"Senior, did the Saber King's retreat into seclusion back then also have something to do with the Sword Pavilion?" Zhu Yang asked with some curiosity.
Eunuch Jin shook his head and sighed. "I don't know much about the details either. All I can say is that the Saber King fought quite a few of the Sword Pavilion's experts and killed several of them. This enraged its higher-ups, who sent many experts to surround and kill Wang Jiu, but nothing more came of it afterward. That was one reason some people believed Wang Jiu had died. Seeing him alive and well now, the Sword Pavilion clearly failed back then."
"I see. I really do admire this senior, the Saber King. Like Senior Li, he challenged the Sword Pavilion without fear," Liu Yu said.
At these words, Zhu Yang's eyes lit up too. Indeed, Wang Jiu was just like Senior Li, unafraid of the Sword Pavilion's power.
Yet Eunuch Jin shook his head. "The Saber King's situation was somewhat different from Senior Li's back then."
"How was it different?" Liu Zhi asked as well.
He only knew that Wang Jiu had once fought the Sword Pavilion; he knew little else.
"The difference in strength, of course," Eunuch Jin said. "More than twenty years ago, when the Saber King clashed with the Sword Pavilion, he was said to possess the strength of the Void Martial Realm. Of course, he stood at the very pinnacle of that realm, but strength like that posed little danger to the Sword Pavilion. Even if he killed several of its Void Martial Realm experts, it would not have damaged its strength. The Sword Pavilion was furious simply because it felt its authority had been challenged. There was already Senior Li's precedent. The tremendous blow Senior Li dealt it