Cultivation Pet Shop

If he didn't know better, Lin Fan would have thought that he had suddenly entered some kind of horror game.

After all, everything that was happening to him now was somewhat cliche of a horror game.

Perhaps he might have been scared as a human, but now that he was a cultivator, his mental state was much better than before, so all he felt at this moment was confusion.

Was this supposed to be the trial?

Could it be that the trial was a test of courage?

If it was, it really seemed dumb…

After all, cultivators dealt with things like ghosts and zombies frequently, so it wasn't as if they were scared of them like normal mortals were. Just this alone wouldn't have been enough to scare a cultivator like Lin Fan.

After making sure that there was nothing around him, Lin Fan continued forward again.

Once he walked another few meters, he suddenly started hearing someone's humming coming from the trees.

He naturally turned in the direction that the humming was coming from, but the moment he turned, the source of the humming also moved. Whenever he turned his head in the direction the humming was coming from, the humming would change to another spot.

No matter how hard he tried or how fast he turned his head, he could never keep up with the source of the humming.

Even when he tried using his spiritual sense, he wasn't able to find the source of the humming at all.

He had no choice but to ignore it for now and continue forward down the path.

Just like with the humming, as he continued down the path, there were more and more cliche horror tropes that appeared around him. He was certain now that this was a test of courage…

Finally after moving around a hundred meters away from where he started to hear the humming, when he went to take another step, there was something that suddenly grabbed his leg.

Looking down, Lin Fan saw that it was a hand that was sticking out of the ground.

A zombie, it was a zombie…

He really didn't know what to say about this anymore, it was just too cliche for him to comment on.

But he felt that this really wasn't enough to be considered a trial if this was all that there was.

Would a zombie scare a cultivator with powers?

It was more likely that the cultivator would blow the zombie's head off as soon as they saw it. After all, most cultivators had combat experience and they would just treat the zombie like a normal enemy.

However, that wasn't what Lin Fan did.

Instead, he watched as the zombie that grabbed his hand slowly came out of the ground, waiting for it to reveal its face.

In situations like this, it would normally be the face reveal that was the real shock.

After around a minute of waiting, the zombie finally pulled itself out enough to move around a bit. Once it was out, it turned its head to look at Lin Fan.

When Lin Fan saw the face of the zombie, he had a relaxed look, but that relaxed look didn't stay on his face for long.

The moment that he saw the zombie's face, his expression froze before it slowly started to crumble.

After all, the face that was revealed was one that Lin Fan was very familiar with. However, this shouldn't be a face that existed in this world since this person was from earth.

The zombie that was grabbing onto his leg was the zombie of his dead grandmother.

Lin Fan couldn't help panicking a bit as he shook the hand off his leg and took a step back.

As he did, there were other hands that suddenly came out of the ground in front of him.

Lin Fan realized his mistake and took a deep breath to calm down as he watched the other zombies come out of the ground.

One by one, the zombies revealed themselves and as he expected, they were people that he knew from earth.

It wasn't just anyone that he knew from earth, they were all people who had some place of importance in his heart when he had been back on earth.

For example, his parents, the other rich young masters he hung out with, or…his victims.

As they came out of the ground, they all started slowly moving towards him.

They weren't moving fast at all, rather it was a slow walk that was supposed to be menacing.

As they came closer, they started to mutter something. At first it was too low for Lin Fan to understand what they were saying, but as they came closer, the voices became louder and louder until Lin Fan could hear them clearly.

The zombies of his relatives and friends were talking about things that he had done in the past, while the zombies of his victims were cursing him for the wrongdoings he had done to them.

In short, these were all things that no one in this other world should have known.

So where did these zombies come from and how did they know all of this?

If this was before where Lin Fan had his soul still split, perhaps he would have panicked since he was more emotional. However, now that he had combined his soul together, his mental fortitude was actually greater than normal people's. After all, he had two souls that came together as one, so his soul was naturally stronger than normal people's.

Lin Fan calmly thought this over, but when he didn't have any explanations he turned to Brainy who had been in his sleeve.

But when he looked at Brainy, he found that there was something strange about her.

Brainy's eyes were a bit listless and a bit glazed over, like she couldn't see clearly.

But that wasn't all that was strange with Brainy.

From time to time, she muttered to herself, "Don't leave me…"

It was clear that she was seeing something that Lin Fan wasn't and it had quite the effect on her.

Lin Fan didn't reach out to shake her since he knew that it would be bad to disrupt her when she was like this.

But seeing what happened to Brainy along with the things that were around him, he started having an idea of what was happening around him.

It really was the trial, but it wasn't a test of courage like he had thought.

This should be a trial on mental fortitude, which meant that everything he saw around him should have been…an illusion.

This illusion array drew on his memories to create illusions, which was why it was able to show him things that only he should know. Or rather, it wasn't the array that was showing him things, it was his brain that was showing him these things and the array was just tapping into his brain to do this.

It was also why Brainy was seeing a different thing from him.

What was shown to each person was most likely the thing that they feared the most.

While he didn't know what exactly Brainy was seeing, he had an idea of what her biggest fear was.

Now that he had figured out what this trial was, Lin Fan couldn't help revealing a smile.

This was a trial that would have been hard for normal people, but for him, it was easy.

So after taking a deep breath, Lin Fan walked right towards those zombies.

The zombies didn't stop as they continued towards him, saying the same things as before, but this time, there was no contact made when he walked into them. Instead, he walked right through them as if they weren't there.

After he walked through them, the zombies all turned into smoke that dissipated right away.

The reason this happened was very simple.

These were illusions that had been created by Lin Fan's mind, which meant that they didn't exist in the first place. The only reason that they had been able to touch Lin Fan before was because he had believed that it was real.

If he believed that they were real, his body would react in such a way that would allow him to feel them if they were touching him.

But if he knew that they weren't actually there, it meant that the illusions wouldn't have an effect on him.

Lin Fan just continued forward down the path without stopping this time.

There were many different illusions that appeared in front of him, but he didn't slow down for a single second as he walked through them all.

No matter what scene he was shown, he just walked right through the illusions that appeared to stop him and once he went through them, they all dissipated into smoke.

Finally, after walking for around thirty minutes, Lin Fan was able to reach the end of the path which led to a clearing in the forest.

The moment that Lin Fan walked into the clearing, the light in Brainy's eyes suddenly came back and she peeked her head out of his sleeve to look around. Then she turned back to ask Lin Fan, "Master, what happened?"

Lin Fan explained the illusion array that had been used by the trial and Brainy immediately understood.

But for some reason, she seemed to be hanging more tightly around Lin Fan's arm.

Lin Fan didn't say anything as he turned forward, waiting for something to happen.

When he did, there was a hole that suddenly opened in the ground.