In the Ancient God World, a spacetime inter-realm gate silently opened within the Star Realm.
The deities of the Star Realm were still unaware that the Ancient God World was about to face an unprecedented upheaval.
After thousands of Immortal Divine Demons arrived in the Ancient God World, any beings below their level—be they Great True Gods or True Gods—would be nothing more than ants at their mercy. Barring surprises, their fate was already sealed.
If even the gods would be reduced to mere ants, then the various civilizations behind them were even more hopeless.
The World Government, which occupied the core region of the Ancient God World, would undoubtedly be the first to be annihilated—a wrongful victim to be buried early.
Out of consideration for past ties, Rosen planned to relocate the World Government.
Given that the expanding True Realm of the Ancient God World was currently lacking in population, housing a few hundred World Governments wouldn't be difficult.
Of course, this wasn't pure goodwill—Rosen still saw other value in the World Government.
All native life in the Ancient God World possessed spiritual essence that originated from the divine source of the Ancient God, who had transformed himself into all things.
Every person in the World Government was, in fact, a potential avatar of the Ancient God.
If one day a direct confrontation with the Ancient God occurred, then the countless humans of the World Government could serve as a trump card against Him.
Rosen deployed a large number of Eternal Avatars, each with at least the power of a True God.
Some were even comparable to Great True Gods. Wherever they went, their Creator Domains would unfold, directly transferring entire populations from lands and islands into their domains. Then, by opening the spacetime gate, they could be transported to the Ancient God's True Realm.
In less than one night, the entire World Government vanished without a trace.
The remaining foreign deities and alien civilizations nearly went mad with fear. In their understanding, the strongest existence was the Great True God, and even such beings couldn't accomplish this. All sentient beings instinctively revere and fear powers that exceed their comprehension.
The commotion Rosen caused was so great that even the World Tree had to warn him not to go overboard.
Because the slumbering Ancient God was nearly awakened by the disturbance.
The World Tree had to expend great effort to calm the nearly awakened Ancient God and lull Him back into slumber.
As time passed day by day, Immortal Divine Demons from across the universe gradually converged near the Tenth Star Ring of the Ancient God World.
The Burning Heaven Star Palace directly descended into the Sea of Origin Darkness, completely unafraid of the Origin Beasts that incinerated everything.
The Immortal Divine Demons of the Chaotic Star Sea didn't possess Eternal Artifacts like the Star Palace, but they brought out countless extraordinary stars. Together, they constructed an Eternal-level chaotic formation with them, not inferior to the Star Palace in strength.
On this day, the last Immortal Divine Demon arrived, and the Burning Heaven Star Palace and the Chaotic Star Sea began their march into the Ancient God World.
While some Immortal Divine Demons were still hiding out in the universe and hadn't come, perhaps they could survive a bit longer. But they would lose their last chance to enter the Sacred Temple and would perish along with the universe.
Rosen had initially thought that the Immortal Divine Demons of the Nightfall Society wouldn't show up, but surprisingly, almost all of them came.
Clearly, merely surviving under the Nightfall Society's shadow was the worst possible outcome even for reincarnated Eternal Beings.
If given a chance, they'd rather regain their Eternal status and rejoin the Sacred Temple.
In any case, even if they failed again in this "insect-rearing" war of the Ancient God World, they still had the Nightfall Society as their final fallback.
When even others with no backup dared to come, how could the members of the Nightfall Society miss such a great opportunity?
The Ancient God World, though vast—with no world in the Eternal Realms larger than it—was still too small to accommodate thousands of Immortal Divine Demons.
And for outsiders entering the Ancient God World, even if bound to the Fate Slab, relying solely on the plundering power granted by it to ascend to Eternal Life was wishful thinking. So these outsiders had to truly integrate into the Ancient God World, to become part of it.
There were many ways to integrate, and the simplest was to merge their Immortal Worlds into the Ancient God World.
This way, the thousands of Immortal Worlds would become part of the Ancient God World.
As the Immortal Divine Demons fought each other, their Immortal Worlds would absorb and fuse with those of the defeated.
When an Immortal World transformed into an Eternal World, the victor would gain a 1% chance of advancing to Eternal Life.
At that point, continued mergers would be meaningless. Even fusing all Eternal Worlds together wouldn't guarantee the birth of even two Eternal Worlds of 100x quality. Only two Eternal Beings emerging from thousands of Divine Demons wasn't the outcome the Sacred Temple wanted.
Therefore, during the Divine Demons' battles, the Sacred Temple would continuously capture Eternal Worlds and send them into the Ancient God World.
Among the near-thousand cosmic forbidden zones scattered across the universe, at least most would be invested into the Ancient God World.
The Burning Heaven Star Palace and Chaotic Star Sea surged forward unstoppably—nothing could halt their advance.
Eventually, they directly crossed the world barrier. The Chaotic Star Sea descended into the Star Realm, while the Burning Heaven Star Palace arrived on land. The Divine Demons of the Chaotic Star Sea rarely developed civilizations, while those of the Star Palace all carried their civilizations with them.
On that day, the Ancient God World, its alien races, and the remaining few human tribes finally witnessed the true meaning of despair.
The over one thousand Immortal Divine Demons of the Burning Heaven Star Palace spread across the Ancient God World, commanding their respective civilizations to begin territorial conquest.
Wherever they went, they swept through all opposition like dry weeds—no civilization could resist.
Wherever they went, everything crumbled like dry twigs—civilizations of all races had no strength to resist.
Those lucky enough might survive, though beneath others in status; those less fortunate were utterly slaughtered, not even chickens and dogs left behind.
In just a single day, the entire Ancient God World underwent earth-shattering change.
Every moment in the Star Realm, gods fell and divine kingdoms collapsed; every moment, civilizations were annihilated and races went extinct.
In the end, only a few Great True Gods survived, fleeing deep into the Spirit Realm with the remnants of their civilizations and races, barely clinging to life.
The Immortal Divine Demons had no time to spare now, all of their efforts focused on merging their Eternal Worlds into the Ancient God World.
This gave those few Great True Gods a sliver of a chance to escape. From now on, if they could stay hidden and undiscovered, they might survive. But once exposed, there was only death—unless one among them could rise to become an Immortal God-Demon, there was only the faintest chance of turning things around.
Nearly three thousand Immortal Divine Demons caused such a stir that even the slumbering Ancient God was forcibly awakened.
And yet, the Ancient God not only failed to stop them but instead bestowed the power of compatibility origin seeds, facilitating the integration of thousands of Eternal Worlds into the True Realm of the Ancient God.
Then, the Ancient God tossed a few things into the depths of the Spirit Realm and returned to slumber, leaving everything to the will of the world.
Even with the Ancient God unleashing a power of universal compatibility, birthing ubiquitous compatibility laws across the Ancient God World—
The merging of Eternal Worlds into the Ancient God World was still no simple task.
Because the Immortal Divine Demons were not there to offer goodwill. Their Eternal Worlds needed to integrate into the Ancient God World, yet they also insisted on retaining control of their own worlds. The operation to achieve both was highly complex.
Although Rosen had already paved the path to becoming an Eternal Lifeform, many of his avatars weren't even Immortal Divine Demons yet.
So he too wanted to seize the opportunity for a share of the feast—sending all his avatars and pets to scatter across the Ancient God World.
Even some pets that weren't even Great True Gods shared part of Rosen's power.
With sincere cooperation, even god-level pets might stand a chance to slay an Immortal God-Demon.
Thanks to the now-ubiquitous plunder laws and compatibility laws of the Ancient God World, these avatars and pets would reach the level of Immortal Divine Demons—it was just a matter of time. Though such forced growth might stunt their future potential, Immortal God-Demon status was already their natural limit.
Unless Rosen himself became a Primordial Lifeform one day, those avatars and pets would never become Eternal.
In the blink of an eye, decades passed, and within those mere decades, countless civilization wars broke out in the Ancient God World.
The thousands of civilizations backed by Immortal Divine Demons nearly tore the Ancient God World apart.
Fortunately, the Ancient God World had absorbed the power of spatial origin seeds and was still in the process of merging with thousands of Immortal Worlds—its overall strength constantly rising. This allowed it to grow stronger amid war. But this was only the calm before the final storm.
Because civilization wars merely killed people—but battles between Immortal Divine Demons would erase entire civilizations.
As all the Immortal Divine Demons tested each other's strength, Rosen prepared to fire the first shot.
The reason was simple—he had set his sights on an Immortal God-Demon's origin seed.
The Immortal Painter Saint, one of the strongest Immortal Divine Demons in the Heaven-Burning Star Palace, who controlled the acquired Painting Origin Seed and the innate Color Origin Seed.
Rosen originally wanted to elevate his painting laws into a painting origin seed but failed after numerous attempts.
After learning of the Immortal Painter Saint, he gave up trying to condense his own origin seed.
The problem was—the Immortal Painter Saint was a recluse, rarely leaving the Heaven-Burning Star Palace, so Rosen had never found a good opportunity to strike.
Now that the Immortal Painter Saint had arrived, Rosen wasn't going to let him escape.
The stronger an Immortal God-Demon in the Heaven-Burning Star Palace, the closer the territory they claimed was to the Ancient God World's center.
The Immortal Painter Saint occupied the Old Continent. Today, the entire Old Continent had been painted over in pigments, recolored into a vast painting where painted beings formed strange new civilizations within the artwork itself.
Rosen loved painting. He also enjoyed talking with fellow artists.
But there was only one Painting Origin Seed—and the Color Origin Seed was equally irreplaceable to him.
If he wanted to further advance his painter sequence, he had no choice but to fight the Immortal Painter Saint to the death.
However, out of admiration and respect for a fellow artist, he would resolve the matter as a painter.
Of course, he couldn't rely purely on painterly powers—when it came to painting alone, he was no match for the Immortal Painter Saint. He could only do his best to use artistic means to give the Immortal Painter Saint a more dignified death.
Rosen unfolded his Creator Domain, enveloping the entire Old Continent.
His gaze locked onto a spiritual realm within the Old Continent.
Deep within this spiritual realm lay the Golden Pharaoh, hidden in a state of feigned death.
Long ago, the Golden Pharaoh had aided Rosen greatly. Rosen had promised that one day, when powerful enough, he would resurrect him.
But by the time he had the power, he could no longer use time-reversal resurrection under the watchful eye of the Ancient God.
Now, however, the Ancient God was asleep—and the Will of the World was one of his own.
Even if using time-reversal resurrection here risked waking the Ancient God, the Ancient God was unlikely to stir over such a thing at this moment.
Because the Holy Temple was watching from outside, they would never allow the Ancient God to awaken and disrupt the current balance.
Unless the Ancient God was about to immediately go to war with the Holy Temple, the Ancient God absolutely would not awaken at this moment.
Because the current players are Immortal Divine Demons, and Eternal Life is the behind-the-scenes judge.
Players cannot be killed before a winner is decided by the judge; the Ancient God cannot bear the cost of breaking the game rules.
The Time-Space Reincarnation locked onto the Golden Pharaoh King. With the naked eye, the Golden Pharaoh King gradually broke free from the Spirit Realm's restraints, truly reviving by reversing time and space through the Time-Space Reincarnation, then being transferred to a golden desert in the Ancient God True Realm to settle.
At such a massive display of the Creator Domain, the Immortal Painter Saint immediately produced the Eternal Sacred Artifact, the Great Thousand Painting Scroll.
Opening the Great Thousand Painting Scroll, a depiction of an Eternal World's three thousand Painting Realms appeared within the painting.
The Immortal Painter Saint wrapped the Great Thousand Painting Scroll around his body, transforming it into a multicolored painting robe.
From the robe flowed rivers of pigment, which, combined with the Eternal Sacred Artifact—the Thousand Autumn Painting Brush—instantly condensed at a point in the void; the pigment spread out and transformed into the Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon.
The dragon resembled a divine dragon, its scales like mountain peaks, with countless rivers of blood flowing between the scales.
The Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon was a born Eternal Lifeform, but had long since died completely, without even reincarnated avatars revived.
Now, the Immortal Painter Saint used his brush to recreate the Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon. This painted dragon surprisingly possessed one-third of the power of the true Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon. Although weak among Eternal Lifeforms, it had few opponents among Immortal Divine Demons.
The Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon's colossal body stretched billions of miles—far too large for the entire Old Continent to contain.
And this was not even the true size of its original form; in the universe, its size was measured in light-years.
Compressed into a body billions of miles long, it carried shockwaves that shattered all things as it surged toward Rosen.
Before it even got close, heaven and earth had already been shattered.
Rosen's hand revealed the Creator's Palette, infused with the Miracle Star Sea. As the Miracle Star Sea transformed into pigment, his Creator's Brush absorbed endless ink. At a point in the void, ink dispersed to form a Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon of Immortal God-Demon level.
Since he was copying on-site, the dragon he painted was like a counterfeit facing the real Immortal Painter Saint's Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon—like a fake Li Kui encountering the real Li Kui.
Not that it collapsed immediately, but it was completely no match.
His painted Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon was all show; the Immortal Painter Saint's dragon directly wielded the shockwave origin seed's power.
However, Rosen had endless pigment. His Creator's Brush continuously absorbed pigment, painting hundreds of Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragons in the void. Yet, despite their number, the fakes were still fakes, easily torn apart by the Immortal Painter Saint's dragons.
All shattered Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragons dissolved into pigment, scattered in the void.
This pigment was absorbed by the Immortal Painter Saint's Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon, transformed by the Color Origin Seed into part of itself, then further refined by the Painting Origin Seed into the dragon's strength. Over time, the dragon grew stronger and stronger, completely overwhelming opponents.
Once the expert clashed, Rosen realized he had been utterly defeated in painting.
Thus, the pigment contained the Miracle Skill's power—the Origin of All Transformations. The more pigment the Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon absorbed, the stronger the transformation effect of the Origin of All Transformations.
When the last painted copy of the Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon was torn apart, the power of the Origin of All Transformations was triggered.
Countless tendrils grew inside the Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon, forcibly transforming it toward an insect form.
Under the horrifying time acceleration of Time-Space Reincarnation, the dragon was transformed into a scaled insect in the blink of an eye.
A dragon has scales—that means a scaled insect. The Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon, now an insect, was instantly controlled by the Origin of All Transformations.
The Trembling Mountain Sacred Dragon turned its head and lunged directly at the terrified Immortal Painter Saint.
The multicolored painting robe formed from the Great Thousand Painting Scroll continued to pour rivers of pigment, all absorbed by the Thousand Autumn Painting Brush to paint one Eternal Lifeform after another.
But all were infiltrated and corrupted by Rosen's counterfeit copies, who ultimately seized control and turned to attack the Immortal Painter Saint.
Finally pushed into desperation with no options left, the Immortal Painter Saint painfully revealed his trump card.
He took out an ink block made from his past life's Eternal Sacred Body, melted the ink block with his own blood, and absorbed it with the Thousand Autumn Painting Brush, attempting to paint himself at his peak.
A stroke fell in the void, and the Immortal Painter Saint perfectly replicated his Eternal Painter Saint self.
The Eternal Painter Saint took the Thousand Autumn Painting Brush and Great Thousand Painting Scroll, tapped the brush in the void, and painted Rosen.
Then, with a shake of the Great Thousand Painting Scroll, the painted Rosen was trapped inside the painting.
Simultaneously, the real Rosen disappeared and fell into the painting.
However, Rosen opened a Time-Space Gate within the painting and escaped from the Great Thousand Painting Scroll. No matter what means the Eternal Painter Saint used, he could not trap Rosen inside.
In the end, the Eternal Painter Saint even painted the Ancient God.
Rosen, who had maintained absolute advantage all along, suddenly felt something was wrong at that moment.
This painted Ancient God might give the real Ancient God a chance to eliminate him.
Rosen originally wanted the Immortal Painter Saint to die inside the painting, but now he no longer cared about their mutual respect or learning painting skills.
He directly used Time-Space Reincarnation to stop the Eternal Painter Saint from painting the Ancient God.
Then he unleashed the Star Sea Ladybug, born from the Miracle Star Sea, which left the Creator Domain and swallowed everything inside with one gulp.
The entire Creator Domain, including the Old Continent inside it, was swallowed and suppressed within the ladybug.
Immediately afterward, the Star Sea Ladybug landed in the Ancient God True Realm, which had already merged parts of the Primordial World fragments.
Even Eternal Lifeforms found it difficult to leave, let alone fall into the hands of the Immortal Painter Saint.
Cutting off the connection between the Immortal Painter Saint and the Ancient God World, Rosen suddenly no longer sensed a fatal threat.
It was clear that when the Eternal Painter Saint tried to paint the Ancient God, the sleeping Ancient God in the Ancient God World had indeed taken the chance to awaken and kill him.
It seemed even with the Holy Temple and Ancient God opposing each other, Rosen's life was in danger within the Ancient God World.
Fearing a prolonged conflict, Rosen directly manipulated his Primordial Avatar and punched to death the Immortal Painter Saint.
From the origin of life to the origin of divinity, all were obliterated by a punch burning with Primordial Spirit's power.
Rosen obtained the Painting Origin Seed and the Color Origin Seed, immediately beginning to refine and fuse them.
He also merged the Great Thousand Painting Scroll into the Creator's Album and the Thousand Autumn Painting Brush into the Creator's Divine Brush.
After fusion, he no longer needed to refine the corresponding Eternal Sacred Artifacts.
He had essentially taken a ready-made treasure, already enough to wield the power befitting an Eternal Painter.
(End of chapter)