Ye Fan and Dumbo returned to the stone village, and in the days that followed, he earnestly learned the Source Seeking Technique from the elders in the village.
At the same time, he was actively preparing to enter the Purple Mountain. He had to understand everything about it.
"You're asking so many questions. Don't tell me you still want to enter the Purple Mountain?" In the past few days, Ye Fan had been asking about the Purple Mountain. Zhang Wuye frowned and said, "You really shouldn't take the risk, or you'll only lose your life."
"Don't you want to find the Original Heavenly Tome?" Ye Fan smiled.
"I naturally don't want to lose the inheritance of something left behind by our ancestors, but what can I do? That ancestor didn't listen to our teachings a thousand years ago and used it to break into the Purple Mountain. It never returned, and it's difficult to retrieve."
According to Zhang Wuye, the Original Heavenly Tome was a spiritual item that could be used as a weapon.
"If you tell me the details of the past, I might be able to find the Original Heavenly Tome."
Zhang Wuye shook his head. "You've done our village a great favor, and I don't want you to throw away your life."
"I have a way to protect myself. Don't worry."
No matter how he tried to persuade him, Zhang Wuye was against taking the risk.
Five days later, Ye Fan arrived at an ancient mine about fifty kilometers away from the stone village. This was where Big Beard Chen and the others had found the ancient jade.
Since the ancient jade was related to the Purple Mountain, he naturally had to investigate it.
The place was desolate with no signs of human habitation. The ancient mine was eerie and had been abandoned for who knew how many years, and there was a musty smell coming from inside.
It was a huge mine like a sinkhole. The underground was pitch-black and bottomless, and one would feel a little scared just standing there.
"Could it be evil?"
The mine was extremely quiet without a single sound. Ye Fan went down a thousand meters before reaching the bottom. He could not help but be surprised. This was a huge vein of ore, and it was truly rare. In the past, a large amount of Source Qi must have been dug out.
Unfortunately, everything had been covered in dust since the primordial era, and there would not be any rare Source Qi left behind.
Kacha!
A sound came from beneath his feet as he stepped on a skeleton. It was probably someone who had died in the past hundred years, and not a corpse left behind from ancient times.
The enormous ancient mine was full of blade and axe traces, all of them left behind by predecessors, recording the blood and tears of the past Origin Gatherers.
"Whoever left the ancient jade here must have an extraordinary identity. It's impossible for them to appear here for no reason."
Ye Fan soon arrived at the place where the ancient jade was found, but there was nothing special about it. He searched for two hours, and then continued to move forward, wanting to explore the deepest part of the ancient mine.
After walking for a full five thousand meters underground, there was still no end. This huge mine seemed to lead to the netherworld, pitch-black and silent.
After walking another three thousand meters, Ye Fan couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air. The Ancient Mine was eight thousand meters long, yet they still hadn't reached the end. What kind of concept was this?
Ordinary mines were only a few hundred meters long, but this mine was abnormally huge. He felt that it was impossible for it to be a single source vein. There should be many mines that had been dug through.
But why was there only one exit?
"If this is a huge Origin Vein, then it might be the legendary Dragon Vein …" Ye Fan was shocked. In other words, this place might have nurtured some Divine Origin before.
Obviously, many people had come here after the Primordial Age and left behind many traces.
After walking for a full ten thousand meters, Ye Fan finally reached the end. He heard the sound of water splashing.
There was no path ahead, only a deep hole straight down. The sound of water was coming from there.
Ye Fan looked down and felt that the underground river was very cold. It was like a blunt knife scraping his flesh, making his skin hurt.
"Strange …"
He thought for a moment, and then jumped in with a splash, moving forward in the underground river.
The river water was bone-chilling. He used divine power to protect himself, but still felt cold. After walking for about a dozen miles, there were no longer any blade and axe marks left by mining.
Ye Fan gritted his teeth and continued forward. He found an abnormal phenomenon. The direction of the underground river didn't change. It went straight forward for another ten miles, and it was still the same.
In the end, he followed the underground river for a total of forty to fifty miles before he finally stopped.
Because at this moment, he felt great danger. There was a funnel-like black hole in front of him. All the underground river flowed into it as if it could never be filled up.
For some reason, after arriving here, Ye Fan shivered. The funnel-like black hole in front of him seemed to be able to swallow his mind. He felt his hair stand on end.
"This is not a good place. I came here for the ancient jade. I want to enter the Purple Mountain. I don't need to take risks here."
Ye Fan didn't want to go deep into the huge black hole. He returned along the original path of the underground river. Only when he reappeared in the ancient mine did he sigh in relief.
"Ah!" At this moment, Ye Fan was suddenly surprised. He thought of something and said to himself, "Could it be …"
He quickly rushed out of the ancient mine that was ten thousand meters long and one thousand meters deep. He came to the surface, confirmed the direction of the underground river, and ran on the ground.
After rushing out for dozens of miles, which was the corresponding end of the underground river, Ye Fan was shocked.
In front of him, a desolate mountain ridge lay across the blood-colored earth, blocking the way. It was like a young dragon, winding and lofty.
With the Purple Mountain as the center, there were nine mountain ridges in all directions. This was one of them.
"What a great work!" Ye Fan sighed. The surrounding dozens of miles, even close to a hundred miles, were all related to the Purple Mountain.
Ye Fan had flown up to the sky to observe more than once. The nine mountain ridges all faced the Purple Mountain in a regular pattern.
He pondered for a moment and returned to the stone stronghold. He carved the Purple Mountain and the nine mountain ridges according to a certain proportion on the cowhide and handed it to Zhang Wuye. He asked, "Is there anything particular about this mountain landscape?"
Although Zhang Wuye lived here, he was only a mortal. It was impossible for him to stand high in the sky like Ye Fan and take in everything.
When he saw the clear topographical map, he stood up in shock and said, "This is … You actually saw through it."
"So you know everything?"
"My ancestor saw the extraordinariness of the Purple Mountain because of these nine mountain ridges." Zhang Wuye spread out the cowhide and said, "Take a look. What does this look like?"
"I can't tell what it looks like, but I feel that the arrangement is very symmetrical. The nine mountain ridges all face the Purple Mountain at the center."
"These are nine dragon veins, surrounding and protecting a pearl!"
Ye Fan was somewhat speechless. How were these nine mountain ridges like dragons? The Purple Mountain stood tall and straight like a great iron sword. It didn't look like a pearl at all.
"You haven't cultivated the Book of Origin, so you naturally wouldn't think in this direction. This is indeed a dragon vein, with nine dragons surrounding and protecting a pearl!"
"What's so particular about this?" Ye Fan asked.
"It's too particular. The Book of Origin has detailed records, but I only know a little bit of it. This kind of 'general power' has endless mysteries."
Ye Fan's expression changed, "What is it?"
"My ancestor once said that the nine dragons surrounding and protecting a pearl contains the extreme mysteries of the world's changes!"
"What is so special about it?" Ye Fan asked.
"Not to mention mortals, even powerful cultivators can't withstand this kind of 'general power'. My ancestor only said one sentence: only ancient emperors can touch this' general power '."
Ye Fan's heart itched as he listened. He asked, "Did your ancestor, the Yuan Taoist Master, explain it in more detail?"
"He didn't. But one thing is certain. My ancestor was frightened into retreating because he peeped into the Purple Mountain's heavenly secrets. At the same time, he didn't dare to ask the fairies of the Jade Lake for help. "
"This …" Ye Fan was shocked.
"The other ancestors of my Zhang family who cultivated the Book of Origin couldn't fully comprehend it. They could only speculate that this place hides a huge secret."
Ye Fan wanted to know the answer more and more. He asked, "Could it be that they didn't find any clues and couldn't pry into the heavenly secrets?"
"Many ancestors agreed that all of this pointed to the ancient Great Emperor, that he might have set up something terrifying here …"
"What did he use the 'general power' of this place to set up?" Ye Fan muttered to himself. "The primordial era that cultivators speak of is 100,000 years old. What was the use of the emperor from 100,000 years ago?"
Ye Fan didn't understand. The emperor had already returned to dust, so what was the point of doing all this?
"Perhaps it was prepared for later generations …" Zhang Wuye shook his head. "Only by thoroughly comprehending the Book of Origin can we understand what the emperor wanted to do."
There were living creatures there, and they belonged to races from ancient times. Ye Fan muttered in his heart. He couldn't understand the emperor's motives.
"I saw an ancient mine just now. It pointed to a distant mountain ridge. The ground had been dug out, and it looked like the Dragon Vein of the Source. Could there have been a divine source there?" Ye Fan talked about the abandoned ancient mine.
"In fact, the ancient mine leads directly to that mountain ridge. The nine mountain ridges have all been dug out."
"This …" Ye Fan was shocked. "How big of a project was this?"
"The methods of the ancient emperor are unimaginable. He could have done all this."
"This was also the work of the emperor, and not the work of later generations?" Ye Fan asked.
Zhang Wuye said, "Some ancestors of my Zhang family speculated that the nine dragon veins all had peerless divine source, but they were all dug out and gathered in that dragon pearl."
"How could this be?" Ye Fan was shocked.
"The ancestors who studied the Book of Origin speculated that it was to promote the 'general trend' of this place. They gathered the essence of the nine dragon veins and stored it in the dragon pearl. The nine dragons guarded the pearl and truly protruded the pearl."
Everything was in the pearl. The plan laid out by the ancient emperor was all related to that purple mountain. The nine mountain ridges were only the "green leaves".
"I really want to know what the emperor from hundreds of thousands of years ago was trying to do!"
Since ancient times, there had only been a few emperors in the Eastern Wilderness. They could refine extreme weapons and create the most profound ancient scriptures. Their methods were heaven-defying.
What was the emperor's purpose in going through so much trouble and making such a big move?
Time passed quickly, and two months passed in the blink of an eye. Ye Fan had learned a lot about the Book of Origin.
He had prepared for a long time and learned enough details. He even knew where the ancestor of the Zhang family had entered the Purple Mountain all those years ago.
Now, he decided to take action. He would enter the purple mountain and find the Book of Origin.
The purple mountain had endless secrets, and the Book of Origin had endless magic. As long as he could obtain and cultivate the book, he would understand everything.
"I have to become the Yuan Taoist Master. I have to take the risk. Otherwise, my path of cultivation will come to an end." Ye Fan decided to enter the purple mountain immediately!
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