Not only did they want to stop him from joining the Azure Flame Sect, they wanted to kill him for good in the outside world?
Thoughts raced through Qin Hao's mind. He had plenty of enemies, but apart from Ancestor Yanshi, no one else had the power to do this.
But...
It shouldn't be Ancestor Yanshi.
Ancestor Yanshi's greatest hope was for Shi Youbing to join the Azure Flame Sect. If he could gather this many people during the Azure Flame Grand Tournament, he would have sent them to help Shi Youbing at once, perhaps even to push him up the rankings with everything they had. He would not have spent months hunting Qin Hao just to kill him.
Another figure flashed through Qin Hao's mind, but he soon shook his head and cast the thought aside.
Surely not. This is the Two Realms Heavenly Dao Diagram, and the Azure Flame Grand Tournament is held by the Azure Flame Sect itself.
Qin Hao took a deep breath and fixed his gaze on the twelve people before him. Whoever had sent them, they wanted his life. He would never sit still and wait for death.
"Enough talk. Move, and finish Qin Hao!" Cai Yunfeng barked. "Remember, the man who kills you is Cai Yunfeng!"
With that, Cai Yunfeng swept out a hand, drew a sword, and lunged at Qin Hao without hesitation.
"Attack!"
"Delay invites trouble! Kill Qin Hao now!"
"Once Qin Hao is dealt with, we'll go after the others. Remember, whoever dies and revives, meet at the old place."
As soon as Cai Yunfeng moved, Fen Hui, Qiu Jian, and Li Hongyu—the strongest among them—shouted and unleashed their Fourth-Tier Perfection Origin Laws, attacking Qin Hao.
At their command, the other eight joined Cai Yunfeng in the assault.
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