Pastor's Tantra

“…What a transcendence this is.”

Aiwass murmured quietly.

There are resurrection techniques in this world, and there are quite a few of them.

In the past, the High Sky could also create cauldrons to resurrect mortals, and Shadow of Avalon was essentially a large-scale resurrection ceremony. Moreover, Tiansi and Zhushen transform mortal souls into apostles who can descend in the material world, which is also a kind of resurrection.

Except for this kind of power involving the level of Tiansi and Pillar God... According to Aiwass's understanding, the "Insect Amber" master of the Dusk Path has mastered the non-destructive resurrection technique, and the path characteristic "Silent Dead" can also give people the third life. A second life, a life dedicated to the path can also be exchanged for a life.

Even Aiwass's "sister" who does not exist in his memory has her achievements recorded in the Silver and Tin Palace of Avalon - the invention of an unstable resurrection mixture.

But any resurrection comes at a cost.

The birth, aging, sickness and death of all things are the laws of the world and are the basis for the world to achieve a perpetual cycle.

People are born with a soul, and the soul gradually develops and grows during the growth process; and after death, the fruit falls to the ground, and the soul returns to the world again...and then the seeds sprout, giving birth to new people again.

During this process, the total amount of soul will increase. The total population of mortal things is also increasing. This is a positive cycle that can compensate for each other. From this perspective, the world is like a bank, constantly providing loans. The slow growth of the soul in the material world is the interest it receives.

But if a large number of people no longer participate in this cycle during this process...for example, if they become apostles, become undead, or are resurrected, the world will eventually be unable to make ends meet.

——If one day, everyone gets eternal life and the world’s soul reserves are completely exhausted, then children will not be born. Newborns who are forcibly born no longer have souls.

This is not unfounded.

But the "soullessness" that does exist.

In the ancient Parthian country, because a large number of rituals involving souls were performed simultaneously in various places, pregnant women who got pregnant or gave birth in the wrong place could sometimes give birth to a child without a soul.

It's like they were born in a vegetative state, but the situation is different. Their brains are normal, but cannot be activated... It's like the computer's hardware is normal, but the operating system is not installed.

Parthian scholars have also studied this phenomenon.

There are also people who try to use various means to activate the soulless baby brain, but they have never been able to awaken its intelligence as a human being - the upper limit is to turn humans into animals.

Without a soul, you cannot remember your own name...or, in other words, you cannot separate yourself from the world. Therefore, independent personalities cannot be born... Even if soulless people can even be made to act and speak independently through strict domestication methods, they still have no personality. The plan that is currently closest to completion is to use a pseudo-soul driver, using the body of a soulless patient as a golem driver.

Jacob's research can fundamentally solve this problem.

In this village solidified by the power of dusk, there were no newborns. It is essentially a naturally existing "soulless environment" that can no longer give birth to newborns.

When Jacobs was in his twenties, he developed the technology to create Swamp People.

Copying the soul through some means - in theory, this is actually a one-time resurrection technology that relies on special geographical conditions to achieve, but it is not too outrageous.

However, Jacob got stuck in a bug through some means. Or simply there was a bug in the ceremony he designed.

——He allowed the "original soul" that should have been destroyed when the new soul was born in principle to be preserved for unknown reasons.

In this way, he turned the skill of "resurrecting souls" into "copying souls".

In other words, a person was divided into two by him.

Jacob should have known that this technique was taboo and would cause huge controversy.

So instead of releasing the "originals" of the soul, he stored them. Put it somewhere only you know...

If nothing else, it should be inside the Fairy Cave.

Aiwass guessed that this was a coincidence.

Because if Jacob did it on purpose, then he had no reason to hide his souls in the Goblin Cave... Instead, he should preserve them through some means or conduct secondary experiments. There is no doubt that these souls are extremely valuable "orphans", precious special cases where something went wrong.

It was as if he had made a wrong reading during an experiment and quietly set the reading to the correct position with a guilty conscience - he hid the original souls that were not destroyed by the ritual in the fairy kingdom, so that no one would know that they were actually Not properly destroyed.

From this perspective, it is even possible that those mud turtles were brought here to be raised by Jacob——

After all, mud turtles are not purely undead, but wild creatures.

They are not born naturally, they must have migrated from somewhere. It is entirely possible that after Jacob realized his mistake, he stopped the Swampman ritual and got a group of mud turtles to plug the hole.

The purpose is to prevent people from opening the goblin cave, so that they can enter the goblin kingdom and see the original souls of those "swamp people" who should not be here in principle!

Thinking of this, Aiwass suddenly opened his eyes.

"Speaking of which, Haina's father..."

Aiwass suddenly remembered that the magnetic hammer was the Eagle Point Village that he came to almost ten or twenty years ago.

What happened then?

That was because Haina had been born for some reason, breaking the common sense of Eagle Cape Village.

At that time, Haina's biological father suddenly ran away from his pregnant wife for some reason and left Yingjia Village. And then never came back.

At that time, Jacob had returned to Eagle Point Village for a long time for the second time, and he had not yet died of "typhoid fever".

If the swamp ritual had stopped functioning by then, why would Haina's mother travel to the swamp?

How could she find the magnetic hammer if she didn't go to the swamp that was a restricted area?

But if you think of this as Jacob's experiment... and think of these unnamed aborigines as Jacob's assistants, everything can be explained!

In chronological order, the clues were quickly pieced together in Aiwass' mind——

Initially, Jacob should have entered Eagle Point Village by mistake when he was in his twenties.

Through coincidence, he found this village filled with the power of dusk, hidden in the cracks by the power of fairies, and the fairy cave filled with the power of pure earth element. And then developed an incomplete resurrection ritual through his genius...

But his research failed.

The resurrection ritual did not work properly because the original soul was not destroyed by the ritual. So Jacob stopped or suspended the ceremony and left Eagle Point Village.

More than forty years later, Jacob, who already had two sons and was about to retire from the stage of history, returned to Eagle Point Village.

He didn't plan to leave this time.

And he, who is more skilled... through some means, allowed Yingjia Village, a village sealed by the power of dusk, to give birth to newborns.

Therefore, he became what the elders called the "benefactor" of Yingjia Village.

Haina is one of the samples he cultivated.

Not only is she consistent with ordinary people, but she also possesses the ability to adapt to roads beyond dusk; apart from being insensitive to time, there is not even a trace of Eagle Point Village left in her. She was even able to leave Eagle Point Village normally without problems - although the natives could leave here, those "swamp people" could not leave.

Then Haina's father suddenly fled Yingjiao Village for some reason.

Immediately afterwards, the Swampman ritual started again.

He certainly wasn't looking for resurrection technology at that time. He would have accomplished better resurrection techniques long ago.

At this time, he started the Swampman Ritual only for its original by-product - the copied artificial soul.

And then...his death.

Aiwass suddenly felt a chill.

Jacob, who invented resurrection technology and even an artificial soul in his twenties, his own grandfather...

Is he really dead?

Also, why did he catch up with the "wind chill" at the same time as himself?

Is that really wind chill?

besides……

"who I am?"

Aiwass murmured quietly.