Cultivation Pet Shop

Seeing that Lin Ao finally agreed to follow his plans, Lin Fan let out a sigh of relief.

Now that he had finally overcome the highest hurdle, he felt that he would be able to accomplish what he wanted to accomplish.

After making sure that Lin Ao had everything that he needed to cultivate, Lin Fan left the residence. Of course, before he left, he also made sure that Brainy set up a barrier around the house and a surveillance system.

While it seemed like Lin Ao had calmed down for now, Lin Fan didn't feel assured leaving this matter like this.

So he would watch over Lin Ao with this surveillance system and if needed, he would use the barrier to keep Lin Ao here until he could come and deal with him personally.

Lin Fan had no intentions of leaving Harmony City over the next two weeks. There were many things that he had to prepare and nothing was more important to him than this matter right now.

…

Far away from Lin Fan's store, there was a meeting between some of the most powerful people in the Galactic Humanity Alliance. Of course, this wasn't a physical meeting, but rather a virtual meeting.

If they had a physical meeting, it would have been too hard for them to hide it and it would have created a large commotion, so they could only choose to meet in secret like this.

Of course, it wasn't every single one of the twelve great factions that was invited to this meeting. It was only nine of the factions that had come.

As for the three that had been excluded, naturally they were the Thunder Sect, the True Spirit Sect, and the Assassins Association. The ones that had come to this meeting were all the factions that had some form of connection to Lin Fan.

In fact, the topic of their discussion was Lin Fan.

"You're telling me that the wedding the True Spirit Sect is holding is related to him? How could that be possible?" One of the representatives asked.

Old man Qiao gave a sigh before saying, "The bride of the wedding has the same surname as Lin Fan, so I think that we can all see what the connection is." Then after a pause, he added, "He had our Hunters Organization bring some people up from a minor world a few weeks ago and one of those people also had the surname Lin…"

He didn't add anything after that, but the implied meaning in his words were clear.

The bride, the person brought up from the minor world, and Lin Fan, there was some kind of hidden connection between the three of them. It seemed like there was a story between them and the True Spirit Sect that they didn't know about.

They had all thought that Lin Fan had gone against the True Spirit Sect because of the matter with Shi Yan and Lei Feng, but now it seemed like that wasn't the case. It seemed like he had already been planning on targeting the True Spirit Sect before he even arrived in the Galactic Humanity Alliance.

One of the representatives couldn't help asking, "But if he's from a minor world, how do you explain everything in his shop? Would a master from a minor world have that kind of stuff?"

This was the thought that had been on everyone's minds, but no one took the initiative to ask since they didn't really know how to bring this up.

But once someone did bring it up, they all paid attention to this since they all wanted to know the answer to this question.

Everyone turned to look at old man Qiao who just silently sat there, waiting for him to answer.

The Hunters Organization was the closest to Lin Fan, so it would make the most sense for them to know the answer to this question.

But when old man Qiao saw everyone looking at him, he just gave a shrug and said, "How would I know? He's never told me anything and I've never met the master of the shop." Then his tone became serious as he said, "Is there a need to know that answer to this question though?"

Everyone was surprised when they heard this.

Old man Qiao continued, "Right now, the master of the store is choosing to support us. Is there anything else that we need? If we dig too deeply and offend him, what will happen if we lose that support?"

Everyone seemed to have realized something when they heard this.

That was right, they had already gone too deep down this rabbit hole to be thinking about useless things like this. They all knew that there was an unknown backer behind the Thunder Sect, the True Spirit Sect, and the Assassins Association after everything that had happened. They also knew that this unknown backer definitely wasn't weak based on everything they had been able to take out.

Since that was the case, they really needed the backing of Lin Fan, or rather the master of the store.

So there was no need for them to consider doing anything that would offend the master of the store. Even offending Lin Fan was a very dangerous thing to do.

"Then what do we do about this wedding situation?" One of the representatives suddenly asked.

That was the main topic that they had gathered here to discuss today.

Old man Qiao had gathered them all here today because he had heard Lin Fan's reaction to this wedding announcement. He knew that Lin Fan would try to do something at this wedding, so he had called all of them here to discuss whether they would help him or not.

This would be a good chance for them to earn some points with Lin Fan, but at the same time, if they didn't handle this properly, there was the possibility that this would devolve into an all out war between their factions and the Thunder Sect, True Spirit Sect, and the Assassins Association. More accurately speaking, it would devolve into a war between them and the backer behind these three factions.

They still didn't have enough information on the backer that they would be willing to risk this, but they also knew that it was impossible to stop Lin Fan from doing what he was planning on doing.

So they had to find a balance or decide not to involve themselves in this matter.

"Don't you all have invitations to the wedding? Send some of your experts there and we'll monitor the situation on site. If something happens, we'll be able to respond right away and decide what action to take." Old man Qiao said.

Everyone nodded in agreement to this, but one of them couldn't help asking, "How far are we willing to go though?"

All of them fell silent when they heard this since this was a very good question.

They weren't willing to go all out and start the war with the True Spirit Sect since they weren't ready yet. To put it simply, they didn't have enough information to start a war yet, so before they could get that information, they didn't want to start the war.

But their bottom line was also that Lin Fan couldn't be killed!

Lin Fan was currently their only link to the master of the store and not to mention their supplier of Child Soul Realm beasts and Nascent Soul Realm beasts. They still needed those Child Soul Realm beasts to draw in the minor factions and the Nascent Soul Realm beasts to make themselves stronger.

So no matter what, Lin Fan's life had to be preserved.

After thinking about it, old man Qiao said, "That kid should have his own plans since he dares to charge into the True Spirit Sect like that. Since that's the case, we just need to watch and see how far he goes. If he's in danger, then we'll go and save him, but before that, we should just watch."

Another one of the representatives couldn't help asking, "But what if he doesn't have a plan?"

Old man Qiao looked at that person like he was looking at an idiot and asked, "Do you really think that kid would charge in without a plan? Haven't you already suffered at his hands enough?"

That person revealed a bitter smile when they heard this. In fact, all of the representatives revealed bitter smiles at this.

Indeed, they had been played by that kid and even now, they were in the palm of his hands.

Why else would nine of the twelve great factions have to care about the safety of someone who was only in the Child Soul Realm?

If this was known by the people of the Galactic Humanity Alliance, it definitely would have turned the world upside down.

Finally, one of the representatives couldn't help asking the question that they had all been avoiding, "What if this is all a plot by the people behind the True Spirit Sect? What do we do if they are just using this to bait us out?"

No one had an answer for this since they had been avoiding this question for a reason.

Even if they were from the twelve great factions, they weren't confident in dealing with the backer behind the Thunder Sect, the True Spirit Sect, and the Assassins Association.

So if this was a trap…

Old man Qiao gave a sigh in the end and said, "We'll deal with that when it comes up since we don't know what they would do if this was a trap. We'll just give them extra artifacts to make sure that they can return safely…"

Even though he said this, his tone showed that he clearly wasn't confident in this.

But still, there was nothing else they could do about this.