The moment Rosen opened his eyes in the Mysterious Study Room, his Eternal Will surged outward uncontrollably.
Everything—aside from the walls and the Omniscient Bookshelves—was instantly shredded by the Eternal Will fused with the power of the Primordial Universe.
It was only through deepening his understanding of the Universe Seed that Rosen discovered it could generate the power of the Primordial Universe.
This primordial force was all-encompassing and could be freely transformed into any other form of primordial power.
Even Eternal Will could be merged with the power of the Primordial Universe, allowing it to undergo further sublimation.
However, this sublimation was far from complete, because the amount of primordial power required for full sublimation was astronomical.
Rosen was certain that even the Eternal Wills of the Ancient Gods had not fully sublimated.
If they had, they would have likely become Primordial Beings.
Though Rosen had only partially sublimated his Eternal Will in advance, it still grew tremendously. Coupled with the fact that over the past century, the True Realm of the Ancient Gods had absorbed countless cosmic materials and even integrated a fragment of a Primordial World, its mass had long surpassed that of the Eternal World a hundredfold.
As the world will of the True Realm of the Ancient Gods, Rosen's Eternal Will had also grown a hundredfold compared to that of a standard Eternal Lifeform.
Purely in terms of magnitude, his Eternal Will likely rivaled that of the Ancient Gods themselves.
It was precisely because he had mastered such a powerful Eternal Will that he was able to forcibly compress his divine essence and elevate it toward the boundary of eternity.
But at this critical juncture, he hesitated.
After all, true Eternal Lifeforms only possessed Eternal Wills a fraction—perhaps one percent—of his.
Was it really normal for one to need such an overwhelmingly powerful Eternal Will in order to ascend to Eternal Life?
So, he decided to wait, intending to observe how the nearly one hundred surviving immortal godfiends of the Ancient God World would achieve their ascension.
He suspected his path might have gone astray, but without precedent to rely on, he couldn't be certain.
The Eye of the Creator silently gazed across time and space upon the Ancient God World.
At this point, among the surviving nearly one hundred immortal godfiends, over ninety percent were reincarnations of Eternal Lifeforms.
This alone proved the deep foundation of the Eternal Lifeforms.
As for the remaining ten percent—those who had defeated reincarnated Eternal Lifeforms despite being younger immortal godfiends—without exception, they were all true monsters.
Out of nearly three thousand immortal godfiends, fewer than a hundred remained. On average, each had slain thirty others.
Not only had they devoured and merged the life essence and divine essence of the fallen, but their own Immortal Worlds had also grown by at least thirty times.
And yet, they were still far from forming even a standard Eternal World—let alone one a hundred times that size.
Rosen's gaze shifted beyond the Ancient God World. At this moment, the Holy Temple had relocated nearly two hundred forbidden zones of the universe to the outer edge of the Ancient God World. These forbidden zones were clearly the foundation upon which the Holy Temple planned for these immortal godfiends to ascend to Eternity.
From the void descended nearly a hundred strands of Eternal Will, each corresponding to and communicating with one of the immortal godfiends gathered in the Star Realm.
The exchange concluded quickly. Each godfiend forced out a fragment of the Destiny Slab from within themselves and then merged it into the core of their respective Immortal Worlds. Following that, they began fusing their Immortal Worlds together, forcibly combining nearly a hundred into one.
At that moment, the fused Immortal World had already surpassed the strength of an ordinary Eternal World.
A streak of light flashed through the depths of the Star Realm's void—this was an Eternal World compressed by an Eternal Lifeform and hurled into the Star Realm.
The nearly hundred godfiends jointly manipulated the massive fused Immortal World, forcing it to absorb the meteor-like Eternal World and begin the fusion process. Everything proceeded smoothly, clearly because these Eternal Worlds had been meticulously prepared by the Holy Temple.
As two hundred such meteors were absorbed one after another, the massive Immortal World underwent a natural metamorphosis into an Eternal World.
And it didn't stop there—it continued to grow until it reached two hundred times the size of a standard Eternal World before finally stabilizing.
Watching all this, Rosen seemed deep in thought. He more or less understood how these godfiends were going to ascend.
This colossal Eternal World had, at its core, nearly a hundred fused Immortal Worlds.
And those Immortal Worlds had been completely refined by the godfiends themselves.
It was as if these nearly hundred godfiends had co-founded a company, evenly splitting the shares, then continually reinvesting to expand their stakes, ultimately growing the company's size two hundredfold.
If the total shares were now divided into two hundred parts, each godfiend would control at least two.
They could then choose to relinquish one share, transferring all these forfeited shares to a single godfiend. That godfiend would then hold at least a hundred shares—equivalent to owning half the colossal Eternal World, and by extension, the power of a hundredfold Eternal World.
At that point, the Eternal Will would transform into the World Will, rapidly expanding a hundredfold.
This would fulfill the condition for the Eternal Will to reverse-sublimate the divine essence—enabling one of the godfiends to ascend to Eternity.
After the ascension, the newly born Eternal Lifeform would then hand over their shares to the next godfiend.
And so on, the shares would continue to be transferred, allowing all the godfiends to ascend in turn.
In theory, this could succeed, but in practice, it was almost impossible.
If simply merging a hundred Eternal Worlds could meet the conditions for ascension, then with so many reincarnated Eternal Lifeforms in the Nightfall Society, gathering two hundred Eternal Worlds would be easy. The key problem was that Eternal Worlds controlled by different Eternal Lifeforms simply could not be merged.
The Ancient Gods had used the Universe Seed, with the Fate Seed as a medium, to forcibly fuse two hundred Eternal Worlds.
They must have also transformed the Universe Seed into a compatible seed, enabling the Eternal Wills of the immortal godfiends to perfectly integrate with the colossal Eternal World. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Eternal Will to transform into World Will within a public world and gain the world's support so easily.
Soon, the first immortal godfiend to ascend appeared—it was none other than the World Tree.
Clearly, the World Tree had secretly gained the Holy Temple's support; otherwise, it would not dare to openly reveal itself and remove its disguise at this moment.
After the World Tree's Eternal Will merged with the colossal Eternal World, the Eternal Will expanded two hundredfold within just a few days. It then began to reverse-transform Eternal Will into divine essence. During this process, Eternal Will weakened continuously while divine essence grew stronger.
At the critical moment of crossing the boundary, the World Tree's divine essence and life essence simultaneously reached 196 points.
The World Tree relinquished its control over the world and passed it on to the next immortal godfiend to ascend.
In this way, control of the world was continuously passed along, and more and more Eternal Lifeforms were born one after another.
At this point, Rosen already had a clear understanding and immediately opened a spacetime portal to the core of the universe.
He chose to ascend to Eternity here because, alongside ascension, he planned to perform the final transformation of the Root Seed.
Since the Root Seed broke the boundaries of innate limits and was absorbed by the universe's core, it had grown to rival the first-tier innate seeds. But to surpass the first tier and split into ten parts, its master—the Root Seed's owner—needed to ascend to Eternity.
Rosen expanded the Creator's Domain, which immediately merged into the infinite cosmic essence within the universe's core.
The True Realm of the Ancient Gods descended from the Mysterious Study Room into the domain, instantly merging and being enveloped heavily by the cosmic essence.
This was not the end. Rosen began to transform into all things; his immortal divine body also began to merge inseparably with the True Realm of the Ancient Gods.
At the same time, his Eternal Will started to integrate into the True Realm of the Ancient Gods through the will of the True Creator, becoming the World Will.
The World Will, now a hundred times greater than that of an Eternal Lifeform, began slowly flowing backward into divine essence.
Through continuous reverse transformation, Eternal Will gradually became divine essence and began breaking boundaries.
When the quantitative change triggered a qualitative leap at the boundary-breaking moment, both divine essence and life essence surged dramatically.
Rosen's divine essence skyrocketed to 296 points, and his life essence surged to 296 points as well. The hundredfold Eternal World and its hundredfold foundation allowed him to reach this level at the moment of ascension.
The life essence of the Heaven and Earth Holy God only approached three hundred points, and it had spent countless years in bitter cultivation at the Eternal level.
Even the divine essence of the Heaven and Earth Holy God was not as strong as Rosen's.
Rosen's life essence rivaled that of the Heaven and Earth Holy God; his divine essence rivaled that of the Elemental Holy God. Although his Eternal Will became very weak during the transformation into divine essence, the strength of his divine essence made it only a matter of time before his Eternal Will returned to peak power.
If he encountered the Elemental Holy God now, he wouldn't even give them a chance to flee.
The transformation of the essence was just the beginning; the transformation of the Root Seed was the key.
However, Rosen didn't need to worry about the Root Seed's transformation. As long as he didn't hold it back, the universe's core would drive the Root Seed's evolution.
So Rosen focused all his energy on mastering the Eternal Holy Law.
These Eternal Holy Laws had been deduced during the immortal godfiend stage. Since they were deductions, they lacked practical verification. Though extremely refined, even the smallest error could cause huge mistakes. He needed to perfect the Eternal Holy Laws in the state of Eternal Life to fix any potential flaws.
While Rosen re-deduced and corrected the laws, the Root Seed's transformation naturally concluded.
Rosen had originally thought the universe's core would further absorb and merge with the Root Seed, instinctively fighting for the highest control over the Root Seed.
But unexpectedly, the universe's core—once desperate for the Root Seed—actually separated it.
However, this connection was not broken because the Root Seed left countless root-like structures transformed from root mother worms inside the universe's core.
These root mother worms continuously absorbed cosmic essence and transmitted it to the Root Heart, where it took root, sprouted, blossomed, and bore fruit.
This fruit grew extremely slowly, and its ripening coincided with the destruction of the universe's core.
Through the Root Seed, Rosen sensed this root fruit and clearly perceived the embryonic form of a new universe's core growing inside it. It was evident that the universe's core was self-destructing, sacrificing itself to give birth to a new universe's core through the Root Seed.
All other seeds aside from the Root Seed forcibly stole power from the universe's core.
For the universe's core to repair itself, it needed to reclaim all seeds.
But it was obvious this was impossible. Even with the Root Seed prolonging its life, the universe's core was only delaying death. Before, without a choice, it could only resist death; now it had chosen sacrifice and inheritance.
If Rosen wished, he could drain the universe's core completely with its cooperation right now.
Then the universe would be destroyed, a new universe's core born, which would combine with the Universe Seed to create a new universe.
But that still wasn't possible. Rosen was not yet able or willing to do this.
His current strength had already surpassed the Elemental Holy God—the first tier of Eternal Life—but he still lagged behind the Ancient Gods. Not to mention the Dimension Holy God and Chaos Holy God, who were even stronger than the Ancient Gods. Even if a new universe were restarted, he would still end up dying from being besieged.
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So before personally destroying the universe, he had to reach the limit of the Eternal stage to take that final step. That final step would either involve using the power of the new universe to slay the Chaos Holy Gods, dying at their hands, or having those original beings who once transcended descend and annihilate them all. Only these three outcomes were possible—there was no fourth.
Rosen completed the re-deduction of his Eternal Sacred Laws, and his Root Origin Seed had also finished its sublimation and transformation.
With the True Creator ascending to the Eternal sequence, all innate skills would transform into Eternal Sacred Laws.
But the first thing he had to do was fully master the transformed Root Origin Seed.
Before its transformation, the core abilities of the Root Origin Seed were "Root" and "Origin."
"Root" referred to taking root, sprouting, blossoming, and bearing fruit; "Origin" meant returning to the original source.
Rosen took out the Universe Source Seed and activated the Root Origin Seed's ability to return to the source.
Although the Universe Source Seed was the undisputed strongest among all source seeds, it had ultimately been born from the Heart of the Universe. At its core, it was a seed that had stripped and stolen the power rightfully belonging to the Heart of the Universe, while the Root Origin Seed had already inherited the most fundamental power of the Heart of the Universe.
Thus, the Root Origin Seed's ability to return to the source was enough to fully integrate the Universe Source Seed into itself.
As the Universe Source Seed naturally merged into the Root Origin Seed, it was followed by the Time Source Seed, then the Void Core, then the Miracle Seed and Flamekindling Seed—one after another, more than twenty types of source seeds all vanished, merging into the Root Origin Seed.
These source seeds that Rosen returned to the source could each be split into at least three, some into as many as ten.
Adding them all up, it meant that over two hundred different seed splits were fully integrated into the Root Origin Seed.
The Root Origin Seed could regenerate all of these seeds, and it also inherited the Universe Source Seed's ability to transform into any source seed.
With a single thought, Rosen transformed the Root Origin Seed into a Universe Source Seed.
But instead of a single Universe Source Seed, a full twenty appeared. He attempted to fuse them, but at most he could merge ten at once—evidently, that was the upper limit for a single Universe Source Seed's fusion.
Rosen continued by transforming into the Painting Source Seed and created more than two hundred of them.
He proceeded to fuse the Painting Source Seeds, but the fusion limit was also ten, so he quickly obtained twenty perfected Painting Source Seeds. However, since their powers could not be stacked, creating two hundred was pointless—ten at a time was optimal.
Rosen immediately split half of the Root Origin Seed into Universe Source Seeds, harvesting a perfected set of ten.
These Universe Source Seeds were integrated into the True Realm of the Ancient God, greatly accelerating its sublimation into a minor universe.
As for the remaining half of the Root Origin Seed, it could be transformed at any time into any ten perfected source seeds as needed.
Rosen first transformed into the Bloodline Source Seed, then used the perfected Bloodline Seed to elevate the Creator's Bloodline into an Eternal Sacred Law.
Once elevated, the Creator's Bloodline allowed him to absorb and fuse the bloodlines of all transcendent beings, then freely transform into any such being with a bloodline. He could also combine the strengths of all bloodline-bearing life forms to forge the strongest Eternal Sacred Body.
Next, he transformed into the Origin Source Seed—this was a source seed even more powerful than the Spirit Source Seed.
The universe had never given rise to an Origin Source Seed before. No Eternal being had ever controlled one because it was simply too powerful. When the Primordial Beings created the source seeds, they likely split the Origin Seed apart—the Spirit Source Seed was essentially a combination of life origin and divinity origin.
Now, relying on the Origin Source Seed, Rosen completely fused his Life Origin and Divinity Origin and all other origins.
The origin power he now wielded, when converted to just Divinity Origin or Life Origin values, had surged to six hundred points.
A Life Origin of six hundred meant he was twice as strong as the Heavenly Earth Holy God in this aspect.
A slight numerical difference at this level created a vast gulf—being twice as strong in Life Origin meant double the vitality, double the regenerative ability, double the damage resistance, and so on. The overall power boost far exceeded just twice as much.
So after the Creator's Origin unified all origin powers, even a conservative estimate showed Rosen had become several times stronger than he was moments ago.
Rosen then transformed into the Painting Origin, unifying the Creator's Palette, Divine Pen, and Sketchbook into a unique fused Eternal Sacred Law called the Creator Painter. All his previous innate skills became subordinate parts of the Creator Painter.
Next came the Omniscience Seed, which elevated the Creator's Eye; the Will Seed, which elevated the Creator's Will; the Wisdom Seed, which elevated the Creator Scholar; the Game Seed, which elevated the Game Developer; the Emperor Seed, which elevated the Immortal Emperor; the Root Origin Seed, which elevated into the Root Mother Insect and Infinite Root; and the Time-Space Seed, which elevated into Time-Space Reincarnation.
All innate and acquired skills were elevated into Eternal Sacred Laws thanks to their corresponding source seeds.
Finally, Rosen began to master the Eternal Sacred Law he had personally deduced—the Ten Thousand Forms Sacred Law.
The Ten Thousand Forms Sacred Law was the fused sublimation of all the Eternal Sacred Laws he possessed.
Through it, Rosen could transform himself into anything at will.
With a thought, Rosen turned into the Flame Serpent Saint. Another thought, and he became the Frost Serpent Saint. Then, he merged the two into a hybrid form. As he shifted freely, he even transformed into the Heavenly Earth Holy God.
And the version of the Heavenly Earth Holy God he became—whether in terms of Life Origin, Divinity Origin, or Eternal Will—was identical to the real one.
If he appeared before the real God's avatar at that moment, even the avatar wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
This was the most terrifying aspect of the Ten Thousand Forms Sacred Law—it allowed for perfect transformation from the most fundamental level into any being or thing. Aside from perhaps memory, every other layer could be replicated flawlessly. With this law alone, Rosen could utterly crush any Eternal lifeform outside of the three supreme beings.
At this moment, Rosen could already imagine just how terrifying his Ten Thousand Forms Sacred Law would be to all beings in the universe.
(End of Chapter)