Chapter 499 - Hide And Seek (2)

Though Lin Fan had been looking in Wang Jian's direction, there wasn't any hostility in his eyes at all. Rather there was a look of appreciation in them instead.

The other people in this room, Lin Fan didn't care for because he knew what kind of people they were based on the way they looked at him. They only wanted to use him for their own benefits and that was the kind of people that Lin Fan hated the most.

But Wang Jian was different.

To put it simply, he wasn't smart enough to think of something like that. He just treated people depending on how they treated him and so far other than wanting to fight Lin Fan to prove his strength, he hadn't actually done anything bad to Lin Fan.

Although Lin Fan did find the personality of a battle junkie a bit hard to deal with sometimes, it was still much better than dealing with these people who could lie right to his face.

Not to mention that Lin Fan had already left a deep impression on Wang Jian's heart, which would make it easier for them to communicate in the future. 

Easier for Lin Fan, Wang Jian, not so much…

But this wasn't the only reason Lin Fan was thinking about doing what he wanted to do.

He was in an upper realm where he didn't have any friends or backing, so it was better for him to make more friends than enemies, especially since he had plenty of enemies to begin with.

So far, Lin Fan had come into contact with half of the twelve great factions already, four of them back on the Blue Star Planet and two of them after coming to the Galactic Humanity Alliance. The six that he had come in contact with were the Dian Family, the Ying Family, the Alchemy King Hall, the True Spirit Sect, the Hunters Organization, and the Myriad Sword Hall.

Out of those six, it was most likely that there were three of them that would have hostility towards him.

There was no need to mention the True Spirit Sect since that was a place that Lin Fan had already condemned to death.

As for the Dian and Ying Families, Lin Fan had met their juniors in the Inheritance Realm all the way back on the Blue Star Planet. Back then, they had given him tokens to their families to invite him to join them, but Lin Fan had completely forgotten about them until now.

The fact that he was already in the upper realm and he still hadn't contacted them would surely create friction in their relationship since the Dian and Ying Families were large factions that would care about their reputation.

For Lin Fan to completely ignore large organizations like this and come to the upper realm alone, that was already bad enough, but now he was joining the Hunters Organization instead of them? Wasn't this a direct slap to their face?

For large factions like this, what was most important to them wasn't actually the number of experts they had or the resources they had, the most important thing was their prestige.

Prestige was very powerful when you had a lot of it. Prestige made sure that no one dared to attack your faction which saved you from wasting resources and at the same time, people would be willing to pay you resources to keep them safe and the more prestige you had, the more resources you received.

At the same time, prestige was very easy to lose, while being hard to gain.

With the way Lin Fan treated them, if it was known, the Dian and Ying Families would surely lose a lot of prestige which would hurt them in the long run.

Since that was the case, they would make sure to silence Lin Fan so that no one knew about this…

That meant, in the future, the Dian and Ying Families would most likely become his enemies…

His only ally right now was the Alchemy King Hall because he had a contact there. It was Song Shu who had gone to train there and more importantly, Elder Fu who cared for Song Shu.

As one of the elders of the Alchemy King Hall, Elder Fu would naturally hold plenty of influence, so he could assume that he would have some support from the Alchemy King Hall.

While the Hunters Organization was powerful, it was also a very loose organization, so Lin Fan wouldn't be able to count on its help when the time came.

That only left the Myriad Sword Hall out of all the factions that he had already come in contact with.

Right now, he had more enemies than he had allies, so it wouldn't hurt him to make more allies…

He had already heard from Mo Ze Chen that there wasn't any relationship between the Myriad Sword Hall and the True Spirit Sect. While they were both sects where people cultivated, their cultivation techniques differed greatly and the personality that developed from those cultivation techniques also differed. So in the end, they mostly kept to their own and didn't interact with each other.

Now as for how to become friends with Wang Jian, he had his own ways. Worst case, he could just use fear since he had already placed a seed of fear in Wang Jian's heart.

So in front of everyone shocked looks, he did something that shocked them even more.

Lin Fan didn't care about anyone who was in his way and everyone that was in his way cleared a path for him as he started walking down that path towards Wang Jian.

Wang Jian had been on guard against the various groups that had surrounded him, holding his sword in front of thim, but the moment he saw Lin Fan, the expression on his face turned grim.

He still remembered how Lin Fan had beaten him inside the ruins and even if it had been weakened, that heart demon still existed in his heart. As that fear came from his heart, he couldn't stop cold sweat from covering his back as a slight tremble came over him.

Seeing that Lin Fan wasn't stopping as he came closer and closer, Wang Jian raised his sword and asked in a wary voice, "What are you doing?"

Still Lin Fan didn't stop moving nor did he say a word. Based on how he was acting, it almost seemed like he was prepared to have a final confrontation with Wang Jian, which was also why Wang Jian was feeling very tense.

However, this was also a chance for the people who were gathered around them, watching the scene develop between the two of them.

They couldn't defeat Wang Jian or Lin Fan alone, so if the two of them fought each other and took each other out, that would be even better for them. This was a situation of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it.

Or at least that was what they had thought.

They didn't doubt this because they knew that Lin Fan was a smart person and could tell that the only threat to him was Wang Jian. The sooner he eliminated him, the more time he had to recover and prepare for the final part of this game.

That was why more groups had started gathering together, forming several large groups instead of many small groups scattered around.

They were all planning on gathering together to take out the exhausted Lin Fan and Wang Jian once their fight was over.

It was just too bad that all of them had completely misread the situation, even Wang Jian himself had misread the situation.

The only ones that had a smile on their faces were Mo Ze Chen and the old woman.

Mo Ze Chen had been with Lin Fan through quite a bit, so naturally he had started understanding how Lin Fan thought. No matter how others wanted him to act, he would almost always break those expectations.

As for the old woman, she could tell a few things from the way that Lin Fan was walking towards Wang Jian.

Even though he made it seem like he had hostility towards Wang Jian to fool the people watching, she could tell that it was all fake. This was just the ability that came naturally with the passage of time and experience.

When Lin Fan came closer, he deliberately slowed down his step, going one step at a time towards Wang Jian.

Seeing this, everyone around them became very tense as with the way Lin Fan walked, it was almost as if he was walking on their hearts.

Finally when Lin Fan was almost right in front of Wang Jian and Wang Jian couldn't help taking a step back.

Lin Fan saw this and asked with a smile, "Why are you so tense?"

Wang Jian screamed inside, "You think that I shouldn't be tense with the way you're acting?"

But on the outside, Wang Jian forced himself to stay calm as he asked, "What are you planning on doing?"

Lin Fan looked around at the people surrounding them before turning back to Wang Jian and saying, "How about we give them a show?"

Wang Jian felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up the moment he heard this and he immediately raised his sword, putting up his guard.

Lin Fan shook his head when he saw this and then said with a sigh, "Like I said, why are you so tense? I'm not here to fight."

Wang Jian didn't say a thing in the end since he was focused on watching for any movement from Lin Fan. It was clear that he didn't believe Lin Fan's words.

Finally Lin Fan said, "How about we work together?"

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