A gentle radiance flowed out from between Ye Fan's fingers, calming one's mind as if one was walking under the hazy moonlight.
"The Dao is boundless and incomprehensible …" Ye Fan stood with his hands behind his back, feeling something in his heart. The Dao was formless and boundless. How could it be grasped? Who could say it clearly?
After standing still for a long time, he walked to the front of the cave and touched the cold rock wall with his hand. The ancient characters that had been smoothed over time were very faint and would disappear forever in a short time.
He used his finger as a pen to copy the three lines of words over and over again. His mind was focused on the ancient characters, trying to figure out Great Emperor Wu Shi's state of mind.
Ye Fan forgot everything else and stood alone in front of the stone wall. His movements became slower and slower as he enunciated each word with force. Like the bright moon in a well, he was fixed in front of the ancient cave.
Time seemed to flow in reverse. He seemed to see a figure covered in dust standing on the desolate earth.
He wanted to walk forward but found that Wu Shi had no end, no end, and no way to get close. He knew that it was … Great Emperor Wu Shi.
Ye Fan was immersed in an extremely ethereal state. His fingers slowly moved as if he was lifting a great mountain that was as heavy as the heavens.
Unfortunately, he could not get close to the figure at the end of the independent world. He could not see Great Emperor Wu Shi. That was only a trace of an imprint erased by history.
The emperor jade in Ye Fan's left hand became hotter and hotter. The cave gently swayed, and the stone surface cracked and fell off continuously.
The ancient jade overflowed with splendor, flowing into the cave. Stone fragments swirled in the air and dust covered the ground. He stepped forward as if he was standing under the starry sky from hundreds of thousands of years ago.
This emperor jade was not ordinary. It became increasingly misty and boiling hot, illuminating the entire ancient cave.
It was as if a fragmented historical picture was unfolding before Ye Fan's eyes. An illusory figure was faintly discernible, flickering indefinitely.
"Gazing at the Broken Immortal Path, I do not see the ancients before me, and I do not see those who will come after me. I stand alone at the top of the clouds."
This was the imprint fixed by the emperor jade. The words of the great emperor from hundreds of thousands of years ago made one's heart surge.
However, too much time had passed, and nothing could exist forever. In the end, the fragmented picture scroll scattered with the wind, and not much was left behind.
"As big as the ocean, as small as a speck of dust, all things exist …" The voice stopped there.
Ye Fan didn't move. His finger continued to carve words in the air. Just now, he felt an indescribable state of mind. There was a kind of emptiness that lasted until now.
After an unknown period of time, his entire body shone with light, and all the pores on his body relaxed. He was like a jade man, untainted by even a speck of dust, as if he had received a baptism.
After a full four hours, Ye Fan slowly regained his consciousness. He woke up from that inexplicable Dao rhythm.
"I must obtain the Wu Shi Scripture!"
He didn't hear the wondrous technique, but the remnant imprints still made him feel the charm of the Great Path. His spirit and body seemed to be bathed in holy light, receiving an indescribable baptism.
With a rumbling sound, the rock wall collapsed. Ye Fan had no choice but to retreat.
When he looked back, the ancient cave no longer existed. In the blink of an eye, it had already become a thing of the past. There was regret in his heart. Even though he already knew that the Wu Shi Scripture wasn't here, he was still a bit disappointed.
The emperor jade was still shining, and it didn't dim. He knew that there was definitely something else.
Stone cliffs stood in great numbers, and short mountains stood one after another. Immortal vines acted as a bridge, connecting one precipice to another. It was quiet and plain.
Ye Fan walked forward, passing by stone mountains and walking towards the flowers and grass. He arrived at a secluded area.
"Who are you?" The people of the Mysterious Moon Cave were alarmed. Figures rushed over and berated one after another.
Ye Fan arrived at the back of the mountain as if he was in an uninhabited place. His large sleeves fluttered, and the young disciples that rushed over were sent flying one after another.
He held the ancient jade in his hand, and he relied on his senses to search forward.
"Hurry and report to the elders. Someone has forced his way into our Mysterious Moon Cave."
"There is a powerful enemy that has invaded our Mysterious Moon Cave's back mountain!"
…
Many people shouted, reporting to the sect's elders.
Ye Fan floated past beautiful mountain peaks and arrived at a peaceful place. The back mountain was lush with vegetation, and there was a huge deep valley.
After arriving here, the emperor jade became increasingly bright. It was extremely hot, and it wanted to fly out of his hand.
This was an abandoned valley filled with junk. There were medicinal dregs, broken furnaces, rusted swords, and broken talismans. This was a desolate valley used to throw away things.
It was unknown how many years had passed, but the vast valley was almost full. It was filled with the discarded items of cultivators, and the air was lifeless with turbid air rising into the air.
"This place …"
Ye Fan frowned, but he didn't hesitate too much. He shook his sleeves, and immediately, the junk flew everywhere. Broken copper and iron clanked as they fell into the distance.
"Daoist priest, what are you doing?!" An elder of the Mysterious Moon Cave finally arrived.
Ye Fan ignored him. His large sleeves moved back and forth, and the sky was filled with broken items. The valley was continuously cleaned up, and the emperor jade became increasingly hot.
Peng!
An elder rushed over and was slapped away by Ye Fan along with a large number of discarded items.
"Who are you? Why did you come here?" A few elders flew over from the Mysterious Moon Cave and landed around the valley.
Ye Fan had already sealed the Mysterious Moon Cave, so he didn't have any scruples and said, "I'm the one who killed your sect master."
"What?" The surrounding people were shocked.
They hadn't received any news. They only knew that the previous sect master had stayed in Green Cloud Sect and hadn't returned.
"Go and report to your current sect master. I'll take his life in a while." Ye Fan turned over the abandoned valley and continued his search.
"You … are talking nonsense. The Supreme Sect Master is powerful and has been in closed door cultivation for many years. He rarely meets a match in this area."
Ye Fan took out the Li Fire Divine Furnace and put the elders inside on the spot. With a flash of fire, they turned into black ash, and their names were erased from this place.
"You …"
The expressions of the others changed. This made them feel terrified. The elders didn't even have time to resist before they were killed.
This kind of method caused everyone's calves to cramp up. In a state of panic, everyone fled cleanly.
Ye Fan used the Li Fire Divine Furnace to refine the trash in the valley and finally cleaned it up.
Clang!
The ancient jade vibrated and shone even brighter. Ye Fan arrived at the bottom of the valley and started digging. He dug out a patch of black soil from the waste materials.
"Another imperial jade!"
He was overjoyed. There was a broken jade covered in dirt at the bottom of the valley. It was unknown how long it had been sealed for.
"Buzz!"
The two imperial jades met and radiated auspicious light.
Ye Fan picked up the jade pendant on the ground. The dirt fell off and he placed them together. They reflected each other's radiance and were warm and crystalline.
"It's still incomplete. This is only two corners. I'm still missing six or seven pieces." Ye Fan frowned.
However, he didn't expect to gather all the imperial jades in one go because that wasn't realistic.
The headmaster of the Mysterious Moon Cave and the eight supreme elders all rushed over. A great battle broke out.
Unfortunately, this was a battle without any suspense. Ye Fan took out the Li Fire Divine Furnace, the flames crackled, and a mountain peak was melted.
Magma surged and heat waves scorched the sky.
Not long after, peace was restored to this place, and the nine rulers were all killed.
Ye Fan leisurely walked to the front mountain. His heart was like an ancient well. He killed ten people with one step and flicked his finger again and again, ending one life after another.
This was a massacre. One person killed more than two hundred people! All those who had committed heinous crimes and committed heinous crimes were completely wiped out by him, and their names were removed from this world.
In the end, only thirty-one people were left alive. They really didn't do any evil and tried their best to oppose the plunder.
Ye Fan opened the treasury of the Mysterious Moon Cave. There was a total of one thousand and four hundred kilograms of Origin Source. It was comparable to that of the Qingxia Sect. He unceremoniously put it into his pocket.
He carefully flipped through the highest secret book of the Mysterious Moon Cavern. Then, he tossed all the weapons to the living and left.
These people were the future 'miners', but he couldn't tell them about it now.
Before coming to the Mysterious Moon Cave, Ye Fan had disguised himself as the supreme elder of the Li Fire Sect. He took out the divine furnace and set fire to several peaks of the Seven Stars Pavilion and Sunset Sect.
In the end, the two sects went to the Li Fire Sect to denounce them. There was a bloody conflict, but there was no real fight.
The Li Fire Sect had a total of two supreme elders at the third realm. Ye Fan killed one of them, and there was still an expert guarding the sect.
The experts of the three sects all agreed that the Li Fire Divine Furnace was taken away and it wasn't the real Li Fire Sect supreme elder who killed them.
Unfortunately, even if they deduced all this, they couldn't change anything.
In the next few days, Ye Fan defeated them one by one. He 'visited' the Li Fire Sect, the Seven Stars Pavilion, and the Sunset Sect, eliminating them one by one.
After getting rid of the four malignant tumors in this area, he obtained a total of two Yuan Fangs, weighing 6600 kilograms.
This was a huge harvest, but it was still far from what he needed. Every step forward required ten times the amount. This meant that if he wanted to break through to the third realm of the Dao Palace, he needed ten thousand kilograms of Source, or three Yuan Fangs.
Ye Fan felt dizzy. He didn't even dare to think about it in the past. Now, the Source he needed could no longer be measured in kilograms, but in Yuan Fangs.
He could imagine gathering ten thousand kilograms, but when he thought of the next number — fifty thousand kilograms — he felt dizzy.
If not for the Book of Origin, he felt that he could give up on cultivation. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to collect it.
One could imagine that the next number would make even the sacred lands vomit blood. No one would be able to afford it.
The Green Cloud, Seven Stars, Dark Moon, Sunset Sect, and Li Fire Sect only existed in name. They became Ye Fan's mines.
His harvest was huge, especially when he found a yellowed book in the Li Fire Sect. There was only one move on it — Embracing Mountain Seal.
It was extremely profound and inspired him greatly. Similar to the Great Seal of Mountains and Rivers, its power was strangely great, giving his Battle Saint Technique another change.
"If I get another Yuan Fangs, I can advance to the third realm of the Dao Palace." Ye Fan was lost in thought. He was preparing to enter the Jade Pool.
He wasn't worried about the five sects being destroyed.
Small grotto-heavens like the Li Fire Sect, Green Cloud Sect, and Dark Moon Cave could be said to be the lowest level sects in the Northern Region. Above them were medium-sized sects, large sects, super forces, and sacred lands.
Unless it was a small force in a life forbidden zone or a divine medicine garden, the super sects would need to support them as outposts. Otherwise, it would be hard to have any interaction with them.
The Northern Region was so vast that even a cultivator would need several months to fly from one end of the Northern Region to the other.
Some sects were tens of thousands of miles away from each other, or even millions of miles away from each other.
In such a large area, the large forces would naturally be known by people. But low level sects like the Li Fire Sect and Dark Moon Cave were barely known by people. Only small sects of the same size in the area would have heard of them.
It could be said that one was in the sky while the other was on the ground, the two were in two different worlds.
Thus, Ye Fan wasn't worried that the disturbance here would attract the attention of any sacred land. The distance was too far, the sky in the sky wouldn't pay attention to an ant nest on the ground.
Eastern Desolate had seven life forbidden zones. The Southern Region's Ancient Desolate Forbidden Zone and the Northern Region's Origin Ancient Mine were among them.
In terms of mystery, the Northern Region's life forbidden zone was undoubtedly at the top.
It was originally a source mine, but it had become a land of death. Past Holy Lords never returned.
It was named Origin Ancient Mine, meaning that it had existed before the creation of the world. It was hard to imagine how ancient it was.
There was a type of legend that said that this ancient mine wasn't excavated by humans at all. It had already existed long before the human race came into existence.
There was another type of saying that it was excavated by humans, but added the word 'immortal' after the word 'human'. This type of saying wasn't very well accepted, because it was hard to say whether or not immortals really existed.
No matter what, this was a forbidden land. Even if you were the pride of heaven of a generation, you still couldn't return. It was unknown just how many heroes had died there.
The most recent time was seven hundred years ago. The Imperial Lord of an undying imperial court in the Central Plains, someone who could be considered a great ruler of a generation, someone who sat on endless beautiful mountains and rivers, entered Origin Ancient Mine for some reason. However, he didn't even cause a ripple before disappearing.
Outside of Origin Ancient Mine, a large area was almost completely occupied by various Great Sage Lands. It was the most productive Origin Mining Area.
Not a blade of grass grew in this area, a completely barren land.
Outside of Origin Ancient Mine, on the endless reddish-brown earth, there was only a single city. Its name was -- Origin City.
It was located within the range of the Origin Mining Area, built by cultivators. There were no mortals moving about here, most of them disciples of great powers, as well as people transporting Origin Stones.
Of course, it was still quite far from Origin Ancient Mine, at least thirty thousand li away. Otherwise, no one would dare come.
Ye Fan came to this city, because he heard that Jade Lake Holy Lady still hadn't returned to Jade Lake, instead staying in this region to transport a batch of stone materials.
"Jade Lake Holy Lady is still here, if I enter Jade Lake ahead of time with her jade pendant, it might be a bit inappropriate. There is still quite some time before the Stone Appreciation Assembly."
Apart from this, he also had another objective. He always heard about Origin Ancient Mine, really wanting to see it from the distance.
Origin City wasn't that large, only a small city. It was completely built from reddish-brown boulders, quite famous.
Most of the rice and other things needed by the various mining areas had to be purchased here. This was a transfer station.
Not long after Ye Fan arrived, he already found out everything. Jade Lake Holy Lady headed for the border region of Origin Ancient Mine, and would only return after a period of time.
At the same time, he learned that Yao Xi and Yaoguang Holy Child were also heading there.
Of course, the so-called border region was at least a thousand li from the true Origin Ancient Mine, so no one dared truly take the risk.
"Origin Ancient Mine, just what kind of place is it?" Ye Fan rubbed his chin, seriously thinking to himself.
Zhang Family's first ancestor, that Yuan Taoist Master's greatest regret was that he couldn't enter Origin Ancient Mine. Even the great figures of a generation felt restraining fear, so he naturally didn't dare rashly enter.
"Watching from the distance, perhaps I can find out a bit about the situation." He believed that the past Yuan Taoist Master definitely saw through something, which was why he didn't dare enter.
He wanted to verify it with the Origin Heavenly Book, start to unravel Origin Ancient Mine's mysteries, see just what exactly was strange about it.
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