# Chapter 521: Ancient Primordial Matters
"In the primordial era, the human race was very mysterious. They were few in number and rarely interacted with other races, but they indeed produced invincible existences..."
The monkey seemed to sink into distant memories, speaking slowly as he recounted ancient primordial matters, drawing the hearts and minds of the several people present.
During the primordial period, only supreme beings who had reached the ultimate realm took human form. This form represented invincibility and was a typical characteristic of kings. Whenever encountered, all living beings would prostrate themselves in worship.
However, the inexplicable appearance of the human race broke this convention. They were born in this form from the very beginning, which truly startled all races.
Initially, when other races saw so many human-shaped beings, they were all terrified. Only later, when they learned that this race was extremely weak, did they gradually relax.
Some ancient races were enraged, considering this an insult to the primordial kings, and nearly exterminated all humans.
However, not all primordial beings were vicious and evil. Some could distinguish right from wrong, and powerful races stepped forward to protect humans, allowing them to survive.
Over the long years, countless wars on the earth were naturally unavoidable, and various creatures could be drawn into them. The human race was no exception.
They were extremely few in number and incomparably weak, but they had room for growth. They produced a supreme being who could contend with the Nine-Transformation Divine Silkworm, shaking all primordial races.
From then on, the human race gained a foothold, no longer being eyed covetously by some races as food.
"Can you be more specific? For example, what techniques they had, how they cultivated, how they appeared?" Wu Zhongtian asked.
"Before the great calamity came, I was too young. My knowledge is limited, and I only know some simple things," the monkey sighed.
As a member of the primordial royal clan, but due to being too young, his understanding of that era was extremely limited. When the great calamity came, he was inexplicably sealed and slept for hundreds of millions of years.
"The human race's origins are mysterious. They should have come from beyond this star domain..." The monkey spoke of some past events he knew.
"Their techniques were very primitive, but their power was extraordinary..."
The Solar True Art, simulating the ultimate yang of heaven and earth, creating the primordial, supremely firm and strong—it could be said to be extremely terrifying. It was an ancient sacred method of the human race from the primordial era.
"Indeed..." Li Heishui sighed.
He had obtained a black beast bone from the mountain range where the Sacred Cliff was located, which recorded fragments of the Solar True Art. They had discussed it back then.
The Solar True Art was one of the most ancient sacred methods of the human race. Even the ancient great emperors had studied it and been inspired by it. When they created their ancient scriptures, they needed to deduce all methods and study various scriptures.
The Lunar True Art, simulating the ultimate yin of heaven and earth, opposed the Solar True Art. It could be said to be supremely yin and strong, also a sacred method of the primordial human race. Placed in the present day, it would also be an ancient scripture.
"The human race was very mysterious, few in number. Who would have thought that after countless ages, they would become so prosperous, surpassing all other races," the monkey sighed.
He truly didn't know much about ancient primordial matters, not even much about the Battle-Saint Ape lineage. He only remembered that his father had died and his uncle had gone to the Western Desert. Everything else was unclear and hazy.
Ye Fan and the others speculated that the great calamity of the primordial era should have been a change in heaven and earth, making it unsuitable for living beings and cutting off the path of cultivation, thus leading to the great extinction.
However, upon hearing this, the monkey shook his head and said, "The ancient prophecy came true, which led to the retreat of the various primordial races..."
At that time, the monkey was still a child and couldn't possibly have access to the highest secrets. He only knew bits and pieces. His growth to the present state was because he had long awakened within the "Immortal Tomb" strange stone and had cultivated for many years, achieving such accomplishments before being cut out by Ye Fan.
When primordial royal clan members cultivated to the ultimate realm and transformed into human form, they were honored as Emperors. This was the first time Ye Fan and the others had heard this; in the past, they had vaguely referred to them as primordial kings.
Before dying, successive ancient emperors, like deities, could almost see through the past and future, leaving behind some prophecies that were later verified one by one as true.
Regarding these matters, the monkey didn't say much, nor did he understand them. He simply couldn't explain the truth of the great primordial calamity.
Ye Fan and the others all felt regret. This was an eternal mystery spanning ages. If even this living fossil couldn't understand it, who could?
"Some primordial races were sealed, some should have gone beyond this star domain..." The monkey shook his head, not wanting to say more.
"Is there really such a thing as immortals?" Li Heishui suddenly asked. Everyone fell silent, all wanting to know the answer.
"There should be. My father was an emperor who was invincible throughout heaven and earth, but unfortunately, when I was born, his lifespan was already exhausted, and he died not long after..."
When the monkey was less than three years old, his father, the Sacred Emperor who had shaken the primordial era, died. Aside from the racial inheritance, he left almost nothing for him.
However, he remembered one sentence from the ancient emperor: In the most ancient of times, there should have been immortals, but in later ages, they could no longer be seen.
The several people stared blankly. Even the monkey's father, an emperor so invincible in the primordial era, said one had to trace back to the most ancient of times...
What kind of period was that so-called "most ancient"? What had happened? What past events were there?
"The Ancient Forbidden Land, Immortal Mountain, Divine Ruins, Primordial Ancient Mine, Immortal Mound—these places..." Ye Fan and the others brought up the seven forbidden zones of life again.
"In the primordial era, there weren't so many forbidden zones of life. There were fewer..." The monkey spoke.
The Ancient Forbidden Land and Immortal Mountain had never been heard of in the primordial era. The monkey speculated that they were terrifying forbidden zones formed later, comparable to or even surpassing the ancient deadly lands.
The Primordial Ancient Mine was the supreme sacred land of the primordial races. In the bygone ancient years, only the world-covering primordial emperors could enter.
Primordial biological emperors were very difficult to form. Like the human race's great emperors, throughout the ages, there had only been a few.
Members of the several great primordial royal clans, once they achieved great accomplishment, were indeed extremely powerful, but ultimately somewhat inferior to emperors. Becoming an emperor was incomparably difficult.
"You don't know what's in the Primordial Ancient Mine?" Jiang Huairen was shocked.
"In those bygone primordial years, only a few ancient emperors and the masters of several royal clans had entered," the monkey said regretfully.
"The Battle-Saint Ape lineage probably only has you left. As the master of the Saint Ape clan, shouldn't you be able to enter in the future?" Li Heishui said.
"So many years have passed. According to what you've said, it has already evolved into one of the seven forbidden zones of life. Without becoming an emperor, entering would certainly mean death," the monkey shook his head.
"He still has an uncle in the Western Desert!" The big black dog ground its teeth and muttered.
"The Immortal Mound, it is said to be the tomb of some immortals, vast and boundless, barren of grass, with ten thousand miles of blood-soaked land. In the primordial era, it was already a forbidden zone of life."
Several primordial emperors had once said that it was a place where immortals were buried, not to be approached. Otherwise, death was certain—the most dangerous region under heaven.
Now, countless years had passed, and life had finally appeared there. Many peerless spiritual medicines had grown in the blood-soaked land, but unfortunately, no one dared to pick them.
Because even ancient sages who entered found it difficult to come out again; it devoured people's lives.
"However, some emperors also said that hearing is empty, seeing is truth. Without having seen immortals, there are no immortals," the monkey added.
Primordial emperors were supremely terrifying, invincible throughout the world. No one could contend with them. Among countless races and billions of living beings, across the ages, there were only a few.
Even fewer than the human race's ancient great emperors. Their opinions were not consistent either; their understanding of immortals differed greatly.
"Divine Ruins, it is said to have fallen from another world..."
The monkey's words shook everyone. The history of Divine Ruins' formation was extremely ancient, impossible to trace. Even the most ancient primordial emperors couldn't deduce its age.
"Divine Ruins is that ancient?" Even the big black dog drew in cold air.
In Divine Ruins, there were indeed shocking relics like the Southern Heavenly Gate and Heavenly Palace, standing for hundreds of millions of years without decay—impossible to preserve through human effort.
"Is there really a vast and mysterious Immortal Realm?" Ye Fan frowned.
In his view, the cultivators of this world could rival the immortals of myth and legend. If there was another mysterious world, he truly didn't know what kind of beings were there.
However, he had always doubted and didn't truly believe that immortals existed. The ancient great emperors should be the ultimate realm. Although he had seen the Nine Dragons Coffin, those were most likely saint-level flood dragons, not immortal spirits.
"I haven't heard of the theory of an Immortal Realm, but I have heard my old father mention the words 'Immortal Domain'..." The monkey spoke slowly.
The monkey's old father had experienced an astonishingly long span of years. As a primordial emperor, his cultivation was unfathomable, considered one of the most powerful existences throughout the ages.
His lifespan was exhausted. He had a son in his old age. On his deathbed, he spoke of the Immortal Domain, saying it most likely existed, but it was his regret that he couldn't enter it in his lifetime.
"My little uncle said that my father was born at the wrong time. Otherwise, there would have been a slight chance. Unfortunately, it coincided with a great change in heaven and earth. He had no fate with the Immortal Domain and couldn't deduce it."
The monkey's father ultimately only sighed, incomparably desolate, because in the end, he couldn't personally verify his own speculation.
Several primordial emperors believed that Divine Ruins did not belong to this world but had fallen from a mysterious place. The views of these few were known to all races.
"The Southern Heavenly Gate and Heavenly Palace have been indestructible from ancient times to the present. There, golden light surges with red rainbows, and auspicious vapors surge forth with purple mist..." The big black dog muttered to itself, its eyes very deep.
"Is there really an Immortal Domain? It seems unlikely..." Li Heishui and the others frowned.
"Fallen from another world... Does immortals really exist?" Wu Zhongtian muttered to himself. His grandfather was learned and knowledgeable, having made many deductions.
"Big brother, what are immortals?" Little Nannan tugged at Ye Fan's clothes, looking up at him innocently, full of hope.
Ye Fan patted her head and said, "A kind of ethereal existence. Perhaps they never appeared at all. Even if they exist, they are not in this world."
"Oh." The little one nodded as if she understood.
"Immortal Mountain... It sounds familiar to me, but there was no such ancient mountain in the primordial era," the monkey frowned, speaking of another forbidden zone.
"Think carefully. What place in the primordial era was Immortal Mountain?" The big black dog said.
Emperor Wu Shi and the Ruthless Great Emperor had both entered Immortal Mountain, leaving indelible marks under the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree. The big black dog wanted to know more.
"I really haven't heard of Immortal Mountain, but in primordial legends, there is an Immortal Emperor," the monkey thought for a long time before recalling such a nearly illusory figure, but he couldn't confirm whether he had existed.
"Immortal Emperor... Daring to use such a title!?" Even the big black dog was shocked.
"The first master of the Immortal Divine Phoenix Medicine, it is said, was that Immortal Emperor. Legend has it that he almost surpassed the gods. Many people don't believe he ever existed," the monkey shook his head.