"You figured out the trick from the sphere formed by the Nine-colored Divine Thunder earlier?"
That elder's eyes went wide, but he regarded Chu Feng's words with suspicion.
They themselves had been completely unable to see anything, yet this kid who wasn't even a member of the Huangfu Heavenly Clan could?
He didn't believe it.
Though both possessed Heaven-level bloodlines, Heaven-level bloodlines also varied in quality. Deep down, he believed that any Heaven-level bloodline outside the Huangfu Heavenly Clan was second-rate. He looked down on non-Huangfu Heavenly Clan bloodlines from the very bottom of his heart.
"That's right — otherwise how would I have found this place?" Chu Feng countered.
"Young friend, your powers of observation really are remarkable."
"Then do you know what exactly this item does, young friend?"
Though the Huangfu Heavenly Clan elder didn't believe him, he still asked — after all, he needed to figure out the specific function of this treasure.
"Elder, did you really not figure it out?" Chu Feng asked again.
"Ah… well… that is to say…"
The elder was momentarily at a loss for words.
Then, a secret voice transmission entered Chu Feng's ear.
"I'm being generous by even giving you face, aren't I?"
"You'd best cooperate obediently — answer whatever I ask, or I'll annihilate your entire family."
Outwardly, he still wore a genial smile, but in secret his true colors were showing.
Anyone else hearing that threat, combined with sensing the elder's cultivation at the late True God stage, would have been terrified out of their wits.
But Chu Feng only grew more certain of his guess.
The very fact that the elder chose to threaten him through secret transmission meant they didn't dare act openly.
Still, Chu Feng pretended to play along on the surface.
"This elder."
"From what I can tell, what's hidden inside is the key to the bloodline power of the Primordial Bloodline Tower."
"However, even if one discovers this item, it's extremely difficult to obtain."
"It requires a massive amount of bloodline power to be fused into it. Otherwise, it's impossible to make it acknowledge you as its master. Without that acknowledgement, you can't decipher it, can't take it away, and certainly can't access that power," Chu Feng said.
"Oh? Let me try."
As the elder spoke, he used the method of awakening the Primordial Bloodline Tower's power to fuse his bloodline force into the item.
Sure enough, it worked exactly as Chu Feng had described — the method was the same.
The elder was ecstatic.
That meant that even though this item hadn't been discovered by them, they could still achieve the acknowledgement.
"Young friend, the amount of bloodline power needed to awaken this item is extraordinary. You certainly couldn't manage it alone."
"But don't worry — this item was discovered by you, after all, and I won't steal your credit."
"How about this: hand the item over to our Huangfu Heavenly Clan, and in return, I'll give you a suitable reward."
As he spoke, the elder extended a Universe Bag toward Chu Feng.
Chu Feng accepted the Universe Bag and couldn't help but laugh — a laugh of speechlessness.
Inside the Universe Bag were ten martial power beads, but they were trash beads containing a pitifully small amount of martial power.
This Huangfu Heavenly Clan elder was clearly humiliating him.
Sensing the deeper meaning behind Chu Feng's smile, another secret voice transmission entered his ear.
"Kid, you were running your mouth too much earlier and made me lose face. I'm choosing not to hold that against you out of my own magnanimity."
"Now I'm still willing to give you something — just take it and don't go looking for trouble."
Chu Feng said nothing and gave a slight nod. But in the very next instant, he crushed the Universe Bag in his hand.
All the contents within floated out.
Ten martial power beads hovered above Chu Feng's palm.
"Isn't this reward a bit too meager?" Chu Feng said with a faint smile.
The martial power radiating from the beads made it immediately obvious to everyone what quality they were.
"He's giving this little?"
"Might as well not give anything at all — this is just plain humiliation."
"Exactly. For such an important discovery, even if he just got lucky and stumbled across it, this is way too stingy."
At that moment, even the people outside began buzzing with discussion.
After hearing what the Huangfu Heavenly Clan elder said, they had assumed the Huangfu Heavenly Clan would offer something truly generous.
After all, this item really was discovered by Chu Feng, and everyone could see that it was extraordinarily important. Yet the reward was this meager? Was this how you brushed off a beggar?
"As expected, the great clans don't take us seriously at all."
"If that's the case, whoever went inside probably won't get anything good either. Good thing I didn't go in."
In no time, whispers rippled through the world outside.
Though the voices weren't loud, there were simply too many people speaking, and cultivators naturally had sharp ears.
These words reached the other members of the Huangfu Heavenly Clan, provoking fury.
But Huangfu Zhantian was somewhat displeased. He crooked a finger toward an elder not far away and sent a secret transmission: "Go in there immediately and tell them to stop being so cheap."
"They can't even put on a proper show. Have their brains rotted away from all those years of cultivation?"
"Understood."
That elder was at the peak of the True God realm. He understood what Huangfu Zhantian meant, so he grasped a tower command token and charged into the Primordial Bloodline Tower.
In truth, the elder standing before Chu Feng at this moment wasn't actually a stupid person.
He simply couldn't figure out how this kid had the audacity to be so bold.
Normally, the moment the Huangfu Heavenly Clan showed up, everyone else would be scared witless, falling to their knees and begging for mercy — who would dare ask for rewards?
But this guy not only dared to ask for rewards, he complained that they were too little.
"Kid, do you have a death wish?" the elder demanded through a secret transmission, seething with anger.
"My lord, I'm standing right in front of you, aren't I?"
"If you have something to say, why not say it directly? Why keep threatening me through secret transmissions? Everyone here besides me is a member of your Huangfu Heavenly Clan — are you afraid they'll overhear?"