Chapter 47: The Ritual of Sacrifice to Heaven, Phoenix Linxi
Return to Luzhou, outside Cusang City.
This is the largest city in Huiluzhou, built along the water and located on a vast plain.
At this time, the sky was not completely bright, and its color was green and white like crab claws. There were already people in neat clothes waiting quietly in the open space outside the city.
In the central open space is a large bluestone altar with eight sides and eight corners. It spans hundreds of meters and is divided into three floors. Each floor has a bluestone fence. With the altar as the center, there are four large squares on the ground where the disciples stand.
, they respectively come from the four branches of Quanbo, Ningzizhao Night Palace wears purple clothes, Zhuoyun Xiangyu sends silk yarn, Incense-burning stargazing mansion wears blue, Autumn Twilight Copper Dragon Valley wears red fur, and on the periphery are the local government offices
, factions, common people and other personnel.
Nowadays, there are veiled witches standing on each level of the altar to offer sacrifices. The outermost witch wears a white robe with blue floral decorations on the collar. The middle layer wears a gardenia gauze dress with crimson floral decorations on the collar. The inner layer is black.
Wearing gorgeous clothes and purple flower ornaments on their collars, the witches and priests stood on the three floors of the altar from outside to inside, from low to high, with a circle about fifty meters in diameter in the center.
On the stone slab on the ground in the central open space, the carvings of the phoenix are lifelike, surrounded by flames flying around. It is gorgeous and gorgeous. Even if it is not colored, just the carvings on the bluestone give people an indescribable grand beauty.
When the first ray of morning sun appeared in the distant sky, the quiet bells came from the city and spread into the distance in the wilderness.
Accompanied by a soft sound, the music of bronze chimes struck, and the six music of praying to heaven were played. The people standing in the dark in the wilderness also held their breath and stared at the altar that was gradually illuminated by the golden glow of the morning glow.
Under the canopy of the tall green curtain, Lorraine Hill is dressed in rich clothes today, standing quietly with his eyes closed. His color is dark at the top and dark at the bottom, with three layers stacked on top of each other. It is upright and gorgeous, with no variegated colors or decorations, until that prayer.
Tianliu music sounded, and then he slowly opened his eyes and looked at the extremely wide road in front of him, and at the end of the road was the tall bluestone altar for praying to the sky.
As the sun slowly rises, the ray of golden light gradually coats the edges of the altar fence. People standing in the wilderness can watch the golden light wisps of light in the early morning with a rare state of tranquility.
Passing through this vast world, it falls on your own cheeks and collar.
The grandeur and boundlessness of nature, in a beautiful form, penetrates into the dusty and gray hearts, causing some people who have been trapped by labor to wake up in this moment, like innocent children, looking at the orange-red sun,
Come to this world slowly.
Looking down from the sky, when the sound of the music sounded, the girl surrounded by everyone also walked out of the beautiful canopy with green curtains. Her sleeves were connected, and her dignified Chinese clothes swayed a little in the cool morning wind.
Behind this young girl, a long queue also moved forward slowly. These people were divided into two rows, uniformly dressed in crimson gauze and gorgeous clothes, and walked slowly along the hundreds of meters long road, and then stopped in front of the altar.
After that, Lorraine Hill climbed up the stairs of the altar step by step, and the witches and priests standing on it also lowered their heads and saluted one by one.
Finally, when Lorraine Hill slowly walked to the center of the phoenix pattern, the queue under the altar also stood in place.
Time passed by in silence, as hundreds of thousands of people gathered in this wilderness, quietly staring at the altar to pray to heaven.
Finally, a bell sounded from the city again.
"The ceremony of praying to heaven, initiating——"
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"The ceremony of praying to heaven, initiating——"
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The long shouting was relayed all the way from the city to the edge of the altar, where four shamans also shouted in unison, spreading far into the distance in the early morning wilderness.
It was time. Lorraine Hill, who had been standing in the altar for a long time, raised his head slightly and looked at the vast blue sky.
Starlight seemed to be emerging in the light blue and clear pupils, while a brilliant and perfect sun mark appeared between the eyebrows. Its color was golden and clear, and it was extremely gentle.
After that, the wind gradually blew through the wilderness, and the eternally still sky seemed to suddenly come to life. A little white starlight emerged in the blue sky. They flickered, as if conveying some kind of signal.
Generally, different constellation patterns form in the sky and then disappear quickly.
Gradually, the wind seemed to get stronger, the robes of the witches and priests on the altar were flying, and the music of praying to heaven gradually entered a grand and solemn part.
At some point, a pale white meteor streaked across the sky, decorating the sky illuminated by morning glow.
But soon, another meteor passed by.
The third one...
The fourth one...
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Starlight spanning tens of thousands of light-years falls in this blue and magnificent sky, accompanied by the rising red glow of the morning sun.
The originally invisible Mana gradually emerged in the breeze. They were vaguely like the tiniest sparks, outlining the traces of dragon veins on the earth and sky. The torrent aura like a river was finally witnessed by mortals today.
This golden torrent across the sky is made up of countless small tributaries. Each of them comes from all over the mountains and rivers, some are strong and some are weak, which makes people dizzy. But the vast aura in the dragon veins makes everyone...
The mortals who saw it were shocked, and it turned out that this was the dragon vein between heaven and earth, the earth vein and heavenly marrow of the Eastern world.
On the high platform of the altar, Lorraine Hill stretched out her white wrist, and took off a little of her long sleeves. She softly recited ancient prayers, and then the wind in the sky became stronger and stronger.
The mighty wind blows the world, and the originally chaotic dragon veins return to their original positions in the wind. The previously deposited and thin mana magic power is once again balanced. People on the earth feel that the air has become a little cooler and moister, no longer harmonious.
It was so hot and dry before.
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The long music sounded, the jade fell and the gold shook, and when the sun slowly rose from the horizon and the golden light spread all over the world, the meteors in the sky had already stopped and disappeared, and the original torrent of dragon veins also faded again and disappeared.
"The ceremony is over." As a burst of shouting spread from within, the music gradually stopped.
Slowly calming down his tired body, Lorraine Hill opened his eyes and looked at the world that had become stable again, feeling a sense of relief rising in his heart.
This heaven-sacrifice ceremony can be considered to have ended peacefully. The next step is to clean up the aftermath and details of the southwestern continents.
In the morning light, the girl turned around and wanted to step down from the altar, but at some point, the field outside was filled with figures bending down and worshiping, and there was no end in sight.
"This is..." She muttered in surprise and confusion, but soon she heard a response like a mountain cry.
These sounds have words such as "Phoenix", "Great Fortune", "Kowtow" and "Wish to follow the scenery".
In the East, the legend about the Five Phoenixes has been circulating for nearly a thousand years. But now that the world is torn apart, thousands of horses are silent, and the people are confused, her sacrifice to the sky today to regulate the dragon's veins has awakened the memories deep in the minds of countless people, which are about the Phoenix.
Stories and legends, and the girl standing in the morning light today can indeed carry everyone's imagination of the Phoenix.
Whether it is beauty, holiness, power, benevolence, majesty, or even words and deeds, they all deserve the name of Phoenix.
I hope I can see you reigning over the world in my lifetime. The ancient words are so relevant now.