Lin Qiye fell silent.

"What? You don't even know whether you like someone or not?" Merlin raised his eyebrows slightly.

Lin Qiye looked in the direction of the room, thought for a long time, and took a deep breath:

"I like it, but..."

"Just what?"

"It's just that I'm not sure whether this liking comes from my true heart or... a false illusion." Lin Qiye stretched out his hand, pointed at his chest, and sighed helplessly.

"Before, she had personally thrust one of Cupid's arrows of love into my heart."

"Cupid's arrow of love?"

Merlin was stunned, and looked at Lin Qiye's chest. He narrowed his eyes and looked at him carefully for a long time. His expression gradually became subtle, "Hmm... I understand."

Merlin glanced at Lin Qiye with a half-smile, then turned and walked towards the carriage, "Go wake up that little girl, we should continue our journey."

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Under the red moon, a silver carriage sped between the broken walls. The heavy ruts pressed on the ground, leaving deep marks, like elegant arcs engraved on the bloody earth, mysterious and rhythmic.

"Sir Merlin, why are we back again?"

Lin Qiye looked at the familiar scenery outside the window and asked puzzledly.

Merlin, who was sitting opposite him, closed his eyes and said calmly, "Really?"

"Yeah, I think I've seen this building before..."

Merlin slowly opened his eyes, the fatigue in his brows became more intense. He rubbed the corners of his eyes and said, "The buildings in Takamagahara are all similar. You must have seen it wrong."

Lin Qiye was stunned.

He was about to say something else when Merlin raised his fingertips and the silver carriage slowly stopped.

"Get out of the car. Your gift is inside."

Merlin pointed out the window.

Lin Qiye turned his head and looked. On a mountain not far away, a vermilion torii gate was standing quietly on the mountainside. Behind it, a vague golden giant shadow was looming.

"What is that?" Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes, as if he wanted to see the whole picture of the giant shadow.

"You'll know when you get there."

Merlin smiled mysteriously, and took Lin Qiye and the other man out of the carriage. They climbed up the white jade steps in the center of the mountain and walked straight towards the torii gate on the mountainside.

This mountain should be the highest point in the entire Takamagahara. Lin Qiye walked all the way to the front of the vermilion torii, turned his head and looked back. Under the bloody sky, the barren and broken land stretched infinitely into the distance. Near the end of his vision, he could vaguely see a pile of corpses...

Faintly, Lin Qiye could still hear waves of painful roars coming from the direction of the pile of corpses.

That is the deepest part of Takamagahara?

Lin Qiye stared in that direction for a moment, then retracted his gaze and followed Merlin closely, passing through the vermilion torii.

It was not until then that Lin Qiye could see the entire golden shadow.

This is a tall and magnificent golden temple. Although its corners are a little broken, it is still the most complete building Lin Qiye has seen so far. The gilded roof exudes a sacred atmosphere under the red moon. Several wind chimes are hung on the eaves of the temple, making crisp sounds in the breeze filled with the smell of blood.

Merlin walked up to the temple and waved his hand lightly. The door of the temple opened automatically, revealing an extremely spacious space inside.

As soon as he entered the temple, Lin Qiye was stunned.

The interior space of this temple is much larger than it appears from the outside. A tall black dome hangs at the top, with stars twinkling in it, as if the night sky is out of reach.

In the empty hall, a silver mirror with a broken corner was quietly suspended in the air. Countless shining auroras flowed out from the mirror, interweaving with each other and connecting the stars in the sky, like a dream.

These long rivers of auroras...

Lin Qiye seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

The palace in the clouds and the mysterious cushion in the ruins appeared in his mind again.

In the ruins of the "human circle" in Japan, Lin Qiye followed the long river of aurora in the sky and found Baili Pangpang sitting at the end of the river. He clearly remembered that the cushion under Baili Pangpang was also flowing with the same long river of aurora.

"What are these?" Lin Qiye pointed to the floating river of aurora.

"It's faith." Merlin took a step, calmly moving through the interlaced aurora river. "It's the faith that has been continuously born from the 'human circle' over the past fifty years."

Lin Qiye stood there in a daze.

A faith born in the “human circle”?

His gaze followed the direction Merlin was moving and fell on the mirror in the center that was suspended in the air and continuously flowing out the Aurora River.

"So, that is..."

"The sacred object used by Takamagahara to hold the 'Human Circle', the Eight-foot Mirror."

Shock appeared on Lin Qiye's face. He walked to the mirror and looked at it carefully.

That "human circle" that perfectly replicates the Japanese territory and is home to tens of millions of people is actually within this small mirror?

"The mirror of the Eight-foot Mirror has yin and yang. What we are seeing now is its positive pole. Its negative pole is under the Sea of ​​Japan, reflecting the whole of Japan. This is also the true origin of the Takamagahara 'human circle'."

Merlin continued to explain, "The purpose of the existence of the 'Human Circle' is to provide faith, and this temple is a building used to collect and store faith.

More than 50 years ago, after the turmoil in Takamagahara, the gods withered and the "Human Circle" was completely abandoned, but the generation of faith was not interrupted. The power of faith generated from the "Human Circle" over the past 50 years has all been stored here. "

Merlin stretched out his hand and pointed at the shining stars above their heads.

"So that's how it is..." Lin Qiye was stunned for a while, and asked doubtfully, "What is the use of faith?"

"For gods, the power of faith has many uses, the most important of which is to amplify their own laws."

"Amplification law?"

“After becoming a god, one’s strength also varies. Relying on the power of faith to increase the power of the law is the fastest way for gods to increase their own strength. It does not require a lot of time to accumulate and settle. As long as one has a huge amount of faith power, one can easily increase the power of one’s own law to a terrifying level.

Among the many pantheons currently existing in the world, the vast majority of powerful gods standing in the first echelon of their respective pantheons have reached this point by relying on massive increases in faith.

This is also why gods like to leave legends in the world, and the more cultural heritage a pantheon has, the more powerful it is.”

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