Chapter 186 Heavenly Book (1/2)
Chapter 186 Heavenly Book
“Do you know that Great Emperor’s name?” Ye Fan urgently asked.
Wang Shu shook his head. “I don’t know. I only heard Fifth Grandpa Zhang say one line of drunken words that it was an ancient Great Emperor. He didn’t say a name.”
“I heard my grandpa say…” the dumb youth suddenly mysteriously whispered, “that the reason the Zhang family is living here is in order to guard that purple mountain.”
“Your grandpa said this?” Ye Fan was startled.
“My grandfather heard some seniors say that, but there was no detailed explanation.” He then thought a bit and said, “I think he also once said that a thousand years ago, the reason the Zhang family lost the Heavenly Source Book was also due to that purple mountain.”
“The Heavenly Source Book is linked to the purple mountain?” Ye Fan couldn’t stay calm, and he really wanted to study that book.
How many ancient Great Emperors had there been? The peak weapons they refined were almost gone nowadays. The might of those weapons could make one invincible, and sacred lands would treat them as precious treasures to be guarded with their lives.
If he had a peak weapon, he could become invincible. If he could continue supplying it with enough divine energy, it would be difficult for him to find an opponent within the Eastern Wastelands.
The accomplishments of the ancient Great Emperors was something later people were unable to surpass. There was speculation that the Eastern Wastelands’ ancient scriptures were all personally created by Great Emperors.
When Ye Fan thought of this, how could he possibly remain calm?
The ancient Great Emperors refined peak weapons and created the ancient scriptures, each of which was an invaluable treasure of the Eastern Wastelands.
If that purple mountain has a link to a Great Emperor, if I could find his cultivation method, that would be equivalent to obtaining a complete ancient scripture!
Ye Fan trusted that those who could become Great Emperors definitely had peak cultivation methods.
If I could then find a peak weapon… Just thinking about it excited him!
However, he quickly regained his calm. Fifth Grandpa Zhang had already emphasized that it was an inauspicious land. Trying to gain something from that place might be even more difficult than ascending to the heavens.
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Ye Fan once more left the stone village. Half an hour later, he once more appeared in front of that huge purple mountain and circled around it.
“Just what is in here?” No matter how he looked, he couldn’t find anything special. Even by probing with his divine sense, he was unable to find anything.
“Just what did that Great Emperor leave behind? What’s the relationship to him?” What he wanted most was for there to be an ancient scripture that was unknown to the outside world. That was what he absolutely needed the most right now.
However, he could only wish for it. The might of the ancient Great Emperors was something people nowadays couldn’t even imagine. Even if something was left here, it didn’t mean he could obtain it.
Ye Fan once more ascended to the peak of the purple mountain. Just at this time, his expression immediately turned stiff with disbelief. He couldn’t believe his own eyes.
Yesterday he had used the golden tome to hack apart a large hole here. But now, the peak was unmarked, and everything was as it was in the beginning.
“What’s going on? Yesterday, I clearly…” Ye Fan felt his spirit turn cold.
Inauspicious land… these words appeared in his mind and he quickly flew away from the peak.
“How could this happen? It can recover on its own?” Ye Fan couldn’t remain calm.
“Or does that mean… yesterday, I was caught in an illusion and didn’t actually slash through the peak? Are there some invisible Dao Glyphs?”
Ye Fan thought it over, and decided to situate himself further away while using the golden tome to slash at the peak.
Golden light lingered as stones were sent flying. A huge hole appeared on the mountain peak and he collected a giant fragment of purple stone that had been sent flying. Feeling it, he knew that it definitely wasn’t an illusion.
He then cut off a small piece and flew into the distance, quietly watching the purple mountain.
Ye Fan was very patient. He waited as the whole day passed and a sky of stars appeared above him. The purple mountain was still as towering and majestic as ever without any change.
He wasn’t rushed, instead just motionlessly standing in the sky as his divine perception swept out and carefully kept observation.
There was no way he wouldn’t treat this land with importance when it had something to do with an ancient Great Emperor. He placed great hope on what was inside.
Around midnight, Ye Fan noticed that the mountain peak’s hole had silently changed and slowly recovered to its original state.
As for that stone he had collected, it had disappeared into nowhere.
“This huge mountain can grow on its own!” Ye Fan was incomparably shocked.
He didn’t continue studying it. The cold here was exceptionally chilling, and even with his physique he felt a bone-chilling cold.
Since the Zhang family was guarding this area, they must know some secrets. He didn’t want to act without careful planning, so he returned to the stone village, deciding to ask for more details tomorrow.
When Ye Fan returned to the village, he was surprised to see Fifth Grandpa Zhang waiting for him in his residence. He hadn’t slept and was very nervous.
“At least you returned. You should have gone to explore that huge purple mountain, right?”
Ye Fan nodded.
Fifth Grandpa Zhang jumped up and worriedly said, “You absolutely can’t go there! Didn’t I tell you that it was a terrible place?! If you go there, you’ll easily run into trouble.”
“Just what kind of existence is this purple mountain? What is its relation with the ancient Great Emperor?” Ye Fan had to know the answers to these questions.
“Fine, I’ll tell you everything. Otherwise you’ll definitely keep going.” He sighed and said, “Actually, I also only have a limited knowledge.”
“Just tell me what you know.”
“That huge purple mountain is something my Zhang family’s ancestors found. To be precise, it was that Heavenly Source Master. He told his descendents not to get close to that place and that we should pay our respects from a distance.”
That Heavenly Source Master solemnly warned his descendants that the purple mountain had a relationship to an ancient Great Emperor, and it absolutely could not be treated disrespectfully. By paying respects to it, it might benefit future generations.
“There’s something inside that absolutely can’t be provoked, otherwise a huge disaster will descend. This is what my ancestors repeatedly warned.” He sighed and said, “Unfortunately, a thousand years ago, one of them went against the ancestors’ warnings, deciding to walk into the purple mountain while holding the Heavenly Source Book.”
Ye Fan was even more moved, feeling that whatever was inside was most likely a peerless Divine Source or perhaps a peak weapon.
Fifth Grandpa Zhang saw through his thoughts and said, “That purple mountain definitely has treasures. It probably has even more than just one Divine Source, but you absolutely can’t place your intentions on it.”
“More than one Divine Source?!”
Each time a peerless Divine Source appeared it would shake the Eastern Wastelands. Each sacred land would pay a huge price to fight over it, and rivers of blood would flow.
For sacred lands to shed all pretenses of ambivalence, it could be imagined just how precious peerless Divine Sources were. How could Ye Fan not be shocked that the purple mountain held more than one piece?
“My ancestor was a Heavenly Source Master and had a great understanding of Sources that no one else could surpass. Based on the dragon veins of the land and borrowing the power of the stars, he was able to lock onto Divine Sources.” He then paused slightly and said, “He also once wanted to go to the purple mountain to get the Divine Sources, but in the end he still cowered back.”
“Why?”
Fifth Grandpa Zhang shook his head and said, “He had an idea to invite a Jade Lake fairy to help. But in the end he renounced the idea, not wanting to implicate the Jade Lake.”
“What?! Going into the mountain to take out the Divine Sources would implicate a Sacred Land?”