In the melodious morning bell, Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother walked out of the Absolute Fragrance Garden side by side, and the ministers and guards were already waiting at the door. After they came out, they followed the two ghosts and strode towards the north of the Jade Que Palace.

To this day, the Nine Shadows Kingdom is not only a big country in the Netherworld, but also the only ghost country that dares to rebuild the ancient god temple.

Originally, the ancient gods and temples in the Netherworld Mansion were all deserted after the Emperor Xudu came to power and took charge of the ten continents and six seas of the Netherworld Mansion. The other princes and ghost kingdoms that were established later did not dare to rebel against the Emperor of Xudu, and they would never dare to rebuild these ancient temples.

Even if they all knew that the creation of the ancient gods was indispensable, creating one world after another, and creating one kind of creature after another, no one dared to sacrifice to them;

But Xiao Shizhu's Nine Secluded Kingdom is an alternative. He was also the same as other ghost kingdoms before, and only worshiped the Emperor Xudu. Since Emperor Xudu launched his first attack on Shuoyue Island, Xiao Shizhu ordered it to be pushed to all the temples of Emperor Xudu in the country.

At the sound of the order, the crowd boiled. The long-suppressed anger of the ghosts all vented towards the stone statue tablet of the Emperor Xudu like a fierce flood.

But after venting, looking at the tattered statues of the Emperor Xudu, who were either missing hands and feet, or had broken heads, the ghost people were satisfied, and they were eager to wait for another spiritual sustenance.

So, Xiao Shizhu took the opportunity to order that temples could be built in various places for worship and worship of ancient gods. For a while, the ancient temples of all sizes in the Nine Shadows Kingdom sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

The stone statues of the ancient gods who were once the enemy of the Emperor Xudu have reappeared in the underworld.

Among them, Xiao Shizhu's parents Fuxi and Nuwa have the most temples.

And among these temples of Fuxi and Nuwa, the most spectacular is naturally the ancient temple north of Yuque City. This ancient temple is located in the middle of the city, opposite the north gate of Yuque City, surrounded by two layers of low blue glazed tile walls called walls. The first layer of the wall is square and called the outside, and the second layer of the wall is round and called the inside, symbolizing the "heaven and the round place".

In the middle of the low wall is a circular blue glazed stone platform divided into three floors, each with nine steps on each side, and each floor is surrounded by an intricately carved white marble balustrade. The number of balustrades is nine or multiples of nine, that is, there are 72 in the upper floor with a height of 9 zhang, 108 in the middle layer with a height of 15 zhang, and 180 in the lower layer with a height of 21 zhang.

On each stone pillar, there are carved auspicious cloud patterns that are about to come out, and on the top of the stone pillar, there are various ancient god stone statues of different forms standing proudly, rigorously and exquisitely and magnificently, huge and gorgeous. But like the temples in various places in the Nine Shadows Kingdom, there is no Emperor Xudu and any evil gods, all the good gods who have been in the world and helped mankind.

Around the stone platform, there are 28 green needles and green leaves, and the nine dragon cypresses of the very simple and lush, correspond to the 28 stars in the sky.

In the middle of the upper floor, there is a wooden arch structure hall facing south. There are eight eaves pillars of vermilion lacquer and gold pillars carved with dragons and phoenixes auspicious clouds, and on the beams and pillars, there are purple silk tents made of twisted silk fabric. The main hall is full of rhombic lattice doors and windows made of crystal, blue glazed sill walls, and the east, west, and north sides are sealed with bricks and placed to the top. Under the light of the cloudy day, the hall is full of colorful streamers. And in the dome of the dome in the hall, the center is pasted with a golden pan dragon caisson, the gold double dragon ceiling and the gold pillar is pasted with gold entwined branch lotus, as well as the inner and outer Shi golden dragon and seal color painting, will also become vivid under the seven-color streamer.

On the main hall, surrounded by eight burning pine and cypress wood and cigarette-filled furnaces, there are two carved and vivid golden statues of gods under the golden plate dragon algae well in the middle of the roof. The two statues are as high as one zhang, both of them are human heads and snake bodies, which are Fuxi and Nuwa. Fu Xi, who is not angry and mighty, is on the left, and his left hand is holding the moment. Nuwa is on the right, holding the rules in her right hand, and the snake's tails with the sun and the moon are painted on the waist and tail of the two statues, and the surrounding ground is painted with stars.

Such a magnificent altar and temple hall is a bloody one. But Xiao Shizhu has the ability, and he didn't scrape the people's fat and ointment to build this temple, and he didn't use the national treasury to use a cent. All the funds come from his income from selling alabaster cream.

At this point, the ghost people and officials and soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom threw themselves on the five bodies that he admired.

Today, Xiao Shizhu is here to worship his parents.

This is busy with the ghost officials of the Spring Palace who are in charge of the state rites in the country, and the Spring Official Zongbo Changqin. They prepared rich sacrifices early, and according to strict rules, a total of seven groups of gods were set up on the lower level of the temple, and each group of gods was made of azure satin to form a temporary god hoove, arranged in the direction of the Big Dipper. And around the temple hall on the upper floor, there are multi-conical gods, no more, no less, exactly thirty-six. As for the east and west sides of the second layer of altar, there are rectangular flags embroidered with sun, moon, stars, clouds, rain, wind and thunder.

In addition, they also set up a long prayer table in front of the golden statues of Nuwa and Fuxi in the temple, on which an ever-bright lantern was lit, and Zhiyue ambergris incense and smoke-shaped canopy incense were burned. There is also a foot-long shredded catfish on it, fried deer intestines and steamed borneol. On the left and right, there are also jade, silk, whole Qingyu, whole Qilin, whole Lushu and Qingtian kernel brewed Qingtian wine, peach, sea stone pomegranate and fairy pear and a large number of Yin Cao Difu fruits and offerings. There are more than 600 vessels used for sacrificial offerings and various ritual vessels alone. And in the southeast of the stone platform burnt calves, the southwest hanging sky lantern, in the morning light around the stone platform is a misty cloud, the sky lantern candle shadow shakes red, giving people a very mysterious feeling.

On the east and west sides of the road under the south steps, there are also chimes and bells, as well as bells and other musical instruments, which are arranged neatly like offerings already placed in the main hall, and look solemn and magnificent at a glance.

The musicians in the palace, composed of pipa ghosts who are proficient in music theory, also came to wait here early under the command of the ghost officials of the Spring Palace.

Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother came on foot all the way without riding the beast in a car for the sake of piety. I walked for almost an hour before I came to this temple.

When I walked into the gate, the pipa ghosts who had been waiting on both sides of the road immediately began to play.

The rhythm is soothing, and in the ethereal music of artistic conception, hundreds of officials accompanied him, followed by Xiao Shizhu, the ghost mother, and Xiao Ling, slowly walked to the altar and stopped, divided into two classes of civil and military and stood under the altar.

Xiao Shizhu's family of three, under the guidance of the ceremonial officer, stepped onto the altar and slowly walked into the temple on the altar. Changqin was already waiting in the hall, and when Xiao Shizhu took his daughter and wife and stood in front of the statue of his parents, Changqin shouted loudly: "The king enters the incense and kneels down to worship the gods." ”。

Then a little boy offered them a long incense stick. And the musicians outside the main hall also changed the tune at this moment, the rhythm changed, and it became strong, and the style was also strong and bold.

In the midst of the music, Xiao Shizhu took his daughter and wife to kneel in front of the idol of his parents, and after kneeling three times and bowing nine times, he handed the lit incense to the children, and asked the children to insert the incense into the incense burner in front of the statue for them.

The officials under the altar also knelt in place.

"Father, mother, the child is busy with state affairs, and it will be up to you in the long run, please forgive me. The long incense of the condensed floral fragrance was bright, and Xiao Shizhu looked at the two statues in front of him and said slowly: "You are the gods of Shengming, and you are the parents who make me proud. Although I am lazy, I don't want to be a god like you, I just want to live a good life of stability and prosperity. But you want me to become the Holy Lord and bring stability and peace to the Netherworld, and I am willing to fulfill your wishes, and I have been working hard to develop in that direction. ”。

"I really want you to see that I'm out now, and I'm no longer a troublemaker for you. Today's Nine Shadows Country is strong, with elite soldiers and capable ministers as vast as the sea of stars, and the country is also rich in various places, and the ghost people can live and work in peace and contentment. Having said this, Xiao Shizhu's eyes showed a trace of joy, but there was a little sadness in it. Beneath his strong exterior, he desperately hopes that his parents are not two cold statues.

"But it's just this year, this war is getting more and more difficult, and it doesn't matter if the child lives or dies, but your granddaughter is frequently involved in danger, and I hope that if you really have a spirit in heaven, can you bless your granddaughter a little. Xiao Shizhu calmed down, put away the faint sadness in the depths of his eyes, and said to the two statues: "I beg my father and mother, take good care of your granddaughter, so that she can grow up peacefully." ”。

Changqin frowned when he listened to it, although he was used to Xiao Shizhu's casual personality, but this was also a sacrifice to his parents, Xiao Shizhu could say it so casually, and in his opinion, it was somewhat unceremonious.

It's just that Xiao Shizhu is the King of the Nine Shadows. Even if Changqin thought so, he couldn't change Xiao Shizhu's wishes.

In the main hall of the temple on the high platform, the sacrifice is going on normally. Outside the main hall, the ministers stood respectfully under the high platform facing the rising sun. At that moment, the fungus god trotted all the way into the temple and rushed towards the high altar.

Breathless, he ran to the altar platform, and was about to climb the stone steps without stopping, and when he headed towards the platform, the spears of the guards guarding both sides of the stone steps were already horizontal, and without hesitation blocked his way.

The fungus man glanced at the cold spear head in front of him, and was deterred, but then he was anxious, and stomped his feet in a hurry: "I have urgent matters, and I have to tell the lord immediately." ”。

"It's a big deal, so I'll wait until the sacrifice is over. One of the ghost soldiers who blocked Shenji's way was not accommodating, and immediately scolded in a deep voice.

This noise immediately attracted the attention of the ministers not far away, and they all looked sideways with curious eyes.

"What are you shouting about?" The leader of the guards walked over, glared at the guard who stopped him with his eyebrows upside down, so that the guard did not dare to make any more loud noises, and then turned his head to look at the fungus man Shenji, who already showed a smiling face, and politely discussed with the god: "Lord Shenji, do you think this is okay?

Sacrifice is also a big thing, and filial piety comes first, Xiao Shizhu is sacrificing his parents, and no one dares to interrupt him at this time.

"I can't wait for the urgency of the matter, let me go up. The old ghost Shenji is also stubborn, and he still hasn't stopped until now, and said directly in a loud voice: "If something happens, I'll carry it myself, and if I want to cut off my head, I'll cut off my Shenji!"

As soon as he spoke, he fell from the tip of the spear in front of him.

"What are you arguing about?" At this moment, Xiao Shizhu walked out of the main hall with the ghost mother and Xiao Fuling.