Chapter 145 - How Is It That You Are Here? (2/2)

Huang Mingfeng gave a start, and continued, “Brother, you…who on earth are you? How could that Chen Dandan owe a debt to your mother? Was it from before she returned to the Valley of the Medicine Masters?”

Huang Mingfeng was now even more confused.

“Those are the training grounds just ahead?” Zhou Donghuang asked.

Zhou Donghuang had just followed Huang Mingfeng onto another main road in the Valley of the Medicine Masters. The countryside opened up and he could see the large space that lay at the center of the valley.

In the large open space, groups of people were scattered everywhere. There were two blurred figures in each group of people, and it was obvious that they were sparring.

Of course, there were also some people who were gathered at a corner of the space, sitting or standing, talking and laughing, deep in conversation.

“Not bad.”

Huang Mingfeng nodded in response, feeling more certain that this unfamiliar youth had just recently arrived in the Valley of the Medicine Masters, otherwise there was no way he could not know about the training grounds of the Valley of the Medicine Masters.

“There is still some time before the Valley of the Medicine Masters takes in disciples from the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley…and I am from the previous batch of new disciples who entered after passing the test of the Valley of the Medicine Masters,” Huang Mingfeng thought.

“And if he has just arrived in the Valley of the Medicine Masters, it proves that he has been specially invited by the senior leadership of the Valley of the Medicine Masters. Just as that Chen Dandan, and Hong Yunfei before her, had been specially invited by Second Elder Chen Tianhe.”

Huang Mingfeng’s heart skipped a beat.

In the Valley of the Medicine Masters, senior leaders of the late Connate stage and above had special authority to take in people from outside the Valley of the Medicine Masters. Of course, after taking someone in, the senior leader had to take responsibility for the person he took in, just as Hong Yunfei had been inducted into Second Elder’s family after being taken specially invited in by Second Elder, becoming a disciple in Second Elder’s family.

When Huang Mingfeng came around after giving it some thought, he realized that the youth in the robe that was whiter than snow had already walked ahead quite a distance, so that the training grounds were now not very far off.

Immediately, he hurried to catch up, shouting as he ran, “Brother Donghuang, wait for me!”

The training grounds at the center of the valley where the Valley of the Medicine Masters was located was at a higher elevation, and vast. Four long stone stairways surrounded it, leading to the four winding main roads of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, which in turn led to the entrance of the mountain.

“Chen Dandan!”

Taking the stone stairs to the training grounds, Zhou Donghuang swept a calm gaze around his surroundings. A moment later, it fell on one of the groups of disciples of the Valley of the Medicine Masters.

With his current visual acuity, he was able to immediately see a young lady sparring with a youth through a gap in the gathered group.

Woosh! Woosh! Woosh!

…

With some smooth footwork, the delicate and beautiful young lady dressed in a light green long-sleeved gown forced her way closer to a youth who looked somewhat younger than she. They began to engage in an evenly-matched duel, but she gradually began to gain the upper hand.

From the looks of things, it was only a matter of time before the young lady was victorious.

“Sister Dandan is really good!”

“She is worthy of being Second Elder’s daughter, as she has such ability even though she only returned to the Valley of the Medicine Masters not long ago.”

“She really does her father proud!”

…

The group of disciples of the Valley of the Medicine Masters gathered to watch were effusive in their praise as they watched the young lady gain the upper hand.

“Although Chen Dandan is said to have grown up in a small place, she has an uncommon martial talent, and not long after returning to the Valley of the Medicine Masters, she has already broken through successive levels of practice and has attained level-four of Qi-gathering.”

When Huang Mingfeng caught up with Zhou Donghuang and saw that his gaze had fallen on Chen Dandan at the center of the group, he chimed in, “Of course, this is also because Second Elder has used a good deal of rare medicine on her.”

Crash!!

As Huang Mingfeng finished, in the center of the group Chen Dandan’s palm connected with great force on the youth’s chest, sending him reeling back. The youth’s body trembled, and blood flowed from the corners of his mouth.

“Sister Dandan, I concede defeat.”

Although there was anger in the depths of the youth’s gaze at being wounded to such a degree even though it was only a sparring session, he dared not let it show on his face due to his fear of the second elder who backed the young lady, and he clasped his hands in salute as he bowed humbly.

Now Chen Dandan was like a proud peacock, gazing indifferently at the youth before looking away and walking out of the group.

“Sister Dandan, wait for me!”

Two voices called out in unison as two youths left the group and followed in Chen Dandan’s footsteps, as though they were two shadows following her.

However, the young lady who had been heading out of the training grounds with great strides had suddenly stopped in her tracks.

They looked to the front at once.

They saw only two youths standing not far off.

One of the youths was familiar to them. He was also a disciple of the Valley of the Medicine Masters named Huang Mingfeng, but it was the first time they had seen the handsome youth dressed in a robe whiter than snow.

“Zhou Donghuang?”

Chen Dandan had stopped suddenly because she had seen someone she never, in her wildest dreams, had imagined would appear here…

That youth who had grown up with her, her childhood playmate, Zhou Donghuang!

“How is it that you are here?” Chen Dandan asked in a cold voice, her gaze turning chilly in an instant.