CHAPTER 640: CHAPTER 638: IT HASN’T BEEN LONG, ABOUT 6 BILLION YEARS! (FIRST UPDATE)

At first glance, the surroundings were filled with various suns, moons, and stars.

Countless stars twinkled uncertainly in the void.

And Lin Fan’s position was right at the center of these celestial bodies.

"Emperor Jade, what’s going on? Have I been transported into the universe?" Lin Fan asked through telepathy.

"This is an Illusion Realm, not real. In fact, you’re still within Mystic Iron Mountain. It’s just that the magnetic field of Mystic Iron Mountain has induced a hallucination, making you see a universe!" Emperor Jade’s voice came into Lin Fan’s mind.

"Illusion Realm?" Lin Fan’s heart stirred.

The next second.

A strange light flickered in his eyes!

Lin Fan directly employed the Emperor’s Eye Divine Ability!

As expected.

The surrounding environment crumbled with a bang, just like a mirror shattered by Lin Fan’s casual strike, completely turning into nothingness!

At the moment the Illusion Realm was broken, outside of Mystic Iron Mountain, the horse-faced elder and the crane-haired, youthful-faced elder hidden in the void opened their eyes at the same time.

Shock filled both of their eyes!

"He broke the Illusion Realm so quickly?" The horse-faced elder exclaimed in horror.

"Impossible! How much time has passed? From his entrance into Mystic Iron Mountain to breaking the Illusion Realm, altogether, hasn’t it been less than thirty breaths? How could it be so fast!" The crane-haired, youthful-faced elder couldn’t believe it.

Shock!

Utter shock!

The horse-faced elder asked, "Among the seventeen people before Lin Fan, how long did the fastest person take to break the Illusion Realm?"

"Hmm..." The crane-haired, youthful-faced elder pondered before slowly saying, "One year and seven months!"

"And the slowest?"

"Three thousand nine hundred years!" The crane-haired, youthful-faced elder continued.

The horse-faced elder’s face became stern, and he said in a deep voice, "If I remember correctly, the slowest person to break the Illusion Realm... it seems... entered that world later? And the fastest person was..."

At this point, the horse-faced elder stopped and said no more.

"Precisely!" The crane-haired, youthful-faced elder also had a grave expression.

"This Lin Fan... is no ordinary individual! His future achievements could very well surpass the first Pavilion Master! After all, the first Pavilion Master once said that if someone could inherit his mantle, they could become the master of Mystic Iron Mountain. Lin Fan... Lin Fan..." The horse-faced elder muttered to himself.

...

Meanwhile.

Deep within Mystic Iron Mountain, Lin Fan continued to move forward.

The surroundings were pitch-black corridors that seemed endless.

Inside, Lin Fan could not feel the passage of time at all.

Time here seemed to have stopped completely.

The whole Mystic Iron Mountain, seen from the outside, was only a kilometer high. With Lin Fan’s speed, he could circle Mystic Iron Mountain a dozen times in just two or three breaths.

But.

The space inside Mystic Iron Mountain was just too vast.

"Emperor Jade, how long have I been walking here?" Lin Fan frowned.

"About ten days have passed inside Mystic Iron Mountain," Emperor Jade said.

"What? Ten days have passed? Wouldn’t that delay my journey to the Divine Wind Continent?" Lin Fan was somewhat surprised. He felt that a long time had passed, but he did not expect it to have been ten days all of a sudden.

Emperor Jade continued, "However, in the outside world, less than half an hour has actually passed."

"Eh? You’re saying that ten days have passed inside Mystic Iron Mountain, but only half an hour has passed outside?" Lin Fan was somewhat surprised; by Earth’s calculation, half an hour is one hour.

Inside Mystic Iron Mountain, ten days only equal one hour outside?

A difference of two hundred and forty times?

"Yes." Emperor Jade took the form of a young girl and appeared in Lin Fan’s mind, nodding slightly.

"This Mystic Iron Mountain is extraordinary, able to obstruct time and space; the flow of time inside is different from outside! Little Fan Fan, have you heard of black holes?"

"Heard of them." Lin Fan nodded.

"On your Earth, physicists have studied that black holes are celestial bodies with infinitely large mass. The closer one gets to a black hole, the slower time passes. If a person is inside a black hole, time approaches zero. Mystic Iron Mountain is just the opposite, although it’s not as absurd as a black hole, it’s clear that time inside Mystic Iron Mountain flows much faster than the outside!" Emperor Jade explained.

Lin Fan furrowed his brows.

"Of course, this ’much faster’ does not mean that time inside Mystic Iron Mountain is shorter; it is still the same as the outside, where one day is twelve two-hour periods, or twenty-four hours; it’s just that... the interior of Mystic Iron Mountain and the outside are not in the same time-space. A difference of two hundred and forty times means that if you stay inside Mystic Iron Mountain for two hundred and forty years, in the outside world only one year would have passed!" Emperor Jade further explained.

As if afraid that Lin Fan couldn’t understand, Emperor Jade continued: "For instance, take a newborn baby; if you take him into Mystic Iron Mountain and stay there for a hundred years, the baby would have become an old man on the verge of death. Then, if you take this old man out of Mystic Iron Mountain, in the external world, only three or four months would have actually passed!"

"That baby would have become an old man, but his parents outside would still be young!"

"Do I look that dumb that you need to explain it like this?" Lin Fan was somewhat speechless.

"Needed."

Emperor Jade nodded proudly.

Lin Fan rolled his eyes.

Ignoring Emperor Jade.

There was silence for a few seconds.

"If that’s really the case, then Mystic Iron Mountain truly is a treasure. As long as one brings enough cultivation resources, one can cultivate inside Mystic Iron Mountain. Spending tens of thousands of years cultivating there, only a few hundred years would pass by in the outside world. By then, who could stand against me?" Lin Fan thought excitedly.

If it’s really like that, what genius, what prodigy, would still be his match?

"In theory, it’s feasible. However, can you endure cultivating for tens of thousands of years?" Emperor Jade nodded and cheekily asked.

"Of course not! I’m not some cultivation maniac, how could I possibly cultivate for tens of thousands of years?" Lin Fan decisively shook his head.

Afterward.

Lin Fan continued forward, walking for approximately one day’s time.

Finally, a light appeared ahead.

It was a huge square, and above the square hovered countless ancient weapons, including damaged Ancient Bells and broken bronze swords...

Knives, spears, swords, halberds...

Pagodas, Big Seals, Heavy Rulers...

All kinds of weapons, everything you could think of!

"So many weapons... What’s going on? And looking at the aura of these artifacts, their grades are not low at all! But it seems like they are all destroyed, lacking divinity!" Lin Fan’s brows furrowed; the quality of any of these weapons seemed not to be inferior to the Xuanyuan Sword.

But.

They are all damaged!

Lin Fan felt it was such a pity.

"These are weapons from before ancient times, having missed an epoch..." Emperor Jade’s voice was likewise somewhat surprised.

"An epoch? How long is that?" Lin Fan was startled and skeptically asked.

"Not that long, just about six billion years," Emperor Jade answered nonchalantly.

"Pfft!"

Lin Fan nearly spat out a mouthful of blood and exclaimed in shock: "What the heck! How... How long? Six billion years? Are you joking? Earth itself was only formed around four and a half billion years ago! Are you saying these weapons are older than Earth itself?"