By now the entire tavern had turned silent as everyone was focused on trying to listen to what was happening on the table that Jian Shen and the man who newly entered was sitting around.
Rolling his eyes at how the man was speaking so much without introducing himself, Jian Shen decided to be even more straightforward.
"I'm asking you for your name."
"Humph! Do you expect me to believe that you don't know what my name is? Tsk! Don't think that I will fall for these lowly tricks."
Sighing loudly, Jian Shen said, "Other than knowing that you're having an affair with Xu Long's mother, I don't know anything else about you."
Turning alert and nervous in an instant, the man hastily looked around before quickly sending the woman who was serving Jian Shen away.
What he did next caused Jian Shen to almost laugh, because the man placed a barrier around them and restricted any sound from leaving it.
"How... How did you know?!"
"Ahhh... So that woman really was his mother."
Understanding quite a lot from the man's words, Jian Shen smiled and asked, "Does it matter? It's not like I'm going to tell this to anyone else anyway."
Wiping the sweat on his forehead away and looking through narrowed eyes towards Jian Shen, the man couldn't help it as sinister thought filled his head with the desire to get rid of him right away.
When the man first entered the tavern, what made Jian Shen frown wasn't the pressure he was exerting or because he knew who it was. Rather, it was the scent of perfume that was coming from him.
That scent seemed very familiar to Jian Shen as if it was something that he had smelled not too long back.
Therefore he took a few seconds to think back to where it was that he smelled this similar scent at and who it was that was using this perfume.
Honestly, it didn't take Jian Shen a long time to do this because he could still vividly remember everything that happened in the evening.
This perfume belonged to the blonde-haired woman who looked more anxious than her son to have Luli as her daughter in law.
The reason behind this was now quite apparent after Jian Shen smelled the same scent coming from the man sitting in front of him.
It could be that the man was trying to pressure her into making sure that her son married his daughter.
"Stop looking at me like that and tell me your name. I really don't know what it is."
"He Xing."
Speaking through gritted teeth, the man who knew he had no other choice but to do as Jian Shen said for the time being before he was confident enough to eliminate him without causing any troubles for himself.
Though he could try and attack Jian Shen right now, He Xing who himself was in the Soul Splitting Realm didn't feel confident in being able to kill Jian Shen without whoever it was that was guarding him interfering and saving him.
Luckily Jian Shen didn't seem to be bothered to throw his weight around and blackmail He Xing with the information that would definitely cause him a lot of trouble.
After all, given what he learnt from Xifeng, Xu Long's background was stronger than the Winter Jade Empire, and essentially stronger than the He Clan as well.
Smiling and standing up, Jian Shen said, "You should disappear from Luli's life after I defeat Xu Long. If you try to interfere even after I won, you should know very well what would happen."
Speaking what he wanted to, Jian Shen easily passed through the barrier which was only there to restrict sound from passing through and left the tavern as he made his way back to his courtyard.
The battle was scheduled not too long in the future, and given how confident He Xing looked in Xu Long, it might be possible that his strength had increased more than Jian Shen guessed it did.
At the same time, when Jian Shen was near his courtyard he said, "Thank you. You can spend the nights inside the courtyard. It isn't nice for a woman to stay outside all alone."
Looking as if he was speaking to the air, Jian Shen after entering his courtyard left the door open and showed no signs of coming back to close it.
When he heard that the one who was protecting him was in the Soul Splitting Realm, Jian Shen was a little surprised because he didn't expect Meirong to be so strong.
But given that he heard from Xifeng about how Meirong who was always alone focused purely on cultivation, he wasn't too surprised and left thankful to her.
Even though he could've taken care of the assassins using the two swords, that would've interfered with his plan to cultivate in peace.
...
There was no moment even after Jian Shen had left the door open for quite a long time, but finally a small chuckle could be heard outside his courtyard as a woman appeared mysteriously out of thin air.
"Honey still loves me so much."
Muttering to herself with a sweet expression, Meirong ecstatically hopped her way inside the courtyard and closed the door behind her.
In the beginning she tried her best to give Jian Shen his space and sleep in one of the many other rooms, but in the end she couldn't hold back any more and sneaked into his bed causing him to smile and kiss her on the cheek.