Ye Fan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Departure from Earth

Ye Fan attended a university class reunion and visited Mount Tai with his former classmates. The Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin carried them away from Earth, stopping on Mars before continuing toward Big Dipper. On Mars, he met Lu Chen and cautioned his classmates against approaching the stranger without first assessing the danger 1.

At the Great Thunderclap Temple, Ye Fan identified the temple’s ancient inscription and obtained a Bodhi Seed. When Little Divine Crocodiles attacked, he fought with an Ancient Bronze Lamp and joined Lu Chen in proposing that their blood could supply the Five-Colored Altar with the energy needed to escape 3 4.

Inside the coffin, Liu Yunzhi accused him of murdering Chen Hao, a classmate who had previously tried to seize his Buddhist artifact. Lu Chen discovered a crocodile hidden in the corpse; Ye Fan burned it with the lamp, and Pang Bo crushed it. During the remaining journey, Ye Fan alone heard scripture emanating from the smaller bronze coffin 6.

Big Dipper and Early Cultivation

After landing in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, Ye Fan searched for food with Pang Bo and Lu Chen. He ate five Sacred Fruits and drank from the Divine Spring. These medicines protected him from the aging suffered by most of his classmates and instead restored his appearance to that of an eleven- or twelve-year-old boy 7 8.

Weiwei led the survivors out of the forest, after which the Yan Kingdom’s six grotto-heavens and blessed lands accepted them as cultivation prospects. Ye Fan and Pang Bo entered Spirit Ruins Paradise. Despite beginning a new life, Ye Fan remained concerned about returning to Earth and about his parents, who had lost their only son 11 24.

Elder Han later tried to refine him into a pill to extend his own lifespan. Ye Fan survived through the strength of his Sacred Body and killed the elder. Using the fire vein in Han’s alchemy cave, he finally shaped his Primordial Divine Patterns into a cauldron 14 16.

Pursuit by the Ji Family

Ye Fan learned the Great Void Technique from Ji Ziyue without understanding the consequences of possessing a great family’s secret art. The Ji Family pursued him, eventually trapping him in a crowded Southern Region city. He threatened to transmit the technique throughout the city if they advanced 32 33.

Lu Chen intervened and suppressed the pursuing elders. When the Peacock King warned that the Ji Family Holy Lord was nearby, Ye Fan chose not to have the elders killed, recognizing that he could not withstand the resulting retaliation. The Peacock King then sheltered both Earthlings in his hidden little world 35 36.

There, Lu Chen supplied him with more than a hundred jin of pure Source. Ye Fan accepted it as a loan rather than an outright gift. Lu Chen also directed him to the Fire Domain, explaining that the Bodhi Seed could help him withstand its flames while shaping the Mother Qi of All Things 36 39.

Relocation to the Northern Region

Ye Fan visited the Fire Domain early enough to avoid further Ji Family pursuit and returned at the peak of the Other Shore realm. He then crossed to the Northern Region with Lu Chen, Yan Ruyu, the Peacock King, and the Azure Flood Dragon King 42.

After leaving the Azure Flood Dragon King’s Yunze Prefecture, he asked Lu Chen how to obtain the resources his Sacred Body required. Lu Chen directed him toward a distinctive purple mountain and a village of people surnamed Zhang near Pingyan City. Ye Fan chose to trust the advice; Lu Chen intended him to discover a path to Source Arts rather than receive those arts directly 42.

Ye Fan subsequently settled in Stone Village and obtained the Source Heaven Book. By the time Lu Chen visited him there, he had reached the Dao Palace realm, but his cultivation method consisted only of the Western Emperor Scripture’s incomplete “Scripture Key” preserved in that book. He exchanged a fist-sized piece of Phoenix Blood Red Gold for Lu Chen’s complete Dao Palace Scroll of the Western Emperor Scripture, then immediately entered seclusion 61.

He also continued searching for a route home. Disguised as a young Daoist priest, he questioned the Great Xia Imperial Prince about Buddhism, reasoning that its presence on both Earth and Big Dipper implied a connection between the two worlds. Lu Chen’s account of Sakyamuni clarified that ancient Saints could traverse the stars, but Ye Fan was distressed by how long reaching such a realm might take and what that delay would mean for his parents 53 54 55.

Exposure of His Cauldron and the Licheng Underground Palace

At Kunzhou, Ye Fan encountered Ji Family disciples who attacked him together. He killed them, but was forced to reveal the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi. Its exposure prompted the holy lands to dispatch experts seeking the sacred material for themselves 69.

In Licheng’s underground palace, the cauldron protected him from a Chaos Stone’s immobilizing force field. He beat the restrained Yaoguang Holy Son and Golden-Winged Little Peng King, imprisoned them in the Lihuo Divine Furnace, and took a Beast-Skin Scroll from the stone platform. Duan De subsequently stole the scroll, but failed to seize the cauldron after the Black Emperor bit him 80 81.

When Lu Chen collected the Chaos Stone Platform, the force field vanished and a struggle broke out among the freed cultivators. Ye Fan deployed a Profound Jade Platform and escaped through the void with Lu Chen. Their capture of leading young cultivators provoked major searches by Yaoguang Holy Land, Purple Mansion Holy Land, and the Golden-Winged Old Peng King 81 82.

Ye Fan later won a Source Arts contest. Lu Chen gave him a million jin of Source as compensation after the Divine Silkworm Princess departed with the Little Divine Silkworm, and borrowed his Bodhi Seed for a journey into the Fire Domain 104.

Breaking the Sacred Body Curse

Under the peerless Divine King’s protection, Ye Fan was able to appear openly again. The Divine King committed ten million jin of Source toward helping him enter Four Extremes and break the Sacred Body’s curse. Ye Fan believed sufficient Source would permit the realm breakthrough, but suspected that the physique’s long failure to flourish involved something more than resources 117.

The breakthrough succeeded with the Divine King’s help, but the Great Dao wounded Ye Fan’s origin and sharply shortened his remaining lifespan. Lu Chen told him that his opportunity lay in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land. Months later, while outsiders speculated that he had died, Lu Chen understood that he had gone there to obtain Sacred Fruit and Divine Spring water to heal the injury 118 122.

Conflicts with the Holy Lands and the Myriad Dragon Nest

When the Yin-Yang Sect abducted gifted children in the Southern Region, including Xiao Nannan, Ye Fan killed its Holy Son and Holy Maiden in anger. The act made him a mortal enemy of the Central Plains sect 136.

At the Jade Pool’s Flat Peach Gathering, Nangong Zheng’s account of the Bronze Immortal Palace forced Ye Fan to acknowledge that he had entered and escaped it. Major powers then accused him of obtaining the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Swallowing Heaven Demon Art. Ye Fan denied the accusation; Lu Chen recognized it as a pretext to seize his cauldron, True Dragon Divine Medicine, and other treasures. Pressed by the assembled powers, Ye Fan revealed the Myriad Dragon Nest as the medicine’s location, partly to set a trap 138.

Within the nest, Ye Fan and his companions obtained an Immortal Treasure Map, and he received two strands of primal dragon qi. Lu Chen explained that the map contained routes to Kunlun and the Starry Sky Ancient Road, revealing that Kunlun was on Earth. He also identified the Five-Colored Altar in the Desolate Ancient Abyss as a possible route home and advised Ye Fan to take the map to Kunlun if he returned 142 143.

After escaping the Myriad Dragon Nest, Ye Fan, Lu Chen, and the Black Emperor became targets of kill orders issued in response to the deaths of several Holy Lords and many other cultivators. They ignored demands for an explanation and turned toward the Central Plains rather than directly confronting the enraged Eastern Wasteland powers 144 146.

Central Plains Journey

During the journey to the Central Plains, the Black Emperor’s unreliable teleportation experiments temporarily displaced Ye Fan, although he eventually returned. In Lu City, Ye Fan guided Lu Chen to an Ancient Pagoda Grove associated with an emperor’s secluded cultivation 147.

He used the alias Ye Zhetian in the Central Plains. At a confrontation involving the Gao Family and Qishi Mansion, a Great Power of the Xiao Family recognized him and accused him of killing a family disciple; Ye Fan was explicitly identified as not belonging to Qishi Mansion 154.

At the Immortal Pool, Ye Fan used the Weapon secret art to seize the green copper and borrowed the pool’s power through his Source Arts to fight his way out. The Great Xia and Jiuli Dynasties pursued him with Emperor Weapons, but the Peacock King and Red Dragon Daoist blocked the Taihuang Sword, while Duan De and the Heavenly Blind Elder used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to halt the Jiuli Diagram. Ye Fan escaped down the mountain with the treasure 169.

Battle with Wang Teng and Departure Across the Stars

Ye Fan visited the Ji Family to help Ji Ziyue out of her predicament, bringing a small Bronze Ancient Coffin retrieved from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land. Pang Bo, Demon Race experts, the Thirteen Great Bandits, the Red Dragon Daoist, the Saint Emperor’s Imperial Prince, and Lu Chen gathered to support him 182 183.

At this time, Ye Fan was in Immortal One, whereas Wang Teng had reached at least the middle stage of Immortal Two. Ye Fan could not overcome that disparity through cultivation and forbidden-domain combat strength alone. Nevertheless, he defeated Wang Teng using the Bronze Ancient Coffin and Saint Flame. When a Ji Family member invoked the Void Mirror, the coffin withstood it until the Ji Family Holy Lord ended the confrontation 183.

Lu Chen revealed the Immortal Treasure Map’s Kunlun route and star map, and the Black Emperor prepared a formation to open the coffin. Its opening released a destructive force, after which it returned to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and rejoined the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin. Ye Fan boarded in the hope of returning to Earth, while Pang Bo and Lu Chen declined to accompany him. Lu Chen reassured the grieving Ji Ziyue, Xiao Nannan, and their companions that Ye Fan would return in ten years 183.

This departure did not immediately bring Ye Fan home. His later companions Li Tian and Yan Yixi are identified as having followed him from Ziwei Star 183 283.

Duel with Yuan Gu and the Sky-Cutting Mountain Trap

At Qixia Plain, Ye Fan fought Yuan Gu, an eighth-generation descendant of an Ancient Emperor who had already entered the Immortal Three King realm. Ye Fan remained at the peak of Immortal Two because concern for his parents impeded his progress toward Severing the Dao. Despite this disparity, he killed Yuan Gu after half a day of fierce combat 262.

Ancient Race Ancestor Kings attempted to attack him afterward. Lu Chen and the Black Tortoise Demon Saint intervened, while further Ancestor Kings appeared as the Primordial Myriad Races sought to use Yuan Gu’s death to force the Human Race into submission 262.

Ye Fan and his companions later used the Qilin Divine Medicine as bait to lure enemies into the Sky-Cutting Mountain Range. Once assassins, Ancient Race cultivators, and treasure-seekers assembled, they activated an incomplete Beginningless Killing Formation that killed nearly all the attackers. Lu Chen interrupted the trapped Divine Spirit Resentment before it could borrow its previous life’s power and sealed it in the Immortal-Slaying Gourd. His explanation introduced Ye Fan to the approaching Dark Turmoil, a calamity greater than a simple conflict between humans and the Ancient Race 273.

Return to Earth

After obtaining an Eternal Kingdom spaceship from Lu Chen, Ye Fan needed Earth’s stellar coordinates to use it. Lu Chen directed him toward the Eternal Eclosion Ancestral Temple, where Ye Fan resolved to seek the coordinates despite its dangers. He successfully recovered them among the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s records of ancient life stars 274 281.

Nearly twenty years after leaving Earth, Ye Fan departed aboard the spaceship with Pang Bo, Liu Yiyi, Zhang Wenchang, and Ji Ziyue. Lu Chen refused to join them. Other companions abandoned plans to visit after learning that Earth’s severe Great Dao suppression and depleted spiritual energy would hinder cultivation 283.

Lu Chen had already visited Ye Fan’s parents and restored their health, allowing them to survive until their son’s return. Ye Fan reunited with them, spent nearly ten years on Earth, and settled his affairs before resuming his journey through the stars. More than a hundred years after the friends’ previous parting, he reunited with Lu Chen at the Myriad Races Gathering and thanked him for preserving his parents’ lives 192 352.

During his activities on Earth, Ye Fan removed the damaged Green Cauldron from the Immortal Pool at the center of the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains. This stopped the ninety-nine ancestral dragon veins from draining Earth’s essence and caused them to nourish the planet instead, contributing to the revival of spiritual energy and the public emergence of cultivation 397.

Dark Turmoil and the Rise of Heavenly Court

When the Dark Turmoil approached, Ye Fan was prepared to risk his life against the Supremes. Lu Chen proposed instead retrieving two Great Accomplishment Sacred Body corpses and placing them under a more suitable wielder. Guided by the Black Emperor and Xiao Nannan, Ye Fan entered Saint Cliff, merged with its Sacred Body corpse, and brought it out 360.

The awakened Mars Sacred Body’s lingering obsession displaced Ye Fan from the corpses and imparted a special method to him. It then merged with both the Saint Cliff body and the corpse of Great Emperor Wushi’s father. Ye Fan contributed Wushi’s blood essence and Formation Platform to prolong the senior’s participation in the battle against the Dark Turmoil 360.

Ye Fan founded the Heavenly Court of this era. It expanded steadily, although initially it lacked a pinnacle Quasi-Emperor comparable to those of the Dao Palace, Phoenix Nest, God Organization, and Underworld. Xiao Nannan’s presence nevertheless deterred powerful enemies from acting rashly against it 371.

Lu Chen’s use of the Mars Sacred Body altered Ye Fan’s original experience of fighting the Supremes during the Dark Turmoil. Without that particular tempering, his cultivation advanced somewhat more slowly, and his Sacred Body had still not reached full completion at the time of Lu Chen’s later reflections 399.

Great Accomplishment and Battles Against the Forbidden Zones

Ye Fan’s Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven tribulation drew attacks from the Tyrant Body lineage and interference from the forbidden zones. He continued resisting without asking Lu Chen for help. Lu Chen regarded these attacks as part of Ye Fan’s tempering and chose to confront the Undying Mountain’s interference rather than take over his fight against the Tyrant Bodies 405.

After surviving his ninefold tribulation and reaching Sacred Body great accomplishment, Ye Fan fought two aged Great Accomplished Tyrant Bodies. Despite his weakened state after the tribulation, he killed both. Lu Chen refrained from interfering in the duel but prevented the battle’s destructive power from spreading into inhabited star domains 407.

Ye Fan subsequently joined Lu Chen in the Mythic Battlefield against Forbidden Zone Supremes. He blasted apart the Beast God on entering the battle and later destroyed the Roc Emperor’s escaping primordial spirit with Nine Secrets: Xing and the Heavenly Emperor Fist. Of the ten masters of the emperor’s way killed during the confrontation, three died beneath Ye Fan’s fist and seven were slain by Lu Chen 412 413.

Afterward, Lu Chen assigned the Immortal Mausoleum’s immortal treasures and divine medicines to Ye Fan. By this stage, their longstanding friendship no longer required the strict accounting that had characterized their early resource exchanges 414.

The Immortal Gate and Proving the Dao

On the second Immortal Path, Ye Fan helped penetrate the sealed region’s restrictions with his golden blood energy and the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi. By the time the Immortal Gate appeared, he had achieved alternative Dao attainment and was stronger than an ordinary Great Emperor 418 421.

After Lu Chen destroyed Emperor Zun’s phantom body and freed the Immortal Ascension Cauldron’s spirit, the spirit became a chubby little boy and returned to Ye Fan’s care. Lu Chen offered to protect Ye Fan if he entered the Immortal Domain, but Ye Fan refused to abandon the friends and loved ones waiting in the Human World 422.

Two thousand years later, when Lu Chen was three thousand years old, Ye Fan proved the Dao and became an emperor. He broke not only the Sacred Body’s longstanding restriction against attaining the Dao, but also the suppression imposed by the reigning emperor’s Great Dao. His achievement shook the myriad domains 425.

Later Reunion and Lu Chen’s Origins

After ten thousand more years, Ye Fan and Lu Chen were the only remaining contemporaries of their golden age still present together; their old acquaintances had died or been sealed within divine source. When Lu Chen was thirteen thousand years old, Ye Fan visited him beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree 426.

Ye Fan finally confronted Lu Chen about his origins. After becoming an emperor, he had searched Earth’s past from Mount Tai and found no trace of Lu Chen, including during the departure of the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin. He also presented a biscuit box bearing a 2022 production date, inconsistent with their 2010 departure. Lu Chen acknowledged coming from another world and explained it as a parallel world with a later timeline 426.

Strange World and the River of Time

In the Strange World, Ye Fan and Heavenly Court stood alongside Great Emperor Wushi against the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s faction. Lu Chen arrived as reinforcement and challenged the Undying Heavenly Emperor, while Wushi fought the native Red Dust Immortal and the enemy’s followers attacked Ye Fan, Chuan Ying, and their companions 448.

In his latest documented appearance, Ye Fan emerged from the River of Time above the Golden Great Desert on the Two-World Battlefield, standing on his cauldron. A battle at both ends of time had accidentally torn open the Gate of Time, and his blue-armored opponent followed him through. Ye Fan killed the beast, shattered its primordial spirit, and absorbed its corpse and blood into his cauldron 489.

He then approached Anlan but acknowledged that fighting across their different spacetime continuums could endanger all existence. Lu Chen’s original body subsequently arrived and challenged Anlan directly 489.

Foreknown Future

Lu Chen’s knowledge of the original course of events identifies Ye Fan as a future Heavenly Emperor. These early references describe later developments, not achievements reached during the Northern Region journey; Ye Fan subsequently proves the Dao in the altered course of events as well 9 425.

In that future, Ye Fan forges a Nine-Colored Immortal Cauldron. During his second life as Heavenly Emperor, the ominous affliction associated with Source Heavenly Masters manifests in his twilight years; he ends it by killing its sources, the Source God and Source Ghost 18 22.

Lu Chen also recalls an alternate course in which Ye Fan obtained a damaged Black Gourd after killing the Purple Mansion Holy Son, later using it against Wang Teng and a Great Saint-level Primordial Ancestral King. In the documented altered course, Lu Chen acquires that weapon and names it the Immortal-Slaying Gourd 30 32.

Appearance

• After consuming divine medicine: Appears approximately eleven or twelve years old, with a jade-like, childlike appearance shared with Pang Bo 8.
• Approximately three years after arrival: Appears to be a boy of thirteen or fourteen when surrounded by Ji Family cultivators 32.
• Disguises: Adopts the appearance of a young Daoist priest during his Northern Region inquiries into Buddhism 53.
• At Sacred Body great accomplishment: Surrounded by blazing golden light and overwhelming golden blood energy during battles with the Forbidden Zone Supremes 412.
• Appearance through the River of Time: Arrives standing atop his cauldron above the Golden Great Desert 489.

Personality

Ye Fan is cautious and observant. He stops his classmates from rushing toward Lu Chen on Mars and repeatedly notices that the stranger’s explanations conceal something. Under pressure, he focuses on immediate survival, recognizing both the defensive and offensive value of the Buddhist artifacts 1 4 6.

He values loyalty and dislikes taking a friend’s help for granted. Lu Chen’s rescue leaves a lasting impression on him, and he insists on treating the subsequent gift of Source as a loan. His longing for Earth is rooted particularly in concern for his parents 11 36.

Although capable of anger and defiance, he can restrain himself when retaliation would be overwhelming. He nearly throws a classmate into the Martian sandstorm after an attempted theft, yet later declines to have Ji Hui killed until he possesses the strength to bear the consequences himself 6 35.

He is resourceful in conversation and deception. While disguised as a Daoist priest, he uses flattery and persuasive stories to approach the Great Xia Imperial Prince and seek information about Buddhism. His ingenuity also extends to using coveted treasures as bait against enemies 53 138 273.

His cultivation ambitions are expansive: while still struggling with an incomplete Dao Palace method, he proposes collecting the strongest scripture scroll for each of the Five Great Secret Realms. At the same time, he recognizes the practical value of fair exchange, willingly trading an immortal material he does not urgently need for a scripture essential to his progress 61.

His attachment to family is both a motivation and an obstacle. Worry over his parents becomes an obsession that obstructs Severing the Dao, yet reuniting with them does not extinguish his determination to cultivate. Much later, he refuses entry into the Immortal Domain because he will not leave his loved ones behind 262 352 422.

Abilities & Skills

Desolate Ancient Sacred Body

A powerful constitution that gives Ye Fan exceptional physical strength and blood energy, but is suppressed by heaven and earth in the current era 5 21 42.

• Close combat: Most opponents of the same realm, apart from a small number of supreme prodigies, risk having their bodies or magical treasures broken by a single punch 21.
• Yang blood energy: Lu Chen expects it to deter the weakened deity remnant hiding aboard the bronze coffin 5.
• Resource burden: Advancement requires vastly more Source than ordinary cultivation; much of that expenditure breaks the Sacred Body’s suppression rather than becoming divine power 22 42 50.
• Resilience: Enables him to survive Elder Han’s attempt to refine him into a pill 14.
• Dao Palace resource requirement: Advancing from the fourth to fifth heaven requires a million jin of Source, most of which is expended against the physique’s suppression rather than absorbed as divine power 50.
• Four Extremes curse: Requires more than sufficient resources alone; the Divine King helps him break it, although the Great Dao wounds his origin 117 118 122.
• Great accomplishment: Reached upon entering Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven, granting combat strength comparable to a Great Emperor and enabling him to kill two aged Great Accomplished Tyrant Bodies 407 412.
• Breaking the restriction against proving the Dao: Eventually becomes an emperor despite both the Sacred Body’s shackles and the suppression of Lu Chen’s reigning Great Dao 425.

Tianxuan Footwork

Peerless movement techniques associated with the Tianxuan Holy Land’s Mad Old Man 33 37.

• Mysterious Dao Patterns appear beneath his feet when he prepares to flee the Ji Family’s attacks 33.
• His connection to the Mad Old Man is one reason the Peacock King considers him worth protecting 37.

Great Void Technique

A secret art of the Void Ancient Scripture, learned from Ji Ziyue 32 33.

• Its possession by an outsider prompts the Ji Family’s pursuit 33.
• Ye Fan threatens to broadcast it through divine sense to thousands of cultivators, temporarily deterring his pursuers 32.
• The threat would not protect him from an expert capable of killing him before transmission 33.

Bronze Coffin Scripture Perception

Ye Fan alone hears several hundred words of scripture from the smaller bronze coffin 6.

• The inscription concerns repairing the immortal domain rather than a cultivation method 6.
• Its characters are Great Emperor Dao Patterns containing profound mysteries 6.
• Whether his access results from the Bodhi Seed, his Sacred Body, or another cause remains unresolved 6.

Ancient Scripture Cultivation

• Western Emperor Scripture, Dao Palace Scroll: Initially possesses only the incomplete Scripture Key recorded in the Source Heaven Book. Acquires the complete scroll from Lu Chen and uses it to perfect his Dao Palace cultivation 61.
• Five Secret Realm scripture plan: Seeks the Dao Scripture’s Wheel Sea Scroll, Western Emperor Scripture’s Dao Palace Scroll, Hengyu Scripture’s Four Extremes Scroll, Taihuang Scripture’s Dragon Transformation Scroll, and Solar Ancient Scripture’s Immortal Platform Scroll. Lu Chen’s foreknowledge states that he ultimately realizes this ambition, but the exchange at Stone Village directly establishes only his acquisition of the complete Dao Palace Scroll 61.

Source Heavenly Arts

Ye Fan obtains the Source Heaven Book after following Lu Chen’s directions to Stone Village and becomes a practitioner of Source Heavenly Arts 42 61 143.

• Source Arts contests: Wins a documented contest in the Northern Region 104.
• Treasure-seeking: Uses Source Heavenly Arts in searches for divine treasures, including in the Myriad Dragon Nest 143.
• Borrowing terrain power: Uses his Source Arts to draw on the Immortal Pool’s power and contend against mighty experts while escaping with the green copper 169.
• Altered appearance: Uses a disguise that Lu Chen, who has not yet cultivated the Source Heaven Divine Eye, cannot see through 53.

Nine Secrets and Combat Arts

• Weapon secret art: Uses it to seize the green copper during the struggle at the Immortal Pool 169.
• Nine Secrets: Xing: Moves rapidly enough to intercept the Roc Emperor’s fleeing primordial spirit during the battle against the forbidden zones 412.
• Heavenly Emperor Fist: Destroys the Roc Emperor’s primordial spirit and accounts for three of the ten emperor-way masters slain in the joint campaign with Lu Chen 412 413.
• Eight Forbidden Domain: Possesses this combat capability by his confrontation with Wang Teng, though Wang Teng’s greater cultivation and ability to cross forbidden levels prevent it from deciding that battle alone 183.
• Divine flame tactics: Uses powerful external flames against opponents whose cultivation exceeds his own; Saint Flame is instrumental in his defeat of Wang Teng 60 183.

Sacred Body Corpse Merging

• Merges with the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body corpse at Saint Cliff and carries it out with guidance from the Black Emperor and Xiao Nannan 360.
• Temporarily controls the two retrieved Sacred Body corpses before the Mars Sacred Body’s awakened obsession takes over 360.
• Receives an unspecified special method from the Mars Sacred Body, imparted directly into his Immortal Platform 360.

Temporal and Immortal King-Level Capabilities

• Tracing the past: After becoming an emperor, looks back through Earth’s history from Mount Tai, discovering that Lu Chen has no trace in that world’s past 426.
• Immortal King-level combat: Fights an opponent whose power rivals an Immortal King, tears apart its true body, and destroys its primordial spirit 489.
• Appearance across time: Emerges through an accidentally opened Gate of Time during a battle between peerless experts at two points in time. This does not establish that he can freely alter another era; he acknowledges the catastrophic consequences of fighting Anlan across different spacetime continuums 489.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ancient Bronze Lamp — Buddhist artifact used against Little Divine Crocodiles. By blowing into it, Ye Fan releases torrents of divine flame; the coffin later drains the remaining power from the group’s artifacts 4 6.
• Bodhi Seed — Obtained at the Great Thunderclap Temple. Enhances insight into arts, but cannot bypass sealed inheritances; it can also suppress the Fire Domain’s flames 3 28 39.
  • In the original course known to Lu Chen, Ye Fan discovers a spiritual imprint within it and eventually erases that imprint using Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s Immortal-Slaying Sword 2.
  • Lu Chen identifies it to Ye Fan as an Immortal Divine Medicine and borrows it to enter the Fire Domain’s deeper layers 104.
• Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi / Xuanhuang Cauldron — Forged from the Mother Qi of All Things and tempered in the Fire Domain. Its exceptional material makes it a target for stronger cultivators 39 42 47.
  • Revealed publicly during his battle with Ji Family disciples at Kunzhou, prompting widespread attempts to seize it 69.
  • Protects him from the Chaos Stone force field in Licheng’s underground palace 80 81.
  • Accompanies his later appearance through the River of Time and absorbs the corpse and blood of his defeated Immortal King-level opponent 489.
• Borrowed pure Source — More than a hundred jin provided by Lu Chen to support his cultivation, accepted as a debt 36.
• Source Heaven Book — Source Heavenly Arts inheritance that also preserves the incomplete Scripture Key of the Western Emperor Scripture’s Dao Palace method 61.
• Phoenix Blood Red Gold — A fist-sized piece of immortal material traded to Lu Chen for the complete Dao Palace Scroll of the Western Emperor Scripture 61.
• Western Emperor Scripture, complete Dao Palace Scroll — Received in the Phoenix Blood Red Gold exchange and immediately taken into seclusion for cultivation 61.
• Lihuo Divine Furnace — Used to imprison the Yaoguang Holy Son and Golden-Winged Little Peng King 81.
• Beast-Skin Scroll — Taken from the Chaos Stone Platform before Duan De steals it. Although others suspect a Nine Secrets inheritance, Lu Chen knows its maps mark Saint Cliff and Purple Mountain 81.
• Profound Jade Platform — Teleportation implement used to escape Licheng’s underground palace through the void with Lu Chen 81.
• Source compensation — A million jin supplied by Lu Chen following the Divine Silkworm Princess’s departure with the Little Divine Silkworm 104.
• True Dragon medicinal liquid and Dragon Pearl Fruit — Produced during his rescue of Divine King Jiang, later cited by hostile powers as evidence of his possession of the True Dragon Divine Medicine 138.
• Immortal Treasure Map — Contains three hidden route maps, including Kunlun and the Starry Sky Ancient Road. Lu Chen returns it to Ye Fan and advises him to take it to Kunlun if he reaches Earth 142.
• Primal dragon qi — Obtains two strands in the Chaos Dragon Nest, each an exceptionally valuable cultivation treasure 143.
• Green copper — Seized with the Weapon secret art at the Immortal Pool; regarded by the Central Plains dynasties as a supreme treasure and pursued by them 169.
• Bronze Ancient Coffin — Retrieved from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land to contend with the Ji Family’s Void Mirror. Helps him defeat Wang Teng and withstand the Emperor Weapon before returning to the forbidden land and rejoining the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin 183.
• Eternal Kingdom spaceship — Obtained from Lu Chen and used to return to Earth once Ye Fan acquires its stellar coordinates 274 281 283.
• Damaged Green Cauldron — Removed from the Immortal Pool in Earth’s Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, ending the ancestral dragon veins’ extraction of the planet’s essence 397.
• Great Emperor Wushi’s blood essence and Formation Platform — Given to the Mars Sacred Body to extend its ability to fight during the Dark Turmoil 360.
• Immortal Mausoleum treasures and divine medicines — Allocated to him by Lu Chen following their campaign against the Forbidden Zone Supremes 414.
• Dated biscuit box — Preserved as evidence of Lu Chen’s anomalous origins; its 2022 production date contradicts the travelers’ 2010 departure from Earth 426.

Relationships

• Pang Bo — Close friend, fellow Earth traveler, and companion at Spirit Ruins Paradise. Defends Ye Fan against accusations surrounding Chen Hao’s death 1 6 11.
  • Gathers support for him at the Ji Family and urges Lu Chen to help if the Void Mirror is used. Declines Ye Fan’s first departure aboard the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, but accompanies his later spaceship journey to Earth 182 183 283.
• Lu Chen — Fellow Earthling and friend who rescues him, lends him Source, and guides him toward artifact-forging and resource opportunities. Ye Fan remains puzzled by Lu Chen’s unexplained knowledge 36 39 42.
  • Trades him the complete Western Emperor Scripture’s Dao Palace Scroll, escapes Licheng’s underground palace with him, and supplies further Source 61 81 104.
  • Preserves Ye Fan’s parents’ health so that their family can reunite. Ye Fan later expresses his gratitude and joins him in battles against Forbidden Zone Supremes 352 412 413.
  • Their friendship survives beyond the disappearance of nearly all their contemporaries. Ye Fan ultimately learns that Lu Chen comes from another world rather than the Earth they knew 426.
• Ji Ziyue — Ye Fan saves her life and escorts her to safety; she teaches him the Great Void Technique and knows about his Mother Qi of All Things 19 33 39.
  • He visits the Ji Family to help her out of a predicament and fights Wang Teng there. She grieves when he departs across the stars, and later accompanies him to Earth aboard the Eternal Kingdom spaceship 182 183 283.
  • Lu Chen’s foreknowledge states that they ultimately end up together 117.
• Peacock King — Protector who provides refuge and passage to the Northern Region, valuing Ye Fan’s Sacred Body and connection to the Mad Old Man 35 36 37 42.
  • With the Red Dragon Daoist and the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon, shields him from the Taihuang Sword during his escape with the green copper 169.
• Yan Ruyu — Entrusts him with nurturing the Azure Emperor’s heart. They nearly become Dao companions, but the arrangement collapses when the heart escapes his Sea of Bitterness 37.
• Qin Yao — Frequently spends time with him in the Peacock King’s refuge; their interactions suggest intimacy without defining a formal relationship 37.
• Ji Hui and the Ji Family — Pursuers seeking to prevent an outsider from retaining their secret technique. Ye Fan vows to settle his grievance with Ji Hui once he is strong enough 33 35.
  • Later kills attacking Ji Family disciples at Kunzhou. His subsequent confrontation at the family’s headquarters ends after the Holy Lord halts the use of the Void Mirror against him 69 183.
• Ruthless Great Emperor — Regards him as a “similar flower” who might become her deceased older brother. Her intervention redirects the coffin toward Big Dipper; Lu Chen believes she would not allow Ye Fan to die on Mars 4 6.
• Parents — Remain on Earth; his concern for them sustains his wish to find a way home 11.
  • His longing for them obstructs Severing the Dao until he can return. Lu Chen’s intervention allows them to survive long enough for a reunion, after which Ye Fan spends nearly ten years with them 262 352.
• Black Emperor — Companion in treasure-seeking, battles, and formation-based schemes. Accompanies the underground palace incident, helps prepare the Bronze Ancient Coffin’s opening, and participates in the Sky-Cutting Mountain trap 81 183 273.
  • His unreliable teleportation experiments temporarily displace Ye Fan during the journey to the Central Plains 147.
• Fifth Master Zhang and Stone Village — Provide the village setting in which Ye Fan develops his Source Arts path and receives Lu Chen’s scripture exchange 42 61.
• Divine King Jiang — Protector who helps him appear openly, commits ten million jin of Source to his breakthrough, and assists in breaking the Sacred Body curse 117 122.
• Thirteen Great Bandits and their descendants — Support him because of his potential. Their descendants associate with him in the Northern Region, while the Heavenly Blind Elder protects his escape with the green copper 37 55 117 169.
• Duan De — Both rival and ally in treasure-related affairs. Steals the Beast-Skin Scroll and attempts to seize the cauldron in Licheng, but later helps block the Jiuli Diagram during Ye Fan’s escape from the Immortal Pool 81 169.
• Xiao Nannan — Companion whom he protects. Her abduction provokes his killing of the Yin-Yang Sect’s Holy Son and Holy Maiden; as the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Dao Fruit, her presence later deters enemies of Heavenly Court 136 143 371.
• Wang Teng — Rival defeated at the Ji Family through Ye Fan’s use of the Bronze Ancient Coffin and Saint Flame. Later vows to kill those close to the Sacred Body 183 204.
• Yuan Gu — Ancient Emperor descendant whom Ye Fan kills at Qixia Plain despite being a realm below him 262.
• Li Heishui — Great Bandit Descendant and friend who discusses Ye Fan’s curse-breaking attempt. Later becomes a target of Wang Teng and Spirit Valley because of his association with Ye Fan 117 204.
• Yaoguang Holy Son and Golden-Winged Little Peng King — Defeated and imprisoned by Ye Fan in Licheng’s underground palace, provoking searches by their respective backers 80 81 82.
• Tyrant Body lineage — Mortal enemies of the Sacred Body. Attempts to prevent his great accomplishment fail when he survives his tribulation and kills two aged Great Accomplished Tyrant Bodies 405 407.
• Mars Sacred Body — Ancient senior whose awakened obsession takes over the retrieved Sacred Body corpses during the Dark Turmoil and imparts a special method to Ye Fan 360.
• Immortal Ascension Cauldron’s spirit — Originally found by Ye Fan inside a source stone and accompanies him thereafter. After Emperor Zun’s phantom body summons it and Lu Chen frees it, the spirit becomes a living boy and returns to Ye Fan’s care 422.
• Great Emperor Wushi — Ally in the Strange World conflict against the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s faction 448.
• Anlan — Confronted during Ye Fan’s appearance through the River of Time. Ye Fan refrains from fighting him because their differing spacetime continuums make direct interference catastrophic 489.
• Li Xiaoman — Former girlfriend and fellow Earth traveler who reveals their extraterrestrial origins to Big Dipper’s powers 142.
• Xu Qiong — Had been close to becoming his partner before the Mount Tai incident separated them; later helps care for his parents on Earth 192.
• Liu Yiyi and Zhang Wenchang — Former classmates who accompany his spaceship return to Earth 283.

Notable Quotes

“This is too strange. We need to be careful.” 1

“A great kindness cannot be repaid with mere thanks!” 36

“When I have the strength, I’ll kill that old witch myself.” 35

“If Earth's coordinates are in the Eternal Eclosion Ancestral Temple, then I'll get them no matter what.” 274

“Thank you for looking after my parents.” 352

“Of that golden age when prodigies rose together, only you and I remain!” 426

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