Chapter 1173 Amber Mother and Forbidden Father
Aiwass smiled thoughtfully and meaningfully, "No wonder... the Good Lord is hereditary, but none of the Good Lord's children have mastered the ability to summon water.
"No wonder, killing a good master is a taboo in the desert. According to this way of inheritance, if a good master is killed, the remaining good masters will only become fewer and fewer.
"You need the head of a previous generation to gain this power and engrave this skill, right? That's why you're unwilling to teach me this knowledge. It's not about imparting the skill of summoning water... but about inheriting something that requires the price of one's life."
"... My Lord, my Lord... Please! Please forgive me..."
Afshin's voice was rough and hoarse, as painful as rolling naked on sharp stones. "I am willing to help you take the contract emblems of other good masters. Please—save me, save me!"
"I see……"
Aiwass whispered softly, reaching out to touch the lines on Afshin's forehead.
It was a mark that looked like a sun rock—a regular octagon with eight sharp isosceles triangles on all sides. Like the markings on a watch, the triangles in the four directions, up, down, left, and right, were larger.
"—Is this how you became a good master?"
With just a light touch, the emblem suddenly lit up.
Aiwass immediately felt the burning heat—it was Afshin's scorching skin. Like an inflamed limb, the skin near the sun mark on his forehead quickly turned red, even dark red. The slightest touch was enough to make it swell and burn. Meanwhile, the originally black emblem had turned a glowing white.
“No, no…why…Sir, sir! Your Holiness, please!”
Afshin didn't understand why this change happened. He was trembling all over and almost scared to death - he knew clearly what would happen to him if he lost his identity as the Good Lord.
He screamed and wailed fiercely, like a dog whose paw was stepped on, making a piercing cry: "I am willing to give everything for you! I am willing... I am willing to be your slave! My lord, your majesty! I will do anything for you, conquer any city, and I can also make you a good master, but please -"
Seeing this, Aiwass laughed happily, as if he had witnessed a wonderful comedy performance.
"So you guys are afraid of things too."
Aiwass smiled and said, "Since you are so afraid, it means... it will be even more disloyal than I thought.
"Let me think..."
He pondered and gently touched the glowing and hot emblem: "Yuan Tiansi, can you hear me?"
The next moment, Aiwass suddenly heard a faint sound of something gradually breaking apart.
Just like crushing an egg with your hands, a crisp snapping sound was heard.
Suddenly, a term that had not been seen for a long time appeared in front of Aiwass's eyes——
[Clear Container LV1 (Blue): You consume the Amber Egg, and your soul expands.]
As if the signal was bad, it began to shake violently and became unclear.
"This is……"
Aiwass was dazed for a moment, and suddenly realized: that was the Tao characteristic he suddenly obtained when he got the "Wild Hunt" profession that he could not use.
He still remembers the three options at that time -
[Earth Affinity LV1 (Blue): You approach the Amber Egg and comprehend some of the essence of the earth.]
[Earth Container LV1 (Blue): You touch the Amber Egg, and your soul expands.]
[Clear Container LV1 (Blue): You consume the Amber Egg, and your soul expands.]
Both are related to the Amber Egg.
Because just then, Aiwass had a brief eye contact with Amber.
Although his memory was as vague as an illusion, he seemed to have seen a huge eye spinning like a golden roulette from the horizon in the frozen time.
It is like an eye, a door, and an egg.
Like amber.
Like light.
Like tears.
It's like love.
Even though there is no clear image or memory of amber in Aiwas's memory, the complex emotions and impressions still remain in his heart.
He originally thought that it was just a description of the characteristics of the Tao.
But Aiwass now realized... he was wrong.
At this moment, the path characteristic of that time, [Clear Container], suddenly became distorted—
[Mother of Amber (Gold): Amber was once hatched from an egg and born from its belly.]
There was no explanation, no attributes. The blue path's characteristics suddenly twisted into gold.
When he saw this line of words, Aiwas suddenly recalled the knowledge recorded in the stone tablet sutras excavated from the Herasil treasure.
The "Secret Sutra of Sea Burial" once recorded a taboo story about a snake and a bird: a snake swallowed a bird's egg, and the bird hatched from the egg, fell in love with the snake, and then killed the snake.
Aiwass also remembered... Amber's true image was a winged girl sleeping in an amber coffin.
If the flying bird is amber... then the snake is Huantiansi?
...No, at that time, it should still be the Reincarnation Celestial Master Ai Shiping.
Is Amber Ai Shiping's child? Perhaps it wasn't a birth in the traditional sense; it could be describing Amber's birth or growth... But it's almost certain that Amber fell in love with Ai Shiping. And it's also certain that she ultimately tore him apart.
"The Secret of Sea Burial" is a forbidden technique that transforms the corpse of a loved one into a sea monster. It also tells the secret story of the birth of the original sea monster - Yuan Tiansi.
"Yuan Tiansi... is he transformed from the corpse of the original Lunhui Tiansi?"
After realizing this, Aiwass suddenly understood... why this mark reacted so violently to him.
Judging by Afshin's reaction, it was clear that the average person wouldn't experience this level of change from contact with the Mark.
"I need the name of the Good Lord, Afshin."
Aiwass said softly, "Without the name of the Good Lord, how can people believe that I am the Savior? Who can be sure that the one coming this time is really the Savior?"
As Aiwass spoke, the glow from his fingertips became increasingly intense.
Accompanied by a shrill scream - like skin being peeled off, the rune emblem on Afshin's head peeled off by itself and crawled up along Aiwas's right hand.
It did not crawl onto Aiwas's forehead, but settled on the back of his right hand and turned into a black tattoo with a sun pattern.
"—You sacrifice yourself."
In a trance, strange knowledge flooded into Aiwas's mind.
That is the knowledge of how to maintain the water source through sacrifice:
The blood of four hundred people could sustain water for eight hundred people for a year; if they donated their bones and flesh, they could summon water to sustain water for eight thousand people for a year; if they were in pain or joy, the amount of water would double; if they danced or sang, the amount of water would double again.
It can also make a person a carrier of forbidden knowledge, listening to the indescribable whispers of Yuan Tiansi...burning the other party's mind in exchange for an endless supply of water.
In addition, there are other taboos -
Killing parents and children is against the path of love; making ugly and abstract works of art is against the path of beauty...
A voice sounded from his heart. It was the original contract signed between Yuan Tiansi and the good masters.
[——Okay, then you can exchange your blood for water, exchanging it for impossible hope, for sins that cannot be redeemed. It's like burying seeds in salt soil, burning thorns with wildfire. It's a necessary sacrifice, but it's also... an unnecessary sacrifice.]
[This is, premature death... a necessary evil.]
Aiwass's pupils suddenly contracted.
He heard it clearly.
That is...
A cold and indifferent voice.
—A voice almost identical to his own.
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