"Since leaving the Quicksand Land that day, this junior had never seen the so-called sword maid by Senior's side again."
"As for the Spiritual Treasure Flying Sword Senior mentioned, there was even less to discuss."
Su Shi'er shook his head lightly and denied it outright without a moment's thought.
When he had encountered the sword maid from the Xuan Yuan Sword Sect blocking his path that day, no one had witnessed it to begin with.
Besides, whether anyone had seen it or not, regardless of how the matter had begun,
before Baili Chen, he could never admit it.
This was a Spirit Severing stage cultivator, and moreover, a sword cultivator renowned among cultivators for slaughter and battle.
On top of that, the Xuan Yuan Sword Sect held the position of one of the nine supreme first-rate powers in the Immortal Cultivation Holy Land, jointly bearing with the Tian Gang Sect the burden of resisting the Demon Realm's invasion of the Cultivation World.
Admitting it would be tantamount to giving the other party a perfectly legitimate reason to target him.
Whether it was Baili Chen's cultivation level or the force behind him, both were enough to make countless factions wary.
Su Shi'er only sought a clear conscience in his actions; that did not mean he was so honest that he had to tell the truth about everything.
Assessing the situation was also one of the chief reasons he had survived until today.
"Good boy, you deny it readily enough!"
"But denial cannot change what has already happened."
"It matters not if you refuse to admit it. If this old man kills you today and retrieves the treasure from your body, what then?"
Before his words had faded, Baili Chen's sword incantation was already moving swiftly through his fingers.
In an instant,