Night
Fan Lin sat in the cafeteria, gorging down food with elegance. His spirit rings were floating beside him, all of them flashing brightly. He put another empty plate aside and looked at the kitchen staff. They immediately brought more food.
He was storing energy for upcoming day. He needed to teleport a lot.
He finished the food, paid the bill and left the cafeteria.
He came to his training area and began to meditate. After gaining his Petrosapien Physique, physical training bore no results and hence he had removed it from his schedule.
Now he meditates. After ge gets his Three Word Battle Armour, he plans to do away with the Mecha Designer secondary profession as well.
He had no use for it. Everything was set and stable now. He just needed to progress as he can, which was slow, and he will sooner or later reach the point where he would decide what he wants to do with the rest.
....
Some place.
Elder Cai looked at the preparation list and rubbed her temples in frustration.
Shen Yi chuckled. "You can rest easy. I've gone through this once before, so I know exactly what they're all thinking. Anything they can come up with, their seniors have already done. Senior brother and the other proctors have already set out."
"Excellent. This will be a good learning experience for them," Elder Cai said with a smile, not hiding the sarcasm in her tone.
It wasn't the students that she was frustrated about. It was the fact that Fan Lin had been preparing for it that makes her uneasy.
In the early morning of the following day, all of the first grade students were gathered in Spirit Ice Plaza to prepare for their departure.
Any student who could make it into Shrek Academy undoubtedly possessed a soul storage device. The first thing Wu Zhangkong and Shen Yi did when they arrived was collect all of them. Apart from the clothes on their backs, the students were left with nothing.
Soon everyone was checked and were given the okay to leave. Fan Lin immediately teleported.
An hour later, he returned to Shrek Academy, provided Picture evidence to Wu Zhangkong and left.
It wasn't that hard for him to find and beat 10 people. Adding to the fact that ge had already decided who ti target the previous night, he just needed to teleport, find them and give them a beating, take pictures and leave.
He teleported to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters and went to meet Qiangu Dongfeng.
Spirit Pagoda.
Inside a highly advanced room, Fan Lin was watching the situation unfold in front of his eyes.
All the preparations were done on their side and now it was time to know what was it that Qiangu Dongfeng actually wanted.
Soon, night came and the Federation was in an uproar.
Their mysterious gang' has struck again and this time they had colluded with the Holy Spirit Cult!
And this time their attacks were far bigger than anyone could have anticipated. They all have a really dangerous premonition about the events and what could the perpetrator had wanted from it.
The Federation immediately notified all their forces and sent a request for help to the other independent forces around the globe. If their thinking was right, another Evil Soul Master was going to join the ranks of Ha Luosa.
The Federation also curbed down the media and communication to stop the public from creating panic and fear as that would just strengthen the Evil Soul masters more.
...
The next day.
Shrek Academy
{Mysterious gang strikes again. This time bigger than what most had anticipated. They attacked 453 cities.
The total lives lost surpassed 30,000 since the Federation had bravely interjected the event and stopped it on time.
Around more 500,000 people were saved by the federal government. We got the news from the our informers that the mysterious gang is connected to the detestable Holy spirit cult}
Fan Lin listened to the news on his soul communicater. He was the one who told Qiangu Dongfeng to use the name of the holy spirit cult as it could better help him to convince the Federation that way but the news was unusually fast and as inaccurate as always.
'Qiangu Dongfeng had asked the Holy spirit cult and as they also wanted to spread their names, they agreed to his request but their tone clearly suggested that they were in a cooperative relationship with no actual loyalty. I could use them.'.
Now if things went south and that Qiangu Dongfeng turned to be someone who needs to die now. Fan Lin just needed to release the news of Qiangu Dongfeng's involvement with the Holy spirit cult, then Shrek and Tang Sect will take care of the rest.
As for Fan Lin, he would have already changed identities and would stay low for a while. Even if the Shrek and Spirit Pagoda knew of Fan Lin, they wouldn't be able to do anything to him for a great while.
His Superior energy body made it possible to cultivate anywhere he planned to.
He had earned more than 400 billions from his endeavour this time and also paid his Battle Armour creators.
He was the only one to pass the exam so soon. He was free as the teachers were busy with the exam. The second grade ones would not teach him and there was no one in his grade. He also didn't need to attend classes or give attendance. He was practically free for the next 15 days.
So he went to the boundless forest after storing enough energy and madly started to cultivate since everything felt to good to be true and it can't be.
*One day later*
While he was meditating, a sudden jolt of small migraines and he recalled some memories from the second book. Inner court students often went out to hunt for evil soul masters and helped solve many problems. Same with the Tang Sect. That's how the Shrek's team was halved before the continental advanced spirit masters tournament.
The holy spirit cult. It was the same cult whose base Hou Yuhao destroyed when when he was in the Sun moon advanced academy. They also later attacked Mu En and forced him to burn his remaining life to fight them.
He hadn't read the first two books as well but he knew the basic plotlines and comment spoilers left by many others.
Fan Lin thought about the whole incident from the beginning to its end from a profitable perspective.
'What would I gain from all this?'
The massacre. The god killing cannon. Holy spirit cult. Federation. Death. Public uproar. Attention.
I will not take any money, I don't have any profitable plans. I have an ulterior motive. Something that doesn't involve anyone else but me. No Holy spirit cult and their needs. No Child killer and his money. Federation, no, bigger than that. The Entirety of the Douluo Continent, all activities spread out to thin for urgent support.
'Oh.'
Thinking about the situation after erasing his emotions, Fan Lin found what Qiangu Dongfeng wanted.
It was the platform for a new order. He used Fan Lin to create enough chaos that the forces would have to spread thin. If they didn't do something fast, the Holy spirit cult would definitely use the negative emotions of the public to increase their strength, becoming unstoppable or adding unecoverable damage to the rest.
At that moment, Qiangu Dongfeng could destroy all of them at once, leaving only the Spirit Pagoda behind as the sole and complete power in the Douluo Continent. No, in the entire world.
"Pathetic idiot. What have I done? I just fastened the destruction of Shrek or something since whatever Qiangu Dongfeng was going to do, Shrek would have definitely came forward to stop him but now that he had a way to destroy Shrek, this is going to be troublesome."
"I need to create a D-S level growth toxin."
As the mention of those words. Memories and information was retained and lost. Fan Lin was having a mental breakdown and lost consciousness at the worst time.
He woke up an an unknown time, halved in mind and lost in sense. His memories too few to even remember what he had done the previous month.
He calmed his mind and slowly began to think about the situation. The loss of his memories and self becoming evident and clear as he could think much or that clearly. His thoughts were limited now.
Yet he didn't stop. What he does not have, he will create.
He thought again.
He couldn't go and inform Shrek. If he did, they would ask him where did he get the intel from? He would need to tell them at least something or they would take the answers themselves after mind graping him with the one and only weakness of him- Spiritual attacks.
Considering the fact that he was being influenced by simple formation that many children had been able to resist, he knew that he would be ducked and digged as his spiritual sea would be completely violated by those at Shrek.
Apparently, they didn't show mercy to evil beings and if they doubted him, they will thoroughly check if he was evil or not.
Even if they got the information and somehow stopped the destruction of Shrek completely. They would still kill him as Shrek Academy didn't have any people with a heart of gold who were keen on giving second chances.
Even if he claimed to kill only the evildoers. There first question would always be the same. Who gave him the right to decide someone's death? And did he kill the others without any evil intentions of his own. And this would be after they believe his words that he only killed evil-doers. They were likely going to stop listening after he said that he killed and then based their opinions and dislikes on just that.
In his case, no one would hear him. They all would just focus that he kills humans. That's all thet could comprehend.
Once again he can only rely on himself. His faulty self.
"Spread the rumours that the Holy spirit cult is planning on attacking Shrek city. Frame the corrupt high ranking federal officials be it political or judicial. Frame the ones who had connection to holy spirit cult in petty but time consuming charges. An anonymous file will be sent to you later. Make sure the information looks like it was founded by mistake by someone else." I said in the communicater.
I cut the call and called my informer.
"Someone will give you some names. Find all the dirt and frame them for their past crimes. Send the anonymous file to the federal government. Others things you already know. Get a ticket for Shrek city and live here for a few months." I said to the informer.
-Xing mo, an information provider. She was one of the good ones. Be it her character or her intel.
" Begin the variance plan now."
That was Fan Lin's last call to the last person. He was the only hacker Fan Lin met but didn't kill.
"This should help me to delay the Holy Spirit cult to a few years. Probably."
With just a few calls, Fan Lin foiled the plan. With the Holy Spirit cult members and associates being pinpointed, Anyone could easily get to them which would lead them to hide meaning that Shrek or Tang Sect wouldn't need to spread everywhere and leave themselves defenseless and Qiangu Dongfeng can't do anything to them now or he would not even able to survive the next day.
"But, I have just ended what I have started. Shrek is still likely going to be done the same way in the novel."
I need a hundred thousand year old spirit soul, I am going to end what I have unknowingly started.
....
"That fool had caused too much interference." [Planar Ruler]
(Unknown words)
"The whole Thousand year plan is at stake now. We need to do something." [Douluo Energy Core]
(Unintelligible)
"I have inferenced Spirit Pagoda's President and he will wait in his assault like it was supposed to." [Planar Ruler]
(Nothing readable)
"With the restrictions on him, He will never cross the boundary of the gods." [Douluo's Energy Core]
(Foreshadowing)