Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 852 Endless Knot Ai Shiping

In his soul state, Aiwas's expression became serious.

He looked at "Evans" in front of him.

His short golden hair stood up messily like flames, and his eyes had a purple-red glow flowing like smoke. He was shirtless, with clearly visible muscles and wheat-colored skin close to coffee.

There were a lot of silver runes on his skin, overlapping to outline a mysterious magic circle and strange rune secret language. They swallowed and exhaled the elemental power overflowing in the air, constantly inhaling or exhaling the four-color glow of blue, red, white, and yellow. These glows formed a huge halo composed of flowing four-color glows behind that "Aiwass".

Just standing there gives people a strong sense of oppression.

——If I had to describe it, it would be “magnificent divine power”.

It is completely different from Aiwas's skin as white as jade, and although you can see some muscle undulations, you need to touch it with your hands to feel the outline of the muscles.

The "Evans" in front of us gives people the feeling that "he can kill someone with just a few punches with bare hands."

...Compared to the "old Aiwass" in this painting, Aiwass would rather believe that this is the other person he has been waiting for for a long time.

"Huan Tiansi..."

Aiwass murmured in a low voice: "I finally see you."

The culprit who dragged Aiwas into the mystery and made him the fulcrum of many conspiracies and intrigues, the one who developed and planned the Tail Ring Ritual, and the one who caused many world-destroying crises. He was also the god who intended to devour Aiwas's existence... the real time traveler, Ai Shiping.

Even Aiwas’ precious memories of his past life and his name were taken away… or rather, nothing was left for him.

In a sense, He is even the essence and creator of Aiwass.

So far, Huan Tiansi has only appeared as a man who speaks fragmentary words and riddles.

Aiwas was caught off guard by the sudden contact with the personified Huan Tiansi.

Originally, Aiwas thought that he would meet this guy only after defeating the Fallen Angel, the Disaster Dragon, and even his adoptive father. He should be standing in the dark palace, waiting for his challenge, as an opponent that he must face in destiny, deciding their life and death...

But now, He appeared so early.

Arriving at Aiwass early, I was unprepared, and even without any emotions brewing...

"Actually, you should call me Endless Knot now," Ai Shiping smiled, seeming quite friendly, "but Huan Tiansi is also fine, it's up to you..."

He took a step back and looked at Aiwass, as if he was admiring his most perfect work.

“This is a hard time to find the right time.”

Huan Tiansi sighed: "Only when your transcendent soul is separated, will you listen to me at ease. But it is not easy for me to come to the Church Country, so I can only wait for you in the dream world..."

"...In other words," Aiwass frowned slightly, "Is it because I died that you came to me?"

"I will come if one of you and Aleister dies. You have to separate... If you see Aleister attacking me, you will come with him, right? That would be bad."

Huan Tiansi said with a smile: "If Hakimi goes crazy and bites people, it will be the key cap."

Aiwass didn't understand what He said, but he could keenly sense that it was not a good thing.

He frowned, but had to admit one thing - before he met Aleister, he did have the patience to listen to Huan Tiansi and was indeed full of curiosity.

"...What do you want to do? Take my body and upgrade it to the Ring of the Tail?"

Aiwass asked back: "Isn't the Endless Knot okay?"

"You must be kidding. You don't think you're special, do you?"

Huan Tiansi smiled helplessly. Although he was gentle and patient, his words revealed an unconcealable arrogance and indifference: "I don't need you at all to complete the Tail Ring. You don't even know what the name 'Aiwas' means.

"Listen carefully, Aiwass - I am your shepherd. Both you and Aleister were separated parts of me from the very beginning. You just forgot too many things, so you developed self-awareness... Therefore, if one day I need to complete myself, it will not be to 'take away your body', but to take back what belongs to me."

"What if," Aiwass said solemnly, "the final outcome is... I eat you?"

"……Ah."

Tiansi Huan smiled, not caring at all: "If you can really do it, then do as you please. Pastoralism is just a bridge, it is not the goal. Whose consciousness is the main body is something that mortals who are still in the flesh will be entangled with. As long as you die once, you will know that it is not important at all. This kind of thing is like the introduction of a novel... Although it is also very important, it does not necessarily mean that you can't read it without it. The most important thing is the content.

"When you become me, you will eventually choose the same thing as me. I understand you, just as I understand myself. I know what I cut off, and I also know what you will choose. That's why I asked that question just now..."

"...Let more people survive?"

Aiwass murmured softly.

He asked back: "Is this the reason why you hold the Tail Ring?" "Oh?"

Huan Tiansi's face still had an unchanged, benevolent smile like a statue of God, and he opened his arms as if stretching: "Then take a look at this world.

"This is a world where I didn't perform the Tail Ring ceremony - what do you think?"

“…I think it’s good.”

Aiwass told the truth: "Supernatural power and technology are integrated together, just like..."

"——It's just like our previous life, right? It's even more interesting. Yes, if you think about it from the perspective of how interesting it is, or the development of civilization, it's true."

Huan Tiansi lowered his eyes slightly, and the smile on his face gradually faded.

"You may not have a sense of intuition when you say this here."

He said this and put his hand on Aiwass's shoulder.

next moment--

The world around me was suddenly rewritten.

Above the light purple sky, the silvery-white stars turned into shooting stars traveling with him.

The deep purple river surged like waves, and Huan Tiansi stepped on a small piece of ice and went downstream. He left all the stars behind him, and in front of him was only endless darkness that seemed to swallow everything - where the river had not yet flowed, everything was turbid and uncertain darkness. Only after the source flowed through, the place finally manifested into beautiful purple.

"This is……"

"The eighth source river, the River of Change."

Huan Tiansi raised his head and said calmly: "You or I - one day we will obtain the power of this river."

"...Are you so thirsty for power?" Aiwass murmured.

"Thirst? Power?"

Huan Tiansi laughed as if he had heard a joke: "No, you don't understand what it means to be a Pillar God. As long as you step into this source river one day, you will become a Pillar God who is immune to reincarnation, and one day you will return here again."

As He spoke, He pointed to the nothingness in front of Him: "Do you know what that is?"

"..."

Aiwass did not answer.

His lips were pursed and his brows were furrowed.

Is this really... me?
They are clearly parts that have been cut off, so why is there such a big gap between them?

"That is the Tenth River of Nowhere, the Void. I prefer to call it the Whisper of the Void."

Huan Tiansi turned back to look at Aiwass: "You should have heard of it, right? In another world line... In the world line called 'London' in 'New Avalon', the next moment after December 1999, 12, the world was frozen in the color of dusk.

“I’m going to tell you this story from another perspective.

"——This world has been restarted eight times. On that day, the world was not destroyed... but was 'frozen'.

"These eight thousand years have been a cycle, repeating over and over again. Amber saved this world, and because of this achievement, she was promoted to a pillar god. From then on... the whole world has been circulating in Amber's body.

"My reincarnation authority was not shattered before that... but was given to Amber by me."

Huan Tiansi looked at Aiwas calmly: "Have you used the second effect of the pastoral method?
“Giving the power of the phantom demon to others—and as we all know, the Heavenly Master and the Pillar God are also a kind of phantom demon.

"I gave all my Pillar God power to that girl. She is the living pillar of this world."

"…Isn't the girl in Amber the 'wrong' pillar god?"

Aiwass realized that he had guessed wrong about one thing before.

Huan Tiansi asked back, "Why do you think that all source rivers must be assigned pillar gods?
"You have no idea what it means to be a Pillar God. It is a living Pillar of this world.

"If becoming a Pillar God is free of cost...

"——Then how did you get here?"

(End of this chapter)