Chapter 178 - Return to the Valley of Medicine Masters (2/2)

As he thought of this, the excitement would keep him awake for days.

…

Swish!!

Starting from the southeast border of the Shenguang Empire, it only took a little more than half a month, and Big Gold had transported his master, Zhou Donghuang, and Su Mo back to the vast Valley of Medicine Masters.

March 20, Year 1232 of the Ziyun Era. Master and servant, Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo, returned to the Valley of the Medicine Masters.

“Valley Head!”

As the golden-crowned eagle, Big Gold, flew into the Valley, a Valley elder standing guard at the lookout post drew his flying beast closer and had recognized Su Mo from afar.

Of course, the qi-gathering flying beast at his feet would not dare approach Big Gold.

The Big Gold before was in fact still marginally more approachable for the other qi-gathering flying beasts, but now, as he had entered the Connate stage, the same flying beasts would only keep their distance from him.

“Are we here?”

At this point, Su Mo also seemed to have been shocked awake by the sudden voice.

“Valley Head, I will notify the elders.”

The Valley elder who was on duty at the lookout post greeted Su Mo quickly and then left with his flying beast.

However, before long, he returned again.

This time, there was an extra person on the back of his flying beast, the head elder of the Valley of Medicine Masters, Yu Meiqin.

“Valley Head, you have finally returned,” Yu Meiqin said bitterly as he looked at Su Mo.

“Why? What is the matter… Has something happened in the Valley during my absence?”

Su Mo frowned slightly, his figure flashed, and he leaped into the air. Under the shocked eyes of Yu Meiqin and the Valley elder beside him, he walked on air, step by step, until he was in front of them.

“Valley Head, you… You have really entered the Primal Core stage?”

The Valley elder stared in surprise.

He still remembered that some time ago, the Primal Core adept who came to the Valley of the Medicine Masters on the back of his Primal Core beast had declared that the Valley Head was a Primal Core Adept.

At that time, he was still wondering, when had their Valley Head become a Primal Core adept?

Today, he finally realized that at the time, the Primal Core adept was not making wild presumptions at all.

Their Valley Head had, in the span of a year, entered the Primal Core stage and had become a flying, gravity-defying Primal Core adept!

“Primal Core adept?!”

Yu Meiqin’s pupils contracted sharply in panic at this moment, a lost look on her face, and she seemed to be lost in thought for a long time.

“Their Valley now had a Primal Core adept too?”

The long-awaited appearance of a Primal Core adept could finally be written in the history of the Valley of the Medicine Masters after all this time?

“From what you’re saying, I guess you already know that I have entered the Primal Core stage?”

Su Mo frowned as he looked at the Valley elder.

“Valley Head…”

Under Su Mo’s interrogation, the Valley elder hurriedly described the incident that had happened in full detail without skipping a beat and spoke of how they had fooled the Primal Core adept who had visited them.

“To think that he was fooled by all of you?”

On hearing that his own people had managed to dupe a Primal Core adept, Su Mo was rendered speechless, but at the same time, he was relieved.

That person was definitely not a friendly force.

If they had confirmed that he was indeed the Valley Head of Medicine Masters, who knew what would have happened to all of his people.

Just then, Su Mo had guessed that it was the Divine Light Sect that had come looking for them in the Valley with him and his master Zhou Donghuang’s portraits and had intended to tell Zhou Donghuang as much.

Yu Meiqin, however, was a step ahead of him and spoke first. “Valley Head, there is one more thing.

“Not long after you had left, there were two men who said that they had come from Yunyang, one of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley… They had direct orders to come looking for you in the Valley.

“After that, upon knowing that you had long left the Valley, they sought to tell me their purpose.

“They said… they wanted to tell the Valley Head that in the Western Chu Ridge in Yunyang, there was a young man named Zhou Donghuang who had gotten hold of the essence left behind by a Primal Core adept and asked that you, the Valley Head, go forward to steal it away.”

As he came to this point, Yu Meiqin locked eyes with the man clothed in white standing on the giant eagle’s back, behind Su Mo. She distinctly remembered that this man was their Valley Head’s master, named Zhou Donghuang.

“Oh? Someone had come to find me to report this news?”

Su Mo’s eyes narrowed as his cold eyes flashed. “It looks like they are my master’s enemies. And where are they now?” Su Mo asked.

“I had also guessed that they were Young Master Donghuang’s foes… and so I have ordered for them to be locked up and wait on you and Master Donghuang’s return for further orders,” Yu Meiqin said.

“Let me have a word with my master and then you can take us there… I would like to see what kind of man would dare harm our master!”

As Su Mo said these words, an icy glare flashed across his eyes.

Feeling Su Mo’s respect for the young man in white on the eagle’s back in the distance, Yu Meiqin trembled as she thought, “It seems that our Valley Head achieving the Primal Core stage in just one year has everything to do with this Zhou Donghuang!”