"Senior, you are mistaken!" Xiao Hua said in astonishment. "I am indeed from the Thunder Control Sect, and I am indeed the so-called Terrifying Phoenix. I have no intention of concealing that. Moreover... when I passed through the Sword Tomb, I told a Sword Transformation Senior the same thing! How could I possibly be a sword cultivator? As for that so-called Divine Sword Secret Codex, it was merely Qi Chengyi of Seven Spirit Mountain framing me. He wanted to borrow the hands of the Illusion Sword Swordsmen to kill me... How could he carelessly hand such an important secret codex to me?"
"If he did not hand it over... could you not have snatched it?"
"If I had truly snatched it, could he still have returned alive?" Xiao Hua retorted proudly.
"Yes, yes!" The woman nodded vigorously. "Qi Chengyi is an Illusion Sword Swordsman, and many Seven Spirit Mountain swordsmen followed him. They even had their Vanta Great Formation. Yet none of them could keep you! And from the sound of it... you could even wipe them all out! Tell me... how could I not come?"
"This..." Xiao Hua had not expected that he had still let slip something that allowed this Sword Transformation Swordsman to notice the inconsistency.
"If Senior insists on casting aside the dignity of a Sword Transformation cultivator to deal with a tiny Foundation Establishment cultivator like me, then... there is nothing I can do. So long as Senior is certain that word of this getting out will not damage Senior's reputation!" Xiao Hua said flatly.
"Hahaha... did you not just say it yourself? If you had been willing, you would not have let Qi Chengyi spread word of the Divine Sword Secret Codex!" The woman burst into laughter. "Why can't I say the same?"
"Senior