Cultivation Pet Shop

The Lin Astral Emperor immediately knitted his brows and asked, "What makes you so sure that you can tell what this strange energy is?"

Lin Fan thought about it a bit before saying, "I'm sure that you know about my master in the store, right?"

When the two of them heard this, they couldn't help being surprised.

After all, they never expected Lin Fan to be so forward about this.

However, they nodded in agreement to this.

Both of them had already guessed that there was something special about the store, which was why Lin Fan had been able to become so powerful. As they had expected, it was indeed an expert who had been teaching Lin Fan.

Lin Fan then said, "My master knows what kind of energy this is. It's from the Outers that once invaded our universe."

Once he said this, the two of them revealed shocked looks once again.

After all, they knew what the Outers were as well. They just never expected Lin Fan to know what they were.

Outers were a well kept secret among the Astral Empires since they didn't want the general public to know about this. If this was spread, there was no doubt that it would cause a panic.

There was a prophecy that the Outers would invade their universe again after all.

If the public were to learn of these powerful Outers' imminent invasion, there would be all kinds of disasters.

The normal members of the Lin Astral Family didn't even know about the Outers. Only the top of the top, such as the Lin Astral Emperor, Lin Jian, high ranking elders like Lin Tian, and the ancestors knew about this. The younger generation shouldn't have had a single clue about the Outers.

So for Lin Fan to mention the Outers now…it seemed like they had completely underestimated that expert hiding in the store.

They were strong enough to know about the existence of Outers.

Lin Fan saw the look on their faces and he raised his hand to gather some life energy.

However, the life energy turned into a strange energy that neither the Lin Astral Emperor or Lin Jian recognized.

As they stared at the energy in his hand, they couldn't stop their expressions from fluctuating.

After all, they never thought that Lin Fan would be able to control the energy of the Outers.

How did they know that it was from the Outers?

It was similar to the energy sample that had been sent back by the investigation team. This was one thing that had been left out of the report by the two of them deliberately so that Lin Fan wouldn't be too affected.

But it seemed like they had been worrying too much.

Whoever the master of the store was, it seemed like they were also worried about the Outers and had been getting help from Lin Fan regarding this matter.

The master of the store even understood the void law better than them, or else they wouldn't have been able to help Lin Fan absorb the energy of the Outers like this.

So it seemed like there was nothing for them to worry about…

After all, the strange energy had appeared inside of the territory of the Lin Astral Empire. This was still the territory that they controlled, even though there were signs of the enemy, they would still be able to keep Lin Fan safe.

The main thing was that the master of the store was clearly having Lin Fan investigate the Outers, or he wouldn't have given Lin Fan this strange energy.

That was why his expression had suddenly changed after hearing about this strange energy.

So even if they wanted to stop him, it was unlikely that they would succeed.

He would most likely find some way to reach there with the help of his master who they couldn't gauge at all.

Instead of letting him be in danger like this, it was better to send him there themselves.

So in the end, both the Lin Astral Emperor and Lin Jian just accepted with sighs.

But they had conditions.

Lin Fan had to be accompanied by a group of Peak Sun Realm Experts from the Lin Astral Family guards, who would also have several Ruler Artifacts. At the same time, he would also be accompanied by one of the four special Ruler Realm guards of the Lin Astral Family guards.

There were only four guards that were in the Ruler Realm who had been carefully raised by the Lin Astral Family.

These were guards that had sworn absolute fealty to the Lin Astral Family, even giving their souls to them. So if they ever tried to betray the Lin Astral Family, they would be killed with the soul jade that they had left.

Normally, these guards would only be deployed when protecting the Lin Astral Emperor, but now the Lin Astral Emperor was sending one as Lin Fan's dao protector.

This was the treatment that only the crown prince of the Lin Astral Empire would receive.

But that was what Lin Fan was, even if it wasn't official yet.

Lin Fan didn't mind this since he knew that they were just being cautious. He was more focused on the strange energy that had been mentioned in the report.

That was because when he read this report, there was a notification that came from the system.

It was a notification of a new mission being generated.

He was being asked to go and investigate this strange energy by the system.

So even if he didn't want to go, he had no choice but to go.

But he also couldn't help finding it very strange.

First the system sent him to that cultivation realm which was where the fragment of the Outer God had been. Now, the system wanted him to investigate this strange energy that had been found in the Lin Astral Empire, which should be related to the Outers.

He couldn't help feeling that the system was paying quite a bit of attention to anything that was related to the Outers…

Almost as if it knew something.

Of course, this was just a suspicion.

Even if he wanted to do something about it, it wasn't as if he could interrogate the system. The system only answered when it wanted to answer, so he couldn't forcefully get any answers from it.

But this was something that he cared about as well.

If the signs of the Outers were appearing, then that would mean that the imminent invasion was coming…

That would mean danger for the Lin Astral Empire and his family.

He had accepted his family here, so he would do what he could to protect it.

For that, he would need information.

So he was going to see what this strange energy was.

But before he could leave, there were many things that had to be prepared.

The meeting was set here and Lin Fan went off to prepare his things.

At the same time, the Lin Astral Emperor and Lin Jian held their own meeting without Lin Fan to prepare for his trip. They would need to prepare things like his guards, his transportation, securing the area, and many other things before he set off.

These all needed to be gathered and prepared before he left.

As for Lin Fan, he went to the store to prepare it for his absence.

While the store could run on its own, there were still things that he needed to take care of personally. So he would have to take care of them before he left.

When he arrived at the store, he found Angela, Yuki, and Momonga waiting for him.

The three of them called him into the back room before Momonga asked, "Why is the master so interested in the Outers?"

Lin Fan was surprised by this question, but then he realized what it was.

Just like before, they must have received a mission from the system just like he had.

So they knew about the strange energy as well.

With the experience of the cultivation realm from before, they would know that this strange energy was related to the Outers. So it wouldn't be hard to figure out that this mission was related to investigating the Outers.

Lin Fan just shook his head and said, "I don't know."

This was the truth.

He really didn't know why the system was so obsessed with investigating the traces of the Outers.

All three of them had known Lin Fan long enough to know that he wasn't lying to them.

However, for the master of the store not to tell Lin Fan anything when Lin Fan had been trusted to run the store for him…this meant that this was a very big deal.

Lin Fan saw their knitted brows and asked, "Are you coming with me?"

All three of them nodded instantly when they heard this.

They knew that even if they didn't want to be involved, they had no choice.

The threat of the Outers was just too great for them to ignore this.

In fact, they were even grateful to the master of the store that he gave them this chance to be involved.

After all, they also knew that the invasion of the Outers was something that would happen soon, so if they could get more information about this, then it would be very useful to them.

After all, they all had people that followed them.

Angela was the Spirit Queen and Momonga was the Lich King, so they had to take care of their people.

The more information that they got, the safer they would be.