Chapter 504: The Reincarnation Holy Spear and Capturing Reincarnation Lifeforms
In the Cosmic Origin Sea of the Root Universe, a Reincarnation Root Tree in the void began to wither slightly. After thirty million years, the Reincarnation Root Tree, formed by the fusion of the Indestructible Source Seed and cosmic vitality, had continuously rooted itself in Time Essence, Void Essence, cosmic vitality, and cosmic death qi. It used these four special materials to take root, sprout, blossom, and bear fruit.
Now, after thirty million years, the moment the Root Fruit matured, it drained the last of the Reincarnation Root Tree's power. Rosen warped space, transferring the matured and fallen Root Fruit into his palm. The Root Fruit, the size of a planet, slowly split open within the dimensional life space unfolding in his palm.
According to his will, the Reincarnation Root Tree blossomed and bore a Reincarnation Holy Item. This was a spear, and also a universe. The spear body was formed from a cosmic barrier. Under the growth and reshaping of the Root Fruit, the originally spherical cosmic barrier transformed into the integrated shape of a firearm. He had forcibly refined a universe into a Reincarnation Holy Item.
Furthermore, this was no ordinary universe, because cosmic vitality and cosmic death qi coexisted within the spear body. Thus, the entire universe was in a state of life-and-death superposition, capable of undergoing reincarnation with creation and destruction.
Reincarnation Holy Spear: Reincarnation Holy Item
Attributes: Contains a Reincarnation Universe in a state of life-and-death superposition
Characteristics: Spacetime Reincarnation Bullet, Life-and-Death Reincarnation Bullet, Cosmic Annihilation Bullet
The Spacetime Reincarnation Bullet and Life-and-Death Reincarnation Bullet characteristics essentially compressed two Reincarnation Sacred Arts into bullets. While Rosen could instantly cast two Reincarnation Sacred Arts, he could only cast one at a time. However, by pre-compressing them into bullets via the Reincarnation Holy Spear, he could compress up to nine bullets. This meant that, with preparation, he could instantly unleash nine Reincarnation Sacred Arts.
Besides compressing Reincarnation Sacred Arts into bullets, the Reincarnation Holy Spear could also amplify the power of the two Reincarnation Sacred Arts. But the most terrifying aspect was the Cosmic Annihilation Bullet. This directly compressed and sealed an entire universe into a bullet, then instantly fired it, destroying the entire universe upon impact.
When the bullet, composed of a cosmic barrier, hit an enemy, the resulting spacetime lock was enough to prevent any Reincarnation Lifeform from escaping. Then, the universe's destruction would convert half of its cosmic vitality into cosmic death qi. Finally, the cosmic vitality and cosmic death qi would form an annihilation effect powerful enough to slay a Reincarnation Lifeform. This was the most terrifying aspect of this Reincarnation Holy Spear.
Rosen's greatest abundance right now was universes. His snowballing in endless deep space had allowed him to accumulate countless units of cosmic vitality. While he couldn't say for certain, preparing nine Cosmic Annihilation Bullets in advance, though painful, was definitely not a problem.
The Reincarnation Holy Spear's magazine was the Cosmic Origin Sea of the universe within the spear. Rosen compressed nine Spacetime Reincarnation Bullets, nine Life-and-Death Reincarnation Bullets, and finally, nine Cosmic Annihilation Bullets. With these 27 bullets, he was confident he could withdraw safely from any encounter with a Reincarnation Lifeform.
While the Reincarnation Lifeforms of the two major factions were formidable, as long as they hadn't transcended reincarnation, they couldn't be significantly stronger than him. Otherwise, they wouldn't have barely won against the Reincarnation Will, considering that, theoretically, the Reincarnation Will was also just a Reincarnation Lifeform. Compared to other Reincarnation Lifeforms, the Reincarnation Will's power was, barring exceptions, only quantitative, not qualitative.
Rosen left the Root Universe, ending the time acceleration, preparing to properly engage with the two major factions. He didn't need to approach the coffins made of the Heart of the Universe. With a thought, spacetime reincarnation warped space, carrying him away from the coffin. He openly followed the chains linked to the coffins and quickly saw the super universe entangled by countless chains.
This super universe, a million times the size of the Primeval Universe, exerted a terrifying sense of oppression the closer he got. Before Rosen could even get close, malicious intent from the depths of the void locked onto him. Two Reincarnation Lifeforms, without physical bodies, existing only as soul bodies, materialized from the void's depths, intercepting Rosen.
"You shouldn't be here…"
"Leave on your own, or we'll send you away…"
The two unfamiliar Reincarnation Lifeforms warned and threatened him in succession. Rosen didn't question what they were scheming, because even if he asked, they wouldn't answer him. And even if they did answer, he wouldn't dare to believe them. So, it was better to act directly. If he could capture one alive, it would resolve many of his doubts.
The moment his domain expanded, Life Magnetic Field, Life Space, and Miracle Star Sea all fused with the domain, maximally enhancing its sealing effect. To prevent them from dodging the domain's coverage, Rosen also activated his Eye of Nightfall to lock onto them.
The Nightfall Parasitic Flower, which directly parasitized the memory level, instantly appeared deep within the two Reincarnation Lifeforms' memories. While obscuring their memories, it used the characteristic of Nightfall Reincarnation to cause portions of their memories to fall into an infinite loop.
Past memories suddenly appeared in the present, mixing and intertwining with the most recently formed memories, creating utter chaos. This was enough to cause memory disorders and mental instability, yet the two Reincarnation Lifeforms broke free in the blink of an eye. Although they had lost their physical bodies and no longer possessed an Eye of Nightfall, no one was more familiar with the Eye of Nightfall than they were. While the Eye of Nightfall couldn't guarantee victory, it still provided an opportunity for the domain to expand.
The moment they broke free from Nightfall Reincarnation, they fell into Rosen's sealed domain. Seizing the opportunity without hesitation, Rosen's Reincarnation Holy Spear fired two Spacetime Reincarnation Bullets. These bullets, formed by compressing Spacetime Reincarnation as their core, naturally possessed the ability to ignore time and space effects. Essentially, once locked on, they were guaranteed to hit. Thus, the two bullets, upon leaving the barrel, instantly struck the two Reincarnation Lifeforms.
Just as the Reincarnation Sacred Art, Spacetime Reincarnation, was about to take effect, further locking them down in spacetime, a flash of light emanated from within each of the two closely positioned Reincarnation Lifeforms. These two lights intertwined in the void with Spacetime Reincarnation, somehow grinding Spacetime Reincarnation to dust.
Rosen, possessing the Root Heavenly Eye capable of retro-causal tracing, and having destroyed countless cosmic remnants, had encountered countless extraordinary systems. Thus, he immediately recognized that these two Reincarnation Lifeforms had mastered Yin-Yang Reincarnation. As one Yin and one Yang, they complemented and countered each other. Their combined strength in battle wasn't merely 1 + 1 = 2; it was at least 1 + 1 ≥ 11.
For just two Reincarnation Lifeforms to be so terrifying, he would be at their mercy if he hadn't prepared. The remaining seven Spacetime Reincarnation Bullets, plus Rosen's own instantaneously cast Spacetime Reincarnation – a total of eight Spacetime Reincarnations – simultaneously locked onto the two Reincarnation Lifeforms. Yet, under the power of their Yin-Yang Reincarnation that dissolved all things, they couldn't be harmed in the slightest.
However, immediately thereafter, Rosen fired nine Life-and-Death Reincarnation Bullets. These Life-and-Death Reincarnation Bullets were a weakened version of the Cosmic Annihilation Bullet. They didn't contain much cosmic vitality or cosmic death qi, but with the complex and intractable nature of vitality and death qi, they were enough to entangle the two Reincarnation Lifeforms like a stubborn growth.
They also sensed the threat of the Life-and-Death Reincarnation Bullets and finally each produced a Reincarnation Holy Item. These were two swords, one Yin and one Yang. The moment the Yin and Yang swords approached, they combined, and with a single strike, tore apart all things, dividing Yin and Yang. All the Life-and-Death Reincarnation Bullets were surprisingly split in two by the Yin and Yang Twin Swords.
The originally complementary and conflicting cosmic vitality and cosmic death qi were forcibly separated by the Yin and Yang Twin Swords. The cosmic vitality was absorbed by the Yin and Yang Twin Swords, and the cosmic death qi, after being absorbed by the Yin-Yang divine light formed by Yin-Yang Reincarnation, counterattacked Rosen.
Watching his Reincarnation Sacred Art, painstakingly created over thirty million years, being so easily blocked and broken, Rosen felt a momentary breach in his defenses, even though this outcome was already within his expectations. His own comprehension wasn't exceptionally strong; he often relied on his calculation and deduction abilities, time acceleration, and the super-learning ability granted by his Root Heavenly Eye. This was how he managed to master three Reincarnation Sacred Arts in a mere thirty million years.
This was already a commendable achievement, but it was far too inferior compared to those old monsters of the two major factions. The fact that they could stand out among countless universes and Reincarnation Lifeforms to become the ultimate victors meant that, without exception, they were monsters with no weaknesses. Not to mention that they had endured one Great Reincarnation Realm cycle after another.
According to his estimation, one cycle of the Great Reincarnation Realm lasted three hundred billion years. What reason would their Reincarnation Sacred Arts, mastered over countless three hundred billion years, have to lose to his thirty million years of gains? Rosen, despite knowing the disparity, still dared to come, firstly gambling that they wanted him as a scapegoat and wouldn't take his life, and secondly relying on the immense cosmic vitality he possessed. Even the cosmic vitality controlled by the two major factions might not be as much as his.
They had extracted 9,999 out of 10,000 parts of cosmic vitality from countless universes, leaving only 1/10,000 for him. Logically, their controlled cosmic vitality should be 9,999 times more than his. However, seeing their mummified bodies in the coffins, completely eroded of vitality by cosmic death qi, and seeing that they only had soul bodies without physical bodies, he was completely certain that their cosmic vitality was even less than his.
To eliminate the Reincarnation Will, ordinary power simply wouldn't suffice; only cosmic death qi had the potential. Therefore, the cosmic vitality extracted by the two major factions from countless universes had long since been converted into cosmic death qi. Otherwise, they wouldn't have even been able to preserve their own bodies. Thus, the one ten-thousandth of cosmic vitality he possessed was his greatest advantage.
Rosen, with a pang of regret, fired a Cosmic Annihilation Bullet, which collided with the sword light unleashed by their combined Yin-Yang Twin Swords. Purely at the power level, Spacetime Reincarnation and Life-and-Death Reincarnation were actually not inferior to their Yin-Yang Reincarnation. Because the upper limit was there; thirty million years versus three hundred billion years, as long as the upper limit was reached and transcendence wasn't achieved, there would be no essential difference.
However, the control over Reincarnation Sacred Arts by both sides would show vastly different results due to the disparity in experience. When Rosen unleashed his Spacetime Reincarnation, performing overall time acceleration/deceleration, overall spatial collapse, or spatial sealing was effortless. Performing localized time displacement or spatial point annihilation also presented no difficulty. But if it were the two Reincarnation Lifeforms opposite him, they could exert deeper and more precise control.
If a Reincarnation Sacred Art were considered a person, Rosen could make that person exhibit the human body's ultimate destructive power. But his control was, at most, at the muscular level, while the two Reincarnation Lifeforms opposite him could control down to the cellular and genetic level. Even though both were controlling a person, the power unleashed by the two sides would differ by many times.
Therefore, a clash of Reincarnation Sacred Arts could easily be dismembered by the enemy, much like a master butcher dismembering an ox. But the premise of a master butcher dismembering an ox is that the knife in their hand must be able to cut through the ox's body.
Rosen's Cosmic Annihilation Bullet, formed by compressing and sealing an entire universe, was not something that an ordinary Reincarnation Sacred Art could easily dismember. While the mysterious mummies could easily drain a universe, they first had to kill the Reincarnation Lifeforms to render the universe ownerless.
The Yin-Yang Reincarnation sword light, like a master butcher dismembering an ox, precisely tore apart the cosmic barrier on the surface of the Cosmic Annihilation Bullet. However, when they attempted to further dismember the entire universe, the Life-and-Death Reincarnation—formed by half death qi and half vitality from the universe's self-destruction—along with the Karma Reincarnation generated by the death of countless lives within the universe, erupted simultaneously, aided by the spacetime reincarnation's lockdown.
Three Reincarnation Sacred Arts, fused and unleashed by sacrificing an entire universe. This single force shattered all methods. No matter how exquisite their control over Yin-Yang Reincarnation was, Yin-Yang Reincarnation was broken with overwhelming force. Under the spacetime lockdown, they couldn't even escape. In the end, their soul bodies were forcibly annihilated and pulverized by Life-and-Death Reincarnation.
Rosen's contracting domain captured two struggling and resisting indestructible memories. Clearly, the cosmic death qi contained within the Cosmic Annihilation Bullet, while successfully destroying their soul bodies formed by Indestructible Will, could not yet destroy their indestructible memories. Unless two Cosmic Annihilation Bullets were fired in a volley, the cosmic death qi might not be able to wear down the Indestructible Will.
Rosen didn't hesitate, using his Eye of Nightfall to exit the deepest layer of the memory world. Within the super universe, several Indestructible Wills descended, engaging in intense communication in the void.
"Should we retrieve them?"
"Their own abilities were lacking, too careless. I don't want to waste time on two good-for-nothings…"
"But then he'll know the truth."
"He already used Karma Reincarnation, so he must have already suspected something. Knowing more or less doesn't matter."
"True, and even if he knows the truth, he has no way back. He can only go all the way, and then he might live…"
"The two weakest ones should consciously go guard the death qi coffins, and be proactive, don't make us rush you…"
After a brief exchange, the Reincarnation Lifeforms hidden within the super universe allowed Rosen to take away the two indestructible memories. The two weakest Reincarnation Lifeforms then began to take over the work of the two Reincarnation Lifeforms who were originally weaker than them.
Rosen returned to reality and waited for a long time before confirming that he had truly gambled correctly this time. They didn't care if he knew the truth, and they didn't even care about the lives of the two Reincarnation Lifeforms. This also meant that the two Reincarnation Lifeforms, heavily wounded by the Cosmic Annihilation Bullet, definitely did not hold high status.
However, if the weaker ones were so formidable, how terrifying would the strongest among the two major factions be? Rosen used spacetime reincarnation to bind the two indestructible memories, Nightfall Parasitic Flower to parasitize their memories, the Indestructible Source Seed to root into their memories, and the Dark Sun Heavenly Eye to pollute their indestructible memories. Finally, by layering multiple methods of retro-causal tracing, he successfully managed to pry into their memories.
Under three thousand times time acceleration, the Main God Computer operated at full capacity, organizing the prying memories. Rosen discovered something horrifying: the indestructible memories of these two Reincarnation Lifeforms actually contained multiple personalities. Because their life memories over endless eons were too vast, they segmented their memories into personalities, with each three hundred billion years of memory forming one personality. Each of them had several hundred personalities.
The moment they realized they had been captured, they mixed up the memories of their hundreds of personalities. Once more than a hundred trillion years of vast memories were jumbled, the Main God Computer would be exhausted trying to organize them.
So, the only way was to make them actively cooperate and stop jumbling their memories. Rosen didn't believe they were martyrs, mixing their memories and refusing to comply out of a vow to protect the secrets of the two major factions. He knew that if he angered them, he might consume cosmic death qi to completely destroy their indestructible memories.
Thus, the only possibility for their actions was that they didn't want to die and wanted to negotiate with him using their memories. If he promised to let them live afterward, they should willingly cooperate and allow him to view their memories.
"Let's be direct. Release your memories and cooperate with me, and I'll let you live." Rosen's thought flowed into their indestructible memories through the Nightfall Parasitic Flower.
"How can we guarantee you'll really let us go?" The two indestructible memories responded almost simultaneously.
"You being alive benefits me more. Your experience holds immense value for me," Rosen genuinely stated after considering it.
"You can view my memories now." The two indestructible memories compromised almost simultaneously.
With their cooperation, Rosen viewed their memories chronologically, instantly understanding their true thoughts. It turned out they were the two weakest existing Reincarnation Lifeforms in the two major factions. So, when no one came to rescue them, they realized they had been completely abandoned. Even if he let them go, they couldn't go back now.
This was because the two major factions had too many wolves and too little meat; everyone hoped there would be fewer people to share the cake. Precisely because they had no retreat, and they didn't want to die now, they surrendered so readily.