Cultivation Pet Shop

When they arrived back in the Lin Astral Empire, the first thing that happened was…

Lin Fan and Lin Ao were immediately summoned to the palace.

The place that they gathered in was the same meeting room as before and waiting for them was the Lin Astral Emperor.

When he saw them, he didn’t wave for them to sit down like he normally did. Instead, he stood up and came over to them before taking them in his arms.

The Lin Astral Emperor didn’t seem like the powerful emperor of the Lin Astral Empire at this moment, but rather he seemed like a very normal grandfather who had been worried about his grandchildren.

After hugging them for a bit, he finally calmed down. He gave a cough before saying, “Sit down and let’s talk.”𝞸𝔳𝓵xt.𝑪𝑂𝐦

Both Lin Fan and Lin Ao had warm smiles on their faces after hearing this, but they didn’t say anything to embarrass the Lin Astral Emperor with. They knew better than to say anything at this time.

After they sat down, before they could even discuss anything, the Lin Astral Empress came in.

When she saw the two of them, she did the same thing as the Lin Astral Emperor. She immediately came forward to take the two of them in her arms and pulled them into a big hug.

Once she was done, they could see that her eyes were red.

It was clear that she had been crying before they had come back.

They were both touched when they saw this, Lin Fan more than Lin Ao.

Lin Fan had his preconceptions from earth that these royal families would be cold to each other, so that was why he was more touched compared to Lin Ao.

Finally, when they had all settled down, the Lin Astral Emperor asked, “What happened?”

Both Lin Fan and Lin Ao were clear what he meant by this, so Lin Ao was the one that explained.

He told the same story as before about the strange blade that the Beast Race had. However, this time, he added in the fact that Lin Fan had been the one that had helped him take care of the black energy that had been on his arm.

After the Lin Astral Emperor heard this, he turned to look at Lin Fan with an expectant look.

Lin Fan gave a sigh before raising his hand and…releasing the black energy that had been on Lin Ao’s arm stub.

Lin Ao was surprised when he saw this since he wasn’t used to the void laws. Even though he was a member of the Lin Astral Family, his specialty was still his sword, so he wasn’t familiar with the powers of the void laws.

After he had absorbed the black energy, Lin Fan had found that there was a new statue that had formed in his dantian. This was of course the usual and he was able to draw on the power of the new energy he had absorbed.

But the surprising thing was that the statue in his dantian was very simple.

Unlike the other statues that had formed when he absorbed the Outer energy, this time it was just a simple statue of a skeleton.

He didn’t know what it represented, but it was a very eerie statue.

After the Lin Astral Emperor saw the black energy, he couldn’t help knitting his brows. He moved closer to get a better look and he couldn’t help knitting his brows even more when he got a close look at this.

But in the end, he shook his head and said with a sigh, “I don’t recognize this kind of energy at all.”

As expected, it wasn’t as if the Lin Astral Emperor would know everything, especially something about the Outer.

Then the Lin Astral Emperor asked, “Can you give me a sample of this?”

Lin Fan was surprised when he heard this, but he still nodded in agreement to this.

With skilled control of the energy, he separated a bit of it so that it was left on table for the Lin Astral Emperor.

The Lin Astral Emperor looked at this black energy again before taking out a crystal. The crystal was brought over to the energy that was left on the table and when it came close, it started absorbing the energy.

The crystal had been clear at first, but after absorbing the black energy, it turned as black as the energy.

The Lin Astral Emperor didn’t pick up the crystal with his hand and instead took out a special cloth that he used to pick it up instead. This special cloth completely blocked any vision of it and it even blocked off all spiritual sense, creating a perfect seal around the black crystal.

Then he pressed a button on the table and someone came in through a secret door.

He whispered a few words to this person before that person carefully took the crystal and went back out the secret door.

Once they were done with this, Lin Fan and Lin Ao stood up as they prepared to leave. However, before they could go out, there was someone that knocked on the main door.

Everyone in the room knitted their brows since they knew that everyone in the palace knew how important this meeting room was. Unless it was an emergency, they normally would never bother them in this room.

The Lin Astral Emperor didn’t waste any time as he waved his hand and the door opened.

The person outside the door was surprised by the door suddenly opening, but they quickly came in and kneeled down in front of the table.

Both Lin Fan and Lin Ao had already sat down during this time since they wanted to hear what this person had to say.

This person was one of the ministers that worked in the foreign relations department, so they were very confused why they would see this person here.

After all, most of the time, the foreign relations department was a very quiet department.

With the prestige of the Lin Astral Empire, there were few organizations that would be required for the foreign relations department to deal with. So they mostly watched over the other nations or forces to ensure that no other nation or force threatened them

So for the foreign relations department to report an emergency…it most likely meant that some other nation or power was…

For this to happen at the same time as the Beast Race invasion…

The Lin Astral Emperor looked at the minister and said, “What is it?”

The minister had still been bowing his head and seemed like he was afraid of speaking, but when the Lin Astral Emperor addressed him, he had no choice but to say something.

So this minister looked up and said, “It’s an envoy from the Dragon Race.”

The Lin Astral Emperor immediately revealed a confused look as he asked, “Dragon Race? Why is the Dragon Race sending an envoy to our Lin Astral Empire at a time like this?”

The minister shook his head and said, “I don’t know, but they are very urgently requesting a meeting with your majesty.”

The Lin Astral Emperor deeply knitted his brows when he heard this.

No matter how he looked at it, it didn’t seem like this was a good thing.

The Dragon Race appearing right when the Beast Race was starting a war, it was clear that they were just here to cause more trouble. But the Dragon Race was one of the more prominent races among the Myriad Races, so he couldn’t just turn them down.

The Dragon Race was one of the first races to cooperate with the humans, which paved the way for more and more of the Myriad Races to cooperate with humans.

So it went to show just how much influence the Dragon Race had.

If they were to stop cooperating with the humans because of the Lin Astral Empire, the Lin Astral Empire would be sanctioned by many of the other Astral Empires. They might even be caused by the entire human race because of this.

They had to give the Dragon Race face even if they were very confused as to why the Dragon Race came at a time like this.

In the end, the Lin Astral Emperor said, “Show them to the guest rooms and we’ll prepare a banquet to welcome them with.”

The minister nodded and then headed off to pass down the Lin Astral Emperor’s orders.

The Lin Astral Emperor then looked at the rest of them and said, “I’ll go welcome them. We don’t want to offend them in any way.”

Everyone else nodded in agreement to this, but Lin Fan’s nod came a bit late.

The Lin Astral Emperor however was too lost in thought to notice this.

When Lin Fan had heard that it was an envoy from the Dragon Race, he couldn’t help deeply knitting his brows as he fell into thought.

The Dragon Race was a race that he had ties to, so he couldn’t help wondering if they were here because…of him?

After all, he had something that the Dragon Race wanted very much.

Xiao Feng’s bloodline was something that could make the entire Dragon Race go crazy.

Not to mention, there was someone that had wanted to take Xiao Feng back to the Dragon Race in the first place.

He was also someone very important to the Dragon Race.

So he didn’t know if the Dragon Race was here for him…

He shouldn’t have revealed anything about his connection to the Dragon Race.