"Then, call her name sincerely and firmly in your hearts, and offer your only faith."

"Her name is Takiyasha-hime."

Finally, Huang lowered his voice and spoke slowly and deliberately.

This was undoubtedly a high-stakes gamble, and also an experiment he wanted to conduct.

Queen Himiko said that gods can be created.

On that night of parting, Ara asked the general whether the residents of the entire Sun Wheel City worshipped the sun or had even greater faith in their queen.

The latter's answer was exactly the same as his guess.

Long, long ago, the inhabitants here must have had an incredibly devout faith in the sun. However, as time went by, as their self-awareness changed, as the conclusion that they relied on their own hands to create a living gradually became firm, and in addition, human life is finite.

After thousands of years of changing faces, compared to the distant and unreachable sun, they naturally respected their queen even more.

Or to put it more radically, it is precisely because of the existence of Queen Himiko that the residents here have continued to worship the sun for thousands of years.

This explains why no one in the entire Sunwheel City objected to the goddess marrying an ordinary person.

After all, the sun is too far away, and the Queen is the one who accompanies us the longest.

Since the worship of the sun god in the ancient city of Sun is only superficial, and since the residents of this city all want to save Yao Ji.

Then give it a try.

What kind of deity can the faith of a city's residents create?

In an instant, the atmosphere inside the Sunwheel Pavilion froze. Clearly, the information elements resounding in their ears were somewhat contrary to the will of these residents of Sunwheel City.

Because no matter what, they are all children of the ancient land of the sun, and from the time they can remember, they have been admonished to respect the Queen of the Sun and to respect the sun god.

Being suddenly asked to deny the beliefs that one's ancestors have always held is somewhat unexpected.

During this time, Huang didn't whisper anything more. After giving a solution, he fell silent, and the choice was left to the residents of Sunwheel City.

But in this situation, do they have any other options?

After all, now it is the gods who are taking away the lives of themselves, their families, their companions, and everyone in Sunwheel City.

Given these preconditions, can one's faith continue to be maintained?

【Takiyasha-hime-sama.】

In an instant, this new name resonated in the hearts of many residents of Sunwheel City. Some elderly people and soldiers in armor immediately put their hands together and knelt on one knee to pray devoutly.

Because of the woman who is doing everything in her power to protect this ancient city.

She was the girl next door they had watched grow up;

It is the general they follow!

A faint glow rippled across the surface of these people's bodies, just as a powerful ninja would activate their chakra and manifest it on their skin.

However, unlike the previous resonance, the degree of grief and indignation expressed is different.

The scene of devout prayer, placed within the overall population of Sunwheel City, was not particularly large, perhaps not even a third or a quarter of the total.

The remaining people were mostly filled with conflicted, negative, and doubtful emotions.

[Is it really necessary to abandon one's existing beliefs and instead trust a demon...?]

Are the gods truly abandoning them?

Is Her Majesty truly doing nothing?

Ultimately, whom should we trust?

Is everything I'm seeing real?

[The only faith]

If one were to dedicate this sole faith to her, it would mean never receiving the forgiveness of the sun god.

?】

If everyone else is praying, then it won't matter if I'm one less, right?

Will the world we arrive in truly offer complete safety?

[Those who defy the gods!!]

【……】

Complex ideas become turbulent when they truly involve vested interests and an unknown future.

All of this was observed by Ara, and this was his other main objective, besides saving Yohime and observing the power of faith:

That is to de-cultur the local residents' belief in the sun god.

After all, if it were simply a matter of saving Yao Ji alone, he could have done it in several ways.

However, the most direct and conceivable way to quickly eradicate the deep-rooted sun worship here is to replace it with another belief!

After all, Queen Himiko said that for the gods of Takamagahara to traverse space and dominate a certain world with supreme divine power, the prerequisite is that there must be a sufficiently large faith in that unfamiliar plane as support.

The residents of Sunwheel City have been worshipping the sun god for thousands of years.

Although this place has experienced a near-devastating plague, can that alone erase everyone's faith, or rather, their fear of the gods?

Won't they, once they are safe, again pray to the sun god for forgiveness?

Ultimately, the root cause of this calamity was that their queen was the first to break the taboo against marrying an ordinary person!

Moreover, for thousands of years, the gods of the solar system have brought countless blessings to this land.

All of the above are Huang's concerns.

He couldn't possibly have blindly believed the Queen of the Sun's one-sided account without making his own judgment, nor could he be so compassionate as to entrust the lives of all people to himself.

Even as a human, he felt some sympathy for the plight of Sunwheel City.

It's a bit too domineering to bring disaster upon this ancient city just because of Himiko's mistake.

However, it is impossible for it to bring the danger back to the ninja world.

Especially when he doesn't yet have the ability to contain this danger!

As for the candidates to ban the belief in the sun god...

Queen Himiko is no good; he can't trust her.

Even he himself couldn't do it. Although he had received some sincere gratitude from the residents of Sunwheel City on the list of "good deeds," it was ultimately a drop in the ocean. Moreover, rashly using this kindness to exchange for faith would inevitably backfire and be seen as having ulterior motives.

The only ones who could truly do this were probably the Great General and Yao Ji.

But the former is an old mortal, and rashly accepting the power of faith would only become a burden.

Princess Yohime possesses qualities that Himiko and the Great Shogun lack: relative trust and a body that transcends humanity.

However, it also has a fatal weakness: its current identity as a monster.

Human nature is ultimately a complex thing, and many people hold the view that those who are not of our kind must have different hearts.

However, this uniqueness is, to be fair, a good thing for Huang.

It is precisely because the two extreme beliefs of gods and demons can only be chosen one or the other that it can be guaranteed that these residents of Sun Wheel City will not cause any major hidden dangers after arriving in the Ninja World.

After all, Hidan has already proven that the faith of a few people alone is not enough to support the arrival of one's own faith.

at the same time,

Above the heavens, the god who had entered the territory of Sunwheel City through the spatial rift suddenly reached out his palm towards the hateful monster that had been blocking his way.

Although this attack pattern is very simple and looks unremarkable, it is easy to escape.

For a moment, Takiyasha-hime felt her vision filled with dazzling golden light, and the space around her felt oppressive and stagnant. The blurry, huge hand was like a special little space of its own, constantly squeezing her area of ​​movement as it closed and curled up.

The cover-up is being dispelled.

The stars and moon trembled.

There's no escaping it, there's no way to escape it.

This is a difference in level!

Even though she chose to abandon her human identity and fall into becoming a monster, the power she gained was still insufficient to contend with an existence of the queen's caliber.

Especially in their initial encounter, she was already severely injured under the combined attack of several divine punishment officials.

The scene in the sky was clearly reflected in the eyes of every resident of Sunwheel City.

That magnificent divine body that seemed to fill the entire sky

The endless divine light was forcibly driven away by the darkness of night.

And then there's that low, rebuking, pronouncement, like the tolling of morning bells and evening drums:

"The light of a firefly dares not compete with the brilliance of the moon."

“Those who defy the laws, offend the supreme authority, and kill the divine officials will all be buried here.”

There was no room for negotiation, no possibility of struggling.

Seeing the invincible force and hearing the words that insisted on reducing Sunwheel City to nothingness, the remaining majority of Sunwheel City residents completely lost their hope of unwavering faith in such mutual destruction.

This truly shows that the gods are unwilling to give them a way to live!

Faced with such a life-or-death decision, what other choices did they have? What choices were left?

Must we really lose our lives for the faith and fear that have faded over thousands of years?

【Takiyasha-hime-sama!】

【Lady Takiyasha, please save us!!】

【……】

Similar murmurs echoed in people's hearts, and clusters of faint light appeared continuously from their body surfaces. When they almost filled the entire Sun Wheel Pavilion training ground, they reached a critical point and, like Kongming lanterns being released, suddenly flew towards the sky, towards Takiyasha-hime who was already imprisoned by divine power, completely ignoring the blocking space constructed by divine power that slowly seeped into her body.

The power of faith, a power that even the gods yearn for!

This sight enraged the divine punishment officer who had peered in.

“Foolish humans have actually changed their beliefs and betrayed the supreme authority that has protected you for thousands of years!”

The booming chanting of Buddhist hymns resounded, as if the entire sky was shaking!

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