Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1144 Thomas's Death (rd update!)

At this moment, the melting old assassin suddenly raised his head.

At that moment, a strong premonition of death came over me, just like wearing thin clothes and a cold wind blowing along with heavy rain.

He looked up in the direction where the sense of crisis came from, and saw an extremely sacred and glorious stag.

That was Aiwass.

His appearance was similar to Aiwass, but he looked more majestic and solemn. There were some black and gold lines on his face, making him look like a barbaric priest.

He was still wearing the cardinal's black robe, and his swelling muscles completely filled the loose black robe, making it like a tight-fitting garment.

He had huge antlers on his head. One of the antlers was as majestic as a halberd, while the other one looked like it had been cut off before and was more than half the size of the other one. These antlers exuded a warm luster like white jade, and there were also faint black and gold auspicious cloud patterns on them.

The Sinthorns hung from Aiwass's back to the ground, covering his body like a cloak woven from thorns.

As the buck moved forward, the surroundings became brighter.

It was as if a new sun was running across the earth, its boiling heat and radiance like the scorching sun in midsummer made everything around it blurry. The stag itself, on the other hand, looked a little dark in the glow, like the wick of a candle.

"what is that?"

Thomas murmured.

Of course he could recognize Aiwass's face - as a top assassin, he would not forget the face of his target. Even if the other party was wearing makeup, he could still recognize the other party's true identity.

But this sacred and glorious gesture...

For a moment, Thomas felt a little bit unacceptable. Perhaps it was because of the price paid by the White Rainbow Secret Sutra that made his already aging brain completely unable to think... He always felt as if something was wrong, but he didn't know exactly where the problem was.

But at this moment, his well-trained body launched an attack before he even thought about it.

Time froze again.

Aiwass's sense of time was infinitely extended.

And at this moment, he saw very clearly that old Thomas, who was almost turned into mud, was burning with an illusory silver-white fire. A rainbow light with seven colors inside and a bright silver outer shell rose straight from his body and went up to the sky!
However, this time, it failed to penetrate the sun. It could even be said that it deviated too far.

Because the determination is not enough, and the price that can be paid is not enough.

The next moment, time started to flow again.

The previous stagnation became a hint. Aiwass immediately turned around and jumped up, just in time to avoid the four consecutive god-killing arrows.

At the same time, Aiwas opened his right hand.

This is the new ability he gained when he was shot with three arrows and black lines appeared on his body:
[Current conversion rate 60%: The Sin Beast can condense light or fire into the wooden parts of longbows, shortbows, spears, and greatswords, and turn the Sin Thorns into steel]

Combined with what he had gained previously, he was able to make the Sinthorn into an indestructible sacred weapon, giving it the properties of toughness, sharpness, and penetration... Aiwass already knew how to correctly use the power of the Sin Beast.

As the sacred flame ignited, the golden-red flame condensed into a long bow in Aiwas's right hand.

The slender golden light turned into a string.

He did not release the arrow, but simply pulled in vain - in an instant, the longbow was filled, and a dark sinthorn that grew out of the palm of Aiwas's right hand twisted itself and turned into a spiral arrow.

Aiwass gently let go.

The spiral arrow flew out with a buzzing sound.

Like a hornet attacking him, Thomas was melting as the arrow was shot out... He had fallen into an inhuman state and was pierced through the chest by the arrow of sin in an instant!

The power of the sin thorn spread throughout his body in an instant.

The sin thorns that were nailed into his body absorbed the power of the Tao and grew rapidly. The black thorns pierced through his flesh and grew out. And absorbing the sins in his soul, white flowers grew out of the thorns - those were the worry-free lilies that could be made into "washing water" to completely cleanse a person's Tao level.

The old man's raised gun muzzle dropped weakly, and soon his arm was devoured by the activated sin thorns... These sin thorns bit his body like mad dogs, causing his flesh and blood to melt quickly as if falling into a millstone.

At this moment, Aiwass suddenly realized something.

Why can the "jujube" that grows from the sin thorns cure the amber syndrome caused by the deviation of the dusk path, and why can the carefree lilies that grow from the sin thorns of the Enlightener be made into a "regret medicine" that can melt a person's path level...

——Because that is the ability that belongs to the path of nothingness!

It is because it dissipates the power of the source river that the excess power of the Dusk Path is dissipated and the level of the extraordinary people is cleansed... At this moment, the old man's pupils also instantly returned to clarity.

Without the influence of the surplus power of the path on his mind... without the unquenchable fire of love and hatred, without the burning impulse of dedication, without the madness of wanting to survive at all costs, without the perverted heart of engraving - Thomas instantly realized what he had done wrong:
His grandfather was right, he had never been a pure Sirius, let alone a qualified assassin.

Because he simply doesn't have such a strong sense of dedication.

In fact, he never understood the spirit of assassins, he just "adapted" himself to this demand.

Just as the assassins learned a lesser version of Shadow Walk by imitating Shadow Fiend... he also learned a lesser version of Devotion by imitating his grandfather.

He constructed a "perfect Thomas" in his mind, and then imitated what he did... Because of the emptiness in his heart and because he had no ideals, he was able to transform into any form... In the end, he had a higher level of adaptation than his family members and became the only assassin to reach the sixth level ceiling.

Stealing scales and feathers...

He finally understood why the Lord of Scales and Feathers was the Pillar God who adapted to the Tao.

Precisely because it is nothingness, it can "adapt" to the power of other paths.

But he obtained the power of other paths in this way...but was bewitched by the deviation of the path brought by the power of other paths. Because he did not have the level of those paths, and had not undergone the corresponding trials...he could not even realize that he had become another person.

In a trance, the old man seemed to see the Lord of Scales and Feathers waving at him - even though he had no idea what the Lord of Scales and Feathers looked like, he just felt that the person standing in front of him was the Lord of Scales and Feathers.

However, he no longer had the chance to enter the dream world.

There was no time to be thankful that Aiwass was not dead, there was still time for everything.

Master Thomas finally regained consciousness at the moment before his death. He only had time to express his final thoughts before his body and soul were devoured by the mad Sin Thorn:
"Be careful of the power of the path! It will confuse people's minds--"

His soul was completely dissolved by the Sinthorn, and he didn't even have the experience of becoming Aiwass, just like Professor Moriarty.

Aiwass first used the glow to calm the frightened people, telling them not to run around to avoid a stampede.

He looked at the calm Sinthorn on the ground with a complicated expression and responded in a low voice: "Ah, I knew about this a long time ago."

He looked at the sinthorns in silence and tried to swallow them. After taking a bite, he found that the taste was okay, so Aiwass slowly swallowed the remaining sinthorns.

After all, if they were left here, they would only devour anyone they came into contact with. Only his body as a sin-beast could safely contain these dangerous sin thorns.

Sizhu...did he do the same? This thought suddenly occurred to Aiwass.

The good news is that the conversion rate did increase, but not by much. Just over 3%… bringing Aiwass’ conversion rate to 63%.

This means that the old man really has no unforgivable sins. Given his age, the number of sins he has transformed with his soul is only one ninth of that of Professor Moriarty.

He didn't know what complicated psychological activities were going through Thomas' mind at that moment.

But he could know that Thomas was being infected and invaded by the power of dusk... and the warning he kindly gave to Aiwass in the end - although it was useless, just like the information gap between him and his granddaughter, which was far behind the version.

Although it is said that a dying man's words are often good...but such disjointed behavior and words seem to prove that he has been bewitched by some kind of "thought".

——Sneak into the mind and make people firmly believe that what they are doing is right, thereby quietly changing the will of others.

Not many people can doubt and torture themselves fairly and objectively. Not many people can stay awake forever.

Whisper of the Void...

Is it because of the progress of the Ring of Tail that the power of the Wall of Balance has weakened?

Aiwass clearly realized that the power of the Tenth Source River was infiltrating the material world. In the past ten years, it was rare for a "void invasion" to occur, but now it can happen several times a week...

"What are you going to do, Ah Huan..."

Aiwass turned back into a human, but with a strange black mark on the antlers on his head, he looked at the sun and murmured.

However, Thomas, who was bewitched by nothingness, gave him a reminder.

He needs a mirror to remind himself whether he has done the right thing, whether he has gone too far... and whether he is still the same person he was at the beginning.

For example...his lover, Isabel.

——Isn’t the pillar of the path of beauty a twin mirror?

(End of this chapter)