Chapter 27 Presiding Over the Promotion Ceremony
Under Li Xie's nonsense, Lina hosted the ceremony and said a lot, and Li Xie roughly understood.
All he had to do was walk ahead, leading the Grand Duke Everell and twelve young priests to the top of the Tower of Eternity, then leave the Grand Duke behind, and Li Xie would perform the "Baptism" for the Grand Duke Everell. Then, on the side, with the Grand Duke Everell together, pray for blessings from the Goddess of Life until nightfall. Before nightfall, if the Goddess of Life descended with divine light, then the Grand Duke's promotion was successful. If there was no divine light, then a month later, at the same time, another promotion ceremony would be held, and so on until the promotion was successful.
In the meantime, Li Xie had figured out two things: first, he could have a one-on-one with Eveille Grand Duke, or "Mandarin Duck Bath" (baptism in the Pool of Life); second, as long as Eveille Grand Duke didn't advance, he could have a one-on-one with Eveille Grand Duke every month, Mandarin Duck Bath!
Li Xie was praying in his heart all the way: "Master Meng is above, my Aiwier must not be promoted!"
The shrine was spacious and Rena Director walked slowly to the bottom of the Tower of Eternity, it took half an hour, there were still 30 minutes until the ceremony began.
Under the Eternal Tower, more than 200 students of sacrifice wore gray loose robes and surrounded the tower. Among them were two people who, like Laina, wore white robes and had a silk scarf on their heads, looking older, probably teachers from the Sacrifice Academy.
Apart from the teacher and the principal wearing white clothes, there were thirteen others also dressed in spotless white, but without silk scarves.
These thirteen people were led by Grand Duke Avier, and behind him should be the young priestesses chosen to accompany him up the Tower of Eternity, each holding a pure white "Flower of Life".
It's worth mentioning their clothes!
It was a white gauze tunic with long and wide sleeves, and a long hem. From the shoulder to the ankle, it was like a dress, and what made this garment worth mentioning was that it was too transparent! If you stick it on your body, it's almost completely visible, fortunately, the clothes are very loose, but you can vaguely see the red grapes on the towering mountains on the grass.
"The Sleeping Master is on top!"
Li Xie couldn't help but exclaim in admiration as he approached!
Immediately, it also brought the suspicious eyes of all the students who were offering sacrifices. At the same time, they looked at Li Xie with curiosity. These students all knew that the Sacrifice Institute had a male deputy director, and today, this deputy director would come to preside over the promotion ceremony. Obviously, the young man who came was none other than the evil Earl, the deputy director of the Sacrifice Institute!
They were curious, just out of curiosity for the newcomer, but no one noticed why Li Xie came up with this praise, and the unnatural expression on Li Xie's face at this moment!
The Great Sleep Master is above! The Earth God is above! The Goddess of Life is above! Oh, the Drop God! No one told me there's a transparent fashion show here! Why don't they wear little underwear? It's clearly cheating me!
Li Xie's heart was secretly delighted, the thirteen people in front of him were all stunning beauties, especially the leader, Princess Aiwier, who was truly one in a million! And now they were subtly tempting Li Xie with their mysterious and enchanting aura.
And for the extremely blood-sensitive Li Xie, he had already deeply felt his own blood surging and rushing towards a certain place, only feeling that the bow was fully drawn, the arrow about to be shot!
I have made up my mind, but unfortunately, the demon is too cunning!
Li Xie justified himself in his heart like this, then saw that his clothes were tight enough not to reveal any horse legs, no, just let the horse legs stretch out!
"Viscount Li, Vice President of the Ritual Academy, at your service, Your Excellency Evie." Li Viscount bowed and paid his respects, trying to focus his attention on the sky as much as possible, avoiding looking at those three points that seemed to be staring at him intently. With over a hundred pairs of eyes fixed on him, he didn't want anyone to notice how lecherous he was being!
However, in the brief moment of bowing, his captive eyes had already swept through enough to finally rest on a mysterious area on Countess Evelyn's body that was at the same angle as his bow.
Master Mian testifies, heaven and earth are clear, it's really because of the angle of the bow, not intentional! Although only a slight bow is required in etiquette, my 90-degree bow is completely out of respect!
Duke Avril's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she only nodded in response. She was still puzzled as to why Mercedes VII wanted this person to preside over the promotion ceremony! But thinking that this person was also a priest, from the information obtained from Mercedes VII, he was even a high-ranking priest, so she let it go!
He can be a high-ranking priest, his heart must be pure. It seems that his kindness was genuine at the time, and his sudden confession later was probably an attack of sheep madness!
Avril thought so of Li Xie in her heart.
"It's about time." The voice of Grand Duke Avielle was as gentle as a canary's chirp: "Please, Earl Jeb, put on the sacred robe for the ritual."
"Change clothes? Wear sacred robes?" Why didn't anyone tell me I had to change clothes? Didn't bring any!
"Sir, it's already been prepared for you."
Lena fetched a garment from somewhere and walked up to Li Xie.
"Ready or not, here I go..." Seeing the clothes in Lenna's hands, Li Xie suddenly froze!
Damn it, Rena's clothes on her hands are spotless white, the problem is, thin as gauze! Needless to say, must be the same as what Duke Averill wore!
Sleeping Master is on top, and that's transparent equipment!
Li Xie's heart was racing wildly, he wasn't afraid of being embarrassed, but the problem was that a certain part of his body was still standing upright, could he wear this outfit to meet people?
This is too much! You can't play like this!
"Where is the dressing room?" Li Xie hastily asked, anyway, he had to find a place to solve this great problem!
"Sir, we can change here. The Goddess of Life is above us, our hearts are pure and so are our bodies."
Li Ye's eyebrows twitched: "Lena sister, my body and mind are indeed pure, the problem is that my younger brother's cultivation is not enough!"
"Hmph!" Duke Everard snorted: "The Goddess of Life is above, the promotion ceremony is sacred and pure, does Viscount Evil feel embarrassed? Is it because his heart is not devout enough? If so, then Viscount Evil should not be the host of the promotion ceremony! I believe that even without anyone's help, I can still promote to a 9th rank priest!"
In the Temple of Worship, under the Tower of Eternity, all the souls of worship are the purest. Even if everyone is stripped naked, no one will look at each other with worldly eyes. Their bodies and minds have been dedicated to the Goddess of Life, without any other distractions. In front of everyone, changing clothes, what's wrong with that? Unless, he himself has impure thoughts!
After all, Li Xie's coming to preside was ordered by Mercedes VII, and Duke Avril was extremely unwilling in his heart, only lacking an excuse to drive Li Xie away! Now it is just possible to make use of Li Xie's hesitation in changing into the sacred robe, using impurity of mind as a reason to let him leave!
Li Xie wouldn't dare to leave! If it were someone else, Li Xie wouldn't even want to come! But since the other party is Princess Eviell, she can directly tell him to scram, and Li Xie would have to think of a way to stay behind!
He looked up at the sky with a 45-degree angle, his face full of piety: "Goddess of Life above! My heart is pure, my body is also pure! But this dress, it represents power, status, nobility, money! It's not pure! I cannot let its impurity pollute the sanctity here, I cannot let its impurity pollute your sacred eyes! Please give me a place where there is no one, let me take off this impure dress."
Oh! So that's why! That makes sense!
Whether it was the teacher or the students, they all nodded in admiration and looked at Earl Ye with praise, marveling at his meticulousness and the painstaking effort he put into maintaining the sanctity of the sacrifice.
"The Goddess of Life is above!" The crowd shouted in unison.
Avril seemed to agree with Li Xie's words and said, "You go change behind the Tower of Eternity."
"The Goddess of Life is above, I will now restore my sanctity!"
Li was laughing wildly in his heart: You bunch of fools with only gods in your minds, I just fooled you with two sentences and you all believed it! Hehe, to think about it, if I didn't pretend to be a god, that would really be a waste of my talent!
Coming out from the Eternal Tower, Li Mou had already changed into a sacrificial holy robe, this one-piece transparent jumpsuit that covered him from head to toe, inside was just like Ai Wei's and the others - pure!
"Huh, Mr. Li, why are you crying?" Rena noticed the tear stains on Li Xie's face and asked with concern.
Li Xie raised his head forty-five degrees to look at the sky: "The goddess of life is above, her radiance, that is the great love of the world, the purest true goodness and beauty in the depths of the soul! I feel her love, moved to tears!"
It has to be said that after Li put on a white outfit, his face seemed to have a holy glow.
"Long live the Goddess of Life!" Everyone present cheered in unison for their Goddess of Life, as if they too felt the love of the Goddess of Life!
Of course, Li was completely lying! He wouldn't dare to tell the truth: he brutally hit his brother's eggs to calm down his angry brother!
Master is sleeping upstairs, little brother's egg hurts!
"Alright, it's about time, Earl Saber. Shall we head to the Tower of Eternity?" said Duke Elwes.
"Up! Now up!"
Li Xie led the way, with a group of fourteen people entering the Tower of Eternity. Inside the Tower of Eternity, there was nothing else except for a spiral staircase that went upwards in a perfect spiral shape, so much so that the middle part formed a straight line. When the sun was directly above the center of the Tower of Eternity, sunlight would shine straight down from the top of the tower to the bottom without touching the stairs.
As Li Xie and his party walked solemnly towards the top of the tower, many places in the Tudor Empire were paying attention to the Eternal Tower. Although outsiders were not allowed to enter the sacrificial temple, they could only gaze at the tall tower from afar and make some guesses, but no one had the right to stop them.
On the right, Elvin Hayes and Marquis Penson sat on a certain attic, leaning against the window, drinking wine. Both of their eyes were fixed on the Tower of Eternity. Marquis Penson drained his cup in one gulp and laughed: "The Right Minister's connections should investigate the background of that evil Earl, shouldn't they?"
