I was the Heavenly Emperor in ancient times

Chapter 108: Stay?

Deep in the earth.

When the first golden crow was shot, all the goddesses of Nuwa looked in that direction. As they gradually developed human characteristics, they showed expressions of surprise and unease.

"mortal?"

"It is a celestial artifact from the Heavenly Court."

"What's the deal with that bow?"

All the goddesses were initially incredulous, after all, a mortal had actually shot down the Golden Crow, but then they immediately turned their attention to the Sun-Shooting Bow.

"quick!"

"Stop him."

"We can't let him continue like this."

The Goddess of Nuwa immediately prepared to act, while the man on the distant mountain peak in the Great Wilderness did not stop drawing his bow, especially since the arrows he shot were different from ordinary arrows.

The arrow reaches its destination the instant it is released, as if there were no intermediate process.

With ten consecutive shots, at an unbelievable speed, all ten "suns" in the sky were shot down, leaving even the goddess Nuwa no time to react.

One "sun" after another fell, landing in different places. Even in death, these golden crows caused terrible disasters.

Some fell into the sea, instantly evaporating thousands of miles of ocean; some fell into the wilderness, melting everything around them; some plummeted to the heavens, burning a deep abyss into the earth.

Others, the corpses floated in the sky, and the flames they emitted turned into fiery clouds stretching for thousands of miles.

In short, strange phenomena appeared everywhere in the Great Wilderness, both in the sky and on the ground, and everyone could see the tragic scene of the Golden Crow's demise.

But when it came to the last one, the golden crow was somehow wounded by an arrow but did not die. It disappeared into the huge ravine in the easternmost part of the world.

All the goddesses of Nuwa's intestines could not believe what they were seeing, but it was too late. The ten suns were shot down too quickly; the change happened in an instant.

this time.

They have lost completely.

Deep within the earth, the nine goddesses of Nuwa's intestines instantly communicated with each other.

"The Golden Crow is gone."

"How to do?"

"Then, by pushing the intestines of Nuwa, the Great Wilderness was destroyed."

"Even if the world collapses, we might still have a sliver of hope."

Even at this point, the nine goddesses of Nuwa's intestines had not given up and still wanted to fight. Or perhaps, having come to this point, giving up would have been pointless.

skyline.

At this time, in the Nuwa Palace, the tenth Nuwa Goddess began to take action, no longer passively defending, but actively launching an attack.

At the same time, Li Jun looked down from the sky, and the Tenth Goddess Nuwa also noticed Li Jun's gaze and looked up at the Heavenly Emperor high above.

The tenth goddess, Nuwa: "Heavenly Emperor!"

Li Jun said, "I promised you back then that I would make you the true Nuwa, and today that time has come."

The tenth goddess Nuwa understood: "It's time for everything to end."

Li Jun nodded: "I will ask the Heavenly Court to help you."

The nine goddesses of Nuwa's intestines made their final desperate attempt, but Li Jun could not see what they were doing deep within the earth.

However, he was able to see the changes in the outside world.

First, we can see that the eight earth pillars below the Great Wilderness begin to collapse one by one. When the first one collapses, the Great Wilderness begins to tilt, looking like it is about to completely collapse. The second one follows closely behind, creating a chain reaction.

But that wasn't enough. The nine gods of Nuwa's intestines pushed the true form of Nuwa's intestines out completely from the depths of the earth.

At this moment, countless living beings in the world were plunged into a strange feeling, influenced and controlled by some source and law. A large number of demons, humans, birds and beasts on the Great Wilderness began to mutate.

Some fell into a deep sleep and turned into a large cocoon; some began to mutate and transform into various demonic forms; while some demons began to degenerate and turned back into beasts.

"Generating all things!"

"Transformation into a multitude of immortals and saints!"

"Transformation into heaven and earth!"

A voice came from the depths of the earth, echoing in everyone's mind; every living being could hear it.

Looking down from the heavens, Li Jun saw something incredibly large rising from below. It didn't rise from the interior of the Great Wilderness, but rather from the depths of the Earth.

However, through those eight earth pillars, a large part of it is also in the Great Wilderness.

Therefore, when it floated up, the Earth and the entire Great Wilderness showed signs of being torn apart.

heaven.

As the immortals and gods flew throughout the Great Wilderness, they naturally transmitted back images of the outside world, projecting them onto the divine realm above the Heavenly Gate.

At this moment, everyone saw a huge, infinitely extending rift appear on the land of the original world beneath the Great Wilderness, splitting the entire continent in two. And this was not the end; the rift continued to extend further into the distance.

The Great Wilderness began to crack from northwest to southeast, but the huge crack was blocked by the area below Mount Buzhou. However, the crack bypassed Mount Buzhou, and the dense cracks split apart in the southeast direction, like a tortoise shell that had been burned during a sacrifice.

The celestial beings in the Heavenly Court, upon witnessing this scene, all spoke up.

"This is truly an unprecedented calamity!"

"This is a calamity for all living beings. Countless people have died in heaven and on earth. After this great calamity, it is unknown how many people will be left."

"It wasn't just humans; all things in heaven and earth suffered the same fate. Countless creatures were reduced to ashes and may have become extinct."

And this is only what ordinary gods see.

Some beings possess extraordinary abilities that transcend heaven and earth, and are even able to see through those cracks, pierce through the Great Wilderness and the Earth Pillars, and perceive the true shadow of Nuwa's Intestines.

It was a shadow that kept changing.

Li Jun saw a huge embryo, a twisted snake shadow, a shadow like the Earth Mother Goddess, and even a newly born world.

That was Nuwa's intestines, a demon god without a fixed form.

It can transform into everything.

Or rather, it is everything itself.

As Li Jun gazed at the true form of Nuwa's intestines, the voice of the Tenth Nuwa Goddess rang out.

"The Breath of Earth!"

"Buzhou Mountain!"

"Stabilize heaven and earth, stop the earth from cracking!"

The power of the tenth goddess Nuwa penetrated Buzhou Mountain, using it as a medium to spread her power to all corners of the world.

She no longer protected the area centered on Buzhou Mountain, the pillar of heaven, but began to actively invade Nuwa's intestines and control its origin. The Breath Soil also began to spread down Buzhou Mountain, the pillar of heaven.

Spanning space, reaching every corner of the wilderness, filling cracks and preventing the earth from collapsing.

However, the actions of the tenth goddess Nuwa did not seem to solve the problem to the Queen Mother of the West, so the Queen Mother of the West quickly appeared in front of Li Jun.

Yellow light surged, and a phantom gradually materialized before Li Jun. An empress-like figure emerged and gazed at Li Jun from the highest point of the celestial realm.

The Queen Mother of the West said, "If this continues, when the third pillar collapses, the entire Great Wilderness will collapse and disintegrate."

"Even if Mount Buzhou stabilized the four directions, it could not stop the earth from sinking and the sky from collapsing."

Li Jun nodded: "Then we don't need this earth pillar!"

The Queen Mother of the West did not understand: "What do you mean by not wanting this earth pillar? If the entire Great Wilderness were to fall directly to the ground, it would be tens of thousands of feet high, and it would be difficult to guarantee that the Great Wilderness would remain intact after it falls."

However, after speaking, the Queen Mother of the West thought for a moment.

"Perhaps, this is one way."

Now that things have come to this, the Great Wilderness is riddled with holes, and the planets below have been torn apart. Even if it collapses a little more, it seems acceptable.

As long as the problem of Nuwa's intestines can be solved, everything else can wait until later.

However, Li Jun did not mean that when he said he didn't want the earth pillar.

He said, "Instead of earth pillars, let the celestial barrier cover downwards, and let the power of space hold the entire Great Wilderness."

The Queen Mother of the West also showed a surprised expression: "This can work?"

Li Jun said, "Of course I can't do it alone, but there is the entire Heavenly Realm and the barrier covering the sky, all the gods in the Heavenly Court who have refined the control laws of countless demon gods, and the Earth Pillar, the Breath Soil, and the Tenth Nuwa God vying for the power of Nuwa's Intestine."

"Now that we don't have ten golden crows holding us back, we can focus all our efforts on this matter."

"By combining them, we may be able to achieve the unity of heaven and earth."

Thinking about it this way, one truly feels as if the Heavenly Emperor Li Jun has issued a decree, and heaven and earth are of one mind.

The Queen Mother of the West nodded: "Then let's give it a try."

Li Jun looked down.

At this moment, all the gods in the Heavenly Court were looking upwards, or rather, they were waiting for the Heavenly Emperor to do something.

As Li Jun's golden decree fell, his intentions were conveyed to every deity inside and outside the Nine Heavens, and the duties of each deity were arranged.

Then, heaven and earth exerted their strength together, aiming at Nuwa's intestines below, targeting the nine gods of Nuwa's intestines who wanted to destroy the world.

This time.

The Heavenly Emperor and all the immortals fully activated the Heavenly Realm's grand formation. The power of Mount Buzhou pierced through the sky and the earth, its light continuously surging towards the heavens and the earth, and it itself seemed to have truly transformed into a white jade pillar.

The bluebirds of the heavens began to circle and stabilize everything around them, the peach trees blossomed with the power of space and continued to spread downwards, and Changxi's shadow appeared on the moon, emitting light that shone down on the Great Wilderness.

The four pillars of heaven further converged, squeezing the entire Great Wilderness from the four corners towards the center, preventing it from collapsing.

And more importantly.

With the combined efforts of everyone in the sky and on earth, the power of the heavens began to erode the earth, spreading towards it.

The power of the God of Nuwa's Intestines began to decline, and even the control of the Nine Gods of Nuwa's Intestines over Nuwa's Intestines began to decrease, and was gradually taken away by the Tenth God of Nuwa.

under such circumstances.

As the eight earth pillars collapsed one by one, the power of the heavens, centered on Mount Buzhou, covered the area below.

It actually caught the entire Great Wilderness, preventing it from falling downwards.

At that moment, an incredibly astonishing scene unfolded.

Looking up from the desolate wilderness beyond the Four Extremes and Eight Pillars, even without the eight enormous earth pillars, the entire Great Wilderness still floats ten thousand feet in the sky, steadily without falling, like a huge continent floating in the heavens.

At this moment, the Great Wilderness seemed to have truly become another world, a mythical world that did not abide by the laws of the present world, a world where the sky was round and the earth was square.

As this scene unfolded, the voice of the goddess Nuwa echoed from the depths of the earth.

"Lost!"

"We lost...we lost completely...we lost."

"what to do……"

Not only did the Goddess Nuwa know she had lost, but all the immortals and gods in Heaven, seeing this scene, also understood that they had won. After the thunderous cheers, all that remained was to press their advantage.

After stabilizing the Great Wilderness, the Heavenly Court once again joined forces, using the power of the Tenth Goddess Nuwa as a pivot, to suppress and target the Nine Gods of Nuwa's Intestines deep within the earth.

Even the Heavenly Emperor Li Jun descended from the heavens and came to the foot of Mount Buzhou.

"Certainly!"

Li Jun took a step, and it was as if the world was just a stone's throw away. He could appear anywhere in the Great Wilderness at any time, because at this moment the Great Wilderness had been locked down by the spatial power of the Heavenly Realm.

Wherever it passed, the entire Great Wilderness began to close in, and all the rampaging demon gods were suppressed and unable to move.

At this moment, Li Jun controlled the grand formation of the Heavenly Realm, and the spatial power of the Heavenly Realm extended downwards there. Li Jun truly felt like the omnipotent master of heaven and earth.

Meanwhile, the Queen Mother of the West led her celestial beings directly down to the Four Extremes and Eight Pillars. Vast clouds descended from above, reaching the sea surface in the blink of an eye, and arriving at the most obvious crack in the Guixu.

Subsequently, the Queen Mother of the West summoned the power of the Yellow Springs and gathered the gods of Heaven to directly slash a force into the giant ravine of the Ruins of Return.

Although the Ruins of Return did not expand, a force cleaved through the layers of barriers beneath it, pointing directly to the hidden place of the Nine Gods of Nuwa's Intestines in the deepest part.

Finally, accompanied by an earthquake that covered thousands of miles, the shadows of the nine goddesses of Nuwa appeared one by one before the gods of Heaven and the Queen Mother of the West.

At this moment, the tenth goddess, Nuwa, finally appeared.

"You lost!"

"Stop doing meaningless things. Let's end it all here." "We were one, and now we are simply returning to our original state."

Upon seeing the tenth Nuwa Goddess appear, the other nine Nuwa Goddesses stopped all their previous actions, as if they had given up resisting simply because of her words.

The tenth goddess, Nuwa, pierced through the gradually closing water curtain and stepped into the depths of the earth.

As she moved, shadows from the depths of the earth floated up and merged into the body of the Tenth Nuwa Goddess, overlapping with her.

It felt like a painting had been peeled down into ten layers, and now each layer was being re-attached, making the original image more and more real.

The nine intestinal gods were merged into the tenth goddess, but even at this final moment, one of the intestinal gods was still speaking.

They still seemed unwilling to admit defeat, even though they had no power to resist.

What is our true nature?

"We are inside you, we will not disappear."

"We are one; as long as you are here, we are here too."

"We will also emerge from your body."

"..."

Amidst whispers, nine figures completely merged into the body of the tenth Nuwa God. Now there was no longer a tenth Nuwa God, but the true Nuwa Empress.

The tenth goddess, Nuwa, stood deep within the earth, grasping the Breath of Earth.

The power reversed and traced back from the Breath of Earth to the true Demon Goddess Nuwa's Intestines, ultimately appearing as if it wanted to bring the laws of Nuwa's Intestines under its control.

As the power of Nuwa's intestines reversed, all the turmoil on earth began to subside.

The fissure in the earth healed, and the alienation of all living things ceased. However, the pillar of the earth had already shattered and could not be rebuilt in a short time, or rather, it no longer needed to be rebuilt.

And the sky.

Li Jun's imperial body could also sense Nuwa's intestines through the immortal artifact, the Breath of Earth. As Nuwa refined Nuwa's intestines, Li Jun even felt a sense of power being withdrawn.

Or rather, all beings who refine the power of the demon god's laws through imperial blood, ghosts and gods, and immortal artifacts are essentially imperial witches, an extension of the power of the imperial body.

After merging with all the goddesses, Nuwa's appearance changed again. Her human form didn't change much, but she became more sacred.

However, the light of law behind it rotates continuously like a mythical wheel, with countless runes and incantations rising and falling within it, and mountains and rivers can also be seen.

After everything was over, Nuwa quickly returned to Buzhou Mountain.

She came up to Li Jun and said.

"I'm going into seclusion for a while."

Li Jun asked her, "Has something happened?"

Nuwa said, "Although the other nine Nuwa Gods have already merged into my body, it will not be easy to completely suppress them and integrate all their power."

Li Jun frowned: "If nine versions of yourself have appeared inside your body, can't you just completely erase them?"

Nuwa said, "If I completely erase them, I will no longer be complete. We were originally one and were born together, gradually becoming what we are now, and now we have returned to the way we were before."

Although it took a long and winding road, it has now reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Li Jun nodded: "Then I'll have to trouble Nuwa."

After bowing, Nuwa said, "I entrust the rest to the Heavenly Emperor."

Afterwards, surrounded by a host of gods and immortals, Nuwa retreated to her palace in the heavens and began her seclusion.

Li Jun looked out from Buzhou Mountain at the Great Wilderness and the Four Seas.

The whole world was in a mess.

However, although the destruction caused by the ten golden crows and Nuwa's intestines seems unimaginable now, all the problems they brought about have been resolved.

As the saying goes, great destruction is followed by great gain. Now everything seems to have turned into ruins, but it is precisely in this context that everything must be rebuilt, and boundless vitality is hidden within the shattered world.

Now, the Heavenly Court created by Li Jun has begun to control the entire heaven and earth; all that remains is to gradually and perfectly organize and perfect it.

Thirty years later.

This year.

When the Queen Mother of the West held another Peach Banquet, Li Jun looked down from his cloud bed and noticed that there were many more figures.

Among them, there was a figure very far ahead. This was a great shaman who had recently ascended from the lower realm. He was the mortal who had been chosen by Li Jun and shot down the golden crow.

Li Jun looked towards Yaochi, where countless people had gathered amidst the layers of clouds and fairy islands.

Not a single one of those invited was absent, since missing this gathering might mean there wouldn't be another one. It's not that they weren't invited, but rather that missing this one would mean the end of the path to immortality.

Below, amidst the singing and dancing, Li Jun and the Queen Mother of the West's cloud bed floated away into the heavens.

Li Jun: "There are definitely more people now!"

Queen Mother of the West: "That's about enough. We've almost finished counting all the demons, gods, and ghosts in the Great Wilderness."

Li Jun: "So, the quantity won't increase later?"

The Queen Mother of the West said, "If there is no power from Nuwa's intestines to create new demon gods, or if new ghost gods are to be enlightened with the five-colored stones, the number should not increase."

In that case, the key is whether the Heavenly Court wants to add new gods.

After thirty years, the Heavenly Court has finally gradually repaired the damage caused by the Golden Crow Disaster and Nuwa's Intestine. In the process, the entire Great Wilderness has almost changed its appearance and has been almost created as an independent world.

Above and below, it represents the shape of a round heaven and a square earth.

The four corners are the Four Heavenly Pillars, the center is Mount Buzhou, and the four sides are the strange and incomparable Four Seas extending from the Northern Sea. The Eight Desolations are also composed of countless incredibly strange mountain and sea kingdoms.

The golden crow that escaped was also refined and became the sun in the sky.

The Moon Goddess pulls the moon up from the west at night, causing it to rotate along the sky. All the gods and immortals transform into stars, while the Dragon God, Rain God, and Cloud God control the clouds and rain. The immortals regulate the laws of the Great Wilderness.

Li Jun: "Next, we need to completely refine all the demon gods and ghost gods, and collect all the scattered laws."

Queen Mother of the West: "Why is that?"

Li Jun said, "Sever the connection between heaven and earth!"

It's unclear when Li Jun first conceived this idea, but it all started with that divine stone. Li Jun had always wanted to reclaim everything that had escaped from the divine stone.

Now, through the methods employed by the Heavenly Court, it can be said that they are gradually getting closer to their original goal.

Queen Mother of the West: "What about the Great Wilderness?"

Li Jun said, "The Great Wilderness has been transformed into the Spirit Realm. All the people of the mountains and seas have stayed here, and the demons have also stayed here. All the mortals have been sent to the human world."

"From this day forward, heaven and earth will no longer be connected."

As Li Jun spoke, he stretched out his hand and looked at the stones inside.

"The Divine Stone!"

The Queen Mother of the West did not understand: "Why is the Heavenly Emperor so fixated on this matter?"

Li Jun told her, "A long, long time ago, when I followed that divine stone down from the sky, I had this idea. When this peach tree was born, I originally wanted to seal the bluebird and the peach tree together in the heavenly realm."

"At that time, I thought I had completed my mission."

"Unexpectedly, demon gods appeared everywhere in the four seas and eight wastelands, and everything became completely out of control."

Li Jun hadn't expected it to take so long, but that day seemed to be just around the corner.

Li Jun did explain, but the Queen Mother of the West still didn't understand.

This only explains when Li Jun started wanting to do this, but Li Jun still hasn't explained why he wanted to do it.

Another forty years have passed.

"Boom!"

This time, it was still the Peach Banquet. As the immortals returned to their places, the Queen Mother of the West took stock of all the gods, and all the laws of the demon gods returned to their places and gathered in the heavens.

Li Jun looked at the stars in the sky. The celestial realm had finally reached perfection, bringing all the laws to a close.

At this point, more than a hundred years had passed since Li Jun's arrival in the ancient world.

After taking attendance, the Queen Mother of the West addressed Li Jun.

"God!"

"All the gods of the heavens have returned to their places, and the Heavenly Court is now complete."

Li Jun then understood that this meant all the demon gods had been found and incorporated into the immortal artifact.

This doesn't mean that all demon gods are controlled and refined, but once this mark is placed on them, it's only a matter of time before they are completely controlled.

With the changes over the past sixty years, the Great Wilderness no longer feels like a barbaric era. One after another, mountain and sea kingdoms stand tall, and human cities are everywhere in the eight wastelands, making it look incredibly prosperous and thriving.

Furthermore, the entire Great Wilderness has expanded over the past century due to the increasing power of the Heavenly Court. This is because the power of the Peach Tree has also grown stronger, expanding the space of the Great Wilderness as well.

During this process, many demons also integrated into the human race. To this day, it is difficult to see the difference between the demons and the people of the mountains and seas, just as Ru Shou once said.

They were beings who possessed both human and demon god powers.

Below, the Peach Banquet begins.

High above the heavens, the Heavenly Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West once again engaged in dialogue.

The Queen Mother of the West asked the same question as before: "Do we really want to sever all ties with the human world?"

In fact, this process has already gradually begun.

Because, with the improvement of the Heavenly Court and the Heavenly Realm, the entire Great Wilderness was isolated.

For the people of the mountains and seas, they used to be able to see the lower realm through the edge of the Great Wilderness, but now they can no longer see it.

Looking up from the human realm, the once desolate wilderness, which resembled a divine realm, gradually disappeared from their sight.

Perhaps thousands or tens of thousands of years have passed, and everyone will gradually forget many of the secrets of the past, but many secrets will still be passed down and become myths, and will be passed down for thousands of years.

Li Jun walked beneath the stars: "Once the Demon God is completely under control, I will seal off the Heavenly Realm and return everything to its original state."

The Queen Mother of the West asked, "Why insist on this? Even if the entire human world were to be incorporated, it wouldn't be a difficult task."

In fact, this is also the view of many gods and immortals: why bother distinguishing between the celestial realm, the Great Wilderness, and the human world?

It wouldn't be difficult for them to swallow the entire human world and that planet whole.

Li Jun: "That would change some things."

Li Jun didn't know what to say, or rather, he didn't know how to tell the Queen Mother of the West.

If everything here changes, perhaps ten thousand years from now, on the Earth he lives on, all civilizations and everything else will have disappeared.

These two factors may also explain why he has been unwilling to change this ancient era too much; another reason is that he left it for ten thousand years later.

At this Peach Banquet, the Queen Mother of the West still did not receive that answer.

And the sky.

Li Jun walked beneath the Milky Way, looking somewhat hesitant and lingering. With more than a hundred years remaining since returning to ancient times, Li Jun vaguely sensed that he was about to leave again, or rather, that the countdown had begun.

However, unlike the previous times, this time Li Junsheng had some different ideas.

Previously, Li Jun always wanted to go back. He might have found this place somewhat interesting, but he didn't feel much attachment to it.

This time, however, a feeling of reluctance to leave arose deep within him.

"Can I stay here?"

Why should I go back?

"What do I have over there? There are too many things worth remembering. But here I am the Heavenly Emperor. I have spent hundreds of years here and have countless memories."

In retrospect, he only spent a little over twenty years in the later world, while he stayed here for two or three hundred years, which is ten times longer than the former.

In the past, for Li Jun, the future was his hometown, and he was just a tourist here. Returning to the future would mean going back.

As the time gap between the two grew longer, Li Jun's memories of the world ten thousand years in the future became increasingly blurred. Especially after a hundred years, he often felt that things ten thousand years in the future had become somewhat hazy, and he could no longer remember many things.

"Should we choose to go back?"

"Let's stay here."

Li Jun's shadow traversed the sky and disappeared into the Milky Way.

"But if we don't go back, the world might disappear in ten thousand years."

"Everything is gone."

(End of this chapter)