Poor Ye Fan was suffering inside, but he wasn't about to say it.
Still, this proved once again that even if this supposed Heavenly Emperor's Source Arts weren't the real thing, they had something to them. That gave Ye Fan a little comfort.
Wait. Hadn't Ye Fan taken comfort in that exact thought not long ago?
So Ye Fan kept choosing and cutting stones with a heavy heart. Then his heart grew heavier still.
Why hadn't he cut anything out of the stones since finding the Divine Silkworm Princess?
According to his Source Arts, hadn't every one of them been blessed by Fortune, favored by fate, and hiding divine light?
Then why did they contain nothing but ordinary Source Stone?
How could Source Arts supposedly left by a Heavenly Emperor be this bad?
Grief surged through Ye Fan's heart like a river flowing backward. At the same time, he couldn't help wondering: what kind of Source Arts were these?
His conviction had begun to waver. Perhaps he had been deceived, and perhaps that senior who had turned into a skeleton of jade had been deceived too.
These weren't a Heavenly Emperor's Source Arts at all!
It wasn't until Ye Fan later faced a powerful enemy and had nowhere left to turn that he happened to use these Source Arts. Heaven and Earth changed color, vital energy erupted, and the Laws trembled, helping him sweep away every enemy. Only then did Ye Fan think...
Maybe these really are a Heavenly Emperor's Source Arts.
But why were a Heavenly Emperor's Source Arts no good at their own trade, yet suited to fighting?
How did a set of Source Arts fail at everything involving sources but prove terrifyingly powerful in battle? Did that make any sense?
Of course, that came later. Right now,