Hearing the sounds of fighting and a woman shouting from ahead, Dao Mei immediately frowned. "Why does that female voice sound a little familiar?"
Ye Weiming did not answer. He merely quickened his pace abruptly, turning into an afterimage. By the time Dao Mei reacted, he had already crossed the stone bridge and entered Carefree Valley.
There was no point in making wild guesses now. One look in person would make everything clear.
Dao Mei did not linger either. With a flick of her hand, she pinned a silver needle into a distant tree trunk, then used the movement technique of "Needle Crossing Technique" to take a shortcut and catch up with Ye Weiming. She then casually retrieved the needle and red thread, switched to the movement technique "Divine Movement Technique," and followed Ye Weiming into the valley.
Beyond the valley entrance lay a dense forest. As they proceeded straight down the woodland path, Dao Mei suddenly received a message from Ye Weiming: "Haven't you heard that one should never enter a forest lightly? You just followed me in so rashly. Aren't you afraid of an ambush?"
Dao Mei immediately retorted, unconvinced, "Wasn't it you who entered the forest first?"
Ye Weiming said, "If we get ambushed, I can revive on the spot. Can you?"
Dao Mei said, "Shut up."
While they traded their usual barbs, the two had already passed through the thickest part of the woods and arrived at a forest clearing that resembled a training ground.
At the center of the clearing, a young girl with a petal-shaped red mark painted between her brows was fighting a sturdy old man dressed as a woodcutter, saber in hand. The familiar voice Ye Weiming and Dao Mei had heard earlier belonged to this girl.
Looking more closely, the red-clothed