The moment that laughter rang out, nearly everyone trembled. They instinctively assumed that the speaker was Immortal Tongtian.
But... they had been praying for so long without so much as a single word of response from Immortal Tongtian. Yet after Chu Feng's outburst of insults, the great figure had actually responded?
At this moment, the more perceptive among them turned their astonished gazes toward Chu Feng. They had all caught the meaning in Immortal Tongtian's words — it was clear that the exalted being knew Chu Feng.
However, facing the stares of the crowd, Chu Feng was inwardly just as stunned. He knew plenty of people, but he had never once met the so-called Immortal Tongtian.
Puzzled, Chu Feng locked his gaze onto the sky above, knowing that Immortal Tongtian was up there.
Hummmm—
Sure enough, the space above trembled faintly, and a figure stepped out from within.
It was an elderly man clad in a Spirit World Emperor's robe. The moment he appeared, his eyes settled on Chu Feng, and he spoke with a warm smile: "Young friend Chu Feng, do you still recognize me?"
"Senior — it's really you?! You're still alive?!" Upon seeing Immortal Tongtian, Chu Feng's expression changed dramatically, overcome with shock.
Truly shocked, because Chu Feng did indeed know this Immortal Tongtian. He simply never could have imagined that Immortal Tongtian would turn out to be someone he had already met long ago.
As for who exactly this Immortal Tongtian was, the answer began all the way back on the Nine Provinces Continent.
Back then, Chu Feng had still been a disciple of the Azure Dragon Sect on the Nine Provinces Continent. Forced by circumstances, he had no choice but to leave the sect, and afterward he traveled to the Supreme Manor to attend the Marriage Alliance Assembly it was hosting. It was there that he reunited with Zi Ling.
During the assembly, Chu Feng, Zi Ling, and the others participated in a training exercise within Myriad Beast Mountain. Inside the mountain, Chu Feng and Zi Ling stumbled upon an ancient ruin whose master had been a gold-robed Spirit World Master.
To be precise, the gold-robed Spirit World Master was nothing more than a remnant will, yet he had still posed a deadly threat to the Chu Feng and Zi Ling of that time.
However, the gold-robed Spirit World Master did not kill them. Instead, he posed a difficult test for Chu Feng. In the end, Chu Feng's genuine sincerity moved the gold-robed Spirit World Master — and moved Zi Ling as well — cementing the bond between Chu Feng and Zi Ling.
Yet Chu Feng truly had never expected that the gold-robed Spirit World Master was still alive, and that his true body resided in the Land of Martialism.
Because the Immortal Tongtian standing before Chu Feng at this very moment was none other than the same remnant will he had encountered in Myriad Beast Mountain on the Nine Provinces Continent all those years ago.
"What, surprised? Did you think I should have been dead by now?" Immortal Tongtian laughed heartily, then asked, "How come you came alone? Haven't heard anything about that little lover of yours — aren't you two inseparable?"
"No, she came as well. She's simply somewhere else at the moment and not together with me," Chu Feng answered honestly.
Seeing this person again, scenes from the past began flooding through his mind one after another. Truthfully, before this moment Chu Feng had found Immortal Tongtian quite disagreeable, but now an indescribable warmth and fondness welled up within him.
So many years had passed. Chu Feng had been through far too much — he was no longer the youth he had once been. But he missed that version of himself.
Immortal Tongtian's appearance had truly stirred countless memories, and in this very instant it made Chu Feng miss his beloved Zi Ling with an aching intensity.
After all, she was the one who had lived and died alongside him, weathering every hardship together.