Chapter 79 Imitating Dao Glyphs
“Where is that person who first managed to find the Source within the ancient caves deep within the mountains?” Ye Fan asked.
According to the ancient texts, a place where a Source could be found generally contained many more Sources that could be extracted. If he were to find that ancient cave, he might be able to find even more.
Uncle Jiang sighed, saying, “After he returned to this town, less than a day after he sold it to the Li family, he disappeared. Many people guess that it was the Li family who committed this heaven-offending act in order to avoid paying him.”
Ye Fan immediately understood that the Li family had likely killed him in order to keep him quiet. Sources were simply too important to cultivators, so they wouldn’t allow anyone to randomly divulge this information.
“Looks like it’s a bit troublesome…”
“Big brother, what troubles do you have? Tingting will help you.” Little Tingting asked innocently as she slanted her head with her large bright eyes.
Ye Fan laughed, gently squeezing her little nose and saying, “Tingting is very obedient…”
After eating breakfast, Ye Fan walked out of the small restaurant. He walked around the distant Li house two times, staring at the broken walls. There were no less than thirty rooms that had completely collapsed.
Just at this moment, a burst of beast roars came from outside the small town. Not long after, dust flew into the air as a large mount charged over. Although its body was shaped similarly to a horse, it was covered by cyan scales and it was extremely fast. It arrived in front of the Li house’s gate in just an instant.
“Scaled Dragon Horse!” Ye Fan’s heart started. From the cyan scales all over its body, its horse-like shape, and its powerful strength, he knew what kind of beast this was. It was many times faster than a horse, capable of traveling over two thousand kilometers a day without trouble. It was a completely untiring mount that never needed to rest.
Ordinary people would definitely not be able to obtain such a beast. Even cultivators at the Sea of Bitterness realm would not be able to subdue it. The Scaled Dragon Horse’s power was not ordinary, and it was normally cultivators at the Spring of Life realm who caused them to submit and who granted them to the younger generation who still couldn’t use divine rainbows to fly.
Its scales flickering, its head and tail shaking, it raised its head and howled towards the heavens, appearing very much like a divine spirit horse. On top of its saddle was a young man appearing around twenty-five, his face pale, his lips thin, and his expression seeming somewhat gloomy.
The Li family was immediately shocked. Their gate opened wide and someone loudly shouted as he ran back in to tell the news. “Young master has returned!”
Ye Fan relaxed. The Li family’s cultivator seemed to most likely be at the Sea of Bitterness realm, else he would have just used a divine rainbow to fly over.
That Source will be mine! But now wasn’t the time to take action.
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Not long after, Ye Fan again ran deep into the mountains. This time when he looked at the golden tome within his Sea of Bitterness, he found that the first few characters had become even more indistinct, seeming as if they might completely disappear at any moment.
Why is this happening…?,Ye Fan carefully thought about this problem. Luckily I already completely understood that disappearing section.
He then continued to comprehend the Dao Scripture. Each time he read it he would have a different feeling. He only stopped after a long time, now attempting to refine the cauldron above his Sea of Bitterness.
The nineteen Divine Symbols had smelted together, appearing like a bright lump of divine iron. Even after Ye Fan’s hundreds and thousands of attempts to refine it, it still wouldn’t take the form of a cauldron.
At some point, Ye Fan had once tried to refine a flying sword. And although the result hadn’t reached perfection, it still had the beginning shape and it definitely would have one day succeeded if he were to continue refining.
But no matter what he did, the cauldron would not take shape.
Ye Fan melted back down the golden sword, once more trying to form a cauldron. He tried time after time, and he failed time after time. All he could refine was a lump that was completely incapable of taking shape, not even forming an initial embryonic form of a cauldron.
If it continues like this, who knows how many years it’ll take to form a cauldron full of Dao charm. If it still fails, this will have been a complete waste of time.
The process of refining a cauldron not only required a large amount of Life Qi, it also required an intense focusing of divine sense. Ye Fan could no longer maintain such control after working for several hours, so he had no choice but to stop for now.
Above his Sea of Bitterness, that bright pea-sized lump of divine iron had failed to take shape after hundreds of refinements.
This lump of divine iron can already count as a half-broken Vessel. I wonder if I could use it to control weapons like the Green Wood Seal…
Ye Fan lamented. He didn’t have any spiritual treasures that he could use to test the Vessel's control over items. He really wanted to give it a try. Suddenly, he saw the golden tome that had been pushed by the green copper to the very edge of his Sea of Bitterness. I’ll test the control with it.
The pea-sized lump of divine iron quickly submerged into his Sea of Bitterness, merging with the golden tome. Under Ye Fan’s urging, a blazing golden light rushed out of his body, acting just like a dazzling bolt of lightning as it struck through space.
As the blazing ray of light shot forth, multiple ancient trees and two huge boulders were completely unable to stop it. Ye Fan walked up and gently pushed on one of the trees, and it immediately toppled down. It had been completely cut through in an extremely smooth manner. When that golden ray had struck it, the huge tree hadn’t moved in the slightest; however, it had been completely split apart.
Ye Fan was amazed, as each ancient tree was like this. Even those two ancient boulders were the same. When he pushed on one, it also split apart, having been completely cut through.
The golden page flew a dozen meters away, looking like a dazzling golden sun as it hung in the air. Under Ye Fan’s urging, the golden light flashed and immediately flew back, returning to Ye Fan’s Sea of Bitterness.
“It really is sharp…” Ye Fan murmured, amazed. He had just wanted to test if he could control items with such a Vessel, not expecting the golden tome to actually be so matchlessly sharp.
This golden page not only has the Dao Scripture recorded on it, but can also be used as a weapon? With this thought, he once more tested it out. The golden light flashed out both like a thunderbolt and a rainbow as it streaked across space.
Ye Fan found that he could only control the golden tome up to just over a dozen meters away from him. Beyond that range, he would lose control.
The Dao Scripture is one of the most mysterious ancient scriptures of the Eastern Wastelands. This golden page is definitely not ordinary. Now I can also be considered to have a weapon. It’ll definitely be a sharp tool when fighting against enemies! Ye Fan’s confidence gradually grew.
If this golden page is already so shocking, then that lump of green copper is probably even more frightening. It should be considered a real weapon, but I don’t know how powerful it is… Thinking of this, Ye Fan couldn’t stay calm and tried to control the green copper.
However, within the center of his golden Sea of Bitterness, that lump of green copper remained completely silent and motionless, just like a huge boulder.
“I feel like I’m trying to move a giant mountain,” Ye Fan mumbled, his brow beaded with sweat and his energy completely drained. There was simply no way for him to move that green copper even a fraction of an inch. The center of his Sea of Bitterness seemed to be enshrouded by an ancient and simple aura, possessing a majestic pressure.
No wonder even the Dao Scripture was forced back to the edge. This lump of green copper is too mysterious and extraordinary. It’s like a boundless ocean, like stars immemorial, completely endless with a pressure like the heavens.
The green copper was definitely not complete. It seemed as if it had broken off from some kind of weapon. If even its broken state was like this, it was unimaginable just how formidable the complete weapon would be.
“Inestimable, completely inestimable!” Ye Fan was shocked. The more he thought about it, the more terrifying and shocking he believed the green copper to be. “Just what kind of thing is its complete form…?”
Just at this moment, his gaze suddenly brightened. He saw that the green copper’s Dao Glyphs seemed to possess some sort of unspeakable Dao charm.
“Since I can’t move it, I’ll first attempt to imitate its Dao Glyphs!”
The mysterious green copper’s surface didn’t have any Dao Glyphs. Only on that broken off portion were there many packed and complicated Dao Glyphs, profound and incomprehensible. But it still possessed some kind of Dao law, a natural primeval feeling of heaven and earth, causing him to be deeply moved regarding them.
Ye Fan still hadn’t reached the realm where he could analyze Dao Glyphs, but what he wanted to do was have the lump of divine iron that wouldn’t form a cauldron be smelted upon that broken off part of the green copper, copying its mysterious Dao Glyphs.
These mysterious and unfathomable Dao Glyphs definitely have an amazing origin. They are very likely those legendary unrivaled Glyph Veins formed from the heavens.
Ye Fan rested for a bit and started to smelt that lump of divine iron. He spread it out and adhered it onto the green copper, smelting it like an ordinary smith, repeatedly hammering it to impress those packed Glyphs onto it.
He continued to smelt, and a strange feeling arose. The lump of divine iron gradually seemed to gain some indescribable charm. However, when he carefully checked, he sensed that it still seemed completely ordinary, unchanged and not possessing any Dao charm.
Was it a mistake?
In the following few hours, he repeatedly smelted and hammered that lump of divine iron. He impressed the green copper’s Dao Glyphs all over it.
It seems much more compact than before. No matter if it’s a misperception or what, copying the green copper’s Dao Glyphs can definitely only bring benefits, not harm.
In the end, Ye Fan once more began to refine a cauldron, wanting to see if the lump of divine iron had changed now that he had imitated the Dao Glyphs.
Above his Sea of Bitterness, that lump of divine iron continuously changed. It gradually became rounder, its luster seemed to retreat, and it seemed to feel more real and solid.
Finally, although it could not even be said to be an initial embryonic form, Ye Fan still felt much more hopeful. He sensed an anomaly while refining the lump of divine iron, finding some kind of mysterious and profound feeling.
As expected, the green copper’s Dao Glyphs are truly mysterious. In the future, I’ll repeatedly refine and imitate them every day, and forming a cauldron in the future should not be a problem.