"Xia Jue, after all these years, have you become this childish? Can you do nothing but bring up the past?"
Xia Jue tilted his head. "Have you ever heard the saying, 'You don't need many moves, just ones that work'?"
Yi Feng Chen narrowed his eyes. He had to admit that he was still on the losing side of this verbal clash, so he no longer bothered exchanging pleasantries with his former nemesis. "You've only now released me from the Heavenly Origin Lock. I assume you have something to ask me."
Xia Jue made no attempt to deny it and nodded outright.
"I do, but there's no hurry."
A flicker of disgust passed through Yi Feng Chen's eyes. He had a feeling that whatever Xia Jue said next would be nothing good.
"I heard that after you left the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect, Gong Hao saved you, and you've been risking your life for him ever since?"
Yi Feng Chen curled his lips. "So what? At least the people of the Demonic Path I've seen act far more directly than you members of the so-called Upright Sects."
"They're evil openly, while you... heh, who knows how rotten you are inside?"
Xia Jue twirled the Green Jade Flute in his hand, speaking as casually as though he were talking to an old friend. "Stop spinning your own tales. All of that is merely what you believe.
"It's a fact that you stole the Skyglaze Stone back then. You deserved to be hunted.
"It's true that some Upright Sects coveted the Skyglaze Stone in your possession, but how clean do you think your own hands are?"
"You killed a disciple of my sect and took that Skyglaze Stone from him. By rights, it should never have belonged to you."
Yi Feng Chen