She's Fallen for Me

"I'm screwed!"

This woman must have recognized me!

But... he was puzzled. He hadn't released any divine sense from beginning to end. How had she recognized him?

Yun Huoyue circled Chun Xiaobai once, then suddenly asked, "What cultivation manual do you practice?"

"Um... Peak Master, I practice the Azure Cloud Manual."

"How long have you been here?"

"Less than ten days," Chun Xiaobai answered honestly.

"What cultivation level?"

"Fourth level of Qi Refining."

"You live at the summit?"

"Yes."

"Why were you spying on my residence?"

"Curiosity!"

"Hmm???"

Chun Xiaobai froze, then hastily changed his answer. "Um, Peak Master, I didn't hear you clearly just now. Could you ask again?"

"What did you see inside my residence?"

"Nothing! I didn't see anything!"

Chun Xiaobai abruptly froze again. Fuck!

How did this woman lead me straight into her trap?

Wasn't she supposed to be crazy?

Her mind works even faster than mine!

"What's your name?" Yun Huoyue continued asking.

"Chun... Chun Xiaobai." Chun Xiaobai tensed every muscle, watching her every movement like a hawk, ready to fight her to the death at any moment.

"All right, you may go."

Yun Huoyue's unexpected words left Chun Xiaobai stunned yet again.

He had just decided she wasn't crazy, and now he thought she was crazy again.

She had already pinned him down, yet she was letting him leave?

Still, if she was letting him go, he certainly wasn't going to stay.

Of course, he didn't lower his guard either. He carefully edged around her, retreating toward the gate one step at a time.

Only after he had passed through the residence's gate without that woman chasing after him did he let out a long breath of relief.

"Shit! This woman really is out of her mind!"

Then he suddenly remembered that Foundation Establishment Pill. What a crushing loss.

If he'd known she wouldn't hunt him down, he should have brought that Foundation Establishment Pill out with him.

He glanced back.

It was an old habit he'd picked up in Black Wind Stronghold. If he saw a treasure and didn't get his hands on it, his meals lost their savor and his sleep lost its peace. His whole body felt miserable.

Chun Xiaobai scratched his ears and head as he mulled it over, then turned to look at the Peak Master's residence.

Yun Huoyue still stood in the Martial Arts Arena, gazing in the direction Chun Xiaobai had left, motionless for a long time.

Only when a breeze lifted the ends of her hair beside her cheeks, revealing strange markings across her neck, did she murmur to herself:

"A naturally gifted soul... could you be the one I've been waiting for?"

"Huh! Peak Master Yun, who are you waiting for?"

A suddenly sleazy voice sounded beside her ear. She turned her head and found Chun Xiaobai, who should have left, standing beside her. She had no idea when he'd appeared.

Her brows creased slightly, but before she could ask anything,

Chun Xiaobai grinned. "Um, this ki... this disciple left something here. I just came to pick it up. Just picking it up."

In truth, Chun Xiaobai was panicking like mad. His Heaven-Treading Steps were already primed to use Shrinking Land to Inches and flee for his life at any moment.

Seeing that she hadn't lost her temper,

he sidled over to the table with the paired radishes, snatched the Foundation Establishment Pill from it, and stuffed it inside his robe before cupping his hands.

"Thank you for your reward, Peak Master Yun!"

Before Yun Huoyue could speak, his feet moved. Like a stuttering image, he appeared in a new spot with every step and vanished from before her in the blink of an eye.

Seeing his footwork again, Yun Huoyue's pupils contracted.

"Is... is that teleportation?"

"No..."

In just a few steps, Chun Xiaobai reached the path leading to his Cave Abode. He looked back again and, seeing that the crazy woman really hadn't followed him, breathed another sigh of relief.

"Shit, Shrinking Land to Inches really is badass."

The distance was just too short. Each step could only compress a few meters. It worked for running away, but it fell far short when it came to showing off.

Besides, the consumption was a little high. Even that short distance had consumed one percent of his strength.

In other words, with his current strength, he could only run ten li using Shrinking Land to Inches.

Then he looked toward the path down the mountain.

Should I just make a run for it?

The reason he'd dared to turn back was to get some travel money. He felt that this woman had set her sights on him, and his days ahead might not be pleasant.

But after he returned and took the Foundation Establishment Pill, she hadn't chased him. Suddenly, he didn't want to leave anymore.

Because he had realized something.

That woman had clearly confirmed he was the peeping thief, yet she hadn't gotten angry. Instead, she'd let him off "gently."

Yes, gently.

After all, the other disciples had only received a single word: "Scram." By comparison, telling him "you may go" was already very gentle.

Something suddenly occurred to him, making his heart skip a beat. "Shit, this woman hasn't set her sights on me too, has she?"

He rubbed his cheek. "What kind of constitution does this king have? Why do beautiful women take an interest in me so easily?"

Still, this one was a little better. Her cultivation probably wasn't as high as that woman in red's, and whatever she wanted from him probably wasn't as much either.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so polite to him, much less let him leave without any conditions.

"Could it be... she's fallen for me?"

Thinking it over carefully, he felt it really did seem that way.

After all, he'd sensed killing intent from this woman at first. But after staring at him for a while, she'd withdrawn it, and her attitude had become exceedingly "gentle."

Wasn't that what love at first sight felt like?

"Whatever."

In any case, he could be sure this woman wasn't much of a threat to him at present.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have bothered taking off her pants just to fart by letting him go outright, nor would she have stayed calm when he came back a second time.

After all, with her cultivation, couldn't she simply act on whatever she wanted?

Since that was the case...

Chun Xiaobai looked at his Cave Abode, then down the mountain. At last, the corners of his lips slowly rose.

Well, that made things easy!

Now I had someone backing me too!

Then, with his hands behind his back, he swaggered toward his Cave Abode.

As soon as he reached the entrance to his Cave Abode, he discovered quite a crowd gathered outside.

"Is this... one of the big shots on the rankings?"

He walked straight over and pushed through the crowd. Several male disciples stood before Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan, shouting something at them so fiercely that she and he kept their heads lowered without a word.

Bai Jin'er noticed Chun Xiaobai and immediately came up to him, explaining, "Senior Brother Chun, these... these senior brothers are here to challenge you."

"Challenge me?!"

Delight surged through Chun Xiaobai, and he hurried over. "You're all here to challenge me?"

"That's right!" The disciple at the head of the group pulled the Storage Bag off his waist and roared, "If you win, everything in here is yours!"

"If you lose, hand over all the Storage Bags you've won these past two days, along with this Cave Abode!"

"That straightforward, huh?"

Chun Xiaobai rubbed his hands together and immediately activated Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye.

With a glance, he discovered that the Storage Bags held by the five challengers before him were shrouded in only a faint layer of yellow light. Their aura of wealth wasn't even as strong as his second-in-command's back in Black Wind Stronghold!

"Fuck you! So you've come to catch a white wolf with bare hands!"