Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1344 Let there be light

It was an extremely pale white painting.

It seems to have been dyed with all colors, yet it has also lost all colors.

From a distance, it appears to be almost a blank canvas. But from a divine perspective, one can see that someone has indeed painted something on it, layer upon layer.

When was this left behind?

The "Circular Observatory" was immediately taken aback.

Because He did not see any information about this scene in the memories of the Celestial Observatory.

……Ah.

Could it be that you deliberately didn't look at it for the sake of this moment?

Clearly aware that anything I know, I will also know, I therefore choose "complete ignorance"... Is it because I want to believe Aiwass?

The Whispers of the Void did indeed have some reservations about Aiwass.

After all, He had been imprisoned within Ai Shiping's body for 100,000 years—as a prisoner trapped for 100,000 years, it's not surprising that He respected Ai Huas. After all, this was Ai Shiping's "savior," whom He had personally created, accumulating power through countless reincarnations, believing He could defeat Him.

Even out of respect for Ai Shiping, He had to harbor the greatest possible murderous intent towards Aiwas.

This is why, after He descended to the material world through the body of the Celestial Being, He only briefly experienced the air of freedom before immediately starting to destroy the world without saying a word.

—Delay will only lead to unforeseen changes.

The Void had already learned a lesson about being "too late" 100,000 years ago.

Although He had devised some countermeasures against Aiwass... since Aiwass is not here now, it would be better to take this opportunity to act directly.

Now or never.

but……

It's just a painting, what can it possibly achieve?
Yes, the whispers of the void can certainly be felt.

This painting contains a kind of ethereal power.

This is precisely why it was able to survive in the vortex formed by the power of nothingness.

In addition, it possesses a mixture of powers from various paths, such as "dedication," "beauty," "twilight," "transcendence," and "love," but none of these powers are particularly strong. There is also some divinity gained through the sacrifice of souls... but not much, and it is not even enough to form fragments of the Celestial Realm.

It's at most the fifth energy level, or even lower...

For some reason, the whisper of the void couldn't help but stare intently at the painting.

It's like an art lover truly seeing art that touches the soul—

The Celestial Being's body possessed superior performance. Relying on the Celestial Being's intelligence, the Whisper of the Void quickly understood everything:
So that's it, they wanted to collect the number of miracles.

"Love and nothingness," "beauty and twilight," "dedication and transcendence"—this is the power of the triple miracle.

And this artist willingly succumbed to nothingness...

"...voluntarily falling into nothingness?"

Suddenly, the Celestial Division began to murmur.

He seemed to realize something, and his expression changed instantly. He forcefully obliterated the painting, turning it into complete nothingness.

But at this moment.

A dazzling light shone brightly within the black hole—

"If you mix many colors, you will get a deep black like night..."

Aiwass's voice echoed from the void: "But if you mix the various colors of light, you will get the whiteness of the sun. From this, we can conclude that the nature of color is the opposite of that of light."

"Therefore, 'The Painting of Extreme Whiteness' is a paradox that should not exist. It is painted by mixing various colors, yet it achieves an original purity of white. There can only be one answer..."

"...It is a painting created using 'light' as its pigment."

The last sentence was spoken by "Circular Observatory" himself.

He thinks in sync with Aiwass, and therefore, when Aiwass thinks, He always arrives at the same conclusion.

He realized that he had done something wrong.

...He shouldn't have destroyed that painting.

When the painting that carries light is destroyed, the light, as pigment, is released and blooms in the vortex of nothingness. As the final result of the painter who sacrificed himself to nothingness, when the painting is offered to nothingness again, the light that has been refined is integrated into the vortex of nothingness, but becomes an existence that cannot be digested or eradicated.

It is precisely the fruit of nothingness.

But nothingness does not need a "result".

At the same time, its foundation is the "miracle" that nothingness cannot encompass or control!
Yes, the power of nothingness contains the power of all the source rivers from the first to the ninth... just as "10" can be formed by any combination of natural numbers from "1" to "9". But it lacks the miraculous power belonging to the "eleventh source river".

the reason is simple.

Because when nothingness is born, miracles will inevitably cease to exist.

As the embodiment of "meaninglessness," the ultimate negation, it cannot govern a new concept that does not yet exist. Something that has not yet been born cannot be judged for its meaning. Just as an unborn child naturally possesses all possibilities…

Thus, the body of [Whispers of the Void] was imbued with the light of miracles.

This power derived from "possibility" greatly weakened Him.

...But from another perspective, He also had to destroy it.

Because if one does not destroy the last painting created by this painter who "dedicates himself to nothingness," but instead allows this luminous painting to remain in the vortex, it is tantamount to giving meaning to this meaninglessness. This is also equivalent to weakening one's own "negative power," the only difference being whether it is the self-negation of the concept or the incorporation of a "miracle."

"...He drank poisoned blood."

Huan Tiansi sneered as he looked at Aiwas, who was gradually coalescing in front of him—possessing divinity of this scale, Aiwas had undoubtedly reached the realm of Tiansi.

He was no longer a snake's tail, but a great being of equal scale to himself.

“What a clever scheme,” Huan Tiansi said indifferently, staring at Aiwas. “Setting up the Ouroboros ritual at the Spirit Tower was a calculated move to lure me into swallowing the Spirit Tower into nothingness on the spot… and then make me swallow the ‘poison’ that was placed here beforehand.”

"This was a scheme you and Ai Shiping orchestrated together, wasn't it?"

The light emanating from His body condensed before Him into a winged being with six-colored white wings and a white halo shaped like thorns on His head.

"I didn't scheme against you."

There was no sarcasm in Aiwas's words.

Instead, with a serious tone, there was a hint of emotion and melancholy: "This is exactly... the joke that 'fate,' which you love most, is playing on you."

"...This is just a painting by an ordinary person."

In that completely destroyed painting, light is overflowing like a roaring river.

The light entered Aiwass's eyes, creating one illusion after another:

A snake biting its own tail;

A swaddled baby;
A three-candlestick with two candles, one black and one white, inserted in the center;
A Java sparrow flies past a branch;

A rose that blooms and then fades;
A charred humanoid figure bound to a cross and burned alive...

And the end of all illusions.

Nothingness exists, has no boundaries, has no meaning... pure white nothingness.

—But since it has color and shines, can it be called "true nothingness"?

Aiwass mimicked the Celestials, raising his right hand and pointing it towards the sky.

"I will perform miracles."

Aiwass slowly said, "The name of this miracle is: Let there be light."

The next moment, the endless light, like a river, suddenly exploded!
Above, in the sky above, from the black hole left behind after the sun fell, endless light poured out, illuminating the entire world and restoring the world that had been distorted by the black hole!

The black, writhing snakes suddenly shattered, and the sky, though not exactly azure, shone with a not-so-dazzling holy light.

The ever-emerging light gathered at the black opening, like a ray of light appearing at the end of a dark tunnel.

This light, emerging from nothingness, thus became a new "sun".

Upon seeing this, the Celestial Division was immediately enraged—

The black runes on His body lit up, radiating a glow of blue, red, white, and yellow. Sure enough, two sharp wings composed of the four elements burst forth from the infinity symbol behind the Celestial Observer!

They don't look like wings; they're more like sharp, straight clusters of crystals.

After expanding to its maximum extent, the colorful wings exploded in all directions and spread a second time, transforming into four monochrome wings of light: cyan, red, white, and yellow!
That was precisely the posture of a butterfly—

The black hole held in His right hand did not dissipate; it continued to fight against the light and distort the surrounding world. Meanwhile, the Cosmos Chief's left hand was also raised forward.

A huge halo of light appeared.

The leaders of the four elements were forcibly summoned by this controller of the power of the four elements, and appeared in the material world as if driven away.

These Demon Kings each possess strength approaching that of the Fairy Queen, roughly equivalent to half-step Celestial Masters. Slightly weaker Celestial Masters might not be able to defeat them... roughly equivalent to the strength of a Candle Apostles. Among them, the Fire Elementals are the Flame Celestial Masters' apostles, that is, the elemental creatures summoned by the Magic Craftsmen.

They were all made of the purest elements—yet as soon as they appeared, jet-black collars materialized around their necks.

The power of nothingness spread and corrupted, capturing and completely controlling these phantoms without even a moment's resistance!

This is the absolute restraint that nothingness has over "phantom demons," which are lifeless entities!

But seeing the "Circular Astronauts" take the initiative, Aiwass remained completely calm.

Rather, he actually relaxed...

Because the "Circle Celestials" took the initiative to attack him, it meant that... all the terrible and insurmountable mechanisms of "Void" had been completely cracked by Aiwass, Aishiping, and Aiwass's other companions—the many ordinary yet great saviors of this world.

Faced with the wisdom, power, life, and destiny of the masses, this nothingness that denies and assimilates everything is ultimately pulled into the mortal realm, stripped of its divinity, and exposed its flaws.

—It's already showing a health bar.

(End of this chapter)