Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 29 The Shepherd

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

The clock in Aiwass' room was swinging rhythmically, and the pointer on it had already pointed to [-]:[-] in the morning.

And he was still sitting in a wheelchair like a sculpture, flipping through the "Shepherd's Tantra" motionless.

Two strange purple blood tears continuously slipped from the corners of the eyes of Aiwass, who was sitting at the table as if he had lost his soul, and landed on the pages of the book.Immediately submerge into it and be absorbed by it.

Aiwass looked at the secrets in the book fascinated.

The skin on his face was flushed red, and the blood vessels on his forehead and forearms were swollen visible to the naked eye.The blood vessels that were supposed to be blue showed dark purple spider web patterns.

Although it was winter, Aiwass' room was still warm.But along with Aiwass' deep and heavy breathing, pale white high-heat mist continuously exhaled from his mouth.Occasionally, when coughing in a low voice, some sparks will burst out.

Aiwass didn't wake up as if from a big dream until early in the morning when birds were singing outside.

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

At this moment, he had unknowingly turned to the end of this thin black leather booklet.That knowledge has been deeply embedded in Aiwass' memory, and he can clearly recall it the moment he closes his eyes.The words even became sparkling.

"...It turned out to be something like this."

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

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

It was a mysterious skill that existed more than a thousand years ago - when the concept of "profession" did not exist.

At that time, almost all supernatural beings were walking on multiple paths at the same time.Because at that time, the extraordinary common sense of "reducing the number of paths that one goes deep into at the same time as much as possible" has not been summed up.

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

Therefore, in ancient times, extraordinary beings were a very small number of existences in human society.And their extraordinary power is not strong enough.

Because there is no inheritance system, almost all superhuman beings cannot be passed down to three generations.And everyone only relies on their own groping, and the depth they can advance on the road is also very limited.

It was not until about the fourth and fifth centuries that the concept of "occupation" gradually came into being.Extraordinary people use various methods of practice to make their personalities gradually pure and extreme, and get rid of the paths they don't intend to set foot in.At the same time, be careful not to pollute your personality essence, and try to move closer to the safe path explored by the ancestors on the premise of maintaining your original heart.

The principles of the Nine Great Paths are actually very vague.Its boundaries even overlap and are constantly changing.

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

But if it is an extraordinary person without guidance, it is easy to go astray.

Because all ordinary people who are mentally healthy must meet the criteria of multiple paths at the same time.

For example, it is also possible for a wild devotion path extraordinary person to find out the lighting technique.But if they don't know that the core principle of the path of dedication is "altruism", they will easily follow the path of "using their own healing ability to seize the right to speak".For example, becoming the leader of a small sect.

Then it is easy to unknowingly embark on the path of authority.

Similarly, the balanced path of pursuing knowledge and science, and analyzing everything to dispel enchantment, if you are too paranoid about the truth, or think you are a genius and superior to ordinary people, you will embark on the path of wisdom in pursuit of truth.

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

It's fine if you walk on both paths at the same time.But everyone's mental strength and energy are limited, and human beings are forgetful.

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

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

Even if it is a priest who is eager to be promoted, or seeks wealth and power for sex, as long as he bears in mind that the core principle of the dedication path is "altruism", he will not lose his professional level as a priest.

With the "occupation" system in place, extraordinary knowledge can be officially passed on.From then until now, Transcendents have generally become stronger and stronger.

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

Almost every mysterious skill in the pre-professional era is the inheritance left by the strong people back then.

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

This skill requires the adaptability of both the path of devotion and the path of transcendence, and requires that the two paths must be as balanced as possible-only when the depth of the two paths are consistent, the "art of shepherding" can be used.

When Aiwass' priest career is advanced, he will be temporarily unavailable until the demon scholar is advanced.

And this mysterious skill can be called sorcery——

Its basic principle is "to nourish the formless with the form, and to support the form with the formless".

Overall, it tells of a mysterious art that can make anyone stronger...

After opening the book, Aiwass fell into hallucinations.From the text, he vaguely saw a man in a black robe wearing a hood, feeding the weak demon with his own flesh and blood.

He did not sign a contract with the devil, but simply tempted the devil to follow him with flesh and blood.It's like keeping a pet, and it's like herding cattle and sheep.These weak demons were raised by him and became stronger and stronger.

As a result, he became emaciated and covered in scars.

After that, Aiwass saw someone kneeling in front of the man in black, begging for something.

And the man used a special method to infuse the invisible power of the devil on the supplicant.In a burst of fire, it changed drastically, and it also gave it strength.

So the supplicant becomes the man's follower.He killed many and sacrificed them to a growing number of demons.And after he weakened, he was ruthlessly thrown to a new batch of demons as blood food.

With repeated use in this way, the demons gradually become stronger and more numerous.After that, using the same secret method, he infused these demons into the bodies of other followers who thirsted for power.

Thus he acquired an evil army of demon possessors.

The legion collected all kinds of secret treasures and seized all kinds of wealth for him.The thinner and thinner men began to cultivate more and more phantoms.At this time, it was no longer only demons who followed him.Even phantoms with light attributes appeared beside him.

They are all raised by men.In the absence of a contract, he is willing to accept the man's dispatch and share part of his power with others.

Under the operation of the man in black, there are more and more followers around him, and they are getting stronger and stronger.

Like a snowball, they formed a terrifying force in a short period of time.And attracted all parties to encircle and suppress.

In the end, when he was besieged by the coalition forces, he sacrificed his followers as food, and fed them to the powerful phantom with the technique of shepherding.

Anyone who has received his shepherding is powerless to resist the forced sacrifice of the art of shepherding.

They were used as food to summon more powerful phantoms.

Aiwass could see clearly in the phantom.

Although it was just a silhouette, it was undoubtedly the "Fallen God" who came and was defeated in version 3.0!
The black-robed man's plan had an accident at the last moment - he tried to inject the power of Fallen Heavens into himself with the technique of shepherding.

——But unexpectedly, the art of shepherding suddenly failed at this moment.

He himself could not properly contain the power of Fallen Heavens.The best time was missed.

Without using the shepherding method that can extract the essence of phantom without harming its essence, his behavior became to steal the essence of phantom - the furious Fallen Heavens backhanded him, and he was also killed by the coalition assassins killed.

The man known as the "shepherd", his evil inheritance has been cut off so far.

"...Because when he tried to inject the power of grabbing into himself, he must have deviated from the path of dedication."

Aiwass sighed.

This name, he really did not make a mistake.

Use humans as sacrifices to feed phantoms, and then draw power from phantoms, or directly sacrifice the entire phantoms to feed humans.

Just like a real shepherd.

Use the ubiquitous grass to graze cattle and sheep, and then obtain milk and meat from the cattle and sheep.

That grass is mortal.

Cattle and sheep are phantoms.

Such a bad metaphor.

——If you don't regard the endless grass as a price, "herding" cattle and sheep is a secret art that emerges out of nothing.

(End of this chapter)