Late at night, the waxing gibbous moon almost submerged into the earth again. The sky was already slightly white.
The clock in Aiwass's room swung its pendulum rhythmically, and the hands on it already pointed to four-twenty in the morning.
And he was still sitting in his wheelchair like a sculpture, flipping through "" motionless.
Two strange purple-red blood tears kept slipping from the corners of the eyes of Aiwass, who was sitting at the table as if he had lost his soul, and fell on the page of the book. Then they fell directly into it and were absorbed by it.
Aiwass looked at the secrets in the book with fascination.
The skin on his face turned red, and the blood vessels on his forehead and forearms bulged visibly. The blood vessels that should have been cyan revealed dark purple spider veins.
Although it was winter, Aiwass's room was still warm. But with Aiwass's deep and heavy breathing, pale white high-heat mist continued to exhale from his mouth. Occasionally, some sparks would burst out when he coughed deeply.
It wasn't until early in the morning when birds chirped outside that Aiwass woke up from a deep dream.
His eyes became clear again, and the purple lines on his face slowly retracted.
At this time, he had unknowingly turned to the end of this thin black leather booklet. The knowledge had been deeply engraved in Aiwass's memory, and he could clearly recall those words the moment he closed his eyes.
It even became sparkling.
"...It's actually something like this."
Aiwass' expression was solemn and he murmured in a low voice.
This black tantric book tells about a mysterious skill called "pastoral care".
It was a mysterious skill that existed more than a thousand years ago before the concept of "profession" existed.
At that time, almost all extraordinary beings were walking on multiple paths at the same time. This was because at that time, the extraordinary common sense of "minimizing the number of paths that one went into at the same time as much as possible" had not yet been developed.
Walking on multiple paths at the same time not only easily drives people crazy and makes progress on each path difficult, but is also very detrimental to inheritance. In that environment, every extraordinary person spends his entire life developing and mastering
Mysterious skills must be passed down to successors whose personality, hobbies, and essence are completely consistent with one's own.
Therefore, in ancient times, extraordinary beings were very few in human society. And their extraordinary power was not strong enough.
Because there is no inheritance system, almost all extraordinary beings cannot be passed down for more than three generations. And the depth that each person can advance on the path is very limited by relying solely on their own exploration.
It was not until about the fourth or fifth century that the concept of "profession" gradually emerged. Extraordinary people gradually made their personalities pure and extreme through various cultivation methods, and eliminated paths they did not intend to enter. At the same time, they were wary of their own
Don't let the essence of your personality be polluted. On the premise of maintaining your original intention, try to move closer to the safe path that has been explored by our ancestors.
The principles of the Nine Paths are actually very vague. Their boundaries overlap with each other and are constantly changing.
For example, the changes in the path of "beauty" related to art are the most obvious. Almost every few hundred years, people's understanding of "beauty" will change. Many arts that were previously considered inferior have become popular in a few years.
Ten years or hundreds of years later it became an "ancient trend".
But if you are an extraordinary person without guidance, you will easily go astray.
Because all ordinary people with mental health must meet the criteria of multiple paths at the same time.
For example, it is possible for wild extraordinary people on the path of devotion to learn the art of illumination. But if they do not know that the core principle of the path of devotion is "altruism", they will easily fall into the trap of "using their own healing abilities to seize the right to speak."
"Path. For example, becoming the leader of a small sect.
Then it is easy to unknowingly embark on the path of authoritarianism.
Similarly, if you are too paranoid about the truth, or think that you are a smarter genius than ordinary people, you will embark on the path of wisdom that pursues the truth.
If you are too obsessed with becoming a pope or a bishop and are eager for promotion within the church system, you have already embarked on the road to transcendence.
It would be fine if we walked on two paths at the same time. But everyone's mental strength and energy are limited, and humans are forgetful.
If you completely forget your original intention and become a completely different person from your original self...then the power that originally came from the path of devotion will continue to weaken until it disappears.
The so-called "professional" inheritance, the most important inheritance is the "bottom line of the path". Even if the scope of the path is vague, its core must be clear. Then don't test the boundaries of the path, and just pursue the most
As for the core principles, only the safest part of the power is used, so that relatively pure power of the path can be obtained.
Even if you are a priest who is eager for promotion, or you are seeking wealth and power, as long as you remember that the core principle of the path of devotion is "altruism", you will not lose the priest professional level because of this.
With the "professional" system in place, extraordinary knowledge can be formally passed on. From then until now, extraordinary people have generally become stronger and stronger.
But this does not mean that ancient mysterious skills are weak.
Almost every mysterious skill in the pre-professional era is a legacy left by the strong men of the past.
For example, the "" obtained by Aiwass is a mysterious skill carved from the memory of a man named "Shepherd".
This skill requires the adaptability of both the path of devotion and the path of transcendence, and requires that these two paths must be as balanced as possible - only when the depth of the two paths is consistent can the "art of shepherding" be used.
When Aiwass' priest profession is advanced, he will be temporarily unable to use it until the demonologist is advanced.
And this mysterious skill can be called an evil art——
Its basic principle is "to nourish the intangible with the tangible, and to nourish the tangible with the intangible".
Overall, it tells the story of a mysterious technique that can make anyone stronger...
After opening the book, Aiwass fell into a hallucination. From the text, he vaguely saw a hooded man in black robes, feeding weak demons with his own flesh and blood.
He did not sign a contract with the devil, but simply used his flesh and blood to lure the devil to follow him. It was like raising a pet or herding cattle and sheep. These weak demons were raised by him and became stronger and stronger.
As a result, he became skinny and covered with scars.
After that, Aiwass saw someone kneeling in front of the man in black robe, praying for something.
The man used a special technique to infuse the demon's invisible power into the supplicant's body. In a burst of fire, it underwent drastic changes and gained strength.
So the supplicant became the man's follower. He killed many people and offered them as sacrifices to more and more demons. After he became weak, he was ruthlessly thrown into the world as blood food.
A new batch of demons.
After repeated use, the demons gradually became stronger and their number gradually increased. After that, he used the same secret method to inject these demons into the bodies of other followers who were thirsty for power.
In this way, he obtained an evil army composed of demon-possessed people.
The legion collected various secret treasures for him and seized all kinds of wealth. The increasingly thin man began to cultivate more and more phantoms. At this time, the demons were no longer the only ones following him. Even phantoms with light attributes appeared.
By his side.
They have been raised by men since childhood. Without signing a contract, they are willing to accept men's arrangements and share part of their power with others.
Under the control of the man in black robe, there are more and more followers around him, and they are getting stronger and stronger.
Like a snowball, they formed a terrifying force in a short period of time and attracted encirclement and suppression from all parties.
In the end, when he was surrounded and suppressed by the coalition forces, he sacrificed his followers as food and fed them to the powerful phantoms using pastoral techniques.
Anyone who has received his pastoral care is unable to resist the forced sacrifice of his pastoral skills.
They were used as food to summon more powerful phantoms.
Aiwass saw clearly in the illusion.
Although it is just a silhouette, there is no doubt that it is the "Falling Sky Division" that only came and was defeated in version 3.0!
The man in black robe's plan went wrong at the last moment - he tried to inject the power of the Fallen Sky Division into his body using the technique of shepherding.
——But unexpectedly, the shepherding technique suddenly failed at this moment.
He himself was unable to properly contain the power of Fallen Sky Division and missed the best opportunity.
Without using the pastoral method that can extract the essence of the phantom without damaging its essence, his behavior became to steal the essence of the phantom - the furious Fallen Sky Division backhanded him and severely wounded him, and he was killed by the coalition assassins because of this.
Killed.
The man known as the "Shepherd" has ended his evil heritage.
"...Because when he tried to inject the power he grabbed into his body, he had already deviated from the path of dedication."
Aiwass sighed.
He really got this name right.
Use humans as sacrifices to feed the phantoms, and then extract power from the phantoms, or directly sacrifice the entire phantoms and feed them to humans.
Just like a real pastor.
Use the ubiquitous grass to graze cattle and sheep, and then obtain milk and meat from the cattle and sheep.
That grass is a mortal.
Cows and sheep are phantoms.
Such a bad metaphor.
——If you don’t regard the endless grass as a price, "herding" cattle and sheep will be a secret skill made out of nothing.
