Invincible Young Master in the City

What the Mysterious Maiden knew was clearly more than Ye Fan.

Although Ye Fan possessed very high cultivation and great wisdom, unfortunately, he had been born too late. When the ancient cultivation world was surging with treacherous and unpredictable changes, Ye Fan had not even been born yet; it was impossible for him to know those ancient secrets.

In certain aspects the Mysterious Maiden was inferior to Ye Fan, but many things she knew were precisely what Ye Fan did not know.

"Are you trying to deceive me again?" Ye Fan raised his arm; at any moment he could imprison the Mysterious Maiden in a cage of time and space, yet he was in effect giving her a chance, allowing her to finish what she had to say.

The Mysterious Maiden sneered and said, "Everything you want to know, I can tell you. Don’t you want to see some scenes from the distant past? Then I’ll let you know what happened during the last heavenly tribulation, and everything else you want to know."

Hearing this, Ye Fan finally loosened the restrictions he had placed on the Mysterious Maiden. After regaining her freedom, she did not try to escape, because she knew she was in no position to flee in front of Ye Fan. Ye Fan’s cultivation was far higher than hers; now, Ye Fan was already an existence second only to the three legendary ancient great powers. His current cultivation could even be said to surpass that of Nuwa by a bit.

After the Mysterious Maiden steadied herself again, she waved her hand, and a scene appeared before their eyes. This scene was exactly the one Ye Fan wanted to see: the scene of the previous heavenly tribulation.

In the scene, the most eye-catching figures were those so‑called ancient great powers, and what they were facing were streaks of white light. This was very similar to the images Ye Fan had once seen on the White Jade Prophecy Stone at Emperor Mountain.

"What is this?" Ye Fan tried his best to see the faces of those ancient great powers clearly, but it was actually very hard to distinguish them.

The Mysterious Maiden said, "Isn’t this the scene you wanted to see? Everything you wish to know is basically here. In fact, a heavenly tribulation is just a kind of attack, either with form or without form, a kind of oppression by power. As for how that power manifests, no one knows. Even the prophecy of the second heavenly tribulation was made on the basis of the form of the first, and this cannot serve as the final standard. No one knows in what form the second heavenly tribulation will truly arrive."

"So?" Ye Fan said, "In the first heavenly tribulation, how many people actually died in it?"

The Mysterious Maiden said helplessly, "What you’re seeing is only one of the ways the heavenly tribulation unfolded. Who knows how tragic the next heavenly tribulation will be? What you’re seeing is just the scene I saw back then; so in this image, it’s impossible for me to appear. In that heavenly tribulation, very few of the ancient great powers actually fell. That also had to do with the fact that the tribulation then wasn’t as intense as this upcoming one. After the tribulation, Pan Gu made a prophecy that the next heavenly tribulation would definitely be far more severe than this one. In order to delay its arrival, he created the Pan Gu Secret Realm. His goal was not actually to create cultivators, but to find, among human cultivators, the legendary chosen one."

Ye Fan frowned and said, "I can’t completely believe what you say."

"You must believe it. You can’t help but admire Pan Gu’s wisdom. He saw through everything. He also realized that the only ones who could truly save the world from the next heavenly tribulation would be the cultivators of the next era they created, because the cultivation of the ancient great powers had already taken shape; they could no longer cultivate other energies. Only by creating a kind of living being whose form resembled that of the ancient cultivators but who in fact possessed no cultivation at all, could such beings go on to comprehend the energy from the higher‑level creator, and thus be able to resist the heavenly tribulation... And you are precisely the chosen one he prophesied, are you not?" the Mysterious Maiden said.

Ye Fan shook his head and said, "I am not the chosen one. The true chosen one is Lan Jing."

"Actually, there’s not much difference between the two of you. With Lan Jing’s strength alone, it’s simply impossible for her to confront the heavenly tribulation. She has to receive your help. She’s fortunate to have your aid, and your guidance of her is the key that determines the height of her cultivation. In fact, throughout the process from the ancient cultivators until now, everyone has wanted to be like you, to comprehend those cultivation powers that do not belong to this universe. Xi He has survived and remained hidden all this time precisely in order to cultivate elemental energy. She even succeeded in cultivating some of it, but she still could not comprehend the true essence of elemental power, because she is an ancient cultivator. What she has learned has already been fixed in form, whereas you are different," the Mysterious Maiden said.

Ye Fan nodded and said, "I think I understand what you mean. Pan Gu himself realized that only those who can grasp the origin power of the heavenly tribulation can oppose the force of the tribulation, yet you yourselves cannot grasp it, so you could only rely on humans. That’s why he had Nuwa create humans, isn’t that it?"

"Yes, that’s exactly it. Actually, the earliest spark of humanity existed only within the Pan Gu Secret Realm. Gradually, humans spread from the Pan Gu Secret Realm to the entire universe. In order to evolve the best possible humans, Nuwa did not directly create the human form, but allowed humans to gradually evolve. Only in this way could they achieve mastery over nature’s spiritual energy. Later, Nuwa created humans several more times, each outcome better than the last. There were even several catastrophes—all of them created by Nuwa herself. Before the birth of your generation of beings, humanity had already experienced more than a dozen extinctions!" the Mysterious Maiden said.

Ye Fan said, "I want to see what happened later. I don’t want to hear your explanations anymore!"

"You want to see, then keep watching. I have no intention of hiding anything from you now. If you want to see the outcome, then keep watching..."

As she spoke, the Mysterious Maiden unfolded another scene. This one was about the birth and origin of humanity. Life forms were created in a way almost identical to all demonstrations in biology. The very beginning of humanity was indeed composed of single‑celled organisms, evolving bit by bit. The span of time in the middle was something humans could hardly imagine, far longer than the time Earth had existed.

Ye Fan said, "From the last heavenly tribulation until now, how long has it been?"

"Countless years. No one has ever counted. Even I have gone through periods of slumber. You don’t need to know exactly how much time has passed. For the sake of speeding up the evolution of life, Nuwa once created a special environment to cultivate humans. Time there was accelerated, yet even with acceleration, it still took tens of millions of years. If Pan Gu, Fu Xi and the others had not fallen into slumber, this heavenly tribulation might have arrived long ago. It was precisely because the powerful energy bodies in the universe concealed themselves that the heavenly tribulation was delayed until today!" the Mysterious Maiden explained.

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