Private key produces a digital signature that makes it possible for a corresponding public key to spend through a digital finger print known as bitcoin addresses.
My apologies for the derivation path, how would somebody go about finding the corresponding private key to a public key that was derived from an extended public key?
You need the private key, or seed phrase that can generate the private key. While creating a wallet, you will be given the seed phrase or private key. And as you meant extended public key, that means you created an HD wallet. You either need the seed phrase or the extended private key, or the private keys of the address(es) of your wallet the bitcoin is sent to.