After the sky was completely dark, Aiwass put on the priest's uniform that he had not worn for a long time, and solemnly lit three brand new candles from his bedroom.
In front of Aiwass was a silver basin placed on the table. The basin was filled with salt that was consecrated by Aiwass during the day.
Yuliya and Ligeia sat side by side on the edge of the bed, while Janice peered into the room from the landscape paintings hanging on the wall.
Aiwass closed his eyes to the candlelight for a long time, brewing his emotions.
The sacred and weak candlelight shines on Aiwass. Behind him cast a shadow that twisted and squirmed like a living creature.
"I pay homage to Si Zhu, the god whose holy number is three, the god who binds the body with sin thorns, and the god who burns the body to chase away the darkness."
Aiwass murmured in a low voice, Close your eyes and pray repeatedly, "Please look after the fire of my heart like the candle in the corner."
"I pray to the candlestick, the God whose holy number is three"
His solemnity also made Yulia unconsciously tense up and tighten her back.
She had always known that her brother had a way of strengthening the Shadow Demon and the Flame Rebellion through self-sacrifice. Butterfly's ability.
But Aiwass never showed it in front of her.
Aiwass had many things that he didn't show to Yulia. Worry, and partly because he didn’t want her to come into contact with anything too dangerous.
Yulia knew this very well, but she couldn’t argue with it, after all, it came from Aiwass’s concern for her. And love and care, and the root is the persona she constructed in front of Aiwass. In Aiwass's perception, Yulia is a weak girl who needs to be taken care of.
There is nothing now. It was an emergency, and Yulia couldn't change it suddenly.
After chanting three times, Aiwas put his hands into the salt basin in front of him that was consecrated with the blessing technique.
He scooped up the salt with both hands, spread out his arms, and sprinkled it around randomly.
The white salt powder was flying upwards as if it had gained life.
They gradually shone like stars in the dim bedroom.
The shoulder straps around Aiwass's neck moved automatically in the wind. , twisting and flying like two slippery sea snakes
He lowered his head, gently stroked the salt in the basin, and sighed in a low voice, "My child, the fleshless daughter I fed.< /p>
"Arise and return from the flesh of all things."
Salt symbolizes physical flesh and blood.
After hearing Aiwass’s call, the Shadow Demon, who had lost consciousness and fell into a dream, was like a puppy that had been called by its owner, emerging from the shadow in the salt basin in front of him. floated out.
It was a vague shadow. Like silt, like a swamp.
Under Aiwass's caress, the salt in the basin flows autonomously, making a sound like the ebb and flow of ocean waves.
“I am your pictureTeng, I am your father, I am your god. "
Aiwass chanted in a low voice, "You shall not touch my holiness, you shall not harm my body"
"However, when I die, you should be sad; However, after the day of my death, you should celebrate"
Aiwass said, taking out a short gun from the shadow made of salt.
He raised the salt gun high, and then fiercely inserted the gun into his belly
Yuliya trembled in shock and almost screamed. Make a sound.
But at this moment, a pair of cold hands stretched out from behind her and covered her mouth.
“Don’t be afraid, child,” Yanis’s voice sounded softly from behind her, “This is how sacrifice works.”
“Do you have to hurt yourself to sacrifice?”
Yuliya lowered her voice and said in a somewhat anxious and frightened voice, "Is there something wrong?"
"Nothing wrong."
Ya Nisi said softly, "This is the ritual. The essence of the ritual is to imitate, and the purpose is to transcend."
Ligeia on the side also nodded.
Now, she has deepened her understanding of the path to transcendence through study.
The white-haired dragon girl replied softly, "There is a desire in the human heart, which is an unstoppable and inevitable instinct to imitate. It is the most essential thing of human beings, and it will change with the outside world.
“When we still don’t understand anything and don’t know what it means to be childish, we will instinctively imitate others. Imitate their language, imitate their demeanor, imitate their every move. That is the pity from the Snake Father, which allows people to transcend the beastly way of love.
"So, we changed from beasts to humans."
On the other side, when Aiwass penetrated the salt spear, the blood flowed along the priest's body. The clothes flow outward and leach to the ground at an extremely slow speed.
The shadow in the salt pond instantly began to boil violently.
It’s like adding some kind of reagent, Yulia thought.
And Aiwass is still chanting the secret words of the Shepherd's Tantra
"You will celebrate my death, you will sing my holiness. You will start a Celebration, you will hold the scepter high."
As Aiwass said, he took it out of the salt pool
He tilted his head slightly and inserted the salt gun directly from the side of his neck. into his collarbone
The severe pain caused Aiwass's pupils to contract and then relax, and his lips trembled violently.
He choked and coughed up pink foam.
And a line of dark red blood
gushed out along the neck and submerged into the pure white priest uniform.
The thin blood energy instantly spurted out in spherical shapes in all directions, and the candlelight around Aiwass seemed to dim a little, reflecting the dark red blood light.
On the other side, Ligeia is still thereWhispering, "Some children are too good at imitating, too focused on imitating my commands, and enthusiastically following the shadows cast by those lights. So they become good children, smart children, but what they imitate is not holy. It is not an icon, but a person with bad character.
“So this incompleteness will also be reflected in the imitation. Eventually, they will encounter problems that cannot be solved by imitating the people around them, and the more enthusiastic they are about imitating, the more enthusiastic they will be.
"Young children have no right to refuse in front of adults. Therefore, imitating Isn’t every word from my orders like thunder, insurmountable, and irreversible?
“The inevitable failure faced in the process of imitation will strengthen the desire to imitate. . This cycle goes back and forth, falling into the abyss of being manipulated.
"And in this process, if the seeds of evil thoughts breed in the soul, they will want to escape from this cycle. This desire is transcendence, and the seed is degradation, change, It is violence. And this violence is also an extension of authority.
“Among many acts of transcendence, the essence of sacrifice is violence. "
Ligeia said softly as if she was missing someone or remembering someone.
Yuliya looked at her as if she was looking at someone from her body. Another person who was leached.
That was another person who had told Ligeia or Meg about these "secrets of sacrifice", a person who belonged to the Transcendent Path. .
“Either because of fear of drought, or wanting to prolong life, or looking for a scapegoat, or seeking peace after death, or seeking victory in war, or enjoying the intoxication of carnival. Ancient humans all over the world ultimately chose to sacrifice without exception. Regardless of whether the victim is a human or an animal, it is a kind of group violence, a kind of violence recognized by the group.
“The essence of ritual is imitation, and the essence of sacrifice is violence. Imitation is the proof that human beings are the sons of the snake father, while sacrifice is the fallen instinct soaked with desire deep in the human soul.”
When Ligeia said this, she paused slightly. He clenched his fingers subconsciously.
She said softly, "Extraordinary people who transcend the path will have such self-destructive tendencies. They will regard themselves as a vessel, and the vessel is a shackles. Those who seek transcendence will eventually There is a desire to break the shackles.
“For the purpose, they will hurt themselves not for greed, but for the purpose itself.
“I once knew an extraordinary person who transcended the path. He completed self-sacrifice before a near-death battle. By then, even if he won, he would not be able to return, so this cannot be counted. It is a sacrifice made for survival; there is a high probability that they will not win, so it is not for success; no one values their death, so it is not for honor.
"I also thought about it. For a long time, I didn’t understand why they were like this until not long ago.It is an end in itself, and the extension of desire is still desire. Transcendents are always like this. "
Watching Aiwass lift
Yulia suddenly turned around, and then noticed that Ligeia's pupils were shining with a bright purple glow.
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Watching such a transcendent ritual resonates with the transcendent path, just as an artist will feel beauty when appreciating other people's works, and Ligeia's original stable physical condition is also due to this. The resonance of the shepherding ceremony was deflected.
The dragon scales on her body creaked, and her whole body seemed to be growing slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye. p>
And Aiwass's low and hoarse voice still sounded in the bedroom
"Who will be sacrificed, what will end, what words will be spread forever
" I offer you my sacrificial song
"My love, my son, my flesh, my inheritance, my altar, obey my orders"
Suspended in the The salt grains in the sky turned into brilliant stars. At this moment, Aiwass seemed to be standing in the Milky Way.
He raised the salt gun and pointed it at his heart.
At this moment. The shadow under Aiwass and the shadow in the silver basin in front of him had completely subsided, showing a strange tranquility.
Yulia immediately clenched her palms and wanted to rush forward. Ligeia grabbed her arm.
She turned around almost angrily, only to see Ligeia's face cracking like broken porcelain and bleeding out. She looked about four or five years older than before, but now she looked the same age as Yulia. Ligeia's eyes were shining with a strange purple light, but her face was expressionless.
The secret words of the shepherd's tantra caused her body to begin to grow.
Ligeia felt a strong thirst. The thirst came from standing in front of the salt basin, her body soaked in blood. Aiwass.
But her extremely tenacious rationality easily suppressed this desire, and she also suppressed Yulia.
Aiwass looked down at the Shadow Demon pitifully. , said softly "I offer it to you"
"My death in an instant"
When Aiwass's voice fell, the salt gun wrapped in shadow was like the one that killed the Moon Son. It penetrated Aiwass's heart like a wooden stake.
It is not just a simple injury of the heart being penetrated. For Aiwass now, that kind of injury is no longer enough to kill him in an instant.
This is self-sacrifice, the most holy ceremony, the purest devotion.
Aiwass dedicated himself as a sacrifice on the altar to his own demon
In an instant, Aiwass's pupils became dim.
It was as if he was on top of the giant's cauldron and had his heart pierced by the shadow demon.
All his vitality disappeared instantly.
Aiwass died immediately, and his body fell backwards weakly. The shadows restraining the salt gun emerged from three wounds like living creatures.Leach out and wrap up Aiwass.
He fell into the Shadow Egg. Countless shadows were like spider webs, spreading everywhere, shaking and extinguishing the three candles dedicated to Si Zhu. Then these shadows were dyed bright red, and the whole room was reflected in a terrifying blood red.
It’s not like before, just a sacrifice of blood and mana. Instead, give all your life, soul, and will.
If the Shadow Demon makes no response, it is equivalent to a completely selfless sacrifice without asking for anything.
Aiwass will die. His life, his soul, will become part of Shadow Demon.
"Hey."
However, "Shadow Demon" sighed.
This is not the sweet voice of Miss Assassin, nor is it the cold, intellectual and mature voice of "Bayard". But a new voice that is ethereal and hoarse, like a whispering dream
"I am willing to give everything I have in exchange for my master returning from nothingness."
That is The final step in pastoral law.
Pastoral care must be selfless and therefore cannot seek any reward.
In other words, the other party must not be restrained in any form from "repaying the favor."
Then the sacrifice of everything including the contract, life, and soul is the most selfless sacrifice. A very risky move to transcend.
Only when the other party responds can everything that has been given be returned in exchange.
In an instant, the shadow egg dissipated like time went back.
After Shadow Demon returned Aiwass' sacrifice, his body was still stained with blood, and an extremely weak Aiwass emerged from it. Although the wound that penetrated his heart still existed, and although his vitality was weak, he was still alive.
Behind him, there was another strange existence.
She hugged Aiwass from behind to prevent him from falling to the ground.
The demon has the upper body of a human, and looks like Bayard or Aiwass. The sad scarlet wolf eyes make people feel intense fear.
The long, silky black hair spread to the middle of her thighs and was flying wildly behind her back. And a pair of illusory black wings made of shadows grew out of her back. The silhouette is like a crow's wings.
She was completely naked, with invisible shadows wrapped around her key parts. But there were strange but very charming dark red bloodstains from his cheek to his waist. From the waist down, there is an amorphous gaseous body spraying black smoke. The skin on both arms from the elbows down is also completely matte, pitch black and transparent. The sharp claws looked very ferocious, but they did not hurt Aiwass at all when he hugged him.
When she appeared, the entire room was filled with blood.
That is the Night Demon, a superior demon that will bring about the bloody night when it appears.
As a superior demon that controls the power of the path of love, it also controls shadows and blood.with the power of the curse.
It is rumored that the Night Devil will fulfill the wishes of jealous people, give them power, and induce them to seek revenge.
People who make deals with the Night Devil have a common characteristic, that is, they lose their shadow during the day. And after night falls, their shadows will control their bodies and do things they dare not do.
After satisfying the deal, the Night Demon will drain the blood and soul of the other party in a bloody night. In the end, only people will remember that the bloody night came, but no one will remember that a certain person once existed. personal.
In many places, it is worshiped by the stupid as the "Blood God".
Night Demon is not on the evolutionary tree of Shadow Demon at all.
This is one of the highest-ranking demons extended by the Mark of Jealousy. Its status and power are equal to those of the Punishment Demon.
The Night Demon is the "executor" who helps the Fallen Heaven Division harvest the souls of sinners, and is also the "debt collector" for those who made promises to the Fallen Heaven Division but arrogantly broke the promise.
The Night Demon stared at Yulia coldly, her scarlet, malicious pupils showing unconcealed, almost crazy jealousy.
That gaze was enough to make anyone timid, but Yulia was just stunned for a moment, and then her gaze suddenly turned cold.
"Shadow Demon, no, I should call you Night Demon."
Aiwass' weak voice sounded.
Seeing that Aiwass had regained consciousness, Night Demon immediately handed the candle to Aiwass.
Aiwass lit the candle and held the candle tightly. The method of sacrificial fire began to continuously treat Aiwass's wounds, and his body began to slowly recover.
He raised his head in Night Demon's arms and looked at the Night Demon who was at least two meters tall after floating up.
"Long time no see, Shadow Demon."
He showed a smile and said softly, "First time meeting, Night Demon. How should I call you?"
"Call me Bayard, or call me Vignes."
The ethereal, hoarse, echoing voice sounded from behind Aiwas, "Vignes Emir Zorabe Adna was my former name, my master."
Unlike when she was a shadow demon in the past, she frankly admitted her past.
Having swallowed all of "self", this is now her most complete form.
Aiwass raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
"What a pity, you can no longer become a little snake, a puppy, or a kitten."
Aiwass said softly, "Then I call you a little bird, how about< /p>
"My loyal, loving little crow who took my life and soul back in his mouth"
Aiwass's voice fell, and the Vignes behind him dispersed into one The cloud of smoke turned into a shadowy crow with scarlet pupils, and landed quietly on Aiwass's shoulder.
"As you wish, my master. ”
Like an elegant young lady, she whispered softly.
Finally caught up with the two-in-one chapter
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