I instantly cursed myself inwardly. That last question had been terribly ill-phrased. If the woman Sword Lord Chang had summoned had merely been some random celestial beauty, things would not have become so troublesome. But he had gone and shaped her in Li Guxian's likeness. I was doomed.
The reason was simple: I was not the only one present who had seen Li Guxian. Li Poxiao and Xia Ruize were both far too familiar with her. Even among the people standing at the very top of the Nine Heavens, who did not know Li Guxian?
Sure enough, before my shock had even subsided, I was already thinking of ways to threaten or stop Li Poxiao and Xia Ruize from recognizing her. But the sly fox Xia Ruize had already put on an innocent expression and asked with a beaming smile, "Yitian. Isn't this Li Guxian? One of the current members of the Women's Legion, and by now, probably your confidante as well, right? She was even willing to help you guard the Heavenly City and carry out your grand plans. After hearing Sword Lord Chang's story, it really seems that fate has its own designs. What belongs to her will still belong to her. Even after ten reincarnations, she would probably still be that same person, wouldn't she?"
My expression darkened. And I was not the only one whose face turned horrified and gloomy. Sword Lord Chang looked the same.
"Young friend, what exactly do you mean by that? You know my junior sister?" Sword Lord Chang turned toward Xia Ruize with an odd expression. His drunken eyes instantly became like crystals of ice in a frozen cellar.
"Of course. Li Guxian, the Sword God of the Nine Heavens—what immortal in the Nine Heavens doesn't know her? And my own