Chapter 915 – Power of Faith
Lin Qiye fell into silence.
”What? Do you even know if you like someone?” Mei Lin’s eyebrows rose slightly.
Lin Qiye looked in the direction of the room, pondered for a long time, and took a deep breath:
”I like, just ……”
”Just what?”
”It’s just that, I’m not sure if this liking comes from my heart or …… a false illusion.” Lin Qiye stretched out his hand, pointed to his chest, and sighed helplessly.
”Earlier, she had personally put a Cupid’s Love Arrow into my heart.”
”Cupid’s arrow of love?”
Mei Lin froze, his eyes looked towards Lin Qiye’s chest, his eyes narrowed slightly, carefully sizing it up for a long time, his expression gradually subtle, “Well …… I understand.”
Mei Lin looked at Lin Qiye with a wry smile and turned around, then walked towards the carriage, “Go get that little girl up, it’s time for us to continue on our journey.”
Under the red moon, a silver carriage sped between the broken walls, its heavy ruts pressed against the earth, leaving a deep imprint as if it was an elegant arc inscribed on the blood-colored earth, mysterious and darkly rhythmic.
”Lord Merlin, why are we back again?”
Lin Qiye asked suspiciously as he looked at the scenery outside the window that seemed somewhat familiar.
Merlin, who was sitting across from him, had his eyes tightly closed as he calmly spoke, “Is that so?”
”Yeah, the buildings over here seem like I’ve just seen them before ……”
Mei Lin slowly opened his eyes, the color of exhaustion in his brows intensified as he rubbed the corners of his eyes, “The buildings in the High Heavenly Plains are all pretty much the same, you should have seen it wrong.”
Lin Qiye froze.
He was about to say something else when Mei Lin’s fingertips lightly lifted and the silver carriage slowly came to a stop.
”Get off, your gift, it’s inside.”
Mei Lin reached out and pointed out the window.
Lin Qiye turned his head to look, not far from the mountain peaks, a vermillion birdhouse was standing quietly on the mountainside, and behind it, a vague golden giant shadow loomed.
”What is that?” Lin Qiye squinted his eyes as if he wanted to see the giant shadow in its entirety.
”You’ll know when we arrive.”
Mei Lin smiled mysteriously and led Lin Qiye and the two of them out of the carriage, picking up the white jade steps in the center of the mountain peak and heading straight towards that birdhouse on the mountainside.
This mountain peak should be the highest point in the entire High Heaven Plains, Lin Qiye walked all the way to the front of the vermillion birdhouse and turned his head to look back, under the blood colored sky, the barren and tattered earth stretched indefinitely into the distance, and close to the end of his vision he could vaguely see a mountain of corpses piled up ……
Vaguely, Lin Qiye could also hear that a roar of agony was coming from the direction of the corpse mountain.
That, was the deepest part of the High Heavenly Plains?
Lin Qiye gazed in that direction for a moment before retracting his gaze and following closely behind Mei Lin as he traversed the vermillion birdhouse.
It wasn’t until then that Lin Qiye was able to see the entirety of that giant golden shadow.
It was a tall and grand golden temple, although the edges were a bit tattered, it was still the most complete building Lin Qiye had seen so far, the gilded roof exuded a divine aura under the red moon, and several wind chimes hung from the temple’s eaves, emitting a crisp sound in the breeze sink full of the smell of blood.
Mei Lin walked up to this temple, and with a casual wave of his hand, the door of the temple automatically opened, revealing an incomparably wide space inside.
As soon as he walked into the temple, Lin Qiye froze in place.
The inner space of this divine temple was much larger than what it looked like from the outside, with a tall black dome hanging at the top and a star twinkling in it, as if it was out of reach like the night sky.
In the middle of the empty hall, a silver mirror with a shattered corner was quietly suspended in mid-air, and countless shining rivers of aurora borealis flowed out from the mirror, intertwining with each other and connecting with the stars in the sky, like a dream.
These long rivers of aurora ……
Lin Qiye’s eyes contracted slightly as if he had thought of something.
In his mind, the palace that existed in the clouds in that relic once again appeared, as well as that mysterious futon.
In the “Circle of Man” ruins in Japan, Lin Qiye had followed the river of aurora borealis in the sky all the way to find Baili Fatty sitting at the end of the river, and he clearly remembered that the futon underneath Baili Fatty at that time also had the same river of aurora borealis flowing underneath it.
”What are these?” Lin Qiye reached out and pointed at the floating aurora borealis.
”It’s faith.” Mei Lin took a step and calmly traveled through the interlacing aurora longa, “It’s the faith that has been born from the ‘circle of people’ in a steady stream over these fifty years.”
Lin Qiye froze in place.
”Faith born from the Circle of Man?”
His gaze followed the direction of Merlin’s advancement and landed on top of the mirror in the center that was suspended in the air and continuously flowing out the river of aurora.
”So, that’s ……”
”The artifact that Takatenkara used to carry the ‘Circle of Man’, the Eight Inch Mirror.”
Shock surfaced on Lin Qiye’s face as he walked up to that mirror and carefully examined it.
The ‘Circle of Man’, which was a perfect replica of Japan’s land and had tens of millions of people living in it, was actually within this tiny mirror?
”The mirror of the Eight Length Mirror is divided into yin and yang, what we are seeing now is its yang pole, and its yin pole is under the waters of Japan, reflecting the whole of Japan, which is also the true source of Takatenkara’s ‘Circle of Man’.”
Merlin continued to explain, “The ‘Circle of Man’ exists to provide faith, and this temple is the building used to collect and store that faith.
More than fifty years ago, after the turmoil in the High Heavenly Plains, the gods withered and the ‘Circle of Man’ was completely abandoned, but the generation of faith was not interrupted, and the power of faith generated from the ‘Circle of Man’ over these fifty years was all hoarded here. ”
Merlin stretched out his hand and pointed to those shining stars above their heads.
”So it’s like this …… ” Lin Qiye was stunned for a long time and asked doubtfully, “Faith, what exactly is it for?”
”For gods, the power of faith has so many uses, the most crucial of which is to increase one’s own laws.”
”Increase the laws?”
”After becoming a god, there is also a difference between strength and weakness, relying on the power of faith to increase the laws is the fastest shortcut for gods to enhance their own strength, and they don’t need to spend a lot of time accumulating and settling down, as long as they have a huge amount of power of faith, they can easily increase the power of their own laws to a horrifying level.
Among the many divine lineages that currently existed in the world, the vast majority of the powerful gods that stood in the first echelon of their respective divine lineages had relied on massive amounts of faith increase to get to this point.
This is also the reason why, gods love to leave legends in the world, and the more culturally rich a god lineage is, the more powerful it is.”