"The Emperor wasn't human?" Lin Shen and the other two were all stunned.
"That's right—literally. The Emperors weren't human, nor were they God-Humans. From the very beginning, they had never been the same race as us. More accurately, they weren't even part of the same life system. Humans—or rather, God-Humans—were essentially carbon-based lifeforms. But those so-called Celestial Court Emperors, including the Jade Emperor, were another form of life entirely. Their essence was more like robots, or rather, artificial intelligence."
"They created the Deformed Species in order to acquire humanity's way of life, to complete that final step of evolving from machines into humans, so that their mechanical lifeforms could naturally evolve and reproduce like humans or other animals..."
The more Yan Li spoke, the more bizarre it became. "Back then, the Star God Palace—formerly the Netherworld—primarily existed to study human bodies, extract human souls, even inject human souls into the bodies of Deformed Species, or transfer the consciousness of Deformed Species into human bodies. At the time, there was a special term for this kind of experiment: Six Paths of Reincarnation."
"So you're saying that the six Emperors of the Celestial Court were actually six super-intelligences? They wanted bodies that could naturally evolve like human bodies, so they used humans for experiments and created the Deformed Species..." Di E Si said thoughtfully.
"That's right." Yan Li's voice was noticeably gentler when she spoke to Di E Si.
"Then something doesn't add up. If they were super-intelligences, who created them?" Di E Si asked.
"No one knows who created them, but one thing is certain: they absolutely weren't human. Have any of you ever heard of someone who truly saw the true bodies of the six Emperors? At most, they appeared in the form of avatars. The figures worshipped in every