Chapter 1269 The First Pillar Gods

"Twin Mirror..."

Aiwass murmured softly.

Aimar Nur looked at the mirror lake and bowed to it with great respect.

After that, all the good lords also paid obeisance to it.

Even Aiwass bowed solemnly to the remains of the twin mirror.

He looked down on these good people, but that didn't mean he would disrespect this ancient pillar god.

To become a Pillar God, one must have some achievements. As the oldest Pillar God after the Sun Path, and even more ancient than the Candlestick, Twin Mirror must have some sacred qualities.

Now is probably the time to reveal this secret.

"That was before the world was created, when everything was in chaos."

Aymar Noor said slowly: "There is no light or fire in the world. There is no death and no birth.

"Back then, even the sun didn't exist. There were no stars in the sky, only countless cracks. Each crack was a malicious eye, each crack was a greedy mouth.

"This world is utterly silent, as if destroyed by the gods. There is no up or down, no water or fire, no earth or sky. The world is murky and dark, entwined only with an endless tangle of sin. These are our ancestors, the sinners of a previous generation.

“And at this time, Sizhu was born.”

This good master narrates the myth of the creation of the world.

If the "nothingness" part is hidden, the real situation is actually not much different from what he said.

"From the largest crack leaped the Candlemaker, whose flames ignited the Thorn of Sin. The burning hole was called the Sun.

“The sun is the old wound of the sky. Light and fire are the sharp blades that make new blood flow from the old wound.

"The fallen blood scab became a black moon. It shattered on the ground and turned into a lake. When light emerged, it remembered its name was 'Mirror'.

"When Jing wakes up, the world will be different.

"The separation of the material from the immaterial, the waking from the dreaming, gave rise to the material world and the dream world—on one side the waking world, and on the other the reflection of the candlelighter's dream.

"Reality is dark, dreams are bright. So light and darkness are separated. On one side of it is dreams, and on the other side is reality."

Aymar Nur murmured softly, "This is the first day of creation."

Aiwass looked at the shattered ice lake and suddenly understood some things that he had never understood before.

He now knows from the memories he has retrieved that Twin Mirror is the Pillar God who survived until the world was completely reduced to dusk by nothingness; at the same time, he is also the original Pillar God, but no one knows when he was born.

He finally understood now.

[…Generally speaking, each world has its own barrier to prevent the arrival of people from other worlds. But at that time, the world had been completely devoured by the twilight species, leaving only a huge hole in the sky—like a worm-eaten apple.]

This void is the 'Tenth Source River', also known as the 'Zeroth Source River'. It was through this void that Sizhu entered this abandoned world... and discovered Sinthorn.

Gray's words flashed through Aiwas' mind.

The records of the church and the records of the good Lord are pieced together to reveal the truth of the time.

No wonder the Twin Mirrors hold such a high status…even Sizhu is inferior to them. No wonder, even when all the Pillar Gods were eroded by the Void or died, the Twin Mirrors still managed to exist. They survived from the last generation before being devoured by the Void, to the next generation when they were devoured again by the Void.

——Because He is the barrier that prevents the arrival of things from the dream world, and the blood scab that protects the wound from infection.

At the same time, it is also the world itself that has been eaten by nothingness and is therefore dead!

This strange worldview, where the dream world and the material world reflect and interact with each other, is because this world is built on this mirror.

He is the moon and the lake; He is the lake and the mirror; He is the mirror and the door; He is the door and the wound.

The blood scab is the lock, and the sharp blade is the key to open the lock.

The blade that pierces this lock and the medicine that awakens the old gods is the fire brought by the candle and the light brought by the burning sun.

Only after receiving the light from the candle did the twin mirrors awaken again. After all, without light, mirrors were meaningless. And with Him as the boundary, the turbid world finally had boundaries.

In that era, the dream world and the material world had not yet separated. The two worlds were closely connected... and the way to connect them was through this mirror. Or rather, across all mirrors. And it was the first mirror, the last god of the previous generation.

——The day of burning the thorns of sin and creating all things from the thorns of old sin.

—and a mirror that distinguishes light from dark, reality from dreams, self from others.

Creativity and difference.

Following these two is the first generation savior Sizhu, who has made the greatest achievements. The source of civilization was born from then on.

...What about the Sand Clock, the Lord of Scales and Feathers, and the Snake Father?

This thought suddenly popped up in Aiwas' mind.

That is also a history that does not exist in the records of the Church.

But the good lords may have records of this...

He also asked Aimaer Nur directly.

This benevolent master, known as the "Forgiver," did not make things difficult for Aiwass, but nodded gently.

He knelt before the Mirror Lake with piety and respect, muttering in a low voice:

"When fires once again ignited from the earth and new life gathered together, awakening this once-sleeping world...an outsider appeared in this world again.

"Like Sizhu, he arrived here from the other side of the dream world, leaped into this world from the mirror, and was full of curiosity about this new world. He was not very powerful and was very friendly, so Sizhu did not attack him. However, it was when the outsider arrived that Sizhu and the twin mirrors realized that this passage was too easy to pass through, and anyone from another world could easily reach this place, so they worked together to smash the mirror. It was like locking a door.

"From then on, the two worlds of light and darkness, heat and cold, nothingness and reality merged together, inseparable like milk and honey. And as outsiders, the candle and the outsiders could no longer leave this world.

"But the outsider was not troubled by this. He enthusiastically taught the new life, and this action also gave birth to a branch of truth in the Source River. Sizhu invited him to become the pillar god of the Fourth Source River, but he said - it is not the time yet.

"Under His teachings, people began to think about what they were, where they came from, and where they were going. Why did they exist, and why did the world exist?

"They pestered the outsider, but the outsider just smiled and said nothing; they pestered Sizhu, but Sizhu was not good at answering. So Sizhu found and resurrected the gods of the previous generation from the sin thorns..."

"...Sand Clock and Snake Father, right."

Aiwass had roughly guessed the truth.

Aymar Nur nodded slightly. "The Sand Clock represents the passage of time. Since its awakening, all order has also been restored. And the Snake Father is the father of all people—He is the feathered serpent, so all winged and scaly beings are His children.

“However, the two ancient gods gave two completely different answers.

"The first is the principle of order, which is called balance. The Sand Clock claims that the world is always returning to its original state, so the new world needs to restore the old world's structure to revive the old civilization. The second is the principle of change, which is called transcendence. The Snake Father claims that the world is always changing, so the new world only needs to live the life of the people of the new world. The old civilization is dead.

"In the dispute between the two ancient gods, Sizhu chose to abstain. The Twin Mirrors recognized the Sand Clock, while the outsider recognized the Snake Father. Later, the Twin Mirrors changed their minds and chose the Snake Father... and thus our world was officially born from that moment on.

Followers embraced different truths, thus creating conflict and disputes. After the dream world and the material world intertwined, these complex thoughts generated immense power, unleashing new sacred entities from the ever-burning Sinthorn... They were the Sky-Eating Beast and the Hunting Lord, born together. The Sky-Eating Beast possessed overwhelming violence, growing stronger with each victory; the Hunting Lord possessed inexhaustible vitality, growing stronger with each defeat.

"The sources of survival and violence come from the ancients' understanding of balance and transcendence. Therefore, they are adjacent to balance and transcendence, respectively, and yet conflict with each other.

"—Later, the Winged Ones were the first to give up seeking answers from the gods. Their leader, determined to create the Pillar of Truth, built the Tower of Babel. He wished to gather all the world's civilizations there, igniting the flame of wisdom amidst the boundless power of civilization.

"And violence has always been incompatible with truth. When the initial flame of wisdom was born, the sky-eating beast suddenly arrived and crashed into the giant tower, destroying the initial crystallization of wisdom.

"The Winged King was enraged and launched the world's first war against the Sky-Eating Beast. After his victory, the Outsider, using the scales and feathers stolen from the Snake Father, killed the Hunter King, seized the position of the Sixth Source River, and became the Lord of Scales and Feathers."

Aymar Nur gazed at the Mirror Lake with incredible concentration. "This is ancient knowledge passed down only by the King and Vizier of Parthia. Beyond Parthia, these truths exist nowhere else. Even the elves are merely a new civilization that emerged after the second collapse of the Tower of Babel."

Having said that, he glanced at Aiwass.

It was as if he had already guessed something.

It was like I had some bad premonitions——

Why did Aiwass dare to come here alone? Why didn't he seem panicked at all?

as well as……

Why did the friendship chain on his shoulders become so noticeably hot and vibrate as Aiwass approached?

Is he really just the snake tail that Huan Tiansi discarded?

Or maybe...

...Is this a layout and conspiracy at the level of a celestial being?

Aymar Noor’s eyes were deep, and he spoke clearly, word by word: “Therefore, I want to give them to you.

"If we cease to exist after today... at least there will still be someone who can remember everything from the beginning of creation."

"The Forgiver—"

"What's wrong with you?"

Hearing Aimaer Nur's words, the other benefactors immediately became anxious.

Aimar Nur, with the chain of friendship draped over his shoulders, just silently felt the abnormal temperature and vibration coming from the "chain of friendship" on his shoulders, and silently waved his hands vigorously to dispel the worries and dissatisfaction of others.

No matter what, once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back.

——Now that things have come to this, he can no longer choose to retreat.

"The time has come."

Aymar Nur suddenly gave an order.

He raised his cane and touched the Mirror Lake.

"I am Aymar Nur. We are the guardians of the Holy Spring, guarding it for generations."

He prayed solemnly and solemnly: "Holy Spring, cleanse us."

As he touched it, white smoke suddenly rose from the cold holy spring, like boiling lake water.

"Everyone recites poems praising the Twin Mirrors until nine hours later.

"I will call forth the waters of the abyss from the Mirror Lake—"

I haven’t finished writing it yet. There is still the second chapter. I will write it during the day.

Just think of the number one as my little cat asking for leave for Children’s Day!

(End of this chapter)