Berely, Holy Radiance Mountain, Dawn Temple reception room.
The Church's power was truly terrifying. After Mr. Mo and his daughter had raised havoc on Holy Radiance Mountain, the Osmanthus Tree and the Hall of the Doomsday Apocalypse had seized the chance to destroy it and forcibly tear away part of the Temple of the Thunder God's main body. Of the once magnificent and solemn Holy Radiance Mountain, only a gigantic hole had remained.
Yet in just a few months, with strength that struck fear into others, the Church had raised another entirely stone mountain from the very spot, moved over a hundred exquisitely beautiful temples through thin air, and arranged them upon Holy Radiance Mountain exactly as before. On the day Holy Radiance Mountain was reborn, Berely's streets were emptied. All its citizens gathered dazedly around the mountain, gazing devoutly at the sight of an entire mountain materializing out of nowhere.
From that day onward, the Church's influence in Berely soared severalfold out of thin air. Nearly every citizen of Berely became a devout believer.
After Gries Gao Dawn met with Holy Light I at Victory Palace, he specifically had Lin Qi accompany him to the newly completed Dawn Temple, where he invited Lin Qi to sit down and chat in a highly private reception room.
Sitting face-to-face at such close range with the current Holy Crown Pope, the most powerful figure in the Church, even Lin Qi—who feared neither heaven nor earth, and who, considering his deeds and the people gathered around him, could be counted among the top ten heretics on the Western Continent—still felt immense pressure.
Sitting upright on the sofa and looking directly at Gries Gao Dawn, Lin Qi carefully described those portions of the Longshan Family's plans for the Gallic Empire that could be made