CHAPTER 639: CHAPTER 637: HOLY MANSION TREASURE VAULT! (4TH UPDATE)

After Murong Guan and others left.

"You all go back first and wait for me, I’m going to make a trip to the treasure vault, then I will come find you," Lin Fan said to Ye Yilin, Nangong Li, Mo Beiwei, and Ling Qionglan with a slight smile.

"Don’t make us wait too long."

Ye Yilin rolled her eyes at Lin Fan.

Following that.

She was the first to walk out of the great hall.

Seeing this, the other three women also deeply glanced at Lin Fan and followed out.

Lin Fan did not linger in the great hall, but went straight to the direction of the Holy Mansion’s treasure vault.

The location of the Treasure Vault of the Holy Mansion was already communicated to Lin Fan by Murong Guan.

Therefore.

Lin Fan soon arrived outside the treasure vault.

At first glance, before him lay a dark mountain range, which seemed completely unrelated to the treasure vault.

The mountain was not tall, only about a kilometer high, entirely pitch black.

Lin Fan swept over it with his Divine Sense.

Only then did he discover that this mountain range was actually a Mystic Iron Mountain!

A thousand-meter-high peak, entirely constructed from Mystic Iron.

Even Lin Fan wouldn’t dare claim he could smash open this Mystic Iron Mountain with brute force!

Not to mention, on this Mystic Iron Mountain, arrays were pulsating, flashing with various runes.

When Lin Fan came to the foot of the mountain, the voice of two old men flashed, almost stepping out of the void, instantly arriving in front of Lin Fan.

Their speed was so fast, it was as if they appeared out of nowhere!

With Lin Fan’s Divine Sense, he couldn’t even perceive how these two old men appeared in that instant.

"Who are you?" Lin Fan was truly surprised.

These two old men gave him an unfathomable feeling, unlike even Murong Guan and others of Ninth Rank Saint Lord’s cultivation, whose realms could be somewhat sensed by him; theirs were not unfathomable!

But these two old men in front of him gave Lin Fan the feeling of an abyss, inscrutable.

It was as if, before Lin Fan’s eyes, there was a bottomless sea trench, and upon looking over, he simply did not know what was inside the trench.

One of the elder men had a horse-face, with a cold expression and stern demeanor.

The other was grey-haired with a youthful appearance, resembling a kind and friendly old man, smiling warmheartedly.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" the horse-faced elder asked coldly, with a distancing manner.

"Young man, what is your name? What are you here for?" the grey-haired elder asked with a beaming smile.

Lin Fan did not delay in responding: "I am Lin Fan, the Pavilion Master Murong said I can come and take a look at the Holy Mansion Treasure Vault."

"You are Lin Fan?" the horse-faced elder squinted his eyes.

"Oh, so you are Lin Fan," the grey-haired elder smiled slightly and nodded: "We have already heard about you from Murong Guan, if it’s you, you can enter the Holy Mansion Treasure Vault and pick out three items to take with you!"

"Three items?" Lin Fan looked at the two men with skepticism: "Pavilion Master Murong seemed to have said that I can take as many items as I want!"

"What? Three items still not enough for you?" the horse-faced elder looked at Lin Fan coldly.

The grey-haired elder, however, smiled and said: "Young man, of course, you can take as many items as you like, but this vault is special, not like any ordinary vault, but another type of vault. If you take more than three items, I’m afraid you won’t be able to leave."

"Another type of vault?" Lin Fan was somewhat surprised.

"Yes, if it was an ordinary vault, even if you emptied it, there would be no problem, but this vault is different, it has only been opened seventeen times since the foundation of the Holy Mansion!" said the grey-haired elder.

"Seventeen times? Including the time the Holy Mansion was located on the Divine Wind Continent?" Lin Fan was truly astonished.

After leaving the Divine Wind Continent, the Holy Mansion had been floating in the void for at least a million years.

If one were to also consider the time the Holy Mansion spent on the Divine Wind Continent, Lin Fan guessed that the history of the Holy Mansion was at least over two million years.

Two million years, and the vault was only opened seventeen times?

An average of once every hundred thousand years?

"Of course that includes you." The horse-faced elder nodded coldly, "Stop the chatter. If you want to enter, we will open it immediately, otherwise, leave at once and don’t linger here!"

"Are you ready to enter the treasure vault?" The crane-haired, youthful-faced elder asked.

"I’m ready." Lin Fan nodded, not bothering to argue with the horse-faced elder.

"Good! Then we will open the treasure vault." The horse-faced elder nodded coldly, his demeanor chilly throughout.

In Lin Fan’s presence, the two activated an Array.

"Clang!"

The Mystic Iron Mountain in front of them trembled violently.

Then.

Suddenly, a black iron gate appeared behind the two elders, and the world beyond the gate was pitch-dark.

Lin Fan probed with his Divine Sense, but was blocked from entering.

"Is it safe inside the Emperor Jade?" Lin Fan stood at the entrance, asking via transmission.

"It’s safe, go ahead." A lazy voice from the Emperor Jade came through.

Lin Fan hesitated no further and stepped through the iron gate.

"Clang!"

After Lin Fan entered, the sound echoed again from behind him, and the place where the iron gate appeared vanished without a trace, as if it had never been there.

The horse-faced elder and the crane-haired youthful-faced elder looked at each other, wordless.

After a second of silence.

Suddenly.

The crane-haired youthful-faced elder spoke, "Do you think he could be the one?"

The horse-faced elder said, "I don’t know."

"Do you think it could be him?" After a pause, the crane-haired youthful-faced elder continued.

"I don’t know." The horse-faced elder shook his head.

The crane-haired youthful-faced elder frowned and laughed, "I think it might be him, after all, the last time this vault’s gate was opened was a million years ago!"

Silence.

A deep silence.

After a moment.

The horse-faced elder eventually spoke, asking, "Why do you think it’s him?"

"Just a hunch." The crane-haired youthful-faced elder nodded.

"Your hunches are never accurate!" The horse-faced elder shook his head, "But I do hope it’s him... after all, I quite like the kid!"

As he spoke, the horse-faced elder laughed.

He laughed brilliantly, the coldness on his face disappearing without a trace.

"Oh, so you can laugh! I thought you would keep that expression all your life, right up until you were in the coffin!" The crane-haired youthful-faced elder was taken aback and shook his head.

"I just choose not to laugh, not that I can’t." The horse-faced elder’s expression turned cold again, "I’m going to rest now. This kid will probably be in there for a while!"

As his words fell.

The figure of the horse-faced elder flickered, then gradually faded into the Void, disappearing without a trace, as if he had never been there!

......

......

At this moment.

Lin Fan had already entered the Mystic Iron Mountain, and the scenery around him was very surprising.

All around was an endless starry sky with a dazzling river of stars, sun, moon, and stars twinkling all around Lin Fan!

"Where is this?" Lin Fan widened his eyes, utterly astonished, "A whole universe?"