Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1217 The Disaster of the Eldest Son

While Aiwass was arranging these immigration matters, he was thinking about another thing.

He is thinking...

What was the last thing Adil wanted to say but didn’t have time to say?
According to the secret told by Adil, the great desert of the ancient Parthia was actually caused by the sin thorns buried underneath.

Sinthorns will continuously absorb water, and as long as they are continuously satisfied, they will not grow; however, this can also be said the other way around, that is, water can seal the Sinthorns and make them sleep, and if they do not get water, they will gradually become active and grow upwards... just like a person drinking alcohol.

Although these two possibilities are completely opposite in nature, they are the same in manifestation.

Therefore, the amount of water provided by the benefactors for “hundreds of people” is actually far more than what normal people need for drinking water.

All people can drink is the water that is left after satisfying their sins.

That is why almost all good people use various forms of art to "waste water"!
On the one hand, he can show his arrogance. He can squander what people don't have enough to drink, thus showing his power and status.
On the other hand, water is meant to be sprinkled on the ground. They created rivers and lakes around the oasis, which was actually "watering" the Sinthorn. Therefore, playing tricks before watering did not affect the essence at all.

If it is from this perspective, Aiwass can understand why Adil is so proud of this tradition. Because I am afraid that the original good masters, those forbidden mages who left the Tower of Babel, were actually trying to find a way to seal the sin thorns below. And they chose the forbidden spell they were familiar with, which was the Abyss Water of the Abyss.

It was for this purpose that they built cities and obtained water through sacrifices. In order to get the water they needed, people acquiesced to the sacrifices of the good masters.

In fact, they were deceived into giving away "renewable ritual materials" - through human reproduction, the seal here would become eternal.

If this is the case, Aiwass can also understand... why the Theocracy has always been indifferent to the good masters.

Even if the Cardinal wanted to deal with the ancient Parthian Empire, he had to ask people to come to him in person before he could take action - even if he could not overthrow the rule of the Good Lord, couldn't he build a waterway himself!

If the theocracy cannot directly help the good master, it is because of the tradition that the theocracy cannot interfere in internal affairs. However, the theocracy was indifferent to the sacrifice of the ancient Parthian Empire and only stopped the problem of human trafficking... Now that I think about it carefully, this attitude is actually not right.

After all, there are "homeland factions" in the country.

The Homeland Sect, led by Cardinal Valrhona, believes that "the longest and most sustained dedication is construction" - not to help individual people, but to create a better home for a group.

Mr. Maxim, whom Aiwas had met before, was a mage of the "Civil Engineering Department". He not only presided over the construction of the Temple of Silver and Tin, but also built a dam for the Horus people.

Horus and Parthia are not much different. One third of Horus's territory is desert. But the Horus people will try to use technology to build water conservancy facilities. It makes no sense for the ancient Parthia, which is even more short of water, to be stubborn and refuse to accept help. Even if the good lords want to maintain their power, when the theocracy completes such a great feat of dedication, when has it ever considered the ideas of other countries?

The Church's stance has always been flexible.

If something involves affecting the internal affairs of other countries, the elves will hesitate to act in consideration of the opinions of their ancestors; but if it is related to practicing the path of devotion, they will do it like mad dogs and destroy all those who try to stop them along the way.

In fact, from this perspective, the Church actually has a strong demeanor - as long as it involves the interests that it values, it will not care about the opinions of others. However, the "interests" that the Church values ​​are neither wealth nor resources, but the "practice base" that can practice its own path.

It's like everyone is playing an SLG game, fighting for resources and land. The Church is also playing this game, but He is actually here to write a sociology paper. It doesn't matter how others play, and He doesn't care whether He loses or wins. Instead, He will relish talking about it because it helps to complete his own project. But if someone tries to stop him from completing his project, he will immediately enter the red eye state.

Well, since the Theocracy has never considered building dams and artificial rivers for Parthia... maybe it's because the Theocracy assumes that "the existence of the Good Lord has some meaning."

Considering the Sinthorn under the desert, Sizhu's honorable name is "God of Sinthorn Binding Body", and his first achievement was to burn the Sinthorn that blocked the source river of the dream world and opened up the "Taotu" system of extraordinary power. And there are quite a few people who know that there is a Sinthorn buried under this desert.

From this perspective, the Church probably knows where this thing came from.

After all, the ancient Parthian Empire was established even earlier than the Theocracy - the elves, who were breast-bearing people, were only born after the collapse of the Tower of Babel.

Those who have milk are children of the source of "civilization", and the instinct of civilization is expansion.

The extremely warlike elves went to war with almost every race in the world, killing countless races, and experienced a bloody civil war before finally reaching a compromise and unification. The many "layers" of the Church today, with completely different customs and rules for each layer, are the legacy of the past civil war.

By the time the theocracy was unified, the ancient Parthian Empire had already been established for who knows how many years. If it was going to be changed, it would have been changed long ago. Why would it be its turn now?

As for sealing, that's not the case... after all, they are elves. Their ancestors are giant trees, the earliest apostles of the candlesticks, so they are more or less related.

Sizhu has burned all the sin thorns in the source river, is there still a little bit missing in the desert?

Combined with Adil's words...

"The old scar of the earth, the brothers of all living beings..."

While writing a letter to Julia, asking her to arrange for these refugees, Aiwass murmured to himself.

Adil said that Sizhu would protect the Sinthorn here because it was the last Sinthorn in the world. Why? Is there any reason why the Sinthorn must be protected?
"The last sin..."

Aiwass thought seriously.

He remembered another thing -

It is mentioned in the prayers of the Theocracy that before the Candlelighter came to this world, this world was dead and silent, covered with thorns... and even without sun or moon. His arrival was an accident, and the birth of fire was a gift.

After He burned the bush with fire, the power of the source river was full again.

So, there was the first one.

"... Taiyi. The Pillar God of the Sun's Path... The First River Source, the First Path. Could He be the earliest Pillar God?"

Aiwass felt that he was close to the truth of the world.

As long as you break through this last layer of paper, you will understand the truth of all this. And the most crucial thing among them is undoubtedly the sinthorn under the desert.

Suddenly, Aiwass had some inspiration:

"If Sizhu is the first real 'life' in this world, creating 'Taiyi' from nothingness, and is a fire from another world, then isn't Zuiji the native life of this world?"

Fire needs fuel to burn.

So what is the fuel that supports Taiyi's burning and creates all things?
In the ancient past when nothing existed in the world, it could only be sin.

In other words, Taiyi is a life born from the burning sin thorn.

Sizhu's achievement was to "open up the source river"...but he did not create the source river from nothingness, but dredged the source river that already existed but was blocked by the sin thorns.

Then comes the problem.

Who created this source river?
Where does the sin come from?

Why would the world-destroying twilight species... the Whisper of the Void, target this world?
Combined with the characteristics of Sinthorn - Sinthorn can not only eliminate all power from the source river, it can even kill almost all life, and it also has the power of the path of nothingness.

But why was there a power of nothingness at the beginning of the world?
So, is there a possibility that...

Sinthorn is not the "original form" of life.

——But the "end point" of a certain civilization?
Just like what Adil said, "brother".

Perhaps, the Whisper of the Void did not discover this place by accident.

He has already "eaten" this world.

“It’s something we need to study.”

Aiwass thought so.

He does have a way to study——

Some of the first batch of sins in this world were buried under the desert. They were buried in scattered places, probably under various city-states.

According to Adil, if the plants are not watered, the sinthorns will start to grow upwards.

Perhaps those city-states that were gradually swallowed up by the desert and disappeared without a trace after they became uninhabited were because the thorns of sin had eaten away at their bases, causing the cities to fall into the quicksand.

Aiwass happened to build an underground waterway - although he built the waterway to feed the Parthians, he didn't expect it to have a positive impact and play a huge role.

Through this waterway, a small number of Sinthorns can slowly wake up and wrap around, just like a vine rack. It happens to be far away from the city, and there is a lot of water in it that can soothe the Sinthorns... This can prevent the Sinthorns from eating away at the city, and also prevent the Sinthorns from completely losing control and growing out of the ground.

If all goes well, Aiwass should be able to reap some of the world's "original sins" soon.

Or... should we call them the "eldest sons" of this world.

(End of this chapter)