Trading goods is Li Xiaobai's favorite part, especially when selling to Sect Disciples, those potential big customers.
Sometimes, for the sake of mere face, they can be thoroughly rinsed for a sum, making them the perfect mark.
Descending the mountain alone.
This mountaintop is designated for the dwelling of menial disciples. Nameless as it is, wherever Li Xiaobai goes, doors and windows are tightly shut, everyone is too afraid to even breathe out loud.
Menial disciples are at the bottom of the Sect hierarchy and are often bullied, so they are extremely timid. They all witnessed the scene of Li Xiaobai pledging loyalty with over two hundred people on the mountaintop; they both envied and feared him, for to them, he is undoubtedly a personage of consequence.
To avoid offense, the best strategy is to stay indoors and avoid any interaction.
Li Xiaobai was speechless. He hadn't even done anything, and these people were already scared, "Aren't I considered rather handsome?"