Ye Qiyan learned about this world from its residents.
The God they worshipped was called the God of Sun Wings.
According to the Holy See, this God was the only winged Sun in the endless worlds.
The God of Sun Wings was the great God who had bestowed endless happiness and longevity upon them.
Their sole purpose in life was to pray day and night with their bodies of flesh and blood.
Then they entered this enormous, so-called "Sacred Mountain" and used their bodies to turn the gears.
This powered the Sun's wings, thereby protecting this world.
Ye Qiyan observed the settlement for a week. There was not a single mature-looking, middle-aged person in the entire place.
Though they were human,
their average age was only in their early twenties.
The God of Sun Wings had told them that once humans passed the age of twenty-five, they would turn into evil spirits that devoured their own kind.
Anyone over twenty could be burned to ashes by the Sun in the sky at any moment over the next few years.
According to the Apostles who came from the Divine Kingdom,
that meant they had received their tickets to the Divine Kingdom.
They were being welcomed by the great God to become soul fuel that would allow the Sun to burn eternally.
But no matter how young they were, no matter how extravagantly those occasionally appearing Apostles spoke,
there was no faking the pain and screams when the Sun's rays fell upon those people, or the sight of their flesh being burned away.
Yet they still believed in their God, and could do nothing but believe.
The Sun shone eternally upon this land.
Only by relying on megastructures like these to block the sunlight could they ensure their continued existence.
Only through