Chapter 23: Zoroastrianism
The chains fell to the ground, the iron gate was pushed open, and then Xiao Qi was grabbed by the camel's claw-like palm, buckled his neck, and was grabbed out of the narrow cold iron cage, with the world spinning, Xiao Qi's body finally got rid of the fate of being captive, but he was a little out of breath.
The confused scene kept shaking in his vision, and he couldn't see what it was, and in his perception he seemed to be pushed out of the temple gate, and there was a sense of vacancy, and when he finally landed, he found that it was a jungle. Several men in black peeled the ground open, revealing a dark and bottomless cavern.
A chill came out of it, causing Xiao Qi's figure to stagnate, and then he heard the familiar lame footsteps of a camel behind his ears. He walked step by step, and finally turned to Xiao Qi, and took out two black cloaks from the treasure bag on his waist, one for Xiao Qi to put on his body, and one for himself. The cloak obscured them almost entirely, leaving only one pair of eyes outside.
When everything was ready, the camel re-clasped Xiao Qi's neck and led him to jump into the secret passage.
Xiao Qi felt that his body was falling all the time, and he didn't know how long it took for them to get their feet on the ground, and then there was a mess, the surrounding rock walls were extremely narrow, and this passage could accommodate up to two people in parallel, Xiao Qi would bump into his head if he wasn't careful, so he was almost curled up.
I don't know how many turns I made, and finally the camel's pace slowed down slightly, and at this time, Xiao Qi's dizzy perception finally returned to a normal perspective.
Just in the direction of his gaze, a light mark appeared, and after that, it slowly opened into a light door, until their bodies penetrated through, and Xiao Qi's eyes showed an incomparably wide underground secret room. The light was still dim, but it was already faintly recognizable.
It's just that there are enough people, obscuring most of the sight, and Xiao Qi can only rely on his six senses to perceive and guess what place this is. All kinds of cloaked people around them crossed each other almost like threads and needles, and they were all covered and covered, leaving only those strange and bright eyes outside. In the dim light, seeing the flickering eyes of this line is indeed a little infiltrating.
After being dragged for a while, Xiao Qi's gaze was finally straightened, and he could stand on his feet again. It's just the camel's iron pincer-like palm, but it is still pinched on his neck, as if he is ready to pinch it to death at any moment.
Xiao Qi naturally didn't dare to act rashly, so he could only follow his steps and continue to march towards the place where more cloaked people gathered.
As they moved forward, the cloaked people became more and more dense, and finally they almost shuttled through the crowded crowd like a needle, until they squeezed into another place with a somewhat serious atmosphere, and those cloaked people gradually became scarce, but the cloaked people here all had a dangerous aura on their bodies, which made Xiao Qi hurriedly press the six senses back into his body, for fear of being eaten by his senses.
The cloaked figures seemed to be circling around an altar, chanting incantations as if they were performing some kind of sacrificial ritual.
It's just that there are many figures, and the small seven heads are not tall, so they can't see what is happening in front of them clearly. But the good thing is that these people rotate regularly, and sooner or later they will also turn to the inner circle.
Xiao Qi was caught in the midst of those inexplicable cloaked people, and he went around and around with the ancient ritual, until he was pushed to the altar, and he couldn't see clearly what was being offered on the altar. It turned out to be a huge four-colored lotus, and there were more than a dozen four-colored small lotus around it, which were connected to each other to form a lotus array. It looks beautiful, and it is indeed very eye-catching, but it doesn't seem to be worshipped.
I don't know why these cloaked people worship these lotus flowers like this? Haven't they ever seen anything more beautiful than lotus flowers? Just as Xiao Qi was thinking about it, the crowd accelerated again, and those who approached the altar were as excited as if they had been injected with stimulants, they were chanting unknown incantations in their mouths, and their hands and arms were trembling, as if they really sensed some kind of supernatural mysterious power.
Xiao Qi frowned slightly, he shrugged the tip of his nose, except for a little lotus fragrance, there was no difference. Just when Xiao Qi lost his mind, his neck was pressed hard, and the whole person crawled on the ground, and then he found that those cloaked people also knelt on the ground together, but their eyes were against their palms, and they didn't dare to squint.
Xiao Qi was even more puzzled, but the next moment his perception also seemed to feel something, so that his hands and feet did not tremble slightly.
Is there really a miracle??
Xiao Qi was thinking wildly, and in his perception, there were obviously many star spots falling, starting with just one, and then countless stars. They were all over the space, like falling snow, but Xiao Qi's eyes couldn't see a little bit of real existence. Until his thoughts were interrupted again by the noisy crowd, and his eyes were drawn to the four-colored lotus flower in full bloom on the altar directly in front of him.
The four-color blooming flowers are not very beautiful, but in this waterless dark room, it is already a spectacle. It's just that the next moment, a more bizarre phenomenon appeared in front of Xiao Qi again.
The largest four-colored lotus flower actually spewed out some flames, but it was a little blurry and couldn't see clearly. At first, Xiao Qi thought that he couldn't see it, so he got closer with the crowd, only to find that although the flame had the outline of fire, it had no substance, it was floating in the air, like watching fire in the rain and fog, which made people have a sense of unreality.
Seeing the four-colored flames, countless cloaked people raised their hands in worship, as if they were demanding the arrival of the holy flame, and their eyes were full of piety and conviction.
Zoroastrianism!
A voice echoed in Xiao Qi's mind, it was the old devil's, he had been using Zhihai to experience everything that happened here with Xiao Qi.
What is Zoroastrianism?
The old demon pondered for a while before continuing to explain that Zoroastrianism was originally created by a group of alchemists and refiners, and after hundreds of years of evolution, it gradually formed the current Zoroastrianism, they worship divine fire, and control a large number of Dan Weapon Masters, and their strength should not be underestimated.
If such a large sect is concerned, why is it not recorded in the Plane Immortal Record?
Zoroastrianism is also good and evil, and does not pay attention to the rules, only obeys interests and equivalent exchanges, so Zoroastrianism has a bad reputation in the plane alliance, and in the last thirty years, a conflict between the plane family and Zoroastrianism made Zoroastrianism change from open preaching to secretly recruiting followers, so Shenhuojiao has become very few people well-known.
After some explanations from the old demon, Xiao Qi finally understood the identities of these people, and also knew why they worshiped the four-colored flames so much.