As they recalled those bitter memories in that dueling ring, it did seem like the other party had not given a damn about who they were.
Based on their encounter with Liu Yang, the latter was not a completely tactless person. If the latter had known their true identities in advance, he would not have thrashed them so mercilessly.
Everything that had happened seemed to suggest that Liu Yang had not approached them intentionally, which meant their conspiracy theories did not hold.
"It could also be that he's shrewd enough to have set all of this up in order to fool me…" Pavilion Master Kui Xiao shook his head grimly. "That was also why I gave him the Breakthrough Pill and promised to help him achieve a breakthrough to the High Immortal realm. I wanted to gauge how he would react when I held him in high esteem… but instead of making more requests, he asked me for permission to access our repository of books."
The First Elder and Elder Hong Wu fell silent.