Many people wanted Cao Jinxing dead: Demon Cult members seeking the treasures offered under the Demon Path Pursuit Order, righteous-path masters who blamed him for the upheaval at Heavenly Maiden Mountain, Yan Shifan's enraged faction, and the Wokou from Eastern Japan who had come to rescue their people... Some had no scruples, such as the Demon Cult and the Wokou, while others could not reveal their identities, such as the righteous-path masters and Yan Shifan...
Today.
Cao Jinxing had revealed his identity so openly and made such a commotion for two reasons: first, to test the power of his false manifestation; second, to exploit the information gap and wipe out this first wave of enemies!
Things were different now.
Even a Faxiang expert would gain nothing by coming!
Time was short, and the Demon Cult was far away, so the likelihood of deploying a Faxiang expert to kill him was low. Besides, Faxiang experts were rare and well known. Given the special nature of their realm, once they truly wielded their manifestations, the shape of their true qi alone would give a rough indication of their identity. That was practically an admission without interrogation, so Yan Shifan would not lightly deploy such people either.
Even taking another step back, if a Faxiang expert really did come, Cao Jinxing could leave if he could not kill them. Instead, whoever revealed themselves would be put at a disadvantage.
And below Faxiang... he would kill however many came!
But ordinary people knew nothing of these considerations. All they saw was a Tongyou Embroidered Uniform Guard courting death. For their own purposes, they would inevitably come one after another to kill him!
Little did they know that this would put them right inside Cao Jinxing's "encirclement."
Someone finally lost patience...
The Opera House had