Pastor's Tantra

[Gray Eternal is teaching you "Higher Divine Art (11/11)". Do you want to pay 644 public experience to master this mysterious skill? 】

--confirm payment.

Aiwass thought in his mind.

As this voice fell, Aiwass's experience once again returned to the pitiful double digits.

It's really safe, but it's useful enough.

Aiwass broke into a cold sweat.

If he hadn't killed Cardinal Loki once, his experience would really be insufficient - the White Saint's mastery of these eleven volumes of advanced divine arts was really uneven. The smallest volume only cost over one hundred years of experience, while the largest volume actually cost one thousand two.

Considering that the volume was called "Higher Divine Art: Annotations on the Path of Love - Love, Friendship, Desire, and Evil Thoughts", Aiwass felt that this was quite understandable.

——Considering the problem of Master Yanis, the Pure White Saint may not have studied this volume well back then. Maybe it was because she simply couldn't calm down and couldn't watch it; maybe she was absent-minded, or she was embarrassed to tell Aiwass such ambiguous knowledge. After all, conservatives still account for the majority among the elves.

Of these eleven volumes of advanced magic, the first volume talks about history and principles, and the second volume talks about methods and methods. The remaining nine volumes are all about communication methods with the pillar gods, Tiansi, apostles, and phantoms of the nine paths, as well as the understanding of each path and the control of oneself. Therefore, strictly speaking, it is actually possible to learn advanced magic by just reading three volumes.

Advanced divine arts require digging into the heart and allowing oneself to serve as a container to withstand the coming of great will. And this requires suppressing one's own identity to "make room."

Just like when you're doing surgery, drawing, or doing other precision work, ask a passing boss to take over. Then at least stand far away and watch quietly. Don't use your hands or feet to affect the boss's operation - if you anger the boss, it's not a big deal for the boss to drop the things and walk away. The two of them are competing for control of the body, but problems may arise.

Therefore, you must lock your body so that your body can only do limited things when your will comes.

——Just like in other games, it is best not to have self-destruction skills in the skill bar during automatic combat. Maybe the AI ​​will use it after seeing it. And to do this, you must know the personal preferences and taboos of all great beings... This is one of the reasons why it is called advanced magic.

Because it is really similar to the underlying logic of divine magic.

If "Fire Sacrifice" and "Illumination" are the prerequisite skills of "Torch Burner", then "Prayer" and "Blessing" are the prerequisites of advanced divine skills!

Divine magic uses prayers and blessings to pray for the boss to send down his power. It is like asking someone to do something, handing in your needs in a format, and then waiting for the process to go through; while high-level magic is just a phone call to the boss directly to ask for help. The boss does all these things automatically. If you are not related to the big boss, you need to maintain a good enough relationship outside the outside world.

The difference is that divine arts require you to inquire about the boss's preferences when something happens, while advanced divine arts are equivalent to pre-saving "favors" in advance.

From this point of view, Aiwass finally understood why the Theocracy is a human society.

——Because the divine art developed by the founder of the Theocracy and the first pope, Zhu Tiansi, is essentially the "divine art of human affection"!

The knowledge contained in the following nine books of "Higher Divine Art" alone is "secret knowledge" that ordinary bishops cannot master and are passed down from generation to generation.

Even in the prayer textbooks taught by the church to the bishops, it is impossible to explain in detail the likes and dislikes of these big guys. It is equivalent to a small book, filled with the contact information, addresses, weaknesses, handles, preferences, past, personal relationships of various big shots...

If these things spread too widely, it is really possible to anger these dream world beings.

On the other hand, if you read these books thoroughly, even if you go back and do some ordinary prayers and blessings, you will get twice the result with half the effort - because they have already obtained more important information.

In this world, knowledge is power. This is naturally even more true when it comes to information at the Pillar God level.

Therefore, even if Aiwass mastered advanced divine arts through the system, he still had to read the following books after returning. This is all real and valuable knowledge. No wonder the elves sealed it in such a tight box and had to read the first two books before anyone could read it. I am just afraid that the knowledge inside will be lost.

And with the gradual loss of experience, Aiwass also felt the surge of power in his body.

Under pure white gaze, Aiwass's pupils became dull again.

——It was at this moment that Aiwass’s pupils turned completely vermilion.

It was a sacred flame like the sun.

Immediately afterwards, golden lines appeared in the vermilion center - it condensed into a flaming monster vertical pupil. Immediately afterwards, the invisible energy spread out in all directions with Aiwasi as the center.

Aiwass felt warmth, and then heat.

It felt like wearing thick clothes and walking out into the sun from a cold room. In an instant, he was sweating profusely.

Under severe dizziness, the world in front of Aiwass gradually became blurred.

He felt that his liquid soul was being twisted by some kind of force - just like blowing glass, with bubbles popping up inside.

"It's actually the soul of dissolution..."

At this moment, Aiwass suddenly heard a voice behind him.

He suddenly turned around and found that he was in a pure white space.

In a daze, the pure white space gradually became colored... It was as if the game had not refreshed the texture, and the world gradually took on an outline.

It was a spring day in the mountains. Clear streams, green leaves, bright sunshine, and the crisp chirping of birds under the blue sky.

"...Reincarnation Tiansi?"

The doubtful voice sounded again.

Aiwass turned around again and found that a man had appeared beside him at some point.

He has an extremely handsome and soft appearance, with long light blond hair hanging down to his waist, and there is no decoration on his head or face. He is clad in a monochromatic white robe...but only his upper body is human.

From the waist down, he has the body of a majestic white deer. On top of his head, there is a pair of huge white antlers similar to Si Zhu's.

Those antlers were extremely clean, with a color like bone china and golden lines. They were so white that they seemed to be glowing - the end of each branch was burning with silver-white flames. The light of the flames shone on the other antlers, making it appear that his entire huge antlers were glowing.

The half-man, half-deer man was looking down at Aiwass seriously.

At this time, Aiwass realized that he was not a human...not even the fox he was before, but had become a young deer without horns.

He stamped his hooves in a panic and jerky manner, not knowing what he looked like.

When the man saw this, he laughed heartily.

"It seems I made a mistake."

He rubbed Aiwass's head and said warmly: "If you can't find a god with whom you can contract in the end, come to me.

"Remember my name, young priest, I am Zhu Tiansi...the first pope.

"My real name is...Ann Eternal."

The next moment, the illusion dissipated.

Aiwass then realized that he had fallen to the ground at some point. And Chunbai is hugging herself next to him. Her whole body was shining with light, and she kept using lighting techniques on Aiwass.

Aiwass's body was as hot as a mining graphics card - he could even see his skin turning red with the naked eye, and there were rounds of purple-red dents like nooses.

Those traces continue to emerge and disappear under the healing power of lighting. Aiwass's body looked like a watermelon that had been dug indiscriminately, with overlapping pits one after another.

Finally, it rested in the exact same position as Cardinal Matilda - in the middle of Aiwass's chest.

The traces of the noose emerged and deepened, and finally it broke and bled.

The wound healed again, and a black mark appeared——

It is a circle formed by a snake biting its tail.

It looks like the black sun during a solar eclipse.

"...Congratulations. You are the first race other than elves to learn advanced divine arts in the past four hundred years; you are also the first short-lived race in the world to master advanced divine arts."

Witnessing the miracle she had been waiting for, Chunbai said with an extremely complicated mood: "Should I call you in advance...Cardinal Moriarty? Or do you think Cardinal Aiwass sounds better?"

"...Don't you need to completely master the advanced magic?"

Aiwass said softly.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he even startled himself - he was just like Yulia when she had a high fever, dumb and weak.

At that moment, he suddenly understood how Yulia felt.

At this moment, his soul was completely open... Although there was nothing inside, it was a "home".

A "flesh and blood home" that can accommodate a phantom!

"Have you decided who to sign a contract with?"

Pure White frowned slightly: "Don't you think about it anymore? Let me emphasize again... Every time you hold a divine descending ceremony, it is equivalent to digging a hole for your soul. If you dig holes continuously, your soul may be damaged. It is best to go through a promotion ceremony to recast the soul before cooling down for the second round of ceremony.

"That is to say, you may only be able to sign a contract with one existence before your next promotion ceremony - have you figured out who it is?"

"...Basically thought about it."

Aiwass replied.

Because of the Pastoral Tantra, he must maintain a balance between transcendence and devotion. Therefore, he cannot choose either path unless he can sign with both at the same time.

In addition, he has no friendship with Hengwo, Sha Shijie, Weizhe, and Amber. You are not sure that the other party will accept your resume directly... It would be a waste of time if you wait for your resume to be returned and submit again. As for the Tiansi and the apostles besides the Pillar God, Aiwass didn't even think about it.

Therefore, Aiwass currently has only a few selected first signing targets.

That is, the Crown Master, the Twin Mirrors and the Scale Feather Master, choose one from the three.

so……

"——I will choose the Lord of Scales and Feathers."

Aiwass did not hesitate to give the name that came to mind first.

For some reason, he always felt that the other person was extremely friendly.