Chapter 29 Shepherd

In the middle of the night, the waxing gibbous moon almost sank into the earth again. The sky was already slightly white.

The clock in Aiwas' room swung rhythmically, and the pointer on it had already pointed to 4:20 in the morning.

And he was still sitting in the wheelchair like a sculpture, flipping through the "Shepherd's Secret Sutra" motionlessly.

Two strange purple-red tears of blood kept sliding down from the corners of Aiwas' eyes, who was sitting at the table in a daze as if he had lost his soul, and dripped onto the pages of the book. Then he sank directly into it and was absorbed by it.

Aiwas was absorbed in the secrets in the book.

The skin on his face was flushed, and the blood vessels on his forehead and forearms were bulging visibly. The blood vessels that should have been blue showed dark purple spider web patterns.

Although it was winter, Aiwas' room was still warm. But with Aiwas' deep and heavy breathing, pale white high-temperature mist kept exhaling from his mouth. Occasionally, when he coughed in a low voice, some sparks would burst out.

It was not until the early morning when birds chirped outside that Aiwass seemed to wake up from a dream.

His eyes became clear again, and the purple lines on his face slowly shrank.

At this time, he had unknowingly turned to the end of this thin black leather booklet. The knowledge had been deeply engraved in Aiwas's memory, and he could remember it clearly the moment he closed his eyes. The words even became glittering.

"...It turned out to be such a thing."

Aiwass's expression was solemn, and he murmured in a low voice.

This black secret book tells about a mysterious skill called "shepherding".

That was a mysterious skill that existed more than a thousand years ago - when there was no concept of "profession".

At that time, almost all extraordinary people were walking on multiple paths at the same time. Because at that time, the extraordinary common sense of "minimizing the number of paths you are in at the same time" had not yet been summarized.

Walking on multiple paths at the same time is not only easy to drive people crazy and make it difficult to advance on each path, but also very unfavorable to inheritance. In that environment, the mysterious skills that each extraordinary person has developed and mastered with all his life's energy must be passed on to his successor who is completely consistent with his own personality, hobbies, and nature.

Therefore, in ancient times, extraordinary people were a very small number of people in human society. And their extraordinary powers were not strong enough.

Because there was no inheritance system, almost all extraordinary people could not pass on for more than three generations. And the depth that each person could advance on the path by relying on his own exploration was also very limited.

It was not until about the fourth or fifth century that the concept of "profession" gradually emerged. Extraordinary people used various means of practice to gradually make their personalities pure and extreme, and eliminated the paths they did not intend to enter. At the same time, they were vigilant not to pollute their personality essence, and on the premise of maintaining their original intentions, they tried to move closer to the safe paths that their ancestors had explored.

The principles of the nine great paths are actually very vague. Their boundaries overlap with each other and are constantly changing.

For example, the path of "beauty" related to art has the most obvious changes. Almost every few hundred years, people's understanding of "beauty" will change. Many arts that were previously considered inferior have become "ancient trends" after decades or hundreds of years.

But if you are a transcendent without guidance, it is easy to go astray.

Because all ordinary people with mental health must meet multiple path principles at the same time.

For example, wild dedication path transcendents may also be able to figure out the art of illumination. But if they don't know that the core principle of the dedication path is "altruism", it is easy for them to "use their healing ability to seize the right to speak". For example, becoming the leader of a small sect.

It is easy to unknowingly embark on the path of authoritarianism.

Similarly, if you are too obsessed with the truth, or think you are smart and talented, better than ordinary people, you will embark on the path of wisdom to pursue the truth.

If you are too obsessed with becoming a pope or a bishop, and are eager to be promoted within the church system, you have already embarked on the path of transcendence.

It would be fine if we were walking on two paths at the same time. But everyone's mental strength and energy are limited, and humans are forgetful.

If you completely forget your original intention and become another person who is completely different from your original self... then the original power from the path of dedication will continue to weaken and disappear.

The so-called "professional" inheritance, the most important inheritance is the "bottom line of the path". Even if the scope of the path is vague, its core must be clear. Then don't test the boundaries of the path, just follow the most core part of the principles, and only use the safest part of the power, so that you can get a relatively pure path of power.

Even if you are a priest who is eager to be promoted, or you use it to seek money, power, and sex, as long as you remember that the core principle of the path of dedication is "altruism", you will not lose the priest's professional level.

With the "professional" system, extraordinary knowledge can be officially inherited. From then until now, the extraordinary people have been getting stronger and stronger overall.

But this does not mean that the ancient mysterious skills are weak.

In the pre-professional era, almost every mysterious skill was inherited by the strong people of that year.

For example, the "Shepherd's Secret Sutra" obtained by Aiwass is a mysterious skill engraved from the memory of a man named "Shepherd".

This skill requires both the path of devotion and the path of transcendence to be adaptable, and requires that these two paths must be kept as balanced as possible - only when the depth of the two paths is consistent can the "pastoral art" be used.

When Aiwas's priest profession is advanced, he will not be able to use it temporarily before the demon scholar is advanced.

And this mysterious skill can be called a sorcery -

Its basic principle is "to feed the invisible with the visible, and to feed the visible with the invisible".

In general, it tells a mysterious skill that can make anyone stronger...

After opening the book, Aiwas fell into a hallucination. From the text, he vaguely saw a hooded black-robed man, feeding weak demons with his flesh and blood.

He did not sign a contract with the demon, but simply lured the demon to follow him with his flesh and blood. It was like raising a pet, or herding cattle and sheep. These weak demons were raised by him and became stronger and stronger.

He also became skinny and covered with scars because of this.

After that, Aiwas saw someone kneeling in front of the black-robed man, praying for something.

The man used a special method to infuse the invisible power of the demon into the supplicant. In a burst of fire, it changed dramatically and gained power.

So the supplicant became the man's follower. He killed many people and offered them as sacrifices to more and more demons. And after he became weak, he was ruthlessly thrown to a new batch of demons as blood food.

After repeated use, the demons gradually became stronger and more numerous. After that, he used the same secret method to inject these demons into other followers who were thirsty for power.

In this way, he got an evil army composed of demons.

The army collected various secret treasures for him and seized various wealth. The increasingly thin man began to cultivate more and more phantoms. At this time, it was no longer just the demons who followed him. Even the phantoms of light attributes appeared beside him.

They were all fed by the man since childhood. Without signing a contract, they were willing to accept the man's dispatch and share part of their power with others.

Under the operation of the black-robed man, his followers increased in number, and they became stronger and stronger.

They formed a terrible force in a short period of time, like a snowball. And attracted encirclement and suppression from all sides.

Finally, when he was encircled by the coalition forces, he sacrificed his followers as food, and fed them to the powerful phantom demon with the pastoral technique.

Anyone who had been pastored by him was unable to resist the forced sacrifice of the pastoral technique.

They were used as food to summon more powerful phantom demons.

Aiwass saw it clearly in the illusion.

Although it was just a silhouette, it was undoubtedly the "Fallen Angel" who came and was defeated in version 0!

The black-robed man's plan went wrong at the last moment-he tried to inject the power of the Fallen Angel into his body with the pastoral technique.

——Unexpectedly, the pastoral technique suddenly failed at this time.

He himself could not properly contain the power of the Fallen Angel. Missed the best time.

Without using the pastoral method that can extract the essence of the phantom without damaging its essence, his behavior has become stealing the essence of the phantom. The angry Fallen Angel hit him hard, and he was killed by the coalition assassin.

The evil inheritance of the man called "the shepherd" was cut off.

"... Because when he tried to inject the power he seized into his body, he had already deviated from the path of dedication."

Aiwass sighed.

He really did not make a mistake in this name.

Using humans as sacrifices to feed the phantoms, and then extracting power from the phantoms, or directly sacrificing the entire phantom to feed humans.

Just like a real shepherd.

Using the ubiquitous grass to graze cattle and sheep, and then obtaining milk and meat from the cattle and sheep.

That grass is mortals.

The cattle and sheep are the phantoms.

Such a bad metaphor.

- If the endless grass is not regarded as a cost, "pastoring" cattle and sheep is a secret technique that comes out of nothing.