I was the Heavenly Emperor in ancient times

Chapter 66 Return
Time is running out.

Li Jun should start preparing for what will happen after he leaves. He certainly won't choose to be in the outside world while he's in a deep sleep.

However, he did not intend to return to the Heavenly Realm, but instead went to the Underworld once again.

That place was the key to everything he did in this ancient world, whether it was solving the problems here or solving the problems ten thousand years from now.

He flew towards the Northern Sea, crossing the boundary between Yin and Yang as before, and entering the eternal night of black water and demonic winds.

but.

This time, he saw a person in the black waters above the Northern Sea.

The other party was riding a giant demon crab, wandering in the depths of the Northern Sea. That demon crab was probably born in accordance with the power of the demon god Xuanming and was able to adapt to the power of the black water.

That's why it was captured by the other side and used as a mount on the Northern Dark Water.

Upon seeing the streak of light in the sky, the figure riding the giant demon crab immediately gave chase.

After Li Jun saw the other person, he fell from the height.

Li Jun knew who the other party was: Ugly, the Great Witch of the Hanhuang Clan.

but.

The ugly woman stood on the giant crab, looking at Li Jun who was descending from the sky, but she still couldn't be sure that it was him.

She looked around before finally tentatively asking a question.

"emperor?"

Li Jun walked across the Black Water and came to the Chou woman. He had a bottle hanging from his waist, which the Chou woman immediately recognized as the one she had offered as a sacrifice to the Emperor.

The female clown: "He really is the Emperor!"

The ugly woman looked at the emperor. Before meeting him, she had a thousand words she wanted to say, but now she was speechless.

Decades have passed, and Xi Mu has already passed away; she is naturally very old now.

However, the emperor in front of him looked like a young man.

she knows.

The previous generation of the Cold Wasteland Emperor saw the Emperor, and this was what the Emperor looked like back then.

Tracing back to the very beginning, this should also be what the priestesses and nuns saw.

The woman thought to herself that perhaps when she met the next generation of the Cold Wasteland Emperor Witch, it would be the same: young and vibrant when they first met, but old and frail when they met again.

Through generations of people, the Emperor has never changed, will not change now, and will not change in the future. The only thing that has changed is this world and them.

now.

Standing before the Emperor, she finally understood just how vast the gap was between mortals and him—a gap that surpassed mountains and seas, and covered the heavens and earth.

The ugly woman stepped off the crab and waded through the black water, yet her feet did not stir up any ripples.

She held a peach branch, which slowly glowed, and she gradually recovered from her aged appearance to her former self.

Just like the first time she met the Emperor.

This was the first time the female clown had been so close to the emperor, and this time the emperor was not as dazzling as the sun in the sky.

"emperor!"

“I’ve been looking for you.”

Li Jun: "Hmm, why did you come looking for me?"

The female clown: "Because you are the emperor."

Emperor: "So?"

The female clown seemed to want to say something, or explain something, but in the end, she said...

"Yes."

"I have no reason, I just want to see what the Emperor looks like."

"It's not like the heavens, but like the human world!"

This seemed like a meaningless thing, and even something that was hard to say. At least when she was young, the female clown wouldn't dare to say such a thing in front of the emperor.

But at this moment, the clown spoke out.

That's it, nothing more.

As she spoke, the female clown laughed at herself, as if she were laughing at herself, but her laughter seemed to be full of satisfaction.

The thing she had been chasing her whole life had finally come to fruition. She had long forgotten why she had started in the first place, but after chasing for so long, the reason why she started in the first place no longer mattered.

Upon seeing the female clown again, Li Jun remembered something. He picked up the bottle from his waist and handed it to her.

I really like this bottle.

"However, I'll still give it back to you!"

The ugly woman didn't understand why she would return it to her even though she liked it so much: "Why?"

Li Jun said, "It means nothing to me, but to you, it is everything."

The woman felt a strong shock upon hearing this. She looked intently at the emperor, wondering whether he had spoken casually or truly understood everything.

She stood there for a long time, looking at the bottle, and finally slowly took it.

"Yes!"

"It is everything to me." This sentence is like the life of the female clown.

It was insignificant to the Emperor, but it was everything that the clown woman pursued.

Li Jun said, "I have to go do what I need to do. Is there anything else you need to do?"

The female clown said, "It's all done."

Li Jun nodded and headed deeper into the Northern Sea.

He doesn't have much time left.

But there are too many things left undone, or even too many things left undone.

As the ugly woman watched the emperor's retreating figure, she suddenly remembered something.

then.

She presented the bottle to the emperor and saw this figure from behind. From then on, she wandered through every corner of the Great Wilderness time and time again.

"He really is the emperor."
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Li Jun continued walking forward.

This time, he saw Yu Jiang.

The other party stood before the gates of Youdu, welcoming him with the people of Xuanqiu and the people of Chijing. This place looked more and more like the gates of hell.

Now, as the Northern Sea changes and expands, Youdu is becoming increasingly distant from the human world and increasingly difficult to reach, making it seem more like another world altogether.

The sun will never rise; it will remain in darkness forever.

The boundless black waters, the overwhelming swarms of ghosts gathering here, and all sorts of demons silently emerging from the dark waters and darkness.

And Youdu.

It is the only city, or perhaps the only country, here.

Li Jun looked at Yu Jiang: "You've been doing this all these years."

Yu Jiang said, "Not only that, but it will continue in the future. I have made an oath to the Heavenly Emperor, and I must fulfill that oath."

Li Jun asked him, "Do you still want to become a ghost or god?"

Yu Jiang said, "I am ready."

Li Jun nodded, and then continued.

"Before that, go do one last thing for me, and while you're at it, make yourself something of a demon or god."

Yu Jiang raised his head, a surge of joy welling up inside him, but he suppressed it.

Yu Jiang asked, "Your Majesty, what is it?"

Li Jun: "The Queen Mother of the West is about to appear. She will be a being above the Great Witch. From then on, the Great Wilderness Human Race will rise and will have a way to truly control and influence ghosts and gods, and even control a part of the power of ghosts and gods and demons."

"Once the Queen Mother of the West merges with the Emperor's blood, she will head towards the Northern Sea, and then you will see her."

Yu Jiang said, "Your Majesty, what should I do?"

Li Jun: "The Queen Mother of the West holds the power of life and death. She will use the blood of the Emperor to refine the spirits and earth gods, and integrate the sacrificial vessels, the kingdom of mountains and seas, and the spirits and gods into one, creating a special artifact."

"You will greet her in my place and escort her to the gates of the underworld. I have everything arranged from now on."

Yu Jiang bowed deeply and said, "Yu Jiang understands, and I will certainly do it."

Li Jun nodded: "What you want is also at the gates of the underworld. You will be able to get it then."

After listening, Yu Jiang kowtowed again.

Li Jun looked at him, his double pupils splitting, and heard a sharp cry.

He saw something and then nodded.

He said, "This is the last time we'll meet. Is there anything else you'd like to say?"

Yu Jiang said, "This is the last time I will pay homage to the Emperor, but the Emperor will surely see me again in the future."

He raised his head: "But at that time, he was no longer the great shaman Yujiang, but the deity Yujiang."

After hearing this, Li Jun recalled the scene ten thousand years later.

Everything was just as Yu Jiang had said; even ten thousand years later, the two of them would still meet again.

just.

Li Jun is not in this body, and Yu Jiang is no longer this Yu Jiang.

Crossing the black sea, following countless wandering souls through the gates of the underworld.

Li Jun died on the banks of the Yellow Springs.

He passed through the netherworld of reincarnation, looked at the three-eyed ghost, and stared at the third eye of the ghost god.

He had everything arranged.

They also inspected everything in the underworld.

Finally, they arrived at the Three Lives Stone and leaned against it, falling into a deep sleep.

In a daze, he unexpectedly saw a scene from ten thousand years in the future.

But at this moment.

Corresponding to him leaning against the Three Lives Stone, this scene is like the lonely soul on the bridge, dreaming of his past and present lives.

(End of this chapter)