It did not take long for Ye Chong to notice the fear in everyone's eyes upon seeing him. Seeing them backing down all the time was puzzling at first but he understood the cause very soon after. May Night's Ridge could be a mysterious place of wondrous alchemy to the people outside. The residents in the ridge might possibly be the strongest alchemist he could find anywhere else, but they eventually were just a bunch of researchers isolated from the hustle and bustle of the outside world, that they had never once witnessed the bloodshed of an actual war. In Ye Chong's eyes, they were just weak.