"We're more or less in the same boat now, and we're worth trusting. It should be all right to tell you." Huang Xiao finally decided to tell Demon Phoenix.
This was not merely a matter of trust. Huang Xiao also wanted to draw on Demon Phoenix's nearly thousand years of experience to help him work out what the Masked Old Man had meant.
So Huang Xiao recounted how the Masked Old Man had told him to obtain the final three stages of the Heavenly Demon Skill.
Demon Phoenix was utterly stunned.
"You... you've mastered the ninth stage of the Heavenly Demon Skill?" For a moment, Demon Phoenix did not answer Huang Xiao's question, but asked this in utter shock instead.
"Yes, the ninth stage." Huang Xiao nodded.
Having mentioned the final three stages of the Heavenly Demon Skill, Huang Xiao could hardly keep concealing that he knew the first nine, so he had revealed that as well.
Demon Phoenix's shock was perfectly natural. Although he had long known that Huang Xiao possessed the Demon Hall's Heavenly Demon Skill and knew the Heavenly Demon Demon Saber Techniques, he had assumed Huang Xiao probably knew only a few stages or moves.
Who could have imagined that Huang Xiao had cultivated the Heavenly Demon Skill to the ninth stage? Even in the Heavenly Demon Hall, only a handful had access to that, and they were unquestionably among its senior ranks.
"What about the Heavenly Demon Demon Saber Techniques?" Demon Phoenix asked.
"I've reached the fourth form for now," Huang Xiao answered.
"For now?"
"To tell you the truth, I know the remaining forms of the Heavenly Demon Demon Saber too-the complete saber techniques," Huang Xiao continued.
Demon Phoenix widened his little eyes and transmitted his voice. "And you still claim you're not from