True Spirit: Scarlet Shepherd, True Spirit: Original Sin Plateau

Xu Lang set aside the flood of system notifications for now and immersed himself completely in the power of the Scarlet Shepherd Sequence.

To advance in the Scarlet Shepherd Sequence, he had to find its narrative thread within a vast torrent of information incomprehensible to ordinary people. Only then could he avoid losing himself.

A True Spirit was someone who had grasped the essence of a Sequence, perhaps even understood its origins.

With the Nightmare Bed, Xu Lang came to understand the Scarlet Shepherd's unfathomable power completely, as though it were a story.

It might have been an age so ancient that even the Dormitory Building had yet to exist. On the Scarlet Plateau, every blood-colored creature was born bearing original sin. From birth, they stole the lives of others to prolong their own.

The strongest among them soon slaughtered every other living thing.

Then He began to weaken.

At the height of strength came decline. Only through endless cycles could life endure. That was the truth of the plateau.

When new creatures were born on the plateau, He no longer slaughtered them. Instead, He guided the slaughter where it needed to go.

Blood flowed into the rivers, bones returned to the earth, and flesh was given to their own kind.

The Scarlet Plateau endured, and He gained a pasture of His own, becoming its sole ruler and Shepherd.

After death, the powerful merged with Him and became guardians of the pasture.

That was the Scarlet Shepherd's origin story. There was nothing beyond it yet; the rest would likely unfold only upon reaching Awakening.

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[Origin: Original Sin Plateau]

[Sequence Level: B-3 (True Spirit)]

[Sequence Ability 1 (Grave Pasture): The Shepherd possesses a vast Grave Pasture containing meadows, blood lightning, blood clouds, blood rain, and blood rivers. The