The immortal pond was about ten feet long and half a foot wide. It was unknown what material it was made of, but multicolored light shone from within. The essence of heaven and earth was so thick that it couldn't be dispersed. It became liquid and gathered in the pond.
Ye Fan opened his heavenly eyes and his expression froze on the spot. He saw the 'hope' of becoming an immortal. His expression changed and he didn't say anything for a long time.
"It's this!"
This was a bronze artifact. It was dark and lusterless as it quietly sank to the bottom of the pond. There were all kinds of patterns engraved on it. There were birds, beasts, fish, insects, the sun, moon, and stars, but they were all blurry.
This was a cauldron!
It wasn't complete and was badly damaged. There was less than a third of the original artifact left. The three legs were still there, but the circular cauldron walls were almost gone. There was even a large hole at the bottom of the cauldron.
"Green cauldron … It's this!" Ye Fan's eyes shone brightly.
If this cauldron was intact, it would be at least a meter tall. It was simple and natural, and its entire body was mottled with imprints. It was made of the same material as the two pieces of green copper on him.
Ye Fan was stunned for a long time. It wasn't that he didn't think of this possibility. Before entering the land of immortal ascension, he had speculated about it and thought of all kinds of possibilities. But when he saw it with his own eyes, he was still stunned.
"The hope of becoming an immortal is actually this!"
He muttered to himself, his heart incomparably shocked. He finally saw the true body. The thing that carried the hopes of countless people from past to present was now right in front of him.
Ye Fan's emotions were quite complicated. He had searched for it with a narrow escape, countless heroes from past to present had chased after it across the starry sky, and one day, he would see the main body. This made him feel as if it was unreal.
"Yes, the one that the Yuhua God Dynasty is supposed to be escorting is this!"
In the Big Dipper Star Region, there were ancient records that the Yuhua God Dynasty ruled the world more than two hundred thousand years ago. They once had a green cauldron.
After many years, the Central Plains Ancestral Temple appeared and all kinds of secrets were spread out. All the heroes of the world, including the ancient races, were alarmed. They all flocked over to fight for the supreme treasure.
Among them, the various ancient royal families went specifically for this green cauldron. It was because it was too important and all races wanted it.
When Ye Fan left, a storm gathered in Central Continent's ancestral temple. All of the world's heroes rose up together. A great battle was going to take place, and the main reason was precisely to fight over this ancient cauldron.
"With so many heroes appearing, even the Primordial King couldn't remain calm. Even the Great Sage Huntuo personally arrived …"
No matter what, none of them would have expected that the green cauldron wasn't in Central Continent's ancestral temple, but rather on this side of the starry sky. It had already been placed here more than two hundred thousand years ago, undergoing restoration.
"No wonder the two pieces of copper shook a little when I returned to Earth several years ago," Ye Fan said to himself. He had such a real feeling at that time. When he descended from the outer realms, apart from seeing many towering mountains, the strangest thing was that the green copper had trembled, which made him feel strange.
Ye Fan's eyes shone brightly as he stared at the bottom of the immortal pond. This was an immortal cauldron that had existed for tens of thousands of years, the heaviest since the ancient times. Its true value simply couldn't be measured.
Just the opportunity to become an immortal was enough to make people go crazy. Even the great ancient emperors would take action for it. Once news of this got out, the vast starry sky would find it hard to calm down. Great battles would break out because of it.
"Endless years, endless starry sky, how many prosperity and decline, how much decay and prosperity, from one ancient star to another …" Ye Fan let out a long sigh.
All of this was too mysterious and dreamy. Since the ancient times, how many heroes were involved in this? There were too many secrets hidden within, and it was filled with blood, bones, and tears.
This land of immortal incubation originated from ancient times, at least several million years ago. It involved the Primordial Emperor and the great emperor, but even more secrets couldn't be explained clearly no matter what.
Ye Fan pondered. He could sort out some clues, but if he wanted to truly trace back to the source and sort out the various ancient eras, it was simply impossible.
At the beginning, it should have originated from the Celestial Court. This era was extremely ancient, and it should be before the archaic era, or even more ancient. They were the ones who designed everything.
"I don't know if there were immortals in the Ancient Heaven, but they firmly believed that immortals could be born this way, so they laid down a grand blueprint …"
The Ancient Heaven was incomparably powerful. The fact that it could control the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains to descend from one ancient star to another was enough to explain the problem. It didn't hesitate to destroy many sources of life.
Among them, there were even a few other ancient emperors. This was because Ye Fan had discovered from the layout of the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains and the layout of the land of immortal ascension in Kunlun that there should have been an Origin Emperor!
He deduced from this that the period was extremely prosperous, and the great emperors could coexist and meet. It was also because of this that the Celestial Court was supreme and powerful.
Ye Fan had reason to believe that the Origin Emperor could move the sun, moon, stars, and mountains. He should have been one of the main architects of the grand blueprint, and had invested a great deal of effort into it.
Unfortunately, their plan was too long, and many of them couldn't wait for the results. During this period, the Venerable Emperor died, the gods of the various regions fell into chaos, the Celestial Court collapsed, and the Celestial Cauldron was obtained by the victor.
It was just that it was unknown whether the person who obtained the cauldron had become an immortal. This was because that period of time was too ancient, and there was no way to judge it. Even the ancient books didn't record it.
However, one could imagine that it was a magnificent period. Many world-shaking battles must have taken place, and many glorious events must have taken place.
After that, the major events that followed could be interpreted through the peerless characters of each period.
From what the monkey and the Heavenly Prince had said, as well as the secrets spread by the ancient races, it could be seen that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had obtained the green cauldron and had a great breakthrough. He was revered as a supreme god by the myriad races.
It was rumored that the Undying Heavenly Emperor wanted to reestablish the Celestial Court, but he gave up in the end. This in itself was enough to explain some problems.
"It's hard to say what period the Undying Heavenly Emperor was from. The myriad races of the ancient times all revered him, and it was said that he was from the Immemorial Era, or even longer."
Ye Fan even guessed that the unknown period after the collapse of the Celestial Court was the period of the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and he was the victor in the chaos of the gods. He might have seen the Venerable Emperor and was the one who obtained the Celestial Cauldron after the Venerable Emperor's death.
From the Venerable Emperor's death to the collapse of the Celestial Court, and then to the period of the Undying Heavenly Emperor, it was difficult to verify. Perhaps even the great ancient emperors had no way to understand. After all, it was too far away.
After that, it was the vast and resplendent Immemorial Era. The Sun Saint Emperor of the Ziwei Ancient Star Field must have seen the Celestial Cauldron, because Ye Fan had encountered his divine will in the star field. When that single-armed old man saw the damaged green copper, he was shocked and said that it was actually broken.
It could be imagined that the Celestial Cauldron was still intact during the era when the Sun Saint Emperor was revered by all the regions. And in the following period, there must have been a great upheaval!
Regarding this catastrophe, there were rumors among the ten thousand ancient races, but it was difficult to explain clearly because the level involved was too high. Even a royal race like the Valley of Gods couldn't fully understand it.
Back then, during the battle between Ye Fan and Wang Teng at the Ji Family, he took out a black gourd. The young master of the Valley of Gods, Zi Tian, and his sister were shocked. They vaguely guessed that the black gourd was an artifact that was preserved from the war of the gods, and its shape was the same as the one recorded in some ancient divine texts.
From this, it could be inferred that the scale and terror of the war of the gods almost destroyed the Immemorial Era and wiped out all the races.
Ye Fan had consulted others and even learned about it from the ancient races. That catastrophe was far more terrifying than people could imagine, and it was not much different from the legendary collapse of the Celestial Court.
That was a war of the gods!
"Oh, it seems like the Celestial Cauldron was destroyed during that period and scattered everywhere."
There were many things that could be investigated afterwards. Several forbidden regions of the Big Dipper Star Domain were born, including the Divine Ruins and the Immortal Mausoleum.
Later on, the Divine Race Ridge, the Blood Phoenix Mountain, the Fire Qilin Cave, and other ancient emperors ruled the world one after another. This period ended when the Emperor of Fighting passed away in meditation during the last years of the Immemorial Era.
After that, there was a gap in history and it was difficult to say for sure. The Undying Mountain and the others should have appeared during this period or a bit later. Even though there were such forbidden regions in the Immemorial Era with different names, it was only during this period that they were truly occupied and turned into a place that no one could set foot in.
After that, there was another blank period. It was difficult to know for sure, and it was a long period of time during the Primordial Era.
Ye Fan was in a daze. This Celestial Cauldron ran through the entire ancient history and involved countless ancient stars. It had started from the Ancient Heaven and had yet to end!
Of course, it was difficult to verify what existed before the Ancient Heaven and the similar glorious eras of the later star domains. Perhaps there were even more extraordinary artifacts than the Celestial Cauldron.
Whoosh!
Immortal light surged, submerging the pond again. Ye Fan's eyes flickered with radiance. This was the essence of heaven and earth. It turned into divine liquid here and nourished the Celestial Cauldron.
He snapped back to reality, his heart filled with endless emotions. This cauldron was related to too much, spanning through the past and present. Many great historical events were related to it.
"Do immortals really exist in this world? Among those who obtained this cauldron, did any of them achieve immortality?" He didn't know. It was shrouded in layers of mystery. The passage of time was too long.
At the same time, he thought of Great Emperor Wu Shi. It seemed like he didn't rely on anything, yet he still reached the peak. Only, he didn't know if he ascended eighty thousand years ago, or if he forcefully broke through the great gates of Immortal Domain.
Longma drank the divine water in the immortal pond with gudong gudong sounds. Komatsu was extremely quiet, obediently sitting on the side, not disturbing Ye Fan, allowing him to quietly think.
"The universe is vast and boundless. A few incomparably glorious ancient stars once appeared. If my guess is not wrong, the Celestial Court only controlled one of these regions for a period of time."
Ye Fan muttered to himself. Because the Celestial Cauldron was the witness of the Celestial Court, it ran through the past, present, and future of this supreme Celestial Court.
However, as far as he knew, there was at least a Tower of Desolation that could be mentioned in the same breath as the green cauldron. Moreover, it had not been destroyed to this day!
This was not a product of the Celestial Court, so it was not within the scope of what he had just thought.
At the very least, Ye Fan didn't know that it was an expanse of primal chaos. It was hard to guess its origins, which star regions it ran through, and how long it had been.
There was no way to deduce its origin and why it ended up in the Big Dipper Star Region.
At the same time, he thought of the immortal treasure ancient scroll. The front was a vast star chart, while the back had three regions. The land of immortal ascension was only one of them.
"It's been too long. I've only sorted out a few periods regarding the Celestial Cauldron. Compared to the vast universe, it's insignificant."
"The Milky Way is called the Imperial Star. Could it be that the Celestial Court originated from that star region?"
"It's hard to see the end of the ancient star system. The Huosang Star is full of the Golden Crow Race, and the Tongtian Star is full of the Celestial Race … was it within the scope of the Celestial Court's rule back then?"
The more Ye Fan thought about it, the more he felt his head hurt. The long years, the ancient history, the endless universe, there were too many secrets. Ancient Heaven might just be a corner of it.
"Are there immortals who transcend beyond this starry sky? Is there really a monstrous and dazzling world that belongs to immortals?"
This was the question he was most concerned about. But after thinking through the past and present, he became silent after sorting out some of his thoughts. This was because there had never been any proof that immortals could become immortals.
"Splash!"
The divine liquid in the celestial pool splashed everywhere. Ye Fan let out a soft sigh and began to fish out the cauldron in the celestial pool. He said, "If there are no immortals, then I will walk a path of immortal ascension."
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