He was a young man dressed in black, with an utterly ordinary face.
He was too plain-looking — the kind of face you'd glance right past in a crowd.
But he was no ordinary person.
"Zhang Yingxiong?" The name slipped from Chu Feng's lips the moment he saw him.
This Zhang Yingxiong was a mysterious figure.
Though he had clashed with Chu Feng before and Chu Feng had won, Chu Feng knew the man had been holding back, never showing his full strength.
The last time they met, Zhang Yingxiong had produced a Primordial Destiny Stone and asked Chu Feng to test it. He'd also said that only nine people in the world could make the Primordial Destiny Stone shine with three layers of light.
Those nine would be known as the Nine Sons of Destiny, destined in the future to halt a catastrophe sweeping across the vast cultivation-martial world.
Both Chu Feng and Zhang Yingxiong were among the Nine Sons of Destiny.
But beyond that matter, Zhang Yingxiong had also handed Chu Feng a letter during their last encounter.
He claimed it was entrusted to him by Old Ox-Nose, and the letter contained the location of the Sleeping Dragon Martial Sect's teleportation array along with the details for breaking it.
Chu Feng had indeed used the information in that letter to locate the Sleeping Dragon Martial Sect's teleportation array.
But later Chu Feng learned that Old Ox-Nose didn't know Zhang Yingxiong at all, nor did he know Zhang Yingxiong's master.
"Brother Chu Feng, what a coincidence — you're here in the Xianjiang Upper Realm too?"
Zhang Yingxiong walked up to Chu Feng, and upon seeing him, he looked genuinely excited, like long-lost friends reuniting after years apart.
"Zhang Yingxiong, are you also from the Ancestral Martial Milky Way?" Chu Feng asked.
The moment he laid eyes on Zhang Yingxiong, he already knew — the one who had opened the Nine Realms Immortal Domain was him.
He had the ability to do it.
It was just that Chu Feng had always assumed Zhang Yingxiong wasn't from the Ancestral Martial Milky Way.
"Me? Like you, I wasn't born in the Ancestral Martial Milky Way, but in truth I've spent most of my time there."
"So I consider myself part of the Ancestral Martial Milky Way."
"The Nine Realms Immortal Domain recognized me as belonging to the Ancestral Martial Milky Way too — otherwise I couldn't have entered through its Ancestral Martial Milky Way gateway," Zhang Yingxiong said.
"So you opened this place?" Chu Feng still wanted to confirm.
"I did. I just happened to pass through here and decided to try stepping inside. To my surprise, it actually opened up." Zhang Yingxiong chuckled.
"Why did you help me before?" Chu Feng asked.
"Help you? How did I help you?" Zhang Yingxiong looked puzzled.
"I already asked my master. He doesn't know you or your master at all."
"So that letter from before — you forged it. Though the letter did contain the true location of the Sleeping Dragon Martial Sect's entrance," Chu Feng said.
"Ah, that matter. My master actually instructed me to do it," Zhang Yingxiong said.
"Then can you tell me — who exactly is your master, and what connection does he have with the Sleeping Dragon Martial Sect?" Chu Feng asked.
Chu Feng figured that since Zhang Yingxiong's master knew about certain matters regarding the Sleeping Dragon Martial Sect, there had to be some connection between them.
"My master never told me, and I never asked."
"Brother Chu Feng, don't press it. Everyone has secrets — not just me and my master, but you too, right?" Zhang Yingxiong said with a grin.
"Understood." Seeing this, Chu Feng smiled faintly and didn't press further.
There was no point pressing if the other party didn't want to say.
"Brother Chu Feng, could you do me a favor?" Zhang Yingxiong suddenly asked.
"What kind of favor? Tell me," Chu Feng said.