Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1093: Sea Burial Secret Scripture

——The secret collection of Herasil.

The largest treasury of the Millennium Empire of Herasil, a treasure coveted by countless adventurers.

At this moment it has been opened and appears before Aiwas's eyes.

That is an enormous wealth that can change the world - wealth that is so abundant that it has completely lost its meaning for an individual, wealth that can save a country from danger and allow millions of people to live happily for thousands of years.

But seeing this level of wealth, Aiwass felt a strange sense of emptiness for a moment, just like when you see a mountain of banknotes in a bank vault, you lose the concept of its value.

But gold of this level is just a "cling film", a carrier of preservation technology.

After all, if the preservation spell is applied directly to extraordinary items, the power of the Twilight Path will infect the items, causing them to undergo unexpected changes. However, if the preservation spell is applied to densely packed gold and used as a container to store items inside, it will be much better.

——The vault here is literally a "gold treasure house".

"…Are you saying that the real treasure is beneath the gold?"

Hearing what Aiwass said, Noelle moved his fingers slightly.

She wanted to use her alchemy to change the form of the gold - for example, turn it into liquid, turn it into a fluid, and cast it into a completely new shape.

Changing the form of matter is the technique that the "Golden Stone Knight" is best at.

But when she used the gold, she felt that the feedback was unusually dull, just like the difference between using her hand or a little finger to lift a stone slab.

The gold trembled slightly, and the originally regular arrangement was disrupted, just like neatly arranged fine iron needles being disturbed by a magnet.

"This is……?"

Noelle was stunned for a moment and subconsciously let go of her hand.

After the force she applied from the outside disappeared, the gold bricks slowly moved again on their own and returned to their original state.

"Gold is the representative metal of the sand clock. It contains a lot of balancing power... I'm afraid we have to move it directly."

Aiwass said this and jumped down.

He reached out and moved the extremely heavy gold bricks away - Aiwass weighed them and found that each one weighed about thirty pounds.

After the gold bricks were taken out, they still had a strong attraction to return them to their original positions. It was not until Aiwass threw them into the gold pool that they landed safely beside Noel.

After Aiwass uncovered five layers of gold, he finally saw an ancient stone slab.

It was not covered directly with gold, but placed in a half-meter square hole like a coffin. The gold was fixed by that strange force and suspended in the air. The stone slab was also suppressed by the huge amount of gold to the point that it had no spiritual light at all, just like an ordinary antique.

After it was taken out by Aiwass, the words on it began to glow faintly. It trembled slightly, as if trying to escape from Aiwass's hands. But the force was too weak... probably not as strong as the struggle of a seven or eight-year-old child, Aiwass was able to control it with one hand.

"This is……"

Aiwass realized that this might be "a" secret book.

With one big jump he jumped back onto the ground.

Glancing at the gold on the ground, Aiwass pressed the stone slab with one hand and said to Noelle, "Let's go out first. I don't know how long Yulia can hold on... It's the first time to open the treasure house, so it's enough to take a look at the situation inside."

"really."

Noelle nodded, waved his hand, and melted the gold bricks thrown by Aiwass into liquid, condensing them into a huge golden falcon, flapping its wings and following behind them.

Once out of the golden pool, the unknown force that constantly restores order will dissipate.

When they exited the portal, Yulia was still in front of the compass. She was only slightly pale, but she looked pretty good.

"We're back."

Aiwas held the slate in his right hand and touched Yulia's head with his left hand. He asked, "How long can you hold on, Yuli?"

"It's relatively easy. I should be able to last four times longer."

Yulia analyzed it and accepted the treatment from Aiwass. The wound healed instantly and her face became rosy.

She squinted her eyes and rubbed her palm against Aiwas's, thinking, "However, if it is paired with a priest... it should last a long time."

"Probably not." Aiwass shook his head: "If my guess is correct... once the portal is accidentally closed, it is very likely to be fatal to the people inside."

There is no evidence for this, it's just speculation.

Because if not, it would be difficult to continue to maintain the "sterile" environment inside.

Based on Aiwas's understanding of the first generation Red Phase, if he really got some treasure from here, he would not leave so easily and cleanly. He is very likely to have left something in there... like deliberately leaving the door open, or opening the window from the inside to facilitate his sneaking in.

For example, leaving behind a follower, a blood slave, a mark, or even a part of one's own clone.

But when Aiwass entered, he saw nothing. The place was surprisingly clean and tidy. Even the traces of Hongxiang's rummaging last time were gone.

——He should have deliberately not taken the gold with him, so that when the treasures were opened next time, people would not be able to guess where the treasures were hidden. And in this case, he should have left traces when he stepped into the "golden pool"...but Aiwass saw nothing.

This means that the power of balance is very likely to disinfect everything in it equally, thus ensuring that nothing will remain. Although it is not known whether this "disinfecting" is continuous or immediate, there is no need to practice it.

"...So that means the wound cannot heal while the blood is being replenished?"

Yulia thought about it.

As an alchemist, she immediately began to look for loopholes: "Can I store fresh blood directly? If this kind of blood doesn't work, is it because it's not fresh enough or because of other reasons? Or I can cultivate replica embryo sacs in vitro that can be used to provide fresh blood... No, this won't work. This may lead to the key being leaked.

"To be on the safe side, we can develop an alchemical mixture that can instantly restore blood without healing wounds; or find a cursed weapon that will cause injuries to bleed continuously and cannot be healed by normal treatment methods..."

Yulia muttered to herself.

"Don't talk about that for now... look at this."

Aiwas handed the slate to her to look at, but Yulia didn't react.

“I remember that Yulia also has adaptability to the path of wisdom and the path of devotion, and I also have adaptability to the path of love.”

Aiwass pondered: "If we exclude the five paths of love, devotion, wisdom, balance, and transcendence..."

"There is also beauty, adaptation, authority, and dusk."

Yulia looked at the ancient text on the stone slab, thought for a while and shook her head: "It should be possible to rule out the path of authority... At most, it can only be something from the path of power."

"Shall I ask someone to test it?"

Noelle beside him also showed some interest.

Aiwass nodded. "I don't think it's something from the Path of Beauty and the Path of Power... You can try to find someone who is adapted to the Path and the Path of Dusk to see if they react. As for the gold... you can keep it for now. After all, the Valentine family will have no taxes in the future."

“…That’s not necessary.”

Noelle shook her head, her words full of confidence: "No matter what, there is no reason for a high-ranking alchemist to be poor. This gold is about half a ton... Let it be the symbol of the new Herasl.

"After all, it is the first batch of gold dug out from the secret treasure of Herasil. It is used in the construction of the new Herasil Empire, which can be regarded as a symbol."

And soon, the test results came out.

This tantric book made of stone tablets does not belong to any current path, but it can resonate faintly with the extraordinary people of the Twilight Path.

——It is a secret sutra of the forbidden path, and its name is "The Secret sutra of Sea Burial".

One test subject accepted it and gained from it secret knowledge written in a cipher that did not belong to any language.

It records a forbidden love story between a snake and a bird.

A flying snake flew into a bird's nest, swallowed the bird's eggs, and hatched baby birds from its body.

The bird burst out of the snake's belly and saw the snake that was swallowing it at first sight and fell in love with him.

The snake took care of the bird as it grew up. Eventually, the bird grabbed the snake and tore it apart from the sky. The snake's torn body turned into a sea of ​​blood, and the bird wept and fell into the sea and drowned.

The tablet contains a detailed account of how the bird killed the feathered serpent, as well as the song that the bird sang in the end. If you chant this song, you can transform your lover's body into a sea monster. However, this technique requires a feathered person to use, so this lost secret technique has no meaning.

...If nothing unexpected happens, this may be the secret of the birth of the sea monster clan.

But for some reason, this story gave Aiwas a strange sense of déjà vu.

(End of this chapter)