Chapter 1 Fengyuan
A statue of a god, hundreds of feet high, majestic standing, admired by thousands of people.
Thousands of houses, gold and wood building, glazed lacquer, the sun glows with golden light.
Tens of thousands of people, who have been fishing for generations, wrapped in brocade clothes, enjoy the wealth of the world.
- This is Fengyuan.
Fengyuan City is built near the sea, after more than 300 years, enduring, more and more prosperous. The roads in the city are paved with bluestone and jade, and there are thousands of mansions, all of which are built with gold and wood, glazed and lacquered, and the golden light is hidden day and night. From a distance, the whole city is built with gold bricks and jasper, and in the eyes of the world, this place is the most luxurious.
However, no one could have imagined that three hundred years ago, this Fengyuan City, which was envied by the world, was nothing more than a down-and-out fishing village with only a few dozen families.
At that time, the sea area was dangerous, there were often monsters in the sea, and there were occasional tsunamis caused by strong winds and waves. It's just that the villagers are simple, living in such a harsh environment, guarding the inheritance left by their ancestors, although they are poor, they can barely survive for several generations.
I don't know how long it took for this situation to begin to change. It is said that since one day, the fishermen who went out to sea have never found any traces of the monsters in the sea, and even strong winds cannot blow on the surface of the sea. Fortunately, every time the fishermen go to sea, they are full of loads, and the fish they catch are unseen and unheard of, and they are cooked and eaten, which can be called the most delicious in the world.
Since then, this destitute fishing village, which had been impoverished for generations, has gradually gained fame in the Empire. Merchants from all over the world have come to buy ships and go to sea, hoping to find a way to make a fortune in the sea. But the strange thing is that only the local fishermen came back in the end, and those merchants who came here seemed to have disappeared into the sea, and none of them returned.
According to legend, because of the strangeness of this incident at that time, many immortals who knew a lot of magic were invited to find out, but when these so-called "immortals" were about to get up, a big wave suddenly rose in the sea, and a giant with a height of 100 feet, two horns on the top of his head, and a three-eyed face appeared. The giant held a huge three-pronged halberd in his hand, pointed at the crowd and spoke, "Outsiders have been sacrificed to me, and I hope you will do it yourself, and you will not come to commit it." ”
With that, the giant fled into the sea and disappeared. And the outsiders from Fengyuan City were shocked when they heard the news and left one after another. Since then, it has been rumored that Fengyuan City is blessed by the gods, and if people who are not from Fengyuan City set foot in the South China Sea, they will definitely die or live.
And the fishermen of Fengyuan City are grateful for this, so they hire the world's skilled craftsmen with a lot of money, and build a statue of a hundred zhang gods on the coast according to the appearance of the giant, build an altar, and set up an ancestral precept to warn future generations that all people in Fengyuan must be sacrificed every year and worshiped from generation to generation.
Now, more than 100 years have passed, and the fishing village of the past has now become a prosperous capital for producing seafood and sea salt, and it has paved the salt roads leading to the major towns in the empire, all of which run through and point to Fengyuan.