There is a tall and slender black tower in the Siyu Jingyesi, just so that at critical moments, the Siyu Jingyesi can climb up and see far away, observe everything in the capital and respond to various changes.
As the commander of the Eastern Territory, Gu Cheng naturally has to stay here at this time. Although it is a bit far away from the imperial city, with Gu Cheng's strength, he can have a panoramic view of everything in the imperial city.
The ancestor worship ceremony was held in the ancestral temple of the imperial city, where the memorial tablets of the ancestors of the Daqian dynasties were enshrined, and their tombs, including those of some of the founding heroes of the Daqian, were on Tiangong Mountain outside the capital.
Rows of Longxiang Guard masters wearing golden scale chain mails were scattered around the imperial city. The bright golden armor faced the sunlight, giving people a dazzling feeling.
Among the three major guards in the capital, Longxiang Guards has the smallest number, with less than a thousand people, but each one is a master.
The Imperial Guards and Shenwu Guards selected the elites from the frontier armies, while the Longxiang Guards selected the elites from the Imperial Guards and Shenwu Guards.
The altar in front of the ancestral temple has been set up. Officials from the Ministry of Etiquette and people from the Qintian Prison are responsible for all kinds of messy etiquette. The most eye-catching thing is an old man wearing a yin-yang cloud pattern Taoist robe in front of the altar.
The old man's white hair and childish face had the appearance of an immortal. The water vapor around him was rising mistily, and he was full of vitality. Wherever he passed, even the cracks in the bluestone slabs under his feet had vegetation sprouting.
This old Taoist priest is Lu Guanghao, one of the five great masters of Daqian today and the headmaster of Taixuan Taoism, ‘Tianyi Zhenren’.
The state religion in Daqian today is Taoism. Although the Buddhist lineage is not deliberately suppressed for the sake of balance between Taoism and Buddhism, it can be seen from the number of national teachers.
Among the five great national masters, there are four from the Taoist lineage, and there is only one eminent monk from the Jialan Temple in the Buddhist sect. This was obtained after the eminent monk personally came to the capital to preach and met Emperor Daqian more than ten years ago.
One of the reasons for this is that five hundred years ago, the world was in war and demons were rampant. Buddhism adhered to its sectarian views. Although it would take action to suppress evil spirits, the ones who took action were all monks.
The Taoist lineage is not so particular. If you are a Taoist priest, you can practice the Qi refining methods of the Taoist lineage. Even if you are not a Taoist priest, you can. Even 80% of the Qi refining techniques in Jingyesi come from the Taoist lineage.
Another reason is that Buddhism is on the wrong team.
Ye Fashan, the first national teacher of Daqian, Luofu Zhen, was born in the Taoist lineage, so the Taoist lineage naturally became the state religion of Daqian.
And the Yamantaka Temple, one of the holy places in the Buddhist lineage, was still a little ignorant and yelled at Da Gan after Daqian unified the world. As a result, the martial saint Pei Fei personally came to the door and used the introductory martial arts of the Yamantaka Temple. The Little Vajra's demon-subduing fist defeated all the eminent monks of the Yamantaka Temple, causing the Yamantaka Temple to lose its face.
In the end, Pei Fei directly smashed the Mahavira Hall and walked away. The Yamantaka Temple was closed for eighteen years, and the gate was only opened after the death of Wu Sheng Pei Fei.
Among the Taoist sects, the one with the closest relationship to the Daqian court was Lu Guanghao's Taixuan Taoist sect.
Taixuan Dao Sect has a long history, thousands of years, but it was actually five hundred years ago that it became one of the four Dao Sects.
It is said that the ancestors of the Taixuan Taoist sect five hundred years ago received the guidance of Ye Fashan, the real person of Luofu, and then improved their inherited skills a lot. Therefore, the Taixuan Taoist sect is naturally very close to Daqian. In this case Daqian also chose Lu Guanghao to be the abbot.
At this time, Lu Guanghao took a look at the sky and said to a middle-aged official next to him: "Master Xiao, the auspicious time has come. Go and invite your majesty and others."
The middle-aged official was Xiao Cunyi, but he didn't know where the Luo Jiao Saint and others were at this time. Gu Cheng couldn't see them anyway.
Xiao Cunyi nodded and immediately ran to invite Emperor Daqian and other civil and military officials to enter the ancestral temple.
The soldiers of Longxiang Guard lined up, and a tall old man wearing a dragon robe led many princes, as well as a group of high-ranking officials and princes, into the ancestral temple.
This was the first time that Gu Cheng saw Li Yuangong, the current emperor of Daqian. He looked like a tall and powerful old man, but it was rumored that the emperor of Daqian also had some cultivation.
Most of the practitioners practice martial arts and qi refining, and some of them practice ghost refining secrets, witchcraft and so on. However, it is said that what the Daqian royal family practices is the dragon qi technique, which is a kind of A method that brings together the destiny of heaven and earth and the dragon veins.
However, although the emperor claims to be the emperor, he is actually still an ordinary person. Using human power to accommodate and suppress the fate of heaven and earth will have a huge backlash.
Therefore, in the past five hundred years, there have been very few Daqian emperors over a hundred years old. You must know that even if the Daqian Emperor is just an ordinary person, swallowing some nourishing elixirs every day can extend his life, so people in the Jianghu generally It is believed that Emperor Daqian's life was short-lived because of the backlash of dragon energy.
It's just that this matter has been just a rumor for five hundred years. After all, no one has seen any generation of Daqian Emperor take action.
If Daqian was really captured by others that day, then it would probably be the time when the real building was about to collapse.
Li Yuangong, the Emperor of Daqian of this generation, is actually not well regarded among the previous Daqian emperors. Of course, he cannot be blamed for this.
When Li Yuangong succeeded to the throne, Daqian had already shown signs of decline and decay. The southeast, northwest, and borderlands were in constant war and had never truly rested. Today, he is king, and tomorrow he is emperor. Demons and ghosts are rampant. There are already some The people feel that they are in dire straits.
When Li Yuangong succeeded to the throne, it was the most violent infighting in Daqian.
There were more than twenty princes in his generation, but in the end he was the only one who survived.
Moreover, almost no one knows the details of the battle for the right to inherit the throne. Even if some powerful men in the imperial court participated in the battle for the right to inherit the right to the right, they all remain silent and no one intends to mention it.
At this time, Lu Guanghao walked up to Li Yuangong, slapped his head, and said: "Your Majesty, you can start."
Li Yuangong nodded, and Lu Guanghao said loudly: "The ancestor worship ceremony begins!"
As he waved the fly whisk in his hand, the originally clear sky turned into billowing clouds, and finally turned into dancing dragons and phoenixes, which was extremely beautiful.
This scene can not only be seen by people in the imperial city, but also by the common people in the capital.
The ancestor worship ceremony is a ceremony for the royal family, but for these common people, it is equivalent to a festival.
Especially Lu Guanghao's skills, which are very novel even to the people of the capital.
When Gu Cheng saw this scene, he narrowed his eyes sharply.
Others may only feel that the old Taoist priest's method is novel, but for a practitioner like Gu Cheng who has a strong cultivation base in Qi refining, Lu Guanghao's move is extremely terrifying.
The opponent has combined his own spiritual energy with the vitality of heaven and earth, and uses his own spiritual energy to control the heaven and earth as a powerful force. Although it is only a piece of territory, this kind of control over power and understanding of the power of heaven and earth are already extremely amazing.
In other words, this old Taoist priest is definitely someone who can make clouds and rain fall with just a wave of his hand, making people kneel down and shout for gods.
From Gu Cheng's perspective, he couldn't tell what state the other party was in, but the weakest one should be a strong person in the Guiyuan realm of the four realms of Qi refining.
"Please ask Divine Sword Wujiang to bow to our ancestors and recite sacrificial inscriptions!"
After a series of complicated rituals, Xiao Cunyi held the sword box, took out the divine sword Wujiang and stood it in the center of the altar.
This sword is actually very simple in appearance, with a gray hilt and blade, only the blade has a touch of golden red, which is bright and dazzling.
Da Gan built the country with force. To worship the divine sword Wujiang at the ancestor worship ceremony is not only to worship this divine weapon that fought for Da Gan in the past and what it represents, but also to let future generations never forget what Da Gan relied on to win the world. of.
After paying homage to the Divine Sword without Borders, immediately behind Li Yuangong, a handsome young man with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes stood up with a sacrificial inscription and read it loudly.
This person is the second prince, Prince Yu Li Xiaoming. Standing at this position, he can be said to be quite excited.
Who has stood in this position in the past? Almost always it was the prince. This is almost the status and treatment only reserved for princes.
Now after many struggles, he finally made the third and fourth sons give in, and he finally got this position. At this time, he even had a feeling that the position of prince was already beckoning to him.
Of course, Li Xiaoming was not proud for too long. This was far from the time for him to be proud.
He had already memorized the sacrificial text, so he was standing in the center of the altar in front of everyone. Just when Li Xiaoming read out the first word, a roar like a bell like a bell suddenly came from mid-air, and it directly hit the audience. Li Xiaoming held back the rest of his words.
Gu Cheng suddenly raised his head and looked at the horizon, secretly saying: "Finally here!"
All his plans were based on the premise that the Maitreya Church would take action. If the Maitreya Church did not take action this time, not only would his plan fall short, but he would also offend the fourth prince to death.
Of course, Gu Cheng was not gambling this time. All the evidence and clues pointed to the Maitreya Church. If he could guess wrong, he would not have to hang out with Jingyesi.
At this time, I saw wind and clouds gathering in the air, but it was not the dragon and phoenix auspicious clouds that Lu Guanghao had created before, but a blood-colored cloud.
And at the same time, blood light shot up into the sky from all over the capital, connecting the sky and the earth in all directions. Amidst the bursts of majestic bells, a bloody Maitreya condensed out of the surging blood mist. It was obviously a Buddha statue. , but the smile at the corner of his mouth gave people an extremely weird feeling.
"All living beings are guilty, and the world will suffer calamity.
Maitreya comes to the world to save all sentient beings from misfortunes!"
The voice changed from one to dozens, and in the end it seemed as if hundreds of people were chanting, and the entire capital instantly became commotion.