The Shepherds Are Dense – Chapter 1343

Chapter 1341
Iridescent Path Trait
—Bang!
As if a transparent glass window shattered.
The entire sky was grasped by Eivass, and it suddenly broke apart!
Fragments of space-time spun and fell to the ground. Each fragment reflected Ai Shiping’s past memories.
Some were happy, some were melancholic.
Some were mad, some were indifferent.
Some were him laughing wildly with open arms, some were him sobbing alone in a deserted corner.
—These were memories that Ring Heavenly Envoy had not given to Eivass.
These “past experiences” turned into an iridescent meteor shower, falling towards the Earth.
When they landed…
The desolate Earth, and the sin thorns covering it, were easily shattered and reshaped by these iridescent colors.
After the sky was stripped of these old colors, it turned into pitch-black void.
But the already dead Earth, after enduring these past experiences, blossomed with patches of flowers.
They were very ordinary, small purple flowers.
“That is…”
Eivass slightly opened his eyes.
They were lilacs.
Memories of the past, along with familiar scents, resurfaced from the depths of his heart—these were the flowers from a tree cultivated in his childhood home’s old courtyard in his past life.
And at this moment, they inexplicably grew on the ground.
These semi-transparent lilacs spread into a sea of flowers on the ground, swaying in the wind. In the pitch-black world, they reshaped the entire Earth.
The Savior, with six-colored giant wings spread, stood alone, gazing up at the dark, lightless world.
But the lilacs on the ground bloomed with a warm, faint light. Illuminating this pitch-black world.
As the entire world collapsed and split before Eivass… his vision did not display a “[Necessary Mission Completed]” screen as it had done in the past.
—Undoubtedly, Eivass had passed the Ascension Ritual.
Eivass could clearly feel the two Path Powers within his body boiling with joy—endless power was being drawn from the outside world into his body. Eivass was like a vortex at this moment, constantly swallowing everything in the surrounding world.
This was far beyond the strength of a Sixth Tier!
He surpassed this moment in the blink of an eye, and the next moment he was even stronger than this moment—
Eivass’s speed of becoming stronger even made himself feel a little scared.
But he was inexplicably stuck here, never seeing the prompt for passing the Ascension Ritual, and unable to leave this place.
If past Ascension Rituals were like being splashed with a ladle of water on the face after passing the Nine Pillar Gods’ trial… then at this moment, he was simply standing under a waterfall, facing the direct washing of his Path—and even two Paths!
He didn’t even know what the main quest was…
But at this moment, looking at the sea of flowers, Eivass suddenly realized.
Why had he suddenly accepted Path Power of this magnitude…
The reason was simple.
—Ascending to Heavenly Envoy required a Great Deed.
Just like Eivass’s Great Deed, which was Wanning, the Land of Miracles itself.
This “requirement” was to gain the resonance and recognition of the Origin River. Then, to open up the Origin River and become a Pillar God, a greater deed was naturally needed.
“Wanning” as a Heavenly Envoy-level deed was indeed not a problem. However, as a Pillar God… especially a Pillar God of a new Origin River, it was still somewhat lacking.
But the situation was different now.
Eivass’s memories and abilities were sealed by Ring Heavenly Envoy, and he experienced the journey of “Samsara Heavenly Envoy” Ai Shiping once more.
So, from the perspective of the Origin River, Ai Shiping and Eivass had become one.
In other words, Eivass had now inherited Ai Shiping’s past.
He had also inherited Ai Shiping’s merits and great deeds, inheriting the “miracles” he had created!
It was like in a season-based game, where the resources accumulated and divine gear crafted in the previous season were carried over to the current season.
—This was the bitter wine brewed over tens of thousands of years, or even more, of eternal reincarnation.
“—No need to worry.”
At this moment, a somewhat cold and old voice sounded.
Eivass turned his head and found that it was Hourglass—Hourglass in scholar’s attire.
He had, at some unknown time, appeared behind Eivass, gazing at the void above, seemingly studying something with concentration.
“—Hahahaha! How could we possibly miss your final Ascension Ritual?”
Laughing heartily was a Pillar God Eivass had never seen before.
It was a strong, elderly giant with a long white beard and a single eye.
Two ravens perched on his shoulders, one on each side. He rode an eight-legged Pegasus and held a lightning spear like a tree branch.
It was Odin.
The secret successor of the Great Philosopher Mimir.
The next moment, Candlemaster slowly walked out from the path.
As He walked, a narrow path of fire spread across the ground.
“We will help you.”
He whispered beside Eivass like a doting father. Then he elegantly lowered his head, slowly and deliberately chewing the glowing, crystal-like purple flowers on the ground.
“It has finally come to this step.”
A particularly familiar voice rang out.
It was Boss—the faceless head of Lord of Scales and Feathers looked back at Eivass’s gaze and let out a hearty laugh: “I know you can do it.”
Next to appear was a girl Eivass had also never seen before.
She had snow-white hair, even her eyebrows and eyelashes were white, and her pupils were an ice-blue that sent chills down one’s spine. She looked like she had albinism, or was covered in frost.
She was chewing on a wooden stick, and two white ribbons crossed in front of her mouth like an ‘X’. Like a “forbidden” sign.
It was the Winter Maiden.
At this time, a very familiar, somewhat carefree and cheerful voice also sounded beside Eivass:
“Ah… the Great Flock sent me to witness all this. After all, if we all came, it might be a bit crowded.”
” …Senior Sister?” Eivass murmured.
Appearing beside Eivass was Haina.
She wore silvery-white armor, holding a sword in her right hand and a shield in her left, like a fierce storm, valiant and heroic.
“Then, that’s basically everyone.”
Said Hourglass.
…Everyone?
Eivass was stunned.
These were only six Pillar Gods.
If Father Serpent still had no successor, and everyone’s eyes symbolized the Twin Mirrors… then Hengwo was still missing.
…Hengwo?
“Her suffering has finally come to an end.”
Candlemaster sighed, “The only good news is… she hasn’t been contaminated by the Void yet. In the future, she and Thor can be reborn again.”
—Thor.
That was the true name of the Beast Lord.
Unlike the wildness implied by the name “Beast Lord”… Thor, who inherited a fragment of Taiyi, was essentially a Sun God.
It was just that in that dark world, there was no possibility for a sun to be born.
“The First Pillar God has fallen into the abyss, destined for no hope.
“Just like the scenes of the past, when the sun fell and ten thousand beasts were born.
“The world says monsters rage and flood, who could know this is also the path of creation?
“The bestiality struggling in darkness and pain is still better than the void that buries everything. But I think… the world still has another way to live.”
This was what Hengwo had said to Haibasha in the past.
Thor alone could not withstand the pressure of the Void. So Hengwo took away his divine position—just as “love” was what defeated the beasts, pure love, egocentric love, love without any impurities.
It was the interweaving of love and the Beast Path that created the cycle of sun and moon. Thus, Xi Tian Si, a half-body, was born as the Third Sun to illuminate the sky.
And now, the Dawn Fire had burned out, the sun had fallen. This symbolized that Hengwo had reached her limit.
With Amber’s demise, Hengwo alone could not withstand the pressure of the Void.
—It would be better, while oneself was still pure, to choose a pure death.
“Stillness… that is the ‘difference’ of ‘change,’ the other side of change.”
Lord of Scales and Feathers said leisurely, “Amber used the fruit of Father Serpent she inherited to choose the opposite mirror image, to weaken the power of the Void.
“And a miracle only needs to take another step towards ‘creation’ within infinite stillness.”
As the words of Lord of Scales and Feathers fell.
At this time, in the Material Realm.
After the sun fell, only the moon illuminated the sky. And at this moment, even that pure moon was stained with black on one half. Like ink splashed on a lamp.
And at this moment, the moon suddenly emitted light.
It was pure white light.
For an extremely brief instant, the brilliant moonlight illuminated heaven and earth.
In that instant, the moon seemed to turn into the sun.
And following the pure white moonlight that illuminated heaven and earth, people finally saw the essence of that “black ink”—
It was…
“Snakes” like tentacles.
Endless black snakes covered the sky, obscuring the entire sky.
They gnawed, creating small cracks one after another in the sky.
And the next moment—
—The moon shattered at its most brilliant moment.
The moonlight shattered into billions of fragments, piercing through billions of black snakes.
Those black snakes were purified with a hissing sound, making the entire sky clean.
Of course, this darkness was still pouring in unceasingly from the gap that was once the “sun.”
But at least for one moment, the moonlight killed all the Void in the world.
At least for one moment, the moonlight replaced the sun, illuminating the pitch-black heaven and earth.
In that moment—
Light was a miracle.
The next moment, endless moonlight surged, condensing into a wine cup.
Then, pure transparent white light seeped out from the cup.
Eivass could clearly feel—the wine in the cup was not Hengwo’s power.
It was the power of miracles.
And at this moment, Eivass realized something else—
Ring Heavenly Envoy had never inherited this power!
He twisted the Ouroboros Ring into an Endless Knot, completely avoiding the concepts of “reincarnation” and “cycle.” Therefore, he could never inherit the power of the previous life from reincarnation.
So… he needed to lure Lucifer, who could have become the Third Sun, to fall at the beginning of each reincarnation, and steal half of Lucifer’s Heavenly Envoy power to reach the position of Ring Heavenly Envoy.
He had always kept that Great Deed unused.
And now, this bitter wine, brewed over tens of thousands of years, finally fell into Eivass’s hands.
Eivass tilted his head and drank the wine in the cup.
The next moment, the distorted world healed again.
Red and purple—the powers of two diametrically opposed Origin Rivers finally condensed into new radiance within Eivass.
It was pure white.
And the moment he drank the bitter wine, his “System” finally revived—
This “System,” condensed from the experience of these reincarnations, was a gift left by the original Ai Shiping for his future selves!
—Only Ai Shiping himself knew what kind of gift he liked.
Just like the curious message in Eivass’s Cardinal Robe…
It was a new message left by himself from a past reincarnation to himself in the next reincarnation.
And at this moment, the characters displayed by the “System” turned into burning white.
This symbolized that all the gifts from the past had been used up, symbolizing that this gift from the old days had completely become a part of Eivass.
It symbolized that Ai Shiping’s last remnants had completely burned out, and Eivass had embarked on a new path.
[Necessary Mission Completed]
[Inherit the Will of the Old Days (Completed)]
[Firm Your Resolve (Completed)]
[Embark on a New Path (Completed)]
[Infinite Points—In my heart, you are number one]
[The rest of the road is up to you]
[You’ve worked hard…]
[…Farewell]
[Grace of the Pillar Gods—]
[Ai Shiping has promoted a Trait for you!]
[Will of Heavenly Envoy – Proof of Dawn and Miracles (Iridescent): The complete law of dawn and miracles, the proof of opening a new path.]
[Use it in the appropriate way to become either the Dawn Heavenly Envoy or the Miracle Heavenly Envoy.]
(End of this chapter)