Original- Blue Silver Grass

Morning

Fan Lin woke up to the sounds of the thunder.

"It's going to rain here."

*Chuckles*

"I will come later then."

He disappeared and appeared in the Southern skies before diving down to the sea.

"I will miss this convenience."

*Thamp*

And Fan Lin drowned in the sea.

An hour later.

Yun Ming fished Fan Lin out of the water, only to be met with his dead eyes and a question that was verbatim.

"Need something?" [Fan Lin]

"Just helping someone drowning. What about you? Need something?" [Yun Ming]

"Nothing. I was coming to you guys in an hour or so but now works just as fine. I hope I am not asked for tea again." [Fan Lin]

"And what do you need to tell us?" [Yun Ming]

Yun Ming playfully questioned after releasing Fan Lin to the ground.

"Not much" [Fan Lin]

He said and flew to the tea table Leng Yaozhu had set up. Yun Ming followed suit.

"Things have been going well. Although Qiangu Dongfeng doesn't trust Yun Ming and is on his tip-toes about why Yun Ming may have visited you. He is even questioning me." [Fan Lin]

"Really?" [Yun Ming]

"And?" [Leng Yaozhu]

"Keep your act for today as well. Tomorrow you both a free from me. That should do it." [Fan Lin]

"You sure this would be enough to crack Dongfeng. He undoubtedly deserves his position just in terms of capability alone. He might have gotten to something and might be looking at you playing the fool while waiting for the opportune time." [Yun Ming]

"Let him do whatever he wants. What I want is complicated and it will take some time. Till then, this much is enough for my purpose." [Fan Lin]

"Nothing else needs to be done on our part then?" [Leng Yaozhu]

"Nope. There's nothing more that you need to do today. L" [Fan Lin]

"You should prepare a backup plan just is case." [Yun Ming]

"I do have backups but this is enough. Trust me on this." [Fan Lin]

"You do realise that I ruined your previous plan and you could do nothing at all. You should not be that overconfident." [Yun Ming]

Fan Lin turned to Yun Ming.

It was the truth.

He had failed to join Qiangu Dongfeng the last time because of Yun Ming which not just ruined his previous plan but also became a breaking point for all of his actions.

He had to break even with Leng Yaozhu, leave everything behind, change schedules, postpones some plans while the rest was put forward.

His mind was a mess.

Now he has to finght himself, against himself and for himself, all because the past was not letting him live his present and it all lead to that one faithful day where he was broken because someone fear him.

"How could I forget that? None of this would even be needed. But don't worry, I have everything in my grasps this time. And my desires aren't something great. I just want him to react." [Fan Lin]

"I hope so." [Yun Ming]

"I do have something to ask of you lot but it needs to be put to the motion tomorrow. I want you to spread rumours about me having the rights for the replantation of the Starduo Forest. It's just a fake advertisement kind of thing, I would do nothing to th3 Starduo Forest so don't need to be that tense and stare at me like that."

"I wouldn't even go near Shrek. I have thousands of other things that I need to tend to. I just want the tag that you are asking me for the replantation rights to the Starduo Forest. It just needs to be a rumour kind of thing."

"Why?" [Leng Yaozhu]

"We can't give you that. Even when it's fake." [Yun Ming]

"I know. Your lack of systematic power isn't knew to me. I just want you to spread the rumours, in return, I will give you a hideout of an Evil Soul Master. It lively, it's full and you can immediately send people to nab them, the haul will be great. It's a decent sized one at that. How does this sound now? You will definitely agree now? Why are you looking at me like that? It's just a cooperation to me, nothing more, nothing less."

"Nothing. I will spread the rumours but for three decent sized Evil Soul Masters bases." [Yun Ming]

Yun Ming said while glancing at Leng Yaozhu.

"Same for me then, Although I think Yun Ming doesn't have that many people to srpead the news to. Qiangu Dongfeng definitely have no spies in the Seagod Pavilion." [Leng Yaozhu]

"I don't care if you have no relations, the news should just be out your mouth and that suffices for me." [Fan Lin]

He said while taking out a map and pointing the places.

"Here, here, here, here, here, here." [Fan Lin]

"I hope you don't get your 'special forces' killed with this much preparation. That would be disappointing. Severely disappointing. Bye." [Fan Lin]

He disappeared after saying that.

Both of them looked at the map and then at each other. Who will take the sites?

"Let the Tang Sect deal with this one. I will owe you." [Yun Ming]

Yun Ming said and relayed the information to the Tang Sect after Leng Yaozhu agreed.

The Tang Sect will deal with the matter swiftly. Probably.

"Any idea on what he may need from the Starduo Forest now?" [Yun Ming]

"Nothing actually, but knowing him, he is most likely doing this to confuse us from reaching out to his actual motives. Spreading confusion for no reason is something he will do just because."

"You could have taken our help to get the President's position." [Yun Ming]

"You think I want to be the President?" [Leng Yaozhu]

"I know you didn't. What's the sudden interest? Is it your disciple?" [Yun Ming]

"It's related to her but not completely. You adopted a daughter yourself, how is she? What about Ya Li? Is she better now?" [Leng Yaozhu]

"She wishes to meet with you all the time." [Yun Ming]

"She can come whenever she wants to. I never stopped her." [Leng Yaozhu]

"She doesn't want to meet you as the Vice President of the Spirit Pagoda but as her old friend." [Yun Ming]

"Let's not talk about things pertaining to this. And you do know that she is the one infuriating me whenever we meet." [Leng Yaozhu]

"I... That was a long time ago, I think." [Yun Ming]

....

Fan Lin returned to the place where he was sleeping in the morning and it was indeed raining. He cook some tomatoes and ate it with bread before going to sleep in the sound of the rains.

....

Starduo Forest.

"The forest here seems to be growing just fine. We can start the landscaping to make it look like the replaced Starduo Forest. The humans will never know."

"Proceed whenever you can then."

"Yes My Liege."

Di Tian said and looked at the tree filled land that was just full of saplings the previous day. No matter how many times he see this sight, he can never get used to it.

How did half a drop created an entire forest?

"What about the Moon Forest? Did the soul beasts calm down?"

"There have been no problems with the soul beast population after the Bear Lord went to settle things. The soul beasts had agreed to wait."

"The forest is expanding as a consistent rate and in an year, it should reach the human settlements."

"Di Tian, what do you think about this place now?"

"We can bring some of the population back to act as decoys. It would be bad if the humans don't find any of us here." [Di Tian]

"I agree. Now we don't need him anymore."

"We should still keep him alive for a bit longer My Liege. He could be useful later on."

"En."