CHAPTER 1924: CHAPTER 1923: TANG MU HAS ANOTHER PURPOSE

Both Blood Spirit and Long Ban are top talents of the younger generation, yet the two have entirely different views on Lin Dong’s identity as ’Dong Lin’.

Blood Spirit believes that Lin Dong has no right to compete for the title of the first person in the oppressive era.

As for Long Ban, he holds Lin Dong in high regard, believing he ranks within the first tier of the Tianjiao Rankings.

Drawing parallel with Buddhism Evil Heavenly Song, Li Huang, Snow Girl, and others!

At the moment, Lin Dong is unaware of all this, as he has already returned to Xiaoxiang Pavilion at the Medicine King Palace.

Upon returning to Xiaoxiang Pavilion, the first thing he did was have the Yangxin Sword swallow the ’Autumn Rain Sword’ obtained from slaughtering Luo Xing.

Although this Autumn Rain Sword was inferior to the treasure sword previously acquired at the auction, it still belonged to the lineage of Famous Swords.

The Yangxin Sword absorbed the Autumn Rain Sword, growing slightly stronger.

"Seems that Hidden Dragon Superior was also a Sword Master during his life and owned many treasure swords. If I can acquire his Treasure Sword Library, the growth of the Yangxin Sword would be immense. Perhaps it could upgrade from a Second-order Spirit Sword to a Third-Order Spirit Sword again!"

"Third-Order Spirit Swords are far more terrifying and possess greater capabilities than Second-order Spirit Swords."

Lin Dong felt even more anticipation for his journey to the Hidden Dragon Cave this time.

...

For the following two days, Lin Dong stayed in the Medicine King Palace.

Either he practiced in Xiaoxiang Pavilion or headed to the Alchemy Room in the Alchemy Hall.

Over these two days, he produced many highest quality Essence Yuan Pills and Qi-Boosting Pills for sale.

He also successfully returned the two trillion borrowed from Qin Yitian.

Not only that, but he also earned several hundred billion more as interest for Qin Yitian.

With money in hand, Qin Yitian couldn’t help laughingly said: "Dear, you are amazing! You earned several hundred billion in just a few days."

"Plus, it’s like I earned more interest money from lending than usury. I lent you two trillion, and in days, you returned several hundred billion more in interest."

"How high is that interest!?"

Lin Dong waved his hand, saying: "Right now, I don’t lack money. Those funds are of no use to me."

"You are proficient in business and finance; money in your hands breeds more money. In mine, it’s just sitting purely earning interest."

Though it was several hundred billion, Lin Dong was open-minded.

Given is given.

Qin Yitian giggled and said: "Alright then, will you now keep all your money with me? I’ll manage your finances, and you can find me when you need it."

"Okay." Lin Dong had no objections.

"Dear, trusting me like this makes me truly joyful." Qin Yitian said happily.

Discussing money often strains relationships, even among couples; how many have handed over all their hard-earned money to the other?

How many couples have divorced because of money?

How many quarrel intensely during divorce, even physically fighting, over money?

At this moment, Qin Yitian recalled something else, saying to Lin Dong:

"Dear, tomorrow I’ll be shooting a promotional video with Tang Mu. Will you join us?"

Lin Dong pondered briefly, then answered: "Yes."

He agreed wanting to see if he could find an opportunity to speak alone with Tang Mu and learn about her situation.

Lin Dong was puzzled, why she came to Southborne?

Seeing Lin Dong agree, Qin Yitian seemed delighted, saying: "Great, tomorrow we’re heading to a Medicine Mountain. There’s a Hot Spring Villa, after filming the video, we can relax in the hot spring."

Lin Dong nodded.

...

The next day, Lin Dong and Qin Yitian began their journey to the filming location.

The shoot was located on a Medicine Mountain.

This Medicine Mountain naturally belonged to the Danmeng.

It’s the largest Medicine Mountain under Danmeng, cultivating tens of thousands of herbs.

Although cultivated herbs can’t compare to wild ones, a top pharmaceutical company like Danmeng consumes too many herbs annually, making reliance on wild ones impossible.

Only through cultivation can the demand be met.

Effects are slightly influenced, but not significantly.

This Medicine Mountain Base is also Danmeng’s herb cultivation training base, chosen for filming the promotional video there.

When Lin Dong met Tang Mu, he noticed she was accompanied by a bodyguard whom he recognized.

She was named Ali, to whom Lin Dong previously gifted a Broken-Mirror Pill to help her breakthrough from Peak Martial Arts Master to Grandmaster Realm.

Her strength still remains Grandmaster today.

Today Miss Tang Mu wore a flowing white dress, like a goddess descended.

She was playing the role of a ’goddess’ today.

Lin Dong found no chance to speak alone to her.

She soon went with Qin Yitian to shoot the promotional video.

Lin Dong’s gaze shifted to her bodyguard Ali.

"Perhaps I can probe some information from Ali," Lin Dong secretly thought.

Then he actively began chatting with Ali.

"Hello there, young lady..."

But as soon as he spoke, Ali rolled her eyes at him, saying: "Trying to chat me up?"

Lin Dong: "..."

He quickly explained: "Your master went for the video shoot; you seemed bored, so I thought to chat and ease your boredom."

"I’m not bored at all, but actually find you a bit noisy." Ali said indifferently.

Lin Dong: "..."

This young lady Ali seemed so different from the one he knew. Previously, Ali was so obedient and nowhere near difficult like now.

What he forgot was that when dealing with Ali earlier, it was in the identity of Master Lin.

And Master Lin was Ali’s idol. Naturally, Ali appeared very obedient.

But now his identity is Danmeng’s son-in-law; Ali naturally suspects ulterior motives when he approaches.

Lin Dong felt the necessity to change his approach to conversations and abruptly said:

"As Tang Mu’s bodyguard, you must know Master Lin, right?"

Sure enough, hearing the name ’Master Lin’, Ali’s cold demeanor instantly softened.

She replied: "I know him, and I’ve even met him."

"Really? You’ve actually met Master Lin, you are so fortunate. Master Lin is my idol too, I dream of meeting him." Lin Dong eagerly responded.

He shamelessly declared himself his own idol.

No doubt, hearing this, Ali’s expression improved considerably since Master Lin is her idol too.

Fans with mutual idols often carry an unspoken sense of kinship.

This kinship can greatly reduce their wariness around each other.

Lin Dong used this to lessen Ali’s guard against him.

Ali gazes at Lin Dong, saying: "So your idol is Master Lin... It’s a pity Master Lin, sigh..."

At this, a saddened expression fleetingly crossed her eyes.

Clearly, Master Lin’s ’death’ must have moved her to shed many tears.

"I only regret my powerlessness, otherwise, I would surely seek revenge for Master Lin." Lin Dong suddenly said.

This statement further lowered Ali’s guard, enhancing their kinship.

So much so, Ali felt an ounce of goodwill toward Lin Dong in that moment.

"Seems you must admire Master Lin a lot, then?"

"More than admiration, I’d gladly offer my life to exchange for Master Lin’s life if possible." Lin Dong stated ’sincerely’.

It’s himself, life for life, not a loss.

Hearing Lin Dong’s ’sincere’ words, Ali completely let her guard down.

"If Master Lin knew of fans like you, he would surely be touched." Ali said.

"My name is Dong Lin, and yours? What’s your name?" Lin Dong began digging.

"My name is Ali."

"Oh, Ali, that’s a good name. You and Miss Tang Mu came to Southborne just to endorse for Danmeng Pharmaceuticals, right? A superstar like Miss Tang Mu surely has many endorsement opportunities worldwide, so it isn’t necessary to come to a chaotic place like Southborne. How dangerous!" Lin Dong seemingly said casually.

Ali, being a quick mouth, spoke without thinking: "We didn’t come to Southborne for endorsements alone. Miss doesn’t even care for money, it’s for..."

But then Ali quickly realized, shut her mouth.

She corrected herself, saying: "Yes, our Miss came to Southborne exclusively for endorsing."

Lin Dong’s eyes flickered. Despite Ali’s retraction, her initial reaction evidently showed her first words were true.

They indeed came to Southborne for another purpose.

For what indeed did they come?