When it comes to cultivators who come to challenge, there are ways that respect rules and ways that don't.
The latter could be seen in how Sikong Jingxiao treated Xiang Qian and Bai Yuxia.
A few months ago, Xiang Qian came to the Sword Pavilion, challenging Inner Mansion cultivators of the same realm, and encountered no opponents. This was nothing unusual, and Xiang Qian himself promised that the outcome of the fight would not be publicized.
However, Sikong Jingxiao was very dissatisfied with the defeated junior brother, believing that he had disgraced the name of the Sword Pavilion. He stated, "Your skills are not refined, to let a knave surpass you, losing to minor skills with extraordinary techniques, tarnishing the Sword Pavilion's millennia-old reputation."
The ancient Three Swords Summit of the Flying Sword, historically speaking, doesn't amount to much compared to the three thousand-year history of the Sword Pavilion.
