Cultivation Pet Shop

After Lin Fan brought the Xu Family group back to the Xu Manor, he didn't waste any time to bring out the Storage Rings that he had received from Shi Yan and the other black figures.

The Storage Rings of the black figures didn't have much, so he just gave them to the Xu Family to reward them for acting as bait.

As for Shi Yan's Storage Ring, there were many common items, but there was also an item that surprised Lin Fan.

This was an item that all the families at the auction had fought over, it was the Ancient Era Ruins token!

But he wasn't surprised that Shi Yan had one, rather he was surprised that Shi Yan would keep it in his Storage Ring like this when he was going out on a mission. It seemed like he really didn't think that he would be dying tonight.

Still, even if he had this Ancient Era Ruins token, it didn't mean that he would be able to do anything with it.

After all, if he were to bring someone in with it, it would just be stating that he was the one who killed Shi Yan. While they would know that he was the one who killed Shi Yan since they already figured out that the Xu Family was working with him, they wouldn't be able to make a fuss about it since Shi Yan had acted secretly.

Unless Lin Fan made this knowledge public, the other side wouldn't be able to make any public moves. Not to mention that their private moves had already failed, resulting in Shi Yan's death, so they wouldn't be making any private moves either.

After thinking it through, Lin Fan decided to hand this token to the Hunters Organization and let them be his cover, but of course, he would also try to bring someone he was close to into the Ancient Era Ruins with him.

Having another helping hand would always be good, not to mention that the person he wanted to bring in had experience exploring ruins.

Once he finished going through the Storage Rings, Lin Fan headed back to the store.

What he didn't know was that there were many things that were happening as the sun rose.

…

Murong Yue looked over the corpses that were on the ground before giving a sigh.

After taking a moment to calm her nerves, she turned to the person kneeling on the ground beside her and asked, "What is the damage?"

That person said in a curt voice, "We lost three members ourselves and the Tang Family lost twenty two members."

Murong Yue revealed a pained look when she heard this.

She had thought that this would be an easy mission, but it turned out that this was an ambush for them.

Even if they had been able to break through and defeat the enemies, the losses were greater than the gain.

She didn't care for the Tang Family since they were only a subsidiary family under the Hunters Organization, but the three members that her squad lost really hurt.

Each member of her squad was carefully trained by the Hunters Organization and the time that it would take to replace each member was very long. Each member lost also meant that this was a comrade who had survived countless battles with her being gone forever.

This hurt her not only on a professional level, but also a personal level.

Still, that didn't mean that she would let her emotions get to her right now since that was how she had been trained.

Their mission this time was to ambush the Shen Family, a subsidiary of the Thunder Sect that had obtained an Ancient Era Ruins token.

They had thought that they would only meet slight resistance from guards sent by the Thunder Sect. With the elite squad that Murong Yue led, it would have been easy for them to take care of these small guards. The Tang Family that they brought along would have been the cover for them attacking the Shen Family.

However, what they didn't expect was that an ambush had been laid for them.

They had been surrounded by multiple squads of guards from both the Thunder Sect and the True Spirit Sect, as well as assassins from the Assassins Association attacking them from the shadows.

Murong Yue's squad was clearly much stronger than these normal guards, so they had split up to handle the various groups of guards. However, it was those assassins that had caught them off guard, which caused three of them to be killed, along with the members of the Tang Family that were with them.

At the very least, they had accomplished their goal of stealing the token, but now there was the dilemma of how they would use it.

After all, the person that they had been planning on giving the token to had died tonight. It was one of the three members of Murong Yue's squad that had been caught in the ambush.

After another long pause, Murong Yue said, "Gather up the corpses of our allies and clean up all traces that we were here. Leave their corpses to their own clean up squads, we're leaving right away before they can send more reinforcements."

The person who was kneeling gave a nod before standing up to carry out her orders.

Looking around one last time, Murong Yue gave a sigh before jumping into the air and disappearing from this area.

…

In the other parts of Harmony City, there were many corpses that were strewn all over the streets, but there were barely any normal people that were walking in those streets.

That was mainly because of the influence of the twelve great factions and the City Lord Manor.

The City Lord Manor had sent the city guards to evacuate many places that they had heard would become locations of fights to ensure that the normal citizens wouldn't be caught up in this.

The main reason that the City Lord cooperated was because he had heard from his wife that Shi Yan was personally taking action. He wanted to make sure that everything went smoothly so that Lin Fan, the one who had crippled his son, would die.

When the night was finally over, there were many people who received reports about the matters of the previous night.

Just as there were people who were delighted by the reports that they received, there were many more who were enraged by the reports that they received.

Among the reports, the one that most people had received was about the cloaked figure who had won the auction for the first token.

Many factions had sent people to watch over this person because he was too much of a mystery. They had all tried to find out the identity of this person, but not a single faction had been able to find a single thing.

They knew that the twelve great factions wouldn't let such a mysterious person enter the Ancient Era Ruins since it was too much of a wildcard for them to handle in such an important event. If they couldn't find anything about this cloaked figure, the best way to handle the situation for them was to kill this cloaked figure and take the token that he won.

So most of the twelve great factions had sent kill squads to handle this cloaked figure. The only ones that didn't were the ones that already had different plans, but they still sent obligatory scouts along.

The various factions had been keeping track of the cloaked figure from the moment that he had left the auction hall during the auction, but the strange thing was that he didn't rush off after leaving. Rather he leisurely walked through the streets of Harmony City, as if he was taunting them.

After the auction, it didn't take long for the kill squads of the twelve great factions to find this cloaked figure and they quickly surrounded him. With many Child Soul Realm Experts, even a few Peak Child Soul Realm Experts, everyone who was watching had thought that this cloaked figure was done for.

However, that cloaked figure just raised his hand and with a single push of his palm, he knocked them all out.

There was no suspense at all, it was just with a single push of his palm, every single person that had been surrounding him fell to the ground like they were kites that had their strings cut. Not a single person was spared, even the ones that were hiding in the dark behind him were all knocked out.

The only people that weren't knocked out were the ones watching from afar without any hostility, but they couldn't believe what their eyes had seen.

In the end, the cloaked figure walked off and disappeared without a single word, but the damage had already been done.

The reputation that he had established was already enough to fill the twelve great factions with fear.

After all, to be surrounded by all those Child Soul Realm Experts, as well as several Peak Child Soul Realm Experts, even a Nascent Soul Realm Expert wouldn't have been able to do what he had done. Only a True Soul Realm Expert would have been able to give this kind of performance.

However, what was a True Soul Realm Expert?

These were the linchpins of the twelve great factions, the foundation that they were built on.

Even if the twelve great factions were to lose most of their assets, as long as the True Soul Realm Experts were present, they would be able to continue existing.

Each True Soul Realm Expert was someone who could cause storms in the Galactic Humanity Alliance with a flip of a palm.