When Ye Fan stepped outside the room, Su Qingxue and the other women immediately approached him.

"Ye Fan, the Spirit Suppressing Battle has ended," Su Qingxue said. "My sisters and I have decided we want to return to the Secular World for a while!"

"Okay, I’ll come to the Secular World to find you all too, but I can’t leave just yet," Ye Fan immediately responded.

"Mm-hmm! Ye Fan, we understand!" Heather added.

Ye Fan bid them farewell. Thinking back to when his women came here alone for the Spirit Suppressing Battle, he had felt quite helpless. His heart had been filled with worry, but thankfully, all those concerns were now laid to rest.

After the women left, Zhuang Zhou appeared behind him.

"Not used to the quiet?" he asked with a smile. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"Damn it! Can’t you stop sneaking up on me like that?" Ye Fan was exasperated.

Of course, with his level of strength, detecting Zhuang Zhou wouldn’t have been difficult. He just hadn’t been paying attention, so the man’s sudden appearance gave him quite a startle.

Zhuang Zhou said, "I thought you already knew." He then added, "So jumpy!"

Ye Fan was left speechless.

Zhuang Zhou inquired, "Now that the Spirit Suppressing Battle is over, where do you plan to go?"

Ye Fan replied, "To become a god, of course. I need to condense a Godhead!"

Indeed, he needed to condense a Godhead, but he had no idea what this so-called Godhead actually was. It’s hard to be a man, but it’s even harder to be a Martial Cultivator.

Zhuang Zhou explained, "A Godhead is something you can extract from other gods after they die. You then merge it with yourself to break through and become a god in one fell swoop!" This was Zhuang Zhou’s understanding, and also the commonly accepted one.

Ye Fan asked, "Are there no other, more special methods?"

"There are, but it’s thought to be impossible. I’ve only heard legends about it and have never witnessed it myself. It was something my master told me about," Zhuang Zhou explained.

Immediately, Ye Fan grabbed Zhuang Zhou’s hands and said earnestly, "If that’s the case, then let’s sit down and have a long talk about it!"

At this critical juncture, Zhuang Zhou found it hard to fend off Ye Fan’s enthusiasm—even if that enthusiasm was clearly fake. If Zhuang Zhou hadn’t provided him with good news, Ye Fan would have likely kicked him away without a second thought.

Zhuang Zhou then said, "My master once told me that in the distant Ancient Times, the gods of the Divine Race didn’t acquire their Godheads by killing others!"

"Then what did they rely on?" Ye Fan asked eagerly.

He found the idea of merging with someone else’s Godhead to be repulsive. Since it’s so distasteful, why not just condense a Godhead of my own?

"They relied on their own immense power and special materials to forge an invincible Godhead for themselves!" Zhuang Zhou declared seriously.

When it came to being serious, Zhuang Zhou certainly took it to the extreme.

"What are the materials for crafting a Godhead?" That was the only question Ye Fan cared about. Whether Zhuang Zhou was being serious or not was hardly his concern.

At that moment, Zhuang Zhou said, "The answer is actually simple. They are two flawless materials: Peerless Divine Steel and Vast Divine Steel."

Ye Fan had never heard of these two things before.

"Any Godhead forged with either of these two materials will inevitably become the strongest possible Godhead. A person’s Godhead is critically important," Zhuang Zhou continued. "Whether you can withstand the necessary tribulations or, in other words, whether it can support your ascent to the Ancestor Realm—the Godhead plays a vital role! Just one of these materials is enough to help you become a god!"

The way Zhuang Zhou spoke of them made these two items sound as common as cabbage to Ye Fan. He asked, "So, where are they? Help me get them!"

Zhuang Zhou nearly stumbled and fell to his knees. What a joke! These were the ultimate materials for forging a Godhead. If they were readily available, it would be uncertain whether the Divine Race or the Human Clan would be the one to perish. Such heaven-defying materials were impossible to seek out and could only be chanced upon by fate.

So, he said, "I don’t have these materials. They are exceedingly rare, not just in the Secular World but in the entire Divine Domain. They are treasures coveted by the Divine Race; how could they possibly be easy to obtain? They are materials that exist only in legend!"

Ye Fan was instantly speechless. That’s the same as saying nothing at all! Vast Divine Steel and Peerless Divine Steel... am I really fated never to find them? No. In my opinion, only these two materials are worthy of me. Otherwise, what’s the damned point of forging a Godhead at all? It would be useless for fighting the Divine Race, let alone turning the tide of the war.

At this moment, he said to Zhuang Zhou, "Brother Zhuang!"

Zhuang Zhou nearly buckled again. He was truly not used to such an intimate form of address. More importantly, he and Ye Fan weren’t that close, were they? He hoped Ye Fan wouldn’t say anything rash.

So, he said to Ye Fan, "Brother Ye, please use the previous form of address. I’m not accustomed to this one!"

It wasn’t just that he wasn’t used to it. More importantly, his eyelid started twitching whenever Ye Fan called him that. He simply couldn’t accept this form of address.

But Ye Fan wasn’t at all embarrassed. He said to Zhuang Zhou, "Brother Zhuang, at this point in our relationship, do we really need to keep such a distance?"

"Stop right there. I know what you’re going to ask, so I might as well just tell you!"

"Excellent! I like a man who gets straight to the point!"

Ye Fan knew he had finally achieved his goal. Of course, he hoped the information wasn’t bogus. If it turned out to be useless, he’d make sure this old fox got what was coming to him.

Zhuang Zhou said, "It’s true that Vast Divine Steel is nowhere to be found—it hasn’t even been heard of in the Divine Domain. However, Peerless Divine Steel did once appear in the possession of one person!"

"The Ancestor of Tianyuan?" Ye Fan asked.

"Exactly," Zhuang Zhou nodded promptly.

Ye Fan breathed a sigh of relief. He had already guessed it might be the Ancestor of Tianyuan. After all, despite his realm not being the highest, the man was formidable enough to vanquish gods and slay demons. This just showed the importance of a powerful Godhead.

"But didn’t the Ancestor of Tianyuan perish?" Ye Fan asked, his spirits dampening.

Zhuang Zhou replied, "He did. He fell in a battle against the strongest expert of the Divine Race, the one who had a chance of becoming an Emperor. But his Tomb Palace is in this world!"

After Zhuang Zhou had explained so much, Ye Fan knew they were finally getting to the point.

He asked Zhuang Zhou gleefully, "Then where is his Tomb Palace? I’ll go take a look. Maybe I can find the Peerless Divine Steel!"

Zhuang Zhou immediately responded with caution, "Brother Ye, you mustn’t be reckless. The Ancestor of Tianyuan is a powerhouse respected by everyone. To dig up his grave like that seems rather disrespectful!"

Of course, Zhuang Zhou still believed that if Ye Fan could forge his Godhead with Peerless Divine Steel, combined with his Ancestor Realm Bloodline and the Yuanhong Sword, he would become even more terrifying than the Ancestor of Tianyuan had been once he fully matured.

The Ancestor of Tianyuan was known to have once caused upheaval throughout the Divine Domain. If Ye Fan truly obtained these materials, it wouldn’t be a simple upheaval. At that point, the entire Divine Race would likely have to kneel at Ye Fan’s feet.