It took Lin Fan's ship no time at all to arrive back in the Lin Astral Empire's territory.
The people were so caught off guard that there was no time to organize a welcoming ceremony for him.
Naturally, the reports of what happened in the Lu Astral Empire had already made their way back to the Lin Astral Empire, so they knew what Lin Fan had done.
The ministers and generals of the Lin Astral Empire had been shocked to read these reports, but the Lin Astral Emperor just revealed a face like he thought that it was natural. Though in reality, he was just better at hiding his emotions than the others and he was also shocked by this.
He didn't even know just how strong Lin Fan was now…
There was even a part of him that wondered if Lin Fan had become even stronger than him…
But of course, the Lin Astral Emperor would never become jealous over such a thing.
It was inevitable that the younger generation would become stronger than the older generation, that was the way of the world. He would only be proud to see Lin Fan becoming stronger than him since that would mean that he had grown up.
So the Lin Astral Emperor was very happy to see Lin Fan doing all of these things and becoming famous because of it.
As soon as they heard that Lin Fan was back, they wanted to bring him into the palace to discuss what to do next.
However, they were disappointed to find that Lin Fan rejected this request and made his own request to go into closed doors training for a while.
The Lin Astral Emperor was pressured by his ministers and generals to refuse this request, but he didn't care as he granted this request all by himself. It was as if he wouldn't budge no matter what his ministers and generals said.
In the end, the ministers and generals couldn't complain.
After all, Lin Fan had already performed a great feat by stabilizing the situation in the Lu Astral Empire.
Without having to worry that the Lu Astral Empire would collapse and the Beast Race there would spill into the Lin Astral Empire, the ministers and generals could focus on the battlefields in the Lin Astral Empire.
At the same time, because they had learned the secrets of how to counter the laws of the Outers, they would be able to fight back against the Beast Race even if they used the laws of the Outers.
So they really didn't need Lin Fan unless there was some kind of unpredicted change.
But of course, it would be much easier if Lin Fan was on the battlefield since he was much more familiar with how to deal with the Outers than them.
He would be the equivalent of millions of troops all by himself with the power that he possessed.
Still, since the Lin Astral Emperor had spoken, it wasn't as if they could say anything else.
So they just had to figure out a way by themselves.
As for Lin Fan, he was currently heading to the shop.
As soon as his ship had landed, he had ignored everything and ran right to the shop.
Seeing him run off like this, Angela and the others quickly followed behind him.
When he arrived in the shop, his cousins who were working there couldn't help being surprised by Lin Fan's sudden appearance.
As members of the Lin Astral Family, they naturally had access to information that normal people wouldn't have. They knew that Lin Fan wasn't currently in the Lin Astral Empire because of a special mission, though they had no idea where he was exactly.
Since they thought that he wasn't here, they were naturally surprised to see him.
Lin Hong, who led the cousins, came forward to speak to Lin Fan, but all that happened was that he was pushed aside by Lin Fan as he headed to the back.
Lin Hong was thrown to the ground and when he looked back up, he found that Lin Fan was already gone.
He couldn't help rubbing his butt which hurt from being pushed like this before saying, "What's his problem?"
Angela and the others immediately came in afterwards and all of the cousins started to work on their own thing.
They had been in the Lin Astral Empire when Angela had been a general, so they knew all about her bad reputation. They were naturally terrified of her even though she had resigned as a general already.
Once Lin Fan reached the room in the back, he turned around to face Angela and the others who had been following him to say, "Just leave me alone for a bit. I have something to take care of."
All of them couldn't help revealing worried looks when they saw this, but then…Angela, Yuki, and Momonga couldn't help knitting their brows.
That was because there was a notification that appeared in front of them.
It prevented them from entering the back room with Lin Fan.
It seemed that whatever he was about to do, it was related to the master of the store.
Since that was the case, they could feel assured since the master of the store wouldn't hurt Lin Fan.
If he wanted to, he would have already done so since it wasn't hard for him to hurt Lin Fan. There was a large difference in power, even if Lin Fan had now reached the Ruler Realm.
So they didn't have to worry about Lin Fan meeting with the master of the store alone.
It was only Zi Ling who didn't get this notification, but Angela stopped her and calmed her down in the end.
Seeing this, Lin Fan knew that the system must have interfered in some way, but he wasn't surprised.
After all, it was the system that was calling him to the back alone.
In the past, if there was a new realm released, he would be able to access it through the system anywhere he wanted to.
But this time, it had called him back to this store and had stated that he needed to be alone before it could be released.
This had never happened before, so Lin Fan could tell that something must have changed for the system to act this way…
So he needed to see just what had changed.
After he closed the door, he pulled up the system panel and waited to see the change.
When he was finally alone, the system released the information for the new cultivation realm that had been unlocked…or rather it didn't.
That was because all that was given when this cultivation realm was released were question marks.
"???"
That was the only thing that was on the status screen when Lin Fan tried to find the information of this cultivation realm.
It was as if the system was trying to keep it a secret on purpose.
After a moment of being dazed, Lin Fan complained, "System, what is this? Are you playing a joke on me?"
The system remained silent after hearing this.
Seeing that the system wouldn't say anything, Lin Fan didn't bother asking another question.
He just simply swept his hand in front of him and pushed away the screen that was there.
Since the system wasn't going to tell him anything, he wasn't going to play along with it.
At this point, he knew that as long as he didn't do anything, the system wouldn't be able to do anything to him.
Seeing that nothing appeared, Lin Fan started to walk out of the room.
But before he could, there was a notification that appeared.
The moment that he saw this notification, he couldn't help revealing a shocked look.
That was because this notification was unlike anything that he had seen before.
"Do you wish to know the truth?"
After that shock, he deeply knitted his brows as if he was lost deep in thought,
This was the first time that the system was willing to share any information like this, but Lin Fan couldn't help feeling that this was all a trap…
After all, the system wouldn't share something like this unless it absolutely had to or this was all a part of its plan.
Both ways would be bad for him anyway, so he knew that it was best if he didn't go along with it.
But the innate curiosity that humans had drove him forward. He really wanted to know what the system was built for and why he had been brought to this world.
So he was hesitating over whether to go to this cultivation realm or not.
He didn't even need to use points to unlock it, it was already unlocked the moment that it was released. As long as he chose to go, he would be teleported immediately.
In the end, Lin Fan finally decided that…he would go along with the system…
No matter how suspicious he was of this, he couldn't hold back his curiosity any longer.
So he opened up the panel for the cultivation realm and pressed the button to activate it.
This time, the teleportation wasn't in the form of a white flash.
Instead, there was a gold flash that appeared in front of his eyes the moment that he pressed the button.
This golden flash was even brighter than the white flash and he was completely blinded by it.
Even when he felt his feet land on something, he wasn't able to open his eyes because he had been blinded by the golden flash of light.
When he was finally able to open his eyes, he found that there was a golden palace in front of him.
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