Chapter 766
Chapter 766: Elder Mushen
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
The four elders of Huaiyuan Palace were all standing outside the Shrine Palace in auspicious clothes today
According to the strict procedure of the rotating chakra ceremony, Zhang Tie burned incenses in the Shrine Palace in the solemn atmosphere . After that, Elder Muen as a ritual officer shouted, "Lower your body!"; Zhang Tie then started to bow towards the heavens and the earth . Finally, he inserted the burning incense into the copper cauldron which was placed right outside the gate of the Shrine Palace . After that, he walked into the Shrine Palace .
The entire Shrine Palace was extremely brilliant .
The ground was paved with gold bricks with a pattern of auspicious clouds . All sorts of ceremonial banners and prayer flags were hanging on the pillars inside the palace . Expensive heaven-star sandalwood was burning in the copper cauldron, which did not only light the entire palace, but also covered the entire palace with a special fragrance . The entire Shrine Palace was magnificent and looked more like an imperial palace .
Zhang Tie was the first one who strode into the palace from the front gate . The moment he entered the palace had Zhang Tie put away his battle-qi totem .
The 4 elders of Huaiyuan Palace followed Zhang Tie in; then the other deacons and clan members of Huaiyuan Palace . The others entered in the end . However, except for Zhang Tie and the other four elders, all the others were forbidden to enter from the front gate; instead, they could only enter from the two side doors in an orderly and rigorous way .
Nobody else was allowed to enter the front gate of the Shrine Palace except for the clan head and elders .
Zhang Tie slowly walked on those gold bricks with full emotions . At this moment, Zhang Tie expected that his parents were watching him from aside .
After entering the palace and passing a long way, Zhang Tie came to the statue of Lord Huaiyuan and the memorial tablets of the ancestors and martyrs of Huaiyuan Palace . With the assistance of the clan deacons, he started to light incenses and offer sacrifice to all the ancestors and martyrs step by step .
When Zhang Tie was offering sacrifice, Elder Muen took out a gold brochure and started to read an elegiac address loudly on Zhang Tie's side .
"The god's descendant in Taixia Country benefits the world . Xuanyuan bloodline the unrivaled, we're majestic and vigorous; Long Bow grants us the surname . . . "
It took Zhang Tie 3 minutes to finish offering the sacrifice to all the ancestors and martyrs in a solemn and strict way .
After Zhang Tie finished it, the elegiac address also almost came to an end . . .
"We have an offspring called Zhang Tie . He could swim as fast as a fish in the water and fly as fast as a dragon in the sky . He could rotate his chakra and protect the country and its countrymen . As ancestor Huaiyuan Lord is at present, the righteousness will exist forever . Wish it prosperous forever!"
Soon after the word "forever", Zhang Tie rightly finished the last bow and inserted the final 3 incenses into the censer which represented the memorial plates of Zhang's bloodline in Golden Sea City . Some new memorial plates had been put there, which were the memorial plates of Zhang Haitian's father, grandfather and grand-grandfather .
When one person rotated the chakra, he would bring honor to his three elder generations . His ancestors' memorial plates would also enter the Shrine Palace and enjoy the burning incenses .
Watching this scene, Zhang Haitian was so excited that his eyes were even filled with tears .
Zhang Tie stood up and turned to the big cauldron in the middle of the palace . Deacons then carried gold basins of milk, grease, grains and sesame from both sides and walked towards the cauldron in the middle of the palace .
Zhang Tie grabbed the grains and sesame from the gold basins and scattered them into the fiery flames in the big cauldron one handful after another .
Each time he scattered them into the cauldron, the fiery flames would grow higher while the top flames turned golden and surged out of the cauldron as fantastic as a dragon . Sparkles constantly flew out of the cauldron, causing flowing light and cracking sound .
It was a ritual for blessing .
Seeing the flames growing fiercely in the shape of a dragon and sparkles surging out of the cauldron, the elders and deacons of Huaiyuan Palace became so excited as it was a rare auspicious sign . At least it didn't appear when the earlier elders of Huaiyuan Palace held the rotating chakra ceremonies .
All the elders of major clans from Jinyun Country were shocked by such a rare, auspicious phenomenon .
Zhang Tie didn't know what was an auspicious phenomenon . He just completed the rotating chakra ceremony step by step .
After scattering all the grains and sesame into the cauldron, Zhang Tie started to wash his hands in a silver basin of water .
"The blessing ritual is over . Carry out the gold chakra!" Elder Muen said as a huge sacrificial vessel was carried to the middle of the palace by 30 tough men .
Being over 6 m in height and over 2 m in width, the sacrificial vessel looked like a huge round metal barrel with all sorts of flowers, birds, insects and fishes and characters on it . On two sides of the barrel, there were two huge Hua characters " 穆 1 " . Its weight could be imagined from the number of carriers .
Zhang Tie knew that an important step in the entire rotating chakra ceremony was to select a character by rotating the chakra .
This word "chakra" in the rotating chakra ceremony referred to both knight's chakra and this rotating gold barrel which was used for selecting a Hua character for the very knight .
As a Hua tradition, it was a great honor for knights to rotate a gold barrel so as to fix their characters .
For instance, the name Zhang Tie was very average . There were billions of people surnamed Zhang in this world . There were at least 1000 living people who were called Zhang Tie . If you said Zhang Tie was a knight, nobody would know which one did you refer to .
Therefore, knights had to rotate the gold barrel to select a character for themselves . As long as they selected the very character, nobody else was allowed to use this name in 1000 years unless humans were exterminated .
When wild gooses flew over, they left their quacks; when knights died, they had to leave their names, which was the paramount glory of knights .
Of course, Elder Muen 2 , Elder Muray 3 and Elder Muyu 4 were not their raw names . The character "穆" was "grabbed" by Lord Huaiyuan for knights of Huaiyuan Palace . Besides the knights of Huaiyuan Palace, no Hua people surnamed Zhang in this world could use the character "穆" as the second character in their names . Each elder would also "grab" the last character for their name in the rotating chakra ceremony . When the last character combined with the character "穆", it would form the unique name of knights of Huaiyuan Palace . As Elder Muray, Elder Muray and Elder Muyu had promoted to knights for so long, everybody just called their formal names . As a result, their raw names were rarely mentioned .
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