While everyone was talking, Fan Chuichang, head of the Treasury Court, strode into the Treasure Vault Branch and ordered his subordinates to shut the doors.
Then everyone noticed that something was amiss. They stopped talking one after another and looked at Fan Chuichang.
Fan Chuichang swept his gaze over the gathering, then turned toward the Eastern Sage Pavilion, bowed with clasped hands, and said, "I request sacred might."
The others hurriedly followed Fan Chuichang's lead, bowing with clasped hands toward the Eastern Sage Pavilion.
A wisp of autumn wind brushed past. They felt a chill across their bodies, and then everything returned to normal.
Afterward, Fan Chuichang said, "Everyone, the Eastern Sage has invoked the sacred might of Three Seals of Silence and imposed a gag order. I need not explain the implications. Time waits for no one. Please follow Void Sage Fang into the treasure vault."
Fan Chuichang quickly walked to Fang Yun's side, keeping half a step behind him as they moved forward.
More than three hundred people, along with a large number of Treasury Court personnel, followed them, holding their breath and keeping silent.
The Treasury Court clerks were all cautious in word and deed, but the distinguished experts who had come to appraise the treasures had weathered many storms and remained much as they usually were.
Soon, everyone entered the treasure vault.
This place was also a Literary World belonging to Sage Kong. Beyond the entrance lay an enormous plaza spanning a hundred li, which could be expanded further if necessary.
Even with nearly a thousand people standing there, it seemed immensely empty.
Around the plaza stood thousands upon thousands of densely packed white stone doorframes. The frames were plain and simple, and a pale blue curtain of light filled the space within each one.
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