He knew nothing of the Qiangu father and son's schemes.
After making a round through the Spirit Pagoda, Leng Hanyuan returned to the Phoenix Family with Leng Yaozhu. At the same time, they gathered all the members and announced Leng Hanyuan's identity as their ancestral forebear.
They were not afraid of secrets leaking out.
After all, with Leng Hanyuan's quasi-god-level strength, there was no longer any question of being persecuted for possessing a treasure.
The explanation they had given Qiangu Dongfeng was that Leng Hanyuan was a high-ranking member of the Phoenix Family. That was only because Leng Yaozhu found it troublesome and did not want to explain too much.
After Leng Yaozhu revealed that Leng Hanyuan was the most extraordinarily gifted ancestral forebear of their family from ten thousand years ago.
The first reaction of the Phoenix Family's many high-ranking members was:
Had the family head lost her mind?
Even after Leng Yaozhu revealed the ancestral precepts passed down between successive family heads.
They still were not convinced.
After all...
An ancestral forebear from ten thousand years ago appearing before them was simply too inconceivable.
Only after Leng Hanyuan publicly displayed quasi-god-level strength, along with the portrait of him kept in the Phoenix Family's ancestral treasury.
Did these Phoenix Family higher-ups accept this rather dreamlike reality.
What followed immediately, however, was wild excitement.
Their ancestral forebear had awakened.
Their Phoenix Family now had a genuine quasi-god powerhouse watching over them!
Many Phoenix Family members immediately felt far more confident.
They became filled with anticipation and optimism for the future.
After his identity as their ancestral forebear was acknowledged by the Phoenix Family's many higher-ups, Leng Hanyuan naturally became one of the Phoenix Family's core leaders.
For a time, even the radiance of Leng Yaozhu, the family head, dimmed considerably.
Yet Leng Yaozhu was not displeased by this.
Instead, she was rather happy.
Over the years she had served as the Phoenix Family's leader, Leng Yaozhu had borne tremendous pressure.
Now that this ancestral forebear was there to support her, she felt much more at ease.
Leng Hanyuan then set a general direction for the Phoenix Family's future development.
Just as they were preparing to discuss the specific details.
A Phoenix Family disciple knocked and entered.
"Reporting to the ancestral forebear, the family head, and all esteemed elders, someone has come requesting an audience."
Leng Hanyuan said nothing. An elderly Phoenix Family elder with white hair and beard frowned, somewhat displeased.
"Can't you see we are in a meeting?"
"Tell them to wait."
"Th-this..." The disciple's face showed difficulty at his words.
"Elder, those people are rather difficult to deal with..."
"Difficult to deal with?"
Another Phoenix Family elder glared angrily.
Their Phoenix Family might not be the number one family on the entire continent, but it was certainly among the top families.
Did every random nobody need to make the Phoenix Family wary?
These elders had already been quite embarrassed after Leng Hanyuan pointed out the many flaws in the family's current development, making them feel they had lost face before their ancestral forebear.
And now this? Would that not make their ancestral forebear think the Phoenix Family had become a complete mess under the management of their descendants?
"Enough."
Leng Hanyuan spoke calmly.
The elder who had just been glaring fiercely immediately fell silent.
"We have more or less covered everything that needed to be addressed today. Let us go meet these honored guests who have arrived."
Leng Hanyuan cast a meaningful glance toward the window.
His immense spiritual power allowed him to sense several powerful auras that had appeared within range.
They felt somewhat familiar.
Perhaps old friends had arrived.
Since the ancestral forebear had spoken, everyone hurriedly voiced their agreement.
A line of higher-ups followed behind Leng Hanyuan as they made their way grandly toward the reception hall.
Several figures were already seated in the hall.
One was a handsome middle-aged man with black hair neatly combed back and a lock of golden hair hanging over his forehead.
His face was expressionless, and an invisible majesty radiated from his entire body.
Beside him sat a woman with a gentle temperament. Her emerald-green long dress made her seem like a fairy, unconsciously inspiring a sense of closeness in others.
Judging from their bearing alone, one could tell that neither of them was ordinary.
Yet.
They faintly regarded the young girl seated in the middle as their leader.
The girl could not be called exceptionally stunning.
Yet she was inexplicably pleasing to look at. Her temperament was gentle like an orchid, while every gesture carried an indescribable air of nobility.
Di Tian's face was dark, and he was growing impatient.
The reason he had come to the Phoenix Family with Bi Ji was because of the plan of the girl in the middle—their lord, the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yue.
Seeing these humans leave them waiting here, the Beast God, who already had no favorable impression of humans, was naturally displeased.
Only because he was Di Tian did he endure it.
Had it been someone with Xiong Jun's temperament, he would likely have exploded long ago.
"Brother Tian, it has been a long time."
A gentle voice rang out.
Di Tian froze slightly.
That voice gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
He looked up.
A familiar figure slowly approached, surrounded by numerous members of the Phoenix Family.
Di Tian's pupils suddenly contracted, as though he had seen something utterly unbelievable.
Bi Ji, at his side, was also stunned upon seeing the newcomer, her reaction no less than Di Tian's.
"Leng Hanyuan?!"
The two blurted it out almost simultaneously.
"You're still alive?!"
A gentle smile lingered on Leng Hanyuan's lips as he waved at them.
"Tsk, what a thing to say."
"Aren't you two doing just fine yourselves?"
Di Tian, Bi Ji, and Leng Hanyuan were old acquaintances.
They had dealt with one another as early as ten thousand years ago.
Back then, after Leng Hanyuan broke through to rank ninety-eight as a Super Douluo, he had once gone to the Star Dou Great Forest and exchanged blows with Di Tian.
Through a few methods, Leng Hanyuan had narrowly gained the upper hand over Di Tian in that battle.
Because of this, the Beast God remembered him.
Even after ten thousand years had passed.
Di Tian still remembered very clearly this old acquaintance who had surpassed him slightly before even reaching the Ultimate Douluo realm.
Yet Di Tian had never imagined that Leng Hanyuan was still alive.
In his memory, Leng Hanyuan had vanished without a trace after breaking through to the Ultimate Douluo realm.
Di Tian had assumed that Leng Hanyuan had found no result on the path toward godhood and, like the many geniuses crushed beneath the wheels of history, had ultimately been buried beneath history's dust.
Reduced to a heap of yellow earth.
Di Tian had even sighed over it for quite some time.
He had lamented that even someone as dazzlingly gifted as Leng Hanyuan, without becoming a god, had a life as brief and fleeting as an ordinary human's.
Soul Beasts had been cut off from the opportunity to become gods, but their lifespans were beyond anything humans could compare to.
Yet Leng Hanyuan, who should have long since died in Di Tian's memory, was standing before him alive and well.
How could Di Tian and Bi Ji not be astonished?
Moreover, they could sense it clearly.
The aura around Leng Hanyuan was powerful, but he had definitely not broken through to the god level.
Not in the divine realm.
And still ultimately possessing a human body.
They found it difficult to imagine how Leng Hanyuan had crossed the span of ten thousand years.
Both pairs of eyes rested on him, searching for answers.
But in the end, they found none.
At last, all the countless words at Di Tian's lips became only one sentence:
"As expected of you."
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