Section 68: The sacrificial shrine of the Chu State
The snow falling from the sky is like a white elf, covering and burying the earth, turning the world into pure white. The fertile fields of the www.biquge.info miles are snow-white, and the farmer is quietly watching the snow falling in the sky at home, looking forward to another harvest season in the coming year. The galloping roads across the land are covered with snow, and the merchants who come and go curse in their hearts, and secretly curse in their hearts that they are unlucky to encounter bad weather.
Hundreds of talented people who stood out in the seven counties of Chu came to Yingdu, the center of Great Chu, to see the capital of Great Chu for 700 years, and feel the magnificent city with 700 years of heritage. But all the talents who entered the Yingdu, whether it was the city gate or the Yingdu, all looked at the sacrificial holy place with yearning eyes.
It's just that tonight's Yingdu is unexpectedly depressed, even if it is a rich businessman who has just entered the city, or a handsome person who stands out in the seven counties, they all feel the weirdness of the atmosphere in Yingdu.
Outside the Taoist temple in the southeast corner of Yingdu, after the bell rang, Lin Shi left the small Taoist temple and walked through the criss-crossing alleys and streets to the sacrificial holy place that occupied the eastern city of Nuoda.
Yingdu is divided into three cities and one palace, the three cities are naturally the east, west and south three cities, and one palace is the palace of the public family and the palace is also called the north palace. The Dongcheng Sacrificial Holy Land occupies an extremely large area, and the ordinary people living nearby are almost all the most devout believers in the sacrificial holy land.
Lin Shi came to the sacrificial shrine, the dilapidated Shinto Road was covered in snow, and on either side were endless moon trees, withering in the light snow and losing their fragrance. Behind the moon tree, there are bamboo forests on the north and south sides, and the bamboo forests are green and upright in the snow, and they do not bend their backs even if the snow falls, symbolizing the believers' belief in the sacred place of sacrifice. The bamboo forest is not quiet, and there are even many people who kneel on the ground reverently, ignoring the wind and snow eroding their bodies, and their eyes are full of faith and look at the sacred place of sacrifice.
There are no gods in the world, and they believe that they are naturally saints, saints who have paid for the entire Central Plains.
Lin Shi walked silently on the Shinto, leaving traces on the covered snow, and no one discovered Lin Shi's existence. The historic attic towered not far away, and the bronze bell hanging in it swayed alone, but no sound sounded in the capital again.
"It's the one who has entered the Yingdu," Lin Shi muttered to himself, thinking of the deafening bell that rang through the world just now.
Lin Shi knows more about this attic than anyone else, and the bronze bell that now only has a role to show is the treasure of the Starlight Hall, which was once one of the five halls of the state religion. It's just that when the state religion fell apart, this heavy treasure was also covered with dust, leaving only the role of heralding the arrival of the holy powerhouse.
However, Lin Shi soon stopped remembering and came to the sacrificial holy place.
The sacrificial shrine has no gates, only a stone arch mottled with moss. But it is the existence of the stone arch that makes the outside world unable to see the inside. It was as if there were two worlds on either side of the stone arch, so that no one inside or outside could peek into the other side.
There were no guards outside the stone arch, as if anyone could enter and exit it. But the entire Yingdu and even the people of Chu know that the dilapidated Shinto and the moss-covered stone arches are not something that anyone can step on. Even if you are a high-ranking courtier, or a Qing clan with an incomparably long history, or a sacrifice in the sacrificial holy land, you can't just step into the Shinto and cross the stone arch.
This is a rule that was established a long time ago when the state religion was still in existence and was still called the Starlight Kaikan.
The sacrificial holy land is the most sacred place and the most terrifying place, the sacred is naturally the place of faith of thousands of great Chu and the vassal states of Chu, the horror is the sacrifice that walks and lives in it, and the history that has been bred by time and the great array that has been continuously improved by the strong people of the past dynasties.
Therefore, everyone in the world knows very well that if you want to step on that Shinto path and cross the stone arch, you still need to bear the test of the great array, and you also need to bear the expectations of believers.
Lin Shi stepped on the Shinto Road and left traces in the snow, crossed the mottled mossy stone arch with a calm expression, buried in the depths of the earth, there was no reaction and ripples, even those starlight that were free from heaven and earth, there was no change, the reason for this was naturally Lin Shi's Dao, and it was also in Lin Shi's hands.
After all, the passage of time will ruthlessly erase all traces, but there is still history imprinted in the heaven and earth, and then it becomes more and more heavy and awe-inspiring, so the big array in the sacrificial holy land, although it has been changed by countless sacrifices of the Chu State and turned into its own, it still can't change the core and change the things that have been imprinted.
Beyond the stone arch forest, the first thing that catches your eye is the circular altar layered on top of each other, and finally goes deep into the dark sky to be hidden by the clouds. Then there are the mossy and grassy stones, and the indistinct patterns inscribed on the stones.
Lin Shi calmly watched the people on each layer of the altar, they were dressed in pitch-black sacrificial robes, as if they were one with the night, making it impossible to see as if they were phantoms. They stand quietly in front of the pattern, gaze intently at it, and then write it down on the white paper in their hands.
This is the religious worship, which is the religious believers who have a devout faith, who give up all their entry into the sacrificial shrine and become the pattern on the altar of the belief and the solution of doubts.
Lin Shi ignored these beliefs and walked around the circular altar to the east. A lush green path appears in front of you, and at the end of the path is the Starlight Settlement. On both sides of the path, there are countless houses, each of which is brightly lit and can clearly reflect the figures inside.
Stepping on the green path towards the settlement starlight, the closer you get to the starlight, the more dazzling your home becomes, and there is pure divine power flowing. And there is a thatched house in Starlight, which is the former Starlight Hall, and now the national hall of the Chu State to worship the holy land.
The Starlight Hall is a very ordinary, ordinary and large thatched house, not at all like one of the five halls of the National Religion, but it is this that the Starlight Hall looks terrifying. Once the southern land was wilderness and swamp, it was the second king of Chu who opened up what it is today, and the Starlight Hall was born even earlier.
During the period of the second generation of the Pope of the State Religion, there were peerless strong people in the church who felt something, came to the south of the wilderness and swamp, found the place where the starlight fell forever, and also found the place where the emperor and the emperor enlightened the Tao, and then built a very ordinary thatched house, which eventually became one of the five halls of the state religion.
Lin Shi recalled these histories and sighed very much, the establishment of the state religion was the support of the Daomen, the once strong state religion fell apart, and the starlight hall that was erected in the south for thousands of years became the sacred place of sacrifice in the Chu State.
Looking at the darkness around the Starlight Guild Hall, there were dozens of fateful powerhouses hidden in it, and there were even three half-step Divine Realm powerhouses.
"It's changed," Lin Shi muttered to himself.
Thinking of the ambition of the king of Chu, and thinking of one of the eighteen scenes entering the city tonight, Lin Shi knew that the state of Chu was about to change.
Then Lin Shi slowly let go of his clenched right hand, and an ordinary button slowly fell to the ground, and suddenly a light burst out wantonly, attracting the starlight of the Starlight Hall and the flowing divine power. Those strong people who were hiding in the darkness didn't have time to let out any screams, they didn't have time to make any movements, they were pierced through their bodies by the divine power and starlight, and their souls disappeared.
With a talking smile on the corner of his mouth, Lin Shi walked into the Starlight and pushed open the door of the Starlight Hall.