Original- Blue Silver Grass

{... and that's about it.}

(Everything you have read in the previous chapter.)

{Yes, everything's fine. Fan Lin isn't a future catastrophe.}

{Fan Lin doesn't want to create any chaos and had thus wanted to keep it a secret.}

Elder Dou told everything he knew to the Seagod Pavilion and also relayed a redundant version of it to Qiangu Dongfeng with some of the things missing.

Things like Fan Lin being immune to his explosion and his plan to create the Four Word Battle Armour. The rest was given no amount of privacy.

"I see..."

Qiangu Dongfeng replied in a sour tone when he heard about Fan not wanting to make things known because he wanted to avoid chaos and disorder in the Spirit Pagoda due to the particularity of the news.

He cut the call and rubbed his temple in frustration.

He... He knew full well just how much of a BS this was!

And yet, he was helpless in refuting this statement as he wouldn't be able to explain why he knew this without getting in unneeded attention.

"So he wants to leave in peace? After everything he had done to me, he wants to live in peace? Hæh?"

"He thinks I would do nothing just because he will explode! Foolish!"

Qiangu Dongfeng shook his head at the amusement he felt. Every action of Fan Lin felt like the trickeries of a clown that had caught his tongue between his teeth.

"He will be completing the replantation. Hm?"

Qiangu Dongfeng looked at his soul communicator in confusion.

{Hello President.}

He picked the call and his emotionless voice came to his ears.

"What do you want? Are you going to beg me to allow you to leave to the next continent?"

Qiangu Dongfeng commented sharply. Time for sweet talks had ended. After knowing Fan Lin for all this while, he had realised that this was the best way to talk to him. Be straightforward. Be truthful of your mind, and do not get swayed in his tone. Do those three and everything will work out well.

{Um-hm. I was just checking if you got the message. Enough time has passed. So... did you get it?}

"What do you think from my tone? Aren't you pretty smart?"

{You could have just said yes. Do not waste my time. Why do you always have to be so extra?}

"Your provocations are ineffective. You are still green if you think this will work multiple times."

{Oh. What are you going to do now? Are you going to obey me or are you going to remain useless?}

Fan Lin sent an image. It was a selfie taken outside Bright City.

"You have a death wish. You think I wouldn't do anything to you just because the rest are afraid of your farce."

Qiangu Dongfeng calmly stated while showing Fan Lin the picture he had sent.

{It's nice to--}

"--meet you President."

Fan Lin cut the call mid sentence and turned to Qiangu Dongfeng who had appeared above him.

"You could have appeared in front of me." [Fan Lin]

He said while flying towards Qiangu Dongfeng.

"Your words aren't crash now that I am in front of you." [Qiangu Dongfeng]

Qiangu Dongfeng replied, eyeing each move Fan Lin made.

"Did I ever change my tone in our previous meetings?" [Fan Lin]

Spirit rings rose from his body as he took out his storage ring and encased it in an ice jade bird. He raised the bird with bith hands and released it to the skies.

"Oh! Should I take this as provocation towards me? Let's me provide some guidance to you then." [Qiangu Dongfeng]

Qiangu Dongfeng mouth raised in a small smile at Fan Lin's display of "might".

"Let me say my mind first. Yao would have never chose you even if Yun Ming wasn't there." [Fan Lin]

"I have gotten over those feelings long ago." [Qiangu Dongfeng]

"You will never be able to find someone better than me." [Fan Lin]

"I will do with Gu Yue then." [Qiangu Dongfeng]

"I know where you are keeping the Godslayers." [Fan Lin]

The atmosphere stilled as those words left Fan Lin's mouth.

The surrounding space began to churned and crusted as it was cut from the outside world.

Qiangu Dongfeng silently looked at Fan Lin, his eyes filled with confusion, apprehension and discord.

No one except him should have known about it. He had killed everyone else. How did Fan Lin knew then?

Space warped around Fan Lin and before he can do anything, Qiangu Dongfeng had clutched his face in his hand and slammed it to the ground.

"How did you know?"

Qiangu Dongfeng asked in an extremely chilly voice. His abundant and terrifying power leaking through the atmosphere, refracting the light that was around them.

If he had wanted, he could have kill Fan Lin long ago.

Fan Lin looked at him, not a single change in his eyes and no actual damage to his body. Qiangu Dongfeng hadn't been serious. Neither was he. It was just a simple banter.

"I am not angry. I told you to never anger me."

Energy began to well up around Fan Lin. All the energy that he has absorbed from the seas was poured in his body and his energy body was finally allowed to go mayhem.

Qiangu Dongfeng felt the changes around Fan Lin. To be precisely, he felt the changes around Fan Lin too accurately.

"What are you doing?" [Qiangu Dongfeng]

He roared to Fan Lin, still keeping him in his clasps and forcefully containing the energy.

He failed. He tried to back down. He failed. Fan Lin came with him.

In Qiangu Dongfeng's pure horror, he was feeling the entirety of Fan Lin's Energy Body's energetic destruction as Fan Lin grabbed his hand and didn't let him create distance, allowing him to have a feeling of all the increasing energy was rapidly destroying Fan Lin body while becoming stronger.

"What are you doing?"

Qiangu Dongfeng forcefully snatched his hand away from Fan Lin and threw him far away from him.

Fan Lin didn't do anything to stop or soften the throw. He crashed into the ground, trees a few metres away from him.

He gently got up and turned to look at Qiangu Dongfeng with a smile on his face and nothingness in his eyes.

Qiangu Dongfeng met his gaze but more than so, he felt the energy in his body rising at an extremely terrifying rate.

"What are you doing!!?" [Qiangu Dongfeng]

He bellowed from there, looking at the madness that Fan Lin was presenting. He could now understand why Elder Dou had sounded so pensive. If this explodes, the world would indeed end.

This was too much energy and it was increasing with each passing moment.

"When I asked if you got the message. Did you actually not get it? Ok, let me tell you. I am a star in the skies and I am going to explode." [Fan Lin]

"It's you who hasn't understood the situation yet. You are going to burn everything around us. Look at your surroundings, these are the lands that you have replantated. I know how much love it. You will not destroy them. So stop this madness before it goes beyond you." [Qiangu Dongfeng]

Qiangu Dongfeng tried to reason with the situation. He had a general understanding of Fan Lin and knew enough about his likes and dislikes.

Fan Lin wouldn't destroy forests. He can not. Qiangu Dongfeng was completely sure of it since he had the history of Fan Lin long before he had joined the Spirit Pagoda and after observing those things for tens of times, he was sure of it that Fan Lin was a forest empathiser.

Fan Lin looked at his surroundings. Qiangu Dongfeng was right. They were currently in the forest area that was to be made into the reservation parks.

Qiangu Dongfeng had likely teleported him here.

"I see. Enough playing the weak then." [Fan Lin]

He looked down, the energy in his body dying down as his began to whisper some atrocities of his to himself.

Qiangu Dongfeng looked at the situation from far away and immediately knew that he had made the right choice by changing the terrain to the forest ground.

This one decision not only limited Fan Lin's usage of Boundless Ring to just one single terrain skill related to the Forest terrain but also stopped any and all heavy damaging attacks or ploys that Fan Lin could possibly do.

He, Qiangu Dongfeng, had won!

He had finally won against the pest that had been taking advantage of his silence for all this while.

"Hm?"

As he was observing the situation though, he felt something off.

Fan Lin tore away the tattered upper clothing of his. His gaze turned icy cold as the three rings fused into one single ring.

"He can do that?" [Qiangu Dongfeng

He gazed at Qiangu Dongfeng and this was the first time in his life that he had felt creeped out from a child's gaze, causing him to unconsciously swallow his saliva.

Fan Lin blinked and the next moment, Qiangu Dongfeng fell down to his knees as his body felt mutilated and constricted, unable to muster up even an iota of energy.

Qiangu Dongfeng looked at Fan Lin, now standing in front of him, eyes cold and apathetic.

He calmly flicked Qiangu Dongfeng's head, flinging his body a few feet away.

He walked towards him and sat down on a ice jade boulder table. Facing the out of breath, bereaved Qiangu Dongfeng's with blood flowing down his down as he helplessly lay on the ground, he began to speak.

[This is not how it was supposed to go. I had planned this differently. I will first warn you that I am an exploding bomb and that I know where the Qiangu Family lives and your deepest darkest secrets and I want your complete allegiance for the next four months in exchange for that.]

[Otherwise, I was to go your family, send you a picture and then explode myself and send you a picture again. Then you will call them and find out that they are fine and that I had exploded in an entirely different place and then you will get in line and we will have a peaceful cooperation.]

[Or here's another one. I will come, show you that I can indeed destroy everything that you have spent your whole life creating; be it your family, wealth, position or this planet.]

[I am an idiot though. I let things get to my head again. I promised Leng Yaozhu that I will not do something that will harm someone. I should have not made that promise.]

[Now you know my strength. Will you keep it hidden? Otherwise I will rip your tongue, hands, and eyes out while crippling your cultivation and throwing you into some random street in the other continent. That's harming, even though I am not taking your life.]

[I have no choice but to reach a settlement without breaking my words. Will you listen to me?]

Gloomy Forest looked at Qiangu Dongfeng, his gaze making him tremble in apparent fear and doom.

[Are you afraid? This is why I seldom show my true emotions. Just a second.]

He raised his hand and the ice jade encased bird returned with his storage ring.

He took out a tomato and began to munch on it.

[She liked it a lot. Eating them makes me remember her. Would you like one?]

He took out another tomato and innocently offered it to Qiangu Dongfeng. Gone was the ice cold temperament, now switched up with a tone that felt like a naive ones.

Qiangu Dongfeng looked at the tomato, terrified at the situation. He couldn't muster his soul power and physical strength. It was sapped away.

The same was also true for his spiritual power. He couldn't even feel it. It was like the Heavens had abandoned him.

[You can't eat it in your condition. Do not worry, you will be fine in an hour or so. Eat an apple and the blood will recover as well.]

He said, taking back the tomato and munching on it as well.

[So what is your answer? You can nod your head. Just nod twice for a yes and you don't need to do anything if it's a no. I will not kill you even if you disagree. I will... ummmmm... I will take back my Presidenct candidacy and with my strength and Leng Yaozhu's support, I will be the President in a month.]

[With your strength, you can do nothing. If things got troublesome, I will just increase my cultivation. I don't think there's any need to though. My strength now is at Blue Silver Grass Rank 79 post training Fan Lin. I am really strong. I don't need to be.]

[So what's your answer?]

Gloomy Forest looked at Qiangu Dongfeng for an answer.

Qiangu Dongfeng looked at Fan Lin, or whatever that it was, and nodded twice.

He didn't think much. He just wanted to get out of this and think things straight later on. Every breath that he was taking under the gaze felt like mountains were pressing down on him, crushing his soul more than his body.

[En."

"Should I take it as you working under me President? I will. You gave the confirmation already."

Fan Lin emotionlessly said while taking out a change of upper clothing from his storage ring.

"You destroyed my dress. This was the one that I had borrowed at that."

Qiangu Dongfeng was taken off guard by the sudden shift in tone and unconsciously answered.

"I will pay for it." [Qiangu Dongfeng]

"You can not. I don't know the price of it and neither can I give you any."

"Sorry." [Qiangu Dongfeng]

Forgetting the fact that he could speak now, Qiangu Dongfeng apologized.

"Sorry doesn't solve anything. Make sure this doesn't happen again. And let the events here be a secret between us. Or forget about it if you can. Anything works fine for me." [Fan Lin]

Fan Lin wore the clothes and disappeared into the skies. He was already running late and now with his small skirmish qith Qiangu Dongfeng, he was more late.

As for the space that was constricted and all. That had disappeared the moment Qiangu Dongfeng was stared down upon.

Qiangu Dongfeng slowly got up. His strength and soul power now working without any trouble except he was completely dry in his soul power reserves.

He looked at his bloodied clothes as his injuries began to heal with the recovery of his soul power. He sensed his surroundings. His spiritual power was back as well.

He sat there for a few more minutes, his thoughts unknown. One thing was sure though, he was not going mess with Fan Lin for a long, long time.

Extras then Nightmare.