Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1269 The First Pillar Gods

"Twin Mirror..."

Aiwass murmured softly.

Aimar Nur gazed at the mirror lake and bowed to it with great respect.

After that, all the good masters also paid obeisance to it.

Even Aiwass bowed solemnly to the remains of the twin mirror.

He looked down on these good people, but that didn't mean he would be disrespectful to this ancient pillar god.

To become a Pillar God, one must have some achievements. As the oldest Pillar God after the Path of the Sun, and even older than the Candlestick, the Twin Mirror must have its own sacredness.

Now is probably the time to reveal this secret.

"That was when the world was still in chaos."

Aymar Noor said slowly: "There is no light or fire in the world. There is no death or birth.

"At that time, even the sun did not exist yet. There were no stars in the sky, only countless cracks. Each crack was a malicious eye, and each crack was a greedy mouth.

"This world is dead silent, as if it has been destroyed by the gods. There is no up or down, no water or fire, no wind or earth. The world is turbid and dark, with only endless thorns of sin entangled together. They are our ancestors, and the sinners of the previous generation.

“And at this time, Sizhu was born.”

This good master narrates the myth of the creation of the world.

If the "nothingness" part is hidden, the real situation is not much different from what he said.

"The Candlemaker leaped out of the largest crack, and the flame from His body ignited the Thorn of Sin. The burning hole is called the Sun.

“The sun is the old wound of the sky. Light and fire are the sharp blade that makes the old wound bleed new blood.

"The blood scab that fell off was a black moon. It shattered on the ground and turned into a lake. When the light appeared, it remembered that it was called 'Mirror'.

“When Jing wakes up, the world will be different.

"The separation of the material from the immaterial, the waking from the dream, gave rise to the material world and the dream world - on one side the waking world and on the other side the reflection of the candlelight dream.

"Reality is dark, and dreams are bright. So light and darkness are separated. One side of it is dreams, and the other side is reality."

Aymar Noor murmured, "This is the first day of creation."

Aiwass looked at the shattered ice lake and suddenly understood something that he had never understood before.

He has now learned from the memories he has retrieved that Twin Mirror is the Pillar God who survived until the world was completely reduced to dusk by nothingness; at the same time, he is also the original Pillar God, but no one knows when he was born.

He finally understood now.

[…Generally speaking, each world has its own barrier to prevent the arrival of people from other worlds. But the world at that time had been eaten up by the dusk species, leaving only a huge hole in the sky - just like an apple eaten by worms.]

[This hole is the 'Tenth Source River' and also the 'Zeroth Source River'. It was through that hole that Sizhu entered this abandoned world... and discovered Sinthorn.]

Gray's words came to Aiwas' mind.

The records of the church and the records of the good Lord are pieced together to reveal the truth of the time.

No wonder the Twin Mirrors have such a high status... even Sizhu can only be inferior to them. No wonder when all the pillar gods were eroded by the void or died, the Twin Mirrors could still exist. They survived from the last generation before being devoured by the void to the next generation when they were devoured by the void again.

——Because He is the barrier that prevents the things from the dream world from arriving, and the blood scab that protects the wound from infection.

At the same time, it is also the world itself that has been eaten by nothingness and is therefore dead!

This strange worldview where the dream world and the material world reflect and interact with each other is because this world is built on this mirror.

He is the moon and the lake; He is the lake and the mirror; He is the mirror and the door; He is the door and the wound.

The blood scab is the lock, and the sharp blade is the key to open the lock.

The blade that pierces this lock and the medicine that awakens the old gods is the fire brought by this candle and the light brought by the burning sun.

After receiving the light from Sizhu, the twin mirrors woke up again. After all, without light, the mirrors were meaningless. With Him as the boundary, the turbid world was divided again.

In that era, the dream world and the material world were not yet separated. The two worlds were closely connected... and the way to connect them was to cross this mirror. Or to cross all mirrors. And it was the first mirror, the last god of the previous generation.

——The day of burning the thorns of sin and creating all things from the thorns of sin in the past.

—and a mirror that distinguishes light from dark, reality from dreams, self from others.

Creativity and difference.

Following these two is the first generation savior Sizhu, who made the greatest contributions. The source of civilization was born from then on.

…What about the Sand Clock, the Lord of Scales and Feathers, and the Snake Father?
This thought suddenly popped up in Aiwas' mind.

That, too, is a history that does not exist in the records of the Church.

But the good Lords might have records of this... and he asked Aymar Nur directly.

This kind-hearted master, known as the "Forgiver", did not make things difficult for Aiwass, but nodded gently.

He knelt devoutly and respectfully before the Mirror Lake, chanting in a low voice:

“When the fire started again from the ground and new life gathered together again, making this once sleeping world awake again...an outsider appeared in this world again.

"Like Sizhu, he arrived here from the other side of the dream world, jumped into this world from the mirror, and was full of curiosity about this new world. He was not very powerful and was very friendly, so Sizhu did not attack him. However, it was when the outsider arrived that Sizhu and the twin mirrors realized that this passage was too easy to pass through, and anyone from another world could easily get here, so they worked together to smash the mirror. It was like locking the door.

"From then on, the two worlds of light and darkness, heat and cold, nothingness and reality merged together, like milk and honey, inseparable. As an outsider, Sizhu and the outsiders could no longer leave this world.

"But the outsider was not troubled by this. He taught the new life with great enthusiasm, and this action also gave birth to a branch of truth in the source river. Sizhu invited him to become the pillar god of the fourth source river, but he said - it is not the right time yet.

"Under His teachings, people began to think - what are they? Where do they come from and where do they go? Why do they exist and why does this world exist?
"They pestered the outsiders, but the outsiders just smiled and said nothing; they pestered Sizhu, but Sizhu was not good at answering. So Sizhu found and resurrected the gods of the previous generation from the Sin Thorns..."

"...Sand Clock and Snake Father, right."

Aiwass had roughly guessed the truth.

Aymar Noor nodded slightly: "The Sand Clock represents the passage of time. Since the Sand Clock awakened, all order has also revived; and the Snake Father is the father of all people - He is the feathered serpent, so the winged and scaly people are all His descendants.

“However, the two ancient gods gave two completely different answers.

"The first is the principle of order, which is called balance. The Sand Clock claims that the world is always returning, so the new world needs to restore the form of the old world to revive the old civilization; the second is the principle of change, which is called transcendence. The Snake Father claims that the world is always changing, so the new world only needs to live the life of the people in the new world, and the old civilization is dead.

"In the dispute between the two ancient gods, Sizhu chose to abstain. The Twin Mirrors recognized the Sand Clock, while the outsider recognized the Snake Father. Later, the Twin Mirrors also changed their minds and chose the Snake Father... and our world was officially born from then on.

"Followers followed different truths, so conflicts and disputes arose. After the dream world and the material world were mixed together, these complex thoughts generated tremendous power, and a new sacred entity was released from the burning sinthorn... that is, the sky-eating beast and the hunting king who were born together. The sky-eating beast has overwhelming violence and continues to grow stronger from victory after victory; the hunting king has inexhaustible vitality and continues to grow stronger from failure after failure.

“The source of survival and violence comes from the ancients’ understanding of balance and transcendence. That is why they are adjacent to balance and transcendence respectively, and conflict with each other.

"--Later, the Winged Ones gave up getting answers from the gods. Their leader wanted to build the Pillar of Truth, so he built the Tower of Babel. He wanted to gather all the civilizations of the world here and ignite the fire of wisdom in the infinite power of civilization.

“And violence has always been incompatible with truth. When the initial fire of wisdom was born, the sky-eating beast suddenly came and hit the giant tower, destroying the initial crystallization of wisdom.

"The King of Winged Ones was furious and launched the world's first war against the Sky-Eating Beast. After his victory, the Outsider killed the Hunting King with the scales and feathers stolen from the Snake Father, seized the position of the Sixth Source River, and became the Lord of Scales and Feathers."

Aymar Nur stared at the Mirror Lake with great concentration: "This is ancient knowledge that can only be passed down by the King of Parthia and the Vizier. Apart from Parthia, these truths are no longer preserved anywhere else. Even the elves are just a new civilization that was born after the second collapse of the Tower of Babel."

Having said that, he glanced at Aiwass.

It was as if he had already guessed something.

It was as if I had some bad premonitions——

Why did Aiwass dare to come here alone? Why didn't he seem panicked at all?
as well as……

Why did the friendship chain on his shoulders become so noticeably hot and vibrate as Aiwass approached?
Is he really just the snake tail that Huan Tiansi discarded?

Or...

...Is this a layout and conspiracy at the level of a celestial being?

Aymar Noor’s eyes were deep, and he spoke clearly, word by word: “Therefore, I want to give them to you.

"If we no longer exist after today... at least there is still one person who can remember everything from the beginning of creation."

"Forgiver—"

"What's wrong with you?"

Hearing Aimaer Nur's words, the other benefactors became anxious.

Aimar Nur, with the chain of friendship on his shoulders, just silently felt the abnormal temperature and vibration from the "chain of friendship" on his shoulders, and silently waved his hands vigorously to dispel the worries and dissatisfaction of others.

No matter what, once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back.

——Now that things have come to this, he can no longer choose to retreat.

"The time has come."

Aymar Noor suddenly gave an order.

He raised his cane and touched the mirror lake.

"I am Aymar Nur. We are the guardians of the holy spring, and we have guarded it for generations."

He prayed solemnly and solemnly: "Holy Spring, please cleanse us."

As he touched it, white smoke suddenly rose from the cold holy spring, like a boiling lake.

"Everyone recites the poem praising the Twin Mirror until nine hours later.

"I will call up the waters of the abyss from the Mirror Lake—"

(End of this chapter)