I was the Heavenly Emperor in ancient times

Chapter 65 Fate
Li Jun traveled through the wilderness.

He once again arrived outside the clan where the giant spirit that summoned souls had passed, and stopped at the foot of a hill called Laiqiu.

He looked at the city and observed it carefully.

It seems they wanted to see if everything they had done over the years had actually been effective.

So many years have passed.

If nothing is done, this place will likely revert to its former state, with wandering ghosts and the living living together, turning the city into a city of ghosts and humans.

As the number of ghosts increased, the living could no longer survive in the city, and it became a true ghost town.

but.

Looking at the state of this city at this moment, one can tell that there is a force preventing this barbaric witch city from changing into this state.

Under the cover of night, a ritual to send off the soul is being carried out in the city.

When someone dies in the Laiqiu clan or its affiliated tribes, the shaman or chieftain will perform a ritual to summon the spirit, and others will gather around to pay their respects.

Summoning the soul is similar to worshipping the gods, but there are some differences.

"The soul is back!"

"The soul is back!"

As those ancestors called out, the towering figure from the netherworld, capable of summoning souls and gathering spirits, took away their spirits.

They danced endlessly under the sacrificial fire, summoning the beings of the underworld with their desolate voices and sending off their people.

No matter how much I yearn for it, or how reluctant I am to let it go.

The living and the dead must eventually separate, for yin and yang are distinct.

As the flames surged, a shadow gradually emerged from within the corpse.

In the darkness of the distant wilderness, some people vaguely saw what appeared to be a giant, a thousand feet tall, passing by in the distance.

As the giant banner waved, countless souls rushed toward him, crossing the boundary between Yin and Yang with him.

And immediately after.

The entire group participating in the ritual erupted in cheers, chanting and reciting prayers.

They were filled with both fear and anticipation. The fear stemmed from the matter of life and death, while the anticipation was naturally the hope that when they died, they would be worshipped and summoned to the underworld for reincarnation, rather than being left to wander in the wilderness as a lost soul.

In recent years, a curse and incantation against people has appeared in the Great Wilderness, which is about the spirits.

"They will not be reincarnated after death."

"His soul was scattered and his spirit was destroyed."

"The remains were mutilated and left unburied, forever lost in the dark waters of the North Sea."

This is the most vicious curse one can utter. Saying any one of these three things to someone is enough to make them fight you to the death.

And to be able to pass away peacefully is naturally a source of comfort and joy.

After seeing all this, Li Jun prepared to turn around and leave.

He seemed to have received some kind of confirmation for everything he had done recently.

but.

Besides this, he had another reason for coming to the mortal realm: to find the true Emperor Witch.

This is difficult, yet not so difficult.

Choosing an Emperor Witch is simple for Li Jun, but what kind of impact and changes will occur after choosing this Emperor Witch?
The power of the Emperor Witch was simply too great; his birth would inevitably cause a chain reaction throughout the Great Wilderness, which made Li Jun more cautious.

"Seek good fortune and avoid misfortune!"

At this moment, Li Jun couldn't resist wanting to use the Bluebird's supernatural powers again.

However, it is unclear when Li Jun began to be cautious about using the Bluebird's supernatural powers. Perhaps it started with Tu Bo, perhaps with Xi Mu, or perhaps even earlier.

What is happiness?

"What, then, is misfortune?"

Once this supernatural power is activated, Li Jun often seems to be able to get the result he wants, but the process is beyond his control.

You never know what price you'll pay for a result.

Or perhaps the blessing it points to isn't what you truly want.

Unknowingly.

Li Jun traveled through the Great Wilderness and arrived at the capital of the Emperor.

Since you want to choose the Emperor Witch, it seems you can't avoid this place.

At this very moment, the capital city had been reduced to ruins, and the people in the city had long since dispersed or died.

The once prosperous city is now only infested with demons and monsters.

as well as.

A great shaman named Wuji stood in the city and sighed.

With Li Jun's arrival, Wu Ji sensed something and rushed towards the sacrificial hall to the east of the Altar of Heaven.

When he entered, he saw a figure slowly coalescing and standing beneath the colorful mural of the Emperor's Shadow of Kunlun Mountain.

At first glance, it looks as if it has just stepped out of a painting.

Wu Ji hurriedly stepped forward, picked up something he had obtained from Sanwei Mountain, and held it high in front of the Emperor.

"emperor!"

“I have taken back what Ximu took.”

"Incompetent and without the right to keep such a thing."

Li Jun glanced at it and saw that what was placed in Wu Ji's hand was the Emperor's Blood that he had given to the other party in the past.

He said, "What's yours is yours, no one can take it away!"

Wu Ji: "But what about the matter of the Emperor Witch?"

Li Jun walked in front of the mural: "Your imperial blood should belong in the Kingdom of the Gutless, not here."

Wuji seemed to understand something, then knelt down and said, "Wuji understands."

Li Jun stopped in front of a painting: "You also want the Emperor Witch to reappear?"

Wu Ji said, "I rushed here after hearing that the Western Mother had died and that something had happened in the capital."

"This is no ordinary city for the Great Wilderness and the human race."

"This is the first city in the world, a symbol of humanity's foothold in the world, and the aspiration of the people."

"No matter how cruel and ruthless the Western Mother is, as long as the capital of the Emperor still exists, the order and the hearts of the people of the hundred tribes in this Great Wilderness will still exist."

"When the Western Mother died, the capital was gone, and the entire Great Wilderness returned to what it was before, or even worse."

"Everything is in chaos, but unfortunately I'm too late."

"..."

Li Jun listened quietly to Wu Ji's words. He was observing everything from the perspective of a person from the Great Wilderness, and his words naturally differed from what Li Jun had seen and thought before. Li Jun walked out of the sacrificial hall and went up the steps.

From the perspective of Xi Mu and Shao Li, they looked up at the altar for worshipping Heaven.

He said, "Time is running out."

Wu Ji paused for a moment, then said, "The Emperor refers to..."

Li Jun's words meant not only that the order established by Shao Li in the past needed to be restored, but also that the Great Wilderness could not continue to be in chaos, as time was running out.

Another implication of his statement is that his time in this ancient era is also running out.

Although it's impossible to pinpoint exactly when he'll leave, we can estimate it.

His time here is running out.

Li Jun stared at the altar for a long time before suddenly asking a question.

What do you think of Shao Li?

Wu Ji blurted out, "Shao Li?"

After a long pause, he finally realized: "The previous generation's Western Mother?"

He tried hard to recall, but he couldn't seem to remember anything about the other person.

Although it has only been a few decades, to him it seems like a myth from hundreds or thousands of years ago.

Perhaps before long, everyone will have the same feeling about this generation of Xi Mu, and may even forget that there were three generations of Xi Mu in the past.

Li Jun looked at Wu Ji and understood what was going on.

"She has disappeared."
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It started to rain.

Dark clouds obscured the sun. Although the capital of the emperor had been destroyed, there were still many human settlements living around it.

Li Jun left the capital and walked across the wilderness. The rain fell on his spot, yet his clothes remained completely dry.

It felt as if the rain was an illusion, or perhaps he himself was an illusion.

Along the way, tribal women gathering and hunters saw him from afar, but no one dared to approach; instead, they kept their distance.

When the people of the Great Wilderness see someone traveling alone in the wilderness, dressed in fine clothes, their first thought is not malice or greed, but fear.
In the rain.

Li Jun's expression didn't seem to change much, but his eyes no longer looked so serious and solemn, as if he had come to terms with something.

Regarding the Emperor Witch.

Besides his hesitation and uncertainty about what changes the Emperor Witch would bring, he actually had another idea.

Long ago, when he first thought of using the Emperor's blood to merge into a human body and become a witch, a figure inexplicably appeared in his mind.

It is the second generation of Ximu Shaoli.

He even searched for the other person's shadow in the underworld, but he never found them.

But after so many years and so many things, his thoughts have begun to change.

Above the Yellow Springs.

He watched as Tu Bo reincarnated time and time again, each life a completely different being, with different desires and obsessions in each life.

You can't imagine what kind of person you will become in your next life. Perhaps you will be the complete opposite of yourself, someone you hated and couldn't imagine in your past life, pursuing the things you once discarded.

That's a completely different existence now.

Compared to Tu Bo, Shao Li lost even more. No one knows what the demon god Qing Niao took from Shao Li, or whether she can truly be reincarnated from the Yellow Springs River.

Looking at Tu Bo, Li Jun suddenly understood that reincarnation might have meaning, but it was meaningless to him; what was gone was gone forever.

Li Jun walked through the rain and entered a sparse forest.

"Humanity needs an Emperor-Warlock!"

"No matter who this Emperor Witch is, we just need someone to be there."

Just like an emperor.

No one cares who the emperor is, but as long as people look up and see the great sun in the sky, they see hope.

Li Jun took out the imperial blood he had prepared for Tu Bo and held it in his hand.

Just then, a person suddenly appeared in the distance, chasing a small pony. It must have come from a settlement at the foot of the mountain, and the horse was probably startled by the thunder from the recent rain.

The man controlled the horse and happened to see Li Jun.

Li Jun also looked at her. This person was not very old, just a child, but she had a wildness that was hard to find, like a colt.

She dared to chase after a frightened horse in the wilderness all by herself, and tame and control it in the rain. Even when she encountered Li Jun, she looked at him without any fear.

That's a bold move.

This made Li Jun think of many things.

The other person obviously didn't know who Li Jun was, but their big eyes seemed to be staring at him in a daze.

Perhaps they had never seen anyone like him before, in terms of appearance, temperament, and every other aspect.

She asked, "Who are you?"

Li Jun asked her, "And who are you?"

The other party suddenly noticed the "red jade" in Li Jun's hand and then said.

"The stone in your hand is really beautiful."

Li Jun glanced down at what he was holding: "Want it?"

The other person nodded: "Yes!"

Li Jun reached out and handed it to her: "Here you go."

She held the horse's reins with one hand and played with a stone in her other hand, looking delighted.

She had no idea what she was holding in her hands at that moment.

Or rather, no one would believe it, or find it hard to believe.

This is something that countless people pursue, that all the tribes of the Great Wilderness are crazy about, and that countless people fight to the death for.

At last.

It was just given to someone so casually.

It's just because someone said this stone is beautiful.
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Xi Mu died.

The capital city was reduced to ruins.

However, another legend began to circulate in the human world and the Great Wilderness.

Say yes.

"The era of the Western Queen Mother Emperor has ended, but the era of the Western Queen Mother is about to begin."

"There will be one person who will truly inherit the blood of the emperor and become the Queen Mother of the West, who will live forever in the mortal world, wielding the power of life and death over all living beings and controlling the power of calamities in the world."

(End of this chapter)