Chapter 1217 The Disaster of the Eldest Son
While Aiwass was arranging the matters for these immigrants, he was thinking about another thing.
He was thinking...
What was the last thing Adil wanted to say but didn’t have time to say?
According to the secret told by Adil, the great desert of the ancient Parthian Empire was actually caused by the sin thorns buried underneath.
The Sinthorns will continuously absorb water, and as long as they are continuously satisfied, they will not grow; however, this can also be said the other way around, that is, water can seal the Sinthorns and make them dormant. If they do not get water, they will gradually become active and grow upwards... just like people drinking alcohol.
Although these two possibilities are completely opposite in nature, they are the same in manifestation.
Therefore, the amount of water provided by the benefactors for "hundreds of people" is actually far greater than the drinking water needs of normal people.
All people can drink is the water that is left after satisfying their sins.
That’s why almost all good people “waste water” with all kinds of plastic arts!
On the one hand, he can show his arrogance, as he can squander what people don't have enough to drink, thus showing his power and status;
On the other hand, water is meant to be sprinkled on the ground. By creating rivers and lakes surrounding the oasis, they were essentially "watering" the Sinthorns. Therefore, any pre-watering tricks or other such activities didn't affect the essence at all.
From this perspective, Aiwass could understand why Adil was so proud of this tradition. Perhaps the original Good Masters, those forbidden mages who left the Tower of Babel, were actually trying to find a way to seal the Sinthorn below. They chose the forbidden spell they were familiar with, the Abyssal Water of the Abyssal Division.
It was for this purpose that they built cities and obtained water through sacrifices. In order to obtain the water they needed, people acquiesced to the sacrifices of the good lords.
In fact, they are the "renewable ritual materials" that were deceived - through human reproduction, the seal here will become eternal.
If that was the case, Aiwass could understand...why the Theocracy remained indifferent to the Good Lords.
Even if the Cardinal wanted to deal with the ancient Parthian Empire, he had to ask people to come to him in person before he could take action - even if he could not overthrow the rule of the good master, couldn't he build a waterway himself!
If the Theocracy cannot directly help the Good Lord, it is because of the tradition that the Theocracy cannot interfere in internal affairs. However, the Theocracy has been indifferent to the sacrifices made by the ancient Parthian Empire and has only tried to stop the problem of human trafficking... Now that I think about it carefully, this attitude is actually not quite right.
After all, there are "homeland factions" in China.
The Homeland Sect, led by Cardinal Valrhona, understands dedication as "the longest and most sustained dedication is construction" - not to bother trying hard to help individual people, but to create a better home for a group.
Mr. Maxim, whom Aiwass had met before, was a mage of the Civil Engineering Department. He not only presided over the construction of the Temple of Silver and Tin, but also built a dam for the Horus people.
Horus and Parthia were not much different; one-third of Horus's territory was desert. Yet, the Horians would attempt to harness their technology to build water conservancy projects. It made no sense for the ancient Parthian Empire, which was even more water-starved, to stubbornly refuse help. Even if the Good Lords sought to maintain their power, when did the Theocracy ever consider the opinions of other nations when carrying out such sacrificial feats?
The Church's stance has always been flexible.
If something involves affecting the internal affairs of other countries, the elves will hesitate to act, considering the opinions of their ancestors. However, if it involves practicing the path of devotion, they will act like mad dogs and destroy all those who try to stop them along the way.
In fact, from this perspective, the Theocracy actually possesses a strong character—as long as its own interests are involved, it will not care about the opinions of others. However, the "interests" that the Theocracy values are neither wealth nor resources, but rather a "practice base" where it can practice its own path.
It's like everyone's playing a SLG, fighting tooth and nail for resources and land. The Theocracy is also playing this game, but he's actually here to write a sociology paper. He doesn't care how others perform, and he doesn't care if he wins or loses. Instead, he relishes talking about it because it helps him complete his project. But if anyone tries to stop him from completing his project, he immediately goes red-eyed.
Well, since the Theocracy has never considered building dams or artificial rivers for Parthia... perhaps it is because the Theocracy tacitly assumes that "the existence of the Good Lord has some meaning."
Considering the Sinthorn beneath the desert—Sizhu's honorific name is "God of Binding Sinthorns," whose earliest achievement was burning away the Sinthorns that blocked the source of the Dream Realm River, thus creating the "Path," a system of extraordinary power. And the fact that Sinthorns are buried beneath this desert is not unknown.
From this perspective, the Church probably knows where this thing came from.
After all, the ancient Parthian Empire was established even earlier than the Theocracy - the elves, who were breastfeeding people, were just born after the collapse of the Tower of Babel.
Those who have milk are children of the source of "civilization", and the instinct of civilization is expansion.
The extremely belligerent elves waged war against nearly every race in the world, annihilating countless races. They then endured a bloody civil war before finally achieving compromise and unification. The numerous "layers" of the Theocracy today, each with its own distinct customs and rules, are a remnant of that past civil war.
By the time the Theocracy unified, the ancient Parthian Empire had already been established for who knows how many years. If it needed to be changed, it would have been changed long ago. Why would it have to wait until now?
As for sealing, that's not the case... after all, they are elves. Their ancestors are giant trees, and they are the earliest apostles of the candlestick, so they are more or less related.
Sizhu has burned all the sin thorns in the source river, so is there still a little left in the desert?
Combined with Adil's words...
"The old scar of the earth, the brothers of all living beings..."
Aiwass murmured softly while writing a letter to Yulia, asking her to arrange for these refugees.
Adil said that Sizhu would protect the sinthorn here because this was the last sinthorn in the world.
Why? Is there any reason why Sinthorn must be protected?
"The last sin..."
Aiwass thought seriously.
He remembered another thing—
The theocracy's prayers mention that before Candlelight arrived, this world was dead and silent, covered in thorns... even without sun or moon. His arrival was an accident, and the birth of fire was a gift.
Only after He burned the bush with fire did the power of the source river overflow again.
So, there was the first one.
"... Taiyi. The Pillar God of the Sun's Path... The First Source River, the First Path. Could He be the earliest Pillar God?"
Aiwass felt that he was close to the truth of the world.
As long as one breaks through this last layer of paper, one can understand the truth of all this. And the most crucial thing - without a doubt - is the sinthorn under the desert.
Suddenly, Aiwass had some inspiration:
"If Sizhu is the first true 'life' in this world, creating 'Taiyi' from nothingness, and is a fire from another world, then isn't Zuiji the native life of this world?"
Flames need fuel to burn.
So what is the fuel that supports Taiyi's burning and creates all things?
In the ancient past when nothing existed in the world, it could only be sin.
In other words, Taiyi is a life born from the burning sin thorn.
Sizhu's achievement was to "open up the source river"... But he did not create the source river from nothingness, but dredged the source river that already existed but was blocked by the sin thorn.
That's where the problem comes in.
Who created this source river?
Where does the sin come from?
Why would the world-destroying twilight species...the Whisper of the Void, target this world?
Combined with the characteristics of Sinthorn - Sinthorn can not only eliminate all power from the source river, it can even kill almost all life, and it also has the power of the path of nothingness.
But why was there a power of nothingness at the beginning of the world?
So, is there a possibility...
Sinthorn is not the "original form" of life.
——But the “end point” of a certain civilization?
Just like what Adil said, "brother".
Perhaps, the Whisper of the Void did not discover this place by chance.
He has already "eaten" this world.
“It’s something we need to study.”
Aiwass thought so.
He does have a way to study——
Some of the world's first batch of sinners were buried beneath the desert. They were buried in scattered locations, probably beneath various city-states.
According to Adil, if you don't water the plants, the sinthorns will start growing upwards.
Perhaps those city-states that were gradually swallowed up by the desert and disappeared without a trace after they became uninhabited were because the thorns of sin had eaten away their bottoms, causing the cities to fall into the quicksand.
Aiwass happened to build an underground waterway - although he built the waterway to feed the Parthian people, he didn't expect it to be a blessing in disguise and play a big role.
This waterway would allow a small number of Sinthorns to slowly awaken and entwine themselves around it, like a trellis of grapevines. It was also located far from the city walls, and contained a sufficient amount of water to soothe the Sinthorns... This would prevent the Sinthorns from eating away at the city, and from completely outgrowing the ground.
If all goes well, Aiwass should be able to reap some of the world's "original sins" soon.
Or... should we call them the "eldest sons" of this world.
The update is complete, a 5,000-word update!
So tired, so tired...
(End of this chapter)
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