"The East Sea Sword Saint had devoted his heart to the sword path all his life and never concerned himself with external affairs or worldly matters."
"Among the East Sea Sword Saint's few friends, Su Shi'er definitely counted as one. Back in the Quicksand Land, the East Sea Sword Saint chose to intervene precisely to stand up for Su Shi'er."
"Or rather, this had been the result of a scheme jointly devised by the two of them. After all, in terms of sword-path attainments, your son was already quite exceptional. Moreover, he came from the Xuan Yuan Sword Sect and carried with him the sword-path insights of many senior Sword Sect cultivators."
"And the East Sea Sword Saint himself was a pure sword cultivator. As for Su Shi'er, though he was not a sword cultivator, his attainments in the sword path were extraordinary, and he even possessed the Heavenly Sword Art of your sect's Xiao Wujian!"
"Yet both of them came from ordinary backgrounds. Whether the Xuan Yuan Sword Sect's sword-path insights would tempt them—Fellow Daoist Baili should know better than I!"
"Not to mention, when the Half-Immortal Artifact Treasure Umbrella's ownership was decided in the Quicksand Land, if Su Shi'er had not handed the key to seizing the treasure to Daoist Nun Shenwei of Blood Sea Pavilion, the Treasure Umbrella should surely be in the Xuan Yuan Sword Sect's possession by now."
"Blood Sea Pavilion was, after all, a sect of Evil Cultivators. The nature of its Cultivation Body was clearly incompatible with a righteous treasure of the Mystic Dao Sect such as the Treasure Umbrella. If the Xuan Yuan Sword Sect had wielded it, with its capabilities, how could activating the Treasure Umbrella have been such a tortuous affair?"
"In this Demon Extermination Plan, who should have been