Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1338 When the Sun No Longer Rises

"The long night is coming..."

At this very moment, Zhu Tang, far away in the beginning of time, looked out the dark window and sighed: "The long night has come."

Just like what happened in the ancient past when the cicada molted.

The sun falls, and the pillar gods change!
All those who transcend in the world were suddenly awakened at this moment, and a tremor that was almost painful rippled through their hearts.

It's like the feeling you get when a loved one is in danger; that gripping force in your heart makes it hard to breathe.

At that moment, people witnessed a magnificent and dazzling illusion:

On this early morning before the sun had risen, an incredibly magnificent and enormous feathered serpent resolutely flew into the sky!
[August 1st has been confirmed.]

On that day, I will complete my final transcendence: crossing the wall of twilight.

"Whether I survive or not, and whatever lies on the other side of that wall... I will no longer exist as a pillar god. Whether I die, depart, be reborn, or ascend to the throne... I will leave the River of Change."

[The world will face an 'eight days without surpassing it'. On August 8th, a new pillar god will ascend.]

These are the words spoken by the Serpent Father to the Lord of Scales and Feathers when the cardinals performed the descent of the gods.

Now, as Aiwass witnesses the Snake Father's fall during his ascension ceremony, the Snake Father in the outer dream realm launches the same attack—

Since the Serpent Father resides in the dream realm and has not descended into the material world, it is impossible for Him to "break through the heavens."

Therefore, He simply flew upwards.

This scene, when reflected in the material world, becomes the snake father crashing into the sky.

however……

The once-brilliant sun now seemed to have become a huge hole.

The darkness seeping from within obscured the sky like silt.

When the radiant serpent father collided with it, the light around him shone and illuminated the mud.

—That was a wall.

The boiling liquid darkness seeping in from the outside formed a solid wall, blocking all the light emanating from the Serpent Father.

That was the Twilight Wall.

"What's on the other side of that wall...?"

Grey of the Church looked at the illusion in the sky with deep concern.

She knew, of course, that it was a loophole left after Xi Tiansi's death; she also knew that it was the power of nothingness that had leaked in.

But what kind of world could give birth to such a terrifying monster?

"I am destined to walk the path of transcendence, and I will never turn back until the very end. To attempt to transcend this inevitable fate is tantamount to betraying the path of transcendence on another level. This is the 'paradox of transcendence,' an infinite wall without positivity or antithesis."

The so-called destiny, the so-called inevitable fate, the so-called paradox of transcendence... those are the traces left by the shadow of the Serpent Father in time and space.

The snake father is doomed.

Because He died long ago—

That "infinite wall without positive or negative" is ouroboros... it is distorted spacetime, a Möbius strip, and a Klein bottle.

"—Just live on, carrying every trace of me with you. You... are also a continuation of me."

Those were the words the Serpent Father spoke to Aiwass.

Everything from the past is now reflected in this moment—

The next instant after the Serpent Father crashed into the dark sky.

His divine body suddenly shattered.

Just as the incredibly hard Rupert's Tear was instantly crushed, the powerful Serpent Father's figure shattered like an illusion.

But only a very few people know that the current Snake Father is really just an illusion.

When people saw the pillar god fall and the sun no longer rise, they believed it was a sign of the end of the world.

...Perhaps from a certain perspective, this is not necessarily wrong.

Almost the entire material world is now in chaos.

People were gripped by the spreading panic, but true nothingness had not yet formally entered the material world.

Currently, the only country that can remain calm is Wanning, which was previously the most backward.

Sultana Isabel announced to the people that their god Aiwass would ascend to the position of the sun.

He will replace the third sun and become the gentlest, greatest, and most enduring fourth sun.

He will defeat the darkness that even the Serpent Father could not overcome, and pierce the night that even the Heavenly Emperor could not illuminate!
And people, all they need to do is wait.

Just trust.

All you need to do is pray.

Just hope—

And this unwavering confidence gradually spread from Wanning to the surrounding areas.

There were no fixed prayers, nor any prescribed rituals. In this situation, the purest "hope" was born from people's hearts—the desire for a "miracle" flowed like a river.

The power of wishes from one hundred people, one thousand people, ten thousand people... even one million people converges into a river and flows into the dream world.

The River of Creation was eager to try, but it could never split off into a new source river.

Because there are only nine rivers in the source area.

Without the tenth "River of the Source of Nothingness", how could the eleventh "River of the Source of Miracles" have been born?
Without "10", how can there be "11"?

At this very moment, in the dream world where time seemed to pass at ten thousand times the speed, Aiwass had already become friends with Lucifer. Unaware of what was happening in the outside world, Aiwass gladly joined the research on the Tower of Babel.

He saw the pure white little insect.

This is a scene that Aiwass witnessed in the illusion of Inanna's contract—

The white worm, carrying a golden gem, slowly flapped its wings and flew toward Aiwass's fingertips.

Aiwass stared at her, his pupils dilating slightly.

Countless old dreams surfaced in my heart, only to shatter again.

Like a dream, a bubble, a shadow, like dew, like lightning.

"It likes you very much, snake."

A gentle voice rang out from Aiwas's heart.

He turned around and saw his friend's magnificent figure.

Twelve pure white wings, inlaid with gold and jewels, fluttered around a dazzling, warm light.

He stood beside Aiwass, looking with interest at the little thing crawling on Aiwass's fingertips: "It really likes your light, just like my taste."

"...May I name her?"

Aiwas thought to himself.

"of course."

Lucifer smiled gently: "The light in your heart is enough to nurture it, so you are her parents."

"We who have wings are born toward the light. We feed on the light in people's hearts, just as you who have scales draw nourishment from matter... We who have wings draw nourishment from the soul."

"Ideals, hope, friendship, courage... these are all precious nourishment, like aphids sucking sap from a tree. That's why they are usually placed in towers, because endless light resonates here."

Those familiar words stirred something within Aiwas.

"if……"

Aiwass thought, "If she hatches with my light... then she'll be my child, right?"

"Yes, it will inherit your ideals. Don't you scaled people have this saying? Offspring are the continuation of their parents. The descendants of the winged are also the continuation of their parents—not in terms of material bloodline, but in terms of spiritual inheritance."

The descendants of winged beings are also a continuation of their parents—

Aiwas was in a daze again.

He thought of the snake father.

For some reason, a sudden pang of pain gripped his heart, as if his father had left him forever.

...And ironically, it wasn't just one father who left Aiwass forever.

Aiwass closed his eyes and pressed the larva to his forehead.

He tried his best to filter out the sadness in his heart and leave more warm hope to nourish his first child.

"Your name is...Inanna, okay?"

He thought to himself.

All people are like stars—

However, the larvae did not react to the name.

It just innocently nibbled at Aiwas's finger, its fluffy wings fluttering.

Seeing that it didn't react at all, Aiwass felt a little disappointed.

This means that only she herself truly returned to the past. Inanna, who also witnessed the Snake Father's demise, did not regain her memories.

At that moment, he recognized her, but she did not recognize him.

...But it's okay.

This is the original amber.

She was that tender, light-eating larva who first encountered the "snake" in the Tower of Babel. She was Inana before she had consumed Ai Shiping.

"Nice to meet you, Inanna."

Aiwas smiled helplessly and whispered gently.

And just then.

The amber, which had been sleeping in the amber forest, suddenly opened its eyes.

In an instant, dusk enveloped the entire world.

Time stood still for a moment, and even the Pillar God and the Void were frozen in their thoughts and actions.

In the brief moment when time seemed to stand still, she gradually exerted her strength.

The amber she inhabited gradually became cracked, and a thick, golden liquid kept seeping out and leaking.

"Nice to meet you..."

Amber's dry, ethereal voice echoed through the deserted amber forest.

No one witnessed it, no one listened to it.

"—My respected teacher."

The amber egg shattered instantly!

(End of this chapter)