Countless gazes locked onto the figure before Chu Feng.
Everyone found it hard to believe their own eyes.
Because that was unmistakably Huangfu Shengyu.
"B-bro… brother, what's going on?"
"You didn't kill him?"
Wang Qiang secretly asked Chu Feng.
Back at the peak of the Nine Heavens, when Chu Feng fought Huangfu Shengyu, only Chu Feng had been seen in the end. Everyone had assumed Chu Feng killed Huangfu Shengyu.
"At the time, I didn't know how deep the Huangfu Heavenly Clan's roots went, so I kept a trump card. I simply pulled Huangfu Shengyu into the formation's pocket space."
"I figured that if one day the Huangfu Heavenly Clan really came after me, I could use him as leverage."
"Who would've thought it would actually come in handy."
Chu Feng explained to Wang Qiang through a secret voice transmission.
"Holy crap."
"No wonder you were so calm and fearless back then."
Wang Qiang suddenly understood why Chu Feng had been able to toy with the Huangfu Heavenly Clan inside the Ancient Bloodline Tower with such composure.
At that point, Chu Feng had already sensed how important Huangfu Shengyu was to the Huangfu Heavenly Clan.
He had been virtually certain that with Huangfu Shengyu in his grasp, he held the Huangfu Heavenly Clan's vital weak point.
And now, every member of the Huangfu Heavenly Clan had their eyes fixed on the Huangfu Heavenly Clan's Clan Head.
"Clan Head, is that truly Young Master Shengyu?" a clansman asked.
They couldn't be sure — they didn't know whether Chu Feng had fabricated a copy of Huangfu Shengyu.
But this was, after all, the Clan Head's own son. Surely the Clan Head could confirm it definitively.
"Yes."
"It's Shengyu."
The Huangfu Heavenly Clan Head spoke again, his voice not only trembling but actually choked with emotion.
Huangfu Shengyu's life token had shattered, and the young man himself could not be found. The Clan Head had clung to only a sliver of hope.
But he had long since steeled himself to accept that Huangfu Shengyu was already dead.
Despite all his efforts to appear composed, when Huangfu Shengyu appeared before him in the flesh, he still could not suppress the surge of emotion within him.
And the moment those words left his lips, the entire Huangfu Heavenly Clan erupted in wild joy.
Huangfu Shengyu was a Heavenly Lightning Sacred Body, hailed as the future hope of the Huangfu Heavenly Clan.
Before this, everyone had believed him dead. Many had been consumed by grief and regret over it.
To now discover that Huangfu Shengyu was alive — this was, without question, tremendous news.
But compared to the unrestrained elation of the rest of the clan, two people's joy was distinctly unnatural.
They were Huangfu Jiangxing and Huangfu Jiangyue, the brother and sister.
They had assumed that with Huangfu Shengyu dead, Huangfu Jiangxing would become the Clan Head's successor.
But now that Huangfu Shengyu had returned, what future did Huangfu Jiangxing have left?
The Huangfu Heavenly Clan was bound to be Huangfu Shengyu's.
The thought of this only deepened the hatred in Huangfu Jiangxing's eyes. Compared to Chu Feng robbing the Ancient Bloodline Tower of its power in public, delivering Huangfu Shengyu back — this was the real blow.
"So it was you who hurt Shengyu after all."
"Guards, seize this Chu Feng!!!"
Huangfu Jiangxing pointed at Chu Feng and let out a furious roar.
But the very next moment, he froze.
Not a single clansman among the Huangfu Heavenly Clan present obeyed his command.
And the look the Huangfu Heavenly Clan Head directed at him turned his face deathly pale.
That gaze was telling him, plainly, that this was not his place to issue orders.
In that instant, a terrifying wave of killing intent surged toward Chu Feng. The killing intent was so overwhelming that the clothes of both Chu Feng and Wang Qiang whipped and snapped in the wind.
"Clan Head Huangfu, I'd advise you to stay calm."
"My life is bound to your son's right now."
As he spoke, Chu Feng spread his fingers wide, revealing that each of the five fingers bore a nearly invisible line of barrier energy.
Those barrier lines connected directly to Huangfu Shengyu's Dantian.
"Father."