In the Burning Sky Star Palace, Rosen arrived at a door and knocked.
The door opened, and the Immortal Particle glared at Rosen with a mix of shock and anger.
It hadn't expected Rosen to dare to come to it directly.
It seemed that Rosen had already decided to act without any concern, no longer seeing it as a threat.
"Aren't you going to invite me in to sit?" Rosen asked, standing at the door.
The Immortal Particle stepped aside, and Rosen walked in unceremoniously, creating a set of sofas with Void Creation and sitting down.
"You're really not being polite," the Immortal Particle said, calming itself and preparing to understand Rosen's intentions.
"I need the Miracle Source Seed," Rosen said, directly addressing the reason for his visit, pressing on the Immortal Particle's bottom line.
Before the Immortal Particle could refuse, Rosen took out several Eternal Sacred Artifacts to demonstrate his strength.
On the Hell Reincarnation Map, the Immortal Ancient Tree appeared faintly. The small-sized Immortal Heavenly Coffin and Immortal Monument combined, and with the Miracle Star Sea that had transformed into a Star Sea Ladybug, the four Eternal Sacred Artifacts made the Immortal Particle's scalp tingle.
Not to mention how difficult it was to obtain these four Eternal Sacred Artifacts, but controlling and wielding them was no easy feat.
How could Rosen possess such a powerful Eternal Will to control four Eternal Sacred Artifacts at once?
For anyone else, it would be impossible. But Rosen, with his mastery over the Metamorphic Source, could turn anything into a bug and use very little Eternal Will to control one Eternal Sacred Artifact.
If the Hell Reincarnation Map and Miracle Star Sea hadn't both turned into bugs, Rosen wouldn't have had the energy to refine the Immortal Heavenly Coffin and Immortal Monument.
The Immortal Particle weighed the pros and cons for a long time before reluctantly deciding to hand over the Miracle Source Seed.
Rosen, with his mastery of the Spatial Source Seed, could come and go at will, and while they could find him, they couldn't stop him.
All of this put Rosen in an invincible position. If they didn't hand over the Miracle Source Seed, they would have to face Rosen's unrelenting obsession.
Thus, it was better to hand over the Miracle Source Seed, temporarily placate Rosen, and then think of a way to get rid of him.
As Rosen made his move, the Star Sea Ladybug leapt toward the Miracle Source Seed on the table and took it.
The more Miracle Source Seeds he controlled, the more efficient the refining of the remaining Miracle Source Seeds became.
With a thousand times time acceleration, and the aid of the Metamorphic Source, the Miracle Star Sea refined the new Miracle Source Seed in just a few seconds. As a result, the Star Sea Ladybug grew stronger, bringing a greater sense of threat to the Immortal Particle.
After Rosen bade farewell and returned to his room, he eagerly checked the changes in the Miracle Star Sea.
[Miracle Star Sea: Miracle Sequence]
[Level: Eternal Sacred Artifact]
[Miracle Attributes: Can suppress, decompose, assimilate, symbiosis, merge, and elevate all things]
[Miracle Characteristics: Miracle Source Seed]
[Source Seeds: Stars, Burial, Gathering and Scattering, Black Hole]
Rosen had been worried earlier that combining the Immortal Monument and the Miracle Star Sea wouldn't maximize the sealing effect.
But he hadn't expected that the new Miracle Source Seed would grant him the power to suppress all things.
This was no coincidence; it was pure good fortune.
Mastering the Primordial Flame Source Seed had greatly enhanced his luck. The Eternal Will that entered the Heart of the Universe had made him favored by the entire universe. These were the keys to his success, but no matter how good luck was, it wouldn't last forever.
Luck rises and falls; even the best luck will eventually hit rock bottom.
The better the luck, the more significant the drop when it falls, just like stocks.
So, Rosen knew he had to become stronger while his luck was still good.
With overwhelming strength, luck wasn't necessary to succeed. But with weak power, even the best luck wouldn't be enough to seize opportunities.
Taking advantage of his good fortune, Rosen planned to continue exploring more cosmic forbidden zones.
However, just as the gateway between worlds opened, an Eternal Will from the other side crossed through and entered via the gateway.
Rosen exerted all his effort to perform the Space-Time Reincarnation and managed to close the gateway again.
This was definitely the work of an Eternal Being. It seemed that his continuous exploration of the cosmic forbidden zones had attracted the attention of the Eternal Beings from the Holy God Palace. They had been lying in wait outside the various cosmic forbidden zones, successfully trapping him.
If it hadn't been for the sheer number of cosmic forbidden zones, the Eternal Beings would not have been able to spread their strength thinly to guard them all.
Had it not been for his Space-Time Reincarnation, he might not have been able to close the gateway in time.
Indeed, luck rises and falls. Without enough power, even a tree standing out in the forest could easily be struck down.
With the cosmic forbidden zones now being guarded, Rosen immediately decided to go into hiding for a while.
He didn't believe that the Eternal Beings responsible for guarding the cosmic forbidden zones would be able to keep this up indefinitely.
In fact, through the Spatial Source Seed, he could directly open a gateway within a cosmic forbidden zone.
However, doing so would mean that he would constantly have to face backstabs and ambushes from behind.
Not only would it be exhausting, but there was also the risk of others taking advantage of his work once he was halfway through, much like a crab and a heron fighting while the fisherman benefits.
Therefore, Rosen chose to lie low. He needed to refine those super galaxy clusters into cosmic materials, refine the corpse of the Plague Saint God, and transform the Immortal Heavenly Coffin and other Eternal Sacred Artifacts into bugs with the Metamorphic Source, giving him a chance to quietly consume the accumulated foundation in his hands.
Rosen's seclusion did not bring peace back to the universe.
The appearance of the Holy God Palace, the attack on the Burning Sky Star Palace by the Ancient God's avatar, the successive disappearances of cosmic forbidden zones — all of this stirred the hearts of the powerful beings in the universe. Especially those Immortal Demons who had originally dared not approach the Ancient God World, many of them were now growing restless.
The reason was simple: in the past, the Ancient God's avatar had hung like a guillotine over their heads.
Now, with the Ancient God's avatar gone, as long as they were careful not to awaken the Ancient God's true self, it would not be difficult to plant a nail in the Ancient God World. As a result, more and more Immortal Demons were trying to find ways to send their avatars into the Ancient God World.
At first, they only made careful probes, worried that there might still be other avatars of the Ancient God.
But after confirming that there were no living avatars of the Ancient God, more and more Immortal Demons couldn't sit still.
Rosen also couldn't sit still. He was eager to know the current state of the Ancient God World.
However, ever since the Ancient God's true self had awakened and merged the three Spatial Source Seeds into the Ancient God World, Rosen only had one Spatial Source Seed-assisted Creator's Eye and could no longer peer across the void into the Ancient God World. Even his dormant Eternal avatar there had lost contact.
After thinking it over several times, Rosen decided to send his Bronze Dragon avatar and the Root Source Ancient Tree avatar together.
The Bronze Dragon avatar would be on the surface, while the Root Source Ancient Tree would hide inside the Eternal History Book of the Bronze Dragon avatar's Miracle Divine Kingdom.
Unless the Bronze Dragon avatar encountered a situation where it was certain to die, the Root Source Ancient Tree would not make a move.
This was because the Root Source Ancient Tree was already an Immortal Demon, and if it acted, it could risk awakening the Ancient God's true self.
Entering the Ancient God World was easy, but exiting was difficult, as the Ancient God World continuously drained the World Source from the Dark Sea of Origin. To enter, one needed to integrate into the World Source, which made it easier to infiltrate, though still requiring the resolution of the Origin Beasts along the way.
The Bronze Dragon avatar shared the Eternal Metamorphosis ability of the Dark Sun Slime, easily transforming into an Origin Beast to approach the Ancient God World.
After passing through the World Barrier and reentering the Ancient God World, the Bronze Dragon avatar released the Golden Crow Starship, which had been discarded by the true self, and began the journey.
Years later, the Bronze Dragon avatar carefully arrived at the Star Realm.
However, the lost Eternal avatar and the Celestial Clan remaining in the Ancient God World sensed it. After the Ancient God's true self had awakened, it hadn't exterminated the Celestial Clan, nor had it destroyed the main god network spread throughout the Ancient God World. The only thing the Ancient God had done was kill the heroes.
To calm the resentment of all beings, the Ancient God's avatar had supported heroes from various races to quell the wars.
At the same time, it transferred resources from the Eternal World to replenish the main world's resources.
Everything had been developing well. The main world had gradually recovered from the chaotic times to the era when the World Government was in power.
Without the Immortal Demons looming over them, the great True Gods had lowered their heads. The True Gods who had lost their power in the World Government seized the opportunity to align with the Ancient God's avatar. Not only did they rebuild the World Government, but the overall strength of civilization also saw a significant increase.
If this continued, the resentment of all beings would eventually be extinguished.
However, after the Ancient God's true self awakened, it directly erased all the heroes of the various races.
The Fate Clay Tablet, which had been silent, unexpectedly turned into an Eternal Sacred Artifact overnight.
All the gods of the Star Realm who had made oaths of destiny through the Fate Clay Tablet were forced to fight once more. As a result, the Ancient God World quickly descended into chaos again, and the resentment of all beings that had been gradually subsiding began to rise once more.
The situation was clear: the Ancient God's true self was actively creating resentment.
While others didn't understand what was happening, Rosen already had a clear understanding in his heart.
The Ancient God's true self's series of abnormal actions were clearly aimed at accelerating the birth of another avatar within the Dark Sun.
An avatar of the Ancient God wasn't an ordinary one—it surpassed immortal godfiends, yet was not quite an Eternal Being.
Strictly speaking, it existed between the two. The eternal will required to maintain such an avatar was predictably immense.
The Ancient God had plundered the World Tree's life source and the Eternal World itself, and had devoured countless Eternal Beings who perished in the Ancient God World. It was precisely because He overindulged that His own eternal will couldn't keep up and became overwhelmed, forcing Him into endless slumber for countless years.
Thus, the Ancient God had always been lacking in eternal will—this was the primary reason why the avatar within Dark Sun had yet to be born.
Even if the physical body were complete, the Ancient God didn't have enough eternal will to inhabit the new avatar.
Now that the previous Ancient God avatar had perished, the eternal will it consumed was freed up and could be fused into the Dark Sun avatar.
The previous avatar feared the resentment of all living beings; even the True Ancient God Himself feared it. However, this new avatar within Dark Sun, which controlled part of the Dark Sun origin seed, not only didn't fear this resentment, but could even use it as a never-ending feast.
This avatar, cultivated by the Ancient God over countless years, could very well become the only one at the level of an Eternal Being once awakened.
The resources consumed to create it were unimaginably vast. And since the Ancient God had no shortage of avatars with strength at the usual level, He wouldn't spend endless time creating an unnecessary replacement—unless that replacement could surpass immortality and attain eternity.
While observing the main world, Rosen discovered something terrifying.
The virtual godhoods he had distributed—constructed through psychic abilities—and the player sequences tied to both the virtual godhoods and the Tianren Race had been pirated by the True Ancient God, who then shared them with every lifeform in the main world.
Whether intelligent or not, all beings could now level up and grow stronger by killing monsters as players.
Every living being had become a monster. As long as they killed, they could level up.
Worried that life in the main world would die off too quickly, the Ancient God even granted unintelligent monsters the ability to resurrect—an ability clearly derived from Blue Star's time-reversal cycle. He had grafted Blue Star's time loop directly onto the main world.
Being able to grow stronger through slaughter was a terrifying concept.
In a civilization, only a very small number of beings are born with powerful talent or elite backgrounds. The vast majority are born into ordinary families, possess ordinary intelligence, and live ordinary lives from beginning to end.
However, very few people are truly willing to remain ordinary forever. It's only that reality gave them no other choice.
Now that everyone could obtain the player sequence where killing led to power, countless ordinary people—no longer doomed to a life of mediocrity—had a new path. Everyone had the chance to become a god. No one was willing to be a beast of burden anymore. One could easily imagine the chaos that would follow.
Two kings losing their minds could already lead to a war with millions of casualties.
Now, the entire populations of two nations had lost their minds. One could only imagine the scale of the wars that would erupt.
Moreover, although intelligent beings couldn't respawn as simply as monsters, they could still gain resurrection chances by leveling up through the transcendent sequences. With multiple lives, every intelligent being in the main world had gone completely mad.
As a result, the Ancient God World had essentially become a game world without order.
Faced with such a world, Rosen didn't know what to do for a while.
There were no resources here to help him grow further. He couldn't reach the Ancient God to understand His true intentions, nor did he dare approach Blue Star again. After finally returning to the Ancient God World, it seemed there was nothing he could do.
But doing nothing… how could he justify the destruction of the Heaven-Burning Furnace by the Ancient God avatar's single axe strike?
After much deliberation, Rosen finally came up with a way to sabotage the Ancient God.
Since the Ancient God needed the resentment of all living beings, he would find a way to stop Him from getting it.
Whatever the Ancient God wanted, Rosen would do the opposite.
He controlled both the Game origin seed and the Causality origin seed.
He could completely tamper with the player sequence—even reroute the resentment of all living beings through the Causality seed and transfer it to the Dark Sun Slime.
To pull this off right under the Ancient God's nose meant that even the slightest mistake would lead to certain death.
Years passed in the blink of an eye. With painstaking effort, the bronze dragon avatar finally succeeded in altering the final direction of the resentment of all living beings.
But just then, while hiding in the Suspended Empire of the World Government, Rosen received an unexpected visitor.
Someone had traced the subtle clues from his years of tampering with the player sequences and come knocking at his door. The only being capable of such a feat was the World Will, responsible for maintaining order amid the main world's chaos.
But Rosen didn't end up meeting the World Will—instead, he was visited by the long-missing World Tree.
Even with the Tongtian Pillar under his control through the Compatible origin seed, he still couldn't stop the World Tree from slipping in effortlessly.
Wanting to probe the World Tree's intentions, Rosen used Time-Reversal to enhance the Historian's skills and fled into another timeline.
He thought he could at least buy some time—but to his surprise, the World Tree completely ignored the power of time-reversal and chased him directly into the same timeline's time domain.
(End of Chapter)