Chapter 138: Decrypting the Animal Skin

Chapter 138: Decrypting the Animal Skin

Nine Princess frowned slightly, feeling somewhat troubled, as the other party clearly did not want to owe any Karma.

"If you want to be an Empress, but your own strength is not strong enough, you will only become someone else's Puppet."

Lin Fan said indifferently, genuinely feeling that this girl was indulging in wild fantasies, wanting to become the human emperor of Stone Country without even checking her own weight.

This was not a Mortal palace drama where one could ascend just by playing some schemes; in the end, it depended on one's own martial strength.

Furthermore, when a great calamity occurred in the Lower Realm and turmoil arose at that time, who could compete with his Little Brother Naihao?

"I remember that for the throne of your Stone Country, as long as one is a descendant of the Stone Clan, they are all qualified to inherit it. It does not necessarily have to come from princes and princesses. For example, Shi Yi with the double pupils who possesses the aptitude of a Saint, will you be able to defeat him in the future?"

Shi Wanning was slightly startled; what the other party said was right, if she did not have the strength to suppress the world, even if she ascended the throne, she would not be able to sit securely for long.

"Then… what do you think I should do?"

She blinked her long eyelashes, slowly approaching Lin Fan, gently tossing her fragrant black hair, revealing alluring red lips with a charming smile.

Needless to say, this Nine Princess could be considered a brilliant pearl. At the age of sixteen, she was in the prime of her youth, with a full yet slender figure.

Especially that pair of long legs, straight and snow-white, shimmering with radiance amidst the red skirt hem, faintly visible, presenting enchanting scenery that stirred the heart.

"Hey, are you planning to seduce me?" Lin Fan said bluntly, continuing, "But your looks are not even enough to be a maid for me."

Nine Princess instantly petrified on the spot, feeling so embarrassed that she just wanted to find a hole to crawl into, while her Face burned with a sense of shame and indignation.

What did he mean that she was not even worthy of being a maid? She was a princess of a country after all; even if his background was extraordinary, didn't she want some Face?

This Princess is simply furious!

I'll endure it!

After all, she was currently asking the other party for a favor.

In fact, Lin Fan was not wrong about this point. With his talent, if he were to look for a woman, he believed a large group of pretty girls would be willing to offer themselves willingly, and their cultivation wouldn't be too bad either.

"Instead of thinking about how to seize the throne, you might as well raise your cultivation level. Everything will be possible then, don't say I didn't give you a chance."

With that said, a flash of rosy light appeared on Lin Fan's palm, revealing an artifact that looked like metal yet not metal, engraved with the characters of Heaven Mending Sect, and he threw it over.

"What is this?" Nine Princess caught it and asked with curiosity.

"Hold this token, report my name, and you can go to the Zhou Region to cultivate in the Heaven Mending Sect. Consider it a token of gratitude for that animal skin."

Lin Fan did not wait for her to answer again, walking straight out of the garden and heading outside the imperial capital.

"This guy…" Shi Wanning looked at the token in her hand, her eyes rippling as she suddenly made a decision.

…

Inside a dense forest outside the imperial city, Lin Fan took out three archaic animal skins.

"Swish!"

Suddenly, an unexpected thing happened. The three pieces of animal skin actually bloomed with rosy light on their own, suspended in mid-air, and then with a hum, they merged together.

At this moment, a complete animal skin came into view, brilliantly golden and cleansed of all dust, completely devoid of its previous staleness, looking brand new.

Afterwards, Lin Fan grasped it in his hand. It felt very soft to the touch, like satin, smooth and warm, not resembling animal skin at all.

"I wonder what kind of beast or bird's fur this comes from; it is extraordinary." He sighed with emotion, then suddenly exclaimed, "Ah, there are symbols flashing!"

At this time, several lines of characters appeared on the gorgeous animal skin, roughly meaning: Yin and Yang intersect, nine Dragons appear simultaneously, Chaos churns, the starry gates open wide, the Heavenly Seed emerges!

"Indeed, it hides the news of a Heavenly Seed inside." Lin Fan was overjoyed, his mood exceptionally excited.

You must know that this was a rare and supreme Dao seed. Ever since the destruction of the Immortal Ancient Era, there were not many Heavenly Seeds left in the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and they could be counted on one's fingers.

Furthermore, they were all left by predecessors. After the great changes in the heaven and earth environment, this era was no longer capable of breeding them, making it impossible to satisfy everyone.

As for those famous top-tier precious seeds, they had long been carved up by people in the Nine Heavens, and outsiders couldn't even get a single one. This was also one of the main reasons why Shi Hao embarked on the path of Using the Body as a Seed.

"But… what do these few sentences mean?" Lin Fan was puzzled, touching his chin in thought.

In the end, he guessed that it should be related to the location of the Heavenly Seed.

For example, the first sentence pointed to the place where Yin and Yang intersected, which should be within the Eight Regions, because the animal skin appeared in the Lower Realm, otherwise it would be as hard to find as finding a needle in a haystack.

The second sentence, nine Dragons appear simultaneously, referred to a certain terrain; it could not possibly be nine True Dragons, because there was only one incomplete Red Dragon left unborn in the current world.

As for the third and fourth sentences, they indicated that the Heavenly Seed was hidden in a Chaos Small World, and the portal to enter it was among the stars of the firmament.

Having figured everything out, Lin Fan felt relaxed and incomparably joyful. He only needed to search the Lower Realm for locations possessing the nine-Dragon terrain and the intersection of Yin and Yang.

"Eh? There is also a Small World inside the animal skin!" Lin Fan was surprised, but when his Divine Thought swept over it, he was obstructed and unable to enter.

"I refuse to believe that I can't even open a broken space." He muttered to himself, trying to open it once more.

With a rumble, a crack was torn open, revealing a hazy gray expanse inside, and he only saw the two characters of Reincarnation.

Unfortunately, it still couldn't be truly opened, unable to break through that layer of Restriction.

"Swish!"

However, at this very moment, a group of people walked out from the depths of the ancient forest. Not all of them were of the Human Race; some had a single horn on their heads with fiery red patterns.

However, they all shared one characteristic: their eyes were burning with intense eagerness as they stared at Lin Fan, or to be precise, the Xuanhuang shoes on his feet.

"Young man, your shoes are not bad. I wonder if you can let me appreciate them?" A rather gentle-looking young man took the initiative to greet him.

At the same time, two other groups of people also surrounded them, each group numbering only three or four people, standing in various directions with greedy expressions on their Faces.

However, Lin Fan ignored them and very calmly rolled up the golden animal skin.

"We want one of those Xuanhuang shoes!" said the middle-aged man with three eyes on the left, without any concealment and acting very domineeringly.

"Hehe, there are only two shoes, but there are three parties of us. It seems we will have to decide the victor." The third party spoke, a woman with a pretty Face.

"Have you guys discussed who will go to Hell first?"

Lin Fan, who had been watching coldly, finally spoke. These people really treated him like a dish and were already discussing how to divide him up.

"Young man, just by yourself, do you want to deal with all of us? Hahaha… Hand over the treasures on your body, and you might still live." The horned young man laughed loudly.

"Boom!"

The next moment, Lin Fan stepped into the air with both feet, instantly thickening like wooden pillars, with purple scales emerging and bursting forth with brilliant divine light, stomping towards the ground and shattering the heavens and earth.

"Puff!"

In an instant, that team of horned people exploded into a blood mist, obliterated on the spot.

"What?!" Everyone was shocked. What kind of terrifying Divine Might was this?

"Fellow Daoist, there is much misunderstanding, please bear with us…"

"We were a bit rash, farewell for now…"

Immediately, everyone was terrified and wanted to retreat and beg for mercy. A twelve-year-old boy who looked harmless to humans and animals actually turned out to be an "iron plate".

However, Lin Fan had already formed the intent to kill, so how could he let them go? The soles of his shoes, circulating Xuanhuang Qi, stepped down once again, causing the earth to collapse.

"No!"

A group of people screamed, their bodies twisting and cracking. Even by executing Precious Techniques and fully driving runes, it was useless.

"Bang!"

Soon, the place quieted down. Only Lin Fan remained, along with a large rift stomped out on the spot, while the rest turned into shattered residue and drifted away.

"Sigh! It really wasn't that I deliberately lured people into falling for it. If not for them giving birth to greed, how would I have made a move?"

Lin Fan sighed. He found that human nature really couldn't withstand testing, having encountered quite a few such instances along the way.

"Forget it, since I've already come to Stone Country, as a great filial son, I should also go visit Willow Mom. Perhaps she can open the Small World inside the animal skin."

Afterwards, he sacrificed a Magical Artifact and pointed it, shattering the Void Realm, walked into the large rift, broke through the air, and headed straight for the western border of Stone Country, too lazy to go fishing and comprehend life and death anymore.