Boom!
Two colossal beings, each spanning dozens of light-years, collided in the depths of the universe.
The resulting shockwave surged faster than light, and would likely linger in the cosmos for thousands of years before dissipating.
The Immortal Ancient Tree had never feared a collision before—its greatest strength was the boundless physique granted by its powerful life origin.
Because it wielded the Life Source Seed, even after its death and rebirth through a clone becoming its main body, its divine origin had stagnated at 195 points, but its life origin had long since broken the limit, growing to 200 points—no weaker than an Eternal Lifeform.
Though far from its peak, what other Immortal Godfiend dared face it in direct combat?
But this time, the Immortal Ancient Tree was filled with such regret, it could almost shatter.
That wasn't an exaggeration—its tree heart truly had shattered.
Water is the softest substance, but when frozen, it becomes harder than steel.
What seemed like a simple collision actually involved countless intricate techniques from Rosen.
He used the Gather-Scatter Source Seed to compress the Miracle Starsea, originally spanning tens of thousands of light-years, down to just a few dozen light-years. He then merged the Heavenly Frost Serpent and the Heavenly Frost World into it, causing the boundless frost aura to freeze the Miracle Starsea solid.
Though its size matched the Immortal Ancient Tree in the end, its density and strength were dozens of times greater.
That wasn't all—such massive size would normally hinder mobility.
So Rosen fused the Miracle Starsea with the Doomsday Ark, and then, utilizing his Creator-Scholar abilities, he activated various skills from the Knight Sequence to drive the Ark across the void in a charging assault. With the aid of time acceleration, he forced the Miracle Starsea to reach superluminal speeds.
Absolute velocity and absolute mass produced absolute destruction.
The Immortal Ancient Tree was like an egg smashing into a boulder. Countless branches were obliterated, its trunk shattered into pieces, and—more terrifying still—the frozen Miracle Starsea began to thaw, dragging the fragmented body of the Immortal Ancient Tree into its depths, sealing them in a frozen prison.
On the verge of utter defeat, the Immortal Ancient Tree's shattered remains transformed into countless seeds.
These seeds took root and sprouted, breaking through the ice and anchoring themselves in the Miracle Starsea, rapidly growing into a black forest integrated with the sea.
From the bark of the trees flowed a dark, viscous liquid—imbued with terrifying Eternal Death Origin. It contaminated the Miracle Starsea and eroded its spirituality, causing the once vibrant sea to begin dying at an alarming rate.
Rosen hadn't expected the Immortal Ancient Tree to possess not only the Life Source Seed, but the Death Source Seed as well.
As expected, Eternal Lifeforms—even those who had died once—were never easy to deal with.
Yet this alone still wasn't enough to destroy the Miracle Starsea.
The Immortal Ancient Tree realized that too, and immediately invoked its Law Domain to summon its Life World.
Using the domain as a medium, its Eternal World shifted from its former station in the universe and descended upon the Miracle Starsea, attempting to absorb it into itself. In response, Rosen unleashed both the Soulbind World and the Heavenly Frost World.
The two Eternal Worlds overlapped, slowly dragging the Life World deeper into the Miracle Starsea.
At that moment, the Immortal Ancient Tree realized something: any Immortal Godfiend capable of carrying two Eternal Worlds, along with wielding such a terrifying Eternal Relic, was not someone it could defeat without paying a heavy price.
After weighing the odds, the Immortal Ancient Tree made its decision—it chose to sacrifice its Life World.
By destroying its Life World, it could push the power of the Death Source Seed to its absolute limit.
As long as it could kill this enemy, all of its losses could be recovered.
Sacrificing an Eternal World to unleash the Death Law and bury everything—that was a technique on par with the Ancient Gods' Tenfold Annihilation.
At this moment, Rosen's Miracle Starsea and the two Eternal Worlds fused within it began to buckle.
Even if they could survive in the end, they'd be hanging by a thread—on the verge of collapse.
After countless thoughts and calculations, Rosen gave up resisting.
The Immortal Ancient Tree sought to drag everything into eternal death. Instead of opposing it, Rosen chose to cooperate.
He used the Compatibility Source Seed to amplify the fusion power of the Miracle Starsea and actively allowed it to merge with the overwhelming force of Death.
Sensing that its enemy was willingly embracing death, the Immortal Ancient Tree became hesitant.
Voluntarily fusing with death—was this not suicide?
And yet, how could someone who possessed such tremendous power, capable of nearly killing it, be out of tricks and suddenly seeking death?
The Immortal Ancient Tree instantly became suspicious, fearing that its opponent was laying a trap—some cunning scheme designed to turn death against it.
If that were the case, it might have already stepped into it and would soon be defeated.
But at the same time, another thought struck it:
Its Death Source Seed had been hidden with great care. No one knew it resided within the Immortal Ancient Tree. There was no way the enemy could've prepared specifically for it. Could it be that Rosen was merely overconfident, hoping to bluff and scare it off, lacking any real means of escape?
If so, then backing off now would mean falling for his bluff.
After careful deliberation, the Immortal Ancient Tree chose to proceed.
Because whether or not Rosen was bluffing, the fact remained: its Life World had already been destroyed, transformed into Death's Entombment. If it couldn't kill Rosen now, then with no Life World to retreat to, it would have no hope of escaping this monster's pursuit.
As Death's Entombment fused with the Miracle Starsea, Rosen merged the Miracle Starsea with the Creator's Palette.
The instant they combined, a terrifying pause in time enveloped the Creator's Palette.
Rosen poured all his strength into manipulating time-space laws, fusing the Creator's Domain with the [Hell Reincarnation Diagram], a miracle-level painting.
The Creator's Divine Brush grew infinitely large, its tip dipping into the Creator's Palette to draw from the Miracle Starsea—now blended with boundless Eternal Death Origin.
Then, with a swift motion of the brush, he began to perfect and expand the depiction of the deathly hell within the painting. All the pigment, transformed from the eternal death essence, was sealed within the canvas.
As for the waters of the Miraculous Star Sea, only a small portion deeply fused with the eternal death essence, while the rest was stripped away by the power of time-space reincarnation on the brush's tip and sent back to the Creator's Palette.
Thus, with the passage of time, the endless eternal death essence within the Miraculous Star Sea fully merged into the Hell Reincarnation Painting.
In a short period, the Hell Reincarnation Painting laid the foundation to become an eternal spiritual realm masterpiece.
Although the Miraculous Star Sea had lost a third of its mass and was exceptionally weak, it would eventually recover as time passed, absorbing everything once again.
With all the eternal death essence gone, the time suspension surrounding the Creator's Palette also ended.
The Immortal Ancient Tree was still doing its best to manipulate the eternal death essence to perform the Death Burial, but it could no longer sense the terrifying eternal death essence spread across the vast ocean before it. It was now forced to rely only on its own eternal life essence to fight.
Without the Eternal World, even with vast reserves of energy, the Immortal Ancient Tree could not match Rosen.
The Miraculous Star Sea, having fused with two eternal worlds, trapped the Immortal Ancient Tree, which had transformed into a forest rooted in the sea after its body was shattered. No matter how many escape methods the Immortal Ancient Tree employed, it could not escape the time-space reincarnation blockade created by the Time-Space Source Seed.
Seeing that it was inevitable for it to lose, the Immortal Ancient Tree began to attempt bargaining.
"Spare my life, or I can ensure that you gain nothing."
The eternal will of the Immortal Ancient Tree spread across the Miraculous Star Sea, threatening Rosen.
"I'll give you a thousand years for a clone to escape."
Rosen promised without hesitation.
The Immortal Ancient Tree tried to bargain further, but Rosen was adamant, refusing to give it a chance to make more demands.
With no other option, the Immortal Ancient Tree gritted its teeth and split off a clone, carrying four life source seeds.
Rosen released this clone into the Miraculous Star Sea, and the clone immediately fled toward the edge of the universe.
The Immortal Ancient Tree's true form, still carrying five life source seeds and the complete death source seed, remained within the Miraculous Star Sea, gradually ceasing to resist and allowing Rosen to consume it little by little. However, it would take more than a thousand years to completely devour the Immortal Ancient Tree.
Killing the enemy is easy; avoiding mutual destruction and ensuring a greater post-battle gain than loss is the real challenge.
Many eternal lives have perished in the endless years of battle.
Although the Immortal Ancient Tree had killed an eternal being who controlled the death source seed, the price was its own demise.
The clone survived by a stroke of luck, but it did not regain its status as a new eternal life after the long years.
Thus, killing the enemy often yields much less gain than the cost.
The greater challenge is that unless one holds an absolute advantage, the enemy can always resort to self-destruction to ensure nothing is gained by the victor.
If the Immortal Ancient Tree had chosen to self-destruct, Rosen would have likely gained nothing.
This is why Rosen offered the Immortal Ancient Tree a chance to send off a clone, letting it trade its life force for the clone's escape. A thousand years would be enough for the clone to reach a place where Rosen could never find it, effectively allowing the Immortal Ancient Tree to buy time with its life.
Of course, Rosen had no habit of letting a tiger return to the mountain. He was always more inclined to root out the source of the threat.
A thousand years may not be enough for the Immortal Ancient Tree's clone to escape.
Moreover, Rosen didn't need that much time to leisurely digest the true form of the Immortal Ancient Tree.
The forest that had formed from the shattered body of the Immortal Ancient Tree, with its blackened trees, was being felled and then integrated into the Hell Reincarnation Painting. The paper of this miraculous painting could not bear the eternal death essence from an eternal world; it had already started to decay and die.
Now, if the Immortal Ancient Tree's wooden body were to merge into the paper and the death source seed integrated into the painted world…
Then, the Hell Reincarnation Painting, as a miraculous work, would certainly surpass the Fallen Paradise and advance to an eternal miraculous masterpiece ahead of schedule.
Under the accelerated passage of time, Rosen realized that he had underestimated the difficulty of creating an eternal miraculous masterpiece.
This wasn't something that could be done merely by stacking materials. Even with the Painter Sequence skills mastered by his Creator Scholar, the highest level he could achieve was the Immortal Demon level. With such skill, it was not enough to draw an eternal miraculous work.
Creating an eternal artifact is no easy feat, even for eternal lives.
In fact, there are some eternal lives who do not even possess an eternal artifact.
Rosen's Snake Mother Gourd is the only eternal artifact possessed by the Eternal Snake Mother. The Snake Bracelet, too, was a treasure forged by the Sacred Fire Snake, sacrificed from its own life. The birth of the Miraculous Star Sea also stemmed from a half-finished product left behind by an eternal life, which was then brought to life thanks to the Miraculous Source Seed.
So, creating an eternal miraculous painting directly was simply impossible.
Without the necessary skill, Rosen had to resort to other means to make up for it.
He took out his various treasured collections and began to salvage the failing Hell Reincarnation Painting.
At this moment, the deathly power within the Hell Reincarnation Painting was too strong, requiring a balancing force.
Rosen directly merged the Fallen Paradise painting with the Hell Reincarnation Painting using a special skill: the painting fusion technique.
A single painting has a limit to the spiritual realms it can contain.
Thus, some schools of the Painter Sequence focus on series of paintings, while others prefer to divide one painting into several parts and then combine them like a puzzle. This method significantly reduces the difficulty of the work.
Unable to directly create an eternal miraculous painting, Rosen opted to break it into multiple immortal works.
Then, he merged these multiple immortal works through the fusion technique, and without a doubt, this would complete an eternal miraculous painting.
The key to the fusion technique is balance and alignment, and balancing the Hell Reincarnation Painting was no easy task.
Rosen integrated the Dream Source Seed and Fallen Source Seed from the Miraculous Star Sea into the Fallen Paradise, even incorporating the Information Source Seed, Memory Source Seed, Hell Source Seed, Vitality Source Seed, Avatar Source Seed, Game Source Seed, and Enslavement Source Seed, all through the fusion technique into the painting.
As time accelerated, thousands of years passed, and the body of the Immortal Ancient Tree that had dispersed into the Sea of Miracles was completely obliterated.
The fusion painting technique finally reached completion, fully merging the two paintings into one.
[Hell Reincarnation Diagram: Miracle Artwork][Level: Eternal Deity-Demon][Miracle Attribute: The painting contains an eternal hell ruled by a Fallen Death God][Miracle Traits: Death Entombment, Fallen Game]
The Hell Reincarnation Diagram had extremely simple attributes, but the simpler it appeared, the fewer limitations it had in terms of power.
The Eternal Hell within the painting, due to the combined powers of the Dream, Information, Memory, and Game source seeds, could now be created and destroyed freely like a dream, and reset and restarted like a game.
The miracle trait Death Entombment was the means to destroy the Eternal Hell and bury everything within it.
This was equivalent to a Tenfold Obliteration that had no usage restrictions and could be activated almost endlessly.
Although the Eternal Hell could be destroyed and recreated like a dream, as with any world, destruction was easy—creation was difficult.
The Fallen Game miracle trait essentially used various source seeds to turn the Eternal Hell into a game world.
Then, by using the innate ability Game Producer from the True Creator sequence, Rosen could freely fabricate the game data of the Fallen Game.
Because of this, Rosen's Death God avatar surpassed all others and became the first avatar to reach the Eternal Deity-Demon level.
"It's time to root it out completely..."
As Rosen spoke, he merged the Sea of Miracles into the Hell Reincarnation Diagram.
In the chaotic Eternal Hell, the Eternal Star Sea immediately appeared at the bottom, fully integrated into the scene.
Death Entombment activated instantly. The final remnants of the Immortal Ancient Tree, which had been suppressed by the Sea of Miracles, fell into the Death Entombment.
Over the past few thousand years of accelerated time, Rosen had been preoccupied with painting and had been somewhat distracted from the erosion of the Immortal Ancient Tree.
Originally, the Immortal Ancient Tree could have barely held out for a few hundred more years with the help of the Life source seeds, but now it was completely annihilated by Death Entombment.
The separated Life source seeds and the essence left behind from the gradual erosion of the Eternal Life origin were all delivered to the Root Ancestor Tree. With these, the Root Ancestor Tree had enough to ascend to the Eternal Deity-Demon level. Life source seeds were undoubtedly the most suitable for it.
But in the Eternal Hell, annihilation by Death Entombment was not the end.Once the Fallen Game was activated to restart the Eternal Hell, all entities that had perished within it would become a part of it.
Rosen set the Eternal Hell to have fifteen levels, each corresponding to one of the fifteen tiers of transcendent life.
The fifteenth level, which corresponded to Primordial Life, remained only a phantom—not yet materialized.
The first fourteen levels of hell were filled with transcendent trees of various tiers.
These were the legacy left behind by the Immortal Ancient Tree. In fact, the more lives that died in the Eternal Hell, the deeper its foundation became. As the Eternal Hell grew, so too did Rosen's ability to impose and enhance its rules.
The Immortal Ancient Tree's avatar had escaped with four Life source seeds.
Since it carried more than three, Rosen could no longer locate their exact position by sensing through other Life source seeds.
Without being able to sense their location, finding a hidden being in the vast universe was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
When the Death Entombment annihilated the Immortal Ancient Tree's true body, the tree didn't simply wait for death.
The escape time for its avatar had not yet been secured, so it still attempted to delay things.
But Death Entombment was too powerful; the Immortal Ancient Tree simply couldn't endure it.
At the final moment, it abandoned resistance and instead actively cooperated with Death Entombment to erase its Eternal Will.
Because unless the Eternal Will cooperated, erasing it completely was no easy task.
Even with the power of Death Entombment, the Immortal Ancient Tree could have left behind fragments of its will.
However, letting large amounts of Eternal Will fall into enemy hands was no good. Rosen could use it to trace the avatar that shared the same root and origin.
So, when it realized it couldn't stall for time any longer, the Immortal Ancient Tree actively destroyed its own Eternal Will.
It wasn't the wrong move—but the tree didn't know that Rosen had mastery over Time-Space Reincarnation.
When the power of Time-Space Reincarnation entered the Eternal Hell, it didn't reverse all time—only the segment related to the Immortal Ancient Tree's Eternal Will. In the blink of an eye, part of the tree's will was salvaged through Time-Space Reincarnation and cast into the Eternal Hell, generating a dream of the Immortal Ancient Tree.
Then, through the dream, using the skills of the Dreammaker sequence, Rosen forcibly pulled the avatar into a deep slumber.
While hiding to the best of its ability somewhere in the universe, the Immortal Ancient Tree's avatar suddenly felt its consciousness go blurry and slipped into sleep. Before its Eternal Will could break free of the dream, the Dream source seed had already locked onto its location. Immediately, a Gate of Realms opened, and the Creator's Domain enveloped the avatar.
By the time the Immortal Ancient Tree's avatar managed to break free from the dream, it had already been sent into the Eternal Hell by the Creator's Domain.
At this point, Rosen instead gave up on exterminating it. He merely stripped the remaining Life source seeds and granted the Immortal Ancient Tree a chance to be reborn in the twelfth layer of the Eternal Hell. An Immortal Ancient Tree under his complete control held enormous value just from its knowledge and experience alone.
With the suppression of the Eternal Hell and the Dream and Memory source seeds continuously siphoning its memories,everything the Immortal Ancient Tree knew would eventually be unearthed piece by piece.Rosen could even place external threats into the Eternal Hell, then enhance the Immortal Ancient Tree with its power—essentially gaining a servant with Eternal Deity-Demon level strength. That was far better than wiping it out completely.
(End of Chapter)