Rosen stepped out of the interdimensional gate, traveling directly from the ancient god world to the fourteenth cosmic star ring.
This was the part of the universe closest to the Cosmic Origin Sea, a celestial expanse teeming with immortal-level energy.
Rosen observed the starry sky of the fourteenth star ring and noticed the stars here were very sparse.
Compared to other star rings in the universe, the number of stars here was much lower. The entire super-galaxy cluster only had a few hundred thousand stars, but every one of them was an extraordinary star, with a minimum level of Sequence 0.
Although all the stars were extraordinary, life here was extremely scarce.
This was because for life, having more energy in the environment wasn't always better.
Ordinary extraordinary life forms found it difficult to adapt to the pervasive immortal energy of the fourteenth star ring. Only gods could withstand such energy, and those types of extraordinary life forms found it hard to reproduce. Therefore, the number of extraordinary life forms in the fourteenth star ring was not large.
Of course, this wasn't the main reason. Energy could accumulate, and it could also disperse.
As long as the energy on the surface of the extraordinary stars was suppressed, ordinary life forms could thrive here.
The main reason for the sparse stars and life forms in the fourteenth star ring was the scars left by the eternal life forms' wars.
Eternal will, left behind by the eternal life forms, interwove with chaotic laws and eternal origins in the void. Even immortals could suddenly die running around in the fourteenth star ring. Even eternal life forms found it difficult to walk freely in the fourteenth star ring.
Because no matter how strong a living eternal life form was, it still couldn't compare to the thousands of eternal life forms that had perished here.
Rosen didn't dare stay too long and continued to open the interdimensional gate to the edge of the Cosmic Origin Sea.
Even with the protection of the time-source seed, he could only barely stay at the edge.
After all, no matter how powerful the time-source seed was, how much strength it could unleash still depended on his own strength.
After Rosen entered the Mystic Study Room, his entire being scattered and merged seamlessly into the root fruit.
Enveloped by the liquid from the Eternal Egg, he began to slowly dissolve within it.
Then, under the accelerated time of the Time Seed, the birth of the Seed of Origin, the merging of the Seeds of Origin, the enlightenment of the Wisdom Seed on the soul, and the aggregation of the Gathering Seed, a rapidly growing embryo began to emerge within the Eternal Egg liquid.
Every level of advancement for an extraordinary life form was a tremendous transformation of its essence.
However, when Rosen reached the stage of the Great True God, his life essence had already reached the immortal level due to his Immortal Divine Body. Although his divine essence was still a little lacking, the will derived from it had already prematurely transformed from immortal will to eternal will.
Now, with the help of the Eternal-level root fruit, he would undergo another metamorphosis, allowing him to grasp part of the eternal life form's power at the Immortal God Demon level.
Rosen's life essence devoured the liquid form of the Eternal Soul-Eating Wolf's corpse, and his life essence rose rapidly from 180 to 195.
From the Great True God's peak, he directly advanced to the Immortal God Demon's peak.
Even so, the life essence of the Eternal Soul-Eating Wolf, transformed by the Root Worm Mother, had not been completely consumed. A large portion of the liquid form of life essence remained, which was not enough to push Rosen's life essence to the Eternal level, so he planned to increase his power from other aspects.
Rosen transferred all the life essence liquid he couldn't absorb to the Root Ancient Tree.
After the Root Ancient Tree absorbed the liquid, it was expected to jump from the True God level directly to the Immortal God Demon level.
Even then, the liquid wasn't exhausted, so Rosen continued to feed it to the Dark Sun Slime.
Just like the Root Ancient Tree, the Dark Sun Slime would also evolve into the Immortal God Demon level in a short time.
Rosen had essentially split the Eternal Soul-Eating Wolf's corpse into three parts, creating three extraordinary life forms at the Immortal God Demon level.
After the life essence liquid was divided, Rosen began absorbing the divine essence liquid.
With ample resources, his divine essence rose steadily from 180 to 190.
This time, it wasn't perfect because the divine essence liquid stolen from the Dark Sun was too scarce.
Before Rosen could familiarize himself with the strength of the 190-point divine essence, he had no choice but to permanently lower his divine essence upper limit by two points and merge those two points into the Root Ancient Tree and the Dark Sun Slime, helping their divine essence rise to 181.
As the life essence and divine essence underwent their transformations, Rosen began guiding his divine fire and divine nature to continue evolving.
The Eternal Divine Fire merged with the Heaven Burning Divine Fire, gaining the feature of devouring divine fire.
As for the Eternal Divine Nature, after being tempered by the Eternal Divine Fire, not only did its efficiency in absorbing and converting faith increase exponentially, but its computational power and capacity also saw significant improvements. The True Creator sequence had also begun to generate new innate skills.
Finally, there was the Eternal Will. Though it hadn't undergone a qualitative change, a quantitative change had occurred.
Although Rosen's Eternal Will wasn't as strong as an Eternal Life Form's, it was already far superior to that of an Immortal God Demon.
Only those Immortal God Demons who were reincarnated from Eternal Life Forms could match his Eternal Will.
With the last bit of liquid being absorbed by Rosen, he had completely transformed into an Immortal God Demon.
Rosen stretched out his tender little hand within the Root Fruit, lightly slicing through space.
The moment he left the Root Fruit, the innate skill of the True Creator sequence was born in tandem.
Rosen had originally devised an innate skill for the Immortal God Demon realm himself.
Yet, it turned out unnecessary, as the True Creator sequence had naturally developed a more suitable innate skill.
[Eternal Divine Nature: Immortal God Demon]
[Divine Nature True Name: Rosen Saint Howard...]
[Life Essence: 195]
[Divine Essence: 188]
[Eternal Organs: Dark Sun Eye, Eternal Soul-Eating Horn]
[Eternal Laws: Root Laws]
[Affiliated Divine Fire: Eternal Divine Fire][Eternal Source Seeds: Root, Time, Space, Miracle, Enslavement, Birth, Wisdom, Compatibility, Machinery, Dream, Stars, Information, Ember, Corruption, Game, Omniscience, Hell, Aggregation, Memory, Vitality, Black Hole]
[Immortal Sequence: True Creator, Miracle Sequence]
[Innate Skills: Creator's Bloodline, Creator's Essence, Creator's Divine Brush, Creator's Palette, Creator's Album, Creator's Eye, Creator's Domain, Creator's Will, Creator's Scholar, Game Creator, Immortal Emperor, Source Worm Mother, Time-Space Reincarnation]
Rosen sensed his innate skill "Time-Space Reincarnation," a power born from the Time Source Seed and Space Source Seed.
As long as he's within the Creator's Domain, time and space can endlessly cycle.
Through Time-Space Reincarnation, he can capture a segment of time-space in an infinite loop.
Additionally, he can use Time-Space Reincarnation to strengthen his mastery over the Laws of Time and Space.
With Time-Space Reincarnation enveloping him, Rosen began rapidly growing from an infant to an adult state.
Then, in the blink of an eye, he regressed back to an infant state.
As long as Time-Space Reincarnation is active, unless it is broken, it's nearly impossible for him to be harmed.
Rosen grabbed the remaining peel of the Root Fruit. While he absorbed the internal egg liquid to level up, the peel had continuously absorbed the Eternal Source from the edge of the Cosmic Ocean. Now, it had become a precious, immortal-level, extraordinary material.
Not only can it be used to refine Eternal Sacred Objects, but the peel also has special effects.
By continuously absorbing the Eternal Source, new life source egg liquid can be generated within the peel.
Although it cannot produce Divine Source Egg Liquid, this effect is still invaluable.
Rosen stored the peel away, preparing to find some Source Beasts to practice on.
However, before he found any suitable prey, the World Will urgently contacted him through the Celestial Race.
All Celestial Race members were his followers, and their prayers and beliefs would eventually flow to the Eternal Divine Realm.
Rosen, with a thought, opened a Portal Gate and returned from the edge of the Cosmic Ocean to the Ancient God World.
In the depths of the Spirit Realm, the World Will sensed Rosen's presence and breathed a sigh of relief.
After entering the surface layer of the Spirit Realm, Rosen did not resist the spatial transfer by the World Will.
Once the transfer was complete, he saw the World Will, the Old Fisherman, the Eternal Dawn, and the Eternal Particle, all with grim expressions.
"The Ancient God's avatar is going to awaken early..." the World Will said, nervously addressing Rosen.
According to the original plan, with their preparations, they could handle the Ancient God's avatar.
They had recruited Rosen not to let him disrupt their plans.
Unexpectedly, the Ancient God's avatar was awakening earlier. The resentment of all beings toward the Ancient God had not yet peaked, and the Ancient God had not entered deep sleep. The avatar would definitely try to awaken the true body when faced with a crisis.
If the Ancient God's true body were in deep sleep, the avatar would have very limited power to draw upon.
But now, since it hadn't entered deep sleep, the power the avatar could borrow exceeded their expectations.
Fortunately, with Rosen's strength as an ally, otherwise, hunting the Ancient God's avatar would have been full of unforeseen complications.
Rosen, hearing that the Ancient God's avatar would awaken early, couldn't help but feel a bit uneasy.
After harvesting a Space Source Seed from Blue Star and taking so many egg liquids from the Dark Sun, the Ancient God's loss was immense. It seemed the Ancient God's avatar had been significantly stimulated, even in its sleep, which was likely why it had woken early.
"Does the hunting plan need to be advanced?" Rosen asked with concern.
"Don't resist," the World Will nodded, summoning a Spirit Realm Messenger of the Forbidden Demon level.
The Spirit Realm Messenger, resembling a giant eagle, opened its mouth and swallowed Rosen and the others.
The giant eagle traversed the depths of the Spirit Realm, soon arriving at the hidden Eternal Dream Realm.
Though similar in name to the Eternal Dream, the Eternal Dream Realm was an actual world of the Eternal Dream Demon, while the Eternal Dream was only the dream of the Eternal Dream Demon. The avatar of the Ancient God guarding the Ancient God World was in a deep sleep within the Eternal Dream Realm.
It seemed the World Will couldn't enter by itself.
However, the Spirit Realm Messenger could reach the Eternal Dream Realm.
The World Will recalled the Spirit Realm Messenger and looked ahead at the dreamlike, colorful mist in the void.
"Rosen, you're in charge of pinning down the Eternal Dream Realm from the outside, preventing the Ancient God's avatar from borrowing strength," the World Will instructed seriously.
Rosen nodded, though surprised. Not having to face the Ancient God's avatar directly was a good thing for him.
"You can begin now," the World Will urged.
Rosen activated the Creator's Domain, covering the Eternal Dream Realm from the outside. Countless root mother worms twisted together to form ancient god shackles, blending with the Dream Source to layer upon layer enclose and seal the Eternal Dream Realm. While it was not a complete suppression, it would certainly last for a short time.
After all, the Eternal Dream Realm was the eternal world of the Eternal Dream Demon.
The Ancient God Avatar had only taken over by plundering Source Seeds, and the Dream Source was sufficient to interfere with the Ancient God Avatar's ability to borrow power from the Eternal Dream Realm.
Even if Rosen did not resolve the Eternal Dream Realm, the World Will would have obtained the Dream Source before hunting the Ancient God Avatar.
But since Rosen had gotten there first, the task of suppressing the Eternal Dream Realm was assigned to him.
Once it was confirmed that the Eternal Dream Realm was sealed, the World Will and the others immediately disappeared.
The World Will tore through the void and entered the Eternal Dream Realm. The Undying Dawn transformed into a beam of light and entered as well. The Undying Particles' body disintegrated, then reformed inside the Eternal Dream Realm. A line of fishhook-like void energy descended, dragging the Old Fisherman away.
Rosen activated the Creator's Eye to observe how they would hunt the Ancient God Avatar.
Knowing both oneself and the enemy was important, as it would help prevent being caught off guard if he were ever on the opposite side.
From the looks of it, the World Will seemed confident about this hunting operation.
However, Rosen was worried because he knew the Ancient God had read the Book of Fate and Creation.
The cooperation between the World Will and the others to hunt the Ancient God Avatar seemed very secretive, but in reality, the Ancient God may have known about this event long ago, even predicting today's occurrence. If the Ancient God had left behind any targeted contingencies, it would be enough to bring down the World Will and the others.
If the hunt failed, Rosen would need to act accordingly and figure out a way to save them.
However, it turned out that Rosen's worry seemed unnecessary.
The World Will directly merged with the Eternal Dream Realm, forcibly transforming itself into the World Will of the Eternal Dream Realm.
Even if Rosen did not suppress the Eternal Dream Realm from the outside, the World Will controlling it would just be more troublesome.
At this point, the Old Fisherman revealed its true form, which was a staggering 300 light-years tall.
This was why the Eternal Dream Realm, formed of dreams, was much smaller than the real world. In other worlds, the Old Fisherman's true form could easily dominate the entire Ancient God World. However, the difficulty lay not in forming such a huge body but in maintaining its immortality-level strength.
The Old Fisherman swung its fishing rod, and the hook fell into the void. The fishline snapped tight.
The Old Fisherman used all its strength, nearly breaking the rod, before the tight fishline finally dragged out a giant from the depths of the Eternal Dream Realm still in a sleeping state—no smaller than the Old Fisherman. The sealing power on the hook forcefully prevented the Ancient God Avatar from waking.
At this moment, the World Will activated the power of Dream Creation, converting the entire origin of the Eternal Dream Realm into light particles.
The Undying Dawn was in charge of compressing all the light particles, while the Undying Particles controlled them.
Finally, all the light particles, formed from the origin of the Eternal Dream Realm, were compressed to the size of a fist. Then, under the control of the Undying Particles, they were instantly accelerated and struck the sleeping Ancient God Avatar. The endless light particles spread out, tearing the sleeping Ancient God apart.
What seemed like a simple instant kill was actually the combined effort of four powerful immortal beings.
Without the Old Fisherman, the Ancient God Avatar would have woken up and quickly defended and counterattacked.
Without the World Will, there wouldn't have been enough light particles to manipulate.
And without either the Undying Dawn or the Undying Particles, it would have been impossible to compress such a massive amount of light particles into such a dense form. Although the light particle impact seemed simple, it actually gathered the combined strength of four immortal beings and the entire power of the Eternal Dream Realm to deliver a fatal blow.
Rosen watched the Ancient God Avatar being torn apart, but he didn't feel any joy in the victory.
He was certain that the Ancient God Avatar had not died.
If the Ancient God Avatar had truly died, there would have been some reaction from the Ancient God World.
Even if the Ancient God's true self was unwilling to wake due to the resentment of all living beings, it would not be without any reaction at all.
Rosen could tell that the World Will, if they were watching from the outside, would have noticed the same thing.
But since they were inside the Eternal Dream Realm, the barrier of the Eternal World isolated their perception of the Ancient God World.
From their expressions, it was clear they hadn't realized that the Ancient God Avatar was still alive.
"The Ancient God Avatar didn't die. There's no disturbance in the Ancient God World."
Rosen's eternal will spread through the void, directly reaching the ears of the World Will.
No one doubted Rosen's words at this critical moment. The Old Fisherman and the others immediately gathered together.
The World Will also focused its full attention on the Eternal Dream Realm, searching for the Ancient God Avatar, which was not fully dead.
However, before the World Will could find the Ancient God Avatar, the entire Eternal Dream Realm's world barriers began to shatter.
The World Will and the Eternal Dream Realm had fused. The Eternal Dream Realm had essentially become the World Will's body.
Now, as the body was torn apart, the World Will was almost immediately injured.
The World Will understood what had happened—the Ancient God Avatar had transferred all the damage it took to the Eternal Dream Realm.
If it weren't for the Eternal World's defenses being strong enough, the World Will would have died instantly due to the damage from its allies.
Before the World Will could catch its breath, the entire Eternal Dream Realm suddenly began to collapse in dimension.
Rosen and the World Will, working together to suppress it, still couldn't prevent the collapse of the Eternal Dream Realm's dimension.
Rosen was all too familiar with this kind of dimensional collapse. This was clearly the Tenfold Destruction from the Ancient God Sequence.
Even though the Immortal Gods were now at a higher level, the Tenfold Destruction could no longer eliminate eternal life, but if it was cast on the entire Eternal Dream Realm, collapsing the dimension down to zero would easily kill the Old Fisherman and the others.
Sure enough, the Ancient God Avatar had prepared for this, waiting for the day revealed by Fate.
Rosen did not rush to save them. He didn't believe the World Will and the others had no trump cards.
They weren't reckless fools. The possibility of dying from failure had already led them to prepare all kinds of contingency plans.
And everyone had their own life-saving trump cards. Intervening now to save them would only make him the target of everyone's anger.
Indeed, when faced with a deadlock, the World Will wasn't without preparations.
As the dimension of the Eternal Dream Realm collapsed, the Ancient God World also began to collapse in dimension.
The World Will had actually synchronized the collapse of the Eternal Dream Realm and the Ancient God World. If the Ancient God Avatar wanted to destroy the Eternal Dream Realm with the Tenfold Destruction, the Ancient God World would have to accompany it to the grave as well. In an instant, the dimensional collapse that had enveloped the Eternal Dream Realm vanished.
(End of chapter)