Chapter 8: The temple inherits, and prays for death

As soon as the prison envoy's voice fell, he reached out and grabbed it, and the weathered gray and white stone powder condensed into a stone dragon with teeth and claws. After circling in the air for a moment, it formed a round jade pendant, and hit the Yuanzhen Seal Hall head-on. There was another sharp pain, and Yuan Zhen completely lost consciousness.

The blunt knife penetrates into the flesh, like a defeated leather, and the trumpet wails and cries, and it is like hell. The sound of the eaves collapsing, intertwined with the sound of messy and rushing footsteps, followed by the fishy air, and the pinprick-like tingling sensation on the forehead made the brains unconsciously gather in the center of the eyebrows. Yuan Zhen woke up in the chaotic picture in his mind, and he was already in the middle of the ruined Soul Purification Hall. Looking up, you can see that the major halls in the distance of the temple are like fierce beasts crawling on the ground, which is magnificent. And the Zhishi Hall is like a brilliant Dayue town guarding the heaven and earth, and the heart building and the old tower are like halberds and the spear is towering into the clouds.

The temple was not originally called a temple. It doesn't have a name.

The temple was originally a cemetery, but it was not ordinary bones that were buried, but stars that fell from the sky. The sky is mighty, bright and starry, and sometimes meteors fall. Because when it falls, it is either glamorous and gorgeous, or shocking the universe, or clear and bright, and all kinds of postures are complex and not like dead things. About 17,300 B.C., the ancestor became enlightened because of stargazing, so he built a tomb star. About 15,500 years ago, will die, descendants to enlighten the ancestral land as the tomb, burial, called the ancestral tomb, leave a word. There is no successor. The disciples have been serving for generations, and they call themselves precepts.

About 14,500 years ago, the service of enlightenment, in order to respect his ancestors, will be a word on the top of the person next to the person, called the monk, build a pillow tide hall to spread the law. About 13,000 years ago, the cemetery monks inadvertently discovered the secret of the falling star, because each star is actually sealed with a bizarre story, so it is divided into categories, building the old tower, the heart of the building to send it.

About 1500 B.C., the monks established a religion.

In 0 years, the younger brother of the monk Gonggui extinguished the religion and called God. Change "pillow tide" to "know the world". Those who are attached to the world, Xiang, Wu, and Xue clans are all called holy. A total of special extraction of the luck of the human race, minting one hundred and eighty-eight, and rewarding all the races. Those who get it will be sheltered and can enter a total of 64 states such as Shanzhou, Shengzhou, Taizhou, and Yuzhou. Those who can't do it lose their minds, or they are pigs and dogs. The remnants of Gonggui, and their lackeys are not allowed to shelter, only captive outside the temple, stupid and crazy, thinking that entertainment, the origin of this slum.

From time to time, there is a small clan, the Duan clan, whose clan is more handsome, has great ambitions, and is called a hero. In 275, the patriarch Duan Gan broke through more than 100 clans, obtained one hundred and seven coins, and Ling Tian shattered into the air. After Duan Gan left, the elite of his clan was slaughtered, and the rest were idle, and decades later, it was no longer significant. After Duan Gan broke through the sky, there was a holy light from time to time, and all those who were demented were bathed in it, and their consciousness gradually recovered, and the world was a little angry.

In 323, the total number of people died, and the three clans of Xiang, Wu, and Xue were all seriously injured. In 407, the Great War of the Three Clans ended. The Wu family metamorphosed, and the Xue family moved north. In 408, Xiang was proclaimed a god. In the same year, the Xiang clan besieged the clans and wiped out. In 409, the powerful twelve tribes established a new god cult under the leadership of Renjie Liu Nanhuang, abolished the throne of the gods, and honored the ancestors as gods.

The twelve clans around the Zhishi Palace, the old tower and the heart building, each built a temple, each with its own specialty, and the world is collectively called "temple".

There are thirteen halls in the temple, each called: Jueyuan, Punishment, Soul Purification, Ceremony, Dedication, Entrustment, Divine Gong, Wei Ce, Preaching, Pastoral, Siji, Chunming, and Zhenjiao. Since more than 5,400 years ago, except for a special one in the town prison, the twelve families have been established from generation to generation, each with its own strengths, its own division of labor, competition with each other, and mutual consumption, but it has always been consistent with the outside world.

Among the thirteen halls, the Jueyuan Hall is in charge of the awakening of the courtyard power, the Punishment Hall is in charge of the War God Guard, and the Pure Soul Hall is in charge of the soul baptism, which is the three most powerful forces in the Thirteen Palaces. Because the ceremonial hall is dedicated to sacrificial rituals, and the people in the hall are dry and silent, it has always been detached from the outside and rarely communicates with the outside world. As for the Patriarch, who was in charge of the diplomacy of the states, it became de facto the spokesman of secular power after several generations.

Since the gods have not issued an edict for more than 800 years, and how the temple itself was built, the major families know that the temple is dispensable. And today, the envoys of the palace have long become the private school teachers of the low-level family races. In a similar situation, there was also the Temple of Divine Works, which was dedicated to weaving, and the Hall of Wetzer, which was responsible for organizing and compiling scriptures. One is reduced to a handyman in various families, and the other is a useless rotten man.

But the most awkward position is the mission hall that spreads Shinto to the general public, and the pastoral hall that is responsible for recruiting people and teaching divine arts. In today's world, there is no one who preaches the Word of God, and the preaching hall exists in name only. For the pastoral hall, because the resources at hand are really limited, and there is no real power, the recruitment of manpower is really a little embarrassing, and the major families have their own plans, there is no need for the shepherd hall to transport talents, in the long run, the pastoral hall has actually lost its own sphere of influence, barely alone, in addition to teaching the ordinary people some of the most basic magic means, and there is no other way out, the personnel are scattered, so it is decaying.

Sijidian once controlled the secular operation of the temple, and merchants were all over the world, but since Liu Nanhuang went west 1600 years ago, Sijidian has actually broken away from the temple system and has its own style. has also changed dramatically since Liu Nanhuang's death, and there is also a Chunming Palace. This hall is dedicated to assassination and intelligence, after the death of Liu Nanhuang, all the people in this hall have disappeared, and now, only an empty hall remains.

Among the thirteen halls, the most special is the Town Prison Hall.

This hall does not belong to any one family, and its name is imposed by the twelfth family. No one has ever seen this so-called prison envoy. I only know where it is, but I don't know where it is. In fact, this "prison envoy" himself has never admitted that he belongs to the temple system.

No one knows where the town prison hall is, only that a large vat standing in front of the palace of knowledge can maintain some kind of communication with it.

At the beginning of the establishment of the temple, the twelve clans did not know that there was a prison at all, until Liu Nanhuang disappeared inexplicably, in the process of competing for the main palace of the world, a large vat fell from the sky, and the major hall envoys were upside down. A few days later, the envoys of the various halls sat down in front of the palace of the world, mad and crazy, and lost all their skills, calling them "prisons" and "cages", and soon after they all died violently, and no one knew what they were talking about. After that, the major families either tried to forcibly break the vat by force, or forcibly broke into the palace of the world, but they were all imprisoned in the vat and did not know where to go, and suffered heavy losses but did not even know what kind of strength it was, so they did not dare to continue to try, but threw the hostile into the vat as a test, for this reason, the ethnic group after Liu Nanhuang went was almost extinct, and no one in the hundreds of years was re-obtained, no matter what the skill was. In the end, the major families discussed and spent a huge price to build a "town prison" plaque and put it into the tank, in order to live in peace. But after that, no one could enter the Zhishi Palace, and the vat took root in front of the palace.

Although the Zhishi Hall is closed, the Cunxin Building and the Old Tower have been open since then.

The Old Tower is actually a huge library, which contains books that are different from other places, strange and omnipresent, and the contents of the books are not written records, but lifelike Danqing paintings, and the opening of the book evolves into everything in the book, and the viewer is always immersed. At the beginning of the opening of the old tower, the major families flocked in, or prayed for the mysterious heavenly opportunity, or waited for the opportunity to find the wonderful magic strategy. But the old tower does not teach the heavenly machine, nor does it worship the divine policy, what they see is just one strange and unheard story after another. It's just that these stories are too real in front of their eyes, as if they had experienced them themselves, and many people indulge in them, including those who don't want to be sober anymore.

Whether you want to or not, those who enter the tower will not be able to go out again. If someone with a rich resume is willing to turn his life experience into a book of billions of trillions, he can get three days out of the tower to deal with the affairs after his death. After three days, this man will be disillusioned. Many people who are approaching the end of their lives will enter the tower to read books, and most people will not have the opportunity to find three days even if they die of old age, and only a few people can be transformed into books. Those who are more wise can enter one of the books to continue their lives, or even rewrite or continue to write this book. It's just that once you enter it, you enter another world, and this world has nothing to do with it.

Different from the old tower, no one has been able to enter the heart building so far, or no one wants to enter. Cover is filled with invisible fire, people who enter, will start from the head inexplicably burning, like a match, from ancient times to the present, no one climbed the second floor of the heart building, all on the first floor will be turned into ashes. However, the people did not notice it, only the people outside the building saw its body distorted, until it was annihilated. For hundreds of years, the Cunxin Building has become an execution-like existence.

The large vat in front of the Zhishi Hall did not dare to restrict it, but it became the only choice for ordinary people to approach or worship the temple. For a long time, this place has become a place for people to pray for blessings and wishes, which is very wonderful.

There is water in the vat, and the sound of the water is Lingling, like countless Qiongyu gently striking each other. Three or two more water lilies tilted their necks around the few green leaves that lay flat on the water, poking their heads out as if they wanted to perceive the wonder of the world. Every time the world asks for something, it will buckle the cylinder and hit it, if there is a response, the water in the tank will roll out like a peacock opening the screen, during which the life of the person who evolves the percussion, without opening the mouth, that is, you know what you want. You only need to trade one thing, and you can get what you want. If the things received do not match the things sought, the life memories can be compensated for and stored in the Old Tower as one of the books. The physical body is completely wiped out, and all other people's memories of this person will quickly dissipate. But there is a request, an equivalent exchange, you can't stop, you can't go back, he won't discuss with you at all, and he won't even say a word. At the same time, the cost of asking for a wish is too great, and even if you worship yourself, many times you can't get what you want. It is to knock on the few who wish in the air and knock on the few who wish in the air.

Although there are few people who wish for it, every year at the beginning of autumn, there is always one person who comes to ask for it, and for 6,000 years, every year, without interruption. Originally, the family was involved in the town and prison, and was extremely concerned about this matter, but after the prayer, because the person who made the wish was not worshiped enough, except for its own annihilation, there was no change in the world, so they no longer cared about it. The general public no longer even regarded this incident as a lively onlooker, at most three or two people took it as a joke.

These people who ask each year are different, and if they do, they die. No one knew what he was asking for, but everyone knew that these men were from the slums, and that they did not carry any tribute except in the flesh.