"Once sects start talking about their own interests, they scheme against each other just as much. I imagine you, Lord Sword Taster, never escaped such circumstances either..." Lord Taihua sighed.
Lord Sword Taster smiled, then said casually, "So what? Since I had made up my mind to step forward back then, I wouldn't retreat another half-step. Sure enough, my fellow senior and junior disciples challenged me with all kinds of reasons, or used underhanded methods against me. But because I had seen what they had done before, I had already weighed everything in my heart. So I defeated them one by one and crushed their schemes. After that, the disciples rarely came down the mountain. Even when they left Mount Fangcun, they never said they were going to challenge me and take Junior Sister away..."
"But afterward, when you said you had 'lost,' Lord Sword Taster, how exactly did you lose? Did a new disciple enter the sect and stun everyone before defeating you?" Lord Taihua asked again.
"Heh heh, quite the opposite. In the years that followed, no new male disciple entered the sect. Instead, Junior Sister grew anxious first. She came to me and told me not to continue like that. She said that even if I defeated all my fellow senior and junior disciples, it would be useless. In the end, she still had to leave—but she absolutely wouldn't leave with me." Lord Sword Taster sighed.
Naturally, the immortals wanted to ask why, but Lord Sword Taster bitterly smiled first. "She said she liked me, and knew that I liked her, but we could never be together in the end. She also told me not to do anything for her anymore. That would only make me lose face and put her in an awkward position. She even