Chapter 168.

The group of people from the Lai Clan who had just rushed out were instantly baptized by countless thunderbolts.

“Ah~!”

“Damn it!”

“Uncle Clan save me ……”

A sound of miserable screams came out.

This wave of lightning attacks was too swift.

Coupled with the fact that the people of the Lai Clan, in their hearts, actually had some contempt in their instincts, especially with the presence of Lai Yongsheng, a Foundation Establishment powerhouse, almost no one placed tan san and his party in their eyes.

Even Lai Yongsheng himself was the same.

Thus, when they saw tan san directly swallow the Sacred Flame Fruit, and saw Lu Yun, Fang Zhiqing, Xu Ying and finally Shen Xinyi also directly swallow all five of those Sacred Flame Fruits one after the other, they were confused, and then immediately afterward, an endless anger arose in the bottom of their hearts.

It was as if those things that originally belonged to them had been snatched away from them alive.

Then they could no longer suppress it, and all of them rushed over, wanting to break them into pieces …….

Therefore, they did not make much defense at all, even if there were vigilant people, topped with defensive spells, but in the face of dozens of thunder and lightning bombardment, also simply can not resist.

A dozen Lai family people, just a wave, there are seven or eight, completely beaten into charcoal, directly fell on the spot.

The remaining five or six people were also all injured and in a very sorry state.

Even Lai Yongsheng, on top of his vestments, there was an additional scorched black mark, a hole had been burned through in his life.

On the contrary, Zhang Shihu and the others, who were originally coerced to come here, had long known that the Sacred Flame Fruit had nothing to do with them, and naturally would not be angered by this, did not charge forward, but instead dodged a bullet.

“Die! Die! Die!

You all have to die for me!”

Lai Yongsheng was enraged to the extreme.

Especially when he saw that so many of the Lai Family’s elites had been killed or injured for the most part, he was even more enraged and frenzied.

His body swept and quickly chased after tan san and the others in the direction where they were.

“Ah ……”

However, he had only just flown halfway when he suddenly heard a miserable scream.

However, it was tan san and the others who had thrown out countless summoning talismans along with the Sealing Thunder Talismans.

A head of hairy stiffs, evil-faced ghosts, and mountain-catching ghosts quickly charged towards the Lai family at this time as well.

Though one or two of them were not much of a threat.

After all, no matter if it was a hairy stiff, evil-faced ghost, or mountain ghost, it was at most equivalent to the strength of a cultivator at the 4th or 5th level of qi cultivation.

But in large numbers, it was a different story.

Not to mention, the remaining Lai Family members were themselves injured by the lightning blast.

Right after the encounter, one of the more injured cultivators was surrounded by several hairy stiffs, and was confused by two Evil Face Ghosts, followed by a Mountain Catching Ghost, which quickly pierced its arm into his neck, and was then quickly torn to shreds by the other inundations.

Other cultivators, at this time also very panicked, and hastily flew to offer defensive magic weapon top in front of their own body, and then attack.

One by one, they were in a sorry state to the point of panic, in a sorry state to the extreme.

As a last resort, Lai Yongsheng, who had just rushed out, only had to turn back and control the flying swords to quickly kill this head of summoned creatures.

With such a delay, more than ten breaths of time passed.

Turning his head to look again, the closest of tan san’s group had run out more than a hundred feet.

However, he would never be willing to let it go just like that, so he didn’t even make the slightest stop and quickly chased after them again in the direction they were in.

“I knew that this business of Water Cloud Pavilion was not simple.

I didn’t expect to have a bunch of spirit talismans in my hands, and they are still spirit talismans made by that mysterious talisman maker, Lord Feng Hua.”

At the back, Zhang Shi Hu was also dumbfounded when he witnessed such a scene.

“It’s fortunate that Brother Zhang was brilliant enough to anticipate this in advance.

Otherwise, if we had clashed with them before, we would never have ended up much better than the Lai Family’s people.”

A cultivator next to him couldn’t help but say with some trepidation.

The others also nodded their heads.

Truly, the scene just now was too frightening.

Spirit talismans were flying, and with ten or twenty lightning bolts blasting down together, there was hardly any late stage Qi Practitioner cultivator who could block it.

They, naturally, couldn’t either.

Not to mention, there were so many summoning talismans.

The hairy stiffs that are comparable to cultivators at the third level of qi cultivation, the evil face ghosts at the fourth level of qi cultivation, and the mountain catching ghosts at the fifth level of qi cultivation …… One or two of them are not so bad to deal with.

But to add up to almost a hundred of them?

They also have to hide as far away as possible.

At this time, look at the Lai family.

Originally plus the foundation cultivator Lai Yongsheng there are fifteen, now? There are only five left, and everyone is injured and in a sorry state.

This is still Lai Yongsheng see the situation is not good, rushed to rescue the results.

Otherwise the damage would be even more disastrous.

“So many spirit talismans, the pile can also pile people to death.

Water Cloud Pavilion is so generous?”

“Indeed.

I just did a little calculation, these spirit talismans, if converted into spirit stones, are worth at least 50,000 lower grade spirit stones.

This manual copy is almost equivalent to each person dumping out five thousand inferior spirit stones.

This is really generous, and is by no means something that an average cultivator, power, can take out.”

“This much?”

A group of hunting team members, immediately smacked their lips, followed by, have their eyes fell on Jiang Yu and Zhang Shao Han two people, curiously asked: “You Water Cloud Pavilion, really so generous? Treatment so good?”

In their eyes, they also inexplicably carried a trace of disbelief, what kind of friendship, let them give up the Water Cloud Pavilion such a ‘thigh’, running to them to work in this hunting squad?

The two looked at each other speechlessly and said bitterly, ”We don’t know either.

This matter of spirit talismans, we also want to know ah.”

If they had known earlier, where would they have given up Shen Xinyue’s invitation to join this laborious Shi Hu squad in the first place?

Especially Zhang Shihu’s move of failing to snatch it and then informing on it afterwards, but it had put them on the fire, inside and out.

At this time, they even have some hope, that Lai Yongsheng will Shen Xinyue a group of people were killed, also save them back, do not know how to face ……

No one would doubt the terror of a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator’s strength.

Therefore, when that word ‘escape’ appeared in their minds, they didn’t have any hesitation either.

In the midst of a crisis, there was simply no one who could calmly analyze everything, and could only instinctively follow the way that was most beneficial to them.

Therefore, after throwing out the spirit talisman, all of them raised their speed to the extreme at the first time and quickly fled in all directions.

The fastest among them was Xu Shaojie.

As the Water Cloud Pavilion’s Protector Provider, there was no doubt about his strength, and he was even better than Zhao Tianheng, the captain of the escorting team.

Following closely behind, were Li Qianyun, Zhao Tianheng, Xu Ying, Liu Xun …… One by one, they didn’t dare to have the slightest reservation, a spirit talisman was pasted on their bodies, making themselves lighter and faster.

And at the very back, it was tan san, Shen Xinyue.

tan san didn’t raise his speed to the fastest right from the start.

Otherwise, the Perfection Level Divine Walking Technique would have been enough to allow him to leave everyone behind and ride in the dust.

However, he knew that if that was the case, the others would be finished.

In the Water Cloud Pavilion, even the fastest runner, Xu Shaojie, would definitely not be able to escape the pursuit of the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators.

After all, he was also a member of the Water Cloud Pavilion, and had been taken care of by the Water Cloud Pavilion to be able to have a spiritual land, to be able to cultivate and grow smoothly.

And for that reason.

He deliberately stayed at the end.

Fortunately, the cultivation level he had previously displayed outside was already the lowest, only at the ”Sixth Level of Qi Practicing”.

Now, after swallowing the Sacred Flame Fruit, his cultivation had broken through to the ninth level of Qi Practicing, he had only appropriately ‘raised’ his cultivation, controlling the Breath Convergence Technique to display the aura of the ‘seventh level of Qi Practicing’.

However, the speed was ‘slightly weaker’, and the others did not have the slightest doubt.

As for Shen Xinyue.

As the Pavilion Master of the Water Cloud Pavilion, she already had the duty of ‘breaking the back’.

Coupled with the fact that she held tan san in high regard, she also remembered the more than one catty of hundred year old Spirit Tea Leaves that tan san had sent out at the beginning, and also remembered this favor.

Therefore, she was almost parallel to tan san, wanting to end up dragging Lai Yongsheng by herself and buying time for them to escape.

“Sister Shen don’t need to worry about me, you go first, I have a way.”

tan san utilized the ‘Ghost Eye Technique’, not even having to turn around, he was able to ‘see’ that Lai Yongsheng was speedily rushing towards him, his speed was more than twice as fast as the fastest Xu Shaojie.

Estimating that in another ten or so breaths of time, he would catch up, he hastily opened his mouth and shouted.

“Since you called me a sister, then I won’t let anything happen to you.”

Shen Xinyue’s face was serious, her speed did not increase in the slightest, and her tone was full of determination and pride as she said, “I am at least an elite disciple of the Water Cloud Pavilion, and I am known as one of the Phoenix Twin Swords, and one of the swords, which is Jiang Wufeng, is now a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

As for me, I, being able to be on par with Senior Brother Jiang, my strength is not weak.

Even if I didn’t build the foundation, it wouldn’t be difficult to block him for a hundred breaths of time.

If I fight with him later, don’t stop, just run away and get out of the Divine Wind Valley as soon as possible.

When you get to the outside world’s marketplace, you’ll be safe, and even if that Lai’s no better, he won’t dare to make a move against you within the marketplace.”

“Sister Shen.

I really have a way, don’t forget, I can still have a bunch of spirit talismans on my body, you are here, instead, it will affect ……”

tan san was somewhat helpless and was about to continue persuading, but suddenly noticed that at this time Shen Xingyue had stopped and quickly turned around to face Lai Yongsheng directly.

With a shock in his heart, tan san also stopped in a hurry.

“Move!”

Shen Xinyue roared sternly.

“Go?

None of you can leave!”

Lai Yongsheng snorted coldly, at this time, he had already approached within a hundred feet of the two, without the slightest hesitation at all, with a movement of his divine sense, a flying sword had already swiftly flown out.

Speed, fast to the extreme.

Shen Xinyue’s face was solemn, she quickly placed one of her own magic weapons in front of her, and even made a spell, and in front of her, a huge water-colored light curtain immediately appeared, guarding her entirety within it.

Thud!

With a shocking sound, that flying sword directly pointed on top of Shen Xinyue’s magic weapon.

The entire magic weapon, in fact, was quickly pierced through.

Shen Xinyue, whose mind was anchored within it, blanched, and at the same time, also controlled her flying sword to rush out.

Shen Xinyue’s flying sword, was turquoise in color, but the moment it rushed out, it was as if there was a water phoenix, flying.

As it flew out, the air froze.

Before the flying sword arrived, that water phoenix had already rushed out first and crashed on top of that Lai Yongsheng’s flying sword.

Boom!

It slightly stagnated for an instant before being shattered by that flying sword.

However, after this block, the other party’s flying sword also seemed to have exhausted its strength and was shaken out a little.

“Hmph, just a mantis!”

Lai Yongsheng snorted coldly, and with another movement of his divine sense, above that flying sword, it once again bloomed with spiritual light, and then once again condensed, transformed into a stream of light, and fiercely rushed towards Shen Xinyue.

When!

It crashed on top of Shen Xinyue’s flying sword, directly knocking a hole in it.

The difference between an extreme grade magic weapon and a top grade magic weapon was this huge.

Not to mention, Lai Yongsheng was at the early stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, while Shen Xinyue was only at the ninth level of Qi cultivation, and after the enhancement of the Sacred Flame Fruit, she had only reached the late level of the ninth level of Qi cultivation.

Regardless of cultivation or magic weapon, there was a huge gap.

And then, Lai Yongsheng’s flying sword’s residual power did not decrease, and quickly rushed to Shen Xinyue’s near front.

Boom!

It stabbed on top of the water-colored light curtain on his body.

The light curtain dimmed extremely quickly, and after consuming a full seventy percent of its power underneath, it finally blocked the strike once again.

“Die!”

Lai Yongsheng’s face remained unchanged as he controlled the flying sword to stab towards Shen Xinyue once again.

The gap between Qi Practicing Stage and Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators was too great.

It wasn’t just in terms of realm.

There was also the difference between Divine Sense and Spiritual Sense, which was also extremely large.

Divine sense, which was soundless and silent, was yet closely connected to the cultivator’s internal true energy and spiritual energy.

It could be used at any time to control the magic weapon and play a stronger role.

Spiritual awareness, on the other hand, was different, only having the power of control, but not the function of spiritual energy conduction.

In other words, after the cultivator injected spiritual energy into it, once the spiritual energy was depleted, it would not be able to exert much utility.

It was necessary to recall the magic weapon before it could once again perform an attack.

Therefore, in the face of Lai Yongsheng’s successive flying sword attacks, Shen Xinyue simply couldn’t defend herself, and could only passively defend herself, using all means to reduce his attacks.

When! Dang! When!

But it was also at this time, the three flying swords, at some point, had already rushed up, with a flick, a pick and then a stroke, they even directly pulled that flying sword away.

“Fellow Daoist Zhou, you must quickly go.”

Shen Xinyue’s mind was first relieved, but quickly reacted and hurriedly shouted anxiously.

“I told you, I have a way.”

tan san, however, did not say anything, then waved his hand.

Boom boom boom!

A streak of lightning quickly blasted down towards Lai Yongsheng.

“Hmph! Useless!”

Lai Yongsheng was fearless as he reached out and summoned his hand, and a small tower immediately emerged from his hand before he threw it upwards.

The small tower rose against the wind and directly transformed into a giant tower.

The thunderbolt bombarded on top of the giant tower only made it sway slightly, but failed to shake it in the slightest. Only then did Lai Yongsheng continue to control the flying sword, slicing through the sky and directly chopping towards tan san!

Pfft!

The flying sword swayed, fast to the extreme, directly penetrating through tan san’s head.

“No…”

Shen Xinyue’s face turned white, and her eyes turned red.

On Lai Yongsheng’s face, a hint of a smile surfaced in the immediate solution.

But soon, his smile froze on his face.

That silhouette that originally belonged to tan san actually dissipated directly into thin air as the flying swords crossed over.

At the same time, a few feet away, the real tan san Cai once again emerged, and with a wave of his hand, he threw out several more sealing lightning talismans.

At the same time as he threw out the spirit talismans, he even used the Gravity Technique and the Dungeon Technique, immediately slowing down Lai Yongsheng, who was still approaching.

It was also at this time that the rest of the Lai Family followed suit.

The original dozen or so people, now only four remained, plus Lai Yongsheng, a Foundation Establishment, only five.

Even further back, there was Zhang Shihu and the others, who didn’t dare to get too close, but only watched from afar.

When Shen Xinyue saw this, her heart sank, and a hint of despair really arose.

Even if they face a Foundation Establishment, they are almost powerless to fight back, plus these four people from the Lai family …… they will definitely die.

However, contrary to Shen Xinyue, tan san was not shocked but pleased.

The body shape, even more quickly met their direction and rushed straight over.

“Looking for death!”

Lai Yongsheng wasn’t nervous, instead, he was very relaxed.

The divine sense controlled the flying sword and charged towards tan san once again.

In response, tan san simply flung out several spirit talismans!

Ang!

A roaring sound came out.

Several Devil Elephants of enormous size then appeared at his side.

Even though these several demonic elephants were pierced through by that flying sword in the blink of an eye, tan san once again dodged Lai Yongsheng’s sword.

Then, with Lai Yongsheng’s eyes wide open, he scurried past his side.

When Lai Yongsheng saw this, he was also a bit puzzled.

This person, is his head broken? He didn’t see his Lai Family’s four late stage Qi Practicing cultivators, charging over.

Thinking that he could escape like this?

With a slight movement in his heart, he hurriedly controlled his flying sword to slash around himself, breaking the cage that was in front of him while at the same time, he once again controlled his flying sword to chase after tan san.

Puff!

The flying sword once again passed through tan san’s body, but Lai Yongsheng, who had seen tan san’s methods, naturally wouldn’t fall for it, and the flying sword, almost in the next moment, once again stabbed, and ruthlessly stabbed on top of tan san’s real body, several feet away.

Gear!

Only, as expected, the situation of decapitating the enemy as if it were a breakthrough didn’t happen.

The golden armor on tan san’s body, between the flashes of spiritual light, only dimmed by thirty to forty percent, and blocked that flying sword directly.

Then tan san’s figure shifted once again, and he appeared a few feet away, and was also truly close to that group of Lai Clan cultivators.

Without the slightest hesitation at all, he threw out several more spirit talismans.

Rumble!

As the clouds became dense, a thunderbolt then blasted down.

“I’d like to see just how many spirit talismans you have!”

The group of Lai Clan cultivators’ faces glowed fiercely, and even earlier, they cast their defense means to the extreme.

One, two, three ……

An endless number of thunderbolts instantly blasted down.

The Lai Family cultivators who were just now full of calmness immediately showed an incomparable color of panic on their faces.

What’s going on?

What’s wrong?

Why was there so much lightning in the sky?

The defense spells on their bodies blocked the three, five in front of them, but they simply couldn’t block the continuous thunderbolt bombardment behind them.

At this moment, it was tan san who had truly cast a spell for the first time.

Making use of the Little Five Elements Thousand Thunder Technique.

Thousands of thunderbolts, directly bombarding down.

Such a scene was extremely shocking, and the group of Lai Clan cultivators who were in the middle of the thunderclouds were all a little chilled.

Then, watching their defensive spells being blasted to pieces, the defensive aura on their own bodies being broken open …… Just as they were despairing, they suddenly realized that the thunder clouds that were originally shrouding above their heads, dispersed.

Attack, over?

All of the Lai Family cultivators, their faces showed the color of life after the robbery.

Even Lai Yongsheng, who was still a bit nervous, had a relaxed mind.

This time, too many of their Lai Family had fallen, if the last four people had also died, then the Lai Family would have suffered a great deal of damage within the entire Divine Wind Valley Marketplace, and it would be difficult to gain a foothold.

At the very least, it would take tens of hundreds of years to recover.

Then immediately afterward, his heart was plunged into incomparable anger.

This kid, must die, must die ……

Shen Xinyue in the distance was a bit regretful, a pity, as long as this lightning power, a little stronger ……

“If I guessed correctly, this should be the Small Five Elements Thousand Thunder Art, right?

It’s worthy of being a large-scale group attack lightning technique, the power is really strong.

It’s just a pity that there’s a limit to how powerful it can be.

Being able to break through the defenses of four late stage Qi Practitioner cultivators was already not bad.

Rather, I didn’t expect that person to be so strong that he had mastered such a powerful lightning method?

This person, wasn’t he a Spirit Plant Master?

When did the strength of a Spiritual Planter, become so strong?”

In the distance, Zhang Shihu and the others also had a look of disbelief on their faces.

They were also marveled by it.

“It’s too early to be happy.”

tan san’s face remained unchanged, and even his speed, did not slow down in the slightest.

At the same time as the lightning attack fell, he had also approached the group of Lai Clan cultivators.

Wordlessly, a cage, instantly rose up, locking the four of them in.

Immediately afterward, they all felt their bodies sink, as if they were being fiercely pressed down by an invisible giant force, and their figures all sank violently.

In the next moment, the three flying swords passed by in a flash.

In the end, tan san then pointed out a finger.

Poof! Poof! Puff! Puff!

Above the heads of the four people, several more bloody holes instantly appeared.

His Little Five Elements Thousand Thunder Technique was not this weak.

It was only for the sake of the trophies that he deliberately controlled it and didn’t blast their flesh into slag.

At this time, the strike was naturally very swift and dry.

Dead!

Four Lai Clan cultivators, dead in the blink of an eye.

They fell in front of everyone.

At that moment, everyone was shocked.

It simply did not occur to them that tan san was able to comfortably kill four Late Qi Practicing cultivators under the attack of a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.

One must know that these four were not weak, the strongest was at the 9th level of Qi Practicing, a Lai Family Elder, an Elder, and the weakest was at the 7th level of Qi Practicing.

As a result, they were all killed instantly.

“Die! Die! Die!

I want you to die!”

Lai Yongsheng was already out of rage.

Hurriedly controlling the flying swords, he once again attacked towards tan san.

And tan san was not idle at this time, flying close to the four people, will four people on the body of the storage bag are collected after, only then once again to the distance to run away.

One zhang, two zhang, three zhang ……

Several zhang later, he once again threw out a bunch of spirit talismans.

Several demonic elephants surfaced once again, blocking it tightly.

However, the foundation is after all the foundation, the divine sense is even more subtle and incomparable, directly locked tan san’s figure, after bypassing these demonic elephants, once again in his body a point.

When!

The golden armor on his body once again dimmed by thirty percent.

In response, tan san was slightly helpless, but he could only increase his speed once again and quickly fled towards the distance.

And behind him, Lai Yongsheng was similarly extremely fast and quickly chased after him.

The two of them, one in front of the other, were like phantoms and quickly disappeared above the original battlefield.

The wind whistled.

For a moment, the scene was incredibly quiet.

Shen Xinyue was also confused.

Everything had changed too quickly.

Originally, she was the one who had fought to the death, wanting to give tan san a chance of survival, but she had never imagined that in the end, it was tan san who had made a move, not only dodging several attacks from Lai Yongsheng, but also wiping out the rest of the Lai Family.

Even with her powerful state of mind, she still had a dreamy feeling, and was even more incredulous.

However, very quickly, she came back to her senses.

tan san could not be left alone to face the Foundation Establishment cultivators alone.

So she hurriedly and swiftly i tracked in the direction of tan san and the others.

On the other side, Zhang Shihu and the others were all wide-eyed as well, their emotions unable to calm down for a long time.

“This person, who exactly is he?

The strength is not yet, too strong?”

Only after a long time did one person murmur.

“I don’t know if you guys noticed, but he just dodged Elder Lai’s means of dodging that flying sword.

Until that flying sword stabbed him, I didn’t even know that it was just an image, the scene …… Even Elder Lai, didn’t realize it.

So much so that he dodged Elder Lai’s attacks one after another.”

“There’s also his Thunder Technique.

The talismanic bit that he resorted to before was just fine.

But after that, that Little Five Elements Thousand Thunder Technique, that’s a real spell means, and it’s also a group attack thunder technique.

But you guys found no, his casting speed, as if some too fast some?

Five breaths? Three breaths? Or two breaths?

At least I didn’t find out when he started preparing the spell.

Especially since he was still in a situation where he was quickly running away and dodging Elder Lai’s attacks ……”

Another cultivator, followed suit and the more he analyzed, the more alarmed he became as well.

“I have a feeling that even Brother Zhang, might not be his opponent.”

Immediately after, another person from the Stone Tiger Squad said weakly.

“No need to feel.

I am indeed not his opponent.

At the very least, I can’t dodge Senior Lai’s flying sword, much less block, a strike from his flying sword.”

Zhang Shihu directly shook his head, then his gaze looked towards Jiang Yu and Zhang Shao Han, saying, “So, who is he?”

On the faces of the two, a bitter look once again surfaced, and only after a while did Zhang Shao Han dry his voice and said, “We are not familiar with him either.

We only know that he is called tan san, a cultivator who followed Pavilion Master Shen Xinyue from Fengming Wu Market to Divine Wind Valley Market a few months ago.

Other than that, really don’t know much.”

“Right.

We only knew before that he was a Spirit Plant Master, and like us, he was a Spirit Plant Provider of the Water Cloud Pavilion.

Where did we know that his strength was actually this powerful?”

Jiang Yu, who was on the side, followed suit and spoke, helpless and at the same time, somewhat uneasy.

Thinking back to before, he and the other party could also have a little bit of trouble.

I only hope that the other party ……

“It’s just a pity that he killed all of the Lai family this time.

Elder Lai will never let him go, not without death.

So what if he’s even stronger?

Whether or not he can escape from Elder Lai’s hands can still be unknown.”

“Escape? Where to escape?

Foundation Establishment seniors are faster, their attacks are stronger, they can also fly with their swords, and they even have divine sense that can firmly lock him down, so it can be said that there is no way to the sky and no door to the ground.”

“In the Immortal Cultivation Realm, I have never heard of any Qi Practicing Stage cultivator being able to escape from a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.

Without exception, all of them could hardly escape death.”

“To put it in detail, this person is indeed a genius.

It’s just a pity that it’s hard to escape the fall in the end!”

A group of people were talking.

Jiang Yu, who had just been a bit flustered, suddenly brightened up.

Yes.

This tan san was strong, his strength was beyond everyone’s expectations.

But whether he could escape from that Lai Yongsheng’s hands was yet to be seen.

As long as he was dead, then he naturally didn’t have to worry about anything.

Who could escape the pursuit of a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator?

tan san, inevitably, couldn’t either!