As evening dawned, three things were made clear.
1 - Fan Lin was finally going to die in 5 months. At most 6.
2 - He would explode if he died. Everyone will die with him.
3 - He was planning to re-cultivate again after surviving this ordeal.
As for how things came to be, Fan Lin had gone to Elder Dou and Elder Huazhi to get some of their opinions as an extra insurance on his understanding of himself. Nothing too confusing actually.
One day, Fan Lin just found out that he was a threat to the world and decided to keep it to himself and find the solution to it.
After some thinking on his part, he realised how he could avert it. He hatched up a plan and began to work on it, forming relations with Vice President and the President, going extra mile in the replantation and getting the President and Vice President's help in some things. It was all a part of his plan to stop his death and its aftermath.
Everything above was just a speculation on the part of one of the Elders and had no actual relevance to reality or fiction. Please do not treat this as a viable source of information regarding the subject.
Fan Lin had never mentioned or stated about his energy doom and there's no actual answer as to how it happened, when it happened or why did it happen?
Everything was just a mystery and utmost efforts were done to contact Fan Lin for more answers.
Unfortunately it was to no avail. Fan Lin, had once again, gone off the radar.
For his meeting with Elder Huazhi, all Fan Lin had asked of Elder Huazhi was the possibility of him losing his cultivation if he planned to re-cultivate his skills.
The answer being "Yes".
That was the end of their conversation as nothing of significance to the topic was mentioned or thought upon.
Fan Lin had no explained what he was going to do or how he was going to do. He had nonchalantly assured Elder Huazhi that the world wasn't going end and neither was he going to die.
He had asked to keep this all a secret though. No one was to be known about this sensitive and highly unnerving information at a time like this.
Guess what?
Elder Huazhi had informed all the Elders that he found trustworthy and then they 'discussed' a heated debate on the future of world because not even a day has passed since they were celebrating Fan Lin's possible future ascension to Soul Douluo and doning of the Four Word Battle Armour in a few months.
And now they were getting stressed about Fan Lin's potentially destroying the world in a few months.
After he died though. Once again, after he died though.
The end would only come after Fan Lin died.
So after they unanimously came to the agreement that him dying is the problem, they stealthily contacted ELDER DOU, and told him everything that Elder Huazhi had found.
Elder Dou told them about his previous meeting with Fan Lin and him knowing about his Energy storm capabilities and also the fact that he had informed President Qiangu Dongfeng about this.
Duck that then.
Once they realised that Qiangu Dongfeng knew about this already but didn't disclose it to anyone. And being biased as they were, Qiangu Dongfeng was definitely going to use it to gain favours from Fan Lin or something else. According to them.
On the other hand, Edler Dou, once again relayed the message to the Tang Sect (Shrek city) and called Qiangu Dongfeng to tell him about the new information that he had just gained from Elder Huazhi and the rest, also informing him that the cat was out of the bag and there's no stopping it.
Qiangu Dongfeng now knew that information privacy was a joke in the Pagoda when it came to Fan Lin.
A lot of people are going to know about Fan Lin's death bombing and called Leng Yaozhu because she was the closest to Fan Lin for the past week and she must have a lot of information on this.
Things have clearly gone the level where they can keep secrets. The future of the world was at stake and if Fan Lin actually had no concrete solution and was just biding time, he will be thrown in the abyssal plane to act as nuclear warfare.
Leng Yaozhu, the only one who actually had no idea about all this, was once again bombarded with calls.
Qiangu Dongfeng wasn't the only one who thought that she was close to Fan Lin. The others did so as well. But there was a difference. The others called her because they didn't want Fan Lin to know that his "secret" was out in the open.
She turned to look at Fan Lin who was roasting tomatoes in an oven he had created and he replied without looking back.
"Let them scream."
She put it on silent and enjoyed her new tea that Ya Li had sent for Fan Lin as a thank you for his gift to Na Er. Yun Ming had obviously given it to Fan Lin and Fan Lin had given it to Leng Yaozhu. Now she was savouring its taste.
"It's not that great."
"Told you, you make bad tea."
*Sigh*
....
11: 45 PM
*Toot*
Fan Lin finally attended to Qiangu Dongfeng's call.
{...What are you planning now?}
"300 kmsq."
{Not a chance?}
"Oh, okay. What do you need?"
{!!!}
{Are you alone?}
"What's with that question?"
{What are you planning?}
"Nothing else. You knew everything I want."
{What's with this ruse then?}
"It isn't. If I don't get the things I want, no one else will get to live. The world may not revolve around me but it debris will definitely surround me."
{What do you even want from the Starduo Forest?}
"Nothing. I just wanted you to create a big enough ruse to get things done on the side of the Evil Soul Masters that you are breeding but forget it. Change of plans already. I have changed the plans. Everything before this has no meaning to it now."
{Seriously, what are you planning?}
"You didn't get it even now. Whatever. Just send me my resources."
{What was the point of it all?}
"Nothing."
{You threatened me in the morning, went to the Elders that support us respectively, showed that you are a ticking time bomb and now you are saying it was all for nothing.}
"No. You got it all wrong."
"I gave you a deadline. One that will end in 11 minutes. My visit to the Elders was to garner support for Yao and my disregard for you now is because I have come to the simple but effective realisation that you aren't as useful as you were supposed to be. Everyday such a waste."
"I don't want to waste my time. You better hope, I get some results from you tomorrow or you may not survive this week. I have no need for useless beings."
{Are you delusional?}
"No. Why do you ask that?"
Qiangu Dongfeng cut the call.
"Not my fault, he cut the call."
"I asked nothing." [Leng Yaozhu]
*Sigh*