Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 894 The Seven Deadly Sins

"Ugh..."

Zhu Tang groaned and covered his eyes with his hands.

In the face of such surging power, it was useless even for him to cover his eyes!
Even though he didn't open his eyes, the strong power of transcendence still impacted his soul. The strong impulse that was enough to shake a person's heart turned into material damage on him - two tears of blood slowly dripped from his tightly closed eyes.

This is the eighth level, which is the number of transcendence.

Those winged demons surged over, and the infinite power of transcendence transformed into a dark purple and almost black gust of wind, making everyone even a little unsteady on their feet.

The demons were almost endless, rushing in with a force that covered the sky and the sun. It was like seeing a swarm of bats after going deep into a cave, except that these bats were slightly bigger and there were more of them.

Aiwass has a wealth of knowledge about demons.

Although they were still far away... he took a quick glance and roughly recognized the species of these demons.

Whipping demon, beholder, shadow demon, deformed limb demon, entrapped demon, ice demon, blood demon, blade demon...

——The number is at least over five hundred!

The weakest one starts at the fourth energy level, and there are some strong ones at the fifth energy level here and there.

The only good news was that Aiwas didn't see any high-level phantom demons, such as the Fire Demon, Winter Demon, and Night Demon, which were usually higher than the world limit. After all, before the Demon Incarnation, a professional system that could directly hatch a great demon, there would be no great demons below the fifth energy level in the material world.

These winged demons are all the fallen souls of those self-sacrificing winged ones!

They are imprisoned here, frozen in time and preserved to this day... without ever devouring anyone's soul.

Lightning flashed in the bottom of Sine's pupils, and he began to chant a spell. The demons seemed to become even crazier when they saw the lightning flash.

Monk Mu had already stood silently at the front of the team, like a high wall;
Kitty went into stealth, and she quickly set up traps on the ground ahead;
The body of the dream-wandering monk fell backwards into a deep sleep, and the soul body, shining like gold, stepped out;

Zhu Tang recovered a little, and began to take out some chess pieces from his ritual bag and began to set up the formation;
The little butterfly on Aiwass's shoulder reappeared as the Flame-Bending Butterfly, blocking Aiwass's way...

Even Master Chongbo became serious and held the amber beads on his left wrist, ready to tear them apart at any time.

Aiwass was still praying and blessing them. Rays of light flickered among the crowd.

A light shield appeared and disappeared from their bodies, followed by a sharp blade logo, followed by a pair of wings. Then a transparent white mesh wall of light appeared, and finally everyone entered a vague semi-invisible state...

But Cardinal Galatea just looked at her former colleagues, and her eyes, which had become puppets, looked heavy and sad.

"In order to raise the Winged King to the heights of the dream world, for the continuation of the race and the future of the world, they sacrificed their lives and offered their souls. If the Winged King can become the God among Gods, these souls will all become his apostles..."

She obviously had no intention of attacking them, but just continued to maintain the illusion with Aiwass.

Aiwass also remembered the words of the Lord of Scales and Feathers:
[…'Transmutation' represents the constant nature of all things changing forever…what goes up will eventually go down, and what goes down will eventually go up. Everything changes and flows, and nothing can change.]

What goes up will eventually come down, and what goes down will eventually go up.

"…Is this, 'What goes up must come down'?"

Aiwass whispered.

Cardinal Galatea nodded: "After the 'Four Elements' of the Path of Wisdom are stripped away, the 'Seven Marks' of the Path of Power alone are not enough to allow those souls to enter the spiral and cyclical path of ascension.

"At the same time, when the purpose becomes mixed and no longer for the continuation of civilization, the sacrifice of these souls seems too light compared to transcending fate. The scale tilts to one side, and the voices of those praying in the soul state cannot reach the ears of the Winged King, and they can no longer provide the power of dedication.

"Without the power of devotion to stabilize the mind, and no longer transcending for the sake of others, the desire for transcendence based on power will expand infinitely. This will trigger a chain reaction - out-of-control and more easily changeable power, coupled with the lack of truth and the reduction of self-sacrifice willingness... The most important thing is the extreme pursuit and worship of "power". All these things mixed together have become the sin that leads to human depravity.

"Then He also fell from the height. From this came the seven deadly sins."

The root of lustful sin comes from people's instinctive desire for the continuation of civilization and their potential impulse for creation. When people ignore the necessity of "civilization" for the purpose of creation, the uncontrolled desire becomes lust.

The sin of gluttony comes from the excessive indulgence in necessary things that bring pleasure, and the waste of them. This is the instinctive pursuit of power and the path of "food" - people desire to become strong and enjoy more resources. Until they lose the desire to "give", they take away the food that should belong to others and squander the violence of "food".

The sin of greed is the desire to possess more than what is needed. The differences between people gave birth to civilization, but if the purpose of transcendence is no longer to "continue civilization", it becomes plunder. That is transcendence without dedication. The sin of laziness comes from people's abandonment of responsibility. For the ancients, everyone has their own work to do, and the time wasted by anyone means that the work of others is increased. Under the irresistible trend of transcendence, resisting transcendence because of resisting dedication has become a great sin in itself.

The sin of rage is due to the lack of the power of the source of wisdom. The violence without truth, the power not controlled by wisdom, plus the power not restrained by dedication and not beneficial to civilization, becomes dangerous rage. It becomes the reason for hurting each other.

The sin of envy also arises from differences in civilization. Greed seeks to have more for oneself, while envy seeks to have less for others; greed tends to material possessions, while envy tends to be beyond material possessions. This is also transcendence that is not affected by dedication.

Coupled with the ultimate arrogance - the ancients claimed to be gods, intending to control the source river beyond the pillar gods and create a great existence above the pillar gods. This is the prototype of the sin of arrogance. However, their purpose is ultimately to "continue civilization", and their intention to surpass the doomsday that hinders this concept cannot be called a sin.

Until the power of devotion is lost, the purpose of arrogance is no longer selfless. It becomes the most fundamental sin - because it is a "mistake" in itself, but when it is motivated by devotion, devotion temporarily obscures this mistake.

They do not all come from transcendence, but they all come from the loss of devotion.

"But the original plan for the Tower of Babel didn't require dedication at all..."

Aiwass realized the truth of everything and the birth of the devil: "It was because of Huan Tiansi's conspiracy that he added the power of dedication and transcendence to the ritual, which reduced the tolerance of the ritual and caused distortion... Hey, wait?"

……ceremony?
"Actually, what Huan Tiansi said here is correct... We do need to join the Way of Devotion."

Cardinal Galatea tilted his head slightly and looked at Aiwas with a complicated expression, as if he was looking at the snake that bewitched people in the past: "Because we overlooked one thing at that time - this thing itself is in line with the principle of transcendence, so it automatically became a ritual and already contained the power of transcendence. Even if we don't join the ceremony of dedication, it will fail in the end. And because of the complete imbalance, the ceremony will completely collapse the moment it starts.

"It is because the advice given by Huan Tiansi is correct that the wise among us believed in the Snake. Because He tried His best to save us... but He used us as tools.

"He allowed the Winged King to successfully ascend to the Dream World, but gave him the ironic name of 'fallen'. The pure soul that once 'sacrificed' itself did not die in the devastating failure. Instead, under the influence of the corrupt power of the Seven Deadly Sins, it turned into a new kind of phantom demon that was full of power but lacked wisdom...

"——Because his ways have deviated from the right path and fallen into evil, the Fallen Angels call him a demon."

Therefore, Huantiansi's pastoral care method is particularly effective against demons.

Therefore, demons always desire the souls of priests who are willing to sacrifice themselves.

That's why Huan Tiansi always wants to use the Tail Ring to pull the Fallen Angels to the ground.

Therefore, the Great Sin Scholars belonging to the Huantian Division and the demon incarnations of the Fallen Angels can transform into each other.

So the "Endless Knot" can transform dark attribute demons into elemental creatures...

...So even though the Fallen Angel sent demons to plunder souls from the nine source rivers to arm himself, Sizhu and Shashiji did not take action against him; although the Fallen Angel once rebelled against the Snake Father, the Snake Father did not kill him.

Because He was - at least once, He was indeed an innocent person.

But this Huan Tiansi...his mental state seems to be unstable.

Compared to the Ai Shiping that Aiwas saw in this round, this Huan Tiansi seems to be colder, more rational, and more ruthless. In order to achieve his goals, he can sacrifice everything.

Huan Tiansi did such a thing, but he is still a candidate for the Pillar God. This fact itself was not stopped by other Pillar Gods who were worried about the end of the world... This shows that his actions were also tacitly accepted or even permitted by other Pillar Gods.

But why did He want to stop the Tower of Babel project?

Did He already know that this plan could not be accomplished?

...Or does He know that even if this plan is completed, it will ultimately be of no use?

Or...

In the past eight failed games, Babel was successful? But in the end, it was proved that this plan was ineffective for Doomsday?
Only this kind of answer can explain why He acted so cruelly and decisively—

——Because this is exactly the "necessary evil" and "premature death"!
Aiwass's body was shaking.

It's not that I'm trembling with fear, but that I'm touching the truth more and more deeply.

The more he understood, the less he feared Huan Tiansi.

He will finally break free from the fate of being a chess piece - raise his head and give that guy a good punch!
When Aiwas was in a trance due to thinking, the surging demonic tide had already rushed over!

(End of this chapter)