Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 1990 (One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety) Seal
Ni Yuan placed a larger cushion about seven feet away from the platform where the ritual was performed, so that the cushion was facing the center of the platform.

She picked up her special thing called "Seal Plate" from a table and placed it in the middle of the ritual table.

The whole seal plate was brass-colored and about a foot high. There was a wide round base at the bottom, and a support rod about the thickness of ten chopsticks put together was connected to the center of the base. The support rod was a tray slightly smaller than the base. Both the base and the support rod were carved with various patterns, while the tray above was extremely smooth, without even a single wrinkle.

Ni Yuan placed the Kuanhong White Jade on the tray of the seal plate and adjusted its position on the tray.

She took out six brass candlesticks from a drawer of a red cabinet and placed them around the Indian Dharma plate.

She adjusted the distance between the six candlesticks and the Yinfa plate, trying to make the distance between each candlestick and the Yinfa plate the same.

After making some adjustments, she took a few steps back, stood at a distance and looked at it. She felt it was okay.

She walked to the table for the ritual again and adjusted the distance between the candlesticks.

After adjusting, she took a few steps back again, looked at it from a farther distance, and felt that there was no problem.

Ni Yuan walked towards a dark brown cabinet, opened the door on the upper right corner of the cabinet, and took out an exquisite silver box from it.

After opening the silver box, she took out six tin buckets, each of which was a different color.

She opened the green tin bucket and took out a green candle.

Then she opened the brown tin bucket and took out a brown candle. She then opened the blue, purple, orange and red tin buckets in turn and took out blue, purple, orange and red candles in turn.

All the candles have spiral patterns carved on them.

Ni Yuan quickly covered the tin buckets and put them back into the silver box. She then covered the silver box and put it back into the dark brown cabinet and closed the door.

She brought six candles to the ritual table and placed the green, brown, blue, purple, orange and red candles on the six brass candlesticks in the order they had been taken out of the tin bucket.

Ni Yuan walked towards the dark brown cabinet again, opened the door at the lower right corner, took out a tube of incense from it, carefully took out six yellow incense sticks, then put the tube of incense back into the cabinet and closed the door.

She stretched out her left hand, palm facing up, holding the six incense sticks and walked to the ritual platform. She gently pinched the middle of a stick of incense with her right thumb and ring finger and inserted it into the incense burner in front of the ritual plate on the ritual platform. Then she used the same action to pinch the other five incense sticks one by one and inserted them into the incense burner.

After inserting the incense, she adjusted the positions of the six incense sticks so that the distance between them was the same.

Ni Yuan took a few steps back again, looked at the distance between the six incense sticks, then walked to the platform and adjusted them again.

Tie Jinjue felt reassured seeing how meticulously she did the job, because he felt she was serious and reliable. At the same time, he also thought of another aspect - this time the procedure had to be extremely rigorous.

(End of this chapter)