"There's one minute left." Fang Yu glanced at the time on his phone, then looked at the stone platform in front of him.
He felt that the ground in front of the stone platform was emitting a faint power of the formation.
There seems to be a small magic circle arranged at that location!
As the time gets closer to ten o'clock, the surroundings become quieter and quieter.
At the back, almost everyone seemed to be holding their breath, and could only hear a slight sound of wind.
Soon, the time came to ten o'clock.
"bass!"
Above the platform, that is, above the heads of the representatives of the aristocratic families, there was a burst of colorful light.
Everyone raised their heads and looked at the light in the sky, their eyes extremely excited.
Fang Yu looked at this colorful light and frowned slightly.
The light continued to emit, and in the middle, a graceful figure slowly condensed.
Soon, the figure took shape, and colorful lights surrounded her.
As the brightness of the colorful light gradually weakens, the true form within it slowly reveals itself.
Goddess Qin Yao!
Today's Goddess Qin Yao is wearing a long white gauze dress. Compared with yesterday, her style and temperament are completely different.
But her face was still covered with a veil, only a pair of eyes were exposed.
Her long hair is draped around her waist, fluttering in the wind.
"I've seen the goddess Qin Yao!" Representatives of the aristocratic families below, including the Yuan family couple and the Fu family couple, all lowered their heads, clasped their hands and said hello in unison.
Their posture is very low.
Goddess Qin Yao floats in mid-air, really like a fairy who has not fallen from the mortal world, her eyes are misty, and she scans the people below without any emotion.
Then, she noticed Fang Yu and Bai Ran, the only ones in the crowd who did not lower their heads.
These two people were staring directly at her.
Goddess Qin Yao frowned slightly, but she didn't pay too much attention.
"Thank you all the donors for coming to today's sacrificial ceremony." Goddess Qin Yao made a pleasant voice.
The representatives of the aristocratic families below raised their heads.
"Next, the sacrificial ceremony officially begins." Goddess Qin Yao said.
As soon as she finished speaking, she raised her right hand and flicked it forward.
Under her sleeves, little bits of light scattered, falling downwards.
Star-like light fell on the stone platform below, seeming to trigger some kind of mechanism, suddenly bursting out with dazzling light!
Many people turned away to prevent their eyes from being hurt by the strong light.
But at this time, Fang Yu was staring at the stone platform in front of him.
He clearly saw a shadow slowly expanding in the light!
After a few seconds, the light dissipated and the shadow turned into reality!
A humanoid statue!
"This is... the humanoid statue on the top floor of Shashen Temple that I saw yesterday with my eyes of insight..." Fang Yu thought with his eyes flashing.
But the statue in front of me is different from the one I saw yesterday.
The head of the statue we saw yesterday was covered with black cloth.
But the head of the statue in front of me is not covered by anything.
This is an ordinary male face.
He raised his hands and combined his palms to form some kind of complex gesture.
Fang Yu noticed this yesterday, but did not study it carefully.
Recently, when he saw this statue again, Fang Yu became very interested in this gesture.
"This gesture...seems to be a seal of fate? But what's the point of being sculpted like this?" Fang Yu frowned.
The statue appeared, causing a sigh of relief from the crowd in the distance.
Such a large statue appeared out of thin air.
Such a scene is shocking enough for most people.
"Please all benefactors, please offer your tribute."
In mid-air, Goddess Qin Yao spoke again.
Tribute?
Fang Yu saw the group of aristocratic family representatives in front of him. They all took out the tributes they had prepared from their storage bags and walked towards the statue in front of them.
When they reached a position about ten meters away from the statue, the group of people stopped in a tacit understanding and formed a queue.
The first people to walk out of the queue were the Yuan family couple, Yuan Chenglong and Fu Zhaorong.
The two held hands, Yuan Chenglong held a gift box in his left hand, walked to the statue, and placed the gift box on the ground in front of the stone platform below the statue.
Then, the two of them knelt down and kowtowed to the statue in front of them.
After kowtowing three times, the two of them raised their heads with their eyes closed tightly, looking pious, as if they were making a wish.
After about three seconds, the two stood up.
"bass!"
At this time, the statue in front of them and the hands making strange gestures glowed with white light.
"Crack!"
Then, a not-so-thick book fell from between his hands.
Yuan Chenglong immediately stretched out his hands to catch the book, his face extremely excited.
"Thank you, God of Sand, for the gift..." Yuan Chenglong and Fu Zhaorong bowed together, saying respectfully and gratefully.
At this time, the civilians watching the excitement in the distance all opened their eyes wide and exclaimed.
"The rumors are indeed true! The Sand God has appeared!"
"As long as you pay tribute to the statue of the Sand God and make a wish for the item you want, the Sand God will give it to you!"
"Oh my God...it's actually true...I want to go up too..."
Among the crowd, there were sighs and sighs of envy.
At this time, Yuan Chenglong and Fu Zhaorong had already walked back into the crowd.
The people who walked out immediately were the Fu family couple, Fu Yousheng and Yuan Jiangmei.
The two repeated what Yuan Chenglong and his wife had done before.
After offering tributes and making wishes, the statue's hands glowed again.
"Crack!"
This time, what fell was not a book, but a dagger with a cold glow!
Fu Yousheng picked up the dagger and held it in his hand. After a brief inspection, he hurriedly bent down to say thanks.
"This is so amazing...could it be true that if you make a wish, you will get what you want?" Bai Ran said in a low voice with shocked eyes.
Fang Yu looked at the statue in front of him, then turned to look in the direction of Yuan Chenglong and his wife who had just returned.
Through his amazing eyesight, he could see the four words "The Way of the Way is pure" written on the cover of the book in Yuan Chenglong's hand.
"This is a magic secret book." Fang Yu's eyes flashed and he looked at Fu Yousheng again, "That is a dagger...it is indeed a different item."
"It can also be seen from their expressions that they got what they wanted. It's just..."
"interesting."
Fang Yu raised his eyes and looked at the statue in front of him, then raised his head and looked at the goddess Qin Yao with her long skirt fluttering in the air.
At this time, the third person stepped forward.
This man comes from the Cheng family in the Western Capital, which is also a top family.
Like the previous process, after placing the tributes, the head of the Cheng family made a sincere wish.
But this time, the statue's hands glowed with light, but nothing dropped.
After waiting for a while, the head of the Cheng family turned pale, shook his head and sighed helplessly, bowed and said: "I'm extremely sorry, I couldn't offer the tribute that the gods love this time... This is my mistake... Please believe me, Lord Sha,
I will definitely prepare better tributes next time..."
Seeing this scene, the crowd in the distance burst into exclamations.
It turns out that offering tribute does not necessarily mean you will receive a gift!
If you want to receive the blessing from the Sand God, you also need to offer the tribute that it likes!
The head of the Cheng family returned to the crowd, and someone comforted him.
"Master Cheng, there is no need to be too depressed. If you didn't get the gift this time, you will definitely get it next time."
"Well, next time I will definitely prepare better tributes and bring out all the family heirlooms!" the head of the Cheng family said with determination on his face.
But except for a few people who comforted him, most of the representatives of other aristocratic families had a look of gloating in their eyes.
The divine object given by the Sand God has a high probability of changing the strength of a family.
The Cheng family did not receive the gift this time, which gave the following families a chance to catch up!
At this time, Fang Yu looked at the statue, his eyes becoming playful.
He wasn't sure before.
But after seeing the fate of the head of the Cheng family, he was basically certain that the so-called sacrificial ceremony was actually a large-scale money-making activity, or even a scam!
Fang Yu has basically figured out the secret.
Next, representatives of the aristocratic families came forward one after another and presented carefully prepared tributes.
Through their pious vows, some people can receive gifts while others cannot.
The faces of those who have received the gift are filled with excited smiles, while those who have not received the gift have sad faces and sighs.
These two emotions were quite vivid, and they appeared on everyone's face constantly in the next period of time.
