Chapter 544: Temple
Think about the dazzling array of dazzling places and the sea of books in those days, what a spectacular scene it was.
But when everyone came, they could only sigh:
It's all about the past.
No matter how large the collection is, it can't withstand time and robbers. Everyone went to look separately, and when they came back, there were ten rooms and nine empty rooms in the Dudao Library Building, and the rest were either hollowed out or torn apart, except for being used to burn the fire, there was no other value.
This situation was expected by Feng Miaojun. How many times the defenseless Yingshui City has been sacked in the past three hundred years, no one can think of it. Treasure hunters and scavengers have gone with everything of value, what else can be left here?
But it must still have hidden value, otherwise why does King Yan always send people to search?
Thinking of this, she was vaguely suspicious:
Zhao Yun, the nineteenth prince of Yan who was active here in the past, was killed by Yun Jie, and the people who lived here were also evacuated by local officials in time.
The strange thing is that the Yan people seem to have stopped here, at least Xinxia has not caught the Yan people since then.
With Feng Miaojun's understanding of King Yan, he is not a person who gives up easily.
So, has he achieved his goal?
To search such a large library, it is not enough to have enough manpower on your own. Therefore, Feng Miaojun repaired a letter, stamped it with the private seal of the Queen of New Xia, and sent someone to send it to the magistrate.
Yingshui City is too big, and when you walk from the periphery to the royal city, it is almost dark.
Feng Miaojun didn't plan to go out of the city: "Let's go to the temple for the night." ”
Naturally, the group will not have objections.
In the early days of the Haoli Empire, there were all kinds of temples, and the gods enshrined were varied, and the incense was prosperous. However, after the closure of the upper realm and the decline of spiritual energy, the Haoli Empire deliberately guided the world to stop believing in the gods, so the temple was either torn down or slowly desolate over the long years, and there are very few left.
Before the fall of the Haoli Empire, there was only one temple left in Yingshui City. It was personally supervised by Emperor Haoli, and the descendants of the royal family did not dare to act rashly, so it was preserved.
The temple was built just south of the royal city, less than a thousand steps from the main palace gate, and covered an area of two hectares (130,000 square meters). The price of land in the capital is never cheap, and the land in Yingshui City was really expensive every inch of land during the Haoli Empire, and money may not be able to buy it. Emperor Haoli was willing to take out such a large area in the center of the city to build a temple, and the piety of his heart can be seen.
He even gave a death order in his edict, and future generations of kings and grandsons were not allowed to tamper with the temple. This avoids the encroachment and gouging of temple property. It is this temple that can be preserved in its entirety to future generations.
People like Feng Miaojun and Chen Dachang, who visited Yingshui City for the first time, their first reaction when they saw the exterior of the temple was to gasp, and they were speechless for a long time.
The temple complexes are as majestic as the court, but they are not made of brick, but of wood.
More precisely, it is not made of bricks, nails, and tiles, but is naturally "grown" by trees. Dozens of ancient trees are towering to the sky, but the trunks of the trees have been broken into columns, beams, walls, eaves, and rafters by some strange force...... And, of course, there is also a beautifully textured and imposing gate!
It is a temple complex made entirely of giant trees, and there is no trace of human construction, but the structure is extremely beautiful. No matter who stands in front of the temple gate and looks up, they will sigh at its majesty and its own insignificance.
Miracles!
Needless to say, this is the work of the gods.
The ancient trees are so far lush, so dozens of trees constitute a forest, the breeze blows, that is, there is the beauty of the forest and the sea listening to the waves.
Although it was late and the forest was pitch black, everyone stood outside the temple gate, and what they felt was not unknown and terrifying, but an inexplicable sense of intimacy arose, as if every leaf in the forest was extraordinarily gentle.
The traces of the gate being violently smashed open by the army three hundred years ago have disappeared without a trace under the growth of the tree force. But the door of the temple is open, and no one is allowed to enter.
Feng Miaojun led the crowd in.
Like in Miyagi, it is a mess everywhere, and there are discarded objects and scraps everywhere you look, all of which have been turned over.
Walking towards the main hall, the atrium of the four entrances is wide and straight, and the grandeur and dilapidation are blended together, which makes people feel emotional.
After that, we arrived at the main hall dedicated to the gods.
This is the most spectacular of the entire temple complex. Although the glory is gone, this magnificent structure and pattern is familiar.
As soon as Feng Miaojun walked in, he knew that he had been here-
In Yun Lai's dream.
What Yun Kui dreamed of was probably the scene on the eve of the destruction of the temple, and what she saw today was the ruin of three hundred years.
But it was all the same place, she could be sure at first sight.
But when she walked in here today, she knew that what she had seen in her dreams in the past was all in the side hall, but now the first thing everyone walked into was the main hall.
Since it is the main hall, then the specifications and contents are much larger than the side hall. She once thought that the sheer size of the temple she saw in her dream was the only one she had ever seen in her life, but the main hall in front of her once again subverted her cognition.
The area here is at least three times the size of the side hall. Looking up at the beams and the caisson in the center, they are as far away as heaven.
Standing here, no matter ancient or modern, there is only one feeling -
All beings are insignificant, and the divine law is boundless.
In the center of the main hall is a statue of a god, sitting upright, but only half of the body remains, and the upper body does not know where it has gone. Feng Miaojun could only tell that this was a woman, because it was carved into a skirt, and if the statue of the god was intact, it would be at least twice as large as the realm god she had seen in the past.
She subconsciously raised her hand, but quickly suppressed the urge to point forward: "This is the god?" The finger god statue was extremely disrespectful, and in this solemn temple, she didn't want to commit this taboo.
Yu Zhen said softly: "This is the Creation God, but not one, but two." According to legend, it was a couple. ”
Feng Miaojun felt regretful. You must know that the statues of the gods are all made by the royal family, and at least ninety percent of their faces are restored to the gods themselves. If the statue is still intact, she will be able to get a glimpse of the true face of the creator god.
Strangely, there are no portraits of these two creator gods in any of the extant literary histories of the Haoli Empire. Posterity can only rely on imagination.
Is it a coincidence, or is it artificial?
Feng Miaojun visited the other side halls in turn, and found that there were basically all kinds of demon gods enshrined there, and there were very few human beings, and the realm gods of this realm were also among them. It's really better to see than to hear: "The creator god is really from the demon clan?"
She had seen many controversies about the gods in the later generations in the Yanhai Building, and some of them argued whether the origin of the gods was a demon or a human, and neither side sounded very reliable. Feng Miaojun came here today, and felt that the former was closer to the truth, after all, there were the most demon gods enshrined in the temple.