Han Feng's clone didn't even lift an eyelid, pouring himself a cup of tea: "Senior Nangong, are you about to make a move?" He blew away non-existent foam from the tea, "I advise you to think twice."
"Arrogant brat!" A guard at the Innate Realm, who had been hiding in the shadows, finally lost his temper and roared, "You have humiliated the Nangong family! Pay with your life!"
Before the words were even finished, a scorching wave of heat rushed towards them. The guard's hands were as red as branding irons, and the air crackled wherever he passed. It was the starting stance of the Nangong family's ultimate technique, the "Burning Heart Palm"—if this palm strike landed, even fine steel would melt into molten iron!
Dongfang Wantang instinctively tried to get up to defend herself, but was stopped by a glance from Han Feng's clone. He just sat there leisurely, even taking a sip of tea, as if he didn't see the fatal attack that was about to hit him.
A sinister smile crept across the guard's face; he could almost picture this arrogant young man being burned to a crisp. The palm strike was only three inches from Han Feng's temple.
"Buzz!"
A silver-blue light suddenly burst forth from Han Feng's clone, moving so fast that no one present could react. The light cascaded like a galaxy or flowed like the aurora borealis, transforming into countless fine, hair-like starlight the instant it touched the guard.
The guard froze abruptly. His hand was only an inch away from Han Feng, yet he could not advance an inch further. The next moment, under everyone's horrified gaze, the body of this Innate Realm expert collapsed like a sand sculpture, turning into countless shimmering dust particles that drifted into the air.
Truly reduced to ashes.
"Plop."
The sound of Han Feng's clone setting down the teacup was particularly jarring in the deathly silent hall. He glanced around, and every member of the Nangong family whose gaze fell upon him subconsciously took a half-step back, including Nangong Wentian.
"Now," Han Feng's clone said calmly, yet his words sent chills down everyone's spines, "do you still need me to give a reasonable explanation?"
Nangong Wentian's Adam's apple bobbed, and cold sweat beaded on his forehead. In that brief moment, he had sensed a power far beyond his comprehension—not ordinary true energy, but some higher-level existence. This young man was a thousand times more terrifying than Mu Xiaoxiao had described!
Meanwhile, Han Feng himself had arrived deep within the villa, where he discovered a secret passage.
The stone steps of the secret passage led downwards, and a strange smell of metal and decay wafted through the damp air. Han Feng's star power probed ahead like tentacles, precisely avoiding the almost invisible sensory runes on the ground with each step.
"The Nangong family is really careful..." Han Feng thought to himself, while concealing his aura to the extreme. At the end of the secret passage was a seemingly ordinary wooden door, but the subtle energy patterns on the door panel indicated that at least seven layers of barriers had been applied here.
Starlight shimmered at Han Feng's fingertips as he gently touched the door lock. Stellar energy seeped into the barrier's cracks like flowing water, precisely locating the energy node. Three seconds later, with an almost inaudible "click," all the barriers simultaneously failed.
Pushing open the door, Han Feng's pupils constricted at the sight inside the secret room—in a cramped space of less than ten square meters, a completely silver-white metal box sat in the center, its surface engraved with unfamiliar runes, emitting an eerie, ghostly green light. The intense energy fluctuations originated from this box.
"This is..." As soon as Han Feng approached the metal box, he felt the power of the stars within his body suddenly become restless, as if it had encountered a natural enemy and was autonomously activating its defense.
"Huh? How did this thing appear here?" Zero's voice suddenly exploded in his mind, unusually tinged with surprise.
Han Feng was also startled: "Zero? You know what that is?"
“Do you remember the extraterrestrial forces I told you about?” Zero’s tone became serious. “This energy aura is their unique mark. Could it be that extraterrestrial forces have already begun to infiltrate Earth?”
Han Feng carefully examined the metal box: "It seems Mu Xiaoxiao delivered it to the Nangong family. There are traces of her energy on the box."
"Han Feng, this matter may be more serious than expected." Zero's voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth. "These two doses of medicine must be taken away and must not remain in the hands of the Nangong family."
Han Feng nodded, his fingers tracing the edge of the lid, quickly finding the hidden mechanism. With a soft sound of air pressure being released, the lid slowly rose. Two test tubes containing deep blue liquid lay quietly on a black velvet liner, countless tiny specks of light suspended in the liquid, like a condensed starry sky.
Even through the test tube, Han Feng could sense the terrifying energy contained within. It wasn't any known form of energy on Earth, but a twisted, aggressive, alien force.
"This thing looks creepy..." Han Feng was about to put the potion into his system space when his eyes suddenly lit up and a wicked smile appeared on his lips.
Zero immediately became alert: "What kind of trick are you up to now?"
Han Feng did not answer, but took out two empty test tubes from his spatial storage, and then... walked to the corner of the secret room.
"Wait! You're not going to..." Zero's voice was filled with disbelief.
"Just adding a little something extra." Han Feng had already loosened his belt and started "creating" a substitute in the test tube. "Anyway, I can simulate energy fluctuations, and the appearance is almost the same."
"..." Zero was unusually silent for a full ten seconds. "Sometimes I really doubt your mental age. This is something that not just anyone can do."
Han Feng chuckled, and after completing the "special medicine," he infused it with a wisp of pure stellar energy. The liquid in the test tube immediately glowed blue, appearing almost identical to the genuine product at first glance.
"Perfect!" Han Feng placed the two "knock-off" versions back into the metal box, while carefully storing the genuine product in the deepest part of his cultivation space. "I hope the Nangong family won't be too surprised when they 'taste' it."
"Your perverse sense of humor is really low-class," Zero commented, but Han Feng could clearly detect a hint of helpless amusement in his voice. "However, thinking about it, it is indeed quite amusing."
Having done all this, Han Feng quickly exited the secret chamber and reactivated all the barriers. When he silently returned to the ground, the real show on his clone's side was just beginning—
\"boom!\"
A loud bang came from the direction of the reception room, followed by Nangong Wentian's furious roar. Han Feng's true body and clone were connected, and he immediately knew what had happened.
Inside the hall, everyone gasped when they saw Han Feng instantly kill a guard at the Innate Realm. Even Nangong Wentian himself admitted that he couldn't kill a strongman at the early stage of the Innate Realm. Han Feng, who was only at the middle stage of the Innate Realm, had already done such a thing. Just how strong was he?
"Anyone else want to try?" Han Feng said nonchalantly, as if everything that had just happened had nothing to do with him.
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