Ye Fan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ye Fan (叶凡)
Alias(es)	Heavenly Emperor Ye; Mop War God; Toilet Lord; Study Maniac 668 669 974
Species/Race	Human 822
Gender	Male 664
Origin	Huaxia, Earth Star 664 669
Affiliation	Heavenly Court; Dao Realm Emperors and Immortals 823 973 1704
Occupation/Role	Cultivator, Source Arts practitioner, former entrepreneur, Acting Heavenly Emperor 672 731 973
Constitution	Born a First-Generation Sacred Physique; develops the Super Sacred Body created by Meng Chuan 679 1282
Cultivation	Identified as a Chaos One in the latest supplied cultivation reference 2738
Status	Alive; survives his apparent death at the hands of the Red-Haired Immortal Emperor 2324 2738
First Appearance	Birth depicted in 664; mentioned earlier in 372

Power Progression

Main Cultivation Path

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Sealed Sacred Physique	664 667	A Great Accomplished Tyrant Body’s seal prevents cultivation during his childhood, although his physical strength remains exceptional.
Sea of Bitterness	690 691	Cultivation is active by this point; divine power from his Bitter Sea heals his injuries after fighting Little Dragon Man.
Life Spring	692	Reaches the stage after three months of training. Immortal Transformation Pool water subsequently heals him and slightly strengthens his Life Spring.
Dao Palace	732	Possesses the Root Source of Mother Qi of All Things while still in this realm, making him a target for far stronger cultivators.
Four Extremes; Sacred Body Minor Accomplishment	759 760 761	Tempers his body, spirit, and cauldron through tribulation. Survives phantoms of the Undying Heavenly Emperor, Emperor Zun, and the Great Accomplished Tyrant Body, gaining insight into Tyrant Body Dao.
Immortal Platform	770	Advances during the twenty-year golden age. Repeated defeats by Luzi continue to temper him through its stages.
Great Power	791 793	Has not yet Severed the Dao, but defeats the Dao-Severing Wang Teng and survives his self-detonation with minor injuries.
Dao-Severing	822	Slays a Saint despite his lower realm and enters the Starry Sky Ancient Road with a reputation as his generation’s foremost prodigy.
Sainthood	823 830	Receives a cultivation opportunity at the Ancient Heavenly Court. His completed Sainthood tribulation is subsequently used as a chronological reference.
Quasi-Emperor	834 836	Defeats multiple Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors before attaining the Dao himself.
Great Emperor; Near-Immortal combat strength	883 899	His Dao attainment is confirmed, and his cultivation is already profound enough to make him a Near-Immortal. Later becomes the era’s most conspicuous imperial powerhouse.
Third Lifetime, Red Dust Immortal Path	901	Reaches his third life ten thousand years after attaining the Dao. Shortens his first two lives through a self-developed Longevity Method, supported by prior experience in the Illusory Universe Light Fragment.
Sixth Lifetime	1594	Reaches this stage during Meng Chuan’s roughly 200,000-year absence.
Seventh Lifetime	1605	In the Emperor’s Fall Era, uses his own cultivation-severing method and returns to the Human Dao Pinnacle before beginning his seventh life.
Eighth Lifetime	1606	Exchanges Dao insights and cultivates alongside Shi Hao for a hundred thousand years.
Ready for Immortal King breakthrough	1618	After 800,000 years in Emperor’s Fall, masters the mysteries needed to establish the Sixth Secret Realm. Returns home before beginning his Heavenly Rules Tribulation.
Immortal King; Giant	1624	Confirmed to have been an Immortal King for fifty thousand years, with a distinguished reputation in parts of the Boundary Sea.
Quasi-Immortal Emperor; Emperor Method Prototype emerging	2230	Undergoes transformation during prolonged battles against Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors and glimpses an Emperor Method Prototype.
Third-Stage Quasi-Immortal Emperor	2265	Stands at the same stage as Ruthless; proposes attacking the Weird Race’s strongholds.
Forced Ultimate Sublimation	2300	Successfully sublimates despite exhaustion when Zhong Yue supplies refined life essence from a captured Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
Immortal Emperor	2318 2324	Breaks through at the brink of death during his clash with the Red-Haired Immortal Emperor. Recovers over several years and reunites with his companions.
Sacrificial Dao Domain	2512	Becomes the third living cultivator at this level. His breakthrough radiance spreads across all space-time.
Chaos One	2738	Explicitly identified among the Chaos Ones; the exact breakthrough is not shown in the supplied passages.

Illusory Universe Light Fragment

The fragment is an artificial parallel world created by Meng Chuan. Ye Fan’s experiences and growth are real, while its other inhabitants are illusions, except for the actual Forbidden Zone Supremes used in his trial 849.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Cultivation reset	836 837	Enters with his memories and techniques intact, but without his previous cultivation. His physique is weaker than his real-world Super Sacred Body.
Four Extremes; Sacred Body Minor Achievement	837	Jiang Taixu protects him through the breakthrough tribulation. His retained experience subsequently lets him overwhelm the world’s prodigies.
Great Sage Ultimate Peak	837	Rapidly advances through battles across Beidou and the universe, finding no comparable opponent.
Quasi-Emperor, beyond First Heaven	846	After returning from three hundred years of apparent death, passes another Quasi-Emperor Tribulation with ease.
Seventh-Heaven Quasi-Emperor; Sacred Body Great Accomplishment	846	Knowledge of his real-world Super Sacred Body causes his physique to reach Great Accomplishment unusually early; his remaining golden blood turns red.
Ninth-Heaven Quasi-Emperor; Alternative Dao Attainment	850	Transforms under the Supremes’ attacks, achieving combat power comparable to a Perfect Great Emperor.
Emperor Tribulation	851	After centuries of recovery and preparation, challenges the reigning Golden Crow’s Dao suppression and carries his tribulation into battle against the Supremes.
Great Emperor; second lifetime	856	Reigns supreme after the Golden Crow’s death. His first life lasts twenty thousand years; an Immortal Divine Medicine grants him a second life.

Background / History

Childhood on Earth Star

Ye Fan is born to cultivator parents who value his happiness above greatness or fame. Doctor Meng holds him after his birth, and his family registers him in the Dao Realm. Meng Chuan discovers the Tyrant Body seal within him but leaves it intact, judging its eventual benefits worth delaying cultivation 664.

Unable to cultivate, Ye Fan grows up with encouragement from his parents and Teacher Meng. His unusual strength allows him to stand up to cultivating peers. In middle school, he protects a bullied student and drives off his attackers with a mop, earning the name “Mop War God” 667 668.

Meng remains his teacher throughout successive schools and later becomes his university counselor. Ye Fan studies intensely to escape this constant supervision, becoming One Leaf High School’s “Study Maniac,” yet carefully remembers Meng’s private teachings even when he cannot understand them. At university, he shares a room with Pang Bo, Zhou Yi, and Zhang Ziling; afterward, he builds a successful business and buys a Mercedes 669 671 672.

Journey to Beidou

A university reunion leads Ye Fan and his classmates to Mount Tai, where Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin carries them away. He remains composed, consults his family through the Dao Realm, and fights the Crocodile Ancestor’s descendants on Yinghuo with his bare fists. He chooses Beidou as his destination because he hopes its cultivation lineages can help him begin cultivating 673 675 676.

In the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, he risks his lifespan to obtain the Nine Wonders Immortal Medicine. The life-draining force ages him almost to death before the Tyrant Body seal activates and temporarily protects him. Its purple aura causes widespread rumors that he is an ancient Tyrant Body ancestor reborn, although the Emperors recognize him as a First-Generation Sacred Physique 679 681.

Ye Fan gathers medicine and Divine Spring Water, sharing them with his parents, roommates, and classmates. He refuses Liu Yunzhi’s opportunistic demand for a fruit and ends their friendship. Upon leaving the Forbidden Land, his youth is restored, and Meng Chuan leaves him to make his own way on Beidou 683.

Resources, Rivalries, and the Emperor Path

Little Dragon Man repeatedly challenges and defeats Ye Fan, but also heals him and provides resources. Ye Fan gradually recognizes the training beneath this rivalry. At the Azure Emperor’s Remains, he receives Dao insights and a Green Lotus that takes root in his Bitter Sea; afterward, the Black Emperor becomes his traveling companion 692 702 703.

Resource shortages lead Ye Fan toward Source Arts. He obtains the Source Heaven Book and access to Meng Chuan’s Heavenly Emperor’s Source Arts, then earns treasures through stone gambling. Possession of the Root Source of Mother Qi of All Things also makes him a coveted target, forcing him to use disguises 705 731 732 741 746.

His Four Extremes tribulation tests both his Sacred Body and the lingering Tyrant Body seal. Surviving it opens his prospects while leaving wounds to his Origin and Great Dao. He later defeats Wang Teng despite being a realm below him, returns to Earth Star to seek medicine for Uncle Meng, and enters the Starry Sky Ancient Road 759 760 761 791 793 795 822.

The Dream-World Trial

Through the Great Dream Heart Sutra, Ye Fan enters a world where Meng Chuan and the Dao Realm appear never to have existed. Retained memories let him retrace his cultivation rapidly, but easy victories leave him isolated. The emergence of Dark Turmoil forces him to confront enemies far beyond his peers 836 837.

The ordeal is revealed as Meng Chuan’s Illusory Universe Light Fragment. Ye Fan turns attacks from real Forbidden Zone Supremes into fuel for transformation, survives apparent deaths, and eventually challenges the Golden Crow’s reigning imperial Dao. His experience there later enables his accelerated early progress along the Red Dust Immortal Path 849 850 851 856 901.

Family and Heavenly Emperor Regency

Ye Fan finally acknowledges his love for Ji Ziyue when the Wang Family proposes her marriage to Wang Teng. He intervenes and defeats his rival. His later wedding is not an abandonment of An Miaoyi or the other women close to him; the supplied text explicitly describes multiple Dao Companions 790 791 793 891 2018.

When Meng Chuan anticipates an extended disappearance, he appoints Ye Fan Acting Heavenly Emperor. Ye Fan initially tries to refuse, then grows comfortable with the position as its immense fortune allows his cultivation to advance even while he drinks tea and relaxes 973 974 999.

Emperor’s Fall and the Mortal Life with Chenxi

In the Emperor’s Fall Era, Ye Fan rises through a Dharma-End World and meets Shi Hao, a fellow practitioner of the Red Dust Immortal Path. They cultivate together for a hundred thousand years and hold a friendly farewell battle. Ye Fan ultimately spends 800,000 years in the era before returning to his family and beginning his Immortal King tribulation 1605 1606 1618.

Later, his soul fragments live separate lives while his true body sleeps. One fragment bearing his Xiantian Origin Essence Blood reaches Gou Chen Ancient Star. There, Ye Fan and Chenxi live as a loving mortal couple and have a son, Ye Yishui. After their mortal lives end, Ye Fan awakens with his memories restored and retrieves Chenxi, whose life spark Meng Chuan preserved. He subsequently tells her his true identity 1702 1703 1704 1717.

War Against the Weird Race

As a Third-Stage Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Ye Fan proposes attacking the Soul River and other Weird strongholds to keep the Boundary Sea from becoming their battlefield. His companions insist on sharing the danger. Their campaigns extend through the Soul River, Four Extremes Floating Soil, Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, Ancient Underworld, and Path of Reincarnation 2265 2266 2306.

Following prolonged warfare, Ye Fan is presumed killed by the Red-Haired Immortal Emperor. Meng Chuan’s safeguard preserves his opportunity to recover, but his Immortal Emperor breakthrough is his own achievement. He reunites with his companions, shares his insights, and later advances into the Sacrificial Dao Domain 2313 2318 2324 2512.

Appearance

• Adolescent build: Tall and noticeably taller than his middle-school peers; described as not particularly handsome, though he attracts girls’ attention 668.
• Sacred Body blood: In the Illusory Universe Light Fragment, his remaining golden blood turns red upon Great Accomplishment 846.
• Changing identities: Frequently alters his appearance to avoid people seeking his treasures; one disguise makes him appear blind 732 741.
• Facial resemblance: Shares features with Ruthless’s brother and Origin Ancestor, while retaining features uniquely his own 2666.

Personality

Ye Fan is confident, outspoken, and irreverent, especially toward Meng Chuan. His upbringing makes him more exuberant than the steadier Ye Fan of the original storyline. He repeatedly complains about his teacher’s constant presence but treasures his lessons and later seeks help for his injuries 669 795 973.

His ambition is matched by discipline. He studies relentlessly when seeking independence, accepts repeated defeats as reasons to improve, and endures immense suffering for the chance to cultivate. In Emperor’s Fall, he explicitly rejects both self-belittlement and blind arrogance, accepting that other eras may produce people as talented as himself 669 681 692 1605.

He is generous without treating generosity as an obligation to everyone. He shares rare medicine with family and friends, rewards Ji Ziyue’s help, and refuses to reward Liu Yunzhi’s selfishness. His willingness to protect the Divine Silkworm Princess also overrides his disappointment at losing a profitable stone-gambling purchase 683 741 746.

Ye Fan can be boastful, jealous, and shamelessly practical. He envies Lu Mingfei’s resources, enjoys provoking Ji Haoyue, and invokes the Ji Family’s protection rather than accept an unnecessary confrontation. His attachment to family persists through immense periods of solitary cultivation, and he values his brief mortal life with Chenxi despite its insignificance beside his total lifespan 705 757 793 1618 1704.

Abilities & Skills

Super Sacred Body

An enhanced Sacred Body created by Meng Chuan whose advantages become increasingly pronounced as Ye Fan advances 1282.

• Allows exceptional physical strength even before cultivation; he defeats cultivating students and smashes Divine Crocodiles with his fists 668 675.
• Reaches Minor Accomplishment during his Four Extremes breakthrough 759 761.
• Gives him unusual durability against Luzi, although it does not initially close their power gap 770.
• Its accumulated insights accelerate the development of his weaker Sacred Body inside the Illusory Universe Light Fragment 846.

Source Arts

Ye Fan studies the Source Heaven Book and Meng Chuan’s Heavenly Emperor’s Source Arts, pursuing both cultivation resources and a sustainable livelihood 705 731.

• Identifies valuable contents within stones, yielding a Medicine King, divine iron, and Immortal Gold 746.
• Uses a difficult technique associated with the Heavenly Emperor to select the stone containing the Divine Silkworm Princess 746.
• Employs sophisticated appearance-changing methods from the Source Heaven Book, though disguises do not always prevent recognition 741 742.
• Can overcome unusually large realm gaps in suitable locations through Source Arts; this is distinguished from his ordinary combat strength 1915.
• Exceptional instruction does not guarantee success in stone gambling 731.

Combat Techniques

Ye Fan combines inherited techniques with abilities he develops for himself.

• Nine Secrets: Uses a tenfold battle-strength boost against Wang Teng and the Xing Secret to evade his self-destructive attack 791 793.
• Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist: Uses a version refined by the real-world Great Accomplishment Sacred Body after experiencing Meng Chuan’s Six Paths of Reincarnation 841.
• “Ye” Dao character: Merges thirty-six ancient characters into a single character expressing an ability uniquely suited to him 792.
• Heavenly Emperor Fist: Expresses his own body, conviction, and will through every punch. Its true form cannot simply be reproduced by someone studying a scripture 2233.
• Emperor Method Prototype: Attempts to develop a Great Divine Ability from it to approach the Immortal Emperor realm from a new angle 2308.

Dao Fire Refinement and Nirvana

Methods used to survive and transform under overwhelming attacks in the Illusory Universe Light Fragment.

• Turns his body into a furnace and the Great Dao into fire, using the Supremes’ attacks to refine himself 849.
• The furnace method is not absolute protection; intervention by Gai Jiuyou and others is necessary for his survival 849.
• Revives through an undying wisp of Primordial Spirit using the Nirvana Method, though recovery costs centuries 851.

Red Dust Immortal and Longevity Methods

Ye Fan creates a method for advancing through successive lives rather than relying on ordinary lifespan extension 901 1605.

• Shortens his first two real-world lives only after thoroughly understanding those stages, saving roughly fifty thousand years 901.
• Cannot safely repeat that shortcut in an unfamiliar lifetime 901.
• Exchanges longevity insights with Shi Hao, accelerating both men toward their Eighth Lifetimes 1606.
• Divides his soul into fragments that gain experience through separate lives; their return strengthens his soul and restores their memories to him 1702 1704.

Auxiliary Cultivation and Protection

• Quasi-Immortal Emperor Divine Seat: Adds a second cultivation reference without replacing his own foundation; its higher-realm insights support his independent path 2019.
• Great Dao Blessing: Meng Chuan refines the fortune and Dao of the Heavens and All Realms into protection for Ye Fan and his companions 2283.
• Light-mote safeguard: Transfers his true body to the light-mote held by his companions to survive his final clash with the Red-Haired Immortal Emperor 2324.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi — His principal life-bound weapon, forged from the Root Source of Mother Qi of All Things and tempered alongside him. After becoming an Immortal Emperor, he plans to refine it into a genuine Immortal Emperor Weapon 732 759 791 2324.
• Root Source of Mother Qi of All Things — Exceptionally rare Immortal Material supplied through coincidences arranged by Meng Chuan. Continually produces Mother Qi of All Things, but its known presence makes Ye Fan a target 732 741.
• Source Heaven Book — Source Arts inheritance recovered from a trapped ruin 731.
• Heavenly Emperor’s Source Arts — A second book containing part of Meng Chuan’s own instruction 731.
• Dao Scripture — His early cultivation scripture; also used to steady himself against the Azure Emperor’s heartbeat-like phenomenon 693 1282.
• Green Lotus in the Bitter Sea — Receives the Azure Emperor’s insights and Origin essence through the lotus, which stabilizes his Bitter Sea without making early cultivation effortless 702 703.
• Dragon Gold — Sells it for cultivation resources at an unusually high price because dragon-related treasures are in demand as gifts for the Heavenly Emperor’s dragon successor 703 705.
• Nine Wonders Immortal Medicine and Divine Spring Water — Obtains them in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and distributes them among family, friends, and classmates 683.
• Primordial Beginning Talisman Edicts — Possesses protective concealment edicts and gives one to Willow God 2348.
• Mercedes-Benz — His signature vehicle from his entrepreneurial years; its counterpart also appears when he enters the dream world 672 836.

Relationships

• Meng Chuan / Uncle Meng — Teacher, godfather, and father figure. Raises and secretly prepares Ye Fan for cultivation, names him his third successor, and later appoints him Acting Heavenly Emperor 669 681 823 858 973.
• Parents — Affectionate cultivators who prioritize his happiness. Ye Fan sends them precious medicine, seeks reassurance about their unusual advancement, and later brings them to Beidou 664 683 858.
• Pang Bo — University roommate and closest friend; accompanies him toward the Immortal Medicine despite the danger and defends him against Liu Yunzhi 671 679.
• Zhou Yi and Zhang Ziling — Roommates and enduring friends. Promise to seek help for his cultivation problem and initially refuse rare fruits because they worry he needs them 673 683.
• Ji Ziyue / Little Moon — Wife. Protects him from members of her own family seeking his treasure; his prolonged romantic denial ends when he confronts Wang Teng’s marriage proposal 741 790 791 891.
• An Miaoyi and other Dao Companions — Ye Fan does not abandon them upon marrying Ji Ziyue. His companions later become True Immortals and gradually accept one another as sisters 891 2018.
• Chenxi — Wife from his soul-fragment mortal life on Gou Chen Ancient Star. They grow old together without quarrels; after awakening, he retrieves her and reveals his true identity 1703 1704 1717.
• Ye Yishui — Son with Chenxi, born with the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo. Wushi brings him to the Dao Realm and introduces him to Ye Fan’s extended family 1703 1704.
• Little Zi — Daughter who greets him as “Father” when he awakens from his soul-fragment lives 1704.
• Lu Mingfei / Luzi / Little Dragon Man — Rival, tormentor, and trusted friend. Repeatedly defeats and heals Ye Fan; Ye Fan trusts him with his treasure, then eventually gains the opportunity for comic revenge 692 757 2265.
• Black Emperor / Little Black — Traveling companion and adviser whose help comes with schemes, arguments, and brawls. Encourages Source Arts and forces Ye Fan to acknowledge his feelings for Ji Ziyue 703 705 731 790.
• Shi Hao / Desolate Heaven Emperor — Kindred cultivator and friendly rival. Shares longevity insights and a farewell battle with him in Emperor’s Fall; their competitive banter continues at Sacrificial Dao 1605 1606 2512.
• Ruthless — Senior ally whose brother Ye Fan resembles as a “Similar Flower.” She investigates his apparent death; Ye Fan later advocates for her brother’s resurrection and supports her relationship with Meng Chuan 1717 2313 2388.
• Wushi and Azure Emperor — Fellow Dao Realm cultivators and loyal companions. Wushi refuses to let him confront the Weird Race alone; both welcome him after his apparent death 2265 2324.
• Zhong Yue — Wartime ally whose refined enemy life essence enables Ye Fan’s desperate Ultimate Sublimation 2300.
• Li Xiaoman — Former girlfriend. Ye Fan remains emotionally detached when they meet again at their reunion 673.
• Wang Teng — Martial rival and competing suitor for Ji Ziyue. Ye Fan defeats him despite lower cultivation; Wang Teng escapes through the Nine-Turn Divine Talisman 791 793.
• Liu Yunzhi — Former classmate whose opportunistic demand for Immortal Medicine leads Ye Fan to end their friendship 683.
• Red-Haired Immortal Emperor — Weird Race enemy responsible for Ye Fan’s apparent death. Ye Fan survives and breaks into the Immortal Emperor realm during their conflict 2313 2324.

Notable Quotes

“Teacher Meng, are you going to be with me for the rest of my life?” 669

“I’ll be the one to steer the storm!” 700

“I’ll have you know my godfather is the Heavenly Emperor!” 858

“I’m prepared for anything. If I die on the road of the Great Dao, fighting the Weird Race, I won’t regret it.” 2266

Trivia

• His Sacred Body is granted by Heaven and Earth rather than inherited from his parents’ bloodline 858.
• Meng Chuan records his emphatic denial of romantic interest in Ji Ziyue and includes it in a wedding Memory Crystal, alongside embarrassing childhood scenes 741 891.
• Ye Fan spends years exploring the Dao Realm slowly rather than teleporting ahead, preferring to experience its surroundings firsthand 669.
• As Acting Heavenly Emperor, he discovers that the title’s fortune can improve his cultivation while he eats sunflower seeds and drinks tea 999.