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"Hahaha! Brother Qin, are you worried that the Baleful God Sect cultivators are plotting against you? There is no need for that. Perhaps you have not heard: back in the Sky Flame Mountain Range, the Baleful God Sect secretly offered an enormous bounty to capture you, intending to do you harm.
"But after the Sky Flame Mountain Range closed, word of this spread far and wide. When the five seniors of your Manghuang Mountain heard about it, they were furious. They joined forces with the Hidden Cloud Sect and the Tianxuan Sect to pressure the Baleful God Sect into withdrawing the bounty and demanded that it guarantee it would never again resort to such despicable measures against the young master.
"Under the combined pressure of the two great sects, the Baleful God Sect issued a proclamation to the Cultivation World, admitting that it had been in the wrong. So, young master, you can now walk openly through the Cultivation World with your head held high. Absolutely no one would dare attack you openly, Brother Qin.
"Word of all this has already spread throughout the Cultivation World. Have you really not heard about it yet, Brother Qin?"
Qin Fengming could not help feeling shaken by Ouyang Chen's words. Since leaving the Sky Flame Mountain Range, he had never heard anything about this.
But looking at the white-robed young man's expression, Qin Fengming knew that Ouyang Chen had no reason to deceive him. If everyone