Lord: Sequence Master

"Epoch Sovereigns are not easy to deal with," Rosen worried. Only an Epoch Sovereign could truly challenge another. While all were Reincarnation Lifeforms, the power displayed by an Epoch Sovereign in the Yin Realm Lord's memories was immense. Rosen yearned to become one, but it was impossible without experiencing an Epoch Cycle.

Furthermore, his self-created extraordinary systems hadn't even reached the Reincarnation level, much less attracted other Reincarnation Lifeforms. Mastering an extraordinary system from an Epoch Sovereign inherently weakened one by half when facing that particular Sovereign. Therefore, unless the benefits outweighed the weakness, no Reincarnation Lifeform would foolishly sacrifice themselves.

This explains why only seven Epoch Sovereigns have emerged across hundreds of Epoch Cycles. Rosen temporarily set aside his apprehension and desire, focusing instead on deducing methods to restrain Reincarnation Lifeforms. He tirelessly worked on Reincarnation Sacred Arts, engaging in death matches in the memory world with the Yin Realm Lord and Yang Realm Lord to hone his skills.

Rosen didn't expect to surpass their accumulated knowledge from hundreds of Epoch Cycles quickly, but he couldn't let the gap widen too much. As a Reincarnation Dao Lord capable of creating his own universe, he needed to defeat a Reincarnation Realm Lord head-on and avoid being countered by someone of a lower tier. He was always the one fighting above his tier and certainly didn't want to be counter-killed.

Hundreds of thousands of years passed with Rosen constantly learning and the snowballing in endless deep space continuing unabated. He finally made initial progress in deducing methods to control Reincarnation Lifeforms. The core of this method was the fusion of Life-and-Death Reincarnation and Karma Reincarnation, effectively expanding their capabilities.

Originally, Life-and-Death Reincarnation primarily allowed cosmic vitality and cosmic death qi to transform into each other, with the latter being far easier. Its main function was to manipulate these two energies. Now, however, Rosen could integrate Life-and-Death Reincarnation into the Indestructible Source Seed.

This seed would then take root, sprout, and use vitality and death qi as nutrients. Combined with Karma Reincarnation, it would blossom and bear fruit, yielding the Life-Death Karma Contract. This contract, at its essence, used the power of Karma Reincarnation to pre-set complex contractual terms.

Anyone who violated the contract, if integrated with it, would have the cosmic vitality within their indestructible memories transform into cosmic death qi. Without this vitality, indestructible memories could not be sustained, making escape from death difficult even for Reincarnation Lifeforms mastering the Indestructible Will extraordinary system.

Outside the Candlelight Universe in the memory world, Rosen wielded the Sky-Opening Divine Axe, splitting the dead Candlelight Universe in two. The memory world's constant spacetime reincarnation automatically activated, briefly resurrecting the Candlelight Universe. After meeting Candlelight in his shop, Rosen immediately cast the Candle God Dao that Candlelight had previously shared.

The bewildered Candlelight soon believed Rosen's explanation, realizing his lack of value for deception now that he was dead. However, when faced with the opportunity of resurrection and the Life-Death Karma Contract, Candlelight hesitated for a considerable time before agreeing. Few Reincarnation Lifeforms with indestructible memories truly desired death; otherwise, they would simply wait for the next Epoch Cycle to forget everything.

Rosen felt a surge of gratitude towards the two major factions. Their actions in the real universe, killing Candlelight and draining the cosmic vitality from his indestructible memories, left him unable to survive even in the memory world. If Candlelight hadn't been pushed to such a desperate situation, he wouldn't have so readily agreed to be constrained by the Life-Death Karma Contract.

Rosen presented the Indestructible Source Seed, containing the Life-Death Karma Contract, to Candlelight, who willingly integrated it into his body. The cosmic vitality within the seed, imbued with the contract, continuously flowed into Candlelight. Rosen then handed Candlelight a spiritual painting transformed from an ownerless universe for refinement.

After mastering the Heart of the Universe and utilizing its self-sustaining, endless cosmic vitality, Candlelight not only transitioned from death to life but also became a Reincarnation Realm Lord by completely mastering a universe. Given that Reincarnation Lifeforms had lived for countless years, they all had close friends and relatives.

Under Candlelight's personal testimony, only one of the subsequent Reincarnation Lifeforms Rosen sought refused the Life-Death Karma Contract. These Reincarnation Lifeforms who accepted the contract, in turn, had their own familiar friends and relatives. This led to a rapid expansion: one spread to ten, ten to a hundred.

The larger the base, the more choices Rosen had. He went from accepting everyone to being selective, and soon, his remaining cosmic vitality was almost depleted. However, he had also amassed over a thousand nascent Reincarnation Realm Lords under his command. In terms of sheer quantity, he now surpassed the two major factions.

Rosen didn't let these revived Reincarnation Lifeforms sit idle; instead, he had them help increase the efficiency of the snowballing. He initially worried that accelerating the snowballing might hasten the Great Reincarnation Realm's destruction. However, after careful verification, he confirmed that its demise was already a foregone conclusion.

The collapse of spacetime had created an unstoppable domino effect, and the timing of the Great Reincarnation Realm's destruction was no longer determined by the disappearance of cosmic remnants but by the spread rate of the spacetime collapse. Therefore, the Great Reincarnation Realm would still take at least three million years to be destroyed, regardless of how much the snowballing efficiency improved.

This destruction could no longer be delayed, and speeding it up was also difficult, as even Epoch Sovereigns were but a drop in the bucket compared to the Great Reincarnation Realm's overall power. With this realization, Rosen shed all his worries. By having Candlelight and the others help him devour cosmic remnants, Rosen was essentially transferring a portion of the karma to them.

This ensured they would be completely bound to him. Even if the two major factions tried to buy them off or incite betrayal, it would be impossible. This is because the two major factions feared the karma of the Great Reincarnation Realm's destruction like the plague; they wouldn't want those burdened with such karma, even if they offered themselves.

Rosen was fighting with his back against the wall, so he wouldn't give them a chance to turn on him. If he died, Candlelight and the others would be buried with him. In such a situation, they could only obey, no matter their dissatisfaction, as long as they recognized reality. The Life-Death Karma Contract was merely the ultimate safeguard.

With the help of over a thousand Reincarnation Lifeforms, the destruction of cosmic remnants accelerated. Though the remnants seemed endless, they finally disappeared completely into the endless deep space before the Great Reincarnation Realm collapsed. The entire endless deep space fell into complete darkness, no longer illuminated by any Reincarnation Dark Sun's Indestructible Holy Radiance.

The destruction of countless universes ahead of the Great Reincarnation Realm severely damaged the Reincarnation Will. In the memory world, terrifying energy fluctuations erupted within the super universe. Rosen watched from afar, knowing without entering that the Reincarnation Will was in its death throes.

The ultimate outcome of the conflict between the two major factions and the awakened Reincarnation Will remained uncertain. In the previous 560 Epoch Cycles, the Reincarnation Will always held the absolute upper hand. The two major factions, cooperating desperately, could only barely hold on.

Some within the two major factions chose self-destruction of their indestructible memories, while others were truly tired of the endless Epoch War or despaired of victory. Theoretically, no matter how many Reincarnation Lifeforms existed, they could not defeat the Reincarnation Will. If the Reincarnation Will hadn't fallen into slumber in this Epoch Cycle, the two major factions would have had no chance to eliminate it.

The question lingered: why would the Reincarnation Will suddenly fall into slumber, allowing itself to be slaughtered? Some suspected a trap, that the Reincarnation Will intended to draw in and annihilate the two major factions. However, more believed the Reincarnation Will might have suffered a backlash from the Great Reincarnation Realm itself.

If a Reincarnation Lifeform destroying a universe incurred karmic entanglement with the Great Reincarnation Realm, then would the Great Reincarnation Realm destroying universes not generate karmic entanglement with itself? Some disagreed, but others firmly believed it would. This is because karma has both disadvantages and advantages.

Karma can destine someone to become a beggar or an emperor. The Reincarnation Will, intrinsically linked to the Great Reincarnation Realm, likely originated from the positive karma of karma reincarnation. However, positive karma doesn't only bring benefits. Becoming a beggar only requires not starving, but becoming an emperor requires managing a country well.

If managed well, one becomes an enlightened ruler, and perhaps the transcendence of the Reincarnation Will is related to this. But if poorly managed, one becomes a tyrannical ruler. The Reincarnation Will, embroiled in chaos with the two major factions for 560 Epoch Cycles, suggests the negative effects of karma reincarnation far outweighed the positive ones.

Therefore, the Reincarnation Will might have suffered a karmic backlash. Furthermore, its attempt to use karma reincarnation to create destiny reincarnation likely exacerbated this backlash. While this speculation couldn't be verified, as Reincarnation Lifeforms couldn't access the underlying karma reincarnation of the Great Reincarnation Realm, the Reincarnation Will's sudden slumber was the two major factions' only chance at victory.

Regardless of whether the analysis and speculation were correct, they had no choice but to seize the opportunity and see it through. Rosen was now fighting with his back against the wall due to karma, and the two major factions were in the same predicament. In Rosen's opinion, the two major factions would win in the super universe.

However, "the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it." A temporary victory might not lead to ultimate triumph. Just as "a whale falls, and all life thrives," the Cosmic Will of the Primeval Universe, even after death, could create dozens of new Reincarnation Lifeforms. The Reincarnation Will might even allow Epoch Sovereigns to transcend the Great Reincarnation Realm.

Rosen considered being the oriole but worried about a hunter with a gun aimed at him. The "third faction" remained unknown. However, for years he harbored a suspicion, and now it was time to verify it. Rosen entered the Root Universe, then his Cosmic Clone within the Reincarnation Plane.

After absorbing countless units of cosmic vitality, the core plane of the new universe had transformed into a Reincarnation Plane. Given enough time, it could even give birth to naturally occurring Reincarnation Lifeforms similar to the Void Giants. However, the Reincarnation Plane was not the final destination.

He continued to the surface of Blue Star, appearing in the Daming Palace of the Tang Dynasty. At this time, Blue Star's spacetime reincarnation was in the Tang Dynasty, a period when Emperor Gaozong of Tang should have been handling court affairs. However, the Daming Palace was empty, and its chilling silence made it feel as though someone had long known Rosen would arrive there at that very moment.

Rosen sat on the dragon throne. Before him lay a chip, perfectly compatible with his Main God Computer. He could feel the Main God Computer's instinctive yearning; integrating this chip would instantly transform it into the most powerful Reincarnation Holy Item he knew. This was a supreme treasure specifically prepared for his Main God Computer.

"They're not even pretending anymore..." Rosen took a deep breath, picked up the chip, and directly inserted it into his brain. The Main God Computer, now a biological computer fused with his brain, absorbed the chip and completed its metamorphosis in the blink of an eye. Rosen had long suspected that the Blue Star universe had problems.

The spacetime reincarnation fixed on Blue Star even surpassed the spacetime reincarnation in the memory world in its upper limit. Only spacetime reincarnation at the Great Reincarnation Realm level could compare to Blue Star's fixed spacetime reincarnation. No one other than the Reincarnation Will could achieve spacetime reincarnation at that level.

Therefore, Rosen suspected that Blue Star was connected to the Reincarnation Will. The claim within the two major factions that the Reincarnation Will suffered a backlash from the Great Reincarnation Realm might very well be the truth. However, the Reincarnation Will might not have truly fallen into a deep slumber, allowing itself to be slaughtered.

Assuming the karmic backlash of the Great Reincarnation Realm was truly unbearable even for the Reincarnation Will, then the Reincarnation Will only had three paths it could take. First, to resist the karmic backlash and successfully transcend the Great Reincarnation Realm, no longer engaging with the two major factions. Second, to accept its fate and await death, either from the Great Reincarnation Realm's backlash or at the hands of the two major factions.

The last path was to feign death and escape, like a cicada shedding its skin. Thus, Rosen suspected that the "third faction" might be related to the Reincarnation Will. The mysteriously vanished Primeval Universe, the mysteriously vanished group of Reincarnation Lifeforms, and Blue Star, which almost seemed fated to fall into his hands—behind these events, there might be a hand secretly manipulating everything.

The most likely entity to accomplish this was the Reincarnation Will. However, this was merely a guess, one that Rosen could not verify. So he decided to test it. Regardless of whether this hand existed, he was already prepared to completely abandon the uncontrollable Blue Star and the new universe.

He intended to throw them into the super universe to create more turmoil within its already murky waters. Unexpectedly, just as he had this intention, the hand hidden in Blue Star stopped pretending. Upon seeing the chip, Rosen realized he had hit the jackpot. Besides enhancing the Main God Computer, the chip also contained terrifying karmic entanglement, utterly unconcealed.

This karmic entanglement originated from the same root as the deep-seated karmic entanglement within Rosen himself. In fact, the karmic entanglement he had accumulated from destroying countless cosmic remnants was far less than the karmic entanglement within the chip. Rosen understood upon seeing the chip that the Reincarnation Will was indeed hidden within Blue Star.

Not only did the two major factions want him as a scapegoat, but the Reincarnation Will also chose him as a scapegoat for its feigned death and escape. When debts are many, one doesn't worry; when lice are many, they don't bite. Rosen was already entangled in karma, so he certainly didn't care about incurring more.

Therefore, he merged with the chip without hesitation, not worrying about the Reincarnation Will playing tricks to harm him through the chip. This was because the karma in the chip was already the greatest malice; it could force the Reincarnation Will to feign death and escape, but the Reincarnation Will would never directly contact him, even if it meant its own demise.

The Reincarnation Will's refusal to appear even now was very likely due to its fear of generating karma through contact with him. He was now akin to the source of all evil; no one in the know would want any direct contact with him. If he were to charge into the super universe now, the two major factions might well try their utmost to respectfully escort him away.

Rosen was contemplating how to force the Reincarnation Will to appear, or at least to answer some of his questions. However, the Reincarnation Will had clearly anticipated his intentions. Before he could further search for the Reincarnation Will on Blue Star, Blue Star vanished without a trace in an instant.

Only the Blue Star universe, transformed into a Chaos Pearl, fell into his hand. The Blue Star universe had been completely refined by him; it would not be easy for any being or method to take it away. Therefore, the Reincarnation Will abandoned the Blue Star universe, taking Blue Star with it, completely severing its karma with Rosen.

Rosen sighed; the Reincarnation Will was more troublesome than he had imagined. He had tried his best to prevent Blue Star from disappearing, but all his methods were ineffective. Finding the Reincarnation Will, now hidden with Blue Star, would likely be even more difficult than him surviving until the next Epoch Cycle.

However, with things as they were, he could only fight with his back against the wall. The Reincarnation Will chose to leave, evidently having escaped karmic entanglement. As for who the object of that karmic entanglement was, the Reincarnation Will probably wouldn't care; it could be him, or anyone else.