Unlike rumours surrounding the Noble Consort, Anji and Yihao came to learn just how different Liu Guiya was as a person. Even Mingshen, who had been acquainted with her for a while, was surprised to learn new things about her. Apart from being the previous leader of the Heavenly Phoenix Sect and the secret sworn sister of Hong Nian Niang, Liu Guiya was a woman who wore many skins.
"Why would the emperor need a secret bodyguard?" Yihao raised his brow after listening to her introduction and story. "Did he marry you because you were a cultivator and a bodyguard better than the emperor's secret guards?"
In a way, it was not wrong. There was a sacred rule that the murim world cannot interfere with the common world. The moment Liu Guiya decided to pursue power in the mortal world, she had to give up her identity as a cultivator. It was the reason why she trained her niece and pushed her into the position to inherit the Heavenly Phoenix Sect even before it was ready.
