For all of Fang Yi's years, this was the first time he had been startled several times in quick succession by all sorts of sudden noises in a desolate wilderness.
In the days since the martial arts tournament at the Medical Hall and his recuperation at Donglai Mountain, Fang Yi's body and mind had suffered a certain degree of torment. This left him full of anxiety, making him somewhat fragile in body and mind and easily unsettled by external disturbances. Yet during the years he had lived around West Mountain, he had never felt any fear when walking mountain paths at night, daring to investigate even the strange sounds coming from graveyards in the pitch dark.
Being startled by the grass, trees, insects, fish, birds, and beasts of the wilderness out among the islands and lakes of an untamed mountain region before dawn was one thing; what Fang Yi had not expected was to encounter a human voice in such a place at such a time. People scaring people could scare you to death—he finally understood the truth of that saying.
Chapter 538