Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1125 Black, the Color of Nothingness
In the very center of the air wave is the dance skirt.

Or to be more precise - the remains of a dance skirt.

When the battle started, the scars from her previous tearing by the blood blade appeared. She was completely torn in half... In the middle of the two halves of her body that were torn at an angle, a pitch-black crystal was suspended in the air.

It is only the size of a fist, but it seems to be able to swallow everything around it.

In the instant it appeared, all matter around it began to dissolve and turn into nothingness, including the dance skirt itself.

Her eyes completely lost their pupils and whites, turning as black as the crystals.

The two pieces of her body peeled off one by one at a speed visible to the naked eye - each piece was the size of a thumb, and then the fragments were further shattered into the size of rice grains, and then slowly turned into nothingness.

In this process, the solid earth turned into a liquid similar to mud, and then further turned into gas, and finally dissipated.

The speed of this dissolution was extremely fast, and in an instant the wine cellar had completely disappeared. Then came the church above.

From the performance, it was as if an unparalleled energy wave erupted, destroying everything it touched...but its essence was not like that.

That is the "dissolution of meaning."

Everyone has something they once cared about, but when they grow up, they find it childish and don't care about it anymore. Just like every country and every civilization has goals that they once tried their best to achieve at all costs in their continuous development stages, but at some point in the future, they become things that are in the way, backward, and need to be optimized and rebuilt.

For example, the bricks and stones on the ground, the old houses, the broken city walls...also the wine cellar underground and the church on the ground.

At some point in the future, they will all lose their meaning and be filled in, demolished, or at least rebuilt or relocated. But in any case, at least this "existence" itself has lost its meaning and become an obstacle. And in the end, it will be forgotten by people, as if it had never existed.

Its end is nothingness.

If we look at the infinitely distant future, civilization will eventually become ruins and the planet will reach its end.

The entire universe will perish, and everything that has ever existed will cease to exist... until everything returns to one, and falls into eternal silence and meaninglessness.

——If you look at the world from the perspective of an infinitely distant "truth", you will realize that... nothingness is the permanent reality, and the consciousness of existence is just an extremely short-lived illusion.

Whether looking into the past or into the future, if you can see the end of time, you will feel that the "present" is as small as dust.

Just like erasing a stain - erasing "existence" from the curtain of nothingness.

This is the truth about the end of the world.

It is also the essence of the thing called "Whisper of the Void".

This power is neither an attack nor a destruction, but simply brings the "destiny" that will eventually come in the future forward to the present.

——That’s right, premature death!
Because of this, this is an attack that is theoretically impossible to defend against.

Although Xue Tiansi looked calm and composed, and his words sounded superior - he was extremely vulnerable in front of the power of the dance skirt that could turn everything into nothing.

Just by being watched by the "dance skirt", blood lines appeared on her skin in an instant. They were cracks that looked like blood vessels and spider webs.

Like broken porcelain or shattered glass in the hot summer, her whole body instantly shattered and blood gushed out.

But such a tragic ending made Xue Tiansi reveal a ferocious and satisfied smile: "Is it only... this extent?
"Even I...can't be dissolved?!"

Xue Tiansi's right arm turned into a bloody blade and chopped down in an instant.

A flash of blood appeared, and the already melted ground was torn apart directly.

It was like parting the sea—only she parted the earth.

The gravel continued to rise, and the invisible air waves pushed outward. It was like a human body being pierced by a bullet - only a slender blood blade was shot in, while thousands of meters away, tens of meters wide of land was instantly rolled over and shattered.

The church on the ground was completely shattered, and moonlight poured down from the huge hole.

It is impossible for an attack of this magnitude to not result in innocent people being injured or killed.

Before being dissolved into nothingness, the entire neighborhood came to an end in an instant.

It did cause minor damage - when the blood blade touched the skin of the dancer's skirt, it did not immediately disintegrate into nothingness, but left a second penetrating crack, cutting her into four pieces.

The moment she was attacked, the nothingness around her ceased.

Aiwass and Sherlock also suddenly woke up in a loud and noisy buzzing sound.

The countless doors that opened and the knowledge from other worlds that were constantly injected into their brains came to an abrupt end. It was like transferring a large file and then opening it and seeing "File is damaged". The decompression process was interrupted instantly, just like being woken up from a dream.

When Aiwas woke up, he saw Wuqun and Xuetiansi confronting each other.

He could hear and see everything that happened outside, but he couldn't respond - his "computing power" was fully occupied, so it crashed. Now, with the "program not responding" and automatic crash, Aiwas recovered instantly.

But the dance skirt that was cut into four pieces did not show any anxiety or fear.

"…It's just 3,000 blood vessels. Why…"

The dance skirt was just a little confused.

After all, what is here is not the real body of nothingness... Just as what Xue Tiansi said, it is just "the dregs of nothingness".

It originally existed in Xue Tiansi, and in the earlier past it existed in Hengwo's body.

"Yes... [Hate], scum. Hatred has existed since ancient times."

Xue Tiansi's voice was arrogant yet elegant: "It is precisely because they have always hated me that they will not let you dissolve me so easily...

“——You are just a fragment of nothingness, are you worthy enough to look up at the moon? Lower your head and kneel down!”

The next moment, a huge scarlet wave emerged from under her feet. The blood-red wave that crushed everything collided with the inky black shield.

Scarlet and black intertwined, and the offensive and defensive battle beyond vision began again.

...Hatred has existed since ancient times?

At that moment, Sherlock was stunned for a moment.

He seemed to understand something vaguely... Could it be that it was because this attack affected innocent people that Xue Tiansi carried endless hatred... that it could cause damage to the void?

Because this strike has "meaning", it will be remembered for a long time.

Although over a long period of time, both love and hate will be eliminated in meaninglessness.

But if the power of nothingness is not strong enough and the "time" that can be dissipated is not too much... compared to love, "hate" may last longer?
"Those blood vessels..."

Aiwass looked at the evil yet sacred wings made up of blood vessels.

The Bloody Heavenly Master is the same "Heavenly Master of the Eternal Feast" as his father, the Feasting Heavenly Master. The Bloody Heavenly Master focuses on "sacrifice, flesh and blood, pain and desire"... Because of this, his followers are so cruel and inhumane. They use all kinds of inhumane methods to make sacrifices.

But after the Blood Sky Officer arrived, he did not harm any innocent people.

Even though she hated the Moon Child's behavior, she unexpectedly did not let the blood slaves be buried with him. She also did not completely destroy the family just because there was a Moon Child in the family.

How could such a person hold such a cruel and extreme field?

unless……

Xue Tiansi has things that can only be accomplished by relying on this field.

The purpose of Cain creating the Son of the Moon was to complete the "perfect man". The perfect man was to replace Amber to fight against the Dusk. In other words, the purpose of Cain's creation was to fight against the void - that is why He chose to attack the dance skirt more prioritized than Aiwass and others.

Through cruel sacrifices, one allows oneself to be entangled in hatred, so that one's evil deeds will not be forgotten even after thousands of years.

The wings made of three thousand blood vessels were entangled with hatred and curses that Aiwas could see at a glance. They were obviously blood vessels that had been peeled out alive. Relying on this great hatred that had been collected for who knows how long through the sacrificial ritual and could not be forgotten even after the passage of time, the fragments of nothingness peeled out from her body could not really hurt her at all.

Hengwo voluntarily bears the influence of nothingness, and she will inevitably be eroded.

The purpose of the Blood Sky Master's birth is to achieve a perfect man and reach the realm of dusk. Cain hopes to fulfill Hengwo's wish, so he created the Son of the Moon to practice the "principle of a perfect man". If he can really become a perfect man... then with this act of creation, this perfect man can never be a substitute for Amber, but will become a puppet of nothingness.

...But the irony is that Hengwo was too utilitarian when creating Xue Tiansi, so he didn't add true love into the process. Both Hengwo and the feast master only regarded Xue Tiansi as a test subject, and the only one who loved Cain was the current Wu Tiansi.

It is precisely because of the lack of "love" that even if Xue Tiansi can reach the realm of perfection, "9" will never reach "10".

"No wonder……"

Aiwass murmured.

He had felt something strange for a long time - why was the representative color of the path of love black?

This is obviously unreasonable.

The Moon Child is red, and the Beast Path is also dark red. I don't know if the Sun Path is red, but at least it can't be black... No matter how you think about it, the Love Path should be red, and at worst it should be pink.

And on the way of love, which is the source of the river of creation, the shadow god representing revenge strangely appeared, and a large number of curse concepts were mixed in.

...Now it seems that this is probably because the First Source River has long been polluted by nothingness.

The concept of revenge should not belong to the source of creation, but it undoubtedly belongs to the opposite of the path of love - hatred. The meaning of revenge lies in remembering and hating, and engraving is the power of the path of dusk... Love plus dusk is exactly nothingness.

——Revenge is "creation based on nothingness".

That is the powerful resistance force generated by the source of creation spontaneously fighting against nothingness!

That is why shadow is the power of black – it is not the color of “love” at all, but the color of “nothingness”!

When Aiwas thought of this, he suddenly realized something.

The huge wings behind him are made up of thousands of blood vessels, making him look like a god.

Behind his back, countless blood vessels were like inverted roots.

Doesn't this also mean an upside-down world tree?
If the giant tree, the ancestor of the elves, means "giving everything for others", then the philosophy of the Blood Sky Master is exactly the opposite.

Let all external meanings belong to yourself!
That is a similar but different theory from "premature death".

It's not that life is meaningless. It's the exact opposite - I attach great importance to the meaning of existence of those whose lives I have deprived.

It is precisely because He is extremely lacking in "meaning" that He desires to plunder meaning from others to supplement His own existence.

It is precisely because of Xue Tiansi’s unscrupulous plundering... that he has the ability to fight against nothingness!
If the original purpose of Blood Sky Master's birth was to fight against nothingness - then now that he is confronting nothingness head-on, the meaning of his own existence has been fulfilled!
——How could a sinner who was carrying the hatred of millions of people for hundreds of thousands of generations be easily dissolved by such a weak force as nothingness?

Aiwass felt like he had some inspiration...

Could it be that snakes are also...

The warring parties separated again.

Bathed in the pure moonlight, Xue Tiansi raised his head and raised his hands, as if he wanted to hug the moon.

"Mother!"

The young and tender voice was as firm as iron, and it sounded in the air: "Witness it!"

(End of this chapter)