# Chapter 714: The Whereabouts of the Ancient Great Emperors
"I misspoke. Pretend you didn't hear anything." Li Tian withdrew his sinister expression, his face becoming very solemn.
"No, you just said that Eternal Universe Great Emperor forged a Divine Maiden Furnace for your founder!" Ye Fan stared into his eyes, demanding he explain fully.
"Alas, Senior Brother, you've seen it too. It's not that I want the Divine Maiden Furnace to emerge, but someone already knows about it, so it's time to let it reappear in the world." Li Tian said.
"Impossible!" Yan Yixi sternly refused.
"What can we do? Look, an outsider now knows this secret. How about we two join forces and kill Brother Ye? That way the Divine Maiden Furnace can continue to be buried in the mountains." Li Tian spoke with complete seriousness, not joking at all.
He was a sinister person. Given his usual personality, he might actually do it. Otherwise, Yan Yixi wouldn't have said he had fallen into a demonic state.
"Give up that idea now!" Yan Yixi stared at him.
"Alas, Brother Ye, how about we join forces and kill my senior brother instead? He's too boring." Li Tian said very seriously.
"You two..." Ye Fan stared at them. Right now, he only wanted to know the secrets of Eternal Universe Great Emperor, not so much about the Divine Maiden Furnace.
"Brother Ye, don't think he's joking. He really wants to kill me. He's already tried five times before and almost succeeded each time." Yan Yixi said.
"Senior Brother, I only want to say one thing to you now: without breaking, there is no establishing. How can the Dao expand if you don't push forward?" Li Tian said very seriously.
Yan Yixi fell silent. He understood this principle too. Their inheritance needed to break free from old conventions, or it would continue to decline.
"Do you know what terrible consequences will follow once it emerges?" He spoke solemnly, staring at Li Tian as if this matter was extremely grave.
"Don't look at me like that. The Divine Maiden Furnace has an infamous reputation. Once it appears, everyone will indeed want to destroy it. But you can't just be afraid to use it because of that. Change must start now." Li Tian said in a deep voice.
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Listening from the side, Ye Fan finally understood some secrets. The inheritance of these two men had an origin so terrifying in ancient times—it was called the Path of Human Desire.
This was an immensely powerful ancient Daoist sect. It cultivated the human path, possessing both the Six Desires Heavenly Art and the Emotion-Slaying Great Art. Within the same sect, there were several opposing ancient traditions.
Back then, a renegade disciple of this sect cultivated the Six Desires Heavenly Art to invincibility, returned to the sect, seized the sacred weapon Divine Maiden Furnace, and wreaked havoc across the world.
Li Tian said: "Alas, enough said. In a sense, that senior is my role model, but he was too hated. Nothing happened to him while he was alive, but after he sat in meditation and passed away, the world's heroes rose up together and destroyed our Path of Human Desire."
"The Divine Maiden Furnace captured all the beauties of the world in one net—whether the divine maidens of the Human King Hall or the fairies of Guanghan Palace, not a single one escaped. For the women of that era, it was an extremely dark chapter in ancient history." Yan Yixi added.
Ye Fan finally understood. The Divine Maiden Furnace was notorious. No wonder the Path of Human Desire was destroyed, and the survivors of this lineage dared not take it out and use it.
"Are you sure that broken furnace was forged by Eternal Universe Great Emperor for your founder?"
"What broken furnace? It's a supreme sacred weapon! It has drunk the blood of at least four saints!" Li Tian said indignantly.
Ye Fan wasn't very concerned about this furnace, infamous for millennia. He only wanted to know about Eternal Universe Great Emperor's past—why he had manifested in the Ziwei Ancient Star Domain.
"You're not from this domain, are you? You don't even know about Eternal Universe Great Emperor?!" When he heard Ye Fan ask again, Li Tian exclaimed in surprise. Yan Yixi also showed a strange expression.
"Are there many people from outside this domain who come here?" Ye Fan asked.
"Almost unheard of. The ancient path has been broken for who knows how many tens of thousands of years." Yan Yixi replied.
Li Tian asked in surprise: "Where are you from? I've only heard of the Big Dipper Star Domain. There's a living ancient star there. It's said that the last ancient great sage set sail from there."
"Alas, I drifted here from the Big Dipper Star Domain." Ye Fan replied. He knew he couldn't hide it, and there was no need to.
"What? You're really from outside this domain? Can you take me to the Big Dipper Star Domain? I really want to see what another world is like." Li Tian was extremely excited.
"Do you think this is a trip? I barely escaped with my life to get here." Ye Fan briefly explained what had happened.
Eternal Universe Great Emperor was born in the Ziwei Ancient Star Domain. This news stunned Ye Fan. However, he had attained the Dao outside this domain and only returned once before completely disappearing.
He was a contemporary of the founder of the Path of Human Desire and was a close friend in their youth. When he returned after attaining the Dao, he helped forge the Divine Maiden Furnace.
Due to material limitations, although the furnace was made by a great emperor's hand, it could only be a supreme sacred weapon, not entering the imperial-level sequence.
"So that's how it is..." Ye Fan was lost in thought.
"Alas, why did the Great Emperor go to the Big Dipper Star Domain?" Li Tian muttered, then seemed to remember something, asking: "Does your place have one or two Divine Immortality Pills?"
"I think there might be five or six or more." Ye Fan replied truthfully.
"What? How is that possible? One world can only produce one or two at most. Your place..." Even Yan Yixi was shocked, showing disbelief.
"The ones I've heard of have all survived since the ancient times. It's said that if there had been no upheaval, there would have been a few more." Ye Fan said.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Li Tian was extremely agitated, then asked: "What kinds of Divine Immortality Pills are there?"
"The Ten Thousand Dragon Nest has the True Dragon Immortality Pill, Immortal Mountain has the Black Tortoise Divine Medicine, Ancient Emperor Mountain has the Divine Phoenix Immortality Pill..." Ye Fan said.
Yan Yixi was dumbfounded: "Is this true?! Ancient stone carvings record that the True Dragon Immortality Pill was born in the Ziwei Ancient Star Domain, but no one in the world has ever seen it. How did it end up in the Big Dipper Star Domain? And the Divine Phoenix Immortality Pill definitely doesn't belong to the Big Dipper Star Domain. In ancient times, a great sage from outside this domain came, saying he wanted to retrieve his world's Divine Phoenix Immortality Pill. He was definitely not from the Big Dipper Star Domain."
"No way... Did all the ancient great emperors go to the Big Dipper Star Domain? What's there that's worth their going?" Li Tian was shocked, sensing something.
The Big Dipper Star Domain had Extreme Imperial Weapons, but excluding the influence of weapons, its overall strength was inferior to the Ziwei Ancient Star. Ye Fan had seen many great sects these past days, all with illustrious reputations and many sect leader-level figures. He had reached this conclusion through comparison.
"All the ancient great emperors went to the Big Dipper Star Domain..." Ye Fan was dazed. So those several great emperors might have come from different ancient star domains.
What were they searching for? What did they obtain? In the end, some died, and others disappeared. Had they achieved their goal?
This was a shocking secret. The Big Dipper Star Domain must have something extraordinary that interested even the ancient great emperors.
"Becoming an Immortal!"
In the end, Ye Fan uttered these two words, nothing else. For the ancient great emperors, this was their only pursuit, for they had already reached the pinnacle of the human world.
Then, he thought of the Stellar Ancient Path and fell silent, suddenly thinking of many things.
In a dilapidated cave dwelling, Li Tian and Yan Yixi dug out an ancient furnace that had been buried under incense ash for who knows how many years.
It was shaped like a reclining divine maiden, covered in marks of age. It was carved from a piece of divine copper, then hammered and forged a hundred times.
"Made by Eternal Universe Great Emperor's hand..." Ye Fan had cultivated the Eternal Universe Scripture in the Four Extremes Secret Realm. Now, with a slight circulation, the originally lifeless ancient furnace immediately emitted a burst of radiance.
"You..." Yan Yixi and Li Tian were both startled.
"I happened to study a volume of the Eternal Universe Scripture." Ye Fan said.
"This is great. If we join forces, we'll be unstoppable!" Li Tian was full of confidence. The Path of Human Desire also had a set of furnace-control techniques left by Eternal Universe Great Emperor, which the two brothers had both cultivated.
For half a month, Lu Province had been unstable. The Eternal Life Temple and the Human King Hall exchanged divine scriptures but got nowhere. A fierce battle broke out that night, and no one gained anything.
Recently, an even more shocking piece of news spread: the Immortal Fusang Divine Tree had emerged, shaking this entire region.
The Golden Crow Clan had almost all gone out to sea, searching for this ancient divine tree that concerned whether their clan could attain the Dao.
"No wonder there was no reaction after I killed the Golden Crow's Ninth Prince. They were busy with this great matter."
Ye Fan, Li Tian, and Yan Yixi walked through Lu Province, hearing many rumors. Countless experts had rushed to the North Sea.
"The Yin Yang Divine Son went, the Heavenly Demon Grandmother went, Yi Qingwu went, the Golden Crow Clan went. None of these are good people. Let's go too and use the Divine Maiden Furnace to seize the Fusang Divine Tree." Li Tian said.
The North Sea was pitch-black and vast, with ink-black waves churning, vast and magnificent.
According to records from the Ziwei Ancient Star Domain, the Fusang Divine Tree was born on the Tanggu in the East Sea but disappeared who knows when.
Now, the Golden Crow Clan had dug up a fragment of a remnant map from an ancient ruin, learning that this immortal tree was still in this world, growing in the North Sea.
The ocean was boundless. Black waves surged into the high heavens, scattering the clouds in the sky, the sound deafening.
Ye Fan and the others entered the North Sea, unmoved by this magnificent scene. What they cared about was how many experts had come.
Now, Ye Fan had recently entered the second level of the Immortal Platform, plus the Eight Forbidden Domain, allowing him to fight top-tier great powers, even rivaling living fossils.
However, he was not invincible. Every sect master was a person of extraordinary talent. Although they couldn't touch the Eight Forbidden Domain like Ye Fan, crossing three or four forbidden levels was no problem.
"Now that we have the Divine Maiden Furnace in hand, even if the undying deity from the Eight Virtues Treasure Wheel comes out, we can still kill it!" Li Tian was full of confidence.
They had been at sea for nine days, encountering many powerful warriors along the way and engaging in some great battles, but still no clue about the Fusang Divine Tree.
Suddenly, celestial music rang out ahead, golden light shot into the sky, illuminating the entire sea area in a golden hue.
"Could the divine tree have emerged?" Ye Fan and the others rushed over quickly.
This sea area was already boiling with battle. Many figures were fighting, dozens of Golden Crows crisscrossing like divine rainbows. An island rose from the sea, breaking through the water's surface.
This was an ancient cave dwelling that had emerged today. On its stone door was inserted a branch, like forged from gold, brilliant in color, radiating light.
"A Fusang divine branch! There are important clues here!" People exclaimed.
"Gagaga... Children, you're here again!" The Heavenly Demon Grandmother descended from the sky, immediately spotting Ye Fan and the others. This existence surpassing living fossils stood together with an old Golden Crow, arriving together.
"Old thing!" Li Tian gritted his teeth.
At the same time, many from the Golden Crow Clan looked over, fixing their gazes on Ye Fan, their eyes filled with hatred.
The old Golden Crow standing with the Heavenly Demon Grandmother shot divine light from his eyes, locking onto Ye Fan, walking over step by step.
"Fourth Ancestor, he's that Ye-surnamed strongman. We must kill him to avenge the Ninth Prince!" A Golden Crow clansman spoke from the side.
"Let me handle it. I need his flesh and blood." The Heavenly Demon Grandmother spoke, stepping forward before the Golden Crow's Fourth Ancestor, heading straight for Ye Fan.
She was a Heavenly Demon Body, with unfathomable magical power. Living fossils were nothing before her. The Golden Crow's ancestor naturally didn't want to offend her and was happy to let her act.
"Clear the area. All idle people step back." The Heavenly Demon Grandmother intimidated everyone. This was her true body in person. No one dared meet her gaze.
"Indeed, it's time to clear the area." Yan Yixi also sneered.
"Grandmother misses you all so much. Come here!" The Heavenly Demon Grandmother laughed sinisterly, like a ten-thousand-year-old ghost crying.
"But I really hate you. Now, clear the area." Ye Fan spoke, holding a fist-sized ancient furnace in his palm.
"I smell the scent of sacred body blood..." The Heavenly Demon Grandmother licked her withered lips sinisterly.
"The Yin Yang Divine Son is here, Yi Qingwu is over there too. We can't let them get away this time." Li Tian said with a hehe.
"Let's deal with this old thing first." Ye Fan activated the Eternal Universe Scripture, instantly offering up the Divine Maiden Furnace. The might of a saint covered heaven and earth!
"Ah..."
The Heavenly Demon Grandmother screamed. The distance was too close. She had never expected a supreme sacred weapon to appear. Her entire body cracked!