—and a little while before that.
Aiwass, who was sleeping in the Eternal Theocracy, opened his eyes slightly unconsciously for a moment, and then closed them again.
Caught between reality and dream, Aiwass suddenly stopped flying freely.
He frowned slightly and looked towards the south, his eyes as bright as the sun vaguely worried.
“What happened?”
——Just now, Aleister completely cut off contact with him.
From the moment Aleister landed on the land of Star Antimony, Aiwass had a vague feeling that something was wrong.
When Aleister was on the ship, Aiwass and Aleister could communicate in real time anytime and anywhere... But when Aleister entered Leipzig, their communication gradually deteriorated. It starts to get blurry.
To describe it, it is like the difference between two people chatting with voice chat and typing in a window.
The former can easily detect what the other person is doing, can speak at any time and anywhere, and can also hear the other person's status and feelings from the words.
The feedback received from the latter is delayed...not only cannot words fully express the information, but one also has to wait for the other party to receive the message.
Aiwass was also like a priest listening to a confession, sensing Aleister's fragility and melancholy, as well as his sentimentality and excitement.
In fact, their connection has indeed weakened. And as time goes by, it is getting further weakened.
Until just now, they completely lost contact.
"It's so sad..."
Aiwass closed his eyes slightly and raised his head. His free-flying spirit body was suspended in the air, and he opened his arms to embrace the sky: "It turns out that I am always a mortal. It is not that I am never sad, and it is also like that I am not omnipotent."
He opened his eyes half-open. In his eyes is the radiant divinity with compassion.
Completely opposite to Aleister's increasingly intense emotions and loss of control.
Aiwass clearly felt that his emotions were gradually becoming weaker.
In other words——
He began to gradually understand the elves in the form of amber and trees.
"How could you have such dangerous thoughts?"
The voice of the Lord of Scales and Feathers sounded from Aiwass's heart.
Immediately afterwards, the voice sounded from beside Aiwass - a faceless man in black appeared near the sky where Aiwass was originally flying. He was sitting on a chair, his hands folded on the back of the chair, and his head resting on his arms.
The incarnation of the Lord of Scales and Feathers said lazily: "Almighty...that kind of thing is not within your reach."
"Yes, I know."
Aiwass’s voice was plain, quiet and somewhat divine: “Human perception and self come from human imperfection, fromFear and disability.
"It is precisely because we will be injured and die that we feel pain, which is a warning. People have touch, vision, hearing, smell, taste... These are all based on survival. Based on Our 'not omnipotent' incomplete, but extended sensory tentacles
"If people one day become omnipotent, then these perceptions will not need to exist at all. How fragile and insignificant are civilizations, cultures, countries, and emotions that are born based on perception? "
"——Because of this, there is no [perfection] or [omnipotence] in this world. "
The Lord of Scale Feather said casually: "All the extraordinary powers in this world are incomplete. There is no power that is absolute, objective, and the only correct path, and there is absolutely no ability that does not require any cost or any shortcomings.
“Through a piece of glass, we can’t see anything – what we see is the essence of the world. But if this piece of glass is broken by an external force, we can also get beautiful broken glass. . Just like breaking perfection, we also get many imperfections... and this is why your human civilization is so brilliant."
"Maybe so."
Aiwass replied calmly.
He did not look at the Lord of Scales and Feathers, but stood in the sky overlooking the earth.
For Aiwass today, he can move forward as he pleases. He now has no need to eat or drink, nor does he need sleep or labor - he does not need to do anything, and nothing can restrain him. And living in the gap between the material world and the dream world, nothing can affect him.
Relying on the power of the Holy Crown, Aiwass can change everything at will. He merged with the corpse of the entire giant tree, and the entire Theocracy became his outer shell. Anyone who lives in the giant tree becomes his people, his children.
Like the sun, it burns itself quietly and imparts light to the earth equally.
That kind of mood... is like playing "Stars", setting everything and then entering "sea view mode". Quietly overlooking the galaxy, watching the color blocks being dyed back and forth.
Calm, curious, bored.
While feeling inexplicably relieved, time is passing by meaninglessly. It's like sitting on the beach, watching the tide rise and fall, watching the sun and the moon rotate.
Aiwass felt that his mood was extremely peaceful, without any distracting thoughts.
His pupils are clean and transparent, his brain is clear and ethereal, and his mind is unruffled.
"Do your gods usually feel this way?"
Aiwass suddenly asked.
"How does it feel?"
The Lord of Scales and Feathers raised his head: "Do you want to act at will? It's not impossible, but it's meaningless. The so-called 'Pillar God' is that The pillars of the world that stand tall in the sky... We are indeed the pioneers on the road, but at the same time we are also the ones being followed.Trapped prisoners.
"Compared with the Pillar Gods, the Tiansi are much freer. The Tiansi have power that is not much weaker than the Pillar Gods, but they do not have to be bound by the road. They do not need to worry about too many consequences of their actions. , and there is no need to worry about violating the principles of the path..."
"——I mean, this feeling of ethereal and peaceful soul."
Aiwass's eyes were empty. , Indifferent: "I feel a little bit wrong, boss."
"Ah, don't pay too much attention, this is a good thing."
Although the Lord of Scales and Feathers has no face , but his expression seemed to become serious: "It's best not to think too deeply. Just go and enjoy your hard-earned vacation. This is the super long paid annual leave given to you by your boss..."< /p>
"I feel bad, boss."
Aiwass said calmly.
He looked down at the earth, his eyes as compassionate as those of a god.
At this moment, in the material world—above the 22nd ring, in the “real sky” that no one can see, something is unfolding silently. A huge eye.
——That is Aiwass’s left eye.
Its appearance seems to make the sky darker - like it sucks away the light, and seems to block the sun.
"Is all this really normal?"
Aiwass said softly, his voice sounding like overlapping thunder and brilliant like the echo in the church: "I feel that my Happiness is decreasing every day...Do all popes have to go through this?
“I can clearly feel that the power of devotion deep in my soul is rising. Logically speaking, this should be a kind of enjoyment...or at least a trial. But on the contrary, I feel that my love for my children has become thinner, and my willingness to take the initiative to contact Aleister has also become weaker and weaker...
"I feel that everything in the material world has become thinner. It's gradually fading. I seem to be forgetting. No, not forgetting, but letting go...
"I hear what you mean, and I may understand the secret behind this. But I don’t want to be a vain and lofty god. I just want to be an ordinary person, a boss. "
Aiwass rarely made a sound.
He raised his head slightly, and the huge eye in the material world also disappeared.
"This It is a trial, like a moth emerging from a cocoon - if I say this, will you still be determined to know the answer? "
"I'm worried about Aleister. "
Aiwass replied softly: "If this trial only affects me... I think I might be able to bear it. But I can't possibly use another person..."
"—Another person? "
The Lord of Scale Feather interrupted Aiwass: "Shouldn't she be a bastard too? "
Aiwass was slightly startled.
...Strange.
When did he start to regard Aleister as another person? People?
In AiWhen Wensi's thinking fell into chaos, the voice of the Lord of Scales and Feathers became more serious: "You should have enough faith in the cutting skills of the sand timepiece, Aiwass."
"Naturally. That is the great art that created the Great Philosopher and the Supreme Heaven." Aiwass replied.
"In this world, the art of cutting is indeed a great art... After all, when you rise high enough, your mixed self will not be able to master more power of the path. If you want to go further, you can It is necessary to obtain a purer self. The secret technique of Hengwo's Egg Moon, the method of cutting off the tail of Huan Tiansi, and the gap between the two rituals of Sand Timepiece... are all like this. The gap', in principle, will completely and evenly divide all your power into two parts. ”
“I already know these. "
Aiwass's voice was ethereal and sacred: "What I want to know is why this ritual will gradually make Aleister and I become abnormal, and why I will not be able to sense Aleister. ster. "
" Sand Clock has asked you for details before - He hinted at you twice, but you still want to cut out the body of the Moon Child given to you by the Twin Mirror. This is undoubtedly the trial given to you by fate. "
"Trial..."
"It is a trial. You have chosen the most difficult division - but if you can return in the end, this will also be the foundation of your path to Tiansi and even the Pillar God. "
The Scale Feather Lord said softly: "Don't forget, the body of the 'Moon Child' embodied by Aleister has the characteristics and power of a real Moon Child. If her path of transcendence is equivalent to your path of devotion...
"Then what does the power of her Moon Child correspond to yours? If the power on both sides is not equal, then But it’s not the perfect ‘Liang Yi’.”
…The power of the Moon Child?
Isn’t that the blessing of twin mirrors? The mirror image of reality and illusion also happens to be a kind of balance...
This idea just appeared in Aiwass's mind. He was suddenly startled and suddenly recalled something in his mind——
p>【——My holy number is 11, that is the number of people who belong to us】
That is what the "divine entity" summoned by Jacob in the past said in his hallucination .
The holy number is eleven.
The so-called holy number is actually the number of the source river.
The source rivers are so powerful that even their numbers themselves are quite mysterious.
But there are only nine source rivers in total. Logically speaking, there is no "Holy Ten Eleven".
Aiwass had realized before that... the so-called "Holy Eleven" refers to the sum of two holy numbers. Using the power of two existing source rivers to create a new source river is also an "impossible power."
Consecration is three and transcendence is eight - the shepherding method is exactly the skill that can only be mastered by learning dedication and transcendence at the same time!
And if it is said that dedication and transcendence are in the "gap between two rituals"” is established as an equivalent mirror...
The sacred number of the path of love is one.
That is to say, the symmetry with it, the kind that makes Aihua The strength of Si's feelings gradually becoming weak should come from...
"The holy number is...ten?" "
Aiwass murmured: "The tenth path? "
...Yes!
If Huantiansi wants to transcend the established principles of the entire world and become a new pillar god besides the Nine Pillar Gods... then the Holy Number It should be ten, why is it eleven?
Unless... there is already a tenth source river
And Huan Tiansi knows about the tenth. A source river, so he directly planned to create an eleventh source river.
Once he realized this, Aiwass’ gradually stiff thinking became active again——
When he gradually sensed a sense of crisis, he seemed to be about to wake up from a dream, and his thinking slowly became clear:
The original god of this world is the Stag of the Candlestick.
“… Si Zhu lit the holy fire, burned away the sinful thorns, and distributed the power of the source river to all living beings… Only then did this world have extraordinary power, and only then did it have the path and mystery. ”
Aiwass’s pupils trembled slightly, and he suddenly woke up from the meaningless death, and his expression came to life in an instant.
It was like consciousness gradually returning from a dream In reality, even his speaking speed and tone gradually returned to normal: "So, in the very beginning...where did Si Zhu get the extraordinary power to burn the sin thorns? ”
When Aiwass gradually woke up from that confusing dream, he once again restored the vague connection with Aleister.
— -At this moment, Aleister briefly regained consciousness, and the noise in his head and the uncontrollable instinct disappeared.
“That doesn’t exist, nor should it exist, but it does. The tenth source river that already existed. It is like a dry well, connecting to other worlds.
“Where Si Zhu comes from, I also come from there. Your predecessor...also comes from there.
“It’s just that now, the Twilight Wall is completely The road to the Tenth Source River was blocked. The 'world outside the Dusk Wall' that Snake Father is curious about is the other side of the Tenth Source River - what is there. "
Seeing that Aiwass's pupils gradually became clearer, the Lord of Scales and Feathers gradually relaxed: "But...although the tenth path is now broken, since you have walked through that The road still retains some of its excess. Because of this, Aleister gained the corresponding power of the path of love.
"That is the blessing from the twin mirror... That guy is like an obsessive-compulsive disorder patient. He has already given you symmetrical power, but neither you nor she can use it. But even so, the contamination of the road itself is enough to corrode her thinking... But just like your dedication can defeat the will of nothingness., Aleister must also be able to surpass the Moon Child's instinct.
"What you have to do is to stabilize your mind. Walk firmly on the road of dedication...Don't deviate due to temptation. Although I told you this, I will temper your conscience. It has some influence... But with your dedication, you can get rid of those remnants, and as long as you don't tell Aleister, the final result will not be any different.
< p>“Because your problem has never been on the path of devotion—but on your defective path of transcendence. Huan Tiansi only gave you part of the transcendent heart, but gave you all the dedication. In other words, you have to re-cultivate a transcendent nature comparable to that of a saint... Now is the best opportunity."——That's why I said this is a trial."
"...I have one last question."
Aiwass What he realized: "What energy level is Aleister's road impulse... at?"
"Of course it is...the sixth energy level."
The Lord of Scales and Feathers replied ruthlessly: "After all, the material world can only allow the existence of the sixth energy level at most." The transcoding has been serious recently, which makes us more motivated and updates faster. Please use your little hands to exit the reading mode. Thank you