Chapter 999 Strange Rewards



As Lin Jian was about to leave, Lin Fan suddenly said, "Wait, there's something else."

Lin Jian suddenly stopped and turned around to look at Lin Fan with a confused look. At the same time, there was a bit of worry in his eyes.

He was worried that Lin Fan would want to do something else…

However, he was surprised by what Lin Fan said next.

Lin Fan told Lin Jian about the strange black energy that had corroded Lin Ao's arm stub. Then he said, "This strange energy, it was similar to the energy that I found coming from the ship."

Even though he didn't clearly say what he was thinking, Lin Jian immediately understood from this context.

Lin Jian then asked, "Were there any other traces that you found?"

Lin Fan shook his head as he said, "That was the only one."

Lin Jian knitted his brows before turning to look at Lin Ao. However, after looking at Lin Ao for a bit, he hesitated and turned to the remnants of the third army.

There were those that were injured, but there were also those that were still fine.

He waved his hand at one of the soldiers of the third army that was fine to call them over.

This soldier was confused, but they still came over to where Lin Jian was.

When the soldier came over, Lin Jian asked them to tell him everything that happened up to this point.

The soldier was once again confused to hear this, but they still nodded and recounted everything that happened to the third army. They told Lin Jian about the sudden invasion of the Beast Race and how Lin Ao had rallied everyone to push them back.

As they told their story, Lin Jian suddenly stopped them in the middle of their story.

Lin Jian asked, "When Ao'er went to fight the Beast Race, what happened between them? Which beast came out to fight Ao'er?"

The soldier revealed an awkward look before saying, "We were too busy running away, so we weren't able to see anything."

Lin Jian knitted his brows when he heard this and he turned to Lin Ao who was still being treated.

The reason why he had asked this soldier instead of Lin Ao himself was to let Lin Ao have time to rest up and recover, but it seemed like he had to ask Lin Ao about this after all.

The soldier just stood there with an awkward look on their face as if they didn't know what to do. Only when Lin Jian waved his hand was this soldier relieved of this awkwardness and allowed to leave.

Lin Jian walked over to what Lin Ao was being treated.

When Lin Ao saw him walking over, he revealed a knowing smile and said, "I don't know what that black energy is either. It was a wound that I suffered from one of the blades of the Beast Race."

"Blade?" Lin Jian repeated.

Lin Ao nodded before saying, "It was a strange beast that fought in human form instead of its beast form."

Both Lin Fan and Lin Jian knitted their brows when they heard this.

The Beast Race normally fought in their beast form since that was their natural form and the form that they held the most power in. There would only be the rare beast that had a special power that would be stronger in human form.

So Lin Jian asked, "Was it one of those special beasts?"

Lin Ao shook his head and said, "No, it was a normal beast that shouldn't have transformed…but it did and then it pulled out this strange blade."

After a pause, he said with a sigh, "This was the strangest blade that I had ever seen. It was as black as the darkest night and there was this strange feeling that came from it, as if it didn't belong to this world. The strangest thing was that it almost felt like the blade itself had a presence, like it was alive."

Both Lin Fan and Lin Ao knitted their brows once again after hearing this.

They had never heard of a weapon like this before, but they could tell that Lin Ao wasn't lying.

Lin Fan was most affected by this since he knew more than most people did.

He had already encountered two different races of the Outer through his experience, so he was more open minded to these kinds of things. He wouldn't be surprised if there really was something like a sentient weapon race…

But for now, he couldn't say anything since he didn't see it personally.

Lin Jian knitted his brows to think about this for a bit before finally saying, "You can tell father about this when you get back. He should know more about this."

Both Lin Fan and Lin Ao nodded in agreement to this.

No matter what happened, this information had to be brought to the Lin Astral Emperor.

The Lin Astral Emperor was the head of the Lin Astral Family and the Lin Astral Empire, so this information that could pose a threat to both had to be brought to him. Not to mention, he had lived much longer than them and had access to more information, so he should know more about this.

Once that was decided, there was no need for Lin Jian to stay any longer.

He left one of the Ruler Realm guards with them before setting off with the other one.

The one that he left was the one that had gone with Lin Fan to the Outer ship last time. The one that he took with him was the one with the shadow laws that had hidden in the shadows to throw those dark spears that golden crow.

The Ruler Realm guard was naturally displeased about what Lin Fan had done, running away without even telling him. Of course, if he had told him, the Ruler Realm guard wouldn't have let Lin Fan run off in the first place since it was his job keeping Lin Fan there.

There was no doubt that he would be punished for losing track of Lin Fan this time.

But he also couldn't help being confused as to how Lin Fan had thrown him off.

So the Ruler Realm guard closely followed Lin Fan, trying to figure out how Lin Fan had escaped.

He went everywhere with Lin Fan. Going with him to eat, going to the bathroom with him, he even wanted to sleep in the same room as Lin Fan. However, that was immediately shut down by Angela.

The Ruler Realm guard didn't understand why, but he couldn't help feeling pressure from Angela. Even though he was in the Ruler Realm, when facing Angela, there was this kind of pressure that came from her that made him cave in the end.

It was only because of Angela that Lin Fan was able to finally get some time to himself.

He locked himself up in a room and then opened up the system panel.

He had come to the borders this time not just because he was here to save Lin Ao, but also because of the system's mission.

Since he had finished the mission, it was time to see what kind of reward he would receive.

The system had been giving him quite a few missions recently and they had all given strange rewards. So he was curious what reward he would receive this time.

When the system gave him the reward for this mission, Lin Fan couldn't help being surprised by what he received.

This time, the system had given him a map.

He didn't know what it was at first since it was a rolled up piece of paper that seemed very old. However, when he opened it and looked closely, he found that there was a map on the piece of paper.

At the same time, there was a X that was marked on the map as if it was signifying some kind of treasure.

But this map was for a place that he had never seen before.

So naturally, Lin Fan had no idea how to use this map.

After he received this item, the system remained quiet as if it had nothing to say to him. Even after he called it out for giving him this thing and he tried to question it on what the map was, he never received an answer.

So Lin Fan had no choice but to put this map away.

He was about to give up until he saw something appear out of the corner of his eyes.

It was another notification from the system.

"Special cultivation realm has been discovered and activated."

It was a simple notification, but Lin Fan couldn't help being shocked when he saw this.

He immediately opened the page with the cultivation realms listed and he found that there was a new tab that had been opened up.

It was a tab that said "special cultivation realms".

He immediately opened it and found that there was only a single cultivation realm that was available under this tab.

It was a cultivation realm known as "unknown".

There was no name, there was no description, there was only the single word "unknown" for it.

Lin Fan couldn't help knitting his brows when he saw this.

He could guess that it was related to all of the missions that he had done, but he couldn't help feeling a bad feeling from this special cultivation realm…

So in the end, Lin Fan chose not to open this cultivation realm just yet.