Chapter 1243 The Memories Sealed by the Shepherd

Previously, Aiwas had always believed that this transformation of the Waite Tarot into the Thoth Tarot was what was bound to happen when the Great Sin Scholar created the Phantom Card.

But the current situation proves that this is not the case.

This may seem like a difference in detail, but it actually hides a huge problem.

In this world, there is no god called "Thoth." It is even more impossible to have a "Thoth Tarot" tradition.

You know, the Shepherd also belongs to the Serpent's Tail of the Ring Sky Division. In theory, he is no different from Aiwass. His and Aiwass's essence is the same, so Aiwass is the second great sinner in the world.

"No wonder I had such a smooth time making the Sin Cards in the beginning..."

Aiwass murmured.

——He finally solved a mystery that had no answer to it until now, but had always been engraved in his mind.

When Aiwass had just "awakened his past life memories", he tried to seal the power of the Shadow Demon by drawing the Phantom Demon Card.

At that time, even Aiwass himself was not sure whether the ritual could be successful. Even if it succeeded, he did not know why it succeeded.

This concern is correct.

Professionals only need to learn the knowledge of the corresponding path to gain extraordinary powers - this characteristic comes from the "deposit" that the celestial officials and pillar gods give to the professional system.

This is like the magic network system of DND, which allows people to cast spells more conveniently and quickly; it is also like the contract signed by a commissioned student, who first occupies a good position and obtains power, and then through means such as "education", slowly conforms to the corresponding requirements of the source river and the path, and is directly targeted to become the talent needed by the corresponding Tiansizhu God.

Only the inheritor can truly resonate with the source river and salvage the ownerless power from it.

The profession of the Scholar of Sin was born after the Fallen Angel was pulled down and killed by the Ring of Tail. Through the ownerlessness of the realm of "Sin," it was developed as a "profession of the future."

In other words, at the time when Aiwas just "traveled through time", this profession had not been registered by Huantiansi at all, and it was impossible for it to be registered - at that time, the hatred of the Fallen Angels towards Huantiansi was extremely high, and Huantiansi could not use the power of the Fallen Angels as collateral.

Logically speaking, Aiwass shouldn't be able to make any phantom cards at all.

unless……

——At that time, Aiwass did not use the power of professionals to draw the phantom cards, but through the system of inheritors.

The power of the inheritor comes from the pioneers of this heritage. Through the resonance of the Dao, the ancestors gained a subtle power far weaker than that of professionals with the same deep resonance. They then slowly cultivated and engraved this power into the Dao, which is also known as "original skills", and gradually optimized it through fine-tuning.

If someone can resonate with the same frequency as the ancestors, they will be able to gain corresponding power from the source river. If the resonance is deeper, the power will be stronger; if the resonance is weaker, the power will also be weaker.

Now Aiwass finally knows...

The world’s first great sin scholar is the pastor!

The ability to draw phantom cards originally belonged to the same inheritance as the pastoral method!

——That’s why Aiwas was able to resonate with the Shepherd’s Tantra so easily!

Although the Shepherd's Secret Scriptures have been lost, they were once secretly preserved for a long time. For all that time, no one truly mastered the art of shepherding... Even the benevolent masters of Heavenly City merely imitated the Shepherd's methods and attempted to replicate them. But that approach, rather than being inherited, was more akin to "reverse-engineering after receiving inspiration."

Therefore, his pastoral method is so weak, but it can control humans in the material world because it is not a proper pastoral method.

The essence of the art of shepherding is closely related to the art of cutting off the tail, and the memory that Huan Tiansi transmitted to Aiwas is also a kind of shepherding art. Huan Tiansi swallowing his own snake tail is also a part of the shepherding art.

It's a Celestial Technique closely related to reincarnation and transmutation... That's why it's so powerful, able to easily distort the minds of higher-level demons.

Because that is the fragment of Huan Tiansi!

For such a long time, so many people coveted the power of the Shepherd, but were unable to obtain it. This is because they lacked a key point -

--key!

Mastering the art of using phantom cards is the key to unlocking all these secrets!

[——Mr. Aiwass Moriarty...my lovely little key.]

[——You can open the door to the past.]

[——Perhaps you are indeed innocent...Snake's Little Key.]

[——Anyway, without you, his crazy plan will be shattered!]

The words of his adoptive father and the Fallen Angel echoed in Aiwass's mind.

"No wonder……"

Aiwass murmured softly.

That's why Aiwass was able to create a phantom card that could seal the Shadow Demon even though he knew nothing and was only at the first level!

Because this knowledge has long become a ritual and has been engraved on the world by the shepherds!

Before the death of the Fallen Angels, Aiwass became a great sin scholar... This is probably the reason.

Then this ability to transform Tarot cards into Thoth Tarot does not belong to the Ring of Heaven, nor to the Shepherd. It does not belong to any previous Snake Tail. It is a power that only the special individual "Evans" possesses!

Why does Aiwass have something special that even the serial Tiansi doesn't have and doesn't understand?

unless……

Huan Tiansi is not the real body at all.

From the very beginning - from the moment Aiwass was born, he had already become the true body!

The Huantiansi who wanted to escape from this world was the separated snake tail!

That is why Aiwass is called a "divine entity" and has the "great mass" that can move the tide of fate!

Because in a sense, apart from losing his memory, he is the same as Arthur!

"Thoth Tarot... Aiwass... Aleister..."

When he realized this, Aiwass fell into a momentary trance.

It was as if a key of nothingness was gently turning in his consciousness space.

With a click, the sealed memories came flooding out like a tide—

This was not the memory that Huan Tiansi gave to Aiwas, but the "lost memory" that neither Huan Tiansi nor he knew about.

——That is the part of memory that belongs to the shepherd!

This is the part of memory that the original Huantiansi gave to the shepherd, a part of memory that can only be opened under special circumstances.

And the shepherd chose to seal it away… The seal will only be released when the Tarot cards come into contact with a divine entity and transform back into Thoth Tarot.

Aiwass recalled the complete knowledge of the Thoth Tarot: a type of Tarot deck that existed only in a previous life. It was created by an occultist named "Aleister Crowley", who claimed that his knowledge came from an angel named "Awass", and later created "The Book of the Law" and "The Book of Thoth".

The prayers used by the Celestials are also adapted from parts of the Book of the Law and the Book of Thoth.

These words themselves have no meaning. The only meaning is that Aiwass could not know the part that Huan Tiansi did not say.

He was testing whether Aiwass had recovered his complete memory.

It is also testing whether the pastor's sealed memories have been leaked!

Verify whether this plan, which has been prepared for ten reincarnations, is still on the right track!

(End of this chapter)