1143 To Turn a Blind Eye (1/2)

In the guest room of Blue Starfish Mansion, Tang Xiu and Duanmu Lin continued their talk, and there were only two of them inside now.

”Tang Xiu, I trust you won't do anything harmful to our country, but I still need such commitment from you today.” Duanmu Lin wore such a solemn face that he didn't even lit the cigarette in his fingers Tang Xiu just gave him.

”I see. Then I'm giving that commitment today,” replied Tang Xiu. ”As long as you, Duanmu Lin, are still alive, I'll never do anything harmful to China. And I'll absolutely lend the country a hand should it face trouble, so long as you're still alive.”

Duanmu Lin squinted his eyes in response before he nodded without a word. His eyes kept flickering and then he said, ”Tang Xiu, I get that your commitment is based on the premise that I'm still alive. You're also well aware of my identity as well as my abilities. But I can only live at most a few decades more.”

”Not really.” Tang Xiu shook his head and said, ”You can still live on for a century or hundreds of years more if you want to.”

Duanmu Lin trembled upon hearing this. He fell into silence for a long while before he slowly said, ”What exactly do you want from me?”

”I want you to live much longer, but there are a few caveats—things I need you to turn a blind eye to,” said Tang Xiu with a light smile.

”Your condition is great and way too tempting, indeed,” commented Duanmu Lin. ”But my position is rather political, I can't break the bottom line. Shall your request be too excessive, even the temptation to live for centuries more is something I can't promise you.”

”I'm perfectly happy if you have your criteria and bottom line, Senior Duanmu,” said Tang Xiu with a slight smile. ”But don't you forget what I've promised. I'll never do anything harmful to China as long as you're still alive.”

Duanmu Lin said, ”Then, you mean…”

”You're also perfectly aware of what I'm capable of, Senior Duanmu,” explained Tang Xiu. ”But I can tell you something. Subverting China is very easy for me should I want it to happen. But I'm a cultivator. All the mundane things in the secular world don't interest me. What I'm pursuing is to increase the level of my cultivation and to ascend and become an Immortal.

”But the cultivation resources a cultivator need is astronomical. And where do you think can I get these resources? Naturally, I can buy them with money since I can't just resort to robbing and plundering them. That's why I need to expand my power in the secular world which requires me to seek huge wealth, so I can buy a lot of cultivation resources. You should now understand after I spoke all these, shouldn't you?”

”I can understand that,” said Duanmu Lin without hesitation.

Tang Xiu nodded and went on, ”Since you understand that, then it'll be more likely for you to accept. I'll need to handle a lot of issues to expand my influence, such as setting up a company and earning money through normal channels. But making money is never an easy task, so I need a massive intel network to figure out the channel to make it happen. Therefore, I decided to root out the Darkwind and build a huge intelligence network around the world myself.”

Gasp…

Despite realizing the importance of Tang Xiu's following statement, Duanmu Lin couldn't help but gasp as he never thought that it would turn out to be so big a revelation.

'Rooting out the Darkwind and establishing an intelligence network that covers the whole world? Anyone in the world will definitely be afraid of Tang Xiu should he be able to realize it!'

”There's no need to be shocked, Senior Duanmu,” said Tang Xiu lightly. ”And don't doubt my words, for I have the power to obliterate all the cultivation forces that exist on Earth, to begin with. The Darkwind organization is just a minor issue that I need not expend much price to weed out, much less use my aces.”

Duanmu Lin suddenly recalled the soul-stirring beautiful woman whose power made him suffocated by her aura alone. He looked at Tang Xiu's confident face and was hardly able to ask, ”About that woman who threatened me then, who is she to you? One of your people?”

”Ah, are you talking about Yan'er? She's my disciple,” answered Tang Xiu smilingly.

”That's impossible!” Duanmu Lin blurted aloud, ”Her power is very terrifying, ten times more powerful than yours. It's just impossible for her to be your disciple. You…”

Tang Xiu raised his hand to interrupt him and faintly said, ”Senior Duanmu, things you know are much too little. Yan'er is very powerful indeed, much more powerful than the current me. But had it not been for an accident, I could also destroy the entire Earth with just a flick of my fingers, and a punch of mine can destroy the entire Milky Way galaxy. I don't want to disclose some things, but it doesn't mean that I don't have the power to do so. Logically speaking, explaining anything to you is not necessary given your status and capacity. But still, I returned from that place, so I need to survive and live as per the customs of this world. I'm of Chinese descent, so that's all the reason why I can tell you some bits of it.”

'That place? Returning from there?'

Pupils contracted and shrunk, Duanmu Lin finally realized how terrifying Tang Xiu really was. He suddenly recalled the information from the investigation on Tang Xiu when he was in the second and third years of high school. The previously genius student had been wasted and many people even called him ”idiot”.

'Something so unusual must have something abnormal behind it!'

It was then that Duanmu Lin realized that he couldn't really read through Tang Xiu and much more difficult to figure out what kind of existence he always was.

”Tang Xiu, can you answer a question of mine honestly?” after taking a long time to calm himself down gradually, Duanmu Lin asked.

”Please ask.” Tang Xiu nodded.

”When those dreadful demonic beasts appeared in the Himalayas, why it was you who went all out then, while your powerful disciple didn't show up?” asked Duanmu Lin.

”It's because once Yan'er makes any action here, she and the rest will be discovered by the Heavenly Dao that rules over this plane,” answered Tang Xiu calmly. ”They will have to leave this world once it happens.”

They?!!