Cultivation Pet Shop

When Lin Fan was about to pull out his Iron Eater Bone Artifact in the shape of a shovel, Brainy's voice suddenly rang out in his mind.

Along with sending out living puppets to distract the ghosts that were around them, Lin Fan also had Brainy send out dead puppets who could move through these ghosts to search around the perimeter.

These puppets had been running around the area around them the entire time, looking for anything that would seem useful. They hadn't found a single thing up to this point, that was until the moment Lin Fan decided to dig up the grave.

Brainy suddenly said, "Master, there seems to be a crypt here."

Lin Fan's hand that had been in the air suddenly stopped, but it didn't come down right away. After a slight pause, Lin Fan brought his hand down.

Even if Lin Fan was now someone who was cold and decisive, there were still lines that he didn't want to cross.

He didn't believe in things like the afterlife, but he did know that there were indeed things like souls that existed in this world since he had seen them in front of him. At the very least, he didn't want these souls to haunt him for no good reason.

Though deep down, it was more that he just didn't want to do this since he didn't believe it was the right thing to do.

Though the combining of the two souls had made Lin Fan much more neutral compared to the impulsive behaviour he had before, it also meant that he acted much more logically.

Logic told him that it was better to pursue all avenues and see if there would be a clue, but that wasn't all that was in his heart. Other than logic, there was still a voice of good and evil deep down that guided him.

When he faced his enemies, that evil voice told him to show no mercy. When he faced people that didn't do anything wrong, that good voice guided him the other way.

After that pause, Lin Fan brought his hand down and asked Brainy, "Where is it?"

Brainy had noticed everything that Lin Fan had done during this time and with its intelligence, it wasn't hard for it to predict what Lin Fan was thinking.

Brainy was someone who spent quite a bit of time with Momonga and with how smart it was, Momonga liked interacting with this little vine since he could have intelligent conversations with it. Since that was the case, he had also told Brainy a few of his worries about Lin Fan.

Brainy had taken it upon itself to watch over Lin Fan after hearing these worries and it knew that what had just happened was because of this problem.

While Lin Fan's soul had shown signs of coming together, there were still times when he had these extreme thoughts.

But seeing that Lin Fan could control himself, Brainy chose to let this go for now.

Brainy called back one of the puppets that he had left outside the crypt and had it bring Lin Fan to the location of the crypt.

The crypt wasn't actually that far away from the entrance. In fact, this entire cemetery wasn't that big.

Compared to the rest of the other locations, this would be considered the smallest. However, even if it was the smallest location out of all four locations, it was the place with the highest concentration of ghosts.

When Lin Fan and Mo Ze Chen had arrived at the outside of the crypt, they were completely surrounded by ghosts.

There wasn't a single free space other than the several hundred meter area around the entrance of the crypt that they were currently at. There was just no way for them to sneak into the crypt with how dense the area around them was.

Anyone could tell that this large horde of ghosts that were gathered around the crypt entrance wasn't natural. The only thing that could stir up this kind of crypt was an intruder.

That meant that whoever was waiting for them inside the crypt would definitely be able to see them approaching. With how big the building was, it was clear that there wasn't much space inside of the crypt, so unless the crypt led deep into the ground, there would only be so many rooms inside. There was no doubt that whoever was in charge of this place would definitely see them coming.

However, they had no choice because with how many ghosts there were, Brainy had had no choice but to pull out even more puppets to lure them around. With more and more puppets being released, Brainy's spiritual senses had been stretched very thin.

While Brainy's spiritual sense was much stronger than when they had been on the Blue Star Planet, this still went beyond the control the Brainy had. The most important thing was that Brainy hadn't found an intelligent puppet to act as a commander for his scouting puppets, like how the ant queen controlled the Desert Horror colony, so Brainy only had to control the ant queen.

As Brainy had to control more and more puppets, the range of its spiritual sense had decreased, which was why there was only a space of around several hundred meters around them that was empty.

If Brainy had sent its puppets further out, they would have immediately left its area of control and would have collapsed on the ground since the seeds inside them would lose effect. That would be no different from sending them into the waiting mouths of the ghosts.

So this was the only thing that Brainy could do.

But Lin Fan didn't mind at all since after breaking through, he was much stronger compared to before.

Lin Fan was only worried on the sea since it was a different environment, but being on land, Lin Fan wasn't worried about those Child Soul Realm ghosts at all since he was stronger than them now. The only thing that he still had to worry about was the final boss of this place that would most likely be as strong as Faust.

He didn't have to worry about Faust since Faust wasn't a physical fighter like him, so he had used his physique to overwhelm him. However, if there was another physical fighter like him here, the problem was that he had stamina problems. He just couldn't keep fighting as long as another expert because his techniques were just too draining on him. Even with the increased life energy that he got from his cultivation technique, it still didn't matter.

But this was the last place that he had to go to, so he had no choice but to go into the crypt.

Leaving a few puppets outside, they moved into the crypt, but it wasn't as small as they thought it would be.

The moment they went in though, the door immediately closed behind them and Brainy had lost all of its spiritual sense connections to the puppets outside.

Based on the sounds outside, it was a massacre and it definitely was a loss for Brainy since each of these rats had been beasts that it had found, so they weren't as easily replaced. Brainy had only chosen the best ones, so it would be hard to replace them, but there was nothing that Brainy could do.

It had tried sending out its spiritual senses, but the moment they touched the walls of the crypt, it was as if there was some special energy that repelled it and kept it inside. Brainy couldn't break through no matter how many times it tried.

So in the end, Brainy had no choice but to give up since each of these attempts did take quite a bit of energy from it.

After finally giving up, Brainy went into Lin Fan's sleeve to rest up and recover some spiritual sense.

As for the puppets that were at Lin Fan's feet, they didn't go limp as soon as Brainy cut off its spiritual sense connection. Rather, there was another spiritual sense that started controlling them, one that came from Lin Fan.

As Brainy's master, Lin Fan was naturally able to control the seeds that Brainy implanted into its puppets with his spiritual sense as well, but he was much weaker at controlling these puppets compared to Brainy. Whether it was the number of puppets he controlled, the distance that he could send them, or even the degree of controlling the movements, he was no match compared to Brainy.

But still, to use these puppets to scout this place out, he was still more than skilled enough.

After Brainy went into Lin Fan's sleeve, Lin Fan turned back to look at what was in front of him.

Mo Ze Chen had already gone forward while Lin Fan was talking to Brainy about the puppets outside and was already looking over what was in front of them.

This room was definitely much smaller than they had expected because this was nothing more than a simple room with one thing in it. The dimensions of the room were even much smaller than the dimensions of the building itself.

The one thing that was in front of them was a set of stairs that led further down into the crypt, but looking down the stairs, all they could see was darkness.

There weren't any windows in this room either, but they were able to see what was in this room because there were torches that were placed along the walls.

Lin Fan walked over to where Mo Ze Chen was and they both looked down into the darkness below them.