After those words, the crowd found the speaker's reasoning to be quite sound.
In an instant, every faction in the plaza grew excited.
The Puyang Heavenly Clan and the Li Heavenly Clan in particular were buzzing with anticipation.
After all, the Puyang Heavenly Clan's prodigies were Puyang Han and Puyang Qi, while the Li Heavenly Clan's prodigy was Li Anzhi.
In their minds, if someone within the New Prodigy Grand Formation had truly summoned the Sacred Spirit Light Formation, there was a good chance it was one of their own clan members.
Hummmm— While the crowd speculated, the phenomenon in the void underwent a change.
The colossal phantom beast above the sky began to shift, and then gradually dissipate.
Once the beast's phantom had fully vanished, an enormous wave crested across the void above. Rather than crashing down, the waves gathered and multiplied. In the blink of an eye, they had coalesced into a vast ocean suspended in the sky.
Yet the ocean that had formed was as still as a mirror — a colossal looking glass of impossible beauty.
And within that mirror-like surface, a scene was reflected.
It showed a group of people — the prodigies who had entered the New Prodigy Grand Formation.
At this very moment, regardless of gender or which faction they hailed from, they were all gathered around a single person, cheering and jumping for joy, shouting his name at the top of their lungs. Some did not hold back their praise in the slightest.
Though the mirror could only show the image and none of the words could be heard, everyone present was a martial cultivator. They had no need to hear sound — the lip movements of the people in the scene were enough to tell them what was being said.
The name they were chanting was Chu Feng.
"Chu Feng?"
"Isn't he the first one to enter the New Prodigy Grand Formation when it opened this time?"
"That Chu Feng from the Chu Heavenly Clan?"
Suddenly, someone spoke up, their voice filled with shock.
"The Chu Heavenly Clan? The Chu Heavenly Clan from the Eastern Domain?" At that moment, someone from the Linghu Heavenly Clan posed the question as well.
"That's right. The first to enter the New Prodigy Grand Formation this time was a clansman of the Chu Heavenly Clan — Chu Feng," someone replied.
"The Chu Heavenly Clan… Didn't that clan decline long ago? They no longer qualified for the New Prodigy Grand Formation, so how did they manage to get in this time?"
"And not only that — they were the *first* to enter?"
The Linghu Heavenly Clan, the Nightmare Spirit Clan, the Heaven-reaching Beast Clan, and the other races from the remaining three domains all fell into the same state of bewilderment.
Though the Chu Heavenly Clan had long since declined — and had never once risen to the position of the strongest faction in the Ancestral Martial Star Domain throughout its entire history — the clan was still known to virtually everyone across the entire Ancestral Martial Star Domain.
Not for any other reason, but because those two peerless geniuses had both emerged from the very same, seemingly insignificant Chu Heavenly Clan.
"What exactly is going on? Can someone from the Eastern Domain explain?"
It was then that the Linghu Heavenly Clan turned their gaze toward the Dongguo Heavenly Clan and the other factions hailing from the Eastern Domain.
"Allow me to explain," Dongguo Bingyu said, rising to her feet.
"Dongguo Bingyu, you need only tell us who this Chu Feng is and where he comes from," Linghu Tiemian said.
"This Chu Feng is the son of Chu Xuanyuan and the grandson of Chu Hanxian," Dongguo Bingyu replied.
"What?! Truly *that* Chu Feng?"