The next morning, everyone from Yellow Maple Valley lined up in orderly ranks again and waited for the other six sects to arrive.
As luck would have it, Naruto stood between Han Li and Junior Sister Chen, quietly studying her.
She was not an extraordinary beauty, but she was reasonably attractive. If he had to make a comparison, she was about on par with the prettiest girl in a college class back on Earth.
Noticing that Naruto kept looking at her, Junior Sister Chen shot him a fierce glare.
Naruto chuckled, then turned to look at Han Li on his left, making him frown deeply as well.
"Brother Feng, why are you looking at me?" Han Li asked with a frown.
At the same time, his heart tightened. He thought Naruto knew what had happened between him and Junior Sister Chen that night.
"Haha, nothing." Naruto smiled and offered no explanation.
His behavior left the naturally suspicious Han Li feeling unsettled.
Naruto had no particular feelings about Junior Sister Chen. He had not found it especially regrettable that she and Han Li never ended up together in the original story.
It had merely been a clichéd case of a hero saving a beauty, and Han Li had even taken her Foundation Establishment Pill as payment. He had gained quite a bit from it.
Suddenly, a stir ran through the people around them. Something seemed to have happened!
The Yellow Maple Valley disciples all craned their necks to look toward one side of the horizon, and Naruto followed their gazes.
Several points of starlike light flickered in the azure sky, gradually growing larger. Moments later, a whole string of black dots came into view.
Silver light shimmered beneath the black dots, as though they were riding those stars down from beyond