Chapter 188 Nine Dragons Guarding a Pearl (2/2)

With the purple mountain as the center, all added together, there were nine mountain ranges that came from each direction. This was one of them.

“It really is on a grand scale!” Practically everything within dozens of kilometers had to do with that purple mountain.

Ye Fan had once flown up as high as he could into the air to observe that the nine mountain ranges clearly all pointed towards the purple mountain.

He thought about it for a moment before deciding to return back to the stone village.

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Ye Fan drew the purple mountain and the nine mountain ranges proportionally upon a piece of leather. He handed it to Fifth Grandpa Zhang and asked, “Does such a land formation have any meaning to you?”

Fifth Grandpa Zhang might live here, but he was only a mortal. There was no way he could fly so high into the air and see everything clearly.

When he saw this clear drawing, he stood up in shock and said, “This is… So you actually saw through it.”

“Then that means you already knew about this?”

“It was precisely due to these nine mountain ranges that my ancestor realized the purple mountain wasn’t ordinary.” Fifth Grandpa Zhang unrolled the leather and said, “Look, what does this appear to be?”

“It doesn’t look like anything. It just looks like it’s arranged systematically. The nine mountain ranges all point to the central purple mountain.”

“These are nine dragon meridians that guard and protect a pearl!”

Ye Fan was somewhat speechless. How did those nine mountain ranges seem like dragons? As for the purple mountain, it was as precipitous as a huge sword, not at all appearing like a pearl.

“You haven’t studied the Heavenly Source book, so you naturally weren’t able to make the connection. These are definitely dragon veins, nine dragons protecting a pearl!”

“What does that imply?” asked Ye Fan.

“The implications are too huge! The Heavenly Source Book had extensive recordings and I only know a little bit. This kind of ‘Great Power’ is endlessly marvelous and profound.”

“What do you mean?”

“My ancestor had once said that the nine dragons guarding a pearl was the absolutely most profound and marvelous charge of heaven and earth!”

“What’s so marvelous and profound about it?” asked Ye Fan.

“Let alone mortals, even powerful cultivators are unable to bear this kind of ‘Great Power.’ My ancestor only said one sentence: other than Great Emperors from ancient times, no one is capable of moving such a ‘Great Power.’”

Ye Fan felt a huge headache, asking, “Your ancestor, that Heavenly Source Master, didn’t he leave behind a more detailed narrative?”

“No. But there is one thing that is certain. It was precisely because my ancestor had pried into the purple mountain that he had decided to retreat and not dare asking for the Jade Lake fairies’ help.”

“This…” Ye Fan was completely shocked.

“The other ancestors of my Zhang family tried cultivating the Heavenly Source Book, but were never able to completely comprehend it. All they could do was speculate that this place concealed a huge secret.”

Ye Fan was becoming more and more interested in the truth. “Could it be they didn’t find the slightest traces or clues?”

“Many of those ancestors were unanimous that this all pointed back to the ancient Great Emperor. He had most likely left behind a couple terrifying things here…”

Did he use this place’s Great Power to leave those things behind? Ye Fan continued asking, “The Ancient Desolation of cultivators should have been over a hundred thousand years ago. But this Great Emperor had to be from hundreds of thousands of years ago. What purpose did leaving behind such things have for him?”

Ye Fan couldn’t understand why a Great Emperor that had long since returned to the dust would do such things.

“It’s possible it was preparations for his descendants…” Fifth Grandpa Zhang shook his head and said, “Only by completely comprehending the Heavenly Source Book could one understand what that Great Emperor was doing.”

Where were the living creatures that were related to such a distant existence from such ancient times? Ye Fan simply couldn’t understand that Great Emperor’s thinking.

“Just now I saw a huge ancient mine that pointed to the distant mountain range. Everything underground had been completely excavated, and it looked like a Source dragon vein. Wouldn’t that mean there were Divine Sources there?” Ye Fan began to talk about what he had found in that abandoned ancient mine.

“Actually, that ancient mine should lead all the way through the mountain range and everything beneath the entire mountain range should have been completely excavated.”

“This…” Ye Fan was startled, asking, “Was it actually such a huge project?”

“The methods of ancient Great Emperors are something we cannot imagine. He naturally could do such a thing.”

“This was also done by that Great Emperor? It wasn’t excavated by later people?” asked Ye Fan.

Fifth Grandpa Zhang said, “My Zhang family had some ancestors who speculated that the nine dragon veins each had their own peerless Divine Sources, but they were all removed and collected within that dragon pearl.”

“Why would such a thing happen?” Ye Fan was extremely shocked.

“Ancestors who have cultivated the Heavenly Source Book speculate that it was in order to push this land’s Great Power. By collecting the nine dragon vein’s essence and collecting it within the dragon pearl, the nine dragons guarding a pearl might really spit out the dragon pearl.”

Everything was based on that pearl. Everything that ancient Great Emperor had done had to do with the purple mountain, while the nine mountain ranges were just supportive.

“I really want to know just what this Great Emperor from hundreds of thousands of years ago wanted to do!”

Since ancient times, the Eastern Wastelands had only produced a few Great Emperors in total. They could refine peak weapons and create the most profound ancient scriptures. Their abilities were a defiance of the heavens.

For a Great Emperor to put in so much effort on such a grand scale, just what was it all about?

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Two months quickly passed. Ye Fan had learned much of the superficial knowledge from the Heavenly Source Book that hadn’t been lost.

He prepared a long time and had finally learned enough. He even knew just where that ancestor of the Zhang family had entered the purple mountain from back then.

Now, he prepared to move and enter the purple mountain in order to find the Heavenly Source Book.

The purple mountain was filled with countless secrets. As for the Heavenly Source Book, it held endless magical power. As long as he could find it and cultivate it, he would be able to understand everything.