For a time, countless gods looked at Lu Yang with all manner of emotions—jealousy, contempt, disgust, and more. Yet Lu Yang played Fish to perfection. Not only did he show no anger, he greeted every high-level and mid-level god with a humble expression.
According to the traditions of the ritual, it would last seven days. During the first five days, the two bull gods would drag the female Otherworld God and the metal stele along the riverbank, allowing her wails to echo across the shore and comfort the gods of the New Continent who had died in battle.
Over those five days, the High Priest would stand on the ritual platform every day and recount the glorious deeds of the fallen gods for eight hours.
By evening, it was time for the trade fair. The gods who had come would bring out the items they had collected over the past year and exchange them with one another.
Lu Yang's only chance to rescue the High Priest would be during the evening trade fair. As for how to save the female Otherworld God from the metal stele, Lu Yang had his own plan. However, he first needed to make some preparations at the trade fair.
It would not be easy to pass himself off as Fish. In the official story, Fish had been able to maintain such a firm position in the Divine Fire Crystal mine not only because he constantly shouted slogans about the Supreme God's eternal immortality, but also because he had bribed High Priest Baptist and many high-level and mid-level gods with high-quality Divine Fire Crystals produced by the mine.
Fish had played the role of a minor god to the fullest. Of the Divine Fire Crystal mine's total output, less than 20% ended up in his own