After coming to term with this feeling, Lin Fan accepted it.
He knew that things would change and he couldn't do anything about it, so it was best if he didn't put too much thought into this.
With that, he threw these thoughts out of his mind and enjoyed playing with his new goddaughter.
But the surprises didn't end there.
Jiang Zhi Shu gave him another surprise…
He also had a son and a daughter now.
This time, Angela and the rest weren't as surprised since they had already received notification about this ahead of time. The news came several years ago, while the Beast Race invasion hadn't been that bad, so they had received the news.
Once again, they asked Lin Fan to be the godfather and he was happy to do so.
When he was surrounded by all of these kids, Lin Fan really felt that he was missing out seeing how happy they were. At the same time, he could see the pressure that was coming from Angela and Zi Ling when they saw these kids as well.
Perhaps it was time to put in that effort…
However, before that, he had to take care of many different things.
So he sent the kids back and he asked Mo Ze Chen some things about the Galactic Humanity Alliance.
He learned that the Galactic Humanity Alliance was now running on a new system now.
Well, it couldn't be considered a completely new system since there were parts of the system that hadn't changed.
In total, there were still twelve great factions that ran the Galactic Humanity Alliance.
After the factions had been removed because of their betrayal in the war with the Tai and Bai Stellar Kingdoms, the other factions had found that they weren't able to control the territory that these factions had once controlled.
They could have, but that would mean putting their attention into maintaining them instead of expanding outwards.
After they had fallen under the Mu Stellar Kingdom, a new world had opened to them and they had been focusing on spreading their influence past their own world.
So to manage this Galactic Humanity Alliance, they had decided to raise up some more factions to replace the ones that had been removed.
Thus, they became the twelve great factions once more.
But at the same time, there was a hidden thirteenth faction that everyone knew about which made it not as hidden.
This was a faction that didn't hold any territory and didn't have that many members, but it was a faction that had enough power that everyone acknowledged.
It was Lin Fan's store.
Mo Ze Chen acted on behalf of the store and guided the twelve great factions as Lin Fan's representative. Of course, he didn't use this power that much since there wasn't much that he wanted with this power in the first place.
He would only act when it was necessary.
Such as when the fleet had been about to suicide bomb Lin Fan's ship.
Lin Fan learned that it was Mo Ze Chen who had sent the message that stopped that fleet from going all out against Lin Fan's ship.
Though in reality, they would have found it hard to even dent Lin Fan's ship in the first place with the weak weapons that they had.
Lin Fan didn't mind that Mo Ze Chen was using his name and his store to wield influence in the Galactic Humanity Alliance in the first place. After all, he knew that Mo Ze Chen wasn't the kind of person to abuse this kind of power.
If this power was able to keep the people that he cared about safe, he wanted Mo Ze Chen to use it all he wanted.
Mo Ze Chen had been worried that Lin Fan would say something about him using this power, but he was glad that Lin Fan was fine with it.
The rest of the day, they just spent it catching up.
The girls were all around Lulu and Marie, so there was nothing distracting them.
The only one that was actually suffering was Xiao Tu who had nothing to do since he didn't have anything to discuss with these people in the first place. This was a place that he was visiting for the first time and these were people that he was meeting for the first time, so even if he wanted to say something, there was nothing he could say.
At the same time, his sisters and Xin'er were all occupied with Marie, so he didn't have anyone to talk to.
He could have gone over there as well, but it was strange for him to be with all those girls and that baby. He just didn't know what he would even do in that situation, so at best, he would have just stood there awkwardly…
It was better to sit here awkwardly than stand there awkwardly.
But that all changed when there were a group of people that suddenly walked into the store.
Mo Ze Chen was about to send them out, but then he saw who it was and he stopped himself.
Lin Fan also couldn't help revealing a smile when he saw who it was.
These were all of the people that he had met in his time on the Galactic Humanity Alliance, the ones that he had befriended and had helped him during his time here.
All of them came from different factions, but they all gathered here because of Lin Fan.
Lin Fan was happy to catch up with them, but there were a few that made him nervous…
That was because they were much more aggressive than they were in the past.
But it wasn't as if he was able to accept them.
When they came up to him, he could feel Angela's gaze burning a hole in his back and to a lesser extent, Zi Ling's gaze.
So he had to avoid all of them and just talk to certain people. After all, there were people that he was closer to that he couldn't avoid.
As he talked to them, he couldn't help feeling emotional because no matter who it was, they had changed in one way or another.
He knew that the lower the realm, the more changes there would be…so he was not looking forward to seeing what the Blue Star Planet would be like.
After all, that was the place with the lowest realm of cultivation.
Perhaps it would be a completely different place by the time that he arrived there.
For now, he focused on catching up with all the people that he had once known from the Galactic Humanity Alliance, but he felt that there was a gap between them no matter how they talked.
They no longer treated him the same way as before, instead there was a silent respect that they paid to him that prevented them from treating him the same way.
It seemed that no matter what, they weren't able to get over the fact that he was the crown prince of the Lin Astral Empire.
As an upper realm under the Mu Stellar Kingdom and a place that Lin Fan had once stayed, they received all the news about the Lin Astral Empire. That is until a year ago when it suddenly stopped, but they knew from the scraps of information they got that this was because the situation had changed.
At the same time, there was that Beast Race invasion of their own.
In the end, Lin Fan wasn't able to keep talking to them since it really was too strange for him to talk to them.
That feeling of silent respect was just too overwhelming for him to take and he sent them all off with the excuse that he wanted to rest now.
But of course, Song Shu, Mo Ze Chen, and the rest stayed.
They respected him, but they were much closer to him than the rest and still treated him the same way since they still had the same amount of respect for him.
So in a way, they had remained the same even if their outer appearances had changed.
Once everyone was gone, Lin Fan walked around this store and reminisced about all the things in the past.
But he realized that it was impossible to gain what he once had in the past.
So the only thing that he could do was move on.
The one last thing that he had to do now was visit the Blue Star Planet and make sure that everything was safe there.
There wasn't anyone he was really close to there anymore since he had already brought most of the people following him up to the Galactic Humanity Alliance, so it was just a perfunctory visit and a familial visit at this point.
Once he was done with that place, he would return to the Lin Astral Empire.
With everything that he had recovered from the Beast Race and the Outers, he was certain that he would be able to make a difference in this war.
At the same time, he had confirmed that his void laws worked against the Outers and the Outer weapons that the Beast Race troops used. So he was certain that he was the best weapon that they had against the Beast Race.
So once he finished this trip to the Blue Star Planet and returned to the Lin Astral Empire, he knew that it would be time for war.
There was a small part of him that even looked forward to this.
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