Tan Zheng believed that Fang Shen was the descendant of Fang Clan and was greatly supported by his clan. Otherwise, he was unable to be so highly skilled in martial arts at such a young age.
In his eyes, no matter how talents a person was, he or she was unable to become a master before thirty years old without the support of a big clan. After all, a large number of resources was required to build a cultivator.
Tan Zheng shook his hand towards Xu Longsheng and the girl, saying to Fang Shen, "Mr. Fang, they knew nothing about what happened ten years ago. Why don't you allow them to leave now?"
Fang Shen knew what Tan Zheng was thinking about. If Xu Longsheng and the girl left, Tan Zheng would have no fear of an attack towards them. Fang Shen was not sure if he could make Tan Zheng stay.
If they went back to Dugu Faction, Fang Shen was unable to find them anymore.
What's worse, if Tan Zheng brought more cultivators back from Dugu Fraction to deal with Fang Shen, the latter would be screwed.
"No!" Fang Shen rejected. "They can just stay here and listen. Tell me what happened ten years ago in detail."
After a short pause, he added, "I've also got some information during these years. If you dare to cheat me, you'll be sorry for doing that."
Xu Longsheng and the girl dared not move after hearing Fang Shen's words.
Tan Zheng, however, flared with anger.
He had been trying to be nice to Fang Shen all this time because of three reasons: first, he was not sure about Fang Shen's strength; second, he didn't want to offend the Fang Clan; third, Dugu Faction did something wrong to Fang Shen's parents. Tan Zheng hadn't been in the action ten years ago, but he heard of it from his Senior Martial Brother.
Tan Zheng was a kindhearted old man, and felt guilty in front of Fang Shen, so he had been nice to him. But he didn't expect Fang Shen to be so arrogant.
His face soured at Fang Shen's words.
"My friend, you should know what to say and what not to say. Are you sure you can defeat me?" Tan Zheng rested his right hand on his sword hanging on his waist.
It was said Tan Zheng completely mastered the first three moves of Dugu Nine-Stabs and was practicing the fourth move.
Xu Longsheng was the sole disciple of the Third Elder while the girl was the Third Elder's granddaughter. Tan Zheng was the Third Elder's servant. But Xu and the girl had treated Tan Zheng with the utmost respect in the past and Tan had never been treated like this before. As a result, Tan was infuriated by Fang Shen's arrogant attitude.
Tan signaled them to leave the house as soon as possible.
Xu Longsheng and the girl stood up in an attempt to leave the house.
Though Xu Longsheng was talents in martial arts, he was not qualified enough to get involved in the fight between masters.
Fang Shen, however, didn't want to fight with Tan Zheng. On the one hand, it would be rather troublesome to offend Dugu Faction; on the other hand, if Tan Zheng was killed, Fang would be unable to know what had happened ten years ago.
Strong as Fang Shen was, he was not strong enough to go to Dugu Faction and fight against all the cultivators.
He didn't even know where the Dugu Faction was.
So, he made his choice to teach them a lesson.
He must hold them in awe with a frightening skill.