Before ascending to God, be a good lord

On the main road in the temple area of ​​Yeqi City, an unnamed sect still insists on holding their sacrificial ceremonies in the open air. These days, the priests in the sect have distributed a large number of leaflets, attracting guests from the Imperial Capital, Dragon Tooth City and other places. .

A large group of spectators surrounded the naked priests, cheering and making noise loudly, and a layer of wine-stained gold coins was soon spread on the ground.

Uffi led a dozen knights to stand at the street entrance, watching the farce expressionlessly, feeling very speechless.

After Priest Hughes finished speaking, Ufei patted his mount and used wind magic to amplify his voice: "Priest Hughes, your ceremony is too immoral. In the name of the Knights of Yeqi City, I ask you to return." Come to your temple!"

As soon as Uffi finished speaking, the audience booed.

"Knight Uffi, we have applied to the Consul Office for our festival and received permission. Why do you let us go back?" Hughes shouted unconvinced, "In the past few days, sects have held open-air ceremonies every day. ritual, why can they do it but we can’t?”

Uffi was disgusted by the sight of Hughes' fat figure, and she said impatiently: "Because at least they are wearing some clothes." Uffi said expressionlessly.

"That's because everyone's rituals are different! Our sect has always been like this, and our feelings for His Majesty must be publicized in public!" Hughes said over and over again, while letting the witches and prostitutes behind him show off their postures, attracting the crowd watching the excitement. A whole jubilation.

As Hughes himself said, his sect worships ancient gods related to the inheritance of life, such as the God of Moon, the God of Love, and the God of Life. Therefore, since they moved back to Yeqi City, they have almost turned their temple into They went to brothels and prostitutes, engaged in promiscuous activities day and night, and even ran to the streets to hold "ceremonies" from time to time, which caused great headaches for the priests of the Benma family and the representatives of the temple alliance.

Since the religious edict 300 years ago, the human empire has strictly prohibited any similar rituals and dismissed a large number of witches and prostitutes, but the scope of this edict did not include the Galloping Horse Plains that had perished at that time.

The other sect took a fancy to the special location of Yeqi City. Through such actions, it attracted a large number of nobles and businessmen from all over the empire to come and spend money. It only took a month or two to make a lot of money, and even in order to be able to continue the operation legitimately , and also paid considerable taxes to the Yeqicheng Finance Department.

After several months of observation, Lant probably understood that this so-called sect was actually an adult entertainment venue in the name of religion.

If it weren't for the fact that they had greatly boosted consumption and taxation in the surrounding areas, Lant would have really planned to find the law enforcement team of the Temple Alliance and eliminate them directly.

But no matter how much revenue was generated, Lant was not prepared to let these guys roam around, so he sent additional knights to limit the scope of these activities.

The celebrations on the street could not continue. The temperature in the air suddenly dropped sharply. Priest Hughes sneezed when he wanted to argue.

"Priests, you'd better go back to the temple, it's warmer there!" Uffi waved his hand, and a dozen black-scaled horses advanced at the same time, making the white crowd move back.

"Humph, Knight Uffi, I'm really sorry that you can't understand the mystery of this ceremony. You must know that this was a grand event hosted by the gods in the past. It's just that in the past few hundred years, this kind of ceremony has been unduly discriminated against!" The priest! Yelled loudly.

"I understand. I am a barbarian. We have alliances every year to breed animals. It's just that such alliances are held in spring. It's already autumn. You should go back to your house!"

Wu Fei's heart was at peace. The Gray Goose tribe once had a spring alliance not only for horses, but also for the barbarians to find partners and homes for the children of the tribe.This kind of conference is of great significance to the barbarians on the grassland, so this spring, Lant also held a festival with similar functions in the north of Yeqi City.

Hearing what Ufei said, Hughes was not angry and just said: "Humans and animals are different. Humans have broken away from the boundaries of seasons and can approach gods at any time!"

As the temperature gradually dropped and after sneezing repeatedly, Priest Hughes finally returned to the temple with his people, and a large number of people watching the excitement on the street also took out their gold coins and prepared to perform "sacred rituals" with Hughes' men. go.

Seeing that the farce in front of her finally came to an end, Willis approached Uffi and stopped her: "Sister Uffi, aren't you supposed to be in Iowa? Why are you here?"

"Neal has brought us back. The front line has been handed over to the Chasseur Regiment of the Dutch Knights, and the city needs more knights to maintain order." When he saw it was Willis, Uffi's face relaxed a lot. "Do you want to go back to being a student? Then come with us!"

Wei Lisi was very happy to hear this, but asked a little worriedly: "Won't it delay your mission?"

"No, the roads around here will be closed directly after dark, so we don't have to worry about it then!"

Ufei dragged Willis onto his black-scaled horse and took her back to Galloping Horse Academy.

Uffi pointed in the direction of the temple where Hughes was, "Similar troubles happen every day, such as gambling and causing trouble, eating poisonous mushrooms to cause hallucinations, and gathering people to cause chaos. I really don't understand how these priests can be better than animals." toss."

"This..." Willis also didn't quite understand. At this time, a knight apprentice beside Uffiy suddenly spoke.

"Everyone, this is the true appearance of each sect. The reason why the Temple Alliance as you know it has today's unity and restraint is the result of the joint control of the three divine orders, the Demon Emperor, the God Emperor and the Pope!"

"Oh?" Ufei looked at the knight beside him and discovered that this young apprentice came from the Creland family in the imperial capital.

"The older the religion, the more it uses desire as its authority. Almost every ancient god is involved in various desires, and their rituals will naturally contain many expressions of desire."

The young man smiled and said, "Moreover, witches and prostitutes have always been a huge financial source for the sect. It is said that when the Temple Alliance was first established, the largest financial source came from the support of more than 40 witches and prostitutes in the empire. Back then, they took the initiative to I paid more than 500 million gold coins!"

"Take the initiative?" Wu Fei and other students listened to the young man's words with disbelief.

"Anyway, that's what the official said. For hundreds of years, some religious scholars have studied the truth of that year and explored the whereabouts of those witches and prostitutes after the religious reform. It is said that the results have been compiled into an anthology. In the Holy City of the Temple Alliance, only cardinals are required The bishop’s hand-signed approval can be used for reference.”

"Uh..." Willis didn't know how to complain.