Nightmare Light

Chapter 162 Ancient Squares and Ancient Music

After that piercing gaze, Lin Wang never encountered that kind of mental warning again.

Of course, he no longer took the initiative to use his super-dimensional perspective to spy on others.

The vehicle drove into the Temple Square.

What appeared before him was a huge building complex with an astonishing area, as big as several football fields.

On the outside, it consists of a tall trapezoidal temple and two rows of small temples on the left and right sides.

In the middle of the main temple and the small temples on both sides is a huge square that can accommodate tens of thousands of people. Compared with this temple square, the square in Lushan is like comparing the area of ​​a balcony at home with that of a living room.

But what made Lin Wang feel strange was that the age of these buildings was not right - they looked too old.

The mottled and damaged outer walls of the temple not only have signs of weathering and cracking on the huge stones, but weeds have taken root in the cracks of many of the stones, and then grown out, spreading like vines on the outer walls.

Even near the ground, moss and soil have been mixed together, and it is obvious that they have been there for a long time.

It is obvious that the owner of this huge building has done his best to repair it.

But with limited manpower, they can only carry out the necessary weeding and cleaning of such a huge building - as for more, they can only leave it to time.

Lin Wang even felt that this place was much older than the temple in Tangsheng City...

Maybe it's even older than the villa in Lushan.

"Isn't this temple square newly built?" Lin Wang asked the young priest.

"This? This is certainly not new." The young priest drove the car towards the interior of the temple.

According to regulations, lay monks can only park their cars far away, but priests still have some small privileges - such as driving their cars to the foot of the temple.

"This temple was the largest temple in Tangsheng City before the rainy night at Lushan, during the Three Emperors period."

"At that time, there was also a temple in Tangsheng City, but it was many times smaller than the large temple we have today. The main work of the temple was carried out here."

"Afterwards, when the Three Emperors era ended, the center of the temple was moved to Tangsheng City, and the temple gradually became unused."

"Until a few years ago, Archbishop Ma suggested that it would be a shame to leave such a large building idle... and it wouldn't be appropriate to have the city's God-revealing Festival cover six streets every time the gods descend, so they reactivated it."

As the young priest parked his car, he muttered, "Tell me, if I sell shoes to the laymen who come by during the God's Enlightenment Festival...would I make a killing?"

"I don't know whether you can make a fortune, but if you do this, it will definitely make your mother lose face. Even if you don't lose your job, you will probably be beaten up by high-level priests." Lin Wang complained.

The priest thought about it carefully and suddenly shrank his neck.

After getting off the car, Lin Wang looked at the entire building and square.

At this moment, a lot of people have poured into the square in front of him - judging from the number, there are almost four to five thousand people.

Lin Wang felt that this had almost filled up one-third of the square.

"Well, four to five thousand people... almost one-tenth of them are here." The young priest looked at the scene in front of him and estimated the number of people.

"With so many people, only one-tenth?" Lin Wang was shocked again. "Won't everyone be standing right next to each other then?"

The priest laughed and said, "You underestimate the appeal of the God-Enlightenment Festival to laymen."

"When the initiation ceremony truly began, the distances between people in the square were as dense as the fish in a fishing net."

"Every year after the Enlightenment Festival, a lot of jokes pop up in the layman circle - including stories of people being squeezed thin, losing their shoes because they were stepped on, and even getting 'squeezed pregnant'... The last one is just a joke, of course, but every year after the Enlightenment Festival, the temple throws away thousands of shoes. This is a very real thing."

"Some laymen would simply come barefoot to the God-Enlightenment Festival, but after their soles were stepped on hundreds of times, they would change to wearing two pairs of shoes..."

The young priest touched his chin and said, "Now that you mention it...it seems that this shoe business can really be done..." Lin Wang rolled his eyes and was too lazy to respond.

At this time, he saw a group of priests wearing dark red robes and holding various musical instruments walking out of the temple one after another.

On the steps in front of the temple, they set up their formation and arranged their musical instruments.

"Ah, that's the Divine Band!" the young priest exclaimed cheerfully, "When the Divine Band begins playing, the Festival of God's Enlightenment truly begins!"

"The divine band will use their voices to please Mother and ask Him to bless the world with His power."

After the divine band arranged their instruments and adjusted their seating positions.

A man about fifty years old, with a dark red robe embroidered with a triangular temple seal, walked to the front of the temple steps.

He nodded to the people in the audience and half bowed to them.

Below the stage, in the entire square, lay teachers began to gather forward, and among the lay teachers, priests were constantly maintaining order.

Lin Wang noticed that most of these priests were tall and imposing. Although they wore divine robes, their demeanor and temperament made them look more like soldiers.

Moreover, they are very iron-blooded soldiers who have been to the battlefield - the Crusaders that Sen led before belong to this type.

The temple was probably worried that such a large gathering of lay masters might lead to conflicts... so they sent out their elite troops...

Lin Wang thought to himself.

At this time, the divine band began to play.

The music started.

This kind of music was very different from the solemn music usually played in the temple. It sounded more ancient and desolate...

When Lin Wang heard this music, he started to complain in his heart.

Hmm... like the music of primitive tribes during the primitive worship of gods?

By the way, your temple has been developing for so many years, but why has this Kagura remained unchanged? It still has this ancient and desolate feeling...

If this happened on Earth, they would even create something as monstrous as a pipe organ...

It can't be that your kind of music can really communicate with the gods, right?
Then, he suddenly felt a strange feeling in his spiritual space, as if a string had jumped heavily.

At the same time, he clearly felt that the spiritual power of the burial master also jumped!
No way! This music really works?
Lin Wang was surprised to see that all the lay teachers in the square had closed their eyes, placed their hands in front of their chests, and had extremely pious expressions on their faces.

Some lay teachers even showed excitement and tears in their eyes.

Oh boy...is this starting?

Lin Wang was thinking—he originally wanted to come to Bishop Du to ask something.

But if the ritual of the Festival of Enlightenment is indeed helpful to him... it won't do any harm for him to gain some insights here.

Lin Wang took a deep breath, gradually calmed himself down, and began to concentrate on feeling the mysterious power in the music that could make the secular master stronger.

At this moment, Lin Wang's heart beat suddenly.

He found that in his spiritual world, Bai Huo suddenly became much more irritable and restless.

An extremely powerful and violent force that was even difficult for him to suppress was jumping in his spiritual space.

Plop...plop!
(End of this chapter)