I was the Heavenly Emperor in ancient times

Chapter 94 Zengcheng Ninefold
From that day on, the Queen Mother of the West wanted Li Jun to become the true Heavenly Emperor.

The sheer size of this imperial capital can be seen from the height of the altar.

The original mountain peak was cut in half, and the altar is now located at a higher elevation than during the time of the Great Li, which shows the scale of this palace complex.

"Sacrifice!"

The Queen Mother of the West, dressed in magnificent robes, led a group of shamans and strange beings from the mountains and seas to offer sacrifices to the Heavenly Emperor.

In the past, sacrifices were offered only with three kinds of animals, but now it has become extremely extravagant, with various ferocious beasts and divine birds being offered as sacrifices.

This time, due to special circumstances, the sacrifice was for a ghost or deity.

"Hoohoo!"

A strong wind swept across the sky, and a golden vortex appeared.

Li Jun's gaze pierced through the nine heavens, naturally revealing the scene on earth.

But compared to other things.

The Queen Mother of the West raised something even more familiar to Li Jun: a sacrificial dagger.

"So the Nuwa's sacrificial dagger had already appeared at this time."

In front of all the tribes of the Great Wilderness and the Great Witch, the Queen Mother of the West disintegrated the demon and then sealed it away.

This is just the beginning.

Immediately afterwards, the Queen Mother of the West cast the decomposed ghosts and gods into a sacrificial vessel, and then used the power of the demon god peach tree to seal a mountain and sea kingdom inside, along with tens of thousands of demons and completely mutated mountain and sea people.

Finally, darkness began to surge beneath the feet of the Queen Mother of the West.

A huge yellow river stretched from afar, flowing past her feet.

A demon with a tiger's head, an ox's body, and three eyes rose from the Yellow Springs and appeared behind the Queen Mother of the West. The Queen Mother of the West's eyes also began to change, and her pupils split into two.

"Double pupils!"

Above the heavens, Li Jun immediately noticed this as well.

Li Jun noticed that Xi Wangmu's other eye also seemed to have a double pupil. At this moment, Xi Wangmu's power and the power of the ghost god Tu Bo had completely merged into one, and she had completely controlled the ghost god.

Furthermore, the Queen Mother of the West has already begun to come into contact with the source of this power.

Huangquan.

The ferocious three-eyed demon seemed to be judging the life and death of all living beings. The light it emitted enveloped the Queen Mother of the West, making her face full of malevolent energy.

During this terrifying sacrificial process, everyone trembled as they watched the Queen Mother of the West sacrifice the demon and god, transforming it into a sacrificial vessel for the demon and god through a special method.

Then, the Three Lives Stone appeared.

The enormous stone tablet rose from the underworld, and the Queen Mother of the West found the names of the ghosts and gods on it, or rather, the names of the ghosts and gods when they were still human in their previous lives.

A portion of the spirit was extracted and placed on top of the stone.

After everything was completed, the Queen Mother of the West handed over the finished sacrificial artifacts to a great shaman, since once the sacrificial artifacts were made, not just anyone could control them.

Although the Great Shaman did not have double pupils, he was still able to use the power of the Ghost God Ritual Artifacts by means of the Ghost God Contract, the sacrificial artifacts, the Mountain and Sea Kingdom, and the power of the Queen Mother of the West.

and this.

The order and laws of the entire capital city are now governed by the high and mighty Queen Mother of the West, who controls the life and death of all living beings.

She created a system for controlling and commanding spirits and deities, a capital city composed of gods.

Or it could also be called: "The Divine Court!"

The Queen Mother of the West, ghosts and gods, great shamans, corpse shamans and spirit shamans, all the way down to the strange peoples of the mountains and seas, formed a complete order from top to bottom. This is the true power of the Queen Mother of the West.

A hundred years have passed, and the Queen Mother of the West has elevated the power of the Great Wilderness and the Witchcraft to a whole new level.

However, what the Queen Mother of the West wanted was not just this. She did not want a divine court, but a being that could truly control all ghosts and gods, and even control all demon gods.

A divine court that integrates the laws of all demon gods and ultimately creates a supreme authority over all things.

"Heaven!"

After this ritual was completed, the Three Lives Stone slowly fell, carrying a part of the spirits and gods, like a plate holding up the offerings.

The Queen Mother of the West carried the offerings and flew over the golden vortex in the sky, slowly ascending to the Ninth Heaven.

She personally went before the emperor and presented him with offerings.

Li Jun looked at the "offering" and asked her, "How is this used? How do you use it to control ghosts and spirits?"

The Queen Mother of the West said, "Only those with double pupils can control ghosts and gods, but with the power of the Three Lives Stone and a part of these ghosts and gods, I can use the power of the Yellow Springs to suppress and seal them again when they go out of control. That is enough."

"Moreover, with this method, all the ghosts and gods that I personally sealed and controlled can only be used to deal with others, and cannot be used to deal with me."

"The power I grant, I can also take back personally."

“Even if the great shaman of the capital city can use the power of the sacrificial implements of ghosts and gods, he must obey my orders. In a sense, it is equivalent to the ghosts and gods obeying my orders.”

"Therefore, I also relocated and sealed that part of the demon gods at the foot of Kunlun Hill."

Li Jun nodded: "That is indeed a method."

The Queen Mother of the West said, "But the Emperor's power is not only able to control ghosts and gods, but if it is truly unleashed, it can even control demon gods."

Li Jun asked, "Have you found a way?"

The Queen Mother of the West said, "It will be soon."

The Queen Mother of the West held up the Three Lives Stone high, and Li Jun took the stone. A part of the ghost and god merged into the stone.

Then Li Jun looked at the Three Lives Stone. It had undergone tremendous changes compared to before, and was now closer to the form he would see ten thousand years later.

At this time, the Queen Mother of the West inquired about the events of the past hundred years, seemingly testing something.

Li Jun didn't try to hide anything; he said he didn't remember what had happened in the past century.

"My consciousness has gone on a journey to another place."

“I have not been in this land for the past hundred years.”

The expression on Xi Wangmu's face told Li Jun that she must have already guessed it.

However, there was still a huge difference between what she guessed and the actual situation.

What is the earliest thing you remember?

Li Jun: "I gave you the Emperor's blood, and then went to the Northern Underworld and told Yu Jiang to wait for you in Youdu."

"You will come soon."

That was Li Jun's plan, but he didn't expect to see this scene when he woke up.

Upon hearing this, the Queen Mother of the West looked up at the ground and said...

"As expected, it's you, Your Majesty, who has woken up."

Li Jun nodded: "The sacrificial ceremony is over."

The Queen Mother of the West understood and rose to take her leave.

The so-called worship of deities.

Now it seems more like meeting with beings that are difficult for ordinary people to access, and then having an exchange.

However, the way this meeting was conducted was unusual. The way they communicated was different from that of ordinary people, and the responses from ghosts, gods, and demons were also unconventional.

But this time.

Compared to the previous emperor, this emperor felt much closer to the Queen Mother of the West, perhaps because he could communicate like a human, or perhaps because he was the emperor she had met for the first time.

The other party gave her everything, which made her feel extremely grateful.

This feeling was something the previous emperor, who was like a law, did not have. Being chosen by that being felt like rain falling on you was just a coincidence, but being chosen by an emperor who was like a person gave you a feeling of being ordained.

From then on.

The Queen Mother of the West visited more of the Nine Heavens, and even the ghosts and gods of the capital city began to enter the lowest level of the Nine Heavens.

On this day, Li Jun saw that the strongman and the ghosts and gods were actually building a palace on the lowest level of the Ninth Heaven, and even moved the Mountain and Sea Kingdom directly from below to the First Heaven.

Before this, Li Jun had said that Zengcheng was ninefold.

But apart from the highest point, there is actually nothing in these nine heavens.

Now, the Queen Mother of the West is preparing to build a palace in the Nine Heavens, and the Nine Heavens of Zengcheng will truly have the feel of the Nine Palaces of the Heavenly Emperor's residence.

Although Li Jun saw it, he didn't say much at first.

It wasn't until the Queen Mother of the West came before him that he mentioned it.

"Why suddenly build palaces in the ninth heaven?"

The Queen Mother of the West said, "The Emperor's residence naturally needs palaces."

Li Jun asked, "Then why wasn't it repaired before?"

The Queen Mother of the West replied, "Because the previous emperors were like the sun, moon, and stars, residing high in the sky, they had no need for the palaces of mortals. Now that the emperor has descended to the mortal realm, the Queen Mother of the West has also built these dwellings for mortals."

"However, although it is modeled after the dwellings of mortals, it is still the residence of the emperor, and there are still some differences."

Li Jun seemed to have been persuaded by the Queen Mother of the West, and the Queen Mother of the West then bid farewell and left again.

From then on, the matter of the nine-tiered palace seemed to be settled.

Actually.

Li Jun didn't really have much time or energy for this, and he didn't care about it for the time being. Since the Queen Mother of the West liked to do these formalities, he would let her do it.

During this time, Li Jun also reflected on his own problems.

The first issue is naturally the problem of the Emperor's Body. As his consciousness leaves the Emperor's Body, it seems to cause the Emperor's Body to operate on its own. Li Jun is not yet clear about the problem involved, or what consequences it will bring.

However, Li Jun felt that the problem seemed very serious, but he had not yet come up with a solution.

The second question is naturally about Nuwa's intestines and the Guhuoniao. The Guhuoniao must be related to Nuwa's intestines, and to find out the details of Nuwa's intestines and the Guhuoniao, he will definitely have to go to the Wilderness of Su Guang.

To solve a problem, you must understand the cause and the specific circumstances of the problem.

After resting for a while, Li Jun made his decision.

"Let's go to the fields of Su Guang and see the changes in the Great Wilderness."

In any case, it's really not very meaningful for Li Jun to stay in this Heavenly Realm and the capital of the Emperor; simply sitting there won't solve the problem.

Li Jun has always been the kind of person who acts immediately once he has an idea.

"Blue Bird."

Li Jun stood up from the peach tree, and a shadow soared into the sky above the distant lake, hovering above the entire peach grove.

The mythical bluebird hovered, its form gradually shrinking before it entered Li Jun's body.

When Li Jun descended from the Ninth Heaven, he deliberately concealed his figure, since his appearance was different from before. Now many people knew what the Emperor looked like, and some had even seen him.

Li Jun landed directly from the sea of ​​clouds to the outskirts of the capital city, passing once again through the mountains and dense forests transformed by the power of the demon god.

However, the shaman who practiced in the thatched hut before had been replaced by a different person.

Subsequently.

As Li Jun passed through a passage that resembled both a canyon and a heavenly staircase, he saw a gigantic demon god.

The nine-headed tiger-bodied demon god had nine human faces, each looking in a different direction, seemingly without any blind spots.

The opponent swept across Kunlun Hill with lightning, its gaze piercing through the heavens and the netherworld.

The moment Li Jun appeared, it seemed to smell something as well.

Although the power of the demon god's peach tree isolated most of Li Jun's information, the spatial fluctuations generated by its movement were still somewhat sensitive to some demon gods and powerful beings.

"Enlightened Beast!"

The other party truly became a divine beast guarding Kunlun.

However, the Enlightened Beast looked in Li Jun's direction and searched repeatedly, but ultimately still couldn't find any trace of Li Jun.

Li Jun continued walking forward, passing the mountain-like body of the Enlightened Beast, and headed down the jade-like canyon steps.

The imposing gate grew larger and larger, and as Li Jun was about to pass under it, a figure emerged.

The other person knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Li Jun, and stopped him.

"Kai Ming pays homage to the Heavenly Emperor!"

This was a man who looked to be in his thirties, dressed in a well-fitting celestial robe, giving him an air of otherworldly grace.

He had a simple, old-fashioned face and a long beard.

From a normal perspective, even to most shamans with supernatural vision, there was nothing in front of this man.

However, the other party was quite certain that someone was passing through the outermost gate of the capital city in front of them, and even recognized that the other party was the emperor.

Li Jun emerged from the void, revealing his form.

How did you see me?

The other person straightened up and looked at the jade gate.

"Your Majesty, please look, that is the divine mirror hanging on the hand of the Queen Mother of the West."

Li Jun also looked over and saw a mirror hanging there. It was placed there by the Queen Mother of the West to prevent ghosts and demons from passing through silently.

Li Jun looked at the mirror and was shocked to find his own reflection in it.

Li Jun: "A mirror reflecting the true face of the gods."

The person kneeling before him said, "However, I was able to recognize the Emperor because my clan has some connection with him. Perhaps it is some kind of predestined fate that allowed me to see the Emperor again." Li Jun recognized him upon hearing him introduce his clan: "Kaiming clan, you should be from the tribe that was stationed here back then!"

Li Jun recalled something from long ago, the first time he had ever seen the Enlightened Beast.

At that time, Li Jun happened to meet a tribe here and told them how to worship the Kaiming Beast. Ten thousand years later, his experience proved that this clan not only used this method to worship and obtain a part of the power of the Kaiming Beast, but also carried it forward.

Li Jun asked the man, "What's your name?"

Li Jun rarely asked other people's names, perhaps because he felt that he was just a passerby here most of the time.

But at this moment, Li Jun suddenly remembered some things that happened ten thousand years later.

He had previously seen something in the murals of the palace in the Kunlun Hanging Garden, guarded by the lower-level Enlightened Beast, where he obtained the Nuwa Sacrifice Dagger. At the very bottom of the murals was a figure looking towards Zengcheng Ninefold along with the Enlightened Beast.

According to the mural, it should be a guardian of the entrance to Kunlun.

At this moment, the other person said, "My name is Lu Wu."

"They were enfeoffed here by the Queen Mother of the West to guard this gate for generations."

This was actually a figure from mythology, and Li Jun couldn't help but glance at him a few more times after hearing his name.

Lu Wu asked Li Jun, "Where is the Emperor going? I will immediately order the Enlightened Beast to open the mountain gate."

Li Jun said, "No need. I'm going down for a walk. Let's not make such a fuss."

Lu Wu didn't dare say anything, and immediately bowed down to respectfully see the emperor off.

Li Jun flashed through the folding door.

Until the Emperor's figure disappeared at the edge of the sky.

He then stood up.

This day.

The Queen Mother of the West summoned all the shamans and cultivators of the capital city again. This time, she invited almost everyone in the entire capital city, including the shamans from the outer areas.

Inviting so many people here must mean there's something important to do.

"I want to build the palace of the Heavenly Emperor."

"I have summoned you here for this very reason."

After hearing this, the assembled shamans and cultivators below had already anticipated it. Although they were puzzled as to why it had taken so many years to finally begin constructing the palace towards the celestial realm.

However, since it was the Queen Mother of the West's decree, they had no choice but to obey.

Someone asked, "How many levels of cultivation do you need to reach?"

The Queen Mother of the West said, "Zengcheng has nine layers."

According to this logic, the goal is not to build a lower celestial realm, but to build the palace directly to the emperor.

A strongman stepped forward and said, "The Queen Mother of the West has summoned us all here, probably so that we can work together to repair the Heavenly Palace."

Even the crowd below could see that the Queen Mother of the West was getting impatient.

The Queen Mother of the West and the others quickly discussed the construction of the Nine Heavenly Palaces. It was also foreseeable that some of the demons, gods, and ghosts from the capital city would be relocated to the Heavenly Realm.

Perhaps, that place is more suitable for these beings to live in.

but.

When the Queen Mother of the West went to the Ninth Heaven with great joy, she was ready to tell the Emperor about the grandeur and magnificence of the Ninth Heaven, and about the arrangements of the Heavenly Realm and the Immortal Realm.

She hoped the emperor would be satisfied.

Even if it means summoning ghosts and gods from all directions and witches from all corners of the world, I am willing to do it.

However, when she arrived at the Ninth Heaven this time, she found that the Emperor had disappeared, or rather, she realized that the Emperor was not here as soon as she stepped into this space.

Having the blood of an emperor, she has a strong connection to the emperor within a certain distance, as long as the emperor doesn't deliberately conceal it.

"emperor?"

When she ascended to heaven, the Queen Mother of the West was overjoyed.

When they returned, they seemed to be in a great hurry.

Faced with the Queen Mother of the West's fury, all the gods, ghosts, and shamans in the entire capital city seemed to tremble in fear.

The Queen Mother of the West walked hurriedly through the main hall, but she understood that the Emperor was definitely not in the Heavenly Realm anymore.

However, since the emperor has left, someone must have seen him.

At this moment, the Queen Mother of the West remembered Lu Wu, who was guarding the gate, and immediately summoned him.

At this moment, Lu Wu also happened to be heading here and paid his respects to the ruler of the capital city in the Queen Mother of the West's palace.

Your Highness.

Lu Wu said that the emperor he saw had left.

The Queen Mother of the West did not ask him why he did not stop him, or perhaps she also thought that Lu Wu should not have stopped him.

He was merely a gatekeeper of Kunlun; how dare he obstruct the Heavenly Emperor's journey? If he did, the Queen Mother of the West would have executed him on the spot.

Even so, the Queen Mother of the West still looked at Lu Wu with a murderous expression, as if she was venting her anxiety and anger on these people.

The Queen Mother of the West asked Lu Wu, "Where has the Emperor gone?"

Looking in the direction the emperor had left, Lu Wu roughly guessed: "The emperor went towards the direction of Su Guang Wilderness."

The Queen Mother of the West grew even more anxious, because the location there was very special.

But after thinking it over, the Queen Mother of the West still said, "Continue to build the nine-layered Zengcheng."

Lu Wu remained silent, and one of the shamans below asked, "Aren't we going to find the Emperor?"

The Queen Mother of the West said, "The Emperor resides high in the Nine Heavens. Even if he descends to inspect the mortal realm, he will return in no time."

"By then, your palaces should also be repaired."

The pressure on the shamans below suddenly increased, which effectively set a time limit.
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Li Jun gradually moved away from the core area ruled by the Western Queen Mother's Kingdom.

They reached the western border.

Along the way, he also saw the huge difference between this wilderness and what it was a hundred years ago.

Li Jun could hardly recognize this place: "This Great Wilderness has been completely shrouded by the laws of the Demon God."

Descending from Kunlun, where the land should have flowed swiftly down, instead rises up a series of vast, desolate mountains stretching for thousands of miles.

At first glance, they look like giant dragons or snakes or huge thresholds blocking the way.

What should have been a high-altitude glacial lake has turned into an endless black swamp.

The area where the Thousand Mile Quicksand was originally located was even more exaggerated. Li Jun saw that the quicksand was burning with towering flames, and the entire area was like a giant furnace.

It's not a furnace in the descriptive sense, but a real, constantly burning giant furnace.

Even more terrifying was that something roared within the raging fire that stretched for miles; it was some kind of ferocious god or demon dwelling there.

Besides the mountains getting higher, Li Jun also noticed that the roads had become longer, not just the roads on the ground, but even the distances they covered in the air had changed.

"This is no longer a change in terrain."

"How come this land area has also increased in size?"

At least a century ago, the extent of the influence and control of the Ximu clan, as well as the distance between Kunlun and Suguang Plain, that Li Jun saw were not like this.

In the end, he could only come to one conclusion.

"The Great Wilderness has grown larger."

"Is it because the various demon gods have become more powerful, and their laws have seeped into the deeper layers of this world?"

"Or is it because of some other reason?"

Along the way, Li Jun encountered even more ferocious beasts and more witches.

In the wilderness, one would occasionally encounter a great shaman with astonishing supernatural powers walking among them.

One after another, mountain and sea kingdoms stand in various parts of the Great Wilderness, ruling over clans and tribes of all sizes. Some of these mountain and sea kingdoms even have hundreds of thousands of people gathered in one place.

The mountain and sea kingdoms were different from what Li Jun had seen before. In the past hundred years, with the appearance of the Queen Mother of the West, the human race in this great wilderness has become stronger, or rather, the mountain and sea people have begun to occupy the leading position.

Enslaving demons and ferocious beasts, controlling ghosts and gods, and influencing and changing demons and gods.

"The existence of the Queen Mother of the West has indeed changed this world."

Li Jun passed through a country of mountains and seas, which had more than a dozen cities of varying sizes. Only one of these cities was a country of mountains and seas; the others were just ordinary cities.

However, these ordinary cities also shelter a large number of ordinary mortals.

Upon entering the city, Li Jun discovered that these people possessed the written language and various cultural traditions that had been passed down from the capital.

Their architecture imitated the capital city, and their clothing and attire were modeled after the Peach Witches and Feathered People there.

This vast wilderness seems to have partially shed its barbarity and has indeed developed some kind of system and culture. However, this civilization is quite different from the ancient civilizations in Li Jun's memory. It is completely integrated with myths and legends and has too many unreasonable and illogical aspects.

Don’t say anything else.

Take the people of this mountain and sea, for example. Even the most ordinary human can now tear tigers and leopards apart with their bare hands after reaching adulthood, while those with the bloodline of great clans are born with various divine powers.

Each shaman possesses innate supernatural powers, enabling them to control various exotic beasts and traverse the earth with unparalleled abilities.

Some of them could move mountains and fill seas without a problem.

that's it.

Li Jun crossed the territory ruled by the Queen Mother of the West and arrived at the westernmost part of the Su Guang Plain.

Flying above the vast plains, Li Jun looked towards the distant horizon, and even he, with his vast experience, was momentarily stunned.

"what happened?"

In Li Jun's memory, there was a vast area west of Su Guangzhiye, stretching as far as the eye could see.

In his understanding of the world, the earth would continuously extend into the distance, and even if he flew to the end, he would only be circling back to the starting point.

At this moment, Li Jun saw that although part of the far western land still extended into the distance, a huge cliff appeared in the distance.

It was as if the earth had reached its end here.

It was precisely because of this peculiar sight that Li Jun flew directly across the vast plains of Su Guang towards the "cliff".

Then, Li Jun saw layers of clouds below the cliff.

Li Jun jumped off the cliff and reached the deepest part.

It flew a distance of approximately ten thousand feet.

Li Jun finally reached the bottom, which was the western land he had seen before, and everything was as usual.

People also live on this land, but there are no demons or gods to be seen here, and there are far fewer traces of demons and monsters.

He turned to look at the towering cliff, which was not a single place or a small area.

Rather, it was the Great Wilderness that Li Jun knew, or even the entire Nine Provinces.

"The location of the Great Wilderness has been raised entirely."

"Or perhaps, there is a force that completely engulfs and alters the entire land of the Great Wilderness, making it independent and forming a completely independent world with its own laws?"

In an instant, Li Jun remembered the power of Nuwa's intestines once again.

This is what it will do ten thousand years from now: transform the entire world and create everything between heaven and earth.

However, at this point in time, it may not have had such great power that it could not create the entire world as it did in later generations.

However, although there are speculations, what Li Jun has seen so far is only a small part and cannot fully prove that the Great Wilderness as a whole has been inflated.

After all, such a large area has been raised, which is equivalent to turning an entire continent into a mountain more than 30,000 meters high, which is really hard to imagine.

Li Jun flew around the bottom of the cliff for several thousand kilometers before finally seeing the end of the cliff.

As Li Jun flew further in, he entered a state of complete darkness.

Fly to a place with light, look up at the sky, and there is a huge continent floating high above. Of course, from this perspective, you can only see a small edge of the continent.

Finally, Li Jun looked at the thing he had just flown thousands of kilometers to find.

"Is this a pillar?"

At first, Li Jun thought that the bottom of the cliff was solid, and that the entire wilderness had been arched up, turning into an incredible mountain.

After investigating, he discovered that the entire Great Wilderness had indeed been raised, but it was raised by pillars.

Upon hearing this, Li Jun immediately recalled an ancient myth.

"Four poles and eight pillars!"

Legend has it that the earth has four poles, and the entire earth is supported by eight huge pillars.

This time, Li Jun saw it for himself. The entire earth was truly supported by such pillars, completely isolated. Although he only saw one at the moment, he was sure there were others elsewhere.

It's just uncertain whether it's eight roots, or whether the number eight is a figurative number, like nine, representing many.

Li Jun, standing at the very bottom, looked up at the vast wilderness above and felt as if he were gazing at another world.

"That's no longer the normal world; it's a mythical realm!"

Despite being raised more than 30,000 meters, there were no problems inside the Great Wilderness, and it did not collapse directly.

This means that the laws governing the Great Wilderness have indeed been replaced by the laws of the Demon God.

(End of this chapter)