Cultivation Pet Shop

While they were in disguise, it wasn't as if the prideful younger generation of the Lin Astral Family would accept sitting in inferior seats.

So after they entered the shop, they immediately called a staff member to call the manager.

The staff member was going to call the guards on these people at first since the cloaks hid their identity, but then Lin Hong showed the staff member a token that shocked them.

This token was designed in the same way as the token that the Lin Astral Emperor gave Lin Fan, but it didn't have the same "Lin" word on it. Instead, it had a "Hong" on it which stood for Lin Hong.

After the staff member recovered from their daze, they immediately ran off to get the manager.

They had been trained on recognizing these kinds of tokens since their first day on the job. They knew right away that this token was the token of a branch member of the Lin Astral Family.

Since this was the auction house opened by the Lin Astral Family, it wasn't rare to see members coming here and they had to make sure that they didn't offend these members at all.

It didn't take long for the staff member to come back with the manager.

As soon as the manager saw the token, he personally led their group up to the top floor of the auction house where the VVIP rooms were.

These were rooms that were only reserved for royals and the top nobles, so it was rare that they would be used.

From time to time, there would be some rich noble that would pay a large amount of money to use it to show off, but they were mainly unused.

Even though these rooms had been unused for a long time, they were all well maintained.

These rooms had been decorated with the greatest luxuries and there wasn't a single expense spared.

Even the food here was the best of the best.

The weakest ingredient here was still in the Planet Realm and there were even some Peak Sun Realm ingredients used.

It was clear that this was the treatment reserved for royals.

This also went to show how much power the Lin Astral Family had.

As they came in, Lin Hong and the other cousins watched Lin Fan for his reaction. It was as if if he gave a single reaction, they would immediately jump on it and say something.

But in the end, they were disappointed since Lin Fan just silently sat down after looking around.

It was only Angela, Zi Ling, and Yuki who went over to the buffet set out for them and started stuffing their faces…Well more Angela and Yuki as Zi Ling was more there just to join in.

She wasn't a super glutton with a bottomless stomach like the two of them.

Her cultivation wasn't as high, so there was only so much life energy that she could absorb from these dishes before she felt stuffed.

As for Momonga who had also come along, he was looking down the balcony and at the people sitting down in the auction house as if he was observing them.

For this Lich King who had lived countless years, this was his first time in an Astral Empire, so he was actually quite interested in this place. After all, as a Lich King, it would be impossible for him to come here normally and even if he did come here, it would be a one way trip…

It wasn't as if he could get away from an Astral Empire by himself.

Even with an army of undead, it would be hard because Astral Empires were the reason why the human race were able to carve out a place for themselves in this vast universe.

But of course, this Lich King didn't have any intentions of doing something like that in the first place.

He was just interested in the Astral Empires, even if it was a simple part of their lives like going to the auction house.

It didn't take long before the auction began.

Even though it was announced to start later, they bumped up the start time because the manager of the auction house knew that the members of the Lin Astral Family were here. They didn't dare delay this any further even if it meant offending some of the nobles that would miss out because they started early.

So soon the first item was taken out.

The auctioneer was a beautiful young miss who received tons of cheers the moment that she stepped onto the stage.

She was very skilled in creating hype among the crowd and soon one could even feel the tension seething from it.

When Lin Fan looked over, he found that even a few of his cousins were attracted to this beautiful woman.

The way that they were acting…really looked shameful, but they didn't care at all since they let the fact that they were the Lin Astral Family go to their head. Even if someone wanted to say something, would they dare?

So they just did whatever they wanted without care for the world.

They even forgot about their reason for bringing Lin Fan here.

Lin Fan couldn't help secretly shaking his head and giving a sigh.

When they had been heading to the Lin Astral Empire, the Lin Astral Emperor had told Lin Fan a bit about his family.

To put it simply…disappointing.

That was the word that he used to summarize the current younger generation of the Lin Astral Family.

They had let their pride go to their heads and they were more concerned about their own position instead of their duty as part of the Lin Astral Family.

It was just that they didn't cross the line by betraying the family and working on their own, so the Lin Astral Emperor couldn't clean them all up. Not to mention that he didn't want to since they were still a part of his family.

The main cause of this was because of the gap that had been left by Lin Jian when he left the Lin Astral Empire.

The roles that should have been fulfilled by Lin Jian and his descendants had gone to these branch family members. They had gained power all of a sudden and that had gone to their head, making them arrogant.

So the Lin Astral Emperor had hoped that introducing Lin Fan would be a reminder for them to act modest again.

Which was why he had sent Lin Fan off with Lin Hong and the others earlier.

But Lin Fan didn't mind this since he would be depending on the Lin Astral Family from now on.

From what he had heard, there was the chance that this situation would become worse, so it was best if he did something about it. After all, this was a problem with the safety of himself and his family, so he had to do something.

After hyping up the crowd, the beautiful auctioneer finally brought out the first item.

It was a very simple weapon, a Peak Sun Realm Artifact.

This was something that was considered rare for both nobles and commoners, but it wasn't too rare that they wouldn't be able to obtain it if they really wanted to. So it was the perfect item to start off the auction.

As soon as this item was brought out, Lin Hong said to Lin Fan, "Cousin, I'm sure that you've never seen something like this before. How about I buy it for you as a welcoming gift?"

He was making his move.

Lin Fan had thought that he would hold back and wait for a few items, but it seemed like he really couldn't wait. It seemed like their mentality wasn't good and they really couldn't stay calm.

But this was what Lin Fan was already expecting to happen.

There were many reasons why they couldn't suppress him with force, but they still wanted to suppress him, so they would use different methods. Such as suppressing him with wealth and influence.

They wanted to make a show of how much of a hick he was and show him the true power of people from the city.

It was just too bad that they didn't know that Lin Fan already had a card to deal with that.

These were not the favoured children of the Lin Astral Emperor, so they had never been spoiled by him like Lin Fan was. They didn't know just what kind of treatment the Lin Astral Emperor was willing to give if he wanted to.

Seeing that Lin Fan didn't say a thing, Lin Hong revealed a faint smile as if he could see through Lin Fan already.

This hick, he clearly wants it, but he's still trying to keep his pride.

Then in that case…

Lin Hong pressed the button on his seat before saying, "Ten thousand low grade spirit jades."

There was a gasp that suddenly came from the crowd as they all looked up at the VVIP room that it came from.

Everyone knew what kind of room this was, but they never thought that there would be a bid coming from it for the first bid. Not to mention such a large bid.

After all, the bid had only been at ten thousand top grade spirit stones.

To suddenly increase it to ten thousand low grade spirit jades…that was an increase of more than a million times.

The bidding had come to a stop at this, but no one revealed dissatisfied looks because they knew who was capable of sitting up there. There wasn't a single person in the crowd that was willing to provoke someone like that.

Not to mention that no one could outbid someone like this in the first place.

The people that could sit up there were people that controlled the true wealth in this Lin Astral Empire.

All of the wealth of the people in the crowd added up together wouldn't even be a drop of what the people in the VVIP box had.

As for the auction house side, they naturally wouldn't say anything about it.

In fact, they couldn't help being filled with joy when hearing this.

After all, this was much more than they had expected to sell this item for, so they would surely earn a much larger commission from selling this item.

This was a business after all, so more money was always welcome.

The auctioneer even had a beaming smile on her face when she heard this.

As for Lin Hong, he had a smug smile on his face when he saw the reaction of the crowd.

This was the reaction that he wanted to see.

This was his way of proving his superiority!