The young man who had made Qin Fengming change his mind and rush out to intercept them was none other than Zhang Aochun, the young master of the Yao Mountain Zhang Clan—the very same person Qin Fengming had thoroughly fleeced at the Marketplace on Phantom Star Island.
Back then, Qin Fengming had considered that the most likely culprits behind the Dark Hall's assassination attempt were the two female cultivators from the Blue Star Sect. The second most likely was the cultivator surnamed Zhang whom he had killed. The last possibility was this young master of the Zhang Family.
At the time, the grudge between Qin Fengming and Zhang Aochun on Phantom Star Island might not have caused any further ripples had it involved another cultivator.
But Qin Fengming had once heard the female cultivator from the Marketplace mention that this young master of the Zhang Family had always relied on his family's power and bullied numerous fellow cultivators on Phantom Star Island.
His methods were extraordinary. Although he could not contend with cultivators on the Earth Ranking, among ordinary cultivators of the same level, very few could oppose him. He was proud and arrogant, killing people at the drop of a hat, and quite a few cultivators had fallen by his hand.
Now, seeing that Zhang Aochun had immediately fled at top speed merely upon laying eyes on him, Qin Fengming could say with absolute certainty that the Dark Hall incident had been Zhang Aochun's doing.
As the saying went, a guilty conscience betrays a thief. Although Zhang Aochun was an Integration stage cultivator, the intimidation Qin Fengming had inflicted on him had already sunk deep into his bones. The moment Qin Fengming appeared, his first thought was that his scheme had been exposed, leaving him no choice but to