Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1237 The Rising Sun

Aiwass carefully examined and sized up Plotinus, trying to discern his confidence from his words.

Is that confidence or arrogance?

Or is he carrying a secret that he himself is unaware of?

"Amon..."

Aiwass murmured Plotinus' current beliefs.

God Amun - that is the name of the Second Sun in Horus, and it is also the Taiyi believed in by the Taichu Empire.

Now Aiwas already knows that Taiyi is the original pillar god of this world.

That was the first pillar god of the first source river who was born after Sizhu reopened the source river, decompressed the sinthorn, and used its power to recreate the material world.

——The Way of the Sun, the original creator.

Compared to the abyss that symbolizes the end and taboos, Taiyi may indeed have the power of restraint...

Plotinus did not give Aiwass any further explanation.

He just changed the subject and started talking about what had just happened.

"But you," Plotinus said with a worried look on his face, "killing the priest of the Good Lord in the street... Do you know what this means? Although I have been here for a short time and I know that he is not very popular, I still think this is a bit too provocative..."

When he arrived here, he just saw Aiwass killing Aziz and twisting his soul into a mirror demon and sealing it in a palm-sized makeup mirror.

Now the mirror was placed next to Aiwass.

As a mirror demon, when the small mirror is closed, Aziz can neither see nor hear anything in the outside world. He will always remain clear-headed, alone in pure darkness... until the next person opens the mirror.

Aiwass successfully killed the enemy who cursed his parents and punished him severely -

This should have been a victory of revenge, but for some reason... I felt a sense of emptiness.

Perhaps it was because he won too easily, or killed too quickly, or perhaps his feelings for his biological parents were not as deep and clear as Aiwass himself thought... After all, he was still immature at that time. And although his adoptive father had a conspiracy, he also truly loved him.

His life was not painful, but he had some obsessions - the desire for punishment and revenge that he must not let this person go. It was the influence of the Shadow Sky Master on the material world.

Now that he has fulfilled this little obsession, Aiwass is not as happy or excited as he had imagined.

——It’s not about wanting to forgive anything, nor is it about wanting to gain enlightenment.

I simply feel that...

He hasn't killed enough.

"What does it mean?"

Aiwass smiled and looked up: "It means I will kill more people."

His tone was relaxed and calm.

It was as if this was not a harsh remark, but a statement of fact.

At that moment, the air in the car suddenly turned cold.

Plotinus looked at Aiwass in astonishment, his eyes fixed on him. He subconsciously glanced at Zhu Tang beside him, then turned back and continued to look at Aiwass.

Aiwass knew what Plotinus was thinking.

- Has he been corrupted by the power of the Good Lord? Has he become a man who acts recklessly in his own power? Does he want to start a war or interfere in the politics of the Parthians?

Was he representing himself, or the New Herasl Empire? Or was this an instruction from the Theocracy and the elves?

Is this a punishment from the gods, or a great violence? Where will Anxi go? What will happen to Yuan Tiansi who is about to be pulled down? Will the lives of ordinary people undergo an irreversible change? Is the sun about to fall?
Looking at Plotinus who was hesitant to speak, Aiwass gradually restrained the smile on his face.

"I'll kill more people."

He repeated: "Lots and lots of blood. I will change an era... like a monarch, like a god. But I will be neither a monarch nor a god."

For some reason, when Aiwass just said this, his right eye twitched.

He subconsciously reached out his hand and touched his dim yellow right eye. However, he did not feel the pulsating blood vessels... but felt a subtle humming like a hungry stomach.

——That was the fetal movement from Amber.

"arrive."

At this moment, Leviathan's childish voice came from outside the car.

As the dragon carriage came to a stop, they came to a private house.

This is the house where Plotinus temporarily resides.

It was neither luxurious nor huge. Although owning a single-family house with a garden was considered wealthy in Oasis City, this two-story duplex with an area of ​​no more than 100 square meters was somewhat inadequate for entertaining an Amon priest.

Old Iben, on the other hand, looked around after getting off the car, looking a little dazed.

Aiwas turned around and said to Plotinus: "I thought you would live in the palace. Didn't Aimaar Nur arrange a house for you?"

"I dare not live in the house that the good Lord has provided for me."

Plotinus was somewhat helpless: "The slaves serve you carefully, and there are people who come to you all the time to ask for your evaluation. A word you say unintentionally may cost several people their heads. To be honest... I don't want to bear such a responsibility. Just thinking about it, if I curse someone subconsciously, their whole family will be killed, I feel creepy."

"That means you're a good man, Plotinus."

Aiwass was in front, and said without turning his head: "Good people don't have to be ashamed. They are the ones who should be ashamed."

"But……"

"Plotinus," Aiwas held the mirror in his hand and pointed it at old Ibn beside him, "You know, his sister adopted Aziz. In other words, he is Aziz's uncle.

"Then his whole family was killed by Aziz."

Hearing this, Plotinus was stunned.

Aiwass pointed at himself with the small mirror again: "And my biological parents were also cursed to death by him."

Plotinus stood there in a daze for a few seconds.

Then he quickly caught up and was level with Aiwass.

"...Sorry, I don't know."

He whispered in Aiwass's ear: "So... this is a just revenge?"

"Not revenge, Plotinus. Not yet."

Aiwass tilted his head slightly and said seriously: “This is for healing wounds.

"If the poison has penetrated into the bone marrow, then we have to scrape the bone to remove the poison. Anxi has long been rotten to the core. No matter what kind of help or punishment we give them, the effect of the medicine is only superficial."

He didn't have this awareness originally.

Although the culture of Avalon emphasizes helping others when seeing injustice, his adoptive father taught him to "think about the people around you". Therefore, Aiwass has been helping others since he was a child, but he is unwilling to cause conflicts with others.

Later, after gaining power from the Theocracy, he began to learn the attitude of the elves - try not to interfere in the politics of the mortal world.

And now...

Perhaps it was because the memories from his past life were gradually revived, or perhaps it was because as he "traveled thousands of miles", he gradually got to know more and more of the world... Aiwass also gradually realized that he could not do nothing.

Yes, his nemesis, the enemy he must defeat is Huan Tiansi; the culprit who destroyed the world is the sealed Dusk, and the one who infected those crazy people is the Whisper of the Void.

Then the question is——Does one have to touch nothingness to become an evil person?

——Does touching nothingness mean that this person is beyond salvation?
When did he start to judge the good and evil of others based on the Tao?
Just like the Avalon bureaucrats at the beginning, they directly convicted a person based on the fact that he was a transcendent?

"I've come to realize something, Plotinus."

Aiwass said this, stopping on the steps.

The image of Xue Tiansi before his death emerged in his mind.

He thought of the catacombs of the irises.

He thought of the blood slaves raised by the Sons of the Moon.

He thought of the desert guide Anar, the petrified rock cellar city, the scars left by salt torture on the snake priestess' body, the polite Grandet, the ignorant and savage harpy, and the worship in the city of paradise.

The person who finally came to Aiwas' mind was Aziz.

Aziz is neither a beginning nor an end.

He is just a part of the process, an insignificant ant, a stone that can be seen on the roadside at any time. He cannot be called a necessity, but he is an inevitable person who must exist in such an environment.

Aiwass turned around and looked at the third circle which was filled with sunlight and became magnificent, sacred and glorious.

And the almost invisible oasis in the distance, hidden by the modern silver high-rise buildings, and the yellow sand further away.

“If we knock down the things that make people unhappy, will we be able to make people happy?”

Aiwass said slowly: "If we defeat the gods that mortals cannot fight against, will the world be at peace?"

If the meaning of his life is to devour Huan Tiansi and kill Xuwu...

What if nothing changes in the world after killing Nothingness?

In a world without nothingness, would everyone be happy?
As the hero who is prophesied to save the world, who is he protecting?
“While the world changes and reincarnates, things will never change.

“The righteous will remain righteous, and the filthy will remain filthy. The king will always be the king, and the slave will always be the slave.

"No one ascends, no one descends, nothing changes. The universe is frozen, like an amber egg..."

Aiwass chanted what Huan Tiansi had said and subconsciously touched his right eye.

He slowly said the last sentence: "The world is in eternal reincarnation, like a ring with a tail."

——Now, Aiwas finally understood why Huan Tiansi longed for the way of transmutation.

Huan Tiansi is indeed Aiwass himself.

If nothing changes, he will eventually go down this path.

It was precisely because of his incomplete memories of his previous life that he had experienced enough local knowledge, education and cognition that he had a disagreement with Huan Tiansi.

——But at the same time, they are also different.

One person gets tired, while the other stands up.

Just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

When one sun sets, another rises.

Haina looked at Aiwass and widened her eyes slightly.

Her right hand clenched subconsciously - that was the gesture she used to hold a sword.

Even Haena was moved by Aiwas' words...

Although she doesn't look very smart, she was more or less the chief in the past. It's not that she doesn't understand these knowledge, but after learning them, she thinks they are useless.

Neither astronomy nor mathematics helped her become an extraordinary person.

Whether she is good at literature or music, whether she can recite poetry or compose music, it has no effect on her social status - what ultimately determines everything is how far she can go on the road of authoritarianism.

At that time, Haina thought of one thing——

Avalon is a country of knights, but why are there no knights who can be praised today?

——Perhaps it is because becoming a glorious and righteous knight like in the stories no longer brings any power.

Or maybe it’s because… the knight in the story was the chosen one.

He is a god who has descended to earth, the adopted son of the elves, the friend of the fairies, and the darling of the world.

They are the protagonists and have nothing to do with the path of the knight.

And now...

"You know what, Plotinus."

Aiwass said seriously: “God resides in my eyes.

"The real god... Amber, one of the nine pillars of gods. My right eye is the amber egg. It is absorbing my soul as nourishment and is about to hatch."

While Plotinus was stunned, Aiwass continued:

“In just three days, a god will be born.

“This desert was born from inscription; this oasis was born from taboo.

"Amber is about to fall, and Yuan Tiansi will also return to this land. I want the god of this land to see for himself what this world has become.

“—Then, use the power of the god who created all of this to change it all forever.

"Use the power of amber to reshape the earth. Use the power of the abyss to reshape the rivers. Use my power... to begin changing this country, this world."

As for the Sin Thorn...

He is indeed the eldest son of this world, the ancestor, and their ancestor.

But worshiping our ancestors does not have to come at the cost of the lives and life of future generations.

The dead are dead, but the living are still alive.

In this case, let the dead make way for the living.

——Even if they must be worshipped, there are other places where they can be preserved.

"I want to completely change this world," Aiwass said firmly, with a perfectly coordinated glow of purple and red in his eyes, "not just saving the world from nothingness—"

"The power of conflict..."

Plotinus murmured in a low voice: "Is this the power of conflict?"

In the cultural beliefs of Horus, everything comes from conflict and opposition - this is completely opposite to the original idea of ​​harmony.

The Horus people believed that the invincible and eternal brilliance of the sun was due to the conflict and opposition of the two forces. The essence of creation comes from opposition, not gentleness.

Just as enemies can make each other stronger, goals or hatred can make people grow, and two countries that regard each other as enemies can become hegemons together...

no doubt.

It was Aiwass's hatred for all this ugliness that gave him the power to transcend his fate.

——Like a rising sun.

(End of this chapter)