Cultivation Pet Shop

Once Lin Fan and Lin Jian came back to the palace, Lin Fan called for some servants to take care of Lin Hong who had followed them in a daze.

Since coming to the palace, Lin Fan had been given a private wing in the palace. This was a wing that was completely emptied other than the servants assigned to take care of Lin Fan.

So far, only Lin Fan and his family lived there, but now Lin Hong was also going to live there.

When he arrived, he couldn't help being shocked by the luxurious room that he had been assigned.

It was even better than his room in the palace before, it was even better than the room he had at the branch residence.

It made it very clear just what the difference in treatment between him and Lin Fan was.

With this made clear, Lin Hong became even more subdued.

But what he didn't realize was that there was a terrible fate waiting for him.

…

A few days later, it was time for Lin Fan's store to open.

Over the past few days, Lin Hong had been drilled over working at the store, but…

He was someone that had been pampered his entire life, so the concept of work was foreign to him.

He had suffered quite a bit as the ghost girls that Momonga summoned.

Normally Lin Fan would recruit people to work in the store and it was easy for him to do so with the influence of the Lin Astral Family, but this time he decided against it.

Right now the Lin Astral Family had too many uncertain aspects about it since it was such a large family that was not fully united. They would unite in times of danger, but it was impossible for them to unite during times of peace like this.

That was also why the Lin Astral Emperor wanted his help in disciplining the juniors of the Lin Astral Family in the first place.

There were too many things that he needed to keep secret in the store, so he couldn't risk it.

The only reason that he took Lin Hong in the first place was because he was certain that he would be able to control him. After all, Lin Hong had a personality that he could easily see through since he had that kind of personality back on earth. He knew that with just a bit of work, he would be able to mold Lin Hong into someone he could control.

Now after a few days of training, they would finally be opening.

Since it was a store that was in the center of the most busy business street and a store that was once owned by the Lin Astral Family, it was a store that attracted a lot of attention.

There were also rumours about Lin Fan taking over the store which everyone paid attention to.

With the current rumours spreading about Lin Fan, this brought even more attention to the store.

Especially after the rumour that Lin Fan had defeated Lin Tian, someone who was in the same generation as Lin Jian.

No one knew where this rumour came from, but it quickly spread all over the capital city.

Lin Tian's branch had tried to suppress this, but it was to no avail.

That was because the one that had spread it was…Lin Fan himself.

He had two reasons for doing this.

One was to raise his own fame since he knew that defeating someone at Lin Tian's level was something that was very impressive. He knew that it would be good for him to raise his own fame for the future.

Second, it was to suppress Lin Tian's branch even further.

He wanted to make an example of them so that they wouldn't act up in the future and would become more humble like the Lin Astral Emperor wanted. At the same time, he wanted to give all the other branches an example of what happened if they acted up.

In fact, in the days that the rumours had spread, the juniors and seniors of the Lin Astral Family had started restraining themselves. So it seemed like it had been quite effective in the end.

When Lin Fan opened the store, he found that it was already surrounded by a large crowd.

There were so many people that it could even be considered a sea of people gathered around the store.

Lin Fan couldn't even see the other side of the street with all the people that surrounded the store, though this street was very wide because of the large population of the capital city to begin with.

Lin Fan could also hear the buzzing of the crowd coming from the outside.

Many of them were whispering among themselves about his store.

There were words like "Lin Astral Family", "handsome young master", and "powerful pets" being thrown around.

It was clear that many of them were talking about Lin Fan.

After all, Lin Fan was the main reason that most of them were here.

Lin Fan hadn't hidden that this was his store, so many of them were here just for the chance to see him.

He chose to ignore the cold stare that was stabbing into his back.

He knew that he was in trouble tonight because of all the whispers outside, but he chose to ignore it for his own safety right now.

Once opening time came, the doors were opened and the wave of people flooded into the store.

The people outside had thought that they wouldn't be able to all fit into the store. Even though the store was as big as a shopping mall in Lin Fan's old life, there were just too many people out there.

But to their surprise, they found that the space inside of the store was much bigger than what it seemed from the outside.

When they looked closely, they realized that there were spatial laws that were used inside of this store that made it much bigger.

It wasn't a problem for the sea of people outside to fit in the store.

The first thing that everyone did after entering the store was head to the counter where Lin Fan was sitting. The moment that they entered, all of their eyes had fallen onto Lin Fan.

When they saw his appearance, they couldn't help admitting…

The rumours were all true!

"He really is handsome…"

"That's the young master of the Lin Astral Family…if I could…"

"Psh, a fat cow like you? He's clearly more interested in me!"

The latter comments made Lin Fan's mouth twitch, but he didn't break his professional smile.

The person that received the second most attention was…surprisingly Lin Hong.

He was a well known member of the Lin Astral Family and it was rare for the public to meet him.

Even if he wasn't as influential as Lin Fan, he was still someone that they wanted to marry.

After all, he was still more influential than most people as a member of the Lin Astral Family and putting aside his personality flaws, he was a handsome person.

So there were many girls that surrounded him…Among them were also a few men dressed as girls.

After having their fill, the people's attention started to turn to the items in the shop.

"What are these prices?"

"Are they for real?"

"It's so much more expensive than other places…"

Lin Fan heard these words around him and he shook his head.

It seemed that no matter where he went, it would always end the same way. Even if he did provide superior service, no one would buy his products right away since there was no credibility.

Or at least that was what he thought based on these words at first.

But then to his surprise…

The counter he was at was suddenly surrounded by people asking to leave their pets for training.

He couldn't help being overwhelmed by all of the people who wanted to leave their pets here for training as there were just too many of them. Plus, they all were competing with each other since they had seen that there was a limit to how many training spots there were each day.

They didn't want to miss out on this opportunity.

Luckily, Lin Fan had already thought of a way to deal with this way back when he opened his first store.

He had been so optimistic that he would be able to use this system one day when his store became popular enough back then. The sad truth was that it had never become popular enough for him to use it.

Or at least, he didn't know that it was being used at the stores on the Blue Star Planet since he hadn't been back there in a while.

It was a drawing system where everyone who wanted to leave their pet at the store for training would draw from. If they could draw the winning ticket, they would be able to receive a training spot.

With this, it didn't take long for the training spots to be taken.

The people that didn't receive training spots couldn't complain since the training spots had been given out in a fair manner.

So the only thing that they could do was turn their attention to the other products of the store.

It wasn't just the training that was popular, all of the items in the store were popular to Lin Fan's surprise.

The pet food, the special elixirs, the accessories, not a single thing wasn't popular.

By the end of the day, they had completely sold out of everything.

Lin Fan just couldn't understand what had happened.