Chapter 52: Succeeding the Palace Master
Finally, I'm going to become the master of the Glass Palace.
The day before he took over, Asher sent the palace master's costume to the Shining Sun Palace. It was a white robe studded with pearls, and his father's scepter, likewise full of blue gems.
I was alone in the Hall of the Rising Sun until dark. I don't know if it's become a habit, but after all, I'm still reluctant to be the master of this palace, and I always feel that it has too many secrets, which makes people breathless.
Standing in front of the white jade window for a long time, I turned the ring in my right hand, which should have been the last time I conjured up my hammock. After tonight, I will be a real adult, and I can no longer be like a child, willful, and naughty.
There was a long-lost silence in the night of the Liuli Palace, the white moonlight sprinkled down without hesitation, falling on my hammock, I held the dark sound on my chest, and remembered the stream wind, if he was there, he would always accompany me, watching me put on the palace master's clothes, take the scepter, and walk on the carpet of the main hall.......
I also thought of Musha, of Koro's face when she became queen, and then, like this, she became a different person at once, at least in my opinion.
That night, I didn't know how to sleep, and it was Arnold who woke me up in the morning.
"Young master, the time has come. The guests should be almost there. ”
Her thin voice couldn't hide her joy, and when I opened my eyes, she had already taken her clothes and stared at me with a smile. When Arnold said the guests, he meant that in addition to the Liuli Palace, the nearby small clans and small countries, they would send envoys to the Liuli Palace to congratulate, which was what Asher told me in advance.
The stream breeze was not there, and the Yaoyang Hall was much deserted, so Arnold Mari changed into gorgeous clothes for me and sent me out of the Yaoyang Palace, and she would also dress up and go to the central hall to watch the succession ceremony.
By the time I got there, Asher was already waiting for me at the door. He changed into his gray robe, his brown scepter in his left hand, and his deep gaze met me until I walked in front of him.
"Xiu, our palace master." Asher held the scepter and bowed his head together, which was the etiquette of a soothsayer. For every soothsayer, the scepter is like life, and when the soothsayer salutes with his scepter, it means that your status is supreme. I stopped in front of him and accepted his respect.
Then, the succession ceremony officially began.
The servant of the music rang the bell of the glazed palace, and the white carpet was spread all the way from the entrance of the hall to the inside, and there were people standing on both sides, my mother, my sister, my dream, and many guests from the surrounding area, and under their watchful eyes, I stepped on it, and Asher walked to my right, and we walked together towards the hall.
As I walked by, people on both sides bowed their heads and saluted me, including my family. I didn't speak, I just took these eyes deep in my heart, and at this moment, I felt all the pressure I had never felt before, and they seemed to be telling me that I had to become a qualified palace master.
The next step is to receive the palace master's scepter.
Originally, this was my father's right, he would be high up and hand the scepter in his hand to me, but now that he is gone, Asher is the most authoritative person in the Liuli Palace, he replaced my father, stood on the steps higher than me, and handed the palace master's scepter to me.
I took it with both hands, and Asher put on the ring for me that symbolized the status of the palace master, which was a large blue ring that was the same color as my pupils. The bell never stopped. Rendering the entire Liuli Palace extremely solemn, I knew that this would be my own lone battle, and I had to be more indestructible than anyone present.
After these two are done, the next is the most important one: divination.
The soothsayer will divinate the master of each house and predict his future fortunes.
I bowed my head in front of Asher, his right hand was on my head, at this moment, the bell of the glass palace stopped, everything suddenly became silent, Asher chanted an unknown incantation in his mouth, and I felt a trace of warm air flowing through my body. After a long time, Asher stopped, and I looked up, and saw that his brown eyes were full of surprise and depth, and two lines of crystal tears gradually welled up, sliding down his old cheeks.
"Asher, what did the divination come about?" Mother asked worriedly.
"Madam, everything is going on, the cultivator is a good leader." The moment Asher turned his head to look at his mother, I saw the worry hidden in his eyes. But I didn't break it down, and I have been following the procedures of the palace master to complete the succession ceremony.
Finally, the Liuli Palace held a banquet and invited everyone to the ball. I'm the palace master, and I'm the one who started.
"Dream, would you like to dance with me?" I made my way through the crowd and came to the dream. Just like when the mortal hope was married, the dream pulled me to dance.
"Xiu..., no, my palace master, I do." Dream put his hand in my palm, and I took her by the way, took her into my arms, and whispered to her in her ear:
"When does Dream plan to become the palace master's wife?"
"Xiu, a lot of people are watching?" Dream muttered shyly in a low voice. I'm a little proud.
"I'm the palace master, you are my destined wife, what's so embarrassing!"
"Xiu, you're naughty again."
"Doesn't Dream want to be my wife?" I let go of my dreams and deliberately pretended not to know.
"No, no, no, Xiu has always been my favorite ......."
"Ahh
Before the dream was finished, I had already taken her into my arms again and sincerely confessed to her.
"I know, dreams are also Xiu's only favorite!"
"I'll always be with you."
At this time, there was a round of applause in the hall, and when the beautiful vocal music sounded, everyone made way for me and Dream, and our postures perfectly matched and danced the first dance. Then, the others found their own dance partners and danced in the center of the main hall, except for one person.
Asher had been watching the whole hall from the sidelines, and I knew that he represented my father's rigor and solemnity. Towards the end of the day, I walked up to him and handed him the wine of the Glass Palace, and Asher said that the soothsayer never drank alcohol, and I asked him how long he had been in the Glass Palace. Asher was surprised, I saw it in his eyes, how could I ask such a question? But he told me anyway.
He had lived for more than nine hundred years, a full two hundred years older than his father, who had just come of age when he became a soothsayer.
"Then Asher didn't want to be the master of the Liuli Palace?"
"Originally, this was something I didn't want to answer, but now, Xiu is the master of the Liuli Palace, so every question you ask is an order." Asher bowed to me again. Although I was reluctant to see him so polite.
"Asher watched me grow up and taught me to practice spiritual arts, so he is my teacher, so I don't have to bow at will in the future."
"Yes, my palace master!"
"If you don't want to answer a question, you don't have to answer it." Once again, I am generous to Asher.
"No, I do." Asher looked up, incredibly loyal.
"My father disappeared, you are like him by my side, no matter how bright the sun is in this glass palace, Asher is still Asher, the person I trust the most." I looked at him sincerely, tears welling up in my eyes.
"I've always had a premonition that the disappearance of the simmer is not accidental, and I always feel that there is a pair of eyes staring at us in this glass palace."
Asher suspects that someone has taken his father away.
"Well, I am three hundred and fifty years old, and I have become a soothsayer, I remember the first time I divined, that is, on the bank of the Flowing Milky Way, divining when the perilla leaves will bloom, and that is also the test of the previous palace master for me, as long as I pass, I will stand out among the many soothsayers and become a soothsayer next to the palace master."
"At that time, were there a lot of competing soothsayers?"
"Well, our divination clan comes from the remote Buyue clan, where half of the people are born with brown pupils, which means that the child has the soul of a soothsayer in his blood, and then he will leave his parents and send him to a distant place to practice spirituality and divination, I am one of them, and the most dazzling achievement of the soothsayer is to become the soothsayer of the Liuli Palace, which is a myth that exists in the hearts of all soothsayers, and we are all like this. Day after day, year after year, learning for this goal. ”
"And then?"
"We were brought here as adults, and I remember vividly that from the first moment I stepped here, I was fascinated by this palace, and it seemed to have a magical power that kept me hooked. At that time, I was not familiar with this place, but once when I couldn't find my way back, I met Tsuki. At that time, he was only fifty years old, and he still looked like a child. I still remember his innocent smile. ”
"That's it, did you know each other?"
"Well, fifty-year-old Shi and two hundred and fifty-year-old me became friends. He invited me to live in the Liuli Palace and introduced me to his brother Ke. ”
"The three of you became good friends?"
"No, Ke is not like Ji, there is always a trace of evil in his eyes, Ke is different, he is kind, enthusiastic, and upright. He is a trustworthy person. After he became an adult at the age of 100, my divination skills also reached its peak, the palace master allowed us to practice spiritual arts together, help each other, the days passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye it was time to choose a new palace master, Ke and Bing became heirs at the same time, and then I went to visit relatives in the Buyue clan, and left the Liuli Palace for a period of time, and when I came back, Bing had become the new palace master, I have lived in the Liuli Palace for a hundred years, and Bing has a deep relationship, but the old palace master said that if you want to accompany the Bing permanently, you must become a fortune teller. So, I was asked to tell when the perilla leaves of the Milky Way would bloom. ”
"In the end, you stayed."
"Yes, when I said that the perilla leaves bloom once in a hundred years, I cheered beside me, and I knew that I had earned the right to stay."
"It's good that my father has met such a loyal friend as you."
"No, since then, I have vaguely felt that there is a trace of crisis hidden around I, because the current result has appeared in my divination."
"You mean, you used to divinate your father's fate."
"Indeed, although it is the sun of the Liuli Palace, there are clouds around him, I don't know what it is? Maybe it's ....... ”
"Xiu, I've been looking for you for a long time."
Uncle came to us with a bewitching flower in his hand and .......