"You're overthinking it. The Heavenly Sword Sect's experts hadn't arrived yet. In the end, those three old fellows from the Rare Treasures Pavilion took it back," Pei Yi said with a sigh. "It was bad luck, too. I easily obtained the Three Forms Fragmentary Sword Manual from the Heavenly Sword Sect, but happened to run into those three old fellows pursuing the Saint Thief. At the time, the Saint Thief seemed to have vanished without a trace, and the three of them were searching everywhere when they stumbled upon this affair. With no other choice, I could only hand the Three Forms Fragmentary Sword Manual back to them. If I hadn't run into those three, I would have returned long before then. How could it have taken so much time? You wouldn't have been stopped by Yang Hengchang and injured, either."
Huang Xiao had not expected so much to have happened back then. At the time, he had seen no sign of it at all.
After Pei Yi seized the Three Forms Fragmentary Sword Manual from the Heavenly Sword Sect, the Three Pavilion Masters had taken it away again. By rights, there should at least have been some awkwardness when they next met, yet none of them had shown the slightest sign of anything unusual.
Huang Xiao could not help admiring how deeply these experts concealed their thoughts. They betrayed nothing, as though no such thing had happened.
"Then... then the Sword Manual must have fallen back into the Heavenly Sword Sect's hands, right?" Zhangsun Youyue exclaimed. "Martial Uncle, just seize it again. Since you were the one who acted last time, the Heavenly Sword Sect's people certainly wouldn't know."
"It isn't necessarily in the Heavenly Sword Sect's hands. It might still be with the Rare Treasures Pavilion," Huang Xiao