Aside from the martial artists from the Nian Gang, Seven Heroes Assembly, and Green Blood Green Mountain Hall, the ones who truly made up the bulk of the crowd were still the independent cultivators.
Although Heroes Association had offended no small number of people over the years, it had helped just as many. Of the nearly twenty Soul Fusion Realm martial artists who had come to lend their aid, almost half had not come for Heroes Association's offer to open its Scripture Depository. Rather, they had all received Heroes Association's kindness before, and had come to help now because of that debt.
The looks they gave Su Xin were exceedingly strange. Clearly, they knew his background as well. In a situation like this, it would have been perfectly normal for anyone else to appear—but Su Xin alone was an abnormal sight.
The others at least concealed their reactions somewhat, but Yuan Wuliang of the Seven Heroes Assembly and Jiang Tianfang of Green Blood Green Mountain Hall looked at Su Xin with deep hostility.
After all, both their factions had suffered at Su Xin's hands before—especially the Seven Heroes Assembly.
Shen Tianyao had once been the eldest young lady of the Seven Heroes Assembly. As one of Shen Wuming's most beloved daughters, Yuan Wuliang and the others had doted on her like a princess. Yet that trip to Jiangnan Circuit had left her forcibly turned by Su Xin into a deranged, secluded wife nursing bitter resentment. How could they possibly not hate him?
But hate was hate. Setting aside the strength of the Seven Heroes Assembly's chiefs, none of them was a fool. No one would fight Su Xin to the death over Shen Tianyao's matter. Only an idiot would do something so utterly foolish.
Back then, Xuan Guan of Shaolin