When the morning star rises, the officials stand in line according to the pre-rehearsed queue and enter the Ancestral Temple under the guidance of the ceremonial officer.
When they arrived at the square outside the front hall, the officials were arranged on both sides according to their civil and military distinctions and official titles.
Except for a few brave officials who whispered to each other, most officials kept their eyes and mouths closed.
While resting his mind, he waited for the prisoner presentation ceremony to begin.
In the square, there are etiquette officers and eunuchs patrolling. Once they find that someone is making a loud voice or losing etiquette and disrupting order, they will step forward to stop and correct them.
If the circumstances are serious, the guards will be called to take the person away.
These officials who were taken away will be investigated and punished afterwards... Of course, the premise is that they can survive today.
Li Erlang and Cai Guizhong were also in the square of the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
The two of them were neither in the same row as the civil and military officials nor with the representatives of the monks and Taoists. Instead, they stayed in the same area as the foreign envoys who were invited to watch the ceremony.
These foreign envoys did not know the true identities of Li Erlang and Cai Guizhong. They just thought that they were envoys of a certain country like themselves. They nodded and said hello without saying much.
However, there were a few foreign envoys who were familiar with each other, and when the ceremony officer was not paying attention, they gathered together and discussed quietly.
They all know that today's prisoner sacrifice ceremony is because Qingtang was destroyed.
This news made them somewhat worried.
Especially the envoys from those countries who had seen the continuous natural disasters and man-made disasters in the Xia Kingdom before and sent troops to invade the border were even more nervous.
They felt that this large ceremony of offering prisoners was an attempt to scare the monkeys and scare them.
If their country cannot give a reasonable explanation for its previous behavior, or provide compensation that satisfies Emperor Jianwu and the Xia court, I am afraid that the next prisoner presentation ceremony, they will not be spectators, but
Participant.
Participate as corpses or prisoners.
An envoy from a Nanyang country sighed quietly: "When the ceremony is over, I will return to my country as soon as possible, report this situation to the king of the country, and ask him to come up with an idea quickly... If I cannot satisfy the Xia Kingdom's claim, I will just
Maybe we can ask the gods to help us."
God?
Li Erlang and Cai Guizhong looked at each other.
There are still gods in this foreign country? Is it the same righteous god as them? Or is it a grass-headed wild god pretended by some demon? Or, is it the organs or clones of those crazy gods in the blood moon that were thrown into the human world?
The two of them wanted to inquire, but they heard a sharp, high-pitched voice suddenly ringing in the Ancestral Temple.
"The Holy Spirit has arrived, all officials are silent!"
The person who shouted these words was obviously not an ordinary eunuch, but a master eunuch with great cultivation.
His voice penetrated everyone's ears clearly, making people shudder, hurriedly closing their mouths, and standing solemnly.
"coming."
Li Erlang and Cai Guizhong looked at each other and did not go to ask the Nanyang envoys for questioning. Instead, they secretly accumulated strength and took action only when the signal appeared.
Sharp sounds sounded three times, and Emperor Jianwu's chariot appeared outside the Ancestral Temple.
Emperor Jianwu got off his carriage at the gate of the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Surrounded by his chamberlains and Jingjun, he walked into the Imperial Ancestral Temple, which immediately attracted a burst of low shouts from the civil and military officials in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
The reason why the officials were surprised was that Emperor Jianwu actually brought his alchemy furnace with him at this time.
On weekdays, the alchemy furnace is always close to you, but today is a great ceremony for offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors. Emperor Jianwu actually brought the alchemy furnace with him. What is this? Refining alchemy to the point of going crazy? Or is this alchemy furnace the real one?
The protagonist, and Emperor Jianwu is just a puppet controlled by Dan Furnace?
Amidst the exclamations, an emissary was about to stand up and start spraying.
As a result, the Jing army who was standing by and keeping an eye on them rushed up quickly before they could speak, and dragged them down on the pretext of disturbing the ceremony.
This scene caused other ministers who wanted to confront Emperor Jianwu to shut up and planned to wait until afterwards.
Otherwise, you will be labeled as disrupting the gift, and your future will be completely ruined.
Emperor Jianwu ignored the surprised and puzzled looks of everyone, and walked through the officials with the alchemy furnace to the front hall.
Under the leadership of the etiquette officer, the officials saluted and kowtowed, shouting "Long Live the Mountain".
But I don't know why, but I always feel that Emperor Jianwu looks at them in a strange way.
It's not like looking at ministers, but like looking at dead people and tributes...
This made the officials shudder.
Before they could think about it, Emperor Jianwu had already entered the front hall.
The alchemy furnace was not brought into the front hall, but placed at the entrance of the main hall.
The ministers breathed a sigh of relief and said that Emperor Jianwu had not completely lost his mind after all. If he brought the alchemy furnace into the front hall where the tablets of the emperors of the Xia Dynasty were enshrined, it would really be a joke.
Especially today's prisoner presentation ceremony, there are also foreign envoys participating. If they are allowed to talk nonsense after returning home, what will be the face of Daxia?
Some officials couldn't help but think that when the ceremony was over, they would beat the foreign envoys attending the meeting and tell them to keep their mouths shut and not say things they shouldn't say. Otherwise, don't blame them and they would carry swords and belts.
Armed the troops and went to investigate the crime.
Emperor Jianwu, who entered the front hall, looked at the tablets of Emperor Xia enshrined in the hall, with a look of ferocity and madness on his face.
Because his back was turned to the officials outside the palace, no one saw this scene.
The eunuch carefully brought the gold basin for Emperor Jianwu to wash his hands, and then handed him a stick of incense.
Emperor Jianwu inserted the incense into the incense burner in front of the memorial tablet, and then pretended to recite the sacrificial inscription.
And in the process, he successfully activated the Jiangshan Sheji Map enshrined in the front hall of the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
Wisps of black and yellow light bloomed from the map of the country.
This is the color of water and earth, the color of mountains and rivers.
At the same time, in Yizhou, Shaanzhou, Dianzhou...
In those prefectures and counties where Jingguan was built one after another.
Wisps of black energy were released from the Jingguan built with the heads of prisoners in Qingtang, entangled together, and turned into black pythons, quickly drilling into the ground and into the earth's veins and waterways.
Through the effect of the Jiangshan Sheji Map, the dragon veins will be polluted, connected across them, and turned into a huge altar to sacrifice millions of people in several states.
At the same time, Qi Longfei and others, who had been paying attention to the earth's veins and the earth's energy, as well as Wei Tu's junior brothers, all became aware of it.
"here we go."
They raised their heads and glanced at the sky.
It was clear day and there was no vision.
Even so, they still did not dare to hesitate at all, and immediately activated the Feng Shui formations that had been arranged long ago.
Through changes in Feng Shui, it affects the direction of the earth's energy, thus affecting the huge altar built by Emperor Jianwu.
It was at this moment that everyone in the Xia Kingdom saw a strange phenomenon happening in the sky.
The sky suddenly became dark.
A creepy red light that was as thick as blood immediately fell from the sky, fell on everyone, and enveloped the entire world!
People subconsciously looked up at the sky.
I saw a blood moon, larger and rounder than ever before, appearing in the sky, quickly covering the sun.
"Is this... the Tengu Eclipse?"
Such a word pops up in the minds of countless people.
But the scene in front of me seems different from the Tengu Eclipse that has appeared in the past...
Why is the blood moon so big and round?
And why are there still people singing and dancing in the Blood Moon?
At this moment, countless people saw figures twisting and dancing in the blood moon. Their ears seemed to hear songs composed of roars, screams, lamentations and other strange sounds.
This dance, this song, goes straight into the heart.
The desires in everyone's hearts and the evil thoughts deep in their hearts were all aroused at this moment.
Like a raging fire, it can’t be controlled once it breaks out!
In the front hall of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, Emperor Jianwu raised his hands high, his expression crazy and extremely excited at this moment.
"Come on, enjoy the sacrifices I offer you! Half of the country, have you tasted such sacrifices before? In return, grant me the art of becoming an immortal, lead me into the door of the immortal gods, and enjoy immortality and
Infinite power—"
However, just when Emperor Jianwu was full of expectations, just when the blood moon was about to completely block the sun and complete a 'total solar eclipse'.
The blood moon swallowing the sun seemed to be stuck by something. It stopped abruptly and could no longer swallow the sun...