Ruins Within the Sacred Mountain of the Ancient Strange Mountain Range, and Lin Feng's Curiosity!

Lin Junyu naturally had no idea about Lin Feng's little schemes—he was eyeing his robot guard.

However, he could tell from Lin Feng's behavior that he was up to no good.

For example, right now, Lin Feng kept hovering around Lin Yun, constantly fussing over her.

"Big Sis Yun, isn't the pack on your back heavy? How about I carry it for you!"

"Big Sis Yun, we've been walking for so long. Aren't you thirsty? I have water here. It seems like you haven't had any water the whole way!"

Watching Lin Feng buzz around like an annoying fly, Lin Junyu felt that he had talked more than anyone else throughout the journey.

"Hey, Little Feng, I'm tired from carrying things too, and I'm a little thirsty. How about you carry something for me and let me have some water from that flask in your hand?"

"You? What does a grown man like you have to be tired about? If you're thirsty, don't you have water in your own bag? Get it yourself!"

Seeing Lin Feng's blatant double standard, Lin Junyu's mouth twitched.

After traveling for an entire day, the group finally arrived at the foot of the sacred mountain.

"We'll climb up from this foothill tomorrow. We should reach our destination then!"

Lin Junyu led Lin Feng around the base of the mountain, searching for the route to their destination.

"Where exactly are we going? You can tell me now, can't you?"

"An ancient civilization's ruins!"

Since they had already arrived, Lin Junyu did not hide it from him anymore.

"Ancient civilization? What ancient civilization?"

Lin Feng looked utterly confused.

"You'll know when you get there with me. Also, I'm warning you—don't get any ideas about my guard. There's no future between you two!"

After being lectured by Lin Junyu, Lin Feng gradually calmed down.

The next day, the three of them bid farewell to the group and set out alone to climb the snowy mountain.

With more than two hundred years' worth of inner strength empowering him, Lin Junyu was already invincible in the world. Mere cold could not even break through his defenses.

Lin Yun could not feel temperature at all.

Only Lin Feng—though merely eighteen years old, he had already made a name for himself among the Empire's younger generation, and his strength was widely recognized.

Yet when it came to climbing such a snow-covered mountain, he still encountered tremendous difficulties.

Looking at the two people ahead of him, who did not even seem out of breath and appeared completely unaffected by the cold, Lin Feng was truly convinced.

He did not know how much time had passed. Lin Feng followed behind them in a daze, and as they climbed higher, his strength gradually gave out while the cold invaded his entire body. He endured purely through willpower.

"Whew! We're here! This is the place!"

"Huh? W-We're here?"

Shivering, Lin Feng asked in a stammer.

He rubbed his hands together. Frost covered his eyes and beard, his eyes were narrowed, and he looked as though he might fall asleep at any moment.

Seeing how miserable he looked, Lin Junyu immediately sent some inner strength into him.

At once, Lin Feng felt warmth spread through his body. It was incredibly comfortable, and his spirits quickly recovered.

"Huh? Light Ripple Art?"

Feeling the inner strength entering his body merge perfectly with his own, Lin Feng sensed it carefully.

The inner strength Lin Junyu had transmitted was precisely the inner strength cultivated through the Light Ripple Art.

This was a cultivation technique that only those with pure Imperial royal blood could practice.

Could it be...? Was he a descendant of the surviving eleventh-generation Emperor?

The current royal family no longer possessed any bloodline capable of cultivating this technique.

At that thought, the wariness in his gaze toward Lin Junyu vanished.

Judging from this cultivation technique, their ancestors must have been one family. Lin Junyu was his brother.

Thus, he looked at Lin Junyu, who was continuously feeling along the snowy wall ahead, with burning eyes.

Lin Junyu kept probing and knocking against the enormous ice wall before him. The map provided by the system had marked it clearly—this was Ancient Civilization Ruins No. 1.

"Both of you, move back. I'm going to blast apart this entire ice wall!"

Lin Junyu had the two of them retreat, then circulated the powerful inner strength within his body and thrust a palm forward with all his might.

The immense force made the air itself tremble, sending violent ripples through it.

Then, as the enormous palm force struck the ice wall, cracks began appearing across its surface.

Once the number of cracks reached a certain point, the entire ice wall gave off a thunderous cracking sound and exploded outward in all directions.

After the ice wall shattered, a tightly sealed steel gate was revealed behind it.

The iron gate was tall and majestic, filled with the metallic texture of advanced technology.

Lin Junyu was no stranger to this; he had seen it many times before.

Lin Feng, standing beside him, was deeply shaken. He could not make sense of the material this enormous iron gate was made from.

But he was certain that none of the weapons currently available could break through it.

Unable to believe it, Lin Feng walked up to the iron gate and began touching it with both hands, feeling its hardness and weight.

Just as he marveled at the precision of its construction material, a red laser suddenly appeared above the gate and swiftly swept over Lin Feng.

It gave Lin Feng quite a scare. He felt as though someone had examined him inside and out.

"What was that just now?"

Lin Feng asked in amazement. That red beam had been far too strange.

"Don't be nervous. It was only a scan required to open the gate. You have to be the owner of this place or someone with access authorization to enter. If you try to force your way in, there's only one outcome: death!"

"A scan? You need authorization to get in? I've never even been here before. How could I possibly be qualified to enter? Sigh, looks like we came here for nothing again!"

The moment Lin Feng heard that authorization was required to enter, he immediately sighed.

He had only found this place under Lin Junyu's guidance, and his family had no records of it whatsoever. So he probably was not qualified to enter.

He was still very curious about what lay beyond the gate. He could not even understand the material used to construct the gate itself, so whatever was inside was bound to be even more intriguing.

"Just wait and see! Since I brought you here, I can definitely get you inside!"

After undergoing the scan, Lin Junyu returned and patted Lin Feng on the shoulder reassuringly.

"I hope so!"

The three of them waited at the iron gate for a while. Then, a female voice suddenly came from above it.

"Scan approved. Welcome home, Sequence One!"

The dust-sealed gate opened, and one light after another flickered on within the dim passageway beyond, illuminating the entire road ahead.

"I can't believe it really opened! This is incredible. I actually have authorization to enter this place, and that voice even called me some kind of Sequence One. What is Sequence One?"

Lin Feng found it utterly incredible. This place, which seemed to have nothing to do with him, actually had a connection not only to him, but even to his family. It was truly shocking!

He felt as though he had been brought into an era that did not belong to him. The world ahead was unfamiliar and mysterious, perhaps from the age when the continent had been buried away.

And the one who had brought him into this era was Lin Junyu, who seemed to share the same bloodline as him.

"Come on, let's go in first! As for your questions, you'll have to explore the answers yourself!"

Lin Junyu took the lead, walking forward with Lin Yun.

Watching the two of them leave, another question arose in Lin Feng's mind.

"Why can Sister Yun come in too? She didn't undergo a scan just now!"

"Are you some kind of curious baby? Enough already, hurry up!"

Lin Yun had been created by him using technology left behind by an ancient civilization. Her identity had already been recognized as friendly by the system.

"Oh, I'm coming!"

Lin Feng immediately ran inside and caught up with the two of them.

After the three entered, the gate closed again.

Only Lin Feng's incessant questions echoed through the passageway.

"Brother Lin, was that Light Ripple Art you used on me just now? Why do you know a cultivation technique that only the royal family can practice?"

"And why do you know so much? How did you even know there was a ruin like this in the deepest part of the Ancient Strange Mountain Range?"

"Say something to me. I'm really curious!"

"You're not curious!"

"I am curious!"

"You're not curious!"

"I really am curious, Brother Lin!"

The passageway was filled only with Lin Junyu's increasingly exasperated voice and Lin Feng's endless stream of questions.