Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1011 The law of the dream world: the strong prey on the weak!

Ares immediately stood up and knelt on one knee.

All the warriors noticed the appearance of the Pillar God. They immediately stopped their actions and knelt down on the ground in unison facing the Lord of Scales and Feathers who had his back to them, not even daring to shout out his name.

Originally in the material world, although the Lord of Scales and Feathers could contact Aiwass at any time, he also needed high-level divine arts as a springboard. And at that time, only Aiwass could see His existence.

But once you enter the dream world, the situation is completely different!

The law of the sand clock has almost zero effect on the Pillar God in the dream world - the Lord of Scales and Feathers can transform into thousands of incarnations at any time, each of them is real, and each of them is also false. Even if he appears anywhere, it will not make people feel strange.

This is the home ground of the Pillar God!
The Lord of Scales and Feathers did not even say a word in response to the piety and respect shown by the warriors of the Shadow Kingdom.

He just waved his hand casually, and the warriors stood up, shook their heads, and returned to their positions, as if they had been implanted with some kind of information. They completely ignored the Lord of Scales and Feathers and continued to chat and eat as if nothing had happened. Even the excitement of these warriors when they saw the Lord of Scales and Feathers before, calmed down instantly.

It was as if they had never seen the Lord of Scales and Feathers from the very beginning.

They didn't even continue looking over - their subconscious rejected the possibility of "going to see the Lord of Scales and Feathers".

——That is the real amnesia technique.

Seeing this miracle, Arsene was suddenly speechless.

Silently and directly twisting everyone's will... Is this the power of the Pillar God?
Yassen couldn't help but feel awed.

"No, not that much."

The Lord of Scales and Feathers may have heard Yasen's inner voice, or perhaps he saw some future possibility, so Yasen chose to speak frankly at this moment - He smiled at Yasen and said, "Because these souls have no bodies, they cannot resist the manipulation of the subconscious.

"It's actually quite difficult to dye the inside of a sugar cube purple. Even if the outside is soaked purple, the inside won't be purple. But if you let it melt in water first and then drip purple dye into it, it will be much easier. Mind manipulation is similar... The body is actually a form of self-protection and self-correction. Once the body is gone, the soul will become much more fragile. Some ghosts go crazy for similar reasons."

The Lord of Scales and Feathers said casually.

He was sitting right across from Aiwas' round table.

The headless man picked at the food on the table and looked up and asked, "This is our first face-to-face conversation, Aiwass... Where do you think Sherlock is?"

Aiwass shook his head: "After excluding those five paths, there are only the path of love, the path of transcendence, the path of beauty and the path of wisdom.

"When he went up, the Fallen Angels hadn't come down yet. If he entered the Path of Transcendence, it means that he would have seen more demons than mosquitoes in the summer. The same is true for the Path of Love... If he entered the realms of these two paths, how could he have lived so peacefully... There are no normal human Angels in the Path of Love."

"really."

Shadow Tiansi of the Path of Love agreed.

So the answer is actually just one of the two.

It is either the path of wisdom or the path of beauty. And it just so happens that the areas where these two paths are located have scenes similar to the Great Library.

“But there is actually no need to choose.”

Aiwass said, "Because I have some personal business to attend to. I need to go to the Path of Wisdom. A friend of mine is also trapped at the Geometry Department... Since I have to go there no matter what, then the most we can do is just go once each."

"——Geometric Tiansi? Did he offend you?"

Ying Tiansi sneered and said, "That bronze corpse...is nothing. If you don't like him, come back and call me."

The Lord of Scales and Feathers also laughed heartily, and then said: "The private matter you are talking about should be the task entrusted to you by Haibasha, right?"

"Yes."

Aiwass nodded.

The commission from Haibasha was to rescue her daughter's soul.

Because once she becomes a phantom demon, it means that the girl will completely lose the chance of normal resurrection. It is not just deleting the file, but also overwriting a new file and saving it.

She had originally wanted to make a special and powerful dream-inducing tincture for Aiwass, so that the souls of the living could also float into the dream world.

When Haibasha was a mortal, her daughter died before she reached adulthood due to a conflict in her path. But Haibasha was already a very powerful wizard by then - she forcibly fished her daughter's soul out of the source river to prevent her soul from being crushed and used as material for the next generation of souls, completing her "reincarnation" in this way.

Fishing out souls from the source river was something that only the Heavenly Masters or Pillar Gods could do. It was also their core skill and necessary condition for making Apostles.

It was indeed remarkable that Haibasha could accomplish such a feat with a mortal body. But this also meant another thing - although she could fish out her daughter's soul, she had no extra power and authority to share with her, so she was just a mortal soul.

It is not impossible for the souls of mortals to appear in the dream world. But just as the power of shadows will gradually erode the warriors of the Shadow Heaven Division, the longer you stay in the dream world and the more you use the power of the path, the soul will be gradually stained and completely become the shape of a certain path.

The girl's soul was temporarily placed in a very delicate ancient doll. In order to prevent her from going crazy due to loneliness, Haibasha also sealed her consciousness, memory and sense of time. In this way, for the girl herself, it was a kind of confusion to the extent of "thousands of years passed by in the blink of an eye".

The Church of Haibasha treated her daughter's soul in this way in order to preserve her "possibility of resurrection."

——If the souls were shattered at the end of the source river, then it would be impossible to be resurrected. And such a young child would basically not be able to become an apostle, nor would it be likely to gain much power from death.

But if the soul is properly preserved and only the body is remade...it can be done on both the Path of Dusk and the Path of Devotion.

This idea is quite similar to the Yulia pendant in the original world line. However, Haibasha hesitated for a moment and intercepted the flow a little too late. As a result, she failed to save the soul in the material world, but started to rescue the person after the soul entered the source river.

The result was that the little girl had been infected by the water of the source river. If her consciousness had not been frozen immediately, she could have been stimulated and turned into a phantom demon at any time.

Haibasha chose to reincarnate into the lower world, partly because she wanted to avoid the perfect combo of the Serpent Father's Tide of Transcendence and the Ring of Tail Ritual of the Ring of Heaven; another part of the reason was that she wanted to try and see if she could rescue her daughter directly if she was reincarnated as a living person.

Obviously, no.

It was only after reincarnation that Haibasha discovered that although the power of the path had to be regained, her soul was an apostle-level soul. If someone killed her, she could directly return to Geometry Tianshi and continue to be an apostle.

Therefore, even if she sneaked into the dream world again, she would only "get her big account back".

——In other words, Haibasha cannot have any form of contact with his daughter!

"Where are you going first? The Path of Wisdom or the Path of Beauty?" The Lord of Scales and Feathers looked like he was going to watch the fun, without offering any suggestions or opinions: "Do you need me to follow you?"

"The path of beauty."

Aiwass said casually: "There's no need to follow..."

"It is indeed possible that it is the Path of Beauty," Yassen thought seriously, "because the professional inheritance of the Vendôme family is the 'Flute Player' of the Path of Beauty. But the Path of Wisdom is also possible, after all, there are so many books there..."

"Let's go to the Beautiful Path's territory first, right?"

Ying Tiansi said cheerfully, "Okay, I'll help you find the Moon Deer and send you to the Twin Mirrors - will you come back this time? If not, you might as well stay for another half an hour. The fairies are cooking the Shadow Hunter Beast... This is the prey you hunted yourself, it would be a pity if you don't taste it."

“…Is that thing really edible?”

Aiwass frowned, showing some resistance.

That thing that looked like a thousand-eyed demon was just like a deep-sea fish. It was so ugly that Aiwass didn't want to eat it...

“Absolutely delicious.”

Ying Tiansi tried his best to persuade him to stay: "Don't you think this wine tastes good? Trust me, brother, I won't cheat you!"

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This giantess, who had a personality like that of a ship captain, addressed Aiwas in increasingly intimate, vulgar and down-to-earth terms.

"Yeah," the Lord of Scales and Feathers at the side also came over to join in the conversation - or to add fuel to the fire, "I was planning to get some delicious food, so I showed up."

"Nothing can help you understand the nature of the dream world better than this."

Ares and Fergus also said so on the side: "It's good to eat something."

Just as Aiwass and Yasen hesitated, they could no longer escape.

——The food cooked with the Shadow Hunter has been brought up by the witches.

The three shadow-hunting beasts seemed to have been dismembered into countless pieces.

Each piece looks like a giant moth - it has golden wings that are fried to a crisp, and its abdomen is not a worm abdomen, but an eyeball that is obviously cooked but is still rotating and shaking at a high frequency.

Seeing that Ying Tiansi directly picked up an "eyeball moth" and put it into his mouth, Aiwass followed suit. If he didn't eat a few bites like this, it would be impolite to run away...

But after eating it, Aiwass was a little confused:

——The taste is surprisingly good! It tastes like roasted pig eyes mixed with roasted cicada monkeys, and it even bursts in your mouth.

But what really surprised Aiwass was the prompt that suddenly popped up in front of him:
[Soul Crystal has been used, and free experience 14 has been obtained]

[Soul Crystal has been used, and free experience 52 has been obtained]

……

Every time he took a bite, a line of tips for gaining experience popped up in front of him. It made him feel very uncomfortable eating... It was like he was eating a human.

Soul Crystals - that is the setting similar to experience books in the game "Ouroboros". In the later versions, low-level players can buy these things from the reputation store to quickly upgrade.

And this means... every eyeball of this shadow hunting beast is a piece of soul fragment that has not yet been absorbed!
"When it was slaughtered, I led people to return the soul fragments of the living victims through a ritual. The parts that were cooked were all victims whose souls had been completely shattered by Yuanhe before killing the shadow hunter. They were all the food it had hunted before."

The elf man Luke said softly, "It eats us, and we eat it. That's fair."

"Is this... the nature of the dream world?"

Aiwass murmured: "But these fragments...shouldn't they be from other victims?"

Does the host usually host these kinds of banquets that increase experience points? Is it so cool?
"Yes," Ying Tiansi nodded slowly, "The essence of the dream world is the survival of the fittest. After all, all phantoms are made up of 'souls', so everyone can devour each other. Even if they are on different paths, it is the same.

"As for the latter - I don't think it matters. It's like honey comes from a beehive instead of pollen. Anyway, the Shadow Hunters were not driven by me to prey on other mortals and phantoms, and we have already released the soul fragments of those dreamers who unconsciously lost themselves in the dream world and were preyed upon by the Shadow Hunters.

"No one can take the remaining ones away. They belong to you. You defeated the Shadow Hunter Beast, and this is your reward."

"This is called 'doing justice for the heavens'."

The Lord of Scales and Feathers added with a smile: "And in the dream world, it is reasonable for anyone to eat anyone else."

Ying Tiansi continued, "Similarly, if you don't have a mount that can cross space, I don't recommend you to run around in the dream world in any way. Because you may become prey and food for others at any time...

"This place is completely different from your peaceful and tranquil material world... I'll lend you the Moon Deer for now. It can take you directly to any place you know the exact location of. But try not to cross the border between different celestial domains. That's the most dangerous and chaotic. Many people who have committed crimes or harmed others will hide on the other side... The Wandering Monks don't dare to approach that side."

"The Path of Beauty will also be like this?"

Yasen asked back in disbelief.

"Yes." "Of course."

Except for Aiwass and Yassen, almost everyone responded in unison.

This made Yasen a little curious. He himself was the Path of Beauty, so he had a good impression of the Path of Beauty.

——What could the phantom demon that attacks passers-by on the Path of Beauty be?
However, Aiwass was not too worried about his own safety.

After all, he has a special form that is specifically used in the dream world!

That is Aiwass's Sinmon form.

When you maintain the transformation into the form of the sin beast in the dream world, it will not consume any mana!

This is the home of Aiwass!

(End of this chapter)