"Even so, they should have had time to react, right?" Lin Qiye frowned. "When that Red Moon first appeared, didn't the gods of Takama-ga-hara take any measures?"
"Of course they did."
Merlin's gaze drifted toward the blood-red world beyond the carriage. Several Star Marks streaked across his eyes, as though he were peering into something. "After the Red Moon appeared, the gods of Takama-ga-hara found a way to block its light and resist its contamination.
Once the Red Moon became ineffective, they began employing another method."
Lin Qiye seemed to realize something. "The whale's fall?"
"That's right." Merlin nodded slightly. "The Red Moon's contamination was more like a gradually accumulating chronic poison. As time passed, emotions and reason would slowly spiral out of control. But that alone was not enough to control the gods of Takama-ga-hara.
Since slow contamination did not work, they could only create a more violent kind of contamination. And that contamination itself had to be capable of passing through the Gate of Reception and entering Takama-ga-hara...
So they set their sights on Bake-kujira's corpse at the Bottom of the Deep Sea.
Bake-kujira was incomparably massive and was itself in the divine realm. It could carry an enormous amount of contamination, and it was qualified to enter Takama-ga-hara. Once it was placed inside Takama-ga-hara, it would be like a nuclear bomb loaded with contamination. The instant it detonated, all the gods of Takama-ga-hara would fall into madness and completely lose their minds.
By then, a pantheon driven utterly insane would bring an unprecedented disaster upon the world."
Lin Qiye's heart trembled violently!
In his mind, he could already see a group of gods with scarlet eyes, crazed and savage, charging out through the Gate of Reception and sweeping across the world with a boundless sea of blood.