!"
"Definitely."
That feeling of "something sinister watching me from the darkness," which had been gone for so long, had returned.
Chen Yu's gaze turned cold.
He quickly scanned his surroundings again, but still found nothing.
Yet this feeling had surfaced many times before, and Chen Yu had become extremely sensitive to it. There was no way he was imagining things.
"So, you've finally shown yourself again..."
"This time, I'll catch you and torment you without mercy!"
Since he did not know the enemy's exact location, Chen Yu continued walking with a blank expression, neither fast nor slow, to avoid stirring the grass and startling the snake.
In reality, however, he had already begun using the Wind-Riding Art, ready to sprint at top speed at any moment. The standard-issue longsword on his back was also ready to leave its sheath. He even slipped one hand into his pocket and grasped a piece of Glowing Jade...
Too bad I'm not wearing the Flowing Cloud Robe.
Still, this should be enough. My strength is now close to the middle stage of the eighth level of Qi Refining. Here in the Dao Sect's Outer Sect, I fear no one except the Outer Sect elders.
But whoever it was certainly could not be an elder.
Take Elder Sun, for