Xu Lin looked at Lin Fan with a confused look for a bit before suddenly revealing a look of understanding.
Lin Fan was going to give his family's artifact to him?
But didn't he just say that he wanted it? Why did he suddenly change his mind?
This was the chance to become the disciple of a Nascent Soul Realm Expert, one of the elders of the twelve great factions! This was not a chance that presented itself that often and he was giving it up?
Why?
The Soul Realm was divided into five realms and one pseudo realm. Respectively, they were the Primary Soul Realm, the Fragmented Soul Realm, the Embryo Soul Realm, the Child Soul Realm, the Nascent Soul Realm, and the True Soul Realm.
What one was trying to achieve in the Soul Realm was to refine a new soul for themselves, one that was much stronger than their old souls.
The Primary Soul Realm was when one was able to condense a single fragment of their new soul, which signified that they had taken a step into the Soul Realm. It was the pseudo realm that one stepped into before fully breaking into the Soul Realm.
One was recognized as a full Soul Realm Expert once they broke into the Fragmented Soul Realm where one had various fragments of their new soul.
As they continued to increase their cultivation, gathering more and more fragments in the Fragmented Soul Realm, it would eventually become an embryo soul. This embryo soul would continue to grow until it became a child, an adolescent, and then an adult, which were respectively the Child Soul Realm, the Nascent Soul Realm, and the True Soul Realm.
The True Soul Realm was the peak of what one could reach in the upper realm. Once one reached that point, they were qualified to start creating a realm of their own, which qualified them to move up to the Stellar Kingdoms.
That meant that all the leaders of the twelve great factions of the Galactic Humanity Alliance were in the True Soul Realm.
Below those leaders were the various elders of the twelve great factions and naturally that also meant that they were a bit weaker than the leaders. All the elders of the twelve great factions were all in the Nascent Soul Realm, one step from the peak of the upper realm.
The Galactic Humanity Alliance was several times bigger than the Blue Star Planet and even the Blue Star Planet had a population that numbered in the tens of billions.
That meant that the Galactic Humanity Alliance had a population of hundreds of billions of people.
Out of all those billions of people, the number of Nascent Soul Realm Experts could be counted in the thousands.
It could be seen just how hard it was to become a Nascent Soul Realm Expert and how rare it was to have a chance to encounter one, not to mention having the chance to be their disciple.
There was a chance that was now placed in front of Lin Fan's face, but he was turning it down?
If everyone in Harmony City were to learn of this, with just a single drop of spit from each of them cursing Lin Fan, it would be enough to completely drown him.
But for Lin Fan, he didn't want to be pulled into a faction that would force him to play the game of politics. All he wanted to do was just run his shop and earn more points for him to increase his cultivation with.
There was still something else that he needed to do, so his final goal wasn't just this upper realm.
When Lin Fan saw that Xu Lin wasn't saying anything, he said, "If you're not willing, then…"
But before he could finish, Xu Lin immediately said, "I'm willing, I'm willing!"
Lin Fan nodded before saying, "Good, now show me the way."
Xu Lin was confused for a second as he asked, "The way? Senior Lin, what do you mean by that?"
Lin Fan shook his head and said, "What else could I mean."
After Xu Lin thought about it, he suddenly understood.
With an excited look, Xu Lin immediately headed off in a direction into the forest as he said, "Senior Lin, please follow me!"
The other four kids also quickly ran off after Xu Lin.
As for Lin Fan's group, they slowly followed behind him, but they kept up with relative ease. After all, there was such a large difference in cultivation, so there was no way that the speed they traveled at would ever be the same.
Along the way, Lin Fan asked Momonga, "Did you find anything else?"
Momonga just gave a shrug without saying anything else.
There was nothing else to add since the kid Xu Lin had already said everything, but at least this proved that he did have sincerity, which was half of what Lin Fan needed to cooperate with him. The other half would depend on what he would do next.
As for the Fragmented Soul Realm Expert, his corpse would make good fertilizer for the plants that grew out here.
It didn't take them long traveling since they were still quite fast as they were still in the Gold Realm.
It took them half an hour to arrive at a waterfall that was covered in mist.
When they arrived nearby, Xu Lin turned back to Lin Fan to say, "Senior Lin, this is where the Cloud Lingzhi is said to be. It's said that it's guarded by a Platinum Realm Cloud Serpent, but I'm sure that it won't be a problem for Senior Lin."
Lin Fan ignored him as he looked into the sky, where there were black clouds that were currently gathering above the waterfall.
Xu Lin saw that Lin Fan wasn't moving, so he continued, "Senior Lin, if you go through the waterfall, there should be a cave where the Cloud Lingzhi…"
But then Lin Fan suddenly raised a hand to cut him off before saying, "Be quiet."
Xu Lin immediately closed his mouth and moved to the side even though he didn't understand what was going on.
Lin Fan didn't say anything else as he just stood there watching the clouds gather above the waterfall.
After half an hour, the clouds had fully gathered and the sky had turned dark. It really seemed like it was about to rain.
This made Xu Lin's group of kids even more confused. They were all experts, what did they care about a little rain for?
But since they were only in the Gold Realm, they didn't know what the true form of those dark clouds were.
For Lin Fan who had just broken through a few days ago, he couldn't be more familiar with them.
They were the clouds of tribulation that appeared when a Platinum Realm Expert broke through to the Soul Realm. It seemed like the information here was only half correct. The Cloud Serpent was indeed in the Platinum Realm, but it also seemed like it was about to break through to the Soul Realm.
Even if it did break through, it still wouldn't be a threat for Lin Fan's group, but why waste effort when you could just not?
With a snap of his finger, Lin Fan called out a small bird, a little dog, a little lizard, a small pile of rocks, and a little white tiger. They were none other than the pets that he had, excluding Brainy and Shiro.
Brainy was still at the edge of breaking through since Brainy focused more on its spiritual energy cultivation than its normal cultivation, making its cultivation speed much slower than the rest of Lin Fan's other pets.
Shiro was still sleeping in the pet space. She had been sleeping the entire time and yet her cultivation grew, but it also grew slowly. According to Jin and Yin, Shiro had been sleeping for the longest time and she still rarely woke up.
They also said that she had suffered some injuries while protecting them, which was why she slept so much. She had to slowly recover her strength.
Lin Fan had tried looking for something in the system to help her, but without knowing specifically what was wrong, the cure all just cost too much, so that was why she was still sleeping.
The moment these five pets appeared, Angela ignored everything and went over to pick up the little white tiger. The little white tiger didn't resist and just let her pick it up as it snuggled into her embrace.
This was Xiao Bai who Lin Fan had saved all that time ago, but had never summoned into battle since it had been cultivating the entire time. It took a long time for it to finally digest the divine beast bloodline it had received and now it had finally caught up to the rest of its peers.
When the pets were summoned out, they all looked around for their enemies since that was usually what happened. But when they didn't see any enemies at all around them, they all looked at Lin Fan with confused looks.
With their tiny forms, they looked quite cute.
As for why they were in tiny forms, now that they were close to reaching the Soul Realm and becoming King Beasts, they were slowly getting more proficient with using the transformation technique.
But of course, before they became King Beasts, they still wouldn't be able to transform into humans.
Lin Fan said with an "evil" smile, "It's time for all of you to break through."