I was the Heavenly Emperor in ancient times

Chapter 57 The Kingdom Without Guts

The Land Without Guts.

The Intestineless Kingdom does indeed resemble a kingdom; they have even built a city here, imitating the capital of the emperor.

When Li Jun saw the city from afar, he recognized its familiar style and even noticed the tall altar modeled after the Western Mother Goddess's altar for worshipping Heaven.

This means that many years ago, some of them had been there and even paid their respects to Shao Li.

"It's already abandoned."

Just as the shaman of the Huan Gou clan said, Li Jun could tell at a glance that this place was indeed a country of mountains and seas.

The entire city was a giant altar.

The city's walls, houses, towers, and neighborhoods have all been transformed, taking on some of the characteristics of demons.

However, Li Jun also discovered that the city was almost deserted.

The city must have originally been surrounded by numerous settlements, because Li Jun saw vast tracts of farmland on all sides, with people planting millet.

The city was inhabited by the people of the Wuchang clan, who were protected and supported by the surrounding tribes of various sizes. This was the order of this ancient, barbaric, and foreign land.

But at this moment, these settlements were deserted, and the city in front of them was devoid of any signs of human activity.

Where did they go?

The giant spirit pulling the cart gradually approached the city walls of the Intestineless Kingdom.

Outside the city, the endless millet fields blocked out the sun. The millet was ripe, and the ears swayed in the wind. When the giant spirit that summoned the soul passed through them, it did not even see any birds stealing the millet.

The city wall was covered with green vines, which were dark brown and had few branches and leaves, looking like a dense network of intestines coiled around the wall.

The scene was beautiful and serene, yet it still gave Li Jun that feeling—a sense of desolation, as if it were a painting.

The giant spirit carrying Li Jun walked over, and he squatted down and slowly pushed open the door with his hand.

Li Jun got off the cart pulled by the giant spirit and left it to wait outside, while he entered through the city gate.

After entering through the city gate, Li Jun saw the people of the Intestineless Kingdom, but strangely enough, they were all asleep.

Some were lying in bed, some were sitting cross-legged, some were leaning against something, some were sitting under a tree, some were sitting at the door, and some were leaning against a ladder. It seemed that everyone in the city had finally settled down to rest.

Li Jun looked at these sleeping people and observed their physical characteristics.

Everyone here has an unusual appearance; their bodies are almost all thin and tall, and each person has a light and ethereal feeling.

Their abdomens were slender, reminiscent of their country and clan name, the Intestineless Clan.

Li Jun confirmed that these people really did not seem to have intestines; their abdomens were empty.

As Li Jun slowly walked towards the replica altar, he finally encountered someone who was still awake.

"Who?"

Beneath the altar, a person sitting cross-legged suddenly raised their head.

Li Jun looked over at the person. The person had long hair and a beautiful face, but it was impossible to tell whether they were male or female.

He was dressed in a linen robe and had a slender, thin body. Li Jun quickly realized that he was a lich.

Li Jun: "What's your name?"

The other party replied: "A witch without intestines has no successor!"

This name is strange; it implies that the person has no descendants.

In the Great Wilderness, fertility is considered sacred and awe-inspiring, and women who can bear many offspring are believed to be possessed by goddesses.

There are men with strong fertility who are revered as sacred and believed to be reincarnations of deities.

It is definitely not something that a person can say out loud, regardless of gender.

Li Jun asked, "Is this the Land of the Gutless?"

The other party replied, "That's right, this is the place. And who are you, and what brings you to my Intestineless Kingdom?"

The fact that the other party admitted that this place was the Kingdom of Mountains and Seas meant that they really knew about the Kingdom of Mountains and Seas and what changes had occurred in this city.

From then on, this place became the fourth mountain and sea kingdom that Li Jun knew of, besides the capital of the emperor, Youdu, and the Yellow Springs Ghost Kingdom.

Li Jun wanted to ask more questions, but then what happened next...

The gutless sorcerer suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance.

"Oh no, those things are coming."

Next.

Li Jun then saw that the entire "Intestineless Kingdom" had awakened. The people of the Intestineless Kingdom opened their eyes, gathered together, and picked up various weapons.

Outside the city, a large number of "people" also appeared, but these "people" all had fierce expressions on their faces, and they attacked like hungry ghosts, constantly assaulting this country of mountains and seas.

A fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

During this process, Li Jun witnessed the supernatural abilities and extraordinary skills of both sides.

The invading party from the outside.

These people appeared chaotic, yet they were like a stampede of horses. They crashed into the city walls and merged into them, becoming part of the walls, and then collapsed along with that part. They crashed into the trees and merged into them, destroying everything in the Intestineless Kingdom.

However, the lack of order and method has created chaos.

Meanwhile, on the other side are the people of the Intestineless Kingdom.

These people also used a strange supernatural power: no matter how much damage they suffered or how many limbs they were missing, as long as they dug a layer of mud from the ground and applied it to their bodies or wounds, or even attached it to severed limbs, their bodies could quickly recover, as if they were immortal.

This is somewhat similar to the wooden knight that Li Jun had seen, but although the results achieved by the two are similar, their origins are completely different.

"Ok?"

But soon, Li Jun discovered something strange.

Li Jun didn't notice when there were many people at the beginning, but as the battle progressed to the later stages, when these people from the Wugu Kingdom and the invaders were engaged in close combat in twos and threes.

Li Jun then noticed that the two sides in the battle were mostly two identical people, or even several or a dozen identical people.

"Twins or triplets?"

"Clone?"

"External incarnation?"

Ultimately, this bizarre battle began suddenly with incredible intensity and ended abruptly amidst a scene of utter carnage. However, upon taking inventory afterward, Li Jun noticed that not a single person was missing from the city.

Because once those hungry ghost-like beings kill the gutless people in the city, they will take their place.

Moreover, the other party no longer looked like a hungry ghost; instead, he appeared peaceful and calm.

Both his physique and expression exuded an otherworldly air, as if he had no worldly desires whatsoever.

It gives the impression that as long as those hungry ghosts kill the version of themselves in the city, they will be freed from the realm of hungry ghosts.

Although these people from the Intestineless Kingdom had just experienced a great battle, they immediately returned to their homes, some sitting cross-legged under trees to meditate, others lying on their sides under the eaves to enjoy the scenery, and still others simply falling into a deep sleep.

When Li Jun looked again at the previous invaders, he saw that they had blended into the city walls, the houses, the ground, and the trees, eventually disappearing little by little into this gutless kingdom.

He vaguely understood why the Ring Dog Clan had been so terrified of this place; this land of mountains and seas was indeed as strange as it could possibly be.

Li Jun watched as the "battle" ended, and the gutless creature finally reached the foot of the altar.

"worn out."

It seems this isn't the first time he's experienced something like this, or perhaps it happens every now and then.

Li Jun finally spoke: "What are those?"

Wu Changwu said, "That is us, yet it is not us."

The battle had raged for most of the day, and the scorching sunlight suddenly turned dim and reddish. Li Jun looked outside.

He noticed something strange and asked about it.

"Why is there no smoke rising from the chimneys of the city all day?"

Li Jun has been here for quite some time, but he hasn't seen anyone eating or cooking in the city.

I could understand during the earlier chaos, but now that it's over and it's getting dark, we should be eating something.

Wu Ji told Li Jun that in this Intestineless Country, the people who are intestinalless do not need to eat.

Li Jun wasn't surprised, but he still wanted to know the reason. He asked, "How can you survive if you don't eat?"

Wu Ji said, "We can still survive without eating. We can live on the wind and dew. Every day, we only need to breathe in a few breaths of air that blows from the depths of the Su Guang Wilderness and swallow a few mouthfuls of sweet dew in the wind, and that will be enough."

"Moreover, because we have no intestines or an opening for urination, even if we eat something, it won't have any effect; instead, it will only make us feel uncomfortable."

Li Jun discovered the second peculiar place in the Intestineless Kingdom.

They live on the wind and drink the dew.

However, he brought the topic back to the first peculiar place.

"You say those people are you, but they aren't you. What does that mean?"

Li Jun had a lot of questions, and he kept asking them from beginning to end, but he never talked about himself.

However, this gutless witch seemed to have taken it all in stride, and stopped asking questions, perhaps because she didn't care about such things.

“Long ago, all the people of the Intestineless Kingdom had died.”

As soon as he opened his mouth, he revealed a shocking fact.

“We are all people who were resurrected from Nuwa’s intestines, but we are not the only ones who were resurrected from Nuwa’s intestines. There are also some people who are exactly like us.”

“At first we didn’t realize it. We just thought that we had been granted the way to immortality by the gods and that we could enjoy life in the world.”

"But then, what you just saw happened."

“Almost every few days, another group of us would come to attack the city. These people were exactly like us, and after killing us, they would take our place.”

“From that moment on, we understood that the real us was dead. Although there is always a version of us living in this gutless land, this version of me is not the same as the previous one.”

Li Jun confirmed his earlier guess about the first peculiar thing about the people of the Intestineless Kingdom.

It is neither born nor dies, but can die and be reborn.

However, Li Jun also noticed a word mentioned in the other person's words.

"What do you mean by receiving the way to immortality from the gods?"

Beneath the altar, the gutless shaman Wuji led Li Jun onto the stage.

He pointed into the city and told Li Jun what was happening there.

"Since we were raised from the dead."

"We don't need to eat, and we can't eat."

"This body will not age, nor can it die."

"We also cannot reproduce, so the number of people in the city will always remain the same, neither more nor less."

They live on dew and wind, live forever, and can even be resurrected.

Their state immediately reminded Li Jun of a mythical being.

"Fairy!"

However, that's not what Li Jun asked.

"I'm asking about the deity you mentioned who granted you immortality. What is that deity all about?"

Wu Ji was taken aback after hearing this, but after looking at Li Jun, he nodded knowingly.

thought.

This person may have heard the rumors of the people of the Intestineless Kingdom being immortal and came here seeking this secret technique of immortality.

However, this gutless sorcerer was not stingy and actually told Li Jun directly.

He turned around on the altar and pointed to another place outside the city.

There, one can faintly see a rushing river.

“At the source of the great river outside the city, there is a large lake. That lake leads directly into the earth, and this great river flows out from underground.”

"This river didn't exist a hundred years ago. It appeared not long after the Emperor descended from the sun to the human world."

“Every month when the moon is full, ten divine beings will appear from under the moon in the lake and marsh.”

"Many years ago, my people, the people of Wuchang, and those ten divine beings obtained supernatural powers and secret techniques, and thus we became what we are today."

From then on, Li Jun finally got the information he wanted, and his long journey here was not in vain.

He never imagined that there were naturally born ghosts and gods here.

Li Jun asked, "Are they really ghosts or gods?"

Wu Ji said, "He is no ordinary person."

From that point on, Li Jun decided to get involved in the matter.

Since he wanted to know the secrets of Nuwa's intestines regarding the transformation of life and death, he also wanted to know the secrets of ghosts and gods.

In particular, how Nuwa's intestines were able to spontaneously transform into ghosts and gods without the aid of divine stones was extremely important to Li Jun.

Li Jun looked at the upper reaches of the river: "Could you take me there?"

Wu Ji told him, "No, you must not go."

suddenly.

Wu Ji became extremely excited and said with absolute certainty.

"Never covet immortality."

Li Jun: "Is it because immortality is nothing but an illusion, and those who are resurrected are just another person?"

Wu Ji shook his head: "If that's all there is to it, then so be it."

Then, the shaman of the Intestineless Kingdom recounted what happened after obtaining immortality.

Wu Ji was particularly emotional, and he felt somewhat sad when he talked about the past.

Li Jun listened quietly as he poured out his heart. It seemed that the other person hadn't seen a living outsider in a long time, and he vented all his emotions, giving the impression of someone who was not very familiar with him but was having a deep conversation with him.

"At first, we were overjoyed to be able to live on dew and not eat grains, and felt that we were extraordinary and no longer ordinary people. But as time went on, the temperament of the people in the city gradually changed."

"If people do not eat grains and have no appetite, they will be like flowers, grass and trees."

"And we are also unable to reproduce, we are neither born nor die, and we have even lost the fundamental human desires."

"Gradually, everyone fell into a deep sleep and refused to move."

"Like rotten wood."

At this point, Wuji, the sorcerer, began to weep and complain to Li Jun.

"This is the Kingdom of the Gutless. We are bound here, neither alive nor dead, like puppets."

"Although they are human, they are no different from flowers, plants and trees."

Li Jun asked, "Why are you different from everyone else in the city?"

Wu Ji said, "Since my resurrection, I have never been replaced. I also drink some light soup and wine every day and do not want to sleep for long periods of time. I wander around day and night, reminiscing about the past in the country. That is why I am where I am today."

"However, this is not a long-term solution. If you come to see me again next time, Wuji will probably be no different from the other people in the city."

After saying that, Wu Ji tried to persuade him.

"Immortality is beyond human reach; you should leave now!"

However, Li Jun did not come seeking immortality; he had another purpose in going to see the Ten Gods Without Intestines.

Li Jun: "I have a method, although it may not be able to completely get you out of this predicament, but it may be able to help you gradually find a way to control it!"

Afterwards, Li Jun gave a presentation on the theory of those above the Great Shaman.

Following Li Jun's method, the entire Intestineless Kingdom was refined in the manner of a normal Great Witch and the Mountain and Sea Kingdom, eventually transforming into a fourth-stage sacrificial artifact. Perhaps then, it would be able to control a portion of the rule power that evolved and separated from Nuwa's intestines.

Of course, Li Jun then summoned the giant spirit that summoned souls and displayed its all-powerful divine abilities.

Having methods and extraordinary abilities naturally makes people believe in them.

Then, Wu Wuji of the Wuchang clan bowed deeply and pleaded.

"Please, Great Shaman, help me, the Intestineless One."

(End of this chapter)