Wei Ye thought about it for a while, but decided to put this issue aside for now.

Pushing the pottery bowl away in his hand, he motioned for Xiao Yi to put the pottery bowl away, and the immortal warlock asked again: "Shopkeeper, don't care about these official affairs." Do you know that there are any strange places in this county that you can visit?"

Hearing this, Master Tie pondered for a moment, and then asked, "I heard that in the Great Worship Temple cultivated by the sect of the people, there are gods and men descending from time to time, and they are extremely effective, is this a strange place?"

"The Great Worship Mosque of Zoroastrianism? I'm not interested in this kind of mystery. Wei Ye replied as if he had accidentally eaten a piece of licorice candy.

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The Great Worship Temple of Zoroastrianism is also a special scenery in Blackwater City.

Different from the Han family pavilion with flying eaves and arches, this building standing in the center of Zoroastria is also a brick and wood structure, but it has a round vault, on which stands an iron crescent moon logo, and a new moon is enveloped in the bosom of an iron star, which is particularly distinctive.

According to the Zoroastrian texts, the main god Ahura Mazda has no image, and it is repeatedly stated in the canon that idolatry is not allowed, but there are four incarnations of virtue, with the sun wheel as the king of all things in the world, the flame as the master of human life, the Venus as the savior in the darkness, and the crescent moon as the light represented by the main god in the dark world.

By this time, the morning prayer time in the mosque had passed, and the parishioners had long since left, not even the prayer teachers remained. There was only an old man wrapped in a white cloth and a white robe, wearing a plain white scarf on his face and holding a pomegranate branch, looking intently at the fire altar placed in the center of the hall of the mosque.

This old man was the Zoroastrian elder Ibn of Blackwater, known as "Imar" in the Hu language, which means "the priest and elder of great wisdom". He is not only the Great Elder of the Zoroastrian Sect in Blackwater City, but also the Zoroastrian leader of the entire Zhangye County, and even counting himself, he has been living in the Han Land for five generations.

In this Blackwater City, Ibn is also the number one person, although he has no official status, he is more effective than ordinary officials when he speaks. From the Taishou to the Cao chiefs, they also have a lot of tolerance for this old man who has the ability to greet the entire Zoroastrium, firstly, because this old man is the leader of the people after all, and secondly, this old man is quite knowledgeable about advance and retreat, and the cooperation with the officials of Blackwater City is very tacit.

At this moment, the old man was reciting a scripture from a foreign country in the Western Regions in a low voice, and if there was an astral adventurer, he could find out through the adventurer's terminal that he was reciting such a hymn:

"In the name of the Universal and the One Lord, give glory to the Holy One Abdullah, who has great wings, and you explain the hadith to the priests and prophets, and lead the people out of darkness to the light. Spread your wings and protect us, let us out of our cage, and keep Kaflel from violating us. May the One and Only Lord praise His Holy One and the Imaras, who do not contradict His truth, and grant them peace. ”

Kafer is a Hu language, meaning a person who does not believe in Ahura Mazda. However, Zoroastrianism claims to worship the only Being, Ahura Mazda, but it is believed that there are many servants, messengers, and holy beings acting according to Ahura Mazda's orders. The "Holy One Abdullah," praised by the old man Ibn, probably also belongs to this kind of subordinate God who is similar to the Christian angels.

While reciting the hymn, the old man threw the extremely neatly cut tamarix wood chips into the fire altar, and the tamarix wood chips made a splitting sound under the fire tongue, and there were green flames coming out of the fire altar from time to time.

The situation was strange and mysterious, giving the empty hall of worship an unearthly aura.

But soon, the silence was disturbed by the sound of hurried footsteps. A young man wearing an embroidered hat and a tunic beard hurriedly ran into the hall of the mosque and shouted: "Daddy Ibn, something big has happened!" Teacher Ali followed Ma Changqing and them to patrol the city, but they died outside the city for unknown reasons, and Ma Changqing and the others were seriously injured and taken into the county court!"

The old man remained motionless, threw the tamarisk wood in his hand into the fire altar again, and then held the pomegranate branch in both hands and raised it above his head and made a prostration. After completing this whole set of rituals, he inserted the pomegranate branch in his hand into the tribute vase under the fire altar, turned back unhurriedly, and reprimanded in a well-rounded official language: "Be solemn in the mosque, because the Lord is always watching over us and making us not deviate from His ways." What do you think happened to Ali and Ma Changqing?

The young man, evidently in awe in front of the old man Iben, bowed his head and whispered, "I heard...... It's not that I met a thief, but I collided with some official ......"

It seemed that the young man had not heard any useful news, and the old man Ibn did not care about this, waved his hand, and retreated from the fire altar. It wasn't until he left the hall of the temple that he took off the gauze and handed it to the young man next to him: "Go and prepare the horses, call the Li Zheng of the Zoroastrian Workshop, and go to the county court to see what kind of regulations the county court has." ”

As the Imar walked out of the hall of the mosque, silence returned to the vast mosque, with only the flames on the altar of fire flickering and extinguishing.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a whirlwind blowing on the fire altar, the flames swirled with the wind, the color of the fire turned blue, but a face with blurred facial features emerged from the flames. This face showed a look of doubt, and muttered: "How can these officials in Blackwater City have such a scripture master who does not know how to advance and retreat and dares to kill the Zoroastrian sect?

The face in the fire pondered for a moment before he decided: "The Lord has ordered our brothers to enjoy the fire offerings of these temples in Zhangye County, but he wants to watch the changes in these places for the Lord. Anyway, I followed to the county court to see which official who didn't know what was wrong and dared to do this. I can't say it, let his wife hurt the wind, the little guy jumped into the well, the cat and the mouse jumped, and he couldn't live in peace, and he honestly came to the temple to serve softly, so that he could see the inspiration of our brothers. ”

The monster in the fire said that, the fire suddenly swelled, and a cloud of fire rose up, and then it was withdrawn into the fire altar again. But a raven with red eyes and blue wings jumped out of the altar of fire, spread its wings, and flew out of the small window of the vault of the mosque.

When the raven flapped its wings and flew away from the mosque, there was still silence in front of the fire altar, and the small flames danced softly, as if nothing had happened.