Chapter 48: The Tower of Babel and the Stargazing Terrace
In the distance, the Dashun officials at the Changting and the cavalry and convoy of Eastern Liao converged, and Yi Jun and the others saw that many people walked out of the originally closed carriages, including bloated officials, women with long legs and thin waists, and even boys with childish faces and thin bodies.
The vocal music of the greeting rose into a high-pitched voice, and the people of the two countries gathered together and walked towards the location of the east gate of Yunjing.
Yi Jun and the others also walked down the high slope and followed those people towards the city.
The fields were shrouded in smoke in the early morning.
The smoke is the smoke from the morning cooking of the surrounding farmers, and the clouds are the water vapor generated from the ground.
The smoke and clouds mixed together, making the whole road hazy, and it was a little difficult to see in the distance.
There are still more than 20 miles away from the capital here, and it is such a long distance, even if you sit on a horse, even if you are on the flat land in front of you, even if the city wall of the capital in the distance is said to be more than ten zhang high, you can't see it clearly, not to mention these smoke and clouds.
However, even the hazy clouds of smoke and the distance cannot stop people from looking at the towering buildings in the most central area of Kyoto, just as the mountains and rivers cannot block the thoughts between lovers.
This has nothing to do with the fact that I know the terrain around Kyoto by heart, and it has nothing to do with the eyes and feelings of Yi Jun, Han Wu, Green Sleeves and others that are difficult for ordinary people to achieve, but the building in the distance is too tall and really towering.
Those who are familiar with Kyoto know the exact location of the building, which is located in the very center of Yunjing, a little more central than the imperial city, and the building itself occupies an extremely large area, but because it is so tall that it does not look like a normal building at all, but more like a towering flagpole from a distance.
This building is 3,652 feet high, to put it mildly, in the entire Yunjing, even in the entire Central Continent, it is definitely the tallest building.
In front of it, the whole of Kyoto was just like its pedestal, and in the current position of Yi Jun and the others, the pedestal could not be seen yet, but the shadow of the "flagpole" had poured down and fell on the walking people.
"It's called the Tower of Babel, and the top is called the Stargazing Terrace, and the Holy Maiden spends every night gazing at the stars, and it's inside our church, but only the Green Sleeves can go up among us, and we are not allowed to approach it. Seeing that Yi Jun also noticed the towering building, Feng Cheng next to him immediately introduced to Yi Jun.
"Babel Tower, Stargazing Terrace?" Yi Jun couldn't help but think of a book he had read when he heard these words.
Among Yi Wenjing's collection is a book called "Psychic Dreams", which is very similar to a ghost novel with the imprint of the history of barnyard officials, and in fact it is also true.
But now Yi Jun thinks that it is telling some stories about the spirits on the Five Domains Continent, but the author himself is not a spirit, so all the accounts are a little conjecture and speculation, and then develop in the direction of ghosts and monsters.
Among them are descriptions of the Tower of Babel and the Stargazing Terrace.
That book says that in the entire Five Regions Continent, there are buildings called "Tower of Babel" in many places, and they all have a long history, and some of them are even older than the history established in the country where they are located.
The Psychic Dream of Babel and the Stargazing Observatory are the spirituality of the spiritualists who intended to reach the stars in the sky.
However, there are doubts about this statement in the book "Psychic Dream", and the reason is also familiar and recognized by most people, at least now Yi Jun also agrees with it.
That is, even if the Tower of Babel is more than 3,000 feet high, higher than all other buildings on this continent, and deep into the clouds, it is still not as high as the sky dome after all, and it is impossible to touch the real sky dome, let alone let you touch the stars and then play with it and carry out psychics.
And all psychics, even the most difficult to psychic thunderbolts, build some metal objects to draw them down, and then observe their spirituality for channeling.
If you can't touch the stars in the sky, how can you do psychic?
But what is the difference between starlight and moonlight and daylight? All the spiritualists who feel the spirituality of light do not realize the difference between the three.
Moreover, is it possible to be able to channel spirits by being closer to the stars?
"Could it be that the four mystical places also have Babel Towers and stargazing platforms, and this building of ours is modeled after the four mystical places?" Yi Jun asked with a sudden flash of inspiration in his mind.
"Clever!" Han Wu couldn't help but reach out and slap Yi Jun, and said: "That's right, this is what the first saintess of our Dashun Holy Church built according to the specifications of the temple Babel Tower, but it is far from the magic of the temple, and it is just that it cannot bathe in starlight." ”
"The Four Great Mystic Lands are truly the masters of the Five Domains Continent. Hearing this, Yi Jun couldn't help but say.
"I can't say the same, although the four mysteries have the most powerful force in the Five Regions Continent, they don't care much about the affairs of the secular world, for example, we have fought with Dongliao for more than ten years, and millions of people have died, and the temple has never been in charge, leaving the two of us dead, and the two countries also send people to the temple every four years to study, bathe in the starlight, and never treat them differently. Green Sleeves shook his head, he didn't agree with Yi Jun's inference.
"That's not the case, the climate of the Central Continent is suitable, the products are abundant, and the places where the demons, sea tribes, and demon clans live are relatively harsh, how can the people of these three races not want to enter the Central Continent, but the fact is that for tens of thousands of years, even if the Southern Continent is hot and hot all year round, there are continuous local volcanic eruptions, the Western Continent is barren and barren, and the islands of the Eastern Continent are long and narrow, and the tsunami is flooding, but they have never dared to invade the human race. I don't think it's that the temple is powerful, but I'm afraid that the four mysterious places have already agreed that each side will be in charge of one side and not attack each other. Han Wu disagreed with Greensleeves' statement, he was biased towards Yi Jun's inference.
"That's not what we care about, we are small people, let's care about how we survive first, what problem has the Heavenly Witch planted in our bodies, can the Holy Maiden crack it?" Listening to Han Wu and Green Sleeves arguing, Wu Jilang was a little impatient and said unhappily.
As soon as these words came out, several teenagers immediately fell silent.
It was not as difficult for the teenagers to enter the city as Yi Jun originally thought, although the fierce warriors with sharp spears guarding the city gate looked very fierce and checked the passing crowd very carefully, but when they saw the temple waist card that Han Wu and the others took out from their bodies, their faces suddenly changed.
became so respectful that he didn't even dare to ask a question, so he put Yi Jun and the others into the city gate.