Chapter 711: The Whereabouts of the Ancient Great Emperor

Li Tian's sinister expression vanished, replaced by a solemn one. "I misspoke. Please pretend you didn't hear anything."

"No, that's not right," Ye Fan said, staring into his eyes. "Just now you said Emperor Hengyu forged a Divine Maiden Cauldron for your ancestor! I demand an explanation."

"Ah, Senior Brother, as you can see," Li Tian said, "it's not that I wish for the Divine Maiden Cauldron to emerge. It's just that someone has learned of it, and it's time for it to reappear in the world."

"Absolutely not!" Yan Yixi flatly refused.

"What are we going to do about this?" Li Tian said with a straight face, not even a hint of joking. "Look, an outsider knows this secret. Otherwise, let's team up and kill Brother Ye. That way, the Divine Maiden Cauldron can remain buried in the mountains."

He was a truly wicked person. Given his past temperament, he might actually act on it; otherwise, Yan Yixi wouldn't have said he had fallen into a demonic state.

"Give up on that idea immediately!" Yan Yixi said, staring at him.

"Ah, Brother Ye," Li Tian said very seriously, "why don't we just team up and kill my Senior Brother? He's too boring."

"You two..." Ye Fan stared at them. All he wanted now was to know the secrets of Emperor Hengyu; he wasn't particularly concerned about the Divine Maiden Cauldron.

"Brother Ye, don't think he's joking," Yan Yixi said. "He genuinely wants to kill me. He has tried to kill me five times in the past, and almost succeeded each time."

"Senior Brother, I just want to say one thing to you," Li Tian said very seriously. "Nothing can be established without destruction. How can the Dao expand if it isn't broadened?"

Yan Yixi fell silent. He understood this principle; their lineage needed to break with old conventions. Continuing as they were would only lead to further decline.

"You need to understand what terrible consequences will follow if it appears," he said, looking solemn as he stared at Li Tian. This matter seemed extremely grave.

"Don't look at me like that," Li Tian said in a deep voice. "The Divine Maiden Cauldron is infamous; its appearance will indeed provoke a universal outcry. But you can't be afraid to use it just because of that. Change must begin now."

Listening nearby, Ye Fan finally learned some secrets. The lineage of these two had an incredibly formidable origin in ancient times: it was called the Human Desire Dao.

This was an incredibly powerful ancient Daoist sect. It practiced the Way of Humanity, possessing the Six Desires Heavenly Art and the Emotion Severing Grand Law. Within the sect, there were several highly conflicting ancient Daoist traditions.

Back then, a renegade disciple of the sect cultivated the Six Desires Heavenly Art to an unbeatable level. He returned to the sect, stole the Saint Weapon Divine Maiden Cauldron, and wreaked havoc across the world.

Li Tian said, "Ah, let's not talk about it anymore. In a way, that senior was my goal. But he incurred too much hatred. While he was alive, nothing happened, but after his death, heroes rose across the land and annihilated my Human Desire Dao."

"The Divine Maiden Cauldron swept up all the beautiful women in the world," Yan Yixi added. "Whether they were the Divine Maidens of the Human King's Palace or the Immortals of the Wide Cold Pavilion, not a single one escaped. For the women of that era, it was an incredibly dark period of ancient history."

Ye Fan finally understood. The Divine Maiden Cauldron was infamous; no wonder the Human Desire Dao was annihilated. Those who survived this lineage didn't dare to take it out and use it.

"Are you sure that 'broken' cauldron was forged by Emperor Hengyu for your ancestor?"

"What do you mean 'broken' cauldron?" Li Tian said, highly displeased. "It's a supreme Saint Weapon, alright? At the very least, it has drunk the blood of four Saints."

Ye Fan wasn't very concerned about this cauldron, infamous throughout history. He only wanted to know about Emperor Hengyu's past: why did he appear in the Ziwei Ancient Starfield?

"You're not from outside this domain, are you? You don't even know Emperor Hengyu?!" Li Tian exclaimed in surprise after hearing Ye Fan's question again. Yan Yixi also showed a look of surprise.

"Are there many people from outside this domain who come here?" Ye Fan asked.

"We've barely heard of any," Yan Yixi replied. "The ancient path has been broken for tens of thousands of years, we don't even know how long."

"Where are you from?" Li Tian asked in astonishment. "I've only heard of the Big Dipper Starfield; there's an ancient life star there. It's said the last Primordial Great Saint set sail from there."

"Ah, I wandered here from the Big Dipper Starfield," Ye Fan replied, knowing he couldn't hide it and that there was no need to.

"What? You're really from outside this domain?" Li Tian asked, incredibly excited. "Can you take me to the Big Dipper Starfield? I really want to see what another world is like."

"Do you think this is a trip?" Ye Fan said. "I barely survived to get here." He then briefly explained his journey.

The news that Emperor Hengyu was born in the Ziwei Ancient Starfield stunned Ye Fan slightly. However, he had attained the Dao outside this domain, returned once, and then vanished completely.

He was a contemporary of the Human Desire Dao's founder, and they were close friends in their youth. When he returned after attaining the Dao, he helped forge the Divine Maiden Cauldron for the founder.

Due to the limitations of the materials, though it came from the Emperor's hand, it could only be a supreme Saint Weapon and could not enter the Emperor-tier sequence.

"So that's how it is..." Ye Fan stared blankly, lost in thought.

"Ah, why did the Great Emperor go to the Big Dipper Starfield?" Li Tian muttered. Then, as if something occurred to him, he asked, "Do you happen to have one or two Immortality Divine Herbs over there?"

"I think there might be five or six or more," Ye Fan honestly replied.

"What? How is that possible?" Yan Yixi exclaimed, wearing a bewildered expression. "A world giving birth to one or two is already the limit, and your place has..."

"I heard several kinds even survived from the Primordial Era," Ye Fan said. "Otherwise, there would be even more."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Li Tian exclaimed, incredibly agitated. Then he asked, "What kinds of Immortality Divine Herbs are there?"

"The Myriad Dragon Nest has the True Dragon Immortality Herb," Ye Fan said. "The Undying Mountain has the Black Tortoise Divine Herb, and the Ancient Emperor Mountain has the Divine Phoenix Immortality Herb..."

Yan Yixi stared blankly. "Is this true?!" he asked. "Ancient stone carvings record that the True Dragon Immortality Herb was born in the Ziwei Ancient Starfield, but the world has never seen it. How did it get to the Big Dipper Starfield? And the Divine Phoenix Immortality Herb certainly doesn't belong to the Big Dipper Starfield. In ancient times, a Great Saint from another domain came here, saying he wanted to retrieve the Divine Phoenix Immortality Herb from his own world. He was definitely not from the Big Dipper Starfield."

"No way," Li Tian said, his heart jolting as he sensed something. "Did all the ancient Great Emperors go to the Big Dipper Starfield? What's there that's worth them going there?"

The Big Dipper Starfield possessed Ultimate Emperor Weapons, but if one discounted the influence of these weapons, its overall strength was inferior to the Ziwei Ancient Star. In recent days, Ye Fan had seen many renowned great sects, with numerous sect master-level figures, and comparing the two, he had drawn this conclusion.

"All the ancient Great Emperors went to the Big Dipper Starfield..." Ye Fan was momentarily lost in thought. It turned out that those Great Emperors might have come from different ancient starfields.

What were they looking for, and what did they obtain? In the end, some died, while others disappeared. Had they achieved their goals?

This was a heaven-shaking secret. There must be something extraordinary in the Big Dipper Starfield, something that even interested the ancient Great Emperors.

"Immortality!"

Finally, Ye Fan uttered these two words, nothing else beyond that. For the ancient Great Emperors, this was their sole pursuit, as they had already reached the peak of the mortal world.

Then, he thought of the ancient starry sky road. He remained silent, lost in thought, as many thoughts suddenly flooded his mind.

In a dilapidated cave dwelling, Li Tian and Yan Yixi dug out an ancient cauldron that had been buried under incense ash for an unknown number of years.

It resembled a reclining goddess, marked with the traces of time. It had been carved from divine copper and then painstakingly refined and forged.

"It came from Emperor Hengyu's hand..." Ye Fan, who cultivated the Hengyu Scripture in the Four Extremities Realm, slightly activated it, and the ancient cauldron, previously lifeless, suddenly emitted a brilliant glow.

"You..." Both Yan Yixi and Li Tian were startled.

"I happened to have learned a volume of the Hengyu Scripture," Ye Fan said.

"This is great! With us working together, we'll be invincible!" Li Tian was full of confidence. The Human Desire Dao also had a cauldron-controlling technique, left by Emperor Hengyu, and both he and his Senior Brother had mastered it.

For the past half month, Luzhou had been unstable. The Longevity Temple and the Human King's Palace had exchanged ancient divine scriptures, but nothing came of it. A fierce battle had erupted that night, but no one gained anything.

Recently, an even more astonishing piece of news arrived: the emergence of the Immortal Fusang Divine Tree had shaken this entire great domain.

Almost the entire Golden Crow clan had gone out to sea, to search for this ancient divine tree, which was crucial to whether their clan could attain the Dao.

"No wonder there was no reaction after I killed the Ninth Prince of the Golden Crows," Ye Fan mused. "It turns out they were busy with this major event."

Ye Fan, Li Tian, and Yan Yixi walked through Luzhou, hearing many rumors and wondering how many experts were heading to the North Sea.

"The Divine Son of Taiyin has gone, Granny Heavenly Demon has gone, Yi Qingwu has gone, and the Golden Crow clan has gone," Li Tian said. "None of them are good people. We should go too, and seize the Fusang Divine Tree with the Divine Maiden Cauldron."

The North Sea was a vast expanse of darkness. Inky waves surged, immense and magnificent.

According to records from the Ziwei Ancient Starfield, the Fusang Divine Tree was born above the Tang Valley in the East Sea and had vanished at an unknown date.

Now, the Golden Crow clan had unearthed a fragmented map from an ancient ruin. From it, they learned that this immortal tree was still in this world and grew in the North Sea.

The ocean was boundless. Black waves surged high into the sky, scattering the clouds, and the sound was deafening.

As Ye Fan and his companions entered the North Sea, they were unmoved by the magnificent scenery. Their only concern was how many experts had arrived.

At present, Ye Fan had recently entered the second layer of the Immortal Terrace. Coupled with his Eight Restrictions domain, he could contend with supreme powerful figures and even fight against living fossils.

However, he was not invincible. Which sect master wasn't exceptionally gifted? Although they couldn't reach the Eight Restrictions domain like Ye Fan, they could easily cross three or four restrictions.

"Now that we have the Divine Maiden Cauldron in hand," Li Tian said, full of confidence, "even if a deity with an immortal body from the Eight Virtues Treasure Wheel appears, they will still be annihilated!"

They had been at sea for nine and a half days. They had encountered many powerful individuals along the way, and several great battles had occurred, but there was still no trace of the Fusang Divine Tree.

Suddenly, celestial music resounded from ahead. Golden light shot into the sky, illuminating the entire sea golden.

"Could it be that the divine tree has emerged?" Ye Fan and his companions quickly rushed forward.

This area of the sea was already boiling with battle. Many figures were fighting, dozens of Golden Crows soared like streaks of divine rainbow, and an island rose from the sea, breaking through the surface.

This was an ancient cave dwelling that had emerged today. A branch was stuck in its stone gate; it looked like it was cast from gold, gleaming brilliantly and radiating light.

"A Fusang Divine Branch! There's an important clue here!" people exclaimed.

"Caw, caw, caw... Children, you've come again!" Granny Heavenly Demon descended from the sky. She instantly spotted Ye Fan and his companions. This being, who surpassed living fossils, stood with an old Golden Crow, and they arrived together.

"Old hag!" Li Tian gritted his teeth.

At the same time, many members of the Golden Crow clan looked over, staring at Ye Fan, their eyes filled with hatred.

Divine light shot from the eyes of the old Golden Crow standing with Granny Heavenly Demon. It locked onto Ye Fan and walked towards him step by step.

"Fourth Ancestor, he is that powerful figure named Ye," a Golden Crow clan member nearby said. "You must kill him to avenge the Ninth Prince!"

"Let me do it," Granny Heavenly Demon said. "I need his flesh and blood." She stepped forward before the Golden Crow clan's Fourth Ancestor, heading directly for Ye Fan.

She possessed a Heavenly Demon physique, and her magic power was unfathomable; living fossils were no match for her. The Golden Crow clan's ancestor naturally didn't want to offend her and was happy to let her act.

"Clear the area. All irrelevant individuals, stand back," Granny Heavenly Demon said, intimidating everyone. This was her true body personally present; no one dared to meet her gaze.

"Indeed, it's time to clear the area," Yan Yixi sneered as well.

"Granny misses you very much. Come here!" Granny Heavenly Demon's smile was sinister, like a ten-thousand-year-old ghost weeping.

"However, I truly despise you," Ye Fan said, "so I'm clearing the area now." In his palm, he held a fist-sized ancient cauldron.

"I smell the blood of a Holy Body..." Granny Heavenly Demon grimly licked her shriveled lips.

"The Divine Son of Taiyin is here, and Yi Qingwu is also over there," Li Tian chuckled. "We can't let them off this time."

"Let's deal with this old hag first," Ye Fan said. He circulated the Hengyu Scripture and instantly unleashed the Divine Maiden Cauldron. The might of a Saint spread overwhelmingly!

"Ah..." Granny Heavenly Demon screamed. The distance was too close; she had not anticipated the appearance of a supreme Saint Weapon, and her entire body cracked.