Twenty-second power struggle

  "Boss, give me a better room!" Tang Yan said as soon as he entered the tavern.

  Originally, Tang Yan planned to rent two rooms, but for safety reasons, he only rented one room with Zi Lan. It wasn't that Tang Yan didn't have the money, it was just that these past few days, he had been feeling a bit uneasy in his heart. When Tang Yan asked the innkeeper for a room, Zi Lan didn't say anything, she knew that Tang Yan wouldn't take advantage of her, if he wanted to take advantage of her, the wilderness would have been the best opportunity and he still hadn't made a move.

  "Alright, alright, first pay one gold coin, I'll have Xiao Er take you up!" The shopkeeper didn't ask any more questions, but glanced at Zilan's face and said.

  The room isn't very big, and it's not as luxurious as those star-rated hotels on Earth. However, the environment is still quite good. As for the quilt on the bed, Tang Yan tossed it to the side of the bed. He took out a purple orchid-patterned quilt from his spatial ring that he usually used and spread it out for her, saying that using his own was more hygienic. Germs, you know, in this world where medicine isn't advanced, it's better to be careful. If she caught some kind of illness, it would be a big hassle, don't you think?

  "Thank you!" Zilan saw Tang Yan enter the room, and her first action was to change the quilt on the bed, which made her face a little unnatural.

  "No need, Xiao Er, take this quilt away and then help the young lady with her bath!" Tang Yan tossed a gold coin to the small second.

  "Yes, yes! I'll go and take care of it right away!" The shop assistant nodded repeatedly as he looked at the gold coins in his hand.

  When Xiao Er left the room, Zilan asked Tang Yan to take out the clothes in her space ring and give them to her. Then she opened the package she had brought with her. Tang Yan didn't look at it, but when he did, he found that it was all filled with Zilan's lingerie, in various colors, each piece so delicate. No wonder Tang Yan wouldn't let her bring it, it turned out to be her underwear.

  "Zilan, you have so many clothes!" Tang Yan looked at the dozen or so suits on the bed and thought to himself that he didn't even have three sets.

  "These were all made by myself during my free time," said Zilan.

  "Oh!" Tang Yan replied, his eyes gazing at the large wooden barrel behind the windscreen again, thinking to himself: "I really want to take a bath with my little junior sister!"

  "Do you have something to say to me?" Zilan saw Tang Yan muttering to himself and asked.

  "No, you go take a bath quickly, we'll go downstairs to eat later." Tang Yan said with a smile.

  "Okay," said Zilan.

  Soon, Tang Yan sitting outside heard the sound of undressing from behind the screen, followed by the sound of water. Listening to this made Tang Yan's heart itch, and he had a desire to sneak a peek. However, Tang Yan didn't do that, but his eyes quietly turned towards the screen, hoping to catch a glimpse of something.

  About half an hour later, Zilan changed into a new set of clothes and came out from inside. Seeing Tang Yan sitting at the edge of the table, playing with the teacup in his hand, he said: "I'll go call Xiao Er to change your water, you wash up too!"

  "No need, no need to change water, it's too troublesome!" Tang Yan said.

  "But I've washed that water!" said Zilan.

  "It doesn't matter, Little Sister's sweat is also fragrant and not dirty." Tang Yan said as he ran into the wooden barrel behind the windscreen.

  "Th...". Zilan's face suddenly turned bright red.

  Tang Yan gazed at the layer of flower petals floating on the surface of the wooden barrel, shaking his head and saying: "No wonder Little Shifu's body always smells so fragrant!"

  After taking a bath, Tang Yan and Zi Lan went downstairs to eat. Although it was not yet time for dinner, the business in the store was quite good. Ten tables were all filled with five people, and when Tang Yan and the two appeared, several men's eyes fell on the beautiful Zi Lan.

  However, Zilan ignored them and closely followed her seventh junior brother, sitting at a table by the street on the second floor, looking down at the pedestrians coming and going on the street below. She ordered a few small dishes and started eating. If it was just the men in the tavern staring at Zilan, Tang Yan could tolerate it, but there were several shady characters on the street who were secretly watching him from afar, which was unacceptable.

  Don't think they're hiding in crowded places and dark corners, since the two days are half a month of space cultivation, Tang Yan's spiritual power is extremely sensitive. As long as there's any unusual movement, it can't escape Tang Yan's eyes. However, Tang Yan pretends that nothing has happened, continuing to eat the dishes brought by Xiao Er, occasionally chatting with Zi Lan.

  At this moment, a big man in the store came over to Tang Yan with a smile on his face, and politely asked: "Can I take a look at the weapon you're wearing?"

  Tang Yan didn't think much of his tone, but his eyes kept staring at Zilan's face and chest, making it clear that he was using the opportunity to flirt.

  "My weapon is not something to be taken lightly, it's a matter of life and death. I advise you to scram, don't interfere with our meal!" Tang Yan said to him.

  "Hey kid, why don't we make a bet? I'm considered a respectable person in this Stone Pine Town, after all," the big man said with a smile, shifting his gaze back from Zilan to Tang Yan.

  "Mind your own business! If you've got nothing better to do, then scram!" Tang Yan said with a flick of his hand.

  "You, you're very good. Since you won't give me face, fine! I'm going to challenge you now!" The guy pointed at Tang Yan and said loudly.

  "You're sick, you say challenge then challenge, idiot. Nothing to do with me, get out of the way a bit. I'm eating with my own woman, didn't your mom teach you that disturbing others while they eat is very impolite?" Tang Yan was left speechless by this guy.

  He knew that in this alien world, there was a very bright and upright style, which was that martial artists could propose some challenging behaviors to others. This kind of thing had been passed down for a long, long time, and challenges were a sign of respect for the opponent. For example, if some problems couldn't be solved, they could be resolved through force, of course, you didn't have to accept it. However, most men would accept it out of self-respect!

  For a long time, challenges have become some uncivilized behaviors. Many people fight with each other to get something from the opponent's body, often using the challenge method to kill the opponent and then take away the things on the opponent's body.

  "You're really something, aren't you? What's with the challenge? Fighting with you would be beneath me. Scram!" Tang Yan said.

  "You, you're looking for death!" The guy who had been scolded by Tang Yan as an idiot several times saw Tang Yan's weak and feeble appearance and immediately swung his fist at him.

  Alas, Tang Yan's life has been quite poor for the past two years. He doesn't eat nutritious food and looks sickly, making people feel like they can easily bully him.

  "Tang Yan!" Zilan saw this unreasonable guy throw a punch at Tang Yan and couldn't help but cry out.

  Facing this fist, Tang Yan didn't turn his face away, but slowly stretched out one hand and took his fist, with five fingers tightly clasped on top of the opponent's fist.

  "You..." The big Han didn't expect that Tang Yan could catch his fist with one hand, and the five fingers were still tightly clasped on it. However, his face changed quickly, and only a cracking sound was heard by his ear: "Crack" - the bone was broken.

  "Ah, my hand!" The big fellow had originally intended to add a punch, but his fist didn't come out. Instead, a sharp pain shot through his arm and into his chest.

  Tang Yan's move was even more ruthless, his five fingers tightly grasped together, forcibly crushing the man's fist into a small ball. The sound of "crack, crack, crack" continued to echo in the small shop. Needless to say, Tang Yan had already crippled the man's fist, rendering it impossible for him to recover. Even with 21st-century surgery, it would be difficult to reconnect bones that had been crushed into powder. As for the big man's cries of pain, Tang Yan showed no intention of letting go.

  "Spare my life, spare..." said the guy whose fist was crushed by Tang Yan.

  "This move of mine is the Tianying Sect's Duanjin Suoyu Hand, how about it!" Tang Yan recalled the claw technique of the previous Fifth Elder.

  "Spare my life! It hurts, it hurts!"

  The person next to him only saw Tang Yan's right hand grab the other person's awkward fist and pull his body forward, while his left hand flashed lightning-fast and hit his abdomen, again with a series of cracking sounds. Then he threw him down from the second floor, and he fell to the ground for half a day before getting up, clutching his abdomen, stumbling and staggering, disappearing into the crowd on the street.

  "A challenge? With this little skill, he dares to challenge me? I can crush him with just one finger! However, considering Zilan's face, I'll spare his life!" Tang Yan said while picking up the dishes on the plate and looking at Zilan.

  "How did it get dragged onto me? But doing so isn't quite right, I'm afraid he'll find someone to come over and bother us!" Zi Lan said.

  "Who told him to keep staring at you? I won't kill him, just crippling one of his hands is already being lenient!" Tang Yan said, looking at Zi Lan.

  "There are many people staring at me here, you won't kill them all too, will you?!"

  This sentence, Zilan didn't say anything, but as soon as she spoke up, all the men who were looking at her turned their eyes away, continuing to eat and drink tea, not daring to glance over at Zilan again. They were afraid that if they really looked at her, the man with the sword on his back would take them down.

  Just now, Tang Yan's method made people feel cold. Disabling the opponent's hand was enough, but breaking his arm and throwing him from the second floor was terrifying to think about. Although the big man earlier was a bodyguard by the town mayor of Shisong Town, with strength at the level of a one-star Dou Shi, he often bullied the common people in Shisong Town, relying on his identity, and wasn't a good person.

  "Who's staring at you? I'll go take care of them all!" Tang Yan said.

  Zi Lan heard his words, looked around, and saw that many people who were staring at her just now had all lowered their heads to eat, treating her as if she was invisible. Many others also heard Tang Yan's words and sat up one after another, calling for the waiter to bring the bill.

  "It's better for us to keep a low profile from now on, or we'll easily get taken advantage of!" Zilan said as she watched more than half of the people in the store leave.

  "I'm just afraid, sometimes being too low-key will get us bullied, those few guys outside have been staring at us all the time, who knows what kind of people they are? They're in the dark, we're in the light, it's easy to get taken advantage of." Tang Yan said, glancing outside into the darkness.