Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1173 Amber Mother and Forbidden Father
Aiwass smiled thoughtfully and meaningfully, "No wonder... the good master is hereditary, but none of the good master's children have mastered the ability to summon water.

“No wonder, killing a good master is a taboo in the desert. According to this way of inheritance, if a good master is killed, the remaining good masters will only become fewer and fewer.

"You need the head of the previous generation to gain this power and engrave this skill, right? So you are unwilling to teach me this knowledge, because this is not to teach me the skill of summoning water... but a legacy that requires life as the price."

"...Sir, sir...Please! Please forgive me..."

Afshin's voice was rough and hoarse, as painful as being naked and rolling on sharp stones: "I am willing to help you take away the contract emblems of other good masters. Please - save me, save me!"

"I see……"

Aiwass whispered softly, reaching out to touch the lines on Afshin's forehead.

It was a mark that looked like the Sun Rock—a regular octagon with eight sharp isosceles triangles on all sides. Like the scales on a watch, the triangles in the four directions of up, down, left, and right were larger.

"——Is this how you became a good master?"

With just a light touch, the emblem suddenly lit up.

Aiwass immediately felt the burning heat - it was Afshin's scorching skin. Just like an inflamed limb, the skin near the sun pattern on his forehead quickly turned red, or even dark red, and it felt swollen and hot just by touching it. The originally black emblem turned into a glowing white.

“No, no…why…Sir, sir! Your Holiness, please!”

Afshin didn't understand why this change happened. He was trembling all over and almost scared to death - he knew clearly what would happen to him if he lost his identity as a good master.

He screamed and wailed fiercely, making a harsh cry like a dog whose paw was stepped on: "I am willing to give everything for you! I am willing... I am willing to be your slave! My lord, your majesty! I will do anything for you, conquer any city, and I can also make you a good master, but please-"

Seeing this, Aiwass laughed happily, as if he had seen a wonderful comedy performance.

"So you guys are afraid of things, too."

Aiwass smiled and said, “Since you are so scared, it means...it will be even more disloyal than I thought.

"Let me think about it..."

He thought about it and gently touched the glowing and hot emblem: "Yuan Tiansi, can you hear me?"

The next moment, Aiwas suddenly heard a faint sound of something gradually breaking apart.

Just like crushing an egg with your hands, a crisp snapping sound was heard.

And suddenly, a term that he hadn't seen for a long time appeared in front of Aiwas' eyes——

[Clear Container LV1 (Blue): If you take the amber egg, your soul will expand. 】

As if the signal was bad, it began to shake violently and became unclear.

"This is……"

Aiwas was in a daze for a moment, and suddenly reacted: that was the Taoist characteristic he suddenly obtained when he obtained the "Wild Hunt", a profession that he could not use.

He still remembers the three options at that time -

[Earth Affinity LV1 (Blue): You are close to the Amber Egg and understand some of the essence of the earth. 】

[Earth Container LV1 (Blue): When you come into contact with the Amber Egg, your soul will expand. 】

[Clear Container LV1 (Blue): If you take the amber egg, your soul will expand. 】

Both are related to the Amber Egg.

Because at that moment, Aiwass had a brief eye contact with Amber.

Although the memory was as vague as an illusion, he seemed to have seen a huge eye spinning like a golden roulette wheel from the horizon in frozen time.

It is like an eye, a door, and an egg.

Like amber.

Like light.

Like tears.

It's like love again.

Even though Aiwass didn't have any clear images or memories of amber in his memory, the complex feelings and impressions still remained in his heart. He originally thought that it was just a description of the characteristics of the Tao.

But Aiwass now realized...he was wrong.

At this moment, the path characteristic [Clear Container] at that time suddenly distorted.

[Mother of Amber (gold): Amber was once hatched from an egg and was born from its belly. ]

There was no explanation, no attributes. The blue path characteristics suddenly twisted into gold.

When he saw this line of words, Aiwass suddenly recalled the knowledge recorded in the stone tablet sutras excavated from the Herasil secret treasure.

The Secret Sutra of Sea Burial once recorded a taboo story about a snake and a bird: a snake swallowed a bird's egg, and the bird hatched from the egg, fell in love with the snake, but then killed it.

Aiwass also remembered... Amber's true image was a winged girl sleeping in an amber coffin.

If the flying bird is amber... then the snake is Huantiansi?

...No, at that time, it should still be Ai Shiping, the Heavenly Master of Reincarnation.

Is Amber the child of Ai Shiping? Or maybe it's not a birth in the traditional sense, it could be describing Amber's birth or growth... But it's almost certain that Amber fell in love with Ai Shiping. And it's also certain that she eventually tore him apart.

"The Secret of Sea Burial" is a forbidden technique that transforms the corpse of a loved one into a sea monster. It also tells the secret story of the birth of the original sea monster - Yuan Tiansi.

"Yuan Tiansi... is he transformed from the corpse of the original Lunhui Tiansi?"

After realizing this, Aiwass suddenly understood... why this mark reacted so violently to him.

Judging from Afshin's reaction, it was clear that it was impossible for the average person to experience this level of change after coming into contact with the Mark.

"I need the name of the Good Lord, Afshin."

Aiwass said softly: "Without the name of the good Lord, how can people believe that I am the savior? Who can be sure that the one who came this time is really the savior?"

As Aiwass spoke, the glow from his fingertips became more and more intense.

Accompanied by a shrill scream - as if the skin was being peeled off, the rune emblem on Afshin's head peeled off by itself and crawled up along Aiwas's right hand.

It did not crawl onto Aiwas's forehead, but settled on the back of his right hand and turned into a black tattoo with a sun pattern.

"——You sacrifice yourself."

In a trance, strange knowledge flooded into Aiwas's mind.

That is the knowledge of how to maintain the water supply through sacrifice:

The blood of four hundred people could sustain water for eight hundred people for a year; if they donated their bones and flesh, they could summon water to sustain water for eight thousand people for a year; if they were in pain or joy, the amount of water would double; if they danced or sang, the amount of water would double again.

It can also allow a person to become a carrier of forbidden knowledge, listening to the indescribable whispers of Yuan Tiansi...burning the other person's mind in exchange for an endless supply of water.

In addition, there are other taboos:

Killing parents and children is against the path of love; making ugly and abstract works of art is against the path of beauty...

A voice sounded in his heart. It was the contract that Yuan Tiansi and the good masters originally signed.

[——Okay, then you can exchange blood for water, in exchange for impossible hope, for sins that cannot be redeemed. It's like burying seeds in saline soil, burning thorns with wildfire. This is a necessary sacrifice, but it's also... an unnecessary sacrifice.]

[This is, premature death... a necessary evil. ]

Aiwass's pupils suddenly contracted.

He heard it clearly.

That is……

A cold and indifferent voice.

—A voice almost identical to his own.

(End of this chapter)