"Welcome to the Imperial Envoy!!!"
"Welcome to the Imperial Envoy!!!"
"Welcome to the Imperial Envoy!!!"
Under the leadership of the Taiyuan magistrate and civil and military officials, clan elders and businessmen cheered loudly...
As the most prominent group of people in Taiyuan Prefecture shouted loudly, nearly a million people also began to shout...
The continuous sounds merged into one piece, forming a wave of sound that shot straight through the sky in an instant!
"…………"
At this moment, the fiery red sun had quietly climbed to the center of the sky.
Just looking at the sun, many people feel that praying for rain this time is definitely impossible...
The sun is high in the sky, indicating that it must be sunny again today. If it is normal, it will be nothing. After all, everyone is used to the sun shining high...
However, now, everyone feels a sense of absurdity at the same time...
Among the dark crowd, some were happy, some were sad...
He Shen, who had been prepared for a long time, was naturally confident at this moment.
"…………"
"You don't have to be polite..."
He Shen looked at the sun that had completely jumped out of the horizon and was scorching the earth, and said in a deep voice.
“Thank you, Minister Qin!!!!”
“Thank you, Minister Qin!!!!”
“Thank you, Minister Qin!!!!”
The officials, clan elders, squires, businessmen, and common people who were worshiping the imperial envoys spoke again.
Outside the Mengshan Altar, countless figures stood inside, but it was silent...
Everyone is waiting for that moment to arrive...
Countless people followed He Shen and swarmed around the Mengshan Altar.
However, under the command of the soldiers who maintained order around them, everyone consciously did not make any noise...
Time is something that can be said to be fast or slow...
If it's fast, for some people, decades pass by in a blink of an eye. If it's slow, a second can pass like a year...
For the countless people gathered around the Mengshan Altar, life at this moment is like a year...
However, the cycle of time is moving forward after all, rather than stopping at this moment or going backwards. This is simply impossible...
In this world, except for birth and death, which are eternal, even memories that people think will never change cannot stop the erosion of time...
"..."
Let’s get back to the point!
He Shen adjusted the third-grade official hat on his head, then held on to the official uniform of the imperial envoy, got up and walked towards the altar.
The honor guard of the imperial envoy will always be the center of attention of the crowd no matter what time it is, let alone when the ceremony of worshiping heaven is being held...
The heaven-sacrifice ceremony begins!
Walking in front of He Shen were dozens of big men carrying a large number of sacrifices.
Among them are six kinds of livestock, including horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens, and other treasures...
Because Heshen is an imperial envoy and represents the emperor, so using six animals is not considered rude...
The sacrifices went first, and He Shen led the officials from Taiyuan to follow slowly...
The stone path of the Mengshan Altar is not very wide, and it can only accommodate seven or eight people walking side by side, so the queue to go up to the altar is very long...
Especially under the shining of the big sun in the sky, it looks even more dazzling...
Dozens of big men, under the command of the sacrificial wizard, placed the sacrifices in their hands on the altar in order, and then quietly retreated from the altar...
This is the first time Heshen has held a ceremony to offer sacrifices to heaven. In the past few worlds, due to his extraordinary power, there was no ceremony to offer sacrifices to heaven...
Therefore, this is also the first time he has seen a complete altar for worshiping heaven...
It is three feet tall and nine feet tall, completely made of white marble, and stands majestically in Mengshan...
The Taiyuan officials who had been following He Shen automatically divided into two groups and lined up in neat rows on both sides of the altar!
The weather on this day seemed to be particularly good. Even from thousands of meters away, people on the mountain could see clearly.
Above Meng Mountain, the heaven-sacrifice bell rang again, telling everyone that the heaven-sacrifice ceremony had begun!
Everyone up and down Mengshan Mountain silently looked at the little black dot like an ant standing on the altar!
There were only a few hundred steps, and after just one stick of incense, He Shen had already reached the top of the altar!
Everything needed to offer sacrifices to heaven was arranged by Liu An, the prefect of Taiyuan. Before Heshen came to Mengshan, Liu An, the prefect of Taiyuan, had told Heshen all the etiquette and sacrificial words that needed attention!
Therefore, Heshen knows it very well.
He Shen had memorized these sacrificial words by rote the day before and memorized them all!
The sacrificial poem is not long, it is an obscure and difficult to understand...
Scholars and old scholars can barely understand it, but the common people can't understand it!
The reason why the sacrificial texts are made obscure and difficult to understand is entirely to show the solemnity of the sacrificial texts.
If you use words that everyone can understand to worship heaven, the people will look down on it and even question the sanctity of this sacrifice.
By the time Heshen reached the top, it was exactly noon...
"The auspicious time has arrived, there are spirits in heaven and earth, and the ceremony of worshiping the heaven has officially begun!"
The officials standing on both sides of the altar looked at each other and shouted in unison at the top of their lungs!
This shocking shouting echoed constantly on the top of Mengshan Mountain...
Following the loud shouts, starting from the altar on the top of Mengshan Mountain, the officials of Taiyuan were the first to kneel on the ground, followed closely by the clan elders and businessmen, all of whom knelt down. "
Immediately afterwards, further down, nearly a million people on the mountainside and at the foot of Mengshan Mountain all knelt on the ground with their heads towards the altar at the top of Mengshan Mountain.
"…………"
In less than a moment, nearly a million people surrounding Mengshan fell to their knees in dense masses...
Standing on the high altar, He Shen looked at the countless dense black shadows kneeling on the ground devoutly, and couldn't help but sigh...
At this moment, around Mengshan, the only one who can stand between heaven and earth seems to be himself...
Ninety-nine percent of the people are accompanying him devoutly, praying to heaven together, praying that God will bless this place, that the weather will be smooth, and that the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe!
Although, among the millions of people kneeling up and down Mengshan Mountain, there are probably a small number of people who are gloating in their hearts and want to see the joke about He Shen's failure to pray for rain...
However, most people still hope that He Shen's prayer for rain will succeed...
These simple and kind-hearted people, what they want is just a way to survive...
In their hearts, there are not as many tricks as those with ulterior motives!
Thinking of this, the expression on He Shen's face became more solemn, solemn and pious!
If he asked for rain before just for his own plan, then now he has understood...
This prayer for rain is not for myself or others, but for the countless people living in Taiyuan!
He is worthy of his own heart, and he will also not be worthy of these people!
Praying for rain is too futile for other people, but for He Shen, who is the split soul of the Demon Ancestor, it is not impossible.
"Thousands of miles away, there has been no rain for many years, and tens of thousands of people have been affected by it. However, drought is also a serious matter, so it is covered with a clear spirit. I dare to recommend the spirit of the Dragon King. When it encounters clouds and thunder, it tames turtles, fish, and dragons." The way is to maintain the years, months and days, but the dragon wants to protect its body so that it can live safely..."
"The fields are full of weeds and weeds, the thunder is faint and loud, the rain is falling but not falling, the mountains are famous and the swamps are deep, the ancestral dragon lurks alone in the pond, the palace is protected, praying to the sky, rain and dew will fall, and the people are covered with it; the emperor and the empress are in the soil, and the world is at peace. , always remember the great virtue."
He Shen's firm and absolute voice floated all the way down the altar!
"…………"
There was a sudden silence between heaven and earth!
After He Shen finished shouting, he did not announce the end of the sacrifice to heaven. Instead, he took a deep breath, clasped his hands together, and used a trace of the magic power he had accumulated over the years.
It is difficult to accumulate this kind of mana!
It is difficult to accumulate mana in a world where the extraordinary is invisible!
The world is dead silent at this moment!
"…………"
The clock is ticking!
The sun is rising higher and higher!
The sunlight shining down from the sun is getting brighter and brighter!
"..."
Among the countless people around Mengshan, as time went by and under the increasingly bright sunshine, some finally couldn't bear it anymore!
I don't know where, something strange started to happen first, and then this strange movement turned into a riot and spread quickly.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the originally silent surroundings of Mengshan finally started to hear noises and questions!
Just when the people around Mengshan began to gradually riot under the instigation of thoughtful people because their prayers for rain failed to come to fruition...
I don’t know when, all around the sky, thick dark clouds rolled in from the horizon.
These large swaths of dark clouds cover the mountains, the fields, and even the blazing sunshine!
"..."
Among the nearly one million people surrounding Mengshan, those with sharp eyes immediately spotted the rolling, dark clouds on the horizon...
The crowd that had just made a commotion suddenly became quiet after seeing this scene, and finally fell into a dead silence again!
The bright earth suddenly became dark!
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
When the entire Mengshan sky was covered by layers of dark clouds, dull thunder sounded one after another from the thick dark clouds...
Immediately afterwards, the sound of continuous thunder began to resound throughout the entire Taiyuan land!
One after another, bright lightning flashed in the dark clouds, and the entire sky began to change color...
Nearly a million people up and down Mengshan Mountain saw a scene they would never forget!
The thick black clouds formed one continuous piece and slowly pressed down. The distance between the sky and the earth seemed to have never been so close...
Raging winds and tornadoes are rolling over the mountains, clouds are suppressing thunder and lightning, the wind is driving the rain and rain is pouring on the earth, and the water is moistening the land to save all living things...
"Pop!" "Pap!" "Pap!"
One big raindrop after another. It hit hard on the land that had been dry for many years!
It started to rain heavily, and the big raindrops fell continuously like broken pearls...
