Chapter 513: Becoming an Epoch Sovereign and the Ancient Tree of the Reincarnation Epoch
In the Great Reincarnation Realm's Endless Deep Space, a million universes arranged themselves into a continuously shrinking colossal formation. After Rosen integrated the Reincarnation Will's shell into the Destiny Computer, the super universe ceased to have any meaning. The fact that the Great Reincarnation Realm's 600-year destruction deadline was delayed to ten million years was entirely due to the Reincarnation Dao Lords of the two major factions. They dismantled the super universe, and all the cosmic vitality harvested was used to create and arrange universes into a formation. The sole purpose of this Great Circulatory Star Array was to suppress and stabilize spacetime, slowing its collapse.
The number of a million universes far exceeded the total number of existing Reincarnation Lifeforms. Therefore, a portion of these universes was allocated to the newly resurrected Reincarnation Lifeforms. Currently, the total number of living Reincarnation Lifeforms in the Great Reincarnation Realm has reached over one hundred thousand, and this is not the limit. Based on the cosmic vitality of a million intact universes, it could even revive up to five hundred thousand Reincarnation Lifeforms. Rosen only revived one hundred thousand to conserve resources to support the Reincarnation Lords.
The Reincarnation Lord extraordinary system he created with the assistance of one hundred thousand Reincarnation Lifeforms is definitely a powerful extraordinary system, no less than the Indestructible Will. However, this extraordinary system has very high resource demands; with existing resources, it can produce at most one hundred thousand Reincarnation Lords. If everything proceeds smoothly, while he can't claim to completely resolve the entangled karma, he can at least survive several more Epoch Cycles.
In Endless Deep Space, Rosen and one hundred thousand Reincarnation Lifeforms simultaneously brought out the extraordinary source essence of the Reincarnation Lord. Then, each of them integrated their indestructible will into the extraordinary source essence, activating it to form a Lord Core. All extraordinary source essences had Reincarnation Source Essence and the Indestructible Source Seed as their core, combined with cosmic vitality and cosmic death qi, and a portion of the Destiny Computer. To create these over one hundred thousand extraordinary source essences, Rosen did not hesitate to split the Destiny Computer into over one hundred thousand sub-bodies.
The Lord Cores formed by all extraordinary source essences, when separated, numbered one hundred thousand and eight. When combined, they could merge into a single entity. The essence of the Reincarnation Lord was, in fact, the division of the Reincarnation Sovereign's power into one hundred thousand and eight parts. Rosen alone, bearing a thousand instances of karma formed from the Great Reincarnation Realm's destruction, couldn't endure it even as the Reincarnation Sovereign. But if one hundred thousand and eight Reincarnation Lifeforms all became Reincarnation Lords, all becoming a part of the Reincarnation Sovereign, distributing the thousand instances of karma that he alone bore among one hundred thousand and seven other Reincarnation Lifeforms, then the bearing capacity would greatly increase.
A single Reincarnation Lifeform would only need to bear one-hundredth of one percent of the karma. For an ordinary Reincarnation Lifeform, bearing even this one-hundredth of one percent of karma would still be a dead end, unbearable. But after becoming a Reincarnation Lord, their starting strength is that of a Reincarnation Dao Lord, not to mention that the one hundred thousand and eight individuals are a single entity. While a single person couldn't bear one-hundredth of one percent individually, when combined into a whole, bearing twice as much is not a problem. Don't underestimate this doubling; it means a full thousand Epoch Cycles. If the Reincarnation Lord extraordinary system can truly share the burden of karma, it means a thousand Epoch Cycles without worrying about karmic backlash. Of course, this is the ideal state; in reality, sustaining it for one hundred Epoch Cycles would already be good. Within these at least one hundred Epoch Cycles, if one hundred thousand and eight Reincarnation Lords, working together, still cannot find a way out, then that will be the day they all perish together.
At first, the Nightfall Sovereign and the others fundamentally disagreed with Rosen's Reincarnation Lord system. But in the end, they still chose to compromise. The reason was simple: if Rosen couldn't see a way to live, a mutually destructive outcome might prevent them from surviving until the next Epoch Cycle. On the other hand, becoming a Reincarnation Lord, while involving the burden of karma, also granted partial authority of the Reincarnation Sovereign. The Reincarnation Sovereign theoretically could control everything in the Great Reincarnation Realm except for karmic cause and effect. However, even the Reincarnation Will, due to the intensity of its self-consciousness, couldn't fully exert the authority a Reincarnation Sovereign should possess.
Since one person couldn't control the authority, then one hundred thousand and eight Reincarnation Lords would control it together. Furthermore, the number of Reincarnation Lords could be increased later, eventually gathering the power of countless Reincarnation Lords to completely control all rights of the Reincarnation Sovereign, and completely control the Great Reincarnation Realm would no longer be difficult. It was precisely because of these benefits that the Nightfall Sovereign and the others finally chose to compromise.
Rosen was actually quite puzzled at this moment. The methods he could think of, the Reincarnation Will could not possibly have missed. Why did the Reincarnation Will ultimately choose to transfer karma instead of sharing power and simultaneously distributing karma? He had a guess, the Reincarnation Will seemed to be avoiding something?
From its disguise as the Indestructible Sovereign all those years ago, to its lurking on Blue Star awaiting the birth of a suitable scapegoat, the Reincarnation Will always hid in the shadows. It clearly possessed formidable strength, yet it chose to hide in dark corners. If this wasn't the Reincarnation Will's inherent nature to hide, then it was doing so because it feared or dreaded certain entities.
These "certain entities" might ultimately refer to the Great Reincarnation Realm's rancher. Therefore, Rosen's current decentralization of the Reincarnation Sovereign's power and the creation of the Reincarnation Lord extraordinary system were actually very risky. If the rancher truly existed, he was currently walking on the edge of self-destruction.
After Rosen activated the Lord Core in his hand, it transformed into a radiant crystal burning with light. The Lord Core could take myriad forms; the best way to integrate it was to transform it into a biological computer and merge it with the brain. Rosen's brain had already integrated the Destiny Computer, so he transformed the Lord Core into a Spark.
The Spark instantly expanded, enveloping the Root Universe that appeared before him. As time passed, the Root Universe's cosmic barrier merged into the Spark, gradually dissolving into cosmic origin and cosmic vitality. Immediately after, the lives within had already been transferred, and the now empty cosmic void, including the Cosmic Source Sea and the Heart of the Universe, were all integrated by the Spark.
Then, with a thought, Rosen caused the Spark to begin taking root and growing like a seed. A single Root Universe was far from enough to satisfy the Lord Spark. He continuously brought forth cosmic vitality, cosmic death qi, and cosmic origin. The Spark, formed from the Lord Core, absorbed endless resources and began to grow furiously, quickly becoming a colossal tree, rooted in Endless Deep Space, hundreds of millions of light-years tall.
Rosen also saw the Lord Core's current attributes through the Destiny Computer:
[Reincarnation Lord: Reincarnation Sequence]
[Lord Core: Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree]
[Territory Attribute: The Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree can integrate with other Lord Cores to collectively share the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority]
[Territory Characteristics: Root Spark, Destiny Network, Spacetime Reincarnation, Life-and-Death Reincarnation, Karma Reincarnation]
The attributes were very simple, but the simpler they were, the fewer the restrictions. Of all the Lord Cores, only his could grow into an Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree. As for the Lord Cores of other Reincarnation Lifeforms, they would at most grow into Epoch Universes, hanging like fruits on the tree. The more universes the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree carried, the stronger the power possessed by his Lord Core. Moreover, only universes hanging on the tree were qualified to share the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority with the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree.
This sharing of authority primarily relied on the Destiny Computer sub-bodies that constituted the Lord Core, and the destiny network formed through them. Since the destiny network was composed of a thousand instances of karma, no one could shake this network that connected all Lord Cores. Therefore, it was easy for a Reincarnation Lord to get on board, but attempting to escape the connection of the destiny network and get off was out of the question.
Every Lord Core had standard destiny network and the three great Reincarnation Sacred Arts. The three great Reincarnation Sacred Arts, when performed by a single Reincarnation Lord, were at the Reincarnation level. But one hundred thousand and eight instances of Spacetime Reincarnation, when merged into a single entity through the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree, possessed a power that could reach the limit of Reincarnation, even if it couldn't surpass it. With an increasing number of Reincarnation Lords in the future, the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree might even be able to transcend Reincarnation.
Aside from the four shared territory characteristics, each Reincarnation Lord would generate a different Lord Spark. Rosen's Root Spark was a subsidiary product of his Lord Core. All Lord Sparks could convert all resources into territory origin, and then, by consuming territory origin, could create all things within their territory. Whether it was subsidiary universes or Reincarnation Lifeforms, or even Reincarnation Holy Items and Reincarnation structures, as long as the territory origin was sufficient, they could be created. Essentially, anything mastered by any Reincarnation Lord could be manufactured by others by consuming territory origin, as long as someone merged it into their Lord Core. So, the Lord Spark was effectively a universal manufacturing machine.
Rosen carefully examined all the Lord Core's attributes; these were consistent with the results of his and the hundred thousand Reincarnation Lifeforms' deductions. As he finished reviewing the attributes, the other Reincarnation Lifeforms also activated their respective Lord Cores. At this moment, the Reincarnation Lifeforms who had finished reviewing their attributes first began to consume the universes-turned-fruits with their Lord Cores, moving closer and closer to the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree until they hung on its branches, forming a single entity with the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree.
When the last fruit hung on the tree, the one hundred thousand and eight Lord Cores began to resonate with the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree as their core. All Reincarnation Lords, at this moment, felt the feedback from their Lord Core.
Any extraordinary system has its core ability. The core of the Indestructible Will system is indestructible memory, and its greatest effect is to resist the reset of memory by Karma Reincarnation.
The core of the Reincarnation Lord system isn't building territories, because building territories is merely a subsidiary function. The true core is sharing the Reincarnation Sovereign's authority and converging the power of all Reincarnation Lords, ultimately generating an extraordinary amplification formed by the collective might of all Reincarnation Lifeforms.
Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. No one is truly flawless in every aspect. This is like the Nightfall Sovereign; the intensity of his indestructible memory far surpasses that of other Reincarnation Lifeforms. Compared to the strength of his indestructible memory, he is far from the strongest in other areas—this is the nature of human strengths and weaknesses. However, the Reincarnation Lord system can combine, share, and amplify the strengths of all lords.
While Rosen couldn't 100% share the Nightfall Sovereign's strengths in terms of indestructible memory, even sharing 10% was a significant amplification for his own indestructible memory. And this was just sharing one person's gain; his ultimate sharing target was a full one hundred thousand and seven individuals. Even if each person only shared a tiny bit of their strength with him, the combined effect of all lords would be an enormous amplification.
Therefore, as the extraordinary amplification from the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree fell upon him, Rosen immediately felt a massive amplification and strengthening in all aspects of his being. Soon, this quantitative change led to a qualitative leap. He ultimately completely crossed the boundary of reincarnation, forming the transcendent power that only an Epoch Sovereign could master. Rosen temporarily named this transcendent power Lord Transcendent Power.
Mastering this power allowed him to receive a more powerful extraordinary amplification than other Reincarnation Lords. If other Reincarnation Lords enjoyed an amplification effect of one, his amplification effect was ten. This was the advantage of an Epoch Sovereign and the key to their power. Rosen could now clearly feel that as the extraordinary amplification went from one to ten, all aspects of his being continued to strengthen. If he was originally somewhat inferior to the Nightfall Sovereign and the other seven, his strength now completely surpassed theirs.
The growth in strength was certainly joyful, but what delighted him even more was that the burden of karma had been distributed. The debt he originally bore alone was now shared and repaid by one hundred thousand and seven others. Rosen felt completely at ease, and his mood was unprecedentedly joyful.
However, this was far from a time for celebration. While the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree was powerful, if it couldn't survive until the next Epoch Cycle, everything he currently possessed would be fleeting. Therefore, the crucial task was to ensure the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree survived until the next Epoch Cycle.
So, after familiarizing himself with the Reincarnation Lord's power amplification, Rosen transferred control of the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree to the Nightfall Sovereign. Although the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree was his Lord Core, after integrating other Lord Cores, it meant that other Reincarnation Lords also gained authority. Theoretically, all Reincarnation Lords had equal rights, which was key to all Reincarnation Lifeforms' willingness to become Reincarnation Lords.
Rosen's only advantage as an Epoch Sovereign was his right to overturn the table and his veto power. If all Reincarnation Lords decided to do something, the consensus reached would be one vote per person, with the minority abiding by the majority. Rosen could veto a vote, but he could not forcibly command other Reincarnation Lords by himself. At the same time, he possessed the highest control over the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree. Without his consent, other Reincarnation Lords, even if they had equal rights, could not bypass him to
call upon the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree's power. These were his only privileges as an Epoch Sovereign.
Though these privileges might seem minor, it was precisely because they were minor that he could unite all Reincarnation Lifeforms on the same boat. At this moment, the Nightfall Sovereign, authorized by Rosen, immediately controlled the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree's roots to burrow into the Memory World deep within the void. This Memory World, composed of the Reincarnation Will's memories and the memories of countless Reincarnation Lifeforms, began to be absorbed and decomposed into territory origin by the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree.
Unlike the territory origin harvested by individual Lord Sparks, which belonged solely to them, the territory origin harvested by the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree was communal. This shared territory origin could, by relying on the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree, form a shared territory within the tree's heart. This shared territory was more important than all other Reincarnation Lords' private territories.
This shared territory would be formed with the Memory World as its core, integrating the indestructible memories of all Reincarnation Lords. Therefore, the shared territory was inherently the Memory World, and inherently possessed the indestructible characteristic of indestructible memories. When the Epoch Cycle was destroyed and reborn, the Epoch Cycle Ancient Tree would hide in the shared territory, then, relying on the indestructible nature of the Memory World, it would withstand the Spacetime Reincarnation and Karma Reincarnation, bringing all Reincarnation Lords to survive until the next Epoch Cycle.