Time flies when you are selflessly working and playing.
Even in this world where cars and horses move very slowly, and you can only love one person in your life, but you can have many concubines, people still clearly feel the passage of time.
In the past, I felt that time was very slow because I had no reference. Every day when I opened my eyes, I saw the same scenery and people.
Unless someone in a family dies one day, or a boy from a family gets married, people will lament that time flies by so fast, and everything happens in the blink of an eye.
However, when Master Ma Bian appeared, people measured time no longer in the blink of an eye, but in days.
Three sticks of incense every day - this is the first concept of time established by people.
Something different happens every day, and every day is a day full of hope.
Nowadays, what is most talked about among the people is no longer about the filial piety of the parents, or about women and men, but about the mutual exchange of experiences in worshiping gods.
For example, when is the most effective time to worship the gods, what to eat before worshiping the gods, what to say when worshiping the gods, where to place the small card for worship, and how high to put it...
As if overnight, card metaphysics became popular, and fortune tellers on the street also had an additional business, helping people calculate fortunes and pray to gods.
Of course, many fortune tellers end up being beaten and never seen again.
Worshiping is not just about kowtowing, you also have to be sincere. When you are sincere, you will hear a "beep" sound, which means that the worship is successful, the gods recognize you, and you can exchange things after accumulating a certain number of times.
But if worshiping once does not work, it means that the heart is not sincere. Keep calm for a while and continue praying. If you are sincere, the gold and stone will be opened.
Some people have also concluded that the effect of continuous prayer will become worse and worse. It is best to recite sutras for a while, calm down and get rid of distracting thoughts.
In short, all kinds of experiences about worshiping gods are flying all over the place, very much like the debate between the European emperor and the African chief in 9102.
As the center of the controversy, the Eastern Holy See did not make any comments and just quietly carried out infrastructure construction.
On the construction site, there are hundreds of thousands of workers, plus a group of mythical creature stone giants. The project is progressing rapidly. The main pillars of a temple have been erected, and a huge statue of the god has been poured in it, just waiting to be consecrated.
Some Westerners are confused about this. What is consecration?
Since you asked the question sincerely, I will tell you with great compassion...
Speaking of consecration, these monks who used to be monks and Taoists and now join the Eastern Holy See are extremely proud.
"You, the Western Holy See, are blasphemous heretics who tamper with doctrines privately in an attempt to cut off the communication between mortals and gods. Of course they dare not consecrate the statues of gods. If they communicate with gods, they will fall into a trap."
After learning that the statue of the god had been erected, Xi Tong couldn't wait to prepare for the consecration ceremony.
Of course, the ceremony is fake. Xi Tong can gather the power of faith without the need for idols. It is true that he can use the idols to set up formations and shield the will of the world.
This method was learned from Birdman.
Countless bird-man statues were destroyed in Zhan Chitong's world, and there were a large number of bird-man prisoners. Xi Tong knew the secrets of the statues very clearly.
To put it bluntly, it is the fog of war, which hides a certain area on the map so that the will of the world from God's perspective cannot clear and detect the movements in this area.
Just like the map of LOL, without a field of view, all you can see are trees, rocks, and rivers. Unless you look into the grass with your face, you will never know whether there are three Dema or five Galen hidden inside.
The materials for the formation of the statues have been fully prepared, and the news of the consecration ceremony of the statues has been sent out early. On the day of the consecration, countless believers gathered from all directions with dry food and bedding, with a population of millions, almost all over the mountains and plains.
With a number of people of this level, if anything happened, it would lead to huge riots. With the Qing Dynasty's urine, the people would like to dig deep and investigate even after saying "Qingming". Millions of people gathered together.
, and don’t fry the pot directly.
However, the local government in Huacheng exists in name only. Officials of all sizes either hang up their posts or resign. The huge government offices have long been paralyzed, and not even the slightest news about such a big matter has been reported.
Although there is no official government to maintain order, the personnel of the Eastern Holy See have taken on this important task and done a better job than the official government.
In the past, whenever there was a major incident and a city-wide manhunt was carried out, the government officials would make a fortune. Regardless of whether they were from good families or not, they would break in and search (scrape) them.
A small household would give some money for straw sandals and ask the officials to be accommodating. A big family would also give some money for tea and wine on the grounds that it was inconvenient for their female relatives.
If you don't have money, and it looks like someone in your family looks like a suspect, take him back and investigate. Once you're in jail, it won't be a matter of paying for straw sandals or tea.
But this time, the Eastern Holy See showed a completely different side. There was neither martial law nor arrests, nor did it take the opportunity to sell tickets.
They just painted areas around the temple with white ash, put up a cordon near the temple, and then had one person standing guard in each area.
After all, the Eastern Holy See has too few manpower. The total number of clergy and protective knights is only four to five thousand. It is simply impossible to maintain order with millions of people.
Of these four to five thousand people, a small number should be allocated to preside over the ceremony, and the remaining people should also guard the brick kilns, porcelain kilns, copper and iron workshops and other places to prevent anyone from damaging them.
Fortunately, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had domesticated the world for two hundred years, and the people's respect for rules has long been deeply rooted in their bones. Obedience is innate, and the pressure to maintain law and order is not great.
However, all the Westerners present were extremely shocked.
There are too many people, and the number of people they come into contact with in their lifetime will not be half as many as today, no, to be precise, not even 1%.
In a small Western country, three or five families can be called a village, and a hundred or ten people can dare to establish a country. The number of millions of people is greater than the total population of some medium-sized countries, and these are just the believers attracted by a consecration ceremony.
They were still shocked and shocked by it.
They did not want to believe that this was due to the size of the population of the Qing Empire. They only believed that it was due to their faith.
Buzz buzz...
Densely packed red lanterns flew up from the temple, shuttled over the crowd, and were arranged like a marching formation, with a red lantern hovering above each square formation.
The distance between them is exactly the same as a ruler, whether vertically or horizontally.
"It's incredible, what's going on with these lanterns? Why do they fly by themselves? Are they magic weapons from the immortal family?"
"It should be the lantern spirit, a spirit raised by the Xian family. Not to mention, the taming methods of the Xian family are different."
"But this number is too much."
At this moment, a plain but majestic voice came from the lantern.
"The consecration ceremony will begin immediately. Everyone, kneel down and worship the Lord God of the system."