From a meeting to another

¨Now your idea is going downhill, and let me explain to you why. Those people you want to come to the city will only come if there is profit, and they will not make any agreement to only come there ¨ Yi Lin explained, why in her opinion the youth's idea on this part was wrong.

¨Ah, you are getting this wrong. We will build the city so much before anyone else that they go there since nowhere else can they have the same level of commodities. When the others are still figuring how to travel between the Tomb of the Four Ancient Ones and the Ohin Continent, we will have the city waiting for them already. That is my plan, and why we need to act, faster the better¨ Xiao Fan cleared the misunderstanding that he might have made in his words.

Monopolitising free traders through agreements? That was a pipe dream that was impossible, seeing as though the Tomb of the Four Ancient Ones was a big place and all, was it still too small to have the capability to do that. Since if this was looked from the traders' side could one see that agreeing to those terms hurt them more on the grand scale. As in they might not be able to trade with the people who didn't get a share inside the tomb world.

¨So the purpose is more to attract all the traders there?¨ Yeah, that made more sense the Queen figured.

¨Yes the others shall have their puny shares, but your son's city will have the lions share. What can his opponents do to that? Cry to the merchants? Or try and compete?¨ Xiao Fan noted.

¨Good, good. Following this plan, we can become the number one trading port inside that world, which will help boost the income that my son will need to push everyone else out of there¨ Yi Lin said.

¨Income? The Royals need to think of that?¨ Xiao Fan was happy to hear praises from her, but he didn't get the rest.

¨Of course we don't, but you youths will soon need to¨ Yi Lin spoke her tone growing more excited as she was thinking of something.

Something which Xiao Fan still didn't get, but seeing the situation he didn't say anything until the Queen had the outlines of her plan ready ¨Mask, you see. When everyone else is starting to find their way out of the Tomb of the Four Ancient Ones, I'll make some propositions to the Emperor¨

Then as she stopped Xiao Fan spoke ¨I'm trying my best to follow¨

¨Some propositions like how this could be the deciding factor in the race for the Heir position that has been vacant for too long. Everyone else will surely agree to this; however, while everyone else looks for their resources to compete with. We can have everything ready to go in by then¨

¨In that case what happens to the plan of being the first one to send in more resources?¨ Xiao Fan liked the idea, as it was ingenious, but what about his own plan?

¨What? A grieving mother can't send her own men to look for her son?¨ She asked her tone sarcastic ¨The others will see this as a weak move of me moving in more people into a place wherefrom they might never get out, thus losing my power here¨ She had already taken account the wants of her son and this Mask person.

¨Is the life inside a harem so hard?¨ Xiao Fan decided to ask a friendlier question.

¨This is only going to be a project amongst many at this point. Living as a wife to that man with hundreds of others is much harder than you men can image¨ She confirmed.

Xiao Fan nodded while taking a hard note of this opinion coming from a woman living inside a large harem ¨Does the Queen want me to bring a letter to your son when I get back there?¨ Then changed the topic to get back on track.

¨Of course I want¨ She then pointed over to the table inside this tent, a table on which there was everything needed to write a letter.

Getting the idea Xiao Fan took the stuff and handed them to the Queen who casually took them off him. Too casually as she touched his hand while doing so, but he didn't take much note of this, other than thinking, it was improper. Nevertheless, a few minutes after this the letter she had written was given back to him, and this time there were no touching of hands, relieving Xiao Fan of any suspicions.

¨Although we can't make a deal with the traders' we could make such deals with the help were going to gather¨ As he got the letter he brought up one more thing.

¨You mean the cultivators? The ones I'll be sending are all from my family, so their loyalties are guaranteed¨

¨Those might not be enough to last until everything is set. I meant the people the Queen should hire from some of the government schools. You must have those inside the Bald Eagle Dynasty, correct?¨ He asked before continuing.

¨The Bald Eagle Dynasty does indeed have many schools from which we fill our armies and other positions¨ She confirmed, letting Xiao Fan continue.

¨The Queen should go to those schools and recruit as many men and women you can reasonably, and without raising suspicions gather¨ In his mind, the people Yi Lin's family might give to this might not be enough to last through what could possibly be a small scale war.

¨Reasonable, but we'll think of that the next time we see¨ The Queen did agree, yet the time for that wasn't yet, paying for cultivators wasn't cheap. And like Xiao Fan thought, getting the family to support this might be hard, she wasn't even the only person from her family who had children fathered by the Emperor.

¨The next time? I think the next time someone delivers you a letter, it will be a person specialising in this¨ He didn't follow. He was here testing the teleporter; mail delivery wasn't his thing.

¨No. It will be you the next time too¨ Yi Lin said, her tone ordering, then the next second she was taking her leave ¨I need to get back to acting, or the Emperor might get the idea that I'm not sad anymore¨ And then the Queen left the tent, leaving Xiao Fan there to hear the sobbing of the Queen and look at the tent's door that was still moving a little.

'Oh, okay. Postal service job it is' For a moment Xiao Fan wasn't too eager to do this job before realising that there was very much so positives in this 'Well, I guess some time alone with the Queen isn't anything bad' Then after realising this he put the letter he was given to his pocket and took off.

'Could the teleporter be used both ways, or do I need to take the main door?' Was his thought when he was out of the tent and out fo the eyes of anyone too important. He was pondering if he could take the same teleporter back or did he need to jump through the main entrance into the tomb.

In the end, he decided it was a better idea to try to take the main door. The Queen could fiddle with the teleporter; he wouldn't take the chance to blow the cover they had so far, and so he walked over to the main entrance from below the stage so no one could see him go.

Now on the entrance that he had last time just run through did he take some time to look at the entrance that had fooled everyone, and looking from the entrance he could see that there was no certain indication of a teleporter. The lobby showed him a large hallway that continued further in.

But then again having no idea, he walked along the hallway until he felt himself being thrown into the world he had been inside a couple of hours earlier.

'Why does it thrown one to his ass and not feet?' He, having been treated like this two times by now wondered, seeing as not even trying to land on one's feet could help. The teleporter without giving an opportunity threw everyone on their ass. A small detail, but still a detail Xiao Fan didn't like and so getting up and starting to walk towards the middle he murmured about it to himself.

Yet looking around him he noticed that there was an ocean or at least a big pool of water here. Wanting a note of this he before making his way towards the middle walked over to the water and took a sip to see if the water was freshwater or saltwater.

Freshwater, he noted. After which he got the idea to wash himself off the dirt and smells. So many people had already noted him about his uncleanliness, and now there was a good opportunity to get rid off it. So taking off his backpack from which he took out a fresh set of robes next to which he undressed his current one. Then Xiao Fan took a dip into the water.

Not really caring for his surroundings.

He was just taking a cleaning bath and trying to learn some swimming and diving while at it. There was nothing to fear, he guessed.

Indeed during the whole thing, there were no dangers to him, only happy things.

A happy thing he had not seen coming. As when he was in the water all the way to his neck trying to dive, he coming up from a dive noticed that a familiar figure had come to the shore.

¨An'er!¨ He shouted to the girl next to his clothes, who without a doubt was Zhuan An. A person he hadn't thought would be here, but then realising that she must have stayed near her starting location didn't think so anymore.

Zhuan An on the beach getting confirmation that the person in the water was her hubby became a little too excited, for she in all her few revealing clothes jumped into the water and then fast as she could swim came up to him.

¨Hubby, hubby¨ She repeated the word and dived upon the person she had wanted to see the most out of any person in the world.

Feeling her latching onto his naked body Xiao Fan got a little interested, yet handling his urges he places his own hands on her back, who had done the same ¨Its okay now¨ He spoke when feeling her hands gripping onto his back a little too hard, not speaking about the legs that also did so and made the situation awkward.

Though it was so only for him, who felt something growing since for Zhuan An this wasn't somehow weird at all ¨Everything inside here is so scary!¨ She wanted to tell how badly she had had it the last day without him.

¨Someone has been trying to kill you?¨ Him hearing her talk so, of course, thought of the worst possible thing that could be happening inside here.

¨Some people have tried to catch up to me, but so far no one has managed¨

¨They tried to kill you? Anyone following you now?¨ The more seconds went on did this become more awkward for him, yet still, even if his rod was now pressing up on her ass, he kept to the important stuff.

Even if all her talk was something that had no actually emergency ¨I don't know what they wanted, but as everyone inside here is so strong I have been running and keeping myself near this place¨

¨Do you have any emergency?¨ Xiao Fan feeling so decided to ask if anything was wrong with her at all.

¨I don't know!¨ She replied to him, making Xiao Fan be a little disappointed and weirded out at the same time.