After laughing for quite a while, the old man finally stopped and said, "Rest assured. My conditions will benefit you."
"Why choose me?" Huang Xiao asked gravely.
Huang Xiao had not expected the old man to see through him when he had not even used his heavenly demon true qi. This really was like seeing a ghost.
"You need not know." The old man waved a hand. "You defied my wishes, so I meant to kill you just now. But I have changed my mind. Now you could not die even if you wanted to. Tell me, what stage has your Heavenly Demon Skill reached?"
Huang Xiao hesitated briefly before finally answering, "The ninth stage."
The old man before him clearly knew already, so concealing it any further would be useless. With his power, killing Huang Xiao would be effortless. It was best not to provoke him again.
"The ninth stage. Not bad." The old man nodded slightly. "Do you know that Heavenly Demon Hall's Heavenly Demon Skill has twelve stages?"
"Twelve stages?!" Huang Xiao exclaimed in surprise. "Are you from the Demon Hall?"
Huang Xiao truly had not known this. He had only known that Heavenly Demon Hall's cultivation method was the Heavenly Demon Skill. He had never expected it to have twelve stages. Did that mean the Heavenly Demon Skill he practiced was only an incomplete version?
The old man did not answer. Instead, he said, "Who I am does not matter. I am giving you an opportunity."
"An opportunity?" Huang Xiao asked. "To remove the curse on me?"
"That curse will depend on your performance," the old man said. "You said you were not proficient in saber techniques. Now I have a saber technique to teach you."
Hearing this, Huang Xiao was deeply puzzled. The old man