Cultivation Pet Shop

Once that had been settled, Lin Fan went back to the shop to see how it was going.

It had been a long time since he had been in the shop since there were just so many things for him to do, so he hadn’t been able to find the time to head on down.

He had left the shop in the hands of his cousins from the Lin Astral Family, along with a few of Momonga’s ghost maids to watch over them.

When he walked in, he couldn’t help being surprised by how busy it was.

Even though the items on the shelves had clearly been sold out already, there were still people gathering in the store.𝑜𝔳𝐿xt.𝑐𝐎𝐌

To his surprise, he found that there was a screen that they were all watching.

On that screen, there was a live feed of the arena downstairs where there were people fighting in what seemed to be a cage match. As he looked carefully, he recognized a few of these people.

These were the sons and daughters of the nobles who kept bothering him.

They were now fighting each other with their pets inside of the arena.

Lin Fan was very confused as to what was happening, but when he looked around to find his cousins sitting there with smiles on their faces and crystals in their hands, it wasn’t hard to guess what had happened.

He was actually amazed that they had this kind of courage to do something like this in his store.

Still, he actually wasn’t against it.

When he walked over, the cousins were surprised to see him and they quickly scrambled to put away the crystals in their hands. But before they could, Lin Fan reached his hand out and said, “Where’s my cut?”

The cousins all revealed shocked looks when they heard this.

They never thought that this was the first thing that Lin Fan would ask them.

They all thought that he would immediately chew them out for doing something like this in his store without permission, but now it seemed like he wasn’t made at all.

Lin Hong, who was the one that led them, looked at Lin Fan with narrowed eyes before asking, “How much do you want?”

Lin Fan immediately, “90-10, plain and simple.”

They couldn’t help revealing ugly looks when they heard this.

They had thought that Lin Fan would have some kind of restraint, but he didn’t hold back from gouging them completely. At the very least, wasn’t it courtesy to ask for half and then slowly negotiate from there?

After all, they were the ones that did all the work setting this up!

But seeing the look on Lin Fan’s face, they knew better than to argue with him.

Lin Fan was the only person that could tame the scions of the Lin Astral Family like this because he was the top of these scions. He was the one that had received the acknowledgement of the Lin Astral Emperor and was deemed as the heir to the family.

Not to mention, there wasn’t a single one of them who could beat Lin Fan in a fight in the first place. They couldn’t win even after ganging up on him.

Even if Lin Fan hadn’t come to the store to check on them, he had been holding the training sessions just like before. If they didn’t come, he would send the Lin Astral Family guards to drag them to the training area.

So they had no choice but to get beaten up by Lin Fan.

They did get stronger with the training sessions, but they found that they still couldn’t do anything to Lin Fan.

So in their hearts, they started acknowledging his position as their leader.

In the end, they just handed over the crystals with bitter smiles on their faces.

Lin Fan pocketed those crystals without a single moment of hesitation before heading into the back.

As he left, the cousins all cursed him under their breath for being heartless and cruel.

But before he went into the back, one of them couldn’t help asking, “Cousin Fan, what is the situation of the frontline?”

As members of the Lin Astral Family, they naturally knew about the Beast Race invasion. No, even if they weren’t members of the Lin Astral Family, they would still know since news of this level would be hard to hide.

There were plenty of newspapers that had already dug this out, so they were all preparing the articles for when the Lin Astral Family allowed them to announce this. As for announcing it before receiving the go ahead from the Lin Astral Family, they weren’t crazy.

They knew that if they did anything to mess with the Lin Astral Family like this, they would have no future in this Lin Astral Empire.

So of course not a single newspaper dared release an article.

But there were plenty of ways for this information to slip and it didn’t take long before the rumour had filled the entire Lin Astral Empire.

Lin Fan looked at this cousin for a bit before saying, “Grandfather is leading the charge, so there shouldn’t be any problems.”

After hearing this, the cousins couldn’t help looking more relieved.

They knew what this Beast Race invasion meant for their Lin Astral Empire and they were afraid of what would come. They were members of the Lin Astral Family after all and it was their duty.

However, there were a few of them that looked much more relieved than the others.

After all, this was something that affected the entire Lin Astral Empire, so if the war efforts went poorly, then they would be called upon to defend the Lin Astral Empire. It was their duty as the Lin Astral Family, so they couldn’t run from the fight even if they wanted to.

The ones that looked much more relieved were the ones that were afraid of the war, afraid of fighting.

It wasn’t that they were complete cowards, but they didn’t have any experience with this at all.

They had experience fighting beasts, but that was in a protected environment with their escorts. They knew that if they were to fight in the war, it would be completely different.

So they were afraid of being sent to the frontlines.

Just like how there were a few that were relieved, there were also a few that looked disappointed.

These were the ones that had been looking forward to being deployed to the battlefield.

While they were happy to see that their Lin Astral Empire’s armies were pushing back the invading Beast Race, they had wanted to fight on the battlefield to build up their reputation.

Since the Beast Race was being pushed back, that meant that they wouldn’t have a chance to go to the battlefield, so they couldn’t help feeling a bit disappointed.

But that was it, just a bit of disappointment at how weak the Beast Race was.

All of them were still proud of the strength of their Lin Astral Empire.

Seeing this, Lin Fan just gave a nod before heading into the back.

He knew that there were different kinds of people in the family, so he wouldn’t judge those that had the courage and those that lacked it.

As for the side business that they were running, he had even less of a reason to care about that since it was actually good for his business.

All of his products were being sold out, so there was nothing for them to do for the rest of the day. However, they had found a way to drive customers into the store even if there were no products on the shelves.

The arena was the one thing that could be freely used in Lin Fan’s store, as long as one paid a fee.

Of course they didn’t dare skimp on this fee, so they paid the fees for the ones that fought in the arena. Naturally, they earned all of that back from the admission fee that they charged to watch the fight in the arena and all of the betting earnings that they made.

That was right, the people watching were all betting on the people fighting in the arena.

As for the ones fighting, they were getting a cut of the betting earnings as prize money for the fight and at the same time, they were establishing their reputation. 

This was a store run by the Lin Astral Family as far as they were concerned, so those that fought and won here would receive recognition from all because of the fame of the Lin Astral Family. That was why the sons and daughters of the nobles all fought here.

It didn’t take long before the fighting arena here was known as the proving grounds of the future generation of the Lin Astral Empire.

They even thought that this was the reason why it had been set up.

Lin Fan didn’t stop them because not only did it drive people to the store, it also increased his earnings since normally people rarely used the arena. Even if it had good facilities, there were plenty of places like this that were much cheaper to use.

But with the crowd that it drew, he was certain that plenty of people would keep coming to use this arena. Not to mention that he could see his points increasing.

So he was actually proud of the one that thought of this idea.

As he headed to the back, he suddenly heard a notification from the system.

“New special cultivation realm has been released.”