Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 891: The Way to Go Against Heaven and Beyond the Rules
"The Eighth River Source... the Way of Transgression?"

Zhu Tang nodded, closed his eyes and whispered in Taichu language.

In the Taichu Empire, the path of transcendence is called the Way of Exceeding the Rules. Although it is the same path, the different names give people different psychological implications. This is also the wonder that can only be experienced by leaving one's own country.

He nodded and soon figured it out: "That makes sense. This Tower of Babel is something that only people like us who don't respect the will of heaven would try to build. The word 'Babel' itself implies the idea of ​​'being on a par with the sky'.

"These ancient philosophers did things that went against the will of heaven, so heaven was enraged and struck them with thunder... Is this the story?"

But soon, Zhu Tang had other questions, so he switched to Xing Ti language again: "But if this is the case, shouldn't these mages be on the path to transcendence?"

“——They may not have left.”

Aiwass shook his head and replied softly, "We now divide the paths so clearly because we know that it is easy to lose control if we take multiple paths at the same time, and because only a single path that is strong enough can lead to promotion.

"The career system is more stable, safer, and more convenient for people to obtain extraordinary powers, but this is actually achieved by directing people's energy in one direction - it is a unique promotion model based on the lifespan of the 'short-lived species'."

Without the guidance of a career system, the immortals all freely explore the power of various paths according to their own wishes. This is like an open world game, or even a sandbox game. Everyone has their own way of playing, and thus develops different powers, which is "inheritance".

But in fact, in this case, the number of failed accounts is far greater than the successful ones. It's just that over the years, under the survival of the fittest, only these sufficiently excellent inheritances have been passed down, and thus formed one "optimal route planning" after another. People also understand that following these paths will guarantee a sufficiently powerful inheritance, which is much higher than the benefits of exploring on their own, but in fact, at that time, people were not prohibited from freely exploring.

Later, Weizhe and Sand Timepieces jointly developed a career system.

In fact, it is equivalent to extracting these "optimal routes" one by one, simplifying them and making them into a linear game. This game only has this one line of content, and also adds guidance and automatic path finding, and organizes the fragmented plot into a chapter. This allows players with much lower skills to understand the game.

Just as extraordinary people without any master can obtain corresponding skills after getting a profession; extraordinary people who have obtained corresponding skills will automatically enter the corresponding professional system to avoid the emergence of new skills and the formation of new "inheritance" such as "someone uses skills from other professions to enter this profession and gain stronger combination capabilities".

——This automatic employment mode is not for convenience, but for "balance".

Aiwass said softly: "But in ancient times, people may not have the concept that 'the abilities of different paths are separate'. Although the sources of power are different, they may be mixed when using them. The power of different paths is twisted into a rope in their hands to exert a stronger power. Or...

"...They know a skill that can combine the power of different rivers."

At that moment, Aiwass thought of the "Holy Eleven".

He immediately frowned and thought of many things.

“——Ah, I understand.”

After a short silence, Zhu Tang nodded repeatedly to break the silence: "It's just like stewing a turtle. You need fire to light the stove, and water to stew the soup. The turtle itself is an animal, and it needs to eat some algae, fish and shrimp in the river. When stewing the soup, you also need wine to cook the fragrance and remove the fishy smell, and the wine is made from grain, and grain comes from the earth...

"When the delicious soup is cooked, all its wonderful essence is in the soup. The soup can be as clear as water, and fools will think that it is from the water and out of the water, and that the clear soup must be tasteless, and it is a waste of effort to turn on the fire and simmer the pot. In fact, they don't know that the essence from all corners of the world has been stewed into the soup..."

When talking about food, Zhu Tang became talkative.

He turned his head slightly, and although he didn't open his eyes, he seemed to see Aiwass's helpless expression.

So he just chuckled and said something serious but lighthearted: "Don't be too nervous, Your Holiness. There have been similar speculations in my hometown.

"An ancient philosopher once said, One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things. The First Source River is the original source river, and its root is creation. And Miss 'Doll' once said that the essence of the Second Source River is the difference between all things.

The One created everything from nothing until all things became different from one another.

"Then the creation of 'difference' gave rise to 'civilization'. Civilization gave rise to everything that followed. The fact that the accumulation of source rivers will give rise to new source rivers may not be a secret. Of course, you are indeed an extraordinary person to be able to infer the theories of the ancient philosophers from these few fragments of ancient images."

“…So there is such a saying.”

Avas suddenly became enlightened.

In fact, he had already touched upon it for a moment before - but he subconsciously used "addition and subtraction" to calculate it, and instead came up with the erroneous theory of "civilization minus differences equals inheritance", which is a case of confusing cause and effect.

But if it is said that the development of the source rivers themselves has a sequence... and at least the order of the development of the first three source rivers is one, two, three, then he will understand!
So that's how the Holy Number of the Source River came from! "...If that's the case, I think I understand why the coverage of this device is seven floors."

The sacred number is seven, which happens to be the sacred number of the path of power. It symbolizes "the power of unity".

But Aiwass forgot the order of things -

The sacred number seven was not chosen "to match the number of power", but the sacred number seven was chosen first, and then the path to power was found!
When the Tower of Babel was struck by lightning, Wei Zhe and Zhi Gao Tian had both ascended to godhood!
Aiwass still remembered... in the "second painting" of the promotion ceremony, Wei Zhe was at the top of the Tower of Babel, relying on the power of the Tower of Babel to tear apart the material world and the dream world, and was promoted to the dream world!

He did not float into the source river as a soul after his death, but his body went directly into the dream world, and was then cut into Wei Zhe and Zhi Gao Tian by Sha Shi Ji. Zhi Gao Tian took over the seventh source river of the Sky-eating Beast, while Wei Zhe stepped into the unmanaged fourth source river.

The fact that Yi Tiansi was cut off was a secret, and there was no precedent before this, so people could not know it in advance. Therefore, when Tongtian Tower sent Yi Tiansi up, it was not known whether Yi Tiansi would choose the fourth or seventh source river. It was even more impossible to know that he chose "I want them all".

Therefore, this place is full of the "holy number of seven" precisely because of the requirements of the ritual - this is the ritual to open up the way to heaven and allow Yi Tiansi to master the power of the seventh source river!

After the Winged Sky Division split into two and took control of the fourth and seventh source rivers respectively, the purpose of the Tower of Babel choosing to connect to the eighth source river... is self-evident.

——After sending two pillar gods to the Tower of Babel, they still wanted to create new pillar gods or celestial officials!
But Yi Tiansi's situation was different from theirs. Yi Tiansi had already killed the Sky-Eating Beast, eaten its corpse, completed the ritual, and obtained the position of Pillar God. He only needed to die to become the purest Pillar God of the Seventh Source River.

It’s just that He insisted on entering the dream world in the flesh, so He needed to rely on the power of the Tower of Babel.

And according to the information Aiwas obtained from the promotion ceremony...the reason why He wanted to enter the dream world in the physical body was that He wanted the source of truth.

...But this time it's different.

The person they sent up this time obviously couldn't be the one who killed some pillar god in the material world and got the key!
And Aiwass heard it clearly - they succeeded.

Although the Tower of Babel was shattered by lightning almost immediately after its success...but at least for a moment they successfully connected to the source river.

At that moment, these ancient people might have forcibly sent someone up!

Before the Age of Fools, the Celestial Gods and Pillar Gods were all "gods", the only difference being between gods and "main gods". The apostles of the main gods were all subordinate gods of the same pantheon.

——In other words, this is a kind of forced ascension to godhood!

They disregarded the choice of the "Lord God" and the basic principles of reincarnation of the soul after death... In other words, they wanted to become the "Lord God of the Material World", which directly determined their qualifications for becoming a god after death!
This is indeed an untouchable taboo, which is tantamount to stealing or even usurping the authority of the Pillar God!

...But from another perspective, this is indeed a transcendent move. So the Snake Father will most likely let them succeed, or...they chose the Eighth Source River for this reason. Just to have a guarantee.

In other words, there should have been a celestial official who ascended to the throne at that time.

Just a little count of the people.

The current Huan Tiansi was not on the path of transcendence before the [Cicada Shedding] incident - Ai Shiping was still the Lunsamsara Tiansi at that time, serving as a tool for loading saves on the path of balance.

Apart from Huan Tiansi, there are only two Tiansi who can transcend the Tao.

Ni Tiansi is a giant. Giants were born after the elves were born, so it is impossible at this time.

...Then there is only one person left.

"Fallen Angels... The Sin Mark... The Sin of Pride... The ancients who had no 'sin' and were therefore able to communicate with each other... I see."

Aiwass murmured in a voice that only he could hear, "No wonder, this is indeed a way that goes against the will of heaven. That's why this period of history has been frozen and preserved for so long... That's why after the Tail Ring Ritual was started, this copy could no longer be opened, and another overlapping copy appeared...

"——It's not because the person who performed the preservation technique is strong enough, but because this period of history itself is a huge [taboo]!"

Using a mortal body to steal the power of the source river——

Fabricate God's will and create the true God!
(End of this chapter)