Cat God's Tales

The heaven worship ceremony of the Dragon God Empire has a history of 300 years. At the beginning of spring every year, the emperor of the Dragon God empire will go to the altar located in the northeast of the imperial capital to worship heaven and earth and pray for good weather, national peace and people's safety. Of course, this is only a form. It is a royal move to improve the reputation among the people.

Although long Ao was tyrannical when he was emperor, this rule was never abolished. Therefore, this rule can not be broken after Long Xi ascended the throne.

It was about 30 kilometers from the imperial capital to the altar. The team started at dawn in the morning. However, because the team was too large, it was almost noon when the team arrived at the altar.

The officials of the Chief Secretary for rites had arranged the altar a few days ago, and the sacrifices were ready. When the team came to the foot of the mountain where the altar was located, the shadow emperor ordered all the staff to rest for half an hour, and the heaven worship ceremony would be held at noon.

Since leaving the Imperial City, Bai Xiaohei has always been vigilant about everything around him, but to his surprise, nothing happened after walking so far, and he didn't see any suspicious people. Isn't the demon soul cult going to assassinate Long Xi at this heaven worship ceremony? How could there be no movement? Did Ling Xiang deceive herself?

With doubts, Bai Xiaohei rode around the temporary camp for several times to confirm the situation, but he finally got nothing. Finally, Bai Xiaohei also gave up the search. Anyway, this time he did what he wanted. No matter what means the demon soul sect used, he followed.

Time passed quickly. In the twinkling of an eye, it was only half an hour from noon. The shadow emperor bathed and changed clothes in advance and put on ceremonial gowns, while empress dowager Han Yurong and Bai Jingjing also put on special gowns.

After the memorial ceremony began, the shadow emperor walked in front, followed by Han Yurong and Bai Jingjing, and behind him were all officials of civil and military affairs. They walked along the long steps towards the altar on the top of the mountain, and the rites and music sounded at the right time. The altar on the top of the mountain lit a huge campfire, which should be a special kind of incense wood, So the smell after burning is very good.

Surrounded by the shadow emperor, he slowly walked to the center of the altar, and then stood slowly. The officials of the Chief Secretary of rites brought a huge incense table, on which there was a incense burner that looked very simple and atmospheric.

The shadow emperor took the three incense sticks handed over by the chief of ceremonies and then bowed three times to the sky. After inserting the incense into the censer, the shadow emperor picked up the wine cup on the incense table.

Holding up his glass, the shadow emperor shouted, "heaven is above and earth is below. I, the emperor of the Dragon God Empire, Long Xi, pray for good weather this year and the people to live and work in peace and contentment. May heaven and earth bless the prosperity of my dragon god empire!"

After saying this prayer, Long Xi suddenly sprinkled the wine in the glass into the sky. The crystal clear wine scattered like rain and then fell to the ground.

After finishing this, an official of the Chief Secretary for rites came up with a scroll, which was exactly the achievements of Long Xi last year. After opening the scroll, the official of the Chief Secretary for rites began to read it aloud, and the process lasted a full 20 minutes.

After reading Long Xi's achievements, the officials of the Chief Secretary for rites put the scroll away and handed it to Long Xi. Long Xi turned and walked to the huge campfire and threw the scroll in directly.

In the memorial ceremony, this step is called burning the watch, which means that the emperor shows his political achievements to God and let God know that he is a good emperor worthy of blessing.

After burning the scroll, there are formal Memorial steps. The empress dowager, Empress and civil and military officials who follow Long Xi will burn some sacrifices to God.

First, Han Yurong went to the huge campfire. The maid handed over a bag containing grain seeds. Han Yurong grabbed a handful of grain seeds from the bag and threw them into the fire until the grain seeds in the bag were burned up.

Han Yurong was followed by Bai Jingjing, who burned some cloth brocades. Similarly, after burning, Bai Jingjing left the campfire with the help of the maid.

After that, officials burned tributes, and almost all the things burned by officials were daily necessities related to people's livelihood.

When all the officials finished burning the offerings, the shadow emperor returned to the campfire again. Then the two officials of the chief secretary came over with a huge plate, which contained a roasted whole sheep.

This is the last sacrifice. As long as the whole roast sheep is burned, even if the festival is over, Bai Xiaohei always stands next to Han Yurong and Bai Jingjing, and his eyes look around with vigilance, but what puzzles him is that the festival should be over. Why hasn't the demon soul cult moved yet?

Just when Bai Xiaohei was full of doubts, a change took place. The shadow emperor cut a piece of meat from the roasted whole sheep with a knife, which was ready to be thrown into the fire. After he threw it away, the chief secretary's officials threw the whole roasted whole sheep in, even if it was a ceremony.

Who would have thought that when the shadow emperor's knife just cut off, there was a strange Lavender smoke in the gap cut by the knife. The smoke directly sprayed on the shadow emperor's face. The shadow emperor fell to the ground without reflecting what was going on, At this time, the two chief secretary officials holding the plate directly threw the roasted whole sheep into the campfire.

The roasted whole sheep made a crackling sound after being thrown into the campfire, and then a large amount of purple smoke filled out in the campfire and began to spread around.

All this happened so suddenly that many people were shrouded in Lavender smoke without understanding what was going on, and almost all those shrouded in Lavender smoke fell to the ground and died instantly, without even a chance to struggle.

Seeing all this, Bai Xiaohei's pupils shrank. He didn't expect that the demon soul sect would come and assassinate Long Xi with highly toxic smoke. Finally, he was ready to poison all royal relatives and civil and military officials on the altar.

Bai Xiaohei immediately shouted to remind the people on the altar to run down the mountain. Then he rushed directly at the two people in the clothes of the Chief Secretary of rites.

However, the two obviously knew that once they started, they would become the target, so after throwing out the roasted whole sheep, they had run in the direction of the back mountain.

Seeing that the two men ran away, Bai Xiaohei frowned. Then he gave up chasing and returned to Han Yurong and Bai Jingjing. Of course, Han Yurong didn't know Bai Xiaohei after his appearance changed. Seeing that Bai Xiaohei didn't go to check the situation of the emperor, he was in a hurry and shouted, "what are you doing? Go and see how his majesty is?"

Hearing Han Yurong's urging, Bai Xiaohei frowned and said to Han Yurong, "please also ask the Empress Dowager and the queen to go down the mountain immediately. I will go to save your majesty."