Cultivation Pet Shop

Over the next month, they headed off to many different planets and explored many different places.

Angela was still the main wife, so she had the monopoly on most of Lin Fan's time.

But of course, since she had accepted Zi Ling, she would give her Lin Fan from time to time.

Such as when they arrived on the Green Plains Planet that was famous for a beautiful waterfall, she allowed Lin Fan to take Zi Ling instead of her. She went off with Yuki instead and the two of them had their fill of fun.

Zi Ling's heart would still flutter when she thought of the time she spent with Lin Fan there.

The adults all had fun watching the kids slowly reconcile and get closer. After all, all of them were looking forward to seeing their grandchildren and great grandchildren.

The fun thing to note was that Momonga had made his way into the adult group.

Even though he looked young, he easily hit it off with the Lin Astral Emperor and the Lin Family Ancestor. After all, while he looked young, he was an old monster and an old man at heart.

In terms of age, he was actually older than the Lin Astral Emperor as the undying Lich King.

The only one who didn't seem to have fun on this family trip was Lin Yue.

She pouted and complained the whole time, as if she wasn't having fun at all. However, when Lin Fan tried to include her in the activities, she would also blow him off and run away with Yue Qingrou.

Lin Fan couldn't do anything when it came to her and could only do what he could to appease her.

Still, this kind of happy and relaxing vacation couldn't last forever. Soon a month passed and they arrived at the Lin Astral Empire.

When they arrived, there was a large ceremony that was held for them…or rather for the return of the Lin Astral Emperor.

There were many that didn't know that the Lin Astral Emperor was back, but the ones that did know were the important people in the Lin Astral Empire. They all wanted to use this chance to suck up to the Lin Astral Emperor by being the ones to welcome him like this.

But of course, what they didn't know was that this completely ruined the Lin Astral Emperor's plan.

They didn't know because they didn't know why the Lin Astral Emperor had left in the first place.

The Lin Astral Emperor had wanted to return secretly to hide the existence of Lin Fan so he could slowly plan the announcement of this new heir, but now…since the plan had been ruined, he had no choice but to adapt to the situation.

He also made a mental note to take care of the ones that made this mess later.

Still, he didn't mind this at all since this would allow him to openly bring in Lin Fan who he had already deemed as his successor.

Lin Fan was the most talented member of their Lin Astral Family in many generations now, so he was someone that he was proud of. He wanted to openly announce Lin Fan to the world and make sure that everyone knew of his position in his heart.

That would make sure that everyone who had any bad ideas towards Lin Fan would be kept at bay.

Well, not everyone…

This was the reason why the Lin Astral Emperor wanted to prepare first before announcing Lin Fan to the world.

This was a member of their family that had appeared out of nowhere and he would be taking such a high position in the family, inevitably pushing down others that were already in that position. Being pushed out of the position by someone that had appeared out of nowhere, naturally they would be very unhappy.

There would even be those in the family that would try to do things to Lin Fan in secret.

Still, since this matter had already happened, there was nothing that the Lin Astral Emperor could do.

In fact, it would make it worse if he didn't announce Lin Fan at this point.

Lin Fan was someone that was coming with them as they returned to the Lin Astral Empire, so everyone would take note of him. If they didn't give him a proper status, then there would be people aiming for him in the dark.

So they needed to give him a status to ensure that he was protected to a certain point.

As for those jealous people in their family, he would leave that matter to Lin Fan as a test for him.

Lin Fan would be the future head of their family and the future Lin Astral Emperor, so if he couldn't handle the members of the family, then he wouldn't be worthy of taking that position.

Even though the Lin Astral Family was the royal family of this Lin Astral Empire, they were a family that got along to a certain extent. There was the normal family competition for power, but no one took it too far since they knew that their greatest advantage was their unity as a family.

Anyone that did take it too far would be heavily punished by not just the Lin Astral Emperor, but also the elders of the family.

As for Lin Fan, he didn't have any real feelings about this.

He knew that this was something that he would have to deal with eventually when he chose to accept the Lin Astral Emperor's offer. Compared to the alternative, it was much better than having to deal with all those Rulers on his own.

Plus, this was his family.

After spending time with the Lin Astral Emperor, the empress, and the Lin Family Ancestor, he felt much closer to them as family. They might have been only using each other before, but now they were indeed close like family.

No matter what, blood was thicker than water.

So after waiting for a bit for the herald that they sent ahead to announce the news, Lin Fan and the rest came out of the port that the spaceship landed in.

The streets outside were completely filled with people, but this was actually way more than the amount of people that had been in the streets previously.

As soon as the news of the new heir to the throne was spread, everyone immediately dropped everything that they were doing and headed to the port where the parade was being held.

Of course, for security reasons, there were only a certain number of people that would be allowed to participate. So once that number was met, the royal guards that had already been gathered immediately sealed off the area and prevented anyone else from entering.

But they were also citizens of this Astral Empire and they knew how exciting this matter was, so they had allowed as many people as possible to enter before closing off the area.

When everyone saw the new heir of the Lin Astral Empire, they couldn't help being shocked.

That was because…he was just too handsome!

Lin Fan had been handsome before he had started cultivating, but after he started cultivating, he became more and more handsome with each breakthrough.

Even without doing anything and just walking along, he was able to pierce the hearts of many girls.

The only thing that unnerved him was the glare that was coming from behind him, piercing into his back. It wasn't just a single pair of eyes, but two pairs of eyes that were currently piercing his back.

Lin Fan gave a bitter smile deep down, but he maintained his calm expression as he moved forward.

Naturally it was the Lin Astral Emperor that was moving at the very front of the procession that attracted the most attention, but Lin Fan didn't receive a lack of attention.

In addition to the commoners that were in the crowd, there were also nobles that were currently watching this procession with interested looks.

After all, changes to the royal family also affected them, so they had to pay attention to this.

There were many different gazes that fell onto Lin Fan.

Some with good intentions and some with greedy intentions, but not a single person had ill intentions.

That was because they knew who was behind Lin Fan.

The Lin Astral Family!

Even if all the forces in the Lin Astral Empire were combined, they wouldn't be able to match the Lin Astral Family.

Astral Empires weren't like Stellar Kingdoms where the power was divided.

The Astral Royal Families were the ones that had built the Astral Empires with their power, the nobles of the Astral Empires were just those that had sworn their loyalty to the Astral Royal Families and were allowed to stay.

There was no power struggle, there was only the Astral Royal Family.

But of course, there were nobles that wanted to climb higher and the only way for that was to become a part of the Astral Royal Family.

After all, it was impossible for the Astral Royal Family to create descendants on their own, they had to bring in new blood.

There were Astral Royal Families that had tried to keep the family bloodline going on their own, but eventually their descendants degraded to the point where they could no longer be considered an Astral Royal Family. Without introducing new blood and new genes, the bad genes of their bloodline were multiplied until it couldn't be lived with anymore.

With these precedents, there were no more Astral Royal Families that tried to keep the bloodline in their family and accepted new people into their families.

This was what the nobles were aiming for.

They didn't know if Lin Fan already had someone he was engaged to, but there was always that chance of him taking concubines.

They were using their own standards to measure Lin Fan with because most of the people from these noble families all had concubines. They had let power go to their head and had gone crazy with it.

In fact, most of these families were no longer as great as the generation that had made them nobles.

They were only living on the glory of their ancestors now.

But if there was one thing that they were confident in, it was the beauty of their daughters.

They had taken beautiful wives, so naturally their daughters had turned out beautiful as well.

Many of them were certain that as long as their daughters could meet Lin Fan, they would be able to charm him.

So what most of them were aiming for was Lin Fan's debut ball where they would be able to introduce their daughters to him.

It was just too bad that they were destined to fail with Angela and Zi Ling in the way.